[ale] linux infrastructure advice, opinions, suggestions

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:51, Jay wrote:

> >What are your specific obstacles to this?
> >  
> >
> The administration, pretty much.  It's a hell of a lot of politics, and 
> believe me, I'd love to go back to the days when we ran a nix mail 
> server, but due to a variety of political adminstration reasons beyond 
> the control of the Systems Administration office, it just wont happen.  
> It's nothing technical, really, just social/political.  -sad, isn't it.  
> I'd think that they'd just trust the sysadmin to do his job, rather than 
> insisting on giving their opinion on things they know nothing about, but 
> hey, that's just me.  And that is also why our "server room" has 
> sprinkler systems in it, not enough power and no air conditioning, so 
> we've got servers in closets with big whooshing air vents venting 
> uncontrolled air from the AC system into them just to keep things cool.

Hmm. A server room with sprinklers. Make sure all of the M$ servers are
in that room. Set up a big Linux box as an email proxy (for "backup"
purposes only) and wait for the sprinklers to fry the M$ machines. Then
you look good with the Linux machine handling the load :)

Be sure to wear latex gloves while you're "waiting" for the sprinklers
;)

I read too much BOFH...


Or better yet, use the exchange server's IE to hit a few web sites known
for being carriers of browser bugs after the anti-virus software gets
"attacked" by a malicious email to the admin. As the machine slowly
grinds to a halt, offer to "take some of the load off the server" and
blame the slowing of the system on the volume of large M$ office
attachments. Once the load has been transfered, turn off the Exchange
server while muttering something about "cosmic ray or sun spot
interference" and reload the machine with a Linux distro with the M$
theme and icons from M$.
> 
> -Jay
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 
> !DSPAM:40d2127e281086778345028!
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part