Posts by Atilla_the_bun

Re: Forced speech

Nailed it! And now they are carrying two differing opinions in their heads at the same time, what could possibly go wrong?

Re: Sometimes I can't use a long password

Yup. I still cannot fathom my bank when there is a security question about the use of my card calls me and asks me to verify my account _before_ they will even talk about the problem. They have my email, and even my cell # and could quite simply text or email me that I need to call them about an issue and call the number they provide on a part of their web site, heck even part of my account page after I have logged in. You simply can't fix that level of stupid an yet we TRUST banks?

Re: Corporate weasels just can't learn

Ahh, the lovely Apple Antenna fiasco. Remember it well. When they issued special cases for that model iPhone I commented to friends that I bet I knew what happened. They probably engaged one of the best radio engineers on the planet along with a great industrial design engineer for that phone and set them to design that part of the phone/radio and antenna. This they did and product eventually was manufactured. When these problems surfaced in the real world they go back to said brilliant engineers with the issue and explain problems people had holding the phones the response was "Nobody told us they'd be holding the phone in their bloody hands!"

Re: French Engineering

Umm, my understanding was that Phillips was Dutch. Maybe they sold the brand to a French co.?

Re: Running vCenter VM on the cluster it's managing...

OK, so I'm administering a VSA (pre esxi 6 stuff) based on essentials plus. It's all installed in a three node esxi cluster. Wow does it run well, lose a single host (we did - hardware failure) not a problem, no one here noticed. However, I dare you try and move that hardware to a new physical location where you have to turn them all off without grief unless you have an external (free) esxi host that you somehow manage to migrate the vcenter server and its domain controllers to (off course it's windows and off course it's domain based SSO and off course it's in the cluster). Think about how you do that for a minute.

Vmware why would you let someone install that configuration? Sure I can maintain each host one at a time, but have you ever tried putting into taking out of maintenance mode an entire cluster where the vcenter server is in the cluster?

OK, so I don't make vcenter server part of the cluster and I don't add it to my domain. Cool works well. Apart from all those really neat features like HA which IS WHY I BOUGHT THE EF>ING cluster with essentials plus in the first place. Vcenter needs protection too you know.

Essentials plus is really really good until it is not, then it sucks really really well.

Never mind, just another small business that loves the idea of esxi and all the trimmings but can't afford what I really need to have.

Re: CHange

Yes, what was that famous saying about ignoring the lessons of history only to repeat them. The beauty and horror of a referendum run in this manner in a democracy, you get to see the results of the (mostly) absent critical thinking skills. It brings to mind a parallel to that great Gandhi answer about what did he think about western civilization, only I would say education instead of civilization in the question. Same answer.