@scottalanmiller said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@Francesco-Provino said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@Dashrender said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

I have no clue what that state of the economy of Italy is, but I do recall hearing about how poor the internet infrastructure is there.

Not that I (as a US citizen) can say much.. in non cities, it's pretty horrible too.

In the little cities of Sicily is not that good (7-20Mbit ADSL), but we're going to get FTTC (50Mbit and up) this year in almost every city with >10k peoples. The big cities (>200k) are all already covered with FTTC, an the biggest one are already on full FTTH with connectivity up to 1Gbps.

It's comea long way quickly. Italy was terrible a few years ago.

Maybe it was just… not cheap. You can have HDSL 8/8Mbit everywhere in Italy from ~2006. As of today, you can pay the telco to do an FTTH link to any site in the whole country, up to at least 10Mbit. 100Mbit for the 99% of the country, I think. 80% can get 1Gbit, for sure. Price are very high, but of course is technically possible. I'm following a project of connectivity upgrade to a custom 10Mbit FTTH. Of course band is totally guaranteed, so is packet loss (< 10^-4), latency (<30ms), jitter (<40ms). Real value are something like 4ms of latency at max.

@Dashrender said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

I have no clue what that state of the economy of Italy is, but I do recall hearing about how poor the internet infrastructure is there.

Not that I (as a US citizen) can say much.. in non cities, it's pretty horrible too.

In the little cities of Sicily is not that good (7-20Mbit ADSL), but we're going to get FTTC (50Mbit and up) this year in almost every city with >10k peoples. The big cities (>200k) are all already covered with FTTC, an the biggest one are already on full FTTH with connectivity up to 1Gbps.

Ok, I don't think the other post are talking about anything related to Sicily or Italy.

Maybe we haven't the shiny IT of the US, but it's still the second in UE (behind the UK), and we are the 8th economy in the world.

Maybe you're painting a situation that's away from reality…

@DustinB3403 said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@DustinB3403 said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

If you're never replacing things with newer better solutions there is an underlying issue.

That's a very American sentiment. They don't replace their houses for hundreds of years... because they build them to last the first time.

I did say better solutions. If the house they built is the best solution then fine. But don't complain about WEP and say things like "they don't replace things as they expect them to last decades" and then be snarky when someone comments on the economy of a country based on what you've said of the same country.

Buying new goods on a regular basis, creates a healthy economy. Not doing so contributes to the financial collapse that Italy just had.

Collapse? Maybe you are referring to the Greek's crisis!

@Dashrender said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@Francesco-Provino said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@scottalanmiller said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@dafyre said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@dafyre said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@DustinB3403 said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@Mike-Davis and what exactly is wrong with WEP?!

(sarcasm boys)

That's all that they have here on Sicily where we are

O.o Can you VPN back somewhere else?

I'm not in China, the EU does not block VPNs.

VPN for traffic protection, it is, then.... But I mean seriously? The WiFi in Sicily can't use WPA ?

People don't tend to replace access points here. Equipment is expected to last decades.

What? I think I have ZERO equipment older than 5 years in any of the company I worked. And they are SMB, of course.

Wow - you are lucky!
Some of my switches are 10 years old
servers x2 - 10 years old
server x1 - 6 years old
server x1 - 4 years old
printers - 12+ years old
wireless access recently replaced was 10 years old
etc.

We have standardized everything to IBM x3550M4 (3 years old), Cisco SMB stuff, Ubiquity ER8 and HP z230/240. Our refresh cycle is 5 years, if nothing broke first… I'm just thinking about refresh a couple of old HP DL380 G7.

Oh, and a P3600 is just arrived from Germany, to replace one of our 5-years-old DS3500 SAN (switching to local storage, yay!).

@wirestyle22 said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@scottalanmiller That's why they don't have a space program

That's hilarious, at least. ESA is probably the more active space company in the world, as of today.
We landed on a COMET two years ago, maybe you miss it…
I say "we" because I'm also a physicist :D.

Oh, and many of the Chandra instruments were calibrated by my professor of astronomy in a facility that is 100mt away from our physics department… Chandra was a joint venture between NASA and ESA, maybe the biggest leap in the space knowledge in the last 30 years.

@scottalanmiller said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@dafyre said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@dafyre said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@DustinB3403 said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@Mike-Davis and what exactly is wrong with WEP?!

(sarcasm boys)

That's all that they have here on Sicily where we are

O.o Can you VPN back somewhere else?

I'm not in China, the EU does not block VPNs.

VPN for traffic protection, it is, then.... But I mean seriously? The WiFi in Sicily can't use WPA ?

People don't tend to replace access points here. Equipment is expected to last decades.

What? I think I have ZERO equipment older than 5 years in any of the company I worked. And they are SMB, of course.

@scottalanmiller said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@DustinB3403 said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

@Mike-Davis and what exactly is wrong with WEP?!

(sarcasm boys)

That's all that they have here on Sicily where we are

What? Over 95% of WLAN in Sicily is WPA2, from my experience.
You must have met some of the 5% outdated/misconfigured stuff.
New provider's WLAN setup for consumer are ALL WPA2 and they have been WPA2 for years. Every public structure have WPA2 for sure. Every public university in Italy is part of EduRoam, so is WPA2 enterprise with RADIUS.

@frodooftheshire I use this http://www.dewalt.com/en-us/products/gear-and-equipment/tool-storage/toughsystem-ds150-small-case/dwst08201 , very high-quality and rugged stuff.

@stess said in MacBook Air or Surface Pro 4 for beginning coding and casual use (youtube/facebook):

Thank you for all the replies.

I already upgrade his laptop with SSD, but the processor is just crap (IDK which one he had). His laptop is a low-end kind of laptop. He just want to kick things up a notch.

These two options were proposed by him. I do not have experience with neither, so I seek help from mangolassians.

The primary purpose for the air and surface would be casual use.
Why would surface Pro a bad option?

Some of you asked how did these two become the top choices? He wants something light that wouldn't feel like carrying a brick in his bag. If you have other suggestions please let me know.

I've returned the Surface 4 last month, and I also made a review of it in my blog. Is not. That bad, but… you can buy better hardware for the same money.

Consider some Thinkpad or Dell business line, they are usually a good investment.

@stess no need to change a machine from 2012, if it's not broken. I still use a MBP late 2011 as my main machine and it works great… absolutsly no need to buy other hardware if he is going to learn development stuff.

If the laptop can run a Linux distro without melting, just use it and wipe Windows. It's 100 times better for development, especially for beginners.

@scottalanmiller said in PV or HVM for new VMs in XS?:

HVM is the current recommendation. This is going to change again soon when some new PV driver advances from the HVM side get back ported to the pure PV side. So eventually we expect PV to take the lead again as it is a more solid design. The biggest thing is that the HVM side uses hardware assist but PV is pure software. PV is getting hardware assist added to it and when it does it is expected to be basically container level speeds.

Agree, PV/containerization is going to be the next BIG thing: http://thenewstack.io/hypervisors-container-era/ .

@sreekumarpg said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

Hello All,

I am looking for a Linux backup solution for our development servers. The requirement is to backup the linux data to local Synology NAS and then do a local Synology NAS to remote Synology NAS replication. We have tried the rsnapshot and rsnyc but rsnyc is not perserving hardlinks.
Configuration

[Server]/data folder ----> rsnapshot to local /backup drive -------> rsnyc to local Synology NAS.

Now we are looking for a general backup solutions for all Linux servers. The backup requirements are

1. Daily Incremental backup
2. Weekly Full backup
3. Monthly Full backup
4. Can set Retention period for all backups tasks
5. Able to restore on day/week/month wise
6. if possible not have custom backup file extention
7. Event alert

There are many FLOSS software that can fulfill your requirements… I'll try to make a selection:

• Attic/Borg: python rolling deduplication, very simple to use and extremely simple, sort of evolution of the holy Obnam.
• UrBackup: offer commercial support only if you want, nice interface, great features, solid. The choice for SMB, like BackupPc.
• Bacula: VERY enterprisey, has every imaginable feature (more than any proprietary product I'm aware of), complex to setup and extremely powerful. Completely FLOSS like the other, offer enterprise support, is widespread in big company. The commercial version also offer a module to backup KVM, VMware ecc in a VM-aware (agentless) fashion, but I've never used the paid one.

@sreekumarpg
The only thing that hasn't a custom file format is plain rsync/rsnapshot of course. Compressed Tar itself is a "file format".

Rsync can preserve hard link, of corse: I think the option is "-H", but man is your friend.

@RojoLoco said in Flip becomes SapientRazorfish:

I wouldn't brag about being "identified by Gartner"... because they are strictly pay-to-play. Your company was "identified as a leader" because they bought that rating. Not exactly an accomplishment.

I was also skeptical about other Gartner reports, like VMware THAT WAY on top in the virtualizazion market, when XEN and KVM leads public cloud and are widespread in such many on-permise installation…

@DustinB3403 pvcreate /dev/xvdb and proceed with vgextend…

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

Dumb question, would it be easier for me to simply add a separate drive, and then extend the root drive into the new drive?

Maybe.
You can skip the fdisk stuff and add a whole new block device to LVM if you add another virtual disk.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@stacksofplates

So, I think you can safely force the pvcreate.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

The system is saying that xvda2 is mounted.

Yet I have no idea how it's mounted.

So, just grep /etc/mtab for xvda2.

@travisdh1 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@DustinB3403

pvcreate /dev/newpartition
vgextend fedora /dev/newpartition
lvextend -l 100%FREE /dev/fedora/root /dev/newpartition

I don't know the command to expand an ext4 file system off the top of my head

His root is XFS, so xfs_grows should do the trick.