Points 1,2,6,7 are exactly why you want this stuff in a DB: backed up, replicated off-site, consistent, and up-to-date. If you want a hard copy, extract it from the DB and print it out (and always with a datestamp/index so you know how far out of date the ex-tree version is).
All excellent advice except one thing: Do not, ever, use spreadsheets for network configuration data. Network config matters, and shit that matters goes in a database. Something Free like OpenNetAdmin is a very decent start; but if the OP has an unlimited budget, I'm sure there are plenty of capable commercial applications which will manage the network config much better than a Bunch Of Spreadsheets.
If your solution really is superior, but implementing it and maintaining it is beyond the abilities of your team, then... you need a better team.
Anyone caught accepting or excusing mediocrity deserves all the sub-standard 'solutions' they inevitably get. Your team should have the skills required to implement and maintain the superior solution.
The best chair I ever sat in was when I worked for Sun in Scotland (LLG03, if any ex-Sun folk are in the house). I'd love to find out what sort of chair it was.
Fully adjustable setup, shoulder-height back, floating recline that actually worked, sculpted foam inserts. Awesome. And Sun replaced the foam back and seat every couple of years. Must have been expensive to fit out the place with those chairs, but there's no way anyone would have put up with 12 hour shifts without them.
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My company sold DARPA the telemetry transceivers, and I'm pretty sure there was nothing wrong with them.
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Refer them to the reply given in Arkell v. Pressdram
Sometimes I go into work and boot up a Sun Ultra1, just for kicks.
Except it's not for kicks, and I don't have to boot the thing. Because we're still running Critical Infrastructure Applications on it.
Sober up?
And not owning a car leaves you with more cash for tasty, tasty booze. Everybody's happy!
They still making PCLs? I thought they ran out of prefamulated amulite years ago.
Unix is meant to be difficult - it keeps idiots out of the datacentre.
Ha ha, only serious.
Points 1,2,6,7 are exactly why you want this stuff in a DB: backed up, replicated off-site, consistent, and up-to-date.
If you want a hard copy, extract it from the DB and print it out (and always with a datestamp/index so you know how far out of date the ex-tree version is).
All excellent advice except one thing: Do not, ever, use spreadsheets for network configuration data. Network config matters, and shit that matters goes in a database.
Something Free like OpenNetAdmin is a very decent start; but if the OP has an unlimited budget, I'm sure there are plenty of capable commercial applications which will manage the network config much better than a Bunch Of Spreadsheets.
And that is all I have to say about that.
"...mostly persecution, misery, national alcoholism, a sense of hopelessness, and periods of vast premature loss of life."
Welcome to Scotland!
"something less portable than a bag of lead bricks"
Lead bricks and no bag?
Aaaand what about all the people saved by not wasting money doing cancer screens on 20 year olds?
Cthulhu waits.
In the cans.
In your cupboard.
You can use a microwave as well - it's a bit faster.
# man pkill :)
No.
If your solution really is superior, but implementing it and maintaining it is beyond the abilities of your team, then... you need a better team.
Anyone caught accepting or excusing mediocrity deserves all the sub-standard 'solutions' they inevitably get. Your team should have the skills required to implement and maintain the superior solution.
Tru fax.
Flash player also creates a ~/.macromedia directory...
[ilikejam@localhost ~]$ vi .emacs
s/your/you\'re/
"He has to make it past a belly bloated by years of coffee and donuts."
Careful - these are IT types your talking to.
The best chair I ever sat in was when I worked for Sun in Scotland (LLG03, if any ex-Sun folk are in the house). I'd love to find out what sort of chair it was.
Fully adjustable setup, shoulder-height back, floating recline that actually worked, sculpted foam inserts. Awesome. And Sun replaced the foam back and seat every couple of years. Must have been expensive to fit out the place with those chairs, but there's no way anyone would have put up with 12 hour shifts without them.
Did he stop everyone from working while he cleaned out his desk?
The mods dropped out.
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