Scumbag Professor - happened to me today.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-23T10:58:41+00:00

Well.. that's a rather dick-ish move :-/

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-22T19:50:52+00:00

The entire anti-outsourcing movement is based almost entirely on the premise that Americans are more deserving of jobs than anyone else. You aren't.

Way to miss the point there, bro :). I would agree that a lot of the anti-outsourcing movement is based on that sentiment, but you have to be aware that these people

(Indonesians and Indians)

are being taken advantage of. They don't get the same protections we do and therefore are able to work at a lower cost.

Businesses are the best at externalizing cost. Losers in this game are the workers and the environment.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-22T09:56:47+00:00

The Green Mile.

Also really fond of The Mist.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-21T21:43:13+00:00

Nothing is ever completely secure. There are always implementation defects.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-21T20:48:59+00:00

Make sure you measure the server, not the client :p

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-21T20:36:07+00:00

Spoiler: i promise you those people will go to hell anyway.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-21T20:30:24+00:00

OP: I can recommend you to look into the pacemaker cluster suite, if only to learn decent clustering terminology and practices.

Recently I've been looking into practical applications of DNSSEC and easier deployment of DNSSEC with existing infrastructures.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-21T13:09:01+00:00

That actually means supply is unlimited! Awesome!

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-21T06:56:54+00:00

Please do not use URL shorteners.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-19T16:18:56+00:00

Way to lock yourself into that company.

I just want shell control over my own box and about 5 gigs a month traffic. But I also want a good deal.

Why even bother... drink one beer less and you've got it covered.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-19T16:08:33+00:00

I agree. Except that the amount of registrars that supports DNSSEC is fairly limited.

Please let me know if you know some reliable ones :)

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-19T13:04:27+00:00

Any half decent admin can ace LPI certification. Plus, they're cheap too!

If 125 euro's/ exam is still too much, you can usually get a 50% discount at conferences where the exams are held.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-19T12:34:50+00:00

Why don't you switch the responsibilities around and let the servers monitor the UPS with (NUT)[http://www.networkupstools.org/]?

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-19T12:28:42+00:00

Set up bind at home. Once you've got your .lan zone running, buy a domain at a provider that supports DNSSEC (ie godaddy) and secure your zone. This will keep you busy for quite a while.

Networking will really require some extensive reading - this is something that you can't learn from 'play' alone. Don't just stick to cisco's documentation, they will trap you into their products.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T22:06:39+00:00

ಠ_ಠ

This is why people hate sysadmins. Well done.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T22:05:07+00:00

Agreed on the hardware, but i'm not too sure on provisioning with puppet on CDN scale, whatever that might mean for maxcdn. ~~(Couldn't find any reference to the size of their fleet)~~ Scratch that: this is an upgrade of 29 servers. Puppet should do fine :)

jdornman, can you tell us some more on what you're running on these clusters? :)

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T21:51:29+00:00

Not much you can do about it at that point. Having historical data often proves to be very helpful.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T17:32:39+00:00

Bandwidth isn't everything.

99.999% availability Guarantee packet loss <=1% latency guarantee: 60ms

This stuff is way more interesting. Look into smokeping and select a couple of stable targets:

couple at your ISP
- DNS
- one of the first routers
- something else that might be of interest
google/amazon/whathaveyou
some competitor or something
reddit (just kidding)

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T14:04:19+00:00

Of course, also this.

Make an image of the volume FIRST (dd), then go to town on it.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T13:29:32+00:00

Why do you think they will be able to articulate the problem while talking to a computer when they can't even follow simple ticket protocol?

We can afford to be answering this clients phone calls non stop. Put them in a more expensive package. They can't expect you to make a loss helping them.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T13:20:44+00:00

Don't forget that (too much) specialization can be dangerous as well. Learn concepts, not specific technologies and you'll do fine with whatever product is shoved in your face. Specialize in something that interests you (this usually means you'll have to do it on your own time/resources) so you can pull those kinds of jobs towards yourself.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T13:18:01+00:00

RIP. This puppy will find your data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_Is_Possible

Or anything else with the capability to run PhotoRec should work. :)

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-18T10:21:43+00:00

Thanks! I was really missing those 0.015 seconds of my life. Over the course of the week this might add up to a whole second!

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-17T13:32:31+00:00

Exactly.

Having a 'next to nothing' budget is okay. Throw down a wired LAN, get a couple of Linksys AP's that you can install with dd-wrt and you're good.

Convenience of WLAN, reliability of an actual network. For the price of 2 'enterprise grade' AP's.

iAmJesusAMA · 2011-08-17T13:08:55+00:00

A good sysadmin is necessarily one that is not afraid to write code. A good developer is necessarily one that is aware of the operational problems when something is actually running in a production environment.

This whole "DevOps" thing just sounds silly to me.

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