Do I need a GPU on a text and console only server? No GPU as in no iGPU and dGPU. Im going to be using SSH, so I dont need a display out.
Im using Linux, but the OS shouldn't affect the results
I have some LTO tape drives, and use cleaning tapes as required, but the lifetime of the cleaning tapes is not as predictable as I would have expected. I'm looking for a way to query the system, whether it be the robot (Quantum i6000) or Veritas Netbackup to see if the tape has actually expired.
Honestly I'm not exactly sure what causes a tape to be expired -- I'd assume it winds to the end and stops, so it doesn't reuse a previously used section. Currently Netbackup is storing the number of "available cleans" in the "number of times mounted" field, which always starts out at 50, but I've noticed cleaning tapes can expire after as few as 15 cleaning cycles, perhaps for a particularly dirty drive. Thanks.
I want to configure the server to show a maintenance page when it exist. I tried this code and works:
location / {
try_files /maintenance.html $uri $uri/ @codeigniter;
}
But I noticed it would be served with a 200 status code, and it can cause confusion to search engines. I think the best practice would be returning a 503 status code. On google I find several relevant pages about it, like this. However, they use if to make the redirect and according to nginx documentation it isn't safe to use ifs.
Is there a way of doing it without using if? Is safe to use if in this case?
Thanks.
A couple of our servers have Oracle maintenance licenses. Our hardware vendor asked there was internet connection in the server room. Our policy is that all machines in that room is isolated from the internet for security reasons. But the maintenance guy asked "then how are we going to be able to do maintenance work on your servers?"
My question is, do our servers need internet connection in order for the maintenance to be carried out like a license verification system. Or can he do it offline? Isn't it a risk in itself if there was an internet connection to our production server?
Do you use an antistatic wrist strap when working on hardware?
Do they really work?
Have you ever fried some hardware that would have been saved if you had been wearing one?
I know some people who wear them religiously and others who say they are a waste of time.
What is the view of the community?