Is it pretty standard for symantec (or any other big software companies ) to immediately request remote access as soon as you get on the phone to one of their support guys?
Like literally the first thing I got asked for was an IP address, and to make sure that remote desktop was enabled.
Fuck right off. Even if I had the authority to create massive gaping security holes in a client network on a whim, I'm not about to do it for a ticket that can probably be solved with about 5 minutes of somebody who actually knows how this software works talking to me.
This is not remotely standard unless they're your outsourcer.
A direct, Remote Desktop connection? Bulllllllshiiiiit.
That's what GoToAssist and Webex Support are for.
Extremely this. Were you actually dealing with Symantec here?
Yep.
I mean, the point was moot since there was no public IP address for that server, and the only way of getting to it was via a remote access gateway that I was sure as hell not giving out the information for, even on the off chance that this guy had the right software installed.
The problem ended up being that the backup exec database had been corrupted when it instantly shut itself down due to the C drive on the system hitting capacity. I had cleared out space and restarted the backup exec services, and only certain jobs were failing, with seemingly no connection between them.
In other news;
Company wants the functionality of SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, but is too cheap to shell out for Enterprise licenses. I think I can hack a solution together with powershell, SQL jobs, and failover clusters, but I'm not fucking happy about it...
All we need is for a pair of mirrored sql servers in an active/standby configuration that have a shared virtual IP address. SURELY there is a way to do this properly without an enterprise license. SURELY.
Danger! Danger!
You do not want to hack together a kludge. This is bad for the company and it is bad for you.
Build a cheapo server for a grand, set up squid, use it as your router/firewall?
I got my Hyper-V network connection issue sorted out so I'm going to set up a Linux server in there to just run squid with dansguardian and see if that will work.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
Ok so yesterday I ordered an iPhone for an employee. He calls today (we make them call us so we can activate) and I give him the standard 'Move your old stuff over to your computer if you want to keep it' deal - he asks how. I sigh and tell him he needs to plug the phone into his computer and just copy the stuff.
Well, I end up remoting into his computer and looking at it (after the drivers installed etc and he still can't see the phone). Turns out, his phone is so old Windows can't access the storage (which I'm assuming is internal and not a SD) - and the drivers where to use the flip phone as a DIAL UP MODEM.
I got to tell him he won the prize of copying his 400 contacts over by hand. He didn't like that answer and was going to try the local Verizon dealer and see if they had some other option.
The good news is if you do it right you can store your contacts on google and use them no matter what kind of phone you get. All hail glorious technology.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
When it comes to things like transferring non-business related items between phones, if it can't be resolved within a couple of minutes, I tell them to go to their carrier because it's their responsibility, not mine. It's one of the few times I'm allowed to put my foot down and say no.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
And Winamp is officially going dark... it's the only media player I actually liked and have used it since... maybe the late 90s? Jesus, how long has it been around?! Every other alternative I've tried has blown in comparison. Anyone have any suggestions?
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
And Winamp is officially going dark... it's the only media player I actually liked and have used it since... maybe the late 90s? Jesus, how long has it been around?! Every other alternative I've tried has blown in comparison. Anyone have any suggestions?
What, NO! That's not allowed! I have used Winamp since I first started using MP3. I guess I will just hold onto a backup copy of the installer and hang on for as long as I can.
What are the chances of anyone else picking it up for development?
And Winamp is officially going dark... it's the only media player I actually liked and have used it since... maybe the late 90s? Jesus, how long has it been around?! Every other alternative I've tried has blown in comparison. Anyone have any suggestions?
What, NO! That's not allowed! I have used Winamp since I first started using MP3. I guess I will just hold onto a backup copy of the installer and hang on for as long as I can.
What are the chances of anyone else picking it up for development?
I've even memorized all of the shortcut keys for Winamp, and they made more sense than any other program. I'm definitely going to keep the installer files around because I cannot imagine moving to another platform. Just to add, all installer files will no longer be available from winamp.com after December 20th.
I... I keep all my music in folders, sorted by artist and then album. It doesn't matter what I user to play it with. Fuck library management. :P
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I really liked Sonique. Great visualizer, great EQ, wildly skinnable. So sad it died, like a goddamn decade ago.
Didn't Sonique get consumeddevoured assimilated by Windows Media Player at some point?
Nah, Sonique got sold to Lycos who were acquired by some Spanish telecomunication company, who ate massive quantities of shit in the dot-com bubble pop, and laid off the Sonique team. Sonique never directly ran afoul of Microsoft or any other major player. They were just a dot-com bust victim.
There was a beta of Sonique 2 out there a long time ago, but they've been pretty much dead for 10+ years. It was seriously the coolest looking player.
So virtualization is pretty nice. Just finished moving my ticket system from an old P4 sitting in an empty room onto the new server, will be nice having it with all my other software and not needing to putty into it(although I still can).
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
Wow, you guys and I have very different requirements for music players.
I really don't need 'sick skins' or whatever since the player lives minimized on my computer. My only requirement is a powerful library management tool, and that's a different beast than just a straight up player.
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I've been using spotify premium since beta. The media player itself isn't particularly fully featured, but it does the job. The apps are a nice bonus feature, and the social features like collaborative playlists and such are really good.
Only one of those skins looks usable at all, and it's still pretty gross
I wasn't specifically endorsing any one of those skins, just demonstrating how wildly varied they can be. Naturally there's a lot simpler cleaner, minimalistic skins, plus the built in equalizer was spectacular, as well as hey screw you I loved sonique just leave me in my 2001 era fantasy land
I've been using spotify premium since beta. The media player itself isn't particularly fully featured, but it does the job. The apps are a nice bonus feature, and the social features like collaborative playlists and such are really good.
The mobile integration is just so good. SO good.
Once I found out you can point your iphone to html5.grooveshark.com, pandora and spotify and servicies with... advertising... can eat a dick.
Wow, you guys and I have very different requirements for music players.
I really don't need 'sick skins' or whatever since the player lives minimized on my computer. My only requirement is a powerful library management tool, and that's a different beast than just a straight up player.
Library management via sort by, crop, etc. is very important, but how the player operates is even more for me. Winamp had an awesome equalizer and the hotkeys were brilliant. Nothing else I've used has ever come close.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
Wow, you guys and I have very different requirements for music players.
I really don't need 'sick skins' or whatever since the player lives minimized on my computer. My only requirement is a powerful library management tool, and that's a different beast than just a straight up player.
Library management via sort by, crop, etc. is very important, but how the player operates is even more for me. Winamp had an awesome equalizer and the hotkeys were brilliant. Nothing else I've used has ever come close.
With the itunes empire, ipods, and cloud/streaming music services, the art of a great media player has fallen into decline. I mean, who just listens to a bunch of mp3s off a hard drive while sitting at a workstation anymore?
Actually looks like a DNS issue. I'm not resolving those URLs to an IP address. The websites might still be up if you just happened to know the IP address they resolve to and poke that into your address bar.
Having the hardest time figuring out MS SQL Standard 2012 licensing. Per this page there is both "per core" and "per-server+CAL" licensing models. If a SKU shows "Server + X CALs" like this, can I assume it is licensed per-server instead of per-core? We're planning on putting this on a hexacore machine. I'm thinking per-core licensing means we'd have to buy 3 of these, which ... no.
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I thought everyone used Foobar2000 as their mp3 player these days?
I use the windows 8 music player, because it is cool.
Having the hardest time figuring out MS SQL Standard 2012 licensing. Per this page there is both "per core" and "per-server+CAL" licensing models. If a SKU shows "Server + X CALs" like this, can I assume it is licensed per-server instead of per-core? We're planning on putting this on a hexacore machine. I'm thinking per-core licensing means we'd have to buy 3 of these, which ... no.
Break-even point is around 75 users/devices for a Server+CAL vs 3 2-core licenses (unlimited users/devices), assuming you wanted to use all cores.
I use Google Music or play something off of iCloud on one of my iOS devices. I do not care that I am wasting your bandwidth on my entertainment, employer! Muahahaha!
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I've been using spotify premium since beta. The media player itself isn't particularly fully featured, but it does the job. The apps are a nice bonus feature, and the social features like collaborative playlists and such are really good.
The mobile integration is just so good. SO good.
Once I found out you can point your iphone to html5.grooveshark.com, pandora and spotify and servicies with... advertising... can eat a dick.
I haven't seen anyone use the free version of spotify in so long. Basically everyone I know who uses it pays for it.
I have rules to filter things going to 192.168.x.x that are unsolicited. These need to be in the FORWARD rules presumably.
But I also want to port-forward something with a DNAT rule. But that will rewrite the packets in PREROUTING, making them look like invalid packets to be FORWARD'd to the local network.
This seems like an obvious use case, and something which shouldn't need a whole bunch of masquerading rules to do. What am I missing?
I have a dumb question. I have inherited a server with a raid5 array. The array contains 4x300gb drives. It is getting near the point where I feel like it needs more space.
I've found conflicting answers on whether replacing the drive would end up wiping the data on the whole array. A backup beforehand is obvious, but I would have thought that it would rebuild the data with the new drive after it gets replaced. However I have read a bunch of instances where everything goes right to the grumper.
Since this isn't a need to be fixed yesterday issue is rather do the research.
I have a dumb question. I have inherited a server with a raid5 array. The array contains 4x300gb drives. It is getting near the point where I feel like it needs more space.
I've found conflicting answers on whether replacing the drive would end up wiping the data on the whole array. A backup beforehand is obvious, but I would have thought that it would rebuild the data with the new drive after it gets replaced. However I have read a bunch of instances where everything goes right to the grumper.
Since this isn't a need to be fixed yesterday issue is rather do the research.
The basic issue with RAID5 is once you pull 1 disk, you have no parity left. And it's possible that there's a distribution of errors on the array, such that it runs fine with parity, but once you yank a disk you'll have some bad data turn up.
If you can do a full backup of this server though, then you've nothing to really worry about because you can restore from backups anything that goes wrong.
Though 900gb is small by any modern standard I know of. If you want to add more space, it'd practically be worth buying another server (you do have a spare for it right?) and building a larger array (I strongly recommend RAID6 as a minimum these days, though I've had my own troubles with that but I'm a ZFS advocate) then copying everything over in one go from the old one.
If you don't have any other hardware changes to make it might be worth it to clone the entire disk(I believe Clonezilla should be able to clone the RAID) and then restore it onto a new RAID. I've never tried it with RAID before but it works great when swapping out workstations that run out of space, just use a Linux OS to do a disk resize afterwards.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
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Danger! Danger!
You do not want to hack together a kludge. This is bad for the company and it is bad for you.
I got my Hyper-V network connection issue sorted out so I'm going to set up a Linux server in there to just run squid with dansguardian and see if that will work.
Bah
Well, I end up remoting into his computer and looking at it (after the drivers installed etc and he still can't see the phone). Turns out, his phone is so old Windows can't access the storage (which I'm assuming is internal and not a SD) - and the drivers where to use the flip phone as a DIAL UP MODEM.
I got to tell him he won the prize of copying his 400 contacts over by hand. He didn't like that answer and was going to try the local Verizon dealer and see if they had some other option.
Let's just say if possible, I'd prefer to keep him on a flip phone. Or even a bag phone.
What are the chances of anyone else picking it up for development?
WMP
VLC
AOL seems like they're not going to OSS the winamp. Might be a good time to start a project?
Why would you need anything more than 2.95?
iTunes = Windows Media Player = Symantec... They all blow monkeys and have been banished from any of my personal devices. 2.95 was fantastic and any version of 3 was a total disaster. It took some time to adjust, but I really like v5 now.
Didn't Sonique get consumed devoured assimilated by Windows Media Player at some point?
VLC though.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Nah, Sonique got sold to Lycos who were acquired by some Spanish telecomunication company, who ate massive quantities of shit in the dot-com bubble pop, and laid off the Sonique team. Sonique never directly ran afoul of Microsoft or any other major player. They were just a dot-com bust victim.
There was a beta of Sonique 2 out there a long time ago, but they've been pretty much dead for 10+ years. It was seriously the coolest looking player.
Crazy skinnable.
I really don't need 'sick skins' or whatever since the player lives minimized on my computer. My only requirement is a powerful library management tool, and that's a different beast than just a straight up player.
The mobile integration is just so good. SO good.
I wasn't specifically endorsing any one of those skins, just demonstrating how wildly varied they can be. Naturally there's a lot simpler cleaner, minimalistic skins, plus the built in equalizer was spectacular, as well as hey screw you I loved sonique just leave me in my 2001 era fantasy land
Once I found out you can point your iphone to html5.grooveshark.com, pandora and spotify and servicies with... advertising... can eat a dick.
With the itunes empire, ipods, and cloud/streaming music services, the art of a great media player has fallen into decline. I mean, who just listens to a bunch of mp3s off a hard drive while sitting at a workstation anymore?
Hotmail.com, xbox.com, microsoft.com, outlook.com, all unavailable.
The ones who have upgraded from a typewriter, that is.
EDIT: Yeah, 134.170.188.84/en-us/default.aspx sort of loads.
www.microsoft.com doesn't.
DNS issue.
I use the windows 8 music player, because it is cool.
Break-even point is around 75 users/devices for a Server+CAL vs 3 2-core licenses (unlimited users/devices), assuming you wanted to use all cores.
SQL_Server_2012_Licensing_Reference_Guide.pdf
I haven't seen anyone use the free version of spotify in so long. Basically everyone I know who uses it pays for it.
I have rules to filter things going to 192.168.x.x that are unsolicited. These need to be in the FORWARD rules presumably.
But I also want to port-forward something with a DNAT rule. But that will rewrite the packets in PREROUTING, making them look like invalid packets to be FORWARD'd to the local network.
This seems like an obvious use case, and something which shouldn't need a whole bunch of masquerading rules to do. What am I missing?
I've found conflicting answers on whether replacing the drive would end up wiping the data on the whole array. A backup beforehand is obvious, but I would have thought that it would rebuild the data with the new drive after it gets replaced. However I have read a bunch of instances where everything goes right to the grumper.
Since this isn't a need to be fixed yesterday issue is rather do the research.
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The basic issue with RAID5 is once you pull 1 disk, you have no parity left. And it's possible that there's a distribution of errors on the array, such that it runs fine with parity, but once you yank a disk you'll have some bad data turn up.
If you can do a full backup of this server though, then you've nothing to really worry about because you can restore from backups anything that goes wrong.
Though 900gb is small by any modern standard I know of. If you want to add more space, it'd practically be worth buying another server (you do have a spare for it right?) and building a larger array (I strongly recommend RAID6 as a minimum these days, though I've had my own troubles with that but I'm a ZFS advocate) then copying everything over in one go from the old one.