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I also use DDG as my primary and only resort to Google when absolutely necessary - and even then Google usually fails me too.
An interrupted session isn't a big deal if it's an infrequent occurrence and they can just login again.
I think an improved solution in this vein would be a tool that would let you sanity check the config before reloading.
You might be interested in reading up on tavis Ormandy and his adventures with Sophos antivirus. He was able to find several holes in sav with [allegedly] very little effort. Which was especially comical because they could be used to pwn Sophos' network firewall product which is used by enterprises.
If reloading was an option then there wouldn't be downtime, and I wouldn't need to schedule a maintenance window for something as simple as updating an email address. The idea being that if there is a config error during a reload, the system just continues uninterrupted with the original config. If I have to stop the system completely in order to run the config sanity checks when it starts again, the potential for prolonged downtime is much greater.
When they give you a license file, it's cryptographically signed with their GPG key, and the public key resides on the appliance for verification. All you have to do is get that license into the system, either by USB key, typing it in yourself in Vim, or simply uploading the license file in the webUI if you have access to it.
There is so much low hanging fruit, I feel like anything related to actually running and maintaining tableau is ignored and I don't seem to be the only one judging from comments here.
I would add that I'm disappointed the only way these issues get attention are articles and threads like this.
Many Linux services have a concept of reloading. If the config file changes you can send the running program a signal and it will re read the config. This is very useful for production systems.
Tableau (9 at least) has no such concept.
Change the email address it reports to? Restart tableau.
Change the location of the SSL certificates? Restart tableau.
Want to apply an update for tableau? Uninstall your current version and install the new one. Oh and until recently when you downloaded the installer for tableau server the file name didn't actually contain the version number.
This product was not designed with ops in mind at all.
Edit: I forgot, I've actually had a tableau server fill itself up with logs. Tableau has logs in many different locations outside of windows event viewer and doesn't include log rotation facilities for all if them.
I work in tech.
My experiences don't reflect this, perhaps we are familiar with different levels of support contracts. I use AWS for work only so I can only speak to one level if their support.
>3. Get a response from a first level rep who has no access to anything, has little dev experience, and asks some inane questions which I'm convinced is a purposeful stalling tactic. 4. Play the dumb question/obvious response dance, waiting an hour or more for a response each time.
I can't agree with this either. I almost always use their chat option and a rep is usually available within 15m unless there is an AWS outage.
I do however completely agree with 5 and 6, but I don't let it bother me. They can't expose too much info about their infrastructure. I'm usually just looking for a confirmation of an issue in their side or not which they have always been willing to provide.
If you're using aws for business and are unhappy with their current level if support maybe you should talk with their sales folks to find out about higher tier support plans.
I think everyone complains in forums and online but doesn't actually file tickets about it. These things are worth tickets too.
IMO there should be significant penalties for network operators who do not drop obviously I forged traffic. How long has that rfc been around now and how little adoption has it seen?
I expected this too, and I was quite surprised to hear the us government had no idea exactly what Snowden had stolen. Kinda sheds light on the "protections" they have in place, in that they didn't seem to be very good at what they're supposed to do.
But the company is there to make money, and improving the software sadly doesn't always make more money.
For me, I fill the need of writing better software by working on Foss projects in my spare time because is satisfies that itch so I don't have to try and satisfy it at work.
On the other hand I really feel like this is one thing that makes Foss software better IMO than proprietary software. Foss Devs can spend hours working on something that turns out to have no performance impact at all, the point is they have the freedom to pursue that, and that in corporate development the norm is that those issues just never get raised, let alone fixed.
Still very cool!
For me at least, such a company would have to spend as much or more time pushing this new open idea than they did pushing the Embrace Extend Extinguish model.
Some people are more forgiving than me but I agree with the parents skepticism about how the openness seems to largely be in areas where they already lost the lockin wars.
If it's a choice between $smart_company or nobody though, I'll take nobody. Thanks to firewalls and blocking outbound connections from IoT devices, it's often not that black and white.
With Debian at least the curation of the repositories is one of the biggest attractions for me. Everything in there is tested at length and is known to work well together. I've never had problems staying within the repos.
Friends on the other hand always want to install the latest version of whatever package and install tens of external PPAs to achieve that, without consideration for what that means for the stability of their system.
They still carry their windows experiences and think that to install software you have to go find the software authors website and read their instructions - which much of the time apply to other distros and not the one you are using. I have to keep teaching people the Linux way to install software, use your local repos.
I believe most humans are inherently not evil even if they don't agree with me. They want to make the world a better place, and they are simply pursuing an agenda that accomplishes that in their eyes.
I don't have any evidence that most people aren't evil, but in my day to day interactions I have yet to meet someone who I believe is sincerely evil. I'm sure they're out there, I just have faith that there's a lot more of the rest of us.
Should you fault someone for being the change they want to see in the world? (For the record I'm opposed to Free Basics)
Is anyone currently using libcloud or equiv. and able to share details?
Rest peacefully Ian. You will be missed.
I think a better question is do we deserve to.