Windows Server 2008 Standard running super slow after conversion from...
As a test, I converted a Windows Server 2008 Standard physical machine to a virtual machine with VMware Converter. The gui response on the new virtual machine is glacial. VM has 2CPUs and 2GM RAM. At...
View ArticleQWest is having major issues in Chicago
We (east coast) saw connection issues from LA and Dallas and received a trouble ticket from QWest. Called in and they're apparently having issues with a major transcontinental trunk in Chicago which is...
View ArticleWanting to learn
Hey y'all, so I am a college student studying computer science and digital forensics and I have been wanting to setup a VPS on linode and start playing with a server. I know I want to run a mail server...
View Articlewc -l ~/.ssh/known_hosts
I know you guys can beat me. What do you have, and why? I'm currently at 401 known hosts. This is a mix of amazon instances and customer's physical boxes. submitted by Pastrami [link] [39 comments]
View ArticleSecuring RDP?
does anyone recommend methods for making rdp into an office more secure? Currently it is just a bunch of ports in a high range which are forwarded internally to port 3389 to different computers....
View ArticleSetting up a VPN... help.
So here's the long and short of it: I'm going into my third year of my computer science degree this fall. I've been working with computers since I was in high school, and I've done computer work on the...
View ArticleAll Cisco Live! Networkers presentations available for free now
More information here: http://www.ciscolive.com/us/virtual/index.php Cisco used to charge for access to most of these presentations. submitted by comptech [link] [4 comments]
View ArticleWhat do you do with your amazon micro-images?
I was wondering what sort of labs you do and run on microinstances. I saw a post where someone was talking about using them for testing and things. just wondering what you use them for and how I can...
View ArticleI need to archive TBs of data for 7 years and need a better solution.
And I need to do it on the cheap. Sleep study lab with close to a TB of new data every month needs an archive solution that will last 7 years. Currently we are taking 1 or 2 TB external USB drives,...
View ArticleWe just blew through 5K readers.
We just blew through 5K readers this week and are adding about a hundred a week. IMHO this subreddit has developed into a great resource for sysadmins thanks to everyone participating. As you know with...
View ArticleChoosing different shells based on host?
We have a few very old boxes that for various reasons we don't want or can't have zsh on them. However all machines mount /home from the same NFS server. My current solution, so I may use zsh whenever...
View ArticleWe needed to see what this process, which was running in the background...
Background process misbehaving. We know it's spewing stuff to stdout that will help us figure out what it's doing, but its stdout is detached and going to the bitbucket. How to capture its stdout so we...
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View ArticleHow do you diagnose BSOD.
Just curious what tools and techniques people here have to diagnose BSOD. Naturally if new hardware or software has just been installed then it is pointing to the last change that was made. However I...
View ArticleSoftware to locate bandwidth hogs
70 users are sharing a very limited line (2meg) connected to the net via a win 2003 box acting as a nat router. I need to install some software on that box to locate the bandwidth hogs amoungst the 70...
View ArticleWhat do you guys use for offsite backup?
Currently a company I support is using an offsite backup solution that is charging them $400/month for 49GB from our Server 2003 DNS/AD system. I'm thinking that's a little high. Are there other...
View ArticleCan someone *please* explain SharePoint to me?
I don't get it. I work in a small company that may be the perfect fit for sharepoint. We run outlook/exchange, we have alot of business data in mail, we have documents flying around in mail. In...
View ArticleDoes anyone have experience with USB 2.0 over CAT5/6 extenders?
Crosspost from /r/hardware. I'm looking at acquiring a new plotter but apparently even though the matching printer has Ethernet connectivity, the plotter itself was just released, and only with USB 2.0...
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