today, fuck all happened.
its as if everybody is on vacation, but the weather is really fucking sihtty outside.
what gives ?
today, fuck all happened.
its as if everybody is on vacation, but the weather is really fucking sihtty outside.
what gives ?
It does not look familiar, but it has what I wanted. Thank you very much!Originally Posted by Cortess
Maybe too late, but http://www.shapeways.com/ ?
As for todays news fuck all; went to Windows 2012 Roadshow, asked if promiscious mode would be supported, left disappointed.
re Sewer 2012
there's not a single feature in there that's useful unless you run Hyper-V as your HyperVisor. C/D ?
The Server Manager is vastly improved to support remote configuration and installation. It is now a control panel for all Windows servers you add to it. No need for 3rd party tools or SCCM for basic enterprise operation. And everything now has a PowerShell alternative.
But the changes to Hyper-V is not something to ignore either. Live migration for example can now all be done from SMB share (that is a BIG saver right there, no need for SAN). Also one can replicate VM across WAN. Great for customers who want to failover to your cloud.
so nothing of value was added then.
we build our servers based on VMWare templates or by hand because they require a snowflake special configuration, and the stuff running is left running in a HA cluster (our redundant SAN configuration is a sight to behold, especially as we replicate everything onto a third older SAN just to be able to do backups reliably)
only big gain i see so far is the ability to make them core servers or full servers as required, and to be honest that's not much of a party trick given that the server comes with the metro retardation.
Any more info about this?
You can download the RC candidate and test yourself. So many things that are different so it is difficult to explain it all unless you have a specific question. But you can start of from reading this one and reading the whitepaper on the bottom.Any more info about this?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/serve...anagement.aspx
Anyone have much experience with VDI in a real environment. As part of various politics and complications that are happening at this place someone suggested it as a bright idea and since it sounds shiny the boss wants to go for it.
From what I understand it's basically a way to allow people to use a selection of software without a full blown virtual machine being used and is used on thin clients. (I'm probably wrong on this but that's just what I understand from a bit of reading on it and from what the person suggesting it claims it can do).
We currently have a VLE which hosts a Remote Desktop implementation and it works pretty well for what we need, however the machines in school obviously need to be left switched on (and there is some financial costs related to it from the VLE provider).
I'm not sure what the plans are exactly for the VDI implementation but it seems like VMware is the main candidate being considered and some new hardware (a new SAN as ours is at least 6 years old) but our general network infrastructure is pretty new and up to date.
What is your current environment? How many users? There is no magic solution.
Current environment is a secondary school with ~1000 users, which will increase to about 1200 over the next year. We've got ~200 desktops and ~140 laptops with some standard software (Office, CS5 etc) and a few other clunky things for specific departments (Solidworks for D&T and a few others).
What about this? Shoule be cheap for school stuff.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/
using vnc to a machine in india
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That does seem pretty interesting and something I can put forward as a solution in future.
I was more looking for people's opinions and experiences of using VDI (if any) and what it's major pitfalls were. I think it's been pretty much decided what happening so I just want to get a head start on what to look out for and what to expect.
I think we are keeping all of our current desktops and laptops and primarily using VDI with RDP for external access but there was some discussion about possibly using it with thin clients as additional desktops.
trying to align myself to the speed of this thing
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it takes about 4 minutes to navigate drop down menus..trying to align myself to the speed of this thing
the only way to survive this is to turn it into a trip
fuck
this is almost spiritual
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Deployment of the new version of The In-house Application That Runs Everything complete. 30 minutes of deployment followed by 210 minutes of what the jesus went wrong.
We should go through a cycle of modularisation or two... and get someone else to deploy that.
Used to work at a place that had one of those. It ran the accounting, payroll, customer database, company car fleet, truck fleet, truck routing, workshop stocklists, email, telephone directory, postcode finder, address finder, company property listings, environmental licenses, letter templates, you name it. "Based on IBM UniData".
Getting anything upgraded meant so much testing that it basically didn't happen. Update MSWord? not unless a whole load of macros get rewritten for your specific PC. Use a newer version of Adobe Acrobat? same.
As an example, getting something scanned into the system went something like this: place stack of documents in scanner, tell system how many documents there are, and tell it to "go". Whereupon, the system ran a macro with a command every 2 seconds along the lines of:
Took 20 minutes to save 30 single-sided pages of low res b&w invoices (not counting the actual time to scan them). Then a scheduled (every 2 minutes) server script looked on the local drive and moved the files to the relevant network drive.Code:open adobe acrobat press alt press f press x (import) select scanner press start <after scanning> press alt press d (document) press s (split) enter 1 in "page from" enter 1 in "page to" press ok press alt press a (save as) enter path and filename (local drive) press ok press alt press f press c (close- to close the 1 page file split from the main one) <repeat for pages 2-n>
Of course, if you touched the keyboard/mouse during the process, it interrupted the macro and got the commands out of sync with what Acrobat was doing.
It's notYup.
Don't get me wrong Health and Safety is a great thing in theory, it's just in practice it's become less about protecting workers from unscrupulous bosses and more about protecting idiots from themselves/giving idiots the right to FREE MONEY when they screw up.
As a for instance, not long after getting my current job I volunteered to take a desk apart, got given a socket wrench set and got down to it. Now this desk had a telescopic sliding base (y'know, leg/framework part) and I had it up against a wall so I could remove the bolts easily. Had my hand underneath the top half of the framework as I removed the bolts from the top half of the frame. Any idiot should know what happens next, I had my hand in the wrong spot and instead of catching the top half of the framework as it worked it's way lose I had my hand in the telescopic bit as it sliced down. Took a chunk of skin off the top of my finger and had to go to A&E.
Now, despite the fact that:
A) I volunteered for the job
2) Did not ask for any extra training
3) Knew I was doing it the wrong way
If I'd sued my company I would have won. Why? Because I didn't recieve adequate training and we hadn't carried out a risk assessment. I would have won comfortably. It's veryat all. If it was any other way employers would never bother training people in the safe way to do anything at all.
A perfect example of why you need to be able to sue in these situations is my gf: She has a chair that is much too low for her desk. She reported this and requested a proper one. They ignored her. She reported it again. They ignored her. She developed RSI in her right wrist as a result of lack of arm support from the chair as it was at the wrong height.
Getting hurt in a deskjob is quite lol
especially given how easy it is to avoid RSI.
if it hurts, or gets sore stop it, move about at least once a hour, don't sit still in one position for too long.
all of the above also work to prevent Deep vein thrombosis (and that's not quitematerial)
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