For all the people who are wondering how do you remotely reboot a server once it BSOD. In the last century or so, there have been these little things called remote cards, or out-of-band management cards, or ILO (HP) or RSA (IBM) or whatever. You can do all kinds of magic with them cards, like remote reboots, connecting remotely to the servers mouse/keyboard/screen, hardware diagnostics, turning on the little light on the server so you can find it once you get to the data room....
Makes me wonder about the median slashdot user's IT background...
Here is a compatibility list for ESXi. If you pull it off then add a second machine and build yourself an ESXi cluster;). You need to pay attention to the SATA controller.
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3.5/Whiteboxes_SATA_Controllers_for_ESX_3.5_3i.htm
This way you are not only getting experience with your line of work applications but also with the VM software most datacenters use.
VMWare Server/MS Virtual Server are nice alternatives when you don't have ESX/ESXi compatible hardware, but eat much more HW resources and ESXi takes just 3 minutes to install and you don't have to patch the operating system every other week:).
VMWare is the only vendor that has never disappointed as far as support goes. If you have one of them gold/platinum (whatever) contracts and you open a high priority issue with them, you WILL get a knowledgeable support person on the other end of the line in less than 10 minutes.
Having problems with a VMWare (or other vendor) cluster is equivalent to having a few racks of physical servers on fire. Knowledgeable, efficient support is the only thing saving your ass.
Why would anybody not use their phone as an mp3 player is beyond me. You already carry your phone don't you ?
If you can afford an iPod you certainly can afford a phone that doubles as an mp3 player.
I'm working for a very large telco and after 17 months as a help desk tech I got promoted to a regular sysadmin position (no tape-monkey stuff). I hold NO certs (other then ITIL...) but guess what, all those recommendations coming from the CTO and most technology directors really helped a lot... Without those.. i would have not stood a chance.
And I also learned how to interact with people much better:). This is an invaluable skill and they don't teach it in school.
Is virtualisation such a big thing for SMBs ? I think not. And big shops have separate stuff for Windows and *nix, so the *nix team will choose whatever suites them (Xen, VMWare) and the Windows team is going to do the same.
But when you have Hyper-V as free with the SO and VMWare costing a s*it load of money it's going to be really hard to justify VMWare in the budget.... And this my friends is why Hyper-V will be a hit.
In the multi-OS shop you talk about, provided they are of a decent size, the guy that does AD and Exchange is not going to touch the Oracle DB on a Solaris host and vice-versa . Different set of skills, different job descriptions, same amount of work...
Heck here's one idea, put a digital camera inside the radar gun which takes a picture at the same time the speed is detected and print on the receipt, would prove if any other cars were in the vacinity.
In Romania the police does not stop you. Instead the owner gets a nice photo of the car with the speed printed on it, by mail, at home:), together with the speed ticket.
Yes, SyncBack does a pretty decent job and it's user friendly too.
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Funny thing. At my company (large telco) every employee is put through a class that specifically instructs him on those things: what fire extinguisher to use, what those pretty buttons with "Inergen" written on them do etc. So maby there's a value to knowing stuff like that.....
Sounds real easy until you get a batch of 20 Dells with OEM S/N that won't activate.... You call the number and read a g'zilion numbers and codes for each of them.....
It's slashdot, i'll give you that, but looking down on somebody because they don't know the difference between RAM and HDD is not the smartest thing to do. I mean... do you know the difference between the compression and the oil rings in your engine ? And please... give me an onest answer before you google it... And you use your car each day, just like they use their computers !
Thing is, if you happen to spend 99% of your computer time in Windows , that little windows key is the greatest thing ever:
WinKey + R -> Run -> cmd / winword / gpedit.msc (I start 80% of programs this way, just add the folder to PATH)
WinKey + E -> Explorer (yup, great timesaver)
WinKey + D -> Show the desktop
WinKey + F -> Find
We just got a few wide-screen Toshibas and I can't get why they didn't include it, case they certainly have the space... It's killing me .
There will be a dozen or so MSOffice add-ons to deal with the ODF. Some free (as in beer) some free (as in./configure make make install) and some that actually work for the nice lady in the accounting departament....
Thinking that no ODF implementation in MSOffice is going to boost OpenOffice/Abiword/whatever's popularity is wishfull thinking at best.
Where I live if there is one arabic thing that's in our everyday lifes, it's the shawarma. I'll take a good (and really spicy) shawarma over McDonalds/Pizza Hut/Burger King/whatever any time of day. Pair it with an ayran, and you're good for the day.
Anecdotal evidence, but 5 minutes from home there is a mcdonalds and across the street there's two shaworma shops. McDonalds has two moms and five children in it while across the street there's a ten people line in front of the shaworma shops (and the line never goes away). Price wise it's pretty much the same wheather you go to the Mc or to the kebab shops...
I've got fiber at my window, coming from the light pole to the house, through the balcony. And this is in a "developing" country (Romania), and it's not an uncommon thing....
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OMG ! You have EIGHT servers ! When "your" servers gets into the thousands then come back and post about enterprise software.
For all the people who are wondering how do you remotely reboot a server once it BSOD. In the last century or so, there have been these little things called remote cards, or out-of-band management cards, or ILO (HP) or RSA (IBM) or whatever. You can do all kinds of magic with them cards, like remote reboots, connecting remotely to the servers mouse/keyboard/screen, hardware diagnostics, turning on the little light on the server so you can find it once you get to the data room.... Makes me wonder about the median slashdot user's IT background ...
Here is a compatibility list for ESXi. If you pull it off then add a second machine and build yourself an ESXi cluster ;). You need to pay attention to the SATA controller.
:).
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3.5/Whiteboxes_SATA_Controllers_for_ESX_3.5_3i.htm This way you are not only getting experience with your line of work applications but also with the VM software most datacenters use. VMWare Server/MS Virtual Server are nice alternatives when you don't have ESX/ESXi compatible hardware, but eat much more HW resources and ESXi takes just 3 minutes to install and you don't have to patch the operating system every other week
VMWare is the only vendor that has never disappointed as far as support goes. If you have one of them gold/platinum (whatever) contracts and you open a high priority issue with them, you WILL get a knowledgeable support person on the other end of the line in less than 10 minutes. Having problems with a VMWare (or other vendor) cluster is equivalent to having a few racks of physical servers on fire. Knowledgeable, efficient support is the only thing saving your ass.
Fact: Did you know that if an account does not have a password it can't be used for remote connections ?
One word for you: Nokia
Why would anybody not use their phone as an mp3 player is beyond me. You already carry your phone don't you ? If you can afford an iPod you certainly can afford a phone that doubles as an mp3 player.
I'm working for a very large telco and after 17 months as a help desk tech I got promoted to a regular sysadmin position (no tape-monkey stuff). I hold NO certs (other then ITIL ...) but guess what, all those recommendations coming from the CTO and most technology directors really helped a lot ... Without those .. i would have not stood a chance.
And I also learned how to interact with people much better :). This is an invaluable skill and they don't teach it in school.
Is virtualisation such a big thing for SMBs ? I think not. And big shops have separate stuff for Windows and *nix, so the *nix team will choose whatever suites them (Xen, VMWare) and the Windows team is going to do the same. But when you have Hyper-V as free with the SO and VMWare costing a s*it load of money it's going to be really hard to justify VMWare in the budget.... And this my friends is why Hyper-V will be a hit.
In the multi-OS shop you talk about, provided they are of a decent size, the guy that does AD and Exchange is not going to touch the Oracle DB on a Solaris host and vice-versa . Different set of skills, different job descriptions, same amount of work ...
Microsoft is not doing well in the ad-supported online space, though.
... well .... yesterday.
And this is quite a surprise, since they've been in the market since
Mod parent up! First guy in the thread that knows what he's talking about ...
Heck here's one idea, put a digital camera inside the radar gun which takes a picture at the same time the speed is detected and print on the receipt, would prove if any other cars were in the vacinity.
:), together with the speed ticket.
In Romania the police does not stop you. Instead the owner gets a nice photo of the car with the speed printed on it, by mail, at home
Yes, SyncBack does a pretty decent job and it's user friendly too.
Funny thing. At my company (large telco) every employee is put through a class that specifically instructs him on those things: what fire extinguisher to use, what those pretty buttons with "Inergen" written on them do etc. So maby there's a value to knowing stuff like that .....
Sounds real easy until you get a batch of 20 Dells with OEM S/N that won't activate.... You call the number and read a g'zilion numbers and codes for each of them .....
Yup, it's called Business Continuity Planning for a reason ......
It's slashdot, i'll give you that, but looking down on somebody because they don't know the difference between RAM and HDD is not the smartest thing to do. I mean ... do you know the difference between the compression and the oil rings in your engine ? And please ... give me an onest answer before you google it ... And you use your car each day, just like they use their computers !
Thing is, if you happen to spend 99% of your computer time in Windows , that little windows key is the greatest thing ever:
WinKey + R -> Run -> cmd / winword / gpedit.msc (I start 80% of programs this way, just add the folder to PATH)
WinKey + E -> Explorer (yup, great timesaver)
WinKey + D -> Show the desktop
WinKey + F -> Find
We just got a few wide-screen Toshibas and I can't get why they didn't include it, case they certainly have the space... It's killing me .
There will be a dozen or so MSOffice add-ons to deal with the ODF. Some free (as in beer) some free (as in ./configure make make install) and some that actually work for the nice lady in the accounting departament ....
Thinking that no ODF implementation in MSOffice is going to boost OpenOffice/Abiword/whatever's popularity is wishfull thinking at best.
That mp3 player of yours is arround 17$ now, but you have to get 500 pcs. though, and deal with the customs.
Where I live if there is one arabic thing that's in our everyday lifes, it's the shawarma. I'll take a good (and really spicy) shawarma over McDonalds/Pizza Hut/Burger King/whatever any time of day. Pair it with an ayran, and you're good for the day. Anecdotal evidence, but 5 minutes from home there is a mcdonalds and across the street there's two shaworma shops. McDonalds has two moms and five children in it while across the street there's a ten people line in front of the shaworma shops (and the line never goes away). Price wise it's pretty much the same wheather you go to the Mc or to the kebab shops...
I've got fiber at my window, coming from the light pole to the house, through the balcony. And this is in a "developing" country (Romania), and it's not an uncommon thing ....
Only problem is ... it don't run (on) _insert_unix_os_of_choice !
They ARE made of plastic . Ugly , but much better than paper .