Always use triplicate job sheets, and hand the initial job sheet to the customer. That way they can tally what's *already been signed and agreed to* with the invoice. Then you can attach the second copy with the invoices if your billing after a few visits. The customer sees exactly what's billed for and if you do discount, it's *ALL* listed.
And FFS be descriptive in what you did. Not enough to describe how to do it again, but enough that they know you even fixed the print spooler looping, etc
Combine this with one sendmail or apache remote exploit (to get to run as nobody / apache / www) and you have a remote exploit to root. All these little exploits become useful at some time
"The weakest link in the chain" quote is something to live by.
Don't skimp FFS!! These are servers.
I usually buy the IBM xSeries as IBM Australia gives me a 3hr wait for an IBM tech to come on-site - 24x7.
I also have everything set up redundantly (eg SCSI RAID5, redundant power supply) and as well sell enough of these things, we can keep a model spare in the workshop for failover if things are that important.
In Australia, we're small enough that word of mouth can destroy a business.
Where fo you think nVidia got the smarts to do SLI? I have a SLI pair of Diamond Voodoo2 PCI cards here for... ummm... not much longer... I'd forgotten to ditch them ages ago.
The SME Server required a driving force to keep it in focus, but I personally think too many excellent cooks were beginning to spoil the broth.
Most good projects have someone committed to the product, much to their peers / spouses disgust.
Even though people had their problems with him, Richard Morrell with SmoothWall was a prime example of this.
The e-smith 3.x-5.x team were the driving force of the product you see today. They deserve a lot more credit than shown in this product announcement.
This is possibly the best thing that could have happened for SME Server.
PS Where was the community consultation? This was supposed to be the Great Community-Based effort.
"we used to joke that the website for HP's technical support for RedHat on the Netservers was www.google.com"
That so true...
When I was in McDonalds one day, I was asked what the "Microsoft Certified Partner" emblazoned on my shirt meant, my reply was "I can search google better than most people."
All I want is DirectX 9 support in hardware, not the kludges which the current NV's have. The GPU makers churn these things out so quickly, yet they can't keep up with an industry standard a year old...
C: (System) NTFS 100% of Disk0 X: (Swap) Disk1 Part0: 13G FAT32 with 2048MB (min & max) swap file D: (Storage) Disk1 Part 1:Rest of Disk1 in NTFS
The idea being that the swap file is at the extreme start of one of the disks. On Server RAID5 it's always the second partition...
part0: Decent size NTFS for System part1: 3G FAT32 for perm set size pagefile part2: 20GB NTFS Exchange Store part3: NTFS rest of the drive for storage
Have you tried mount points in Windows? It's Disk Manager, right click on a drive and choose "Change Drive Letter or Paths..." - although it has to be an empty partition when you do this...
It's just like linking drives to mount points in *nix.
I find graphic novels paint a mood in an instant without resorting to pages of descriptive text. In an fleeting moment, you can sum up the scene perfectly. Try doing that in a full page of text.
There is also the fact that the graphic novels are usually serialised, thus keeping the interest from one issue to the next - not a constant build-up and single climax as with most "modern fiction".
It also seems easier to spot reused plots in graphic novels:P
The code/API does not seem to be designed to close to the ucLinux style of coding. While it's a commendable idea to reuse lowend hardware, it's a little heavy on the resources for a "real" device-based router project.
Do the XORP web admins know when the code has been downloaded by half the Taiwanese broadband router companies yet?:P
Yeah, it can't be that big...
Knoppix is one CD has 2.4 and 2.6 kernel, OpenOffice, and a veritable truckload of tools.
Even with all the different languages, three CDs should be fine.
Maybe some overclocker websites can finally pull their heads outta their arses and read a textbook on the subject.
Somehow my definition of "Humanitarian Aid for online O/C'ers" didn't meet Amazon's requirements for cheap books:(
As much as I like the nVidia kit "just working", I wish they would get their head out of their arse and implement true DirectX9, not just the shite that's part driver. Have a look through the feature sets between ATI, nVidia and DirectX9 - nVidia supports the barest of minimums to work with DirectX9 written games. No wonder Carmack shunned nVidia
There has to be a time when they support the games, instead of just paying for a prissy ad at the start of a game.
In school environments, we've always set the Squid filters to allow pages containing health, medical, rights, etc - words likely to give context to what may or may not be blocked
It's not always the fault of the owner. I've seen way too many people have their Mdaemon, Exchange, or Sendmail box opened by yet another small bug. mdaemon was particularly suseptible to the "%" in an email adress.
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Always use triplicate job sheets, and hand the initial job sheet to the customer. That way they can tally what's *already been signed and agreed to* with the invoice. Then you can attach the second copy with the invoices if your billing after a few visits. The customer sees exactly what's billed for and if you do discount, it's *ALL* listed.
And FFS be descriptive in what you did. Not enough to describe how to do it again, but enough that they know you even fixed the print spooler looping, etc
Combine this with one sendmail or apache remote exploit (to get to run as nobody / apache / www) and you have a remote exploit to root. All these little exploits become useful at some time
"The weakest link in the chain" quote is something to live by.
Don't skimp FFS!! These are servers. I usually buy the IBM xSeries as IBM Australia gives me a 3hr wait for an IBM tech to come on-site - 24x7.
I also have everything set up redundantly (eg SCSI RAID5, redundant power supply) and as well sell enough of these things, we can keep a model spare in the workshop for failover if things are that important.
In Australia, we're small enough that word of mouth can destroy a business.
We've been around for 15 years now...
Where fo you think nVidia got the smarts to do SLI? I have a SLI pair of Diamond Voodoo2 PCI cards here for ... ummm ... not much longer... I'd forgotten to ditch them ages ago.
Thanks for reminding me!
Those specs sound suspiciously close to a modded xbox.
This is completely out of leftfield.
The SME Server required a driving force to keep it in focus, but I personally think too many excellent cooks were beginning to spoil the broth.
Most good projects have someone committed to the product, much to their peers / spouses disgust.
Even though people had their problems with him, Richard Morrell with SmoothWall was a prime example of this.
The e-smith 3.x-5.x team were the driving force of the product you see today. They deserve a lot more credit than shown in this product announcement.
This is possibly the best thing that could have happened for SME Server.
PS Where was the community consultation? This was supposed to be the Great Community-Based effort.
WD-40 is not a lubricant. It is designed to get moving parts unstuck for later lubrication.
Ever wonder why a fan will lock up even tighter after applying WD-40 and not lubricating it?
Sheesh people, RTFLabel...
All I want is DirectX 9 support in hardware, not the kludges which the current NV's have. The GPU makers churn these things out so quickly, yet they can't keep up with an industry standard a year old...
However for *mount points*... :P
:)
However I must double-check whether they do really *need* to be empty beforehand. I'm willing to be proven wrong
I've always had 2+ drives in my systems.
:Rest of Disk1 in NTFS
C: (System) NTFS 100% of Disk0
X: (Swap) Disk1 Part0: 13G FAT32 with 2048MB (min & max) swap file
D: (Storage) Disk1 Part 1
The idea being that the swap file is at the extreme start of one of the disks. On Server RAID5 it's always the second partition...
part0: Decent size NTFS for System
part1: 3G FAT32 for perm set size pagefile
part2: 20GB NTFS Exchange Store
part3: NTFS rest of the drive for storage
Than again YMMV
Have you tried mount points in Windows? It's Disk Manager, right click on a drive and choose "Change Drive Letter or Paths..." - although it has to be an empty partition when you do this... It's just like linking drives to mount points in *nix.
My momma always said "Don't argue religion or politics. No-one wins and everyone arguing looks bad" Games are pretty similar...
However, Hitmen and sex-crazed Singles are all OK ^_^
I find graphic novels paint a mood in an instant without resorting to pages of descriptive text. In an fleeting moment, you can sum up the scene perfectly. Try doing that in a full page of text.
:P
There is also the fact that the graphic novels are usually serialised, thus keeping the interest from one issue to the next - not a constant build-up and single climax as with most "modern fiction".
It also seems easier to spot reused plots in graphic novels
The code/API does not seem to be designed to close to the ucLinux style of coding. While it's a commendable idea to reuse lowend hardware, it's a little heavy on the resources for a "real" device-based router project. Do the XORP web admins know when the code has been downloaded by half the Taiwanese broadband router companies yet? :P
Microsoft has also loved open source. As long as it's under the BSD license...
SSH handles compression as well, so in this case SSH compression is a valid option for speeding up terminal sessions.
Bah! Terminal Services (RemoteDesktop)is barely usable over 56K.
:)
TightVNC isn't close, even with ssh and/or JPEG compression.
Still, 50K of web page is gonna be faster still
Yeah, it can't be that big... Knoppix is one CD has 2.4 and 2.6 kernel, OpenOffice, and a veritable truckload of tools.
Even with all the different languages, three CDs should be fine.
Maybe some overclocker websites can finally pull their heads outta their arses and read a textbook on the subject. :(
Somehow my definition of "Humanitarian Aid for online O/C'ers" didn't meet Amazon's requirements for cheap books
As much as I like the nVidia kit "just working", I wish they would get their head out of their arse and implement true DirectX9, not just the shite that's part driver.
Have a look through the feature sets between ATI, nVidia and DirectX9 - nVidia supports the barest of minimums to work with DirectX9 written games.
No wonder Carmack shunned nVidia
There has to be a time when they support the games, instead of just paying for a prissy ad at the start of a game.
Hey, I'm Australian. I'm prou...
Oh fsck it, nevermind...
I wish they'd use common sense...
In school environments, we've always set the Squid filters to allow pages containing health, medical, rights, etc - words likely to give context to what may or may not be blocked
Seriously... Microsoft (and many big businesses) have a calm public face and a real internal "mission".
The only time the two meet is if it suits the Suits.
Rack up another halloween document, and lets worry about the more important task of getting Linux onto desktops and into homes.
It's not always the fault of the owner. I've seen way too many people have their Mdaemon, Exchange, or Sendmail box opened by yet another small bug. mdaemon was particularly suseptible to the "%" in an email adress.