KyleBrandt

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by KyleBrandt 15y ago
It seems like a lot of your dislike of the IT department is a redirected dislike of these policies enforced by IT. In most law firms, government, and big finance you will likely encounter a lot of these sort of policies. Some of these polic
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by KyleBrandt 15y ago
Okay, I'll bite... > I spent a lot of time in the hot/cold, blaring fan world of data centers -- sometimes late at night, when a hard drive failed or a switch's fans went out. If a hard drive or a fan failing requires someone's attentio
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by KyleBrandt 15y ago
There is always the question of degree and practicality. So in terms of libc / and custom compilers that is perhaps ad absurdum. There really wouldn't be any practical benefit taking it to that far for most companies. However, people that l
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A Non-Foolish Consistency(blog.serverfault.com)
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by KyleBrandt 16y ago
People rarely pay sticker price for this stuff. Right now SO is still using bizspark, but lets pretend we are paying sticker for our NY Datacenter: * 10x Windows Server Standard R2 for the Web Tier (~1k per) * 4x Enterprise OS (4k) for the
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by KyleBrandt 16y ago
@Igor: For management I do feel it is a little bit more tricky since everything isn't just a text file. However, we use some Powershell, Group Policies, and WSUS as management tools (I talk about this in this post: http://blog.serverfault.
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by KyleBrandt 16y ago
Although we use MS for our core we do use Linux and open source projects as part of our stack. The routers/firewalls, redis for caching, and haproxy for load balancing are all run on Linux. In addition we use Linux for a lot of the manageme