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Comment: To "trolls" and "time-wasting-kids" answering (Score 1) 442

by DiniZuli (#36210892) Attached to: Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud?
Could all the people calling this person a troll, and "domyjobforme"-idiots just stop wasting others and their own time with these ridiculous negative non-helping no-good-for-anyone answers ? Who are you people anyways ? Why bother with answering ? What do you get from posting such answers?
You are so awfully clever on others behalf that it sickens me.
Give some proper answers - his a fellow nerd that asks perfectly legit questions to a community of nerds. It doesn't matter if he is out of his league, a new bee or a professional for that matter. He asks for advice, and those kind of negative answers is a waste of everybody's time and energy. Pardon my French, but go post your stupid answers somewhere else...

Best IT-infrastructure for a small company 2

Submitted by DiniZuli
DiniZuli writes "I've been imployed by a small NGO to remake their entire IT-infrastructure from scratch. It's a small company counting 20 employees. I would like to ask the /.-crowd and gather some experience and knowledge from you — what worked out best for you and why? I came up with a small list:
Are there any must have books on building the IT infrastructure?
New desktops: should it be laptops (with dockingstations), regular desktop machines or thin clients? A special brand? Ubuntu, Windows or?
Servers: We need a server for authentication and usermanagement. We also need an internal mediaserver (we have thousands of big image and videofiles, and the archive grows bigger every year). Finally we would like to have our webserver in house. Which hardware is good? Which setup, software and OS'es have worked the best for you?
Network: We are redoing everything: routers, schwitches, wireless, authentication — even the wiring. Which setup do you think is the best for a small company?
Which backup solutions do you use?
Since we are remaking everything, this list is not exhaustive, so feel free to comment on anything important not on the list."
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Remaking everything IT in a small company 1

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DiniZuli
DiniZuli writes "I've been imployed by a small company to remake their entire IT-infrastructure from scratch. I've worked in several diferent IT-departments and I have a Bachelor in Computer Science, so I know a bit about what I'm about to do, but I'm the only IT-guy in the company and before this I've only helped build or manage different parts of the infrastructure, I've never actually tried building the entire thing. The company is run by young people and it's very dynamic, it's an NGO, and anywhere between ten and thirty people may be working on any given day, mostly it's around fifteen though. Theese numbers will allways stay this low and there will not be a day with 50 or 100 employees. The company runs a new project every year, and thus most employees only work there for a year. Only two employees need machines to handle media (photo and video editing) — everybody else just needs office and web capabilities. There are guests nealy every day who needs to hook up to our network. So I would like to ask the /.-crowd and hear your opinions in theese matters:
Where to find advice and guidance? Are there any must have books, and do you know of websites with good and helpfull communities in this area?
New desktops: should it be laptops with dockingstations, regular desktop machines or thin clients? Dell, IBM, Mac or similar — or doesn't that matter? Ubuntu, Windows or? (I think I'll go with Ubuntu except on the media machines).
Rewireing: The company is housed in a 200m2 apartment shaped like a big L. The current wireing is a mess. Any good solutions or ideas would be appreciated.
Servers: We need an internal fileserver, an internal mediaserver (we have thousands of big image and videofiles, the archive grows bigger every year) and a webserver. Which hardware is good? Which setup, software and OS'es to use for this?
Network: What to use for router, firewall, network authentication, wireless. I've seen several different setups — everything from a Linksys router handling everything, to one machine for each thing to handle (one is router another is firewall, etc.). We have an good 48 port L3 Gigabit switch from HP. Normally the network traffic isn't big, but once a year the webserver will be used, during two weeks, by around 20000 people every day — used meaning creating accounts, logging in and out and writing new entries (using drupal for cms).
We have a FreePBX phone server to handle our IP-phone system, and I think I'll keep it as it is, unless you guys know of another brilliant solution.
Since we are remaking everything, this list is not exhaustive, so feel free to comment on anything important, not on the list (for example power and cooling for the servers and network gear, Virtualization, network monitoring...)."

Comment: Re:Hurry up and wait (Score 1) 2424

by DiniZuli (#31566548) Attached to: House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212
Well from what I've read your country saves WAY more money on this bill than what is spent on it.
See the link in my comment further down:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1590674&cid=31565886

So seeing this bill from your country's point of view, some of the 'trillion' dollors, saved not spend, are going out to all of it's citizens - resulting in a richer and probably more healthy America...
Try the first two pages to see some huge numbers:
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/113xx/doc11355/hr4872.pdf

... and then there's the 30 million people without cover .... humans are way more important than money, but somehow the discussions always ends up beeing about money, and not the ones that actually make the money in the first place...

"Most of the people living on it [the planet] were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable..." - Douglas Adams

Comment: availability... (Score 1) 606

by DiniZuli (#29754665) Attached to: Do You Provide Tech Support To Friends and Family?
I help friends and family for free. I also help some relatives and co-employers privately, but for them I charge money. And by word of mouth I've gotten more "customers", but I'm backing out of it now. Not because I don't like helping, or because of the money, but because some people seem to think that I'm always available.
They call me desperately again and again and again instead of leaving a message and wait until I have the time to answer. They call me or disturb me with their private computer problems at work. I've even have some people sending me text-messages in the middle of the night with their PC-problems (Mostly it is not the computer that's the problem).
I have a hard time figuring out how these people, that otherwise seem like friendly and kind, can suddenly be so desperate and rude when their PC is broke, or they cannot figure out how to use it. I spend way too much time ignoring desperate calls, and then sometimes giving in and help even though I should be doing something else. My advise to anyone considering going into this business: Help your closest friends and family, but say no to anyone else - they can use one of the many PC-repair shops that exists.

Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage. -- Ryan