You haven't got a Premium contract with Red hat or you'd know differently. First of all, Red Hat has a reciprocal support policy with HP; Red Hat has support matrices and if the HP equipment is in the matrix it's supported.
In this case the HP Fibre driver requires recompiling the kernel (or at least it did in the RHEL 5.1-compatible release). The Red Hat multipath driver used for KVM supposedly conflicts with the HP multipath driver... at least that's as far as my research got before handing it off to someone else.
We can conference Red Hat into the call as needed to get questions answered. It's like a 2-minute wait to get Red Hat on the phone. HP is another matter entirely; they often act like you're talking to a bunch of totally disorganized outsourced "techs" who are both unfamiliar with their products and our language (English).
At least in my world, our banks and trading partners like to make sure we have outside support, in case one (or all) of us gets hit by a bus. That's only being responsible. Our best-supported (and most important) systems are RHEL systems. Then again, we are probably what you would consider a medium-to-large US company.
Unless your scope is kept very shallow and/or very focused, you will never be doing anything more than tweaking applications or simple debugging. The codebase for most apps is too large and if it's not your primary job / hobby then you won't have time to learn it, let alone keep up with its development.
It's wise for each company to know where they stand when making any IT expenditures, whether the goal is to have a large Help Desk for instance or outsource everything beyond a certain scope. I don't run cabling anymore, and although I could if needed, we pay contractors for that stuff. Just like I implement systems using MySQL, but I don't tweak its source or try to perform bugfixes myself (beyond Googling for answers to questions) because I have other things to do. I support other databases and systems, and I have other apps to code. My time is most valuable to my employer for these tasks, and I'm a lot more expensive than spending a few thousand a year per server for support.
Need an example? OK. We successfully implemented a fiber card in 2 of our blades (RHEL 5.4 with kernels from 5.1) and this week brought up a third blade (same model, same base OS) only this time using RHEL 5.4 with KVM for virtualization. The kernel is 5.4 and the HP drivers won't install. The issue appears that one of the RPM's (lpfc IIRC) won't install because 5.3 and higher is not supported. The support grid at HP says that 5.4 is supported. Now I need to implement the entire tested solution by the end of next week.
Do I want to play around with this? No. I have one of our network admins contact HP and work it out, and when they're finished, give me a written set of instructions which I will add to my documentation. That's how larger businesses handle this stuff.
So the RIAA has only succeeded in removing one person from the labor pool.
... and adding one person to receive unemployment, welfare, etc in the case her situation causes her to qualify for it. Brilliant!
As a taxpayer, this stupid decision will cost me even more money in the future, not just for the legal proceedings and red tape but for the ruling's effect on this family.
(NYCL put your hands over your eyes for a minute) The problem is with the lawyers. When we run out of meat, I say we eat them first.
Perhaps you would feel differently if your child (or a family member) downloaded a P2P program and had 24 songs accidentally shared with others, then you got the $$$ bill.
Hope you never have kids, because they do stupid things that you can be held liable for. You can't 100% prevent this from happening in your own house if you have kids.
So you should steal like 300 CD's and hand them out to everyone in your neighborhood. Still under $5000 in value so I think it's still relatively small fries.
... oh wait, that's kinda what this person did, only they want $54,000 for it because it was done online? The bastards!
Exactly. Having all your "tapes in one basket" is not good for DR planning. Large-scale distributed networks help, you just have to make sure NOT to tie them all into one another (and end up replicating a "delete" too quickly for instance).
In our company, we take a multilayered approach, basically we sync data from multiple servers to an offsite server, which then goes to a daily tape. The tapes are taken out of the building each day and returned 3 weeks later to be reused. Monthly DVD's of critical systems are placed in bank vaults. It's worked very well for us, YMMV and all that. But we aren't required to keep data more than 7 years.
Yep. I have several DC2120's with personal data that I just haven't been able to convince myself to get rid of. I have floppies using LHArc compression. I have Central Point Backup backups spanning a dozen or so HD 3.5" floppy disks each. I also have a SyQuest EZFlyer 230MB SCSI cartridge or two and just got rid of some old IOMega Zip 100 disks from when I had my parallel Zip drive. These are just since 1990 or so for the IBM-compatible platform.
No doubt many of you have more interesting backups -- that are totally useless unless you a) have a VM or OS to load them in, or have the OS disks to create such a system; b) have whatever backup software you used at the time; and c) have whatever hardware is needed to read the media.
I'd wager that the Central Point backups on 3.5" floppies would be tough to restore, even though floppies are still around. I've already gotten rid of most if not all of my disks for the TRS-80 Models 3 and 4, Commodore PET and C-64, and Apple ][e... I just couldn't justify keeping them with those devices gone. I'm sure some of my old code would look pretty lame, if I could only see it again. Hell, I had LOGO disks in middle school for the course I took over the summer at the local community college. It would be interesting (for me) to see that old stuff.
PC Magazine had a utility called "Password Prompter" that offered this feature; it also has a random password generator, a place to store notes and several other fields. They also included the C++ source. A quick Google search finds it. It doesn't have to be installed, just run it from the folder.
I haven't been interested enough to check the security of it -- it's inside a VM which is only open when I'm at work so I'm not too worried about it. If you don't like that one there are probably hundreds or thousands more, or build your own.
I can't imagine anyone working in IT -- unless you're just Help Desk -- making that low of a salary. Time to upgrade your skills in a way that either your company will appreciate or find a new company. Best of luck.
What happens when the MS bots (which apparently ignore the robots.txt file) start indexing some site which provides pay-per-view information? Can we expect a fix to the problem then? All it takes is to get some lawyers involved, you know how that snowball goes.
As anyone who has ever read MS documentation can tell you, you need to read it, then implement a test, so you can see what it really expects, then adjust your test, then try it until it works.
Open Source killed my software revenues (consulting)
Open source products actually make consulting easier for most people -- there are products the customer / consultant have actually heard of, and they can be implemented much sooner than a custom solution could be scoped, coded, tested and deployed. Now if you're doing old-school custom software what's killing you isn't necessarily open source, it's the internet. Having customers able to easily locate, choose, and download an application that meets their needs makes the idea of software customization -- in a lot of situations -- obsolete.
That said, I've been programming for a very long time. I saw the change coming and embraced it. If that's not your thing then so be it, but you should know the reasons and they are not "open source". It's not some dark voodoo, it's instant gratification, available for everyone. Blame the internet, blame competition, but many people are making money with Open Source software and I'm one of them.
If a car analogy helps you, it's like the local car dealer keeping the local prices high for years because there weren't any other choices around, and boom! CarMax moves into the next town. Local people now have choice. Why would they want to use the local car dealer? If you can't answer that, then you (as the local car dealer) will be forced into another career choice. You must provide added value that the customer will not only understand, but will pay for. CarMax isn't the problem, it's that you are still running on an antiquated business model that provides no value proposition for the consumer. CarMax just provided the catalyst for your customers to understand they are no longer without options. Blaming CarMax only shows you don't understand the problem.
I also quit reading anything from the NY Times because of their silly "you must register" tactics. Everything they have is available in many other places, free of charge and without having me sign up to get it.
I hope they choke on this, it would serve them right!
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It's because they still have money because they didn't buy the albums...
Typical Microsoft astroturfing. And you wonder why Microsoft is considered a tool.
Mod parent up. Foredecker is astroturfing on behalf of Microsoft, a poor effort at best.
I refuse to work in an industry which has a history of abusing its own employees up to levels where it becomes dangerous for your live.
Gaming industry? No problem! HR will just add a cheat code so you start the game with more lives.
You haven't got a Premium contract with Red hat or you'd know differently. First of all, Red Hat has a reciprocal support policy with HP; Red Hat has support matrices and if the HP equipment is in the matrix it's supported.
In this case the HP Fibre driver requires recompiling the kernel (or at least it did in the RHEL 5.1-compatible release). The Red Hat multipath driver used for KVM supposedly conflicts with the HP multipath driver... at least that's as far as my research got before handing it off to someone else.
We can conference Red Hat into the call as needed to get questions answered. It's like a 2-minute wait to get Red Hat on the phone. HP is another matter entirely; they often act like you're talking to a bunch of totally disorganized outsourced "techs" who are both unfamiliar with their products and our language (English).
At least in my world, our banks and trading partners like to make sure we have outside support, in case one (or all) of us gets hit by a bus. That's only being responsible. Our best-supported (and most important) systems are RHEL systems. Then again, we are probably what you would consider a medium-to-large US company.
Unless your scope is kept very shallow and/or very focused, you will never be doing anything more than tweaking applications or simple debugging. The codebase for most apps is too large and if it's not your primary job / hobby then you won't have time to learn it, let alone keep up with its development.
It's wise for each company to know where they stand when making any IT expenditures, whether the goal is to have a large Help Desk for instance or outsource everything beyond a certain scope. I don't run cabling anymore, and although I could if needed, we pay contractors for that stuff. Just like I implement systems using MySQL, but I don't tweak its source or try to perform bugfixes myself (beyond Googling for answers to questions) because I have other things to do. I support other databases and systems, and I have other apps to code. My time is most valuable to my employer for these tasks, and I'm a lot more expensive than spending a few thousand a year per server for support.
Need an example? OK. We successfully implemented a fiber card in 2 of our blades (RHEL 5.4 with kernels from 5.1) and this week brought up a third blade (same model, same base OS) only this time using RHEL 5.4 with KVM for virtualization. The kernel is 5.4 and the HP drivers won't install. The issue appears that one of the RPM's (lpfc IIRC) won't install because 5.3 and higher is not supported. The support grid at HP says that 5.4 is supported. Now I need to implement the entire tested solution by the end of next week.
Do I want to play around with this? No. I have one of our network admins contact HP and work it out, and when they're finished, give me a written set of instructions which I will add to my documentation. That's how larger businesses handle this stuff.
Given Sun's position right now, it's an excellent time to be reevaluating your relationship with Solaris.
Egads! Has my filter stopped working? I'm quite sure I turned those bits off.
<shaking fist> Aaaarrrgghhhh!
So the RIAA has only succeeded in removing one person from the labor pool.
... and adding one person to receive unemployment, welfare, etc in the case her situation causes her to qualify for it. Brilliant!
As a taxpayer, this stupid decision will cost me even more money in the future, not just for the legal proceedings and red tape but for the ruling's effect on this family.
(NYCL put your hands over your eyes for a minute) The problem is with the lawyers. When we run out of meat, I say we eat them first.
Perhaps you would feel differently if your child (or a family member) downloaded a P2P program and had 24 songs accidentally shared with others, then you got the $$$ bill.
Hope you never have kids, because they do stupid things that you can be held liable for. You can't 100% prevent this from happening in your own house if you have kids.
So you should steal like 300 CD's and hand them out to everyone in your neighborhood. Still under $5000 in value so I think it's still relatively small fries.
... oh wait, that's kinda what this person did, only they want $54,000 for it because it was done online? The bastards!
Wow, such a strong response for such an innocent-sounding comment.
Perhaps you should take your pills now, before it gets worse? Especially since you're quoting Yahoo, which is evidence you're not feeling well.
Exactly. Having all your "tapes in one basket" is not good for DR planning. Large-scale distributed networks help, you just have to make sure NOT to tie them all into one another (and end up replicating a "delete" too quickly for instance).
In our company, we take a multilayered approach, basically we sync data from multiple servers to an offsite server, which then goes to a daily tape. The tapes are taken out of the building each day and returned 3 weeks later to be reused. Monthly DVD's of critical systems are placed in bank vaults. It's worked very well for us, YMMV and all that. But we aren't required to keep data more than 7 years.
I'm sorry, I'm just not getting it. Can I get a car analogy please?
Yep. I have several DC2120's with personal data that I just haven't been able to convince myself to get rid of. I have floppies using LHArc compression. I have Central Point Backup backups spanning a dozen or so HD 3.5" floppy disks each. I also have a SyQuest EZFlyer 230MB SCSI cartridge or two and just got rid of some old IOMega Zip 100 disks from when I had my parallel Zip drive. These are just since 1990 or so for the IBM-compatible platform.
No doubt many of you have more interesting backups -- that are totally useless unless you a) have a VM or OS to load them in, or have the OS disks to create such a system; b) have whatever backup software you used at the time; and c) have whatever hardware is needed to read the media.
I'd wager that the Central Point backups on 3.5" floppies would be tough to restore, even though floppies are still around. I've already gotten rid of most if not all of my disks for the TRS-80 Models 3 and 4, Commodore PET and C-64, and Apple ][e... I just couldn't justify keeping them with those devices gone. I'm sure some of my old code would look pretty lame, if I could only see it again. Hell, I had LOGO disks in middle school for the course I took over the summer at the local community college. It would be interesting (for me) to see that old stuff.
PC Magazine had a utility called "Password Prompter" that offered this feature; it also has a random password generator, a place to store notes and several other fields. They also included the C++ source. A quick Google search finds it. It doesn't have to be installed, just run it from the folder.
I haven't been interested enough to check the security of it -- it's inside a VM which is only open when I'm at work so I'm not too worried about it. If you don't like that one there are probably hundreds or thousands more, or build your own.
I can't imagine anyone working in IT -- unless you're just Help Desk -- making that low of a salary. Time to upgrade your skills in a way that either your company will appreciate or find a new company. Best of luck.
Mod parent up. This would be a win for everyone.
Very true. Just because I like Oracle doesn't mean I can magically make its cost OK'd by Management. So I use MySQL and SQL Server instead.
What happens when the MS bots (which apparently ignore the robots.txt file) start indexing some site which provides pay-per-view information? Can we expect a fix to the problem then? All it takes is to get some lawyers involved, you know how that snowball goes.
As anyone who has ever read MS documentation can tell you, you need to read it, then implement a test, so you can see what it really expects, then adjust your test, then try it until it works.
Mod parent up. I thought it was just me...
So you're suggesting everyone rush out and buy a book written by a Republican pollster who has worked with "Fox" News Channel?
I think I vomited in my mouth a little.
Open Source killed my software revenues (consulting)
Open source products actually make consulting easier for most people -- there are products the customer / consultant have actually heard of, and they can be implemented much sooner than a custom solution could be scoped, coded, tested and deployed. Now if you're doing old-school custom software what's killing you isn't necessarily open source, it's the internet. Having customers able to easily locate, choose, and download an application that meets their needs makes the idea of software customization -- in a lot of situations -- obsolete.
That said, I've been programming for a very long time. I saw the change coming and embraced it. If that's not your thing then so be it, but you should know the reasons and they are not "open source". It's not some dark voodoo, it's instant gratification, available for everyone. Blame the internet, blame competition, but many people are making money with Open Source software and I'm one of them.
If a car analogy helps you, it's like the local car dealer keeping the local prices high for years because there weren't any other choices around, and boom! CarMax moves into the next town. Local people now have choice. Why would they want to use the local car dealer? If you can't answer that, then you (as the local car dealer) will be forced into another career choice. You must provide added value that the customer will not only understand, but will pay for. CarMax isn't the problem, it's that you are still running on an antiquated business model that provides no value proposition for the consumer. CarMax just provided the catalyst for your customers to understand they are no longer without options. Blaming CarMax only shows you don't understand the problem.
I also quit reading anything from the NY Times because of their silly "you must register" tactics. Everything they have is available in many other places, free of charge and without having me sign up to get it.
I hope they choke on this, it would serve them right!