Scenario: Jackass gets post deleted because he's a jackass. Bitches. Continues to act like a jackass. Gets banned. Claims it's because he pissed off a sponsor.
Ok, you honestly believe that a mega tsunami from some volcano in the canary islands is more likely to happen than the mega volcano that is sitting just outside seattle's city limits?
If you're the worst person in a group of 10, it's not doing you or the company any good for you to keep doing what you're doing. Find something you're better at, and switch to that. We don't live in a vacuum.
You don't own your job. Your employer also doesn't own your life.
AOL doesn't randomly lay off people, they specifically lay off the bottom 10%. Every company should do that. People who aren't capable of being in the top 90% of a group probably need encouragement to find new employment.
That's basically the situation I'm in. I was hired by a large 3 letter corporation for a position at a university. I have been told that at some point in the future, they want to move me to permanent, but the process to hire someone right now is so painful that they just hired me as a contractor. My rule of thumb is to charge 30% more for contracting than for salary ( salary / 1920 * 1.3 to get hourly rate). That way, if I never get moved to salaried, I'm still happy.
Anyone who could even begin to think that being an IT Manager is among the worst jobs is lacking perspective. Even among management jobs. If you loathe your job that much, perhaps you made some bad decisions, and should consider looking for new employment? After all, it's gotta be easier to find a job as a laborer on a construction site, or on an oil rig, or a teacher in an inner city school than to find a job in IT middle management.
WEP is so insecure that if you're concerned about security, you shouldn't be depending on WEP. Easy to use tools exist to automatically crack WEP just by analyzing traffic.
I can't imagine how you would think solaris is easier to work with than AIX, unless you didn't put any effort at all into learning how to use the IBM. As to porting open source code, with the linux affinity libraries, my experience is that most open source code just works. Just autoconfig, then bam.
Why would you want to run Solaris instead of AIX on ibm hardware? AIX is more reliable, easier to manage, and works woonderfully with oracle. That's what most of the financial world runs on, after all. I don't see what the killer app for solaris on pSeries hardware is. Except that it'd be faster than Solaris on Sun hardware...
Sun stopped spending big money on R&D ages ago. Certainly compared to other players in the market. That's why sun dropped off the top of the top 500 so dramatically. They've essentially abandonned the sparc architecture. Now they just have to hope that someone wants to run solaris when they could run Linux or AIX instead.
Anyone who says "ewww AIX" hasn't run AIX in a production environment. There's a reason why banks and insurance companies run AIX. It's rock solid. And now that IBM's hardware is the fastest in the world, there's no compelling reason to run anything else.
They're not violating your privacy if you agree to it. If you ask me for a loan, and I tell you that in order to give you a loan, you must install a video camera in your bathroom, it's your choice whether you're willing to accept that. It's a private contract. In a private contract, you only have the rights specifically listed in that contract.
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I'd ugess it depends on what country you're in. In most of the united states, carrying around an Fn sniper rifle is perfectly legal.
As someone who works for a supercomping center, I can say that some things work VERY well on cheap unix based clusters. I am the primary admin on a 5 TFLOP cluster. We've also got a Cray X1, and while it's only 2.6 TFLOPs, it will eat my IBM's lunch when it comes to some specificly tuned tasks. Much in the same way that we can outperform mac clusters that have significantly higher floating point performance because of the speeds of the interconnects. Supercomputing is about a LOT more than just raw CPU power.
Ok, I'd understand how it was cool if the peltier cooler from the fridge was part of the cooling system for the computer. But what's the big deal about putting a fridge in a box with a computer? It doesn't add functionality, it doesn't share anything sigificant in the way of function, and it's just plywood, taboot.
If the case used the same cooling for both the hardware and the beer, now that would be something interesting. As it is, it's just a 7th grade wood shop project.
You're a little out of date on high end unix technology. Certainly sun will sell you a system with 128 processors, when IBM's p690 only has 32, max. The difference is that IBM's 32way system is significantly faster than any sun. And can be partitioned more flexibly than the starfires. And costs less. And oracle licenses cost less. Etc. Sun has 128 way systems because the ultrasparcs can't keep up. It's a shame, sun was a great company. Unfortunately, they rested on their name during the dot com bubble, and got taken to the cleaners by the crash. Since then, they've been trying ineffectively to catch up.
So the applications you're using rechargables for aren't the ones that this is ideal for.
It sounds ideal for combat robot batteries (where you have a limited amount of time to charge and have high current drain), camera flashes, cellphones, pdas, ups, etc, where the rapid recharge could make it so you wouldn't need to have multiple sets of batteries with you. I'd love to be able to recharge my cellphone in the time between flights, etc.
It takes only about 30 seconds to recharge the battery enough to allow 80 hours of continuous operation of an MD player, compared with around an hour needed by conventional rechargeables, the company claims.
I've worked a lot of places in the last 10 years, and I've been as impressed by the people and work environment at autozone as anywhere. From senior management down to phone people, it's a great place to work. There are only 2 drawbacks. Mondays were "Store Uniform day" which I really hated:), and I personally am not a fan of memphis. Its the latter that resulted in my accepting employment elsewhere. You'll love working at autozone.
I used to work for AZ, and they've got a LOT more technology than just a webserver. They spent a number of years on the Top 400 list of supercomputers because of their data warehouse (running on AIX), they had SCO servers in the retail stores (I believe these have switched to linux, but that happened well after my departure), etc. They used to spend a LOT of money on sco licenses, so they will have damages to show, even if the rest of their case is fragile.
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Scenario: Jackass gets post deleted because he's a jackass. Bitches. Continues to act like a jackass. Gets banned. Claims it's because he pissed off a sponsor.
Ok, you honestly believe that a mega tsunami from some volcano in the canary islands is more likely to happen than the mega volcano that is sitting just outside seattle's city limits?
If you're the worst person in a group of 10, it's not doing you or the company any good for you to keep doing what you're doing. Find something you're better at, and switch to that. We don't live in a vacuum.
You don't own your job. Your employer also doesn't own your life.
AOL doesn't randomly lay off people, they specifically lay off the bottom 10%. Every company should do that. People who aren't capable of being in the top 90% of a group probably need encouragement to find new employment.
1920 factors in for 4 weeks not worked, so 2 weeks of vacation and 10 holidays.
That's basically the situation I'm in. I was hired by a large 3 letter corporation for a position at a university. I have been told that at some point in the future, they want to move me to permanent, but the process to hire someone right now is so painful that they just hired me as a contractor. My rule of thumb is to charge 30% more for contracting than for salary ( salary / 1920 * 1.3 to get hourly rate). That way, if I never get moved to salaried, I'm still happy.
Anyone who could even begin to think that being an IT Manager is among the worst jobs is lacking perspective. Even among management jobs. If you loathe your job that much, perhaps you made some bad decisions, and should consider looking for new employment? After all, it's gotta be easier to find a job as a laborer on a construction site, or on an oil rig, or a teacher in an inner city school than to find a job in IT middle management.
WEP is so insecure that if you're concerned about security, you shouldn't be depending on WEP. Easy to use tools exist to automatically crack WEP just by analyzing traffic.
I can't imagine how you would think solaris is easier to work with than AIX, unless you didn't put any effort at all into learning how to use the IBM. As to porting open source code, with the linux affinity libraries, my experience is that most open source code just works. Just autoconfig, then bam.
Why would you want to run Solaris instead of AIX on ibm hardware? AIX is more reliable, easier to manage, and works woonderfully with oracle. That's what most of the financial world runs on, after all. I don't see what the killer app for solaris on pSeries hardware is. Except that it'd be faster than Solaris on Sun hardware...
Sun stopped spending big money on R&D ages ago. Certainly compared to other players in the market. That's why sun dropped off the top of the top 500 so dramatically. They've essentially abandonned the sparc architecture. Now they just have to hope that someone wants to run solaris when they could run Linux or AIX instead.
Anyone who says "ewww AIX" hasn't run AIX in a production environment. There's a reason why banks and insurance companies run AIX. It's rock solid. And now that IBM's hardware is the fastest in the world, there's no compelling reason to run anything else.
They're not violating your privacy if you agree to it. If you ask me for a loan, and I tell you that in order to give you a loan, you must install a video camera in your bathroom, it's your choice whether you're willing to accept that. It's a private contract. In a private contract, you only have the rights specifically listed in that contract.
I'd ugess it depends on what country you're in. In most of the united states, carrying around an Fn sniper rifle is perfectly legal.
You can stream from iTunes to Tivo HMO already.
Dad was pissed when our last power bill came...
As someone who works for a supercomping center, I can say that some things work VERY well on cheap unix based clusters. I am the primary admin on a 5 TFLOP cluster. We've also got a Cray X1, and while it's only 2.6 TFLOPs, it will eat my IBM's lunch when it comes to some specificly tuned tasks. Much in the same way that we can outperform mac clusters that have significantly higher floating point performance because of the speeds of the interconnects. Supercomputing is about a LOT more than just raw CPU power.
The point of the large quota isn't to encourage you to use all of it, it's so that you stop having to worry about how much space you're using.
I wasn't knocking woodshop projects, I do them myself. I was knocking the value on /. of such a project.
I use plywood for a lot of things, but I'd use good veneer at the very least for the outside of the box. That thing is UGLY.
Ok, I'd understand how it was cool if the peltier cooler from the fridge was part of the cooling system for the computer. But what's the big deal about putting a fridge in a box with a computer? It doesn't add functionality, it doesn't share anything sigificant in the way of function, and it's just plywood, taboot.
If the case used the same cooling for both the hardware and the beer, now that would be something interesting. As it is, it's just a 7th grade wood shop project.
You're a little out of date on high end unix technology. Certainly sun will sell you a system with 128 processors, when IBM's p690 only has 32, max. The difference is that IBM's 32way system is significantly faster than any sun. And can be partitioned more flexibly than the starfires. And costs less. And oracle licenses cost less. Etc. Sun has 128 way systems because the ultrasparcs can't keep up. It's a shame, sun was a great company. Unfortunately, they rested on their name during the dot com bubble, and got taken to the cleaners by the crash. Since then, they've been trying ineffectively to catch up.
So the applications you're using rechargables for aren't the ones that this is ideal for.
It sounds ideal for combat robot batteries (where you have a limited amount of time to charge and have high current drain), camera flashes, cellphones, pdas, ups, etc, where the rapid recharge could make it so you wouldn't need to have multiple sets of batteries with you. I'd love to be able to recharge my cellphone in the time between flights, etc.
I've worked a lot of places in the last 10 years, and I've been as impressed by the people and work environment at autozone as anywhere. From senior management down to phone people, it's a great place to work. There are only 2 drawbacks. Mondays were "Store Uniform day" which I really hated :), and I personally am not a fan of memphis. Its the latter that resulted in my accepting employment elsewhere. You'll love working at autozone.
I used to work for AZ, and they've got a LOT more technology than just a webserver. They spent a number of years on the Top 400 list of supercomputers because of their data warehouse (running on AIX), they had SCO servers in the retail stores (I believe these have switched to linux, but that happened well after my departure), etc. They used to spend a LOT of money on sco licenses, so they will have damages to show, even if the rest of their case is fragile.