@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

@aaron said:

@Jason said:

Oh, they have competitors but they suck too.

They don't have reasonable competitors. It's a monopoly for residential service and business service in many places. Same with Cox, TWC, etc.

It's okay though their service is Comcastic!

And people think we have capitalism based system, ha!

We've lost the Republic and are solidly into Fascism/Corporatism.

I thought that corporatism was the natural extension of a republic. Once you allow people to vote, you had the control to the media. Once the media is in control, businesses own the government. It is the direct concept of a republic to be controlled by those that control the media, which is quite naturally businesses.

It's not a loss of a republic, it is the pinnacle of it.

That's the pinnacle of a Democracy, which is different than the Republic we were supposed to be. Really the US started in Fuedalism before the Constitution was enacted. With the Constitution a Republic was created. With the passage of the 12th and 17th amendments was changed to a Democracy. Which is how we get to today, where government has near direct control of business. Or is it business has near direct control of government? Either way, it's just bad for the little guy.

@Dashrender said:

@aaron said:

@Jason said:

Oh, they have competitors but they suck too.

They don't have reasonable competitors. It's a monopoly for residential service and business service in many places. Same with Cox, TWC, etc.

It's okay though their service is Comcastic!

And people think we have capitalism based system, ha!

We've lost the Republic and are solidly into Fascism/Corporatism.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

Since I set up my PBX, I have pretty much had zero calls hit my phone. It's worth it just for that.

The staff just hands out anyone's name and transfer like mad.. no matter how many times I ask them not to.

That is the job of Management/HR not you.

Well - in that case, the management doesn't care - so I guess I'll always just be getting the crap calls.

Start forwarding them to 214-666-4321, and hit mute, so you can listen in on what goes down

Why didn't I do that? I dunno. Other things seemed more interesting, and who has free time at work? I like what this guy did tho.

Jolly Roger Telephone Company

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller lol

Allow me to rephrase:

How do you keep the guts of it cool without allowing any way for heat to ingress while it's in a fire? Is there a door that slams shut when it detects heat? I don't think you could use anything like a heat exchanger (heat pipes, external cooling) because it'd allow heat from the fire to get in and cook the innards.

This is assuming it works the same way all of their other products do. They have some sort of liquid embedded in some insulating material inside the case. When in a fire, the liquid material evaporates. This creates positive pressure inside the case keeping the flames out, and provides a cool (comparatively) substance flowing over the internal components.

I'm forgetting how they take care of the water immersion.

Edit: yes, they only protect the storage, not the electronics.

@scottalanmiller said:

I give out @ataylor14's phone number, so I don't really notice

lol, nice. I've started giving out my old Google Voice number (still works, only via hangouts now). If the phone doesn't tell me who is calling, it somehow ends up straight to voice mail. No voice mail = I don't call you back.

I should get the family phone book from my parents to lookup some of the Amish relatives with the phone booth by the road. That'd be freaking hilarious to listen in on. @scottalanmiller, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about.

@coliver said:

I wish I had known about this option when I deployed my last system. It would have saved me a bit of time. Plus Dell and EMC wouldn't have called me every 3 days.

Every so often I forget about that, and sign up for another webcast of the latest sales pitch. It's an easy way to find out about new features in products. It's also annoying getting the 20 sales calls afterwards.

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

This is a door badge system. So what happens when the badge system fails? Does that mean you have to pass out keys so people can get into the building? or can't people get in?

I don't know about his but ours and most I've seen don't actively run on the computer, they have a controller that connects into the computer or network, and a program that allows you to view the access attempts. Grant/deny certain access and add users/RFID passes. the controller does all the main work.

I have a loathing of cheap software shops that think they have the best software ever, and so they make you use a usb key in addition to whatever other restrictions are on the software. In this case they may be calling it a security device, but it's the same thing. Frankly, given a couple minutes with one of the things I could probably clone it. So it really doesn't do the job they think it does..... "I do not think that means what you think that means."

@Brett-at-ioSafe Great, I like options!

An i5 in server hardware? Would it really have added that much cost to go with a lower end Xeon and ECC memory?

Very impressive environmental specifications. 1550 Fahrenheit for 30 minutes, 10' of water for 3 days, and still working after you get the box out and power it back up.

Really, really, really not fond of monthly contracts for what should be a storage box. I'm assuming this is just one of your 1515+ NAS with backup software included? If so, then great, I can choose (unlike some other companies.)

@DustinB3403 said:

@MattSpeller Yeah no fooling around with this build.

You should post iops numbers if you go this way, just so we can drool some more.

@wirestyle22 said:

Any opinions on LinuxAcademy.com as a studyaid?

I've come across it while googling. It's a decent place to start. Just remember that you want to learn, and not just memorize certain steps..... if you're memorizing a set of specific steps, it should probably be in a shell script.

@Breffni-Potter said:

"To make this very clear: we actually write to the EFI fs in systemd. Specifically, when you issue "systemctl reboot --firmware" we'll set the appropriate EFI variable, to ask for booting into the EFI firmware setup. And because we need it writable we'll mount it writable for that."

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402#issuecomment-177907110

Why, why, why, would you ever even have the option to make the entire EFI writable instead of just what you need?

Going to add this to my list of things that systemd does wrong.

thenextweb.com 'rm -rf -no-preserve-root /' deleted the laptop's EFI as well. Systemd devs say this shouldn't be possible.

How bad is thenextweb.com on reporting? Haven't heard of them in a long time now before this popped up.

@Dashrender said:

If these are offshore systems, it seems likely that they might not have internet access out there. Remote support might be sole by phone or radio.

Which would just make use of a hypervisor even more important. Can you even compare walking someone through rebuilding a server compared to talking them through copying a file and starting it on another box. I got all the steps in a single run-on sentence!

@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Seems unlikely as there is no Drupal being used elsewhere.

Not Drupal, sure, but I doubt anyone coded a brand new CMS for it. Tho if they did, I'm sure they're underpaid.

No, but we have no Drupal anywhere and it's never been mentioned. Very unlikely to be such a random choice

Well, let's just call it a bad example then.

@flomer said:

@scottalanmiller I will try to investigate this and try to get in touch with our customer's IT dept. early in the process for our next project. It will be interesting to see what will happen. Already it is quite puzzling that most customers want us to deliver the hardware, rather than just providing a server to us, or ask us for a VM. I guess that should be an indication the the instrumentation part of offshore business is a little "special" when it comes to these things.

To be fair, instrumentation people do have lots of weird add in cards. It's possible (not probable) that they have some hardware that doesn't play nice inside a VM.

@scottalanmiller said:

Seems unlikely as there is no Drupal being used elsewhere.

Not Drupal, sure, but I doubt anyone coded a brand new CMS for it. Tho if they did, I'm sure they're underpaid.

@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 I once had my side torn open when I was ten. Totally exposed, all along my rib cage. Damage was so bad the doctors told my dad he would unlikely be able to make it to the hospital before I expired. It was... gross to say the least. Spent that whole summer wrapped up to seal it all from infection. Had to be iodined daily. Still have nerve damage and an out of place rib. That was 30 years ago this June.

Well.... ouch. I'd probably be the only one going "Cool, can I see?" My wife officially passed away from liver failure. Her real problem was that surgeons through the years had removed ~50% of her digestive tract through the years. I'm not sure where the point is that you stop just cutting more out, but I know it's well before 50% of anything..... surgeons are not my favorite people.

@Minion-Queen said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

My web developer had to have hand surgery...http://mangolassi.it/topic/7821/donut-destroyer-and-the-drone/2 . And I can't connect the purchasing piece myself.

Connecting pieces, like how they had to use rubber bands to connect the tips of his fingers back to the main part of his hands!

#shuddersinvoluntarily again

#shuddersinvoluntarily again and again.... One time where I wish I wasn't friends on facebook with someone.... YUCK!

You two are so cute. I'll try to remember not to gross you out with stories about what my wife went through.

Was the site being built on an existing platform like Drupal? Most people here could probably handle getting standard payment methods hooked up with one of those. Am I remembering right that @DonutDetroyer was working on something custom?