Heh, I worked with someone who thought it was a pain to edit too. His solution - he erased every single comment from httpd.conf. (He thought it was a pain because it was too long. Needless to say, tempers flared.)
Speaking of Mason and mod_perl (requirements for netdisco)...can you run Mason with PerlFreshRestart turned on these days? I'd love to try it on some servers I am running but have been unable to get Mason to work with PerlFreshRestart turned on. It's been about 9 months since my last attempt.
I like to see how things are connected, what ports are in what blocks, what's wired to to what but my diagrams are simple boxes within boxes connected by lines with a simple ledgend. For what you are doing, you do not need to spend time drawing an exact replica of your 3com 3300 switches with color, the light display, the 3com label, etc. That's just a waste of time. I use open office for my diagrams. If you are using windows, ms paint should suffice.
If you are so anti-social that you feel that your coworkers' chatting is driving you insane
I don't know about you, but I find a twenty minute "chat" about the latest goings-on of Survivor or the some other reality show to be about all it takes to drive me nuts. Especially when the "chat" involves someone who hasn't done a 5 minute task I asked them to do three days ago but has found time to have numerous other "chats" in addition to lunch breaks, coffee breaks, etc.
Seriously, is that his real name? Or did he change it for "Show Business"?
He must have changed it. My reasoning is that like most users of the Dvorak keyboard, he is an intermible, miserable asshole. I swear, you ever meet a user of a Dvorak keyboard? They're like the "kill your television" crowd. Blah, blah, "Dvorak is much more efficent. Normal keyboards were designed to keep the man down", blah, blah, "CNN? I don't even know what that is. Is it a TV show? Because I don't own a TV" blah, blah, blah. Like John Dvorak, everytime on opens their mouth, they say something grating and irating.
Rate shaping is the best. Not being able to access something is one thing, but having it be agonizingly slow is the ultimate.
Because then said employee will waste even more time doing whatever it is he/she/it does on that side?
Sometimes, it's just not about wasting time. Sometimes, it just petty troublemaking. During a contentious election of late, we had an employee blogging like crazy on his little political blog. I rate shaped it right as things were heating up. You could just feel the panic and frustration emanating from his cube as you walked by. Click, click, click. click. Half the office knew what I did and we all had a good laugh at his expense. After a few days, I just cut him off completely. It's still off to this day.
At my work, all web-based e-mail is blocked, you insensitive clod!
Heh, at my work I control the blocking. We block nothing outright, but if I see someone I don't like browsing some personal stuff, I either block the site outright or rate shape the hell out it. Rate shaping is the best. Not being able to access something is one thing, but having it be agonizingly slow is the ultimate.
We have an ecrypted text file stored locally with all passwords written on it like this:
1. password
2. password2
etc.
On an ssl, password protected web site not hosted by us, we have a web page with:
Server x, root, password #1
Server x, admin, password #2
etc.
The people who need it keep all or part of the printed out text file in their wallets. I'm sure someone will point out some flaw, but it is pretty disconnected.
Uh, maybe you didn't notice, but this is about setting up a data center. To me, that implies setting up a facility and an infrastructure, not a rack in closet. To me, that implies spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. To me, that implies the possibilities of paying consultants that much for an hour or two of advice before paying contractors a hundred times that to install your electrical. To me, that does not imply buying a cheap rack, getting a T1 and a router, and sticking 5 servers in whatever closet is available in your office space.
I wonder if they finally did away with raised floors.
At my colo, they run cold air from the HVAC under the raised floors and suck it up through the cabinets with a fans (and presure from the HVAC). They cool the cabinets, not the entire facility. It's odd being in a colo that is warm after freezing my ass off in previous facilities, but temperature monitering equipment of ours tells us that the closed cabinets stay quite cool.
When designing a Data Centre, I really don't think the number one priority is to make it an artistic statement or a fun place for the IT staff to hang out in.
Hey, if the 1990s taught us anything, it was that bean bags, nerf guns and video games were the key to a successful business.
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My two favs:
#1. Driving all the way to the data center at 4 am to find the keyboard plugged into the mouse port - "The keyboard's not responding", says the "engineer". #2. Driving all the way at to the data center at 3am to see/sbin/fsck-y on the console - "It says command not found", says the "engineer".
Installed X and AIM after that and made the "engineers" read the commands off that provided they could get that working.
I don't think this is really for that, but some sort of manual or book about choosing a colo would be a pretty good idea. Your point about overage is a good one - some companies have outrageous 95th percentile billing schemes, say charging you for the max megabit for the entire month, or just pro-rating you. The difference between the two can be thousands of dollars. Support too - $300 an hour with a half hour minimum can be a lot when you start swearing to yourself that they are sending the security guards out to your rack when you call for hands on support.
Not sure about you, but if I was setting up a data center, I'd fork the $250. It'd probably be your smallest expense and is bound to have some good ideas in it.
Heh, insightful. Only on Slashdot... The fact that someone got rich off something makes it ok to steal from that person? Hell, I'll make more money in the next 18 months than some people will in their entire lives. Is it ok for them to come steal my shit? Oh, wait, I guess it is - someone broke into my house and stole all my dvds once. I guess they couldn't afford a computer and an internet connection.
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Editing the httpd.conf file is a real pain.
Heh, I worked with someone who thought it was a pain to edit too. His solution - he erased every single comment from httpd.conf. (He thought it was a pain because it was too long. Needless to say, tempers flared.)
Speaking of Mason and mod_perl (requirements for netdisco)...can you run Mason with PerlFreshRestart turned on these days? I'd love to try it on some servers I am running but have been unable to get Mason to work with PerlFreshRestart turned on. It's been about 9 months since my last attempt.
I like to see how things are connected, what ports are in what blocks, what's wired to to what but my diagrams are simple boxes within boxes connected by lines with a simple ledgend. For what you are doing, you do not need to spend time drawing an exact replica of your 3com 3300 switches with color, the light display, the 3com label, etc. That's just a waste of time. I use open office for my diagrams. If you are using windows, ms paint should suffice.
If you are so anti-social that you feel that your coworkers' chatting is driving you insane
I don't know about you, but I find a twenty minute "chat" about the latest goings-on of Survivor or the some other reality show to be about all it takes to drive me nuts. Especially when the "chat" involves someone who hasn't done a 5 minute task I asked them to do three days ago but has found time to have numerous other "chats" in addition to lunch breaks, coffee breaks, etc.
Implement stack ranking for Google.
Seriously, is that his real name? Or did he change it for "Show Business"?
He must have changed it. My reasoning is that like most users of the Dvorak keyboard, he is an intermible, miserable asshole. I swear, you ever meet a user of a Dvorak keyboard? They're like the "kill your television" crowd. Blah, blah, "Dvorak is much more efficent. Normal keyboards were designed to keep the man down", blah, blah, "CNN? I don't even know what that is. Is it a TV show? Because I don't own a TV" blah, blah, blah. Like John Dvorak, everytime on opens their mouth, they say something grating and irating.
How was that even remotely hilarious? Sarcastic for sure, but I guess I have higher standards for "hilarity" than this.
It's funny in the way British humor is funny. That is to say, it's not.
It was so far down, plus got modded flamebait, I felt justified in reposting it.
...only one thing - invasion.
Rate shaping is the best. Not being able to access something is one thing, but having it be agonizingly slow is the ultimate.
Because then said employee will waste even more time doing whatever it is he/she/it does on that side?
Sometimes, it's just not about wasting time. Sometimes, it just petty troublemaking. During a contentious election of late, we had an employee blogging like crazy on his little political blog. I rate shaped it right as things were heating up. You could just feel the panic and frustration emanating from his cube as you walked by. Click, click, click. click. Half the office knew what I did and we all had a good laugh at his expense. After a few days, I just cut him off completely. It's still off to this day.
At my work, all web-based e-mail is blocked, you insensitive clod!
Heh, at my work I control the blocking. We block nothing outright, but if I see someone I don't like browsing some personal stuff, I either block the site outright or rate shape the hell out it. Rate shaping is the best. Not being able to access something is one thing, but having it be agonizingly slow is the ultimate.
Who here, who as ever worked on a large scale project, has not experienced delays?
Part sysadmin/part programmer. $30K of it is in vested toilet paper though.
I mean, they *did* name the directory "secret", so it's secure, right?
No, it's only secret if you name it ".secret".
We have an ecrypted text file stored locally with all passwords written on it like this:
1. password
2. password2
etc.
On an ssl, password protected web site not hosted by us, we have a web page with:
Server x, root, password #1
Server x, admin, password #2
etc.
The people who need it keep all or part of the printed out text file in their wallets. I'm sure someone will point out some flaw, but it is pretty disconnected.
Ah, the twenties... "Give me five bees for a quarter", we used to say. Now, about that onion strapped to my belt...
and by "paying consultants that much", I meant $250 as in $250/hr, not hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Uh, maybe you didn't notice, but this is about setting up a data center. To me, that implies setting up a facility and an infrastructure, not a rack in closet. To me, that implies spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. To me, that implies the possibilities of paying consultants that much for an hour or two of advice before paying contractors a hundred times that to install your electrical. To me, that does not imply buying a cheap rack, getting a T1 and a router, and sticking 5 servers in whatever closet is available in your office space.
I wonder if they finally did away with raised floors.
At my colo, they run cold air from the HVAC under the raised floors and suck it up through the cabinets with a fans (and presure from the HVAC). They cool the cabinets, not the entire facility. It's odd being in a colo that is warm after freezing my ass off in previous facilities, but temperature monitering equipment of ours tells us that the closed cabinets stay quite cool.
When designing a Data Centre, I really don't think the number one priority is to make it an artistic statement or a fun place for the IT staff to hang out in.
Hey, if the 1990s taught us anything, it was that bean bags, nerf guns and video games were the key to a successful business.
My two favs:
/sbin/fsck-y on the console - "It says command not found", says the "engineer".
#1. Driving all the way to the data center at 4 am to find the keyboard plugged into the mouse port - "The keyboard's not responding", says the "engineer".
#2. Driving all the way at to the data center at 3am to see
Installed X and AIM after that and made the "engineers" read the commands off that provided they could get that working.
I don't think this is really for that, but some sort of manual or book about choosing a colo would be a pretty good idea. Your point about overage is a good one - some companies have outrageous 95th percentile billing schemes, say charging you for the max megabit for the entire month, or just pro-rating you. The difference between the two can be thousands of dollars. Support too - $300 an hour with a half hour minimum can be a lot when you start swearing to yourself that they are sending the security guards out to your rack when you call for hands on support.
Does anybody have a link to the document yet, since $1.6 per page of bs is a bit too much.
Slashdot moral concept #7: If item is perceived to suck, stealing - oops sorry, forgot Slashdot moral concept #6 - infringing it is allowed.
Example: "If $band would put out better songs, maybe I'd buy their album. Until then, I will continue to use BitTorrent to get their material."
Not sure about you, but if I was setting up a data center, I'd fork the $250. It'd probably be your smallest expense and is bound to have some good ideas in it.
Heh, insightful. Only on Slashdot... The fact that someone got rich off something makes it ok to steal from that person? Hell, I'll make more money in the next 18 months than some people will in their entire lives. Is it ok for them to come steal my shit? Oh, wait, I guess it is - someone broke into my house and stole all my dvds once. I guess they couldn't afford a computer and an internet connection.