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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   The company I work for has about 20 sites with over 200 servers per site. We have cobbler boxes in each site (and more recently, puppetmasters). While some of our utility servers run as VMs under either VMWare or KVM, for the bulk of them w
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   the md5sum of the plaintext between "start" and "stop" is part of the url
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   This has got to be the most interesting article I've read in a very long time. I don't know how much of the article is true, but the writing style draws you in and keeps you enthralled throughout the entire article.
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   I was very confused on this question as well. Seeing both kernel and filesystem there together with the word consistent made me think of a sort of general health. So my answer would have been `iostat`. That would show me the running kernel,
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   For home users, yes. But in the business world, it's the Microsoft Office Suite, especially Outlook + Exchange. Sure, MS Office has been ported to OSX, but it's more expensive to go with Apple Hardware than commodity PC + MS Windo
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   Their y axis is wrong and they should feel bad.
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   Vertical tabs was one feature of firefox that kept me using it almost indefinitely. Firefox would do all sorts of goofy things like freeze up entirely while playing Netflix or Hulu. I got to this point where I would use Chrome for doing any
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   Or.. 35% of IE users work during the weekend.
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   by ytjohn 13y ago

   I haven't seen such a site, but the two sites I follow for these type of devices are: http://www.cnx-software.com/ http://liliputing.com/tag/mini-pc They do reviews on most of these devices. I hav
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    This looks pretty sweet. I wonder if there's a similar application for linux desktops?
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    Still trying to get rid of all those old CRT monitors out in the storage shed?
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    Correct. They couldn't take it away, but (like Nissan Motors tried) they could make it financially difficult for you to keep it. Now, if Mr. Nissan started doing something like setting up a car forum and reviews on his site, he would g
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    True. It'd be better to say that storage is cheap at large quantities of scale.
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    I would generally agree with you, but there are several popular services that I learned of from non-technical people. Things like tumbler, pinterest, snapchat come to mind. Lots of artsy social stuff out there that I have never used, but ar
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    BMC Service Desk. I also worked for a company that used Siebel. With Siebel, I could actually get that to work with IE6 under Wine, but it would peg one of the CPU cores at 100%.
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    I'm not sure I follow.
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    by ytjohn 13y ago

    I've actually been using the Windows 7 / IE9 version of this for a while. There is a nice simple install w/snapshot that I utilized on both my Ubuntu machine and my Mac. It takes a snapshot before powering the machine so once