IT BS thread

Thanks for the details. At work we use VMWare a lot. It's obviously a best-in-class solution for providing scalable servers. I have no idea if Hyper-V is being piloted though.

 

Yeah if the company is thinking about going to Hyper-V, have them call me and I'll tell them the horror's of it. Back-up's failing, performance issues, and it really is just a pain in the ass to setup. One setup we did had 5 physical boxes, each box running 3 Hyper-V servers. Each box requires 4 windows server's licenses, plus you need another physical box just to run as a virtual switch (there is a reg hack you can do to avoid having a entire box being used as a switch). Time sync would never work across all the servers, ever. Ended up writing a script to sync the time in the entire network every 10min. After a month the .vhd files grew and started filling up the space. They were setup to grow and shrink as needed, but this didn't happen as designed. We would remove space and the .VHD would just shrink. MS did send a patch to fix this later, but this is after we tore down the entire system and bit the bullet on VMware. Took us half the time to set it up and its been running for 2 years now with no major issues at all. We had 1 server in 2 years go offline. Rebooted the VM and it was back online. Never had logged anything to why that happened and never happened again.

VMware is so nice.

 

It's funny how expensive "free" is...it might not cost huge sums of money but it takes a ton of time to maintain and it's often down so it's not very productive.

I also thing VMWare has a much better environment (networking/storage/etc) than Hypervisor. Unless of course, you're a windows shop

 

Couldn't disagree more. We run a lot of Windows servers, we have AD, Exchange 2010, etc. VMWare is amazing, worlds ahead of Hyper-V.

Cool to play around with at home, not cool in a production environment...

 

VMware is perfect in a windows shop. The transparent page sharing is awesome. When you have 30 machines running the same OS with tons of bloated crap in memory that is all the same, it only stores it once instead of 30 times.

 

We are agreeing. The bit about "windows shop" was a dig at pure Windows environments.

 

lol, I see.

Never a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket. I love our Linux servers, I only wish we had more of them. The Windows servers are a pain to deal with... RDP patches, security vulnerabilities out the wazoo... InfoSec leaves my Linux servers alone for the most part .

 

It's foolish to think other operating systems don't have vulnerabilities. They have plenty-most of which get fixed when found but are rarely exploited (the most famous is arguably the Morris Worm and was spread to systems that supported sendmail). But for the most part, *nix security issues exist just the same as in the Windows environment.

And if you follow updates for your *nix servers, you'll find that, like windows, there are rarely weeks that go by without some kind of security fix coming out.

I bag on Windows environments a lot. But the truth is, I have to support them in my environments. Mine is mostly semiconductor development environment. Most engineers need a running Windows environment to produce performance reports, read mail, etc.. So we integrate. I don't like it but I've come to accept it

 

I've always had good luck with windows server 2003 and 2008R2. I mean AD is going to be AD and will have issues for as long as exists. But setting up, deploying and managing windows servers is just cake walk to me. Maybe its because I've done it so many times.

I love linux servers, but don't have much exp with them since all the company's I did installs for wanted windows.

 

Server 2008 is pretty interesting. Huge step for MS.

 

I never said they don't have vulnerabilities, just that InfoSec doesn't hound me for them .

Plus... you have to admit. Things like RDP security holes do not exist in a Linux environment - no GUI, no RDP. Linux servers run the bare minimum usually, so you only have to patch what you use. On Windows, there's sooo much extra crap that the potential for a vulnerability is much greater - and therefore the need to patch becomes much greater.

Besides, how do I update my Linux appliances where I don't have root access? Sometimes that is maddening that I don't have root - but it also severely limits the potential for damage.

Both Windows servers and Linux servers have their place - I just prefer the Linux servers because they're simpler to manage.

 

I hate people

 

LOL, isn't that why we work in IT?

 

this is hurting my head today

PHP:

Ext.define('CityBars.controller.Business', {
    extend: 'Ext.app.Controller',

    config: {
        refs: {
            dataList: '#dataList',
            listCard: '#listCard',
            mainNav: 'mainnav',
            detailCard: '#detailCard'
        },

        control: {
            "#dataList": {
                itemtap: 'onListItemTap'
            }
        }
    },

    init: function() {
        var me = this;

        Ext.Viewport.setMasked({message:'Loading...'});

        me.getLocation(function(location)
        {
            me.getBusinesses(location, function(store)
            {
                me.getDataList().setStore(store);
                Ext.Viewport.setMasked(false);
            });
        });
    },

    onListItemTap: function(dataview, index, target, record, e, options) {
        var me = this;

        if (record)
        {
            if (!me.details)
            {
                me.details = Ext.create('CityBars.view.DetailPanel', {
                    title: 'Details'
                });
            }

            var map = me.details.child('#detailMap');
            map.setMapOptions({
                zoom: 17
            });
            map.setMapCenter({
                latitude:record.get('latitude'),
                longitude:record.get('longitude')
            });

            var info = me.details.child('#contact').child('#info');
            info.child('#photo').setData(record.data);
            info.child('#data').setData(record.data);

            me.getMainNav().push(me.details);
        }
    },

    getLocation: function(callback) {
        if (navigator && navigator.geolocation)
        {
            navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position)
            {
                callback(position);
            },
            function(error)
            {
                //give a warning for error
            });
        }
    },

    getBusinesses: function(location, callback) {
        var store = Ext.data.StoreManager.lookup('BusinessStore'),
            url = 'http://api.yelp.com/business_review_search' + 
            '?ywsid=r1dGRftUPcc8GBicfGxxxxx' + 
            '&term=Bars' + 
            '&lat=' + location.coords.latitude + 
            '&long=' + location.coords.longitude;

        store.getProxy().setUrl(url);

        store.load(function() {
            callback(store);
        });
    }

});


 

Coding always hurts my head

 

what kind do you write?

 

I'm a total tech moron so I'm hoping someone can shed some light on a issue I am having at work. Our companies IT tech isn't really an IT person and has no clue - just got the job because she's family of the owner.

I have issues with a specific Microsoft word document disappearing from my folders....well just the text I type into it.

I use a template the company provided me for my quotes. It was modified to include my name, e-mail, phone number etc.

1) I open the template.

2) Type in my proposal.

3) Click "save as" and save it in the appropriate job folder along with my spreadsheet.

My Excel spread sheets are perfectly fine.

I was just awarded a job today and when I opened the file all the text I had typed was gone. Only the template remained. I then went back to look at some of my other quotes and some of them had the same issue. All of them have not been deleted, just some here and there. As my searching went back in time it seems none of them prior to 1/6/12 are missing. After that date sporadic text that was typed is 100% gone except for the template.

I was told I was saving them wrong by our "tech" and I'm 99.9% sure this is BS. I used the same system and been repeating the same steps for every company I have worked for the past 8 years with no issues.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. There is no way I can call in a professional without her flipping out, and I can't go to the owner and tell him his family is stupied so I'm basically screwed without your guys help.

 

i don't because it hurts my head. If i do it's vbscript or powershell.

 

Text boxes or the text being pushed behind the places where you enter it? Without seeing the template its hard to tell what you have going on.