Re: [lopsa-discuss] rsync.net

2008-12-17 Thread seph
ebdav, 100gigs, $199/year, unlimited transfer. Anyone tried it yet? http://www.joyent.com/connector/bingodisk/using-bingodisk seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Problems with netapp support?

2009-04-14 Thread seph
vides that level of service pretty easily. At my last job, they started doing that after a couple years of buying from them. We were a small company, probably order of $50k/year in hardware. seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.or

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Buy More Internet versus Mitigating Internet Use

2009-04-29 Thread seph
o post the top N visited sites, without the users. It generally conveys the message that the data is there, and people are monitoring it. ntop or similar ought be able to do this. seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman

[lopsa-discuss] AOL's whitelisting

2009-05-04 Thread seph
st isn't good enough here. Let's hear it for lazy programming. Who knows what else, since I still need to jump through those two hoops. Anyhow, I'm not sure there's much to discuss. I mostly just feel the need to rant about the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] AOL's whitelisting

2009-05-04 Thread seph
x27;m going to end up installing crap, jumping through hoops, then uninstalling it. But that doesn't make any more reasonable. seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What VMware?

2009-06-19 Thread seph
h must be a windows server, and must be backed by an oracle DB. I'm a pretty small shop, and those two requirements are non-starters for me. If those aren't a big deal to you, then looking there makes a lot of sense. Annoyingly, VMware changes the name and structure of their enterp

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What VMware?

2009-06-19 Thread seph
"Derek J. Balling" writes: > On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:12 AM, seph wrote: >> The thing that always turns me off vmware, is that to use ESX/ESXi, >> you >> need a management server. Which must be a windows server, and must be >> backed by an oracle DB. > &

Re: [lopsa-discuss] automatic transfer switch for single power supply gear

2009-08-18 Thread seph
down right now with no confirmation". Not to mention the bit where it's got frames designed to be larger than then their layout resulting in weird wrapping. I'd look at BayTech or APC over tripplite. seph berg...@merctech.com writes: > In the message dated: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:5

Re: [lopsa-discuss] swap or no swap that is the question

2009-09-11 Thread seph
much, even a meg of swap was enough, but we had countless weird memory performance issues without it. Of course, there are a lot of knobs in the linux memory management system that I never tweaked, and it may be different now, but at least for linux, I'm very wary

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for File Sharing Systems

2009-10-07 Thread seph
of offline requirements are there? seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-03 Thread seph
it fairly hard to enforce the mandated password requirements on ssh keys. So they don't think they'll meet the requirements. seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-03 Thread seph
uted cert as well as a centrally managed password. If you really want tokens, I know there are some standards here, and I think there are bits that should world. cryptocard? oath? I haven't done this research in awhile. seph ___ Discuss mailin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] CAT3 and VOIP?

2010-02-04 Thread seph
r a long time. As long as you're not chaining much through their internal switch ports. seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Ad

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Offsite DNS Hosting

2010-05-08 Thread seph
d dnsmadeeasy.com as a secondary at a couple of jobs. I haven't had any problems. I'm still trying to avoid ultradns after some particularly nasty sales tactics they used a couple years ago. They were calling random company officers ass

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-22 Thread seph
erit the cost of switching. If I were starting fresh today, I'd look hard at chef, and probably fall back to puppet. I find the other tools much harder to use. seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-25 Thread seph
pets (like sudo) or to use augeas where I can't. cron isn't a great example since puppet has a native type that handles it pretty sanely. seph ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss Thi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Verizon: No p2p blocking

2010-06-17 Thread seph
FiOS looks great, if only they offered FiOS where I lived. Or even everywhere they say they do. (My last office was in Lexington MA, where they claim to offer service. Apparently they offer it everywhere but one CO) seph Edward Ned Harvey writes: > I've said before that I really l