Since most people would argue that you need to keep data well backed up and preferably distributed, it would seem that a large array of cheap SATA drives would be better than a small array/single SCSI drive. Performance is likely to be a lot better too, and SATA drives are compatible with SAS RAID controllers.
It all depends on how much personnel you want to hire.
We buy all our servers prebuilt from IBM, in fully supported configurations with appropriate service contracts. That's more expensive then jury-rigging your servers with parts from Newegg.
However, i do not have invest much time into evaluating possible configurations, building compatability list, checking operating system compatibility, deal with complicated RMA processes, etc. IBM does that for me.
Also, drivers and firmware updates can be maintained across our whole network, with a single tool that shows me what's current and what's not. There's no need for me to skim every manufacturers website for possible firmware updates for hard drives i might need - i just get a single drive firmware update cd that updates all drives supported in that server.
This gives me time to spend on things that actually earn my company money, instead of wasting time with RMAing drives with Western Digital directly.
Except that in this case, every other manufacturer does the same. A port of the higher price also goes in refinancing the warranty that's port of the server.
Oh, and don't think other vendor-lock in platforms don't do the same. IBM prices System x hard drives and POWER hard drives vastly different, even if they may contain the same harddrive but with a different firmware and hotplug case.
Yeah, sometimes less engineering work is required (getting a basic AD setup up and running is almost idiot proof), but the testing part requires the same amount of effort, no matter which platform you're using.
Porn is designed to produce a very specific neurochemical response in people
I doubt that porn is designed - most production values are cheap.
The fact that people can (not necessarily will) get addicted to this neurochemical response is not only unsurprising, but well documented.
Sacrificing valuable personal relationships for something of lesser value is a textbook element of addiction, established by people who study addiction for their careers.
Yes, but what you're describing is essentially an unreasonable request. If we take the morals out of the equation (porn is bad!) and go with my meat example, you have a situation where your wife demands something unreasonable from you, with no obvious reasons and/or benefits, just because she wants to "change" you for some unknown goal.
From my point, that's a perfect reason to break up a relationship - but IMO this does not mean that i have a meat addiction.
Can we say the same thing then about the meth head or the alcoholic?
Alcohol can do pretty bad things to you, yet i still enjoy the occasional beer since about 15.
The problem with your argument about porn addiction was the "wife" point - it was clearly a situation that does not indicate addiction, merely one of priorities or to put it more bluntly: If you're willing to put up with unreasonable requests.
If you spend most of your working day looking at porn and get fired for it, it's probably an addiction. And that's bad - however, that's not an issue of porn or alcohol itself, but of the individual.
Can you point to the specific things I'm doing? Do you even know who my kids are and how I am raising them? The only thing you know right now is that I think filtering porn from their web browsing experience is good parenting. (For the record, my kids are 7, 5, and 2.)
No, i can't. It was just the discussion we started out with, and my assumption just went with the way you were arguing.
Finally, I'll just ask the question directly. Do you have kids?
No. But i spent quite some time raising my siblings (which now have a job and are productive members of our society).
I don't know where you hang out but I've never been subjected to anything that mortifyingly disturbing in real life, nor would I want to be. This sort of thing disturbs adults psychologically,...
They're bits of color on a piece of plastic or glass. They can't be disturbing, if you've learned abstraction properly.
I played gears of war, yet i'm not afraid of aliens bursting out of the earth, or trying to cut other people in half with my chainsaw-assault rifle.
You may as well say "I never understood parents that want to teach their kids not to mess about with guns. They'll have to live with the fact people die from being shot, they should learn that naturally."
Telling them not to touch guns is wrong, IMO. Telling them how a gun works, how to handle it, what the risks of using it are and generally making them safe and responsible young adults is a good idea.
And before the argument comes up: Trying to teach a toddler gun safety won't work, but if they can read, write and type they should also be able to learn the basics of gun safety. Even more important if you have one in the house.
First, the parent post implied that bad things happen in the world so you might as well let them happen in your house. He started off implying pornography was bad.
No, what i said is that the world is a bad place. Which is mostly a philosophical standpoint.
Either way, there's lots of content on the internet i would consider "bad" for almost anyone, unless you have very specific fetishes: like 2girls1cup, tubgirl, etc.
But then again: There's no real danger originating from the internet - it's just pictures. Which, unlike a rapist can't scar your kid forever or transmit STDs.
Abstraction is an important skill to learn.
If you were married (and you may be) and your wife asked you to stop looking at porn, would you do it even if you thought her request was unreasonable? There are a lot of men out there who would keep looking at porn at the cost of their marriage. That's a textbook example of addiction.
No, of priorities. Wrong priorities in my opinion perhaps, but not necessarily an addiction.
Imagine this: Your wife asks you to stop eating meat, since it's bad for your health and all those poor animals getting slaughtered. Will you stop eating meat just to satisfy your wifes wims?
I know i wouldn't.
Is it really unreasonable of me to try and help my kids develop these skills before they get exposed to this stuff?
How can they learn self control when you're controlling them?
And, it's true that the Internet has come a long way in decreasing accidental porn displays. My kids have had access for years with no filter, and everything's worked fine. But, my kids are ready to want to know more, and 'sex' is a very likely keyword about to be entered into Google. I'd prefer she check out the Wikipedia results before redtube's.
Don't you think that Adblock Plus or a similar ad filter would do a better job at that than a DNS based filter?
I'm using ABP both on my work machines and on my home machine - the only accidental porn that wasn't blocked by ABP were the pop-under advertisements that occur e.G. on megaupload.
DNS-Based Content Filtering. Nothing can ever go wrong with that.
Seriously, do you think seeing porn will rape your daughters eyes or something?
I never understood parents that want to filter their kids internet connection. They'll have to live with the fact that the world is a bad place, and they should learn that naturally - not all at once when they turn 18 and you kick them out.
Guilt, i suppose - that Western Europe made it, and some nations didn't.
Many illegals too. Borders are open, which makes it easy to get in. Guilt strikes again, and the people aren't made to leave.
Just a few years ago (20-30, so before i was born) it was pretty difficult to get a Swiss passport. Nowadays the rules have changed, and even if you don't speak one of the four languages spoken here you can get a passport quite easily.
But the people here aren't all that happy with the situation - Switzerland has a half-direct democracy, and there are several initiatives and motions that intend to turn things around.
In 2007 votes, the SVP (a right wing political party) gained a lot of support from voters. Unfortunately, a lot of things went wrong when several leftist parties banded together to not reelect Christoph Blocher (a popular SVP figure).
Unfortunately, it's in German, a translation program might help you if you're really interested. 20min is a very popular magazine amongst young people and mostly oriented towards the left of the political spectrum. It's about a family that does not qualify for an extended stay here and doesn't want to leave.
Cultural values do, though. As someone living in Switzerland i can tell you that many Immigrants have cultural values that strongly conflict with the cultural values of my country.
This is the real problem.
To be more precise: People that take Islam as a serious guide on how to live their life (instead of a book of bed time stories) are a problem. There are other immigrants that also have significant value differences from the country they're in.
Luckily, the hippies haven't gotten as far here as in Germany, so we might still have a chance to turn out okay.
No! You're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to feel guilty about the fact that some groups of people have achieved more than some other groups of people!
It's a default setting that changed with server 2008.
First off, stop sharing the Administrator account. Set it to a very long, very complicated password and store it in a safe.
Then, give every admin their own admin account (we use the normal username prefixed with z-).
Or you can just create a GPO with a WMI Filter that only applies to Server 2008 that removes the restriction to one session per user id. I believe its under Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Server
TS Gateway tunnels through HTTPS, preauthenticated the connection, and then establishes the RDP connection you wanted - all by opening a single port.
It also checks if the user connecting is allowed to connect to the machine specified, which can be different from the list of users that are allowed to connect on the internal network.
I installed w2k8/64 and exchange 2k7 on a vmware esx (kept waiting for hyperV, but even when it came out M$ would not say it supported exchange).
Support for running Exchange 2007 under hardware virtualization was added on the same day, for both ESX and Hyper-V. That was towards the end of 2008, i believe.
Even late in 2008 some third party apps were not supported on server 2008.
There are multiple issues which can cause what you describe, the most commonly one i've encountered in the wild is the combination of a WS08 bug (for which there is a hotfix) together with McAfee.
Server Manager is IMO a good thing. Not for the seasoned admin who already knows how to find everything, but i've seen most of our apprentices getting an easier grip on 2008 than on 2003.
Slashdot Mirror
What kind of reply do you expect on Slashdot? An English-Only Website?
It all depends on how much personnel you want to hire.
We buy all our servers prebuilt from IBM, in fully supported configurations with appropriate service contracts. That's more expensive then jury-rigging your servers with parts from Newegg.
However, i do not have invest much time into evaluating possible configurations, building compatability list, checking operating system compatibility, deal with complicated RMA processes, etc. IBM does that for me.
Also, drivers and firmware updates can be maintained across our whole network, with a single tool that shows me what's current and what's not. There's no need for me to skim every manufacturers website for possible firmware updates for hard drives i might need - i just get a single drive firmware update cd that updates all drives supported in that server.
This gives me time to spend on things that actually earn my company money, instead of wasting time with RMAing drives with Western Digital directly.
Should be part. No idea why i wrote "port".
Except that in this case, every other manufacturer does the same. A port of the higher price also goes in refinancing the warranty that's port of the server.
Oh, and don't think other vendor-lock in platforms don't do the same. IBM prices System x hard drives and POWER hard drives vastly different, even if they may contain the same harddrive but with a different firmware and hotplug case.
Even as a Windows admin, i have to agree.
Yeah, sometimes less engineering work is required (getting a basic AD setup up and running is almost idiot proof), but the testing part requires the same amount of effort, no matter which platform you're using.
I doubt that porn is designed - most production values are cheap.
Yes, but what you're describing is essentially an unreasonable request. If we take the morals out of the equation (porn is bad!) and go with my meat example, you have a situation where your wife demands something unreasonable from you, with no obvious reasons and/or benefits, just because she wants to "change" you for some unknown goal.
From my point, that's a perfect reason to break up a relationship - but IMO this does not mean that i have a meat addiction.
Alcohol can do pretty bad things to you, yet i still enjoy the occasional beer since about 15.
The problem with your argument about porn addiction was the "wife" point - it was clearly a situation that does not indicate addiction, merely one of priorities or to put it more bluntly: If you're willing to put up with unreasonable requests.
If you spend most of your working day looking at porn and get fired for it, it's probably an addiction. And that's bad - however, that's not an issue of porn or alcohol itself, but of the individual.
No, i can't. It was just the discussion we started out with, and my assumption just went with the way you were arguing.
No. But i spent quite some time raising my siblings (which now have a job and are productive members of our society).
They're bits of color on a piece of plastic or glass. They can't be disturbing, if you've learned abstraction properly.
I played gears of war, yet i'm not afraid of aliens bursting out of the earth, or trying to cut other people in half with my chainsaw-assault rifle.
Telling them not to touch guns is wrong, IMO. Telling them how a gun works, how to handle it, what the risks of using it are and generally making them safe and responsible young adults is a good idea.
And before the argument comes up: Trying to teach a toddler gun safety won't work, but if they can read, write and type they should also be able to learn the basics of gun safety. Even more important if you have one in the house.
You are aware that most teenagers lose their virginity between 13 and 16?
No, what i said is that the world is a bad place. Which is mostly a philosophical standpoint.
Either way, there's lots of content on the internet i would consider "bad" for almost anyone, unless you have very specific fetishes: like 2girls1cup, tubgirl, etc.
But then again: There's no real danger originating from the internet - it's just pictures. Which, unlike a rapist can't scar your kid forever or transmit STDs.
Abstraction is an important skill to learn.
No, of priorities. Wrong priorities in my opinion perhaps, but not necessarily an addiction.
Imagine this: Your wife asks you to stop eating meat, since it's bad for your health and all those poor animals getting slaughtered. Will you stop eating meat just to satisfy your wifes wims?
I know i wouldn't.
How can they learn self control when you're controlling them?
Don't you think that Adblock Plus or a similar ad filter would do a better job at that than a DNS based filter?
I'm using ABP both on my work machines and on my home machine - the only accidental porn that wasn't blocked by ABP were the pop-under advertisements that occur e.G. on megaupload.
DNS-Based Content Filtering. Nothing can ever go wrong with that.
Seriously, do you think seeing porn will rape your daughters eyes or something?
I never understood parents that want to filter their kids internet connection. They'll have to live with the fact that the world is a bad place, and they should learn that naturally - not all at once when they turn 18 and you kick them out.
Guilt, i suppose - that Western Europe made it, and some nations didn't.
Many illegals too. Borders are open, which makes it easy to get in. Guilt strikes again, and the people aren't made to leave.
Just a few years ago (20-30, so before i was born) it was pretty difficult to get a Swiss passport. Nowadays the rules have changed, and even if you don't speak one of the four languages spoken here you can get a passport quite easily.
But the people here aren't all that happy with the situation - Switzerland has a half-direct democracy, and there are several initiatives and motions that intend to turn things around.
In 2007 votes, the SVP (a right wing political party) gained a lot of support from voters. Unfortunately, a lot of things went wrong when several leftist parties banded together to not reelect Christoph Blocher (a popular SVP figure).
The best english material on the topic i found was here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_People's_Party
Regarding guilt - look at this example:
http://www.20min.ch/news/zuerich/story/23037069
Unfortunately, it's in German, a translation program might help you if you're really interested. 20min is a very popular magazine amongst young people and mostly oriented towards the left of the political spectrum. It's about a family that does not qualify for an extended stay here and doesn't want to leave.
(My bias should be obvious: I vote SVP)
Race doesn't matter.
Cultural values do, though. As someone living in Switzerland i can tell you that many Immigrants have cultural values that strongly conflict with the cultural values of my country.
This is the real problem.
To be more precise: People that take Islam as a serious guide on how to live their life (instead of a book of bed time stories) are a problem. There are other immigrants that also have significant value differences from the country they're in.
Luckily, the hippies haven't gotten as far here as in Germany, so we might still have a chance to turn out okay.
No! You're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to feel guilty about the fact that some groups of people have achieved more than some other groups of people!
It has the application shutdown thingie.
So Maddoff shouldn't go to jail either?
Depends. Do you have pictures of his sister?
It's a default setting that changed with server 2008.
First off, stop sharing the Administrator account. Set it to a very long, very complicated password and store it in a safe.
Then, give every admin their own admin account (we use the normal username prefixed with z-).
Or you can just create a GPO with a WMI Filter that only applies to Server 2008 that removes the restriction to one session per user id. I believe its under Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Server
No, you can't.
TS Gateway tunnels through HTTPS, preauthenticated the connection, and then establishes the RDP connection you wanted - all by opening a single port.
It also checks if the user connecting is allowed to connect to the machine specified, which can be different from the list of users that are allowed to connect on the internal network.
2003 R2 does not came with SMB2.
Support for running Exchange 2007 under hardware virtualization was added on the same day, for both ESX and Hyper-V. That was towards the end of 2008, i believe.
Lazy ISVs! Shocking. Never seen that before.
DFS isn't new in 2008, it's been there since 2000.
DFS-R was added in 2003 R2.
There are few improvements to DFS-R in 2008.
I think you have a problem with incompetent Windows administrators, not with Windows itself.
Yes, i prefer Linux machines with years of uptime.
At least this gives you an easy way to spot incompetent admins.
There are multiple issues which can cause what you describe, the most commonly one i've encountered in the wild is the combination of a WS08 bug (for which there is a hotfix) together with McAfee.
Most likely:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959816
Maybe (SMB2 only):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948572
Basically: If you have issues like that, don't reboot the servers. Open a PSS case.
Server Manager is IMO a good thing. Not for the seasoned admin who already knows how to find everything, but i've seen most of our apprentices getting an easier grip on 2008 than on 2003.