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by jlawer 13y ago
Cheers, PFSense has been absolutely amazing for us, with us running 2 boxes to provide routing for inter office links. We looked at it for our core routers about 1 1/2 years ago, and would have gone with it except for it not at that ti
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by jlawer 13y ago
It feels a little lightweight for the cost. I am not a hardware geek, but I struggle to see what this gets me over a mini ITX board running an Dual Core atom w/ a dual port Gigabit NIC running pfSense besides (what I assume is) a lower
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by jlawer 13y ago
> VMs are meant to be ephemeral anyways. While ephemeral VMs are a great way to operate if your able, I really don't think you can say that your "meant" to operate that way. Many workloads don't fit that model, and ce
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by jlawer 13y ago
I've been told its intel (Admittedly by my Dell Engineer). The CPUs & Chipsets to run quad socket are marked up much higher then the dual / single socket options.
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by jlawer 13y ago
I'm not familiar with the scripted installer or if it would have fit our needs. No, the script is a python one using PySphere to interface with the vSphere server. It creates a new vm with appropriate disk, ram, vcpu and networking to
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by jlawer 13y ago
Custom deployment Script for VMware & Kickstart for system imaging with post deployment configuration being Salt. Salt was picked because it was both simple to get up and running and fairly powerful. Chef & Puppet were both evaluate
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by jlawer 13y ago
Email for one.
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by jlawer 14y ago
Servers yes, but Windows Server will still be a strong player. Server Core has improved this and features like AD, Exchange, branch cache and SQL Server will make sure most companies still run Windows Infrastructure. Desktops no. In the med
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by jlawer 14y ago
No... generally its software like JAWS ( http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-pa... ) that runs on stock windows. No special hardware running antiquated hardware, just a stock windows system. While I don't doubt there a
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by jlawer 14y ago
I'm not sure why you need Iron Worker unless Send Grid is a problem? Most email platforms should be able to send well into the millions of emails per hour.
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by jlawer 14y ago
Oh, I agree.. If I didn't live the longest possible latency (.au >= 300ms) from them I would have had my cluster on them a long time ago.
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by jlawer 14y ago
Really Heroku is a fine product but your paying a substantial cost for the service to manage some of the systems work. I say some because everyone using services like this should have a strategy to exit should some major event happen (pri
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by jlawer 14y ago
RAM buffers work well for large readonly workloads, but write heavy workloads will perform pretty poorly with that kind of configuration. Mind you its all a compromise, if you know that disk IO isn't a factor for your application then serve
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by jlawer 14y ago
Yeah, but for that price your storage is backed by 7200RPM SATA disks... If you need speed it will cost you more for 15K SAS disks w/ a sizable battery backed RAID controller, but it will be worth every cent. You don't want to put too many
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by jlawer 14y ago
Except in countries like Australia your support is frequently based in West Coast US and India / Philippines yet your still charged an uplift. If Support location mattered, you would have hawaii being charged differently from the other 49 s
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by jlawer 14y ago
> One, you presume that advertisers are incredibly naive and don't measure returns. Working in digital media (in Australia) I would say this is actually accurate.... People measure returns not on the impact on sales because its difficul
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by jlawer 14y ago
I actually think its the sales staff. A lot of the linux devices that reach the market are pushed on unknowing users who freak out when it doesn't work as expected. People who adopt Macs know its going to be different. The guy in the shop i
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by jlawer 14y ago
Not the included ones (there are about 5)
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by jlawer 14y ago
The songs aren't on the cloud, as the game works perfectly on an ipod touch when wifi is disabled. The problem is games requiring "authentication servers" to do anything. The general thought has been when these servers were removed the last
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by jlawer 14y ago
Yes it is, but thats where other solutions need to be met.... say a script that de-obfuscates a vanilla binary package so the output is created on the users machine vs being distributed as such. You can distribute the script and leave compl
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by jlawer 14y ago
Well microsoft didn't make C# cross platform, that was all really the mono guys.
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by jlawer 14y ago
Yeah, but this was 1 synthetic benchmark, which heavily uses 2 features they made a point about being significantly faster. The real question is what is the difference between dalvik and mono on more balanced applications. I expect we are t
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by jlawer 14y ago
Sure you do, How do you know if an open wifi is a corp network that just enforces VPNs to actually do anything?
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by jlawer 14y ago
Because society took both hacker and developer and changed their meaning. Hackers became criminals and developers were Javabean coding wage slaves... given a choice criminal sounds cooler then wage slave.
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by jlawer 14y ago
No it isn't a zero-sum game... but this isn't "invading" their network. If they connected to the AP and ran nmap against my server yes it would be like that... but simply capturing packets that are broadcast into a public space I don't thin
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by jlawer 14y ago
> By your logic then if someone gets robbed on the streets, then it's their fault for "walking around freely"? Come on that a bit excessive... No one is hurt if packets are captured. Its not a violent act. Surely we can loose the hyperb
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by jlawer 14y ago
It feels to me like they were just logging everything for future analysis so they don't have to come back and do a second pass when they upgrade their software. But then again I'm sorry, I have never seen what the big deal was about this. I
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by jlawer 14y ago
The US has billionaires like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and such who are trying to cure disease. While aussie fat cats are too busy playing politics trying to be the big fish in a little pond, and those that don't stay in the "little pond" w
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by jlawer 14y ago
Firefox was never the best Cocoa (i.e. OSX) implementation of Gecko, Firefox aims to be the best CROSS PLATFORM implementation of Gecko. Camino has always been the OSX optimised browser, but unfortunately they don't have the same level of s
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by jlawer 14y ago
Many GC strategies were tried before we settled on our current mix that seem to perform well in the current problem domains. I am sure once it is proved, someone will build a faster way. Not to mention that Hardware Transactional Memory is

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