I keep all kinds of loopback/wirewrap plugs in my case.... everything from Serial ports to Fibrechannel loops, definately makes debugging problems easier.
Sadly unless you find some Ex-EMC engineers and lure them away to work at your site, you better be good at writing BIN files by hand for these puppies.
Also, EMC will not sell you software licenses unless you're using it on their supported hardware, quick search on Limewire shows NO hits for Timefinder, Solutions Enabler, or Workload agent. All of which you'll need if you want to run a Symm in any environment (well Timefinder you COULD do without.....but I dont' recommend it)
Plus it's kinda cool when at 8:00 in the morning I get a call that an EMC technician is downstairs with the disk that failed last night that I didn't even know about....
SO basically to answer your questions, YES you need a support contract, and when spending 50K on a piece of hardware you better have the cash on hand to pay for the contract, and YES you do need them to come out and fire up the box, they have to configure it and set up the bin file with the devices you want (R1/R2/STD/BCV) otherwise the whole thing is useless.
Realize that when you're talking about this 50TB storage, are you talking 50TB raw, or are you going to be mirroring these disks, maybe striping, all of which are going to increase your needs.... Oh yea, what about backing it up, every try to spool a 30TB database to tape? hope you have 28 hours in a day. Think split mirrors for backups. If you need 50TB of usable space, I'd triple that number at LEAST.
In my area Verizon already offers DSL, and you have the option of just using them as your line provider or as your full provider/ISP.
I chose the former, and have been using DCANet as my service provider and Verizon as my line provider for almost 3 years now with no bumps in the road and maybe a routing problem once a year that is fixed within 10 minutes of being reported, probably one of the best ISPs I've ever had....
Plus for my $40 a month, I get all static IPs and nothing filtered, everything allowed... unlike my cable modem where I coulndt' use my work VPN.....
If you've got a powermac sitting around, it might be worth it to find some cash and drop it on a nice digital mixing card for it, then get a copy of the Student edition of Cubase VST (I believe there is one) for about $200 (plus whatever the costs are of the system) you could do 32 channels worth of mixing...
This is a great thing for research facilities where Mac has always held a strong foothold (along with academia) also when a *large* cluster is not needed, running MacOS would be a bit more friendly for researchers to administrate their own little 10 node beowolf...
One thing I've noticed as a professional Perl programmer is that most books that are compilations of skills only really touch on the absolute basics of Perl. The O'Rielly books have become the definitive guide, with a few other's floating around that have good resources. With perl you have CPAN, copious documentation online, perldoc, and perlfaq. Do you really need another chapter in some random book when there's huge resources already available?
I've seen an R/3 rollout running on top of Oracle on Linux, but only in small classroom settings. Most of the SAPs training courses are taught on Linux based systmes.
I upgraded my box from w2k to XP just a few days ago, and it was worth it just for my games.... Stuff that didn't even THINK about running in 2000 runs fine in XP (like some older EA games and stuff that refuses to run under NT) To me it was well worth it. (altho I type all my documents in vim and process them in Latex, becuase that's what we do at work;)
Actually that's not a whole lot, EMC has some nice big fat Symmetrix boxen that can go up to 4-6 TB and work off a couple Fibre-Channel cards. We're runnning 3TB where I work, and connectivity is a breeze:)
I mean seriously, if I'm going to work on an S/390 system, I want to play with OS/390 and VM or something of that nature. Why code in C when I can code in COBOL;)
Actually I think this is pretty cool, I wouldn't mind running some of my code on these systems, especially anything math intensive is going to run blazing fast....
Are they going to offer some Database space too on DB2, or am I going to have to run MySQL???
How are they going to handle students who DO have legal rights to not show information to their parents. For example, I am NOT required to show my parents my college grades, and they cannot legally request them. As of the age of 18, wouldn't this fall under the same general legal rules? When a senior comes of age, should the monitoring just stop???
We had a small problem at the University I used to work for. A saavy student had stolen a laptop from the library (you can borrow then while in the building) and had set it up with two 802.11 cards and hid the laptop in the ceiling very much so as is explained here. He went on then to wreak all kinds of havoc with his little IP-Masq box until Lucent came in and located it for us (at the time we didn't know how they hell to locate it) The student was caught when they traced the Peer - Peer connection to the second WaveLAN card (he had to be within at least 20 meters of it, or he'd get picked up by the standard base stations)
I'm one of the two head AIX administrators for a very large chemical company, and being only 20 years old, I've seen my share of distrust and concern about decisions that I've made.
The one way that I've overcome this is to prove that I am capable of doing my job, and am capable of doing work thatis either on par or greater then the quality of work done by my fellow employees.
No matter what until you have either a degree, or are well enough known in your department, you're going to get strange looks. I prefer to surprise people with my skills, then look arrogant and argue with them.
We did a similar system for our freshman engineering design project, and believe it or not there are a lot of inherent dangers in not being able to exceed the speed limit.
Particularly, what if you need to accelerate beyond the limit to avoid an accident? Plus people will come to trust the regulators so much they'll tailgate people more often becuase they dont' have to worry about rear ending them, closer cars = closer calls.....
I'm curious as to where exactly this money will be filtering to? It's already a gray area as to who is really being affected by all hte movement of digital media.
Also, how is the government going to decide who the money goes to, just becuase my CD sales went down doesn't mean that I'm entitled to some tax moneys.....
I used to work for an ISP that used Platypus, and we ended up throwing the damned thing out once we started to go national, A lot of companies are starting to use in house developed products (we called our splatypus) because they can completely tailor them to their businesses.
The problem I beleve would be that the distance between the grooves on a DVD are MUCH finer then those on a CDR, so it would be very complicated to get the amazing accuracy you'd need. Altho the concept could work
I wonder, how much data you can get if you overburn the DVD, just a little bit:)
The computer and the Operating systems are two different entities what if I want to install DOS 4.0 on my machine, or 6.2, or even windows 3.11 to run something like ccMail, no computer store is going to sell that to me, why should I pay for an OS that I'm not going to need?
I've purchased machines just to run OS/2 to do SNA gateways for work. Find me a computer store that is more qualified than I am to install OS/2...
In reality, since we run a SOCKS proxy server at work, and already monitor URLs, capturing AIM conversations can't be very difficult, plus we've in the past been able to take snapshots of sites users are visiting through some creative sniffer work. So this really isn't a big surprise.
When you think about it though, people are right, your work PC, internet connection, and your office are there for work. You don't hold tupperware meetings in your office, why should you chat online during office hours.
Although, there are occasions where using applications such as IM in the workplace are appropriate. When I use to work for an ISP (Thank god I dont' any more) we used IM to communicate with other techs while we were on the phone. Very useful instead of having to say "Maam' can I put you on hold" go ask a question then come back.
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I keep all kinds of loopback/wirewrap plugs in my case.... everything from Serial ports to Fibrechannel loops, definately makes debugging problems easier.
Sadly unless you find some Ex-EMC engineers and lure them away to work at your site, you better be good at writing BIN files by hand for these puppies.
Also, EMC will not sell you software licenses unless you're using it on their supported hardware, quick search on Limewire shows NO hits for Timefinder, Solutions Enabler, or Workload agent. All of which you'll need if you want to run a Symm in any environment (well Timefinder you COULD do without.....but I dont' recommend it)
Plus it's kinda cool when at 8:00 in the morning I get a call that an EMC technician is downstairs with the disk that failed last night that I didn't even know about....
SO basically to answer your questions, YES you need a support contract, and when spending 50K on a piece of hardware you better have the cash on hand to pay for the contract, and YES you do need them to come out and fire up the box, they have to configure it and set up the bin file with the devices you want (R1/R2/STD/BCV) otherwise the whole thing is useless.
Realize that when you're talking about this 50TB storage, are you talking 50TB raw, or are you going to be mirroring these disks, maybe striping, all of which are going to increase your needs.... Oh yea, what about backing it up, every try to spool a 30TB database to tape? hope you have 28 hours in a day. Think split mirrors for backups. If you need 50TB of usable space, I'd triple that number at LEAST.
In my area Verizon already offers DSL, and you have the option of just using them as your line provider or as your full provider/ISP.
I chose the former, and have been using DCANet as my service provider and Verizon as my line provider for almost 3 years now with no bumps in the road and maybe a routing problem once a year that is fixed within 10 minutes of being reported, probably one of the best ISPs I've ever had....
Plus for my $40 a month, I get all static IPs and nothing filtered, everything allowed... unlike my cable modem where I coulndt' use my work VPN.....
umm Websphere is based on Apache Webserver... which last time I checked was one of the largest opensource projects EVER
If you've got a powermac sitting around, it might be worth it to find some cash and drop it on a nice digital mixing card for it, then get a copy of the Student edition of Cubase VST (I believe there is one) for about $200 (plus whatever the costs are of the system) you could do 32 channels worth of mixing...
This is a great thing for research facilities where Mac has always held a strong foothold (along with academia) also when a *large* cluster is not needed, running MacOS would be a bit more friendly for researchers to administrate their own little 10 node beowolf...
One thing I've noticed as a professional Perl programmer is that most books that are compilations of skills only really touch on the absolute basics of Perl. The O'Rielly books have become the definitive guide, with a few other's floating around that have good resources. With perl you have CPAN, copious documentation online, perldoc, and perlfaq. Do you really need another chapter in some random book when there's huge resources already available?
I've seen an R/3 rollout running on top of Oracle on Linux, but only in small classroom settings. Most of the SAPs training courses are taught on Linux based systmes.
I upgraded my box from w2k to XP just a few days ago, and it was worth it just for my games.... Stuff that didn't even THINK about running in 2000 runs fine in XP (like some older EA games and stuff that refuses to run under NT) To me it was well worth it. (altho I type all my documents in vim and process them in Latex, becuase that's what we do at work ;)
Actually that's not a whole lot, EMC has some nice big fat Symmetrix boxen that can go up to 4-6 TB and work off a couple Fibre-Channel cards. We're runnning 3TB where I work, and connectivity is a breeze :)
I mean seriously, if I'm going to work on an S/390 system, I want to play with OS/390 and VM or something of that nature. Why code in C when I can code in COBOL ;)
Actually I think this is pretty cool, I wouldn't mind running some of my code on these systems, especially anything math intensive is going to run blazing fast....
Are they going to offer some Database space too on DB2, or am I going to have to run MySQL???
How are they going to handle students who DO have legal rights to not show information to their parents. For example, I am NOT required to show my parents my college grades, and they cannot legally request them. As of the age of 18, wouldn't this fall under the same general legal rules? When a senior comes of age, should the monitoring just stop???
We had a small problem at the University I used to work for. A saavy student had stolen a laptop from the library (you can borrow then while in the building) and had set it up with two 802.11 cards and hid the laptop in the ceiling very much so as is explained here. He went on then to wreak all kinds of havoc with his little IP-Masq box until Lucent came in and located it for us (at the time we didn't know how they hell to locate it) The student was caught when they traced the Peer - Peer connection to the second WaveLAN card (he had to be within at least 20 meters of it, or he'd get picked up by the standard base stations)
I'm one of the two head AIX administrators for a very large chemical company, and being only 20 years old, I've seen my share of distrust and concern about decisions that I've made.
The one way that I've overcome this is to prove that I am capable of doing my job, and am capable of doing work thatis either on par or greater then the quality of work done by my fellow employees.
No matter what until you have either a degree, or are well enough known in your department, you're going to get strange looks. I prefer to surprise people with my skills, then look arrogant and argue with them.
We did a similar system for our freshman engineering design project, and believe it or not there are a lot of inherent dangers in not being able to exceed the speed limit.
Particularly, what if you need to accelerate beyond the limit to avoid an accident? Plus people will come to trust the regulators so much they'll tailgate people more often becuase they dont' have to worry about rear ending them, closer cars = closer calls.....
I'm curious as to where exactly this money will be filtering to? It's already a gray area as to who is really being affected by all hte movement of digital media.
Also, how is the government going to decide who the money goes to, just becuase my CD sales went down doesn't mean that I'm entitled to some tax moneys.....
I used to work for an ISP that used Platypus, and we ended up throwing the damned thing out once we started to go national, A lot of companies are starting to use in house developed products (we called our splatypus) because they can completely tailor them to their businesses.
Considering that Villanova is right next door to Ardmore, I'd think one of the developers either attends school a VU, or lives in the area :)
The problem I beleve would be that the distance between the grooves on a DVD are MUCH finer then those on a CDR, so it would be very complicated to get the amazing accuracy you'd need. Altho the concept could work I wonder, how much data you can get if you overburn the DVD, just a little bit :)
The computer and the Operating systems are two different entities what if I want to install DOS 4.0 on my machine, or 6.2, or even windows 3.11 to run something like ccMail, no computer store is going to sell that to me, why should I pay for an OS that I'm not going to need?
I've purchased machines just to run OS/2 to do SNA gateways for work. Find me a computer store that is more qualified than I am to install OS/2...
In reality, since we run a SOCKS proxy server at work, and already monitor URLs, capturing AIM conversations can't be very difficult, plus we've in the past been able to take snapshots of sites users are visiting through some creative sniffer work. So this really isn't a big surprise. When you think about it though, people are right, your work PC, internet connection, and your office are there for work. You don't hold tupperware meetings in your office, why should you chat online during office hours. Although, there are occasions where using applications such as IM in the workplace are appropriate. When I use to work for an ISP (Thank god I dont' any more) we used IM to communicate with other techs while we were on the phone. Very useful instead of having to say "Maam' can I put you on hold" go ask a question then come back.
At least the VHS tape and DVD will be thinner than the book was.....