k when he had that job himself. But when we
do need to interact with them, they have a central ticketing system
based on rt. And they generally give pretty good response times,
although there aren't any SLAs that I know of.
But then we're a public research University, and maybe you
twave really isn't being updated very much, whereas OpenCSW has
seen a lot of stuff being updated in a short period of time.
All politics aside, I strongly suspect we're going to be going much more
with OpenCSW and not so much with Blastwave.
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a true tarpitting solution that doesn't waste your
sendmail resources, then you'll have to go with some sort of a proxy -- the
tarpitting would be done before the connection ever gets handed off to
sendmail. And OpenBSD's spamd is where I would start.
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Ed wrote:
> [LIST ADMIN] reply is not going back to the list - requires "reply
> all" & Cc: to To: swap
This is not an error. See Mailman FAQ 3.48 at <http://wiki.list.org/x/44A9>.
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efore you make
the decision to accept the message.
All of these techniques (and many more) can be implemented with
relatively simple milters, and milters work with both sendmail and postfix.
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ked at and ruled out, and why?
[0] And, I generally try to lead a Microsoft-free life to the greatest
possible degree.
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> more work, and error-prone, obviously)
Fortunately, I've never had to do this.
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on 2/26/09 10:48 PM, Edward Ned Harvey said:
> I'll suggest talking to the mailman users list. I use it regularly,
> and the folks there are *very* prompt, knowledgeable, and obviously
> experts at mailman. ;-)
Thank you for your support. :-)
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e Unix side of the house we're
most likely going to continue to use NetApps and NFS, since that brings us
so many good benefits.
This is a multi-protocol world. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
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on 3/3/09 9:50 PM, Brad Knowles said:
> Overall, I'd say that Oracle is the poster child for NetApp filers.
BTW, I should add that NetApp != NFS. That is NetApp >> NFS.
You can't just use any garden variety NFS solution and expect that
Oracle will be able to work worth be
If I could be sure that the people to be fired would be the management
types forcing this decision for totally asinine reasons, then I'd be
happy to hope that multiple someones would get fired.
Sigh
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engineers in the Windows group.
There comes a point when Herr Hindenburg is going to build his hydrogen
lifted airship wrapped in flammable fabric painted with highly flammable
aluminum & iron oxide (e.g., rocket fuel) regardless of what anyone els
someone who's been criticizing them
for their stupidity, I think there's a lot of people they'd have to go
through before they'd get to me.
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What do you want to know?
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ring tools.
> So, I welcome attempts to convince my why I should choose one package
> or another to be the first one I implement support for in the
> example... ;-) Eventually, somebody (maybe me, maybe somebody else)
> will probably implement support for the various other mo
re part of the UT System umbrella), and
UT Austin policies.
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the AMA model, where they basically do the same thing, although
maybe not quite to the same degree (or do they?).
I don't want the Texas Bar Association model.
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And then there are the people that drive on the other side of the road.
So, maybe driving isn't quite the right model, since that's localized
somewhat, and yet system administration is a more globalized type of task.
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certifications, materials, programs, etc... could be leveraged into that
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sue is that the largest part of the work would
probably also be the most difficult, in terms of defining the complete
foundation of all of the basic concepts in the field, and would probably
have to be done by some of the most experienced people in the field.
There are few such people in the wor
t the 'tome of SysAdmin knowledge' online (as well
> as publishing it deadtree.)
I think we're agreed on that much. I'd be interested to see what you
have to say about the rest.
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I've not heard of any problems with them other than with the
storevault stuff.
At UT Austin, we have several filers, probably at least 100TB of
rotating storage connected (sadly, much of it is ancient 72F drives
that we can't get any more), and my officemate is the storage manager
for the
sh, such as tar, cpio,
> USB hard drive, etc. You can also use enterprise backup tools if you
> wish, such as netbackup, ndmp, etc. Unlike the proprietary OS, which
> requires enterprise backup tools whether you like it or not. Granted
> - I'll use the enterprise back
nformation that could be applicable here.
Once you've got that part nailed down in your own mind, then you can use
other resources to try to help you make your case regarding the
particular type of salary, etc... that you think should go along with
the work you're actually doing.
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> one system to another. I can think of a few features that are
> missing, such as parallel or distributed filesystem ... but I can't
> name anything that's super critical for a small business.
For a small business, no -- probably not. But as you grow into the
larger Ent
on 4/20/09 6:13 PM, Trever Miller said:
> What do you use?
I'm curious to see what you think of Moobi (see
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/ccylql>).
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strings.
We ended up doing this kind of thing with the respective products at
each of the employers where I've dealt with these sorts of things.
I don't have experience with any other products in this field, so I'll
be interested to see what you find out.
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> using the GUI than using the CLI. (no typos to get in your way, etc.)
I'd be afraid that the GUI would make things too easy for people to use, and
therefore much more likely to bone the system as a result of playing around
with
d to use SNDS, which is linked from here:
> http://postmaster.msn.com/Services.aspx#ISPSolutions
The folks at Return Path are still in the process of finalizing their
services for Hotmail/Windows Live. I keep hearing about minor tweaks
that RP is making to the process on some private ant
rontline helpdeskers are.
Yes, there are a few that have a clue, and they don't stay there for
long -- if they're smart, they leave before they get fired. If they're
not that smart, but they're smart enough to avoid getting fired, then
they get promoted.
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>At
> one place the key phrase used by audit was "we don't read code so we
> can't trust yours."
Then they are not competent to audit my code.
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virtual console, you need
to be running their "VI client". However, this program is only available on
Windows, and the web version only works with IE (since it uses Active-X).
This means that whatever else you have, you must be running Windows in some
way for all your console manageme
n basis.
> If you have <91 servers per employee, then your employees are costing
> more than the electricity (if all these assumptions / guesses are
> right).
That is an interesting metric, however.
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people who ran
small to medium size businesses, and by people who knew of the internal
overhead costs at larger (and higher overhead) businesses, so I'd like to
understand your personal experience better and what universal rules of thumb
you would extract from that experien
biggest proponent of things like ITIL, I don't
think we're likely to be moving forward in that area any time soon.
But I did want to speak up and provide a different data point for
Universities. Not that ours is necessarily a good model to follow, but it
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my entire thyroid gland, in hopes that this will cure my thyroid cancer.
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>> I've got the old 2GB RAM DIMMs sitting in a shelf in
whatever changes you want.
So, I would be surprised if other configuration management programs
can't do something similar. If cfengine doesn't do it for you the way
you want, and bcfg2 doesn't do it for you the way you want, I suspect
that there are other similar options in thi
maximum power draw of 1100W.
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meone who's actually somewhat competent
who decided to add a cert on top of their skills, talents, and knowledge.
But generally speaking, I don't hold a particularly high opinion of most
certs, and I certainly wouldn't recommend or specify those things as
part of a job description for
who are very grounded in real-world issues and are immediately
useful in most related fields if they should ever happen to be lucky
enough to get a job.
So, if you were hiring, which direction would you go?
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they'll feel like they're getting a charge out of doing something
"naughty", and they wind up being prosecuted for creating and
distributing child pornography because the
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> sort of configuration these days, also.)
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ually every single critical system
you have?
I understand the desire for economies of scale in consolidation, but
there are very real costs to putting all your eggs in one basket.
This is a situation that you want to go into with both eyes wide open,
and know
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Either way, it definitely sounds like I don't know who they are today
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card in your wallet, in your passport, or a sticker on your car. Few people in
this world give sufficient credit to that risk.
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