If your server is misconfigured then you've already failed at DevOps. Your configuration management platform (I.e. Puppet, Chef etc.) should be keeping the server in a known state. If it's not then you need to fix your manifests/Cookbooks. Redeploying a new VM with the same incomplete configuration wont help.
If you don't have configuration management then you're barely even doing Ops, let alone DevOps.
I'm guessing the main haters are sysadmins, who see threats to their importance and way of working.
I started life as a traditional sysadmin. Now I'm very much a DevOps guy. I love it. DevOps is a massive improvement on the old throw-it-over-the-wall, compartmentalised way of doing things.
it's not clear that WebM is not trampling on MPEG-LA patents, Google is not indemnifying WebM users against it
It's also not clear that H.264 is not trampling on Goole (On2) patents and MPEG-LA is not idemnifying MPEG-LA licensees against it (or anyone else) either. So what's your point?
You're quite correct. In fact, the submitter even took an article from eWeek titled "Government Wants Open Standards For IT Procurement" and linked to it with the text "promised to favour open source systems in its procurement", which of course is wrong on two counts: they never "promised" anything and they never said they'd favour "Open Source"!
Why am I still surprised by such blatant idiocy? I've been on Slashdot long enough you'd think I'd be use to it by now.
Ian Tomlinson was drunk, acting belligerently and was in the middle of a police operation. The officers had been given the order to move in towards the crowd to contain them. Ian Tomlinson was in the way. He was told, multiple times prior to being pushed, to move on and get out of the way. He continued to walk very slowly, which impeded the job that the Police needed to do. The officer decided to hurry him along, and gave him a shove in the back.
That Ian Tomlinson died is unfortunate, but the officer in question did nothing wrong in shoving him.
Let's be honest, the Amiga wouldn't have had a shot even if it was the only computer in the world. Even Commodore management could have managed to screw that up, somehow.
There is no reason to believe that Google knows anything about video codec technology, for they have never developed one themselves.
They didn't need to. They bought On2, who have been developing video codecs for decades. Now that On2 is Google, Google have the staff and intellectual property for video decoding technology that stretches back as long as On2 have been in business. That means Google now know quite a lot about video codec technology.
A company with the caliber of On2 to hold patents that do not infringe on h264 and still claim to reach h264 quality is hard to believe.
On2 were developing codecs long before H.264 was developed. On2 have never been an MPEG-LA member: it is equally possible that On2 hold patents that H.264 infringe upon.
Meanwhile, the people voting you down won't address the fact that Google provides no indemnification.
People will begin to address that fact once the MPEG-LA begin to offer patent indemnification for people using H.264 and all the other codecs they license. Until then, everyone who continues to push this ridiculous double standard can continue to look ridiculous and uninformed.
I need to dump millions of lines of syslog output to a structured datastore. I don't give a toss about ACID: I just need to know that the write succeeded. A NoSQL like MongoDB does the job brilliantly.
People under twenty are not in a good position to start a successful company. They've got no experience, no business contact, no education in how business works, etc.
If only the had access to a successful billionaire who could mentor them and help them gain those skills.
As a teenager in Britain in the 90's, it was IRC all the way for me. I've never really taken to these new-fangled IM systems, although Jabber is quite nice.
This is ok on a single machine, but if your entire system of 90+ servers is fully configuration-managed, you can't automate this.
To be totally accurate, Puppet has support for managing Ruby gems. You're right about the others, although one could probably also add PEAR support to Puppet.
Do you know how much of the country Virgin Media covers? I would imagine it's about 2%
What's the point in asking and then just making up your own figure?
most people I know who can get Virgin, recieve less than ADSL speeds, unless they live in the centre of London still
I live right on the edge of Bristol: it's town one side, greenbelt on the other, and I get 20Mb just fine. If I wanted it I could get 50Mb with no hassle at all. Even the small towns and villages in this area get the same speeds.
The linux contributor didn't implement this code clean room-style based on the specification, plainly having used the Unix implementation as the source.
I'll believe it when I see it (& I'll cheer when I see it). However I'm optimistic, given the promise to scrap ID cards & the National Identity Register.
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They covered that. The government did not hand out Iodine tablets and did not evacuate the area quickly enough. It was completely preventable.
What are you going to do though? Not have enough power? That'll have a much bigger economic impact.
Hmmm, perhaps someone with some form of cross-disciplinary Developer/Operations knowledge and experience could help?
If your server is misconfigured then you've already failed at DevOps. Your configuration management platform (I.e. Puppet, Chef etc.) should be keeping the server in a known state. If it's not then you need to fix your manifests/Cookbooks. Redeploying a new VM with the same incomplete configuration wont help.
If you don't have configuration management then you're barely even doing Ops, let alone DevOps.
I started life as a traditional sysadmin. Now I'm very much a DevOps guy. I love it. DevOps is a massive improvement on the old throw-it-over-the-wall, compartmentalised way of doing things.
I'm struggling to think of a single server that HP currently sells that isn't certified to work with Linux.
HP have been building massive HPC clusters for decades now.
It's also not clear that H.264 is not trampling on Goole (On2) patents and MPEG-LA is not idemnifying MPEG-LA licensees against it (or anyone else) either. So what's your point?
Is the MPEG-LA willing to indemnify H.264 licensees against non-MPEG-LA submarine patents that surface? No. So why the double-standards?
You're quite correct. In fact, the submitter even took an article from eWeek titled "Government Wants Open Standards For IT Procurement" and linked to it with the text "promised to favour open source systems in its procurement", which of course is wrong on two counts: they never "promised" anything and they never said they'd favour "Open Source"!
Why am I still surprised by such blatant idiocy? I've been on Slashdot long enough you'd think I'd be use to it by now.
A lot of the drivers are direct ports from Linux. There's some rather comprehensive documentation on porting drivers, in fact.
Sure.
Ian Tomlinson was drunk, acting belligerently and was in the middle of a police operation. The officers had been given the order to move in towards the crowd to contain them. Ian Tomlinson was in the way. He was told, multiple times prior to being pushed, to move on and get out of the way. He continued to walk very slowly, which impeded the job that the Police needed to do. The officer decided to hurry him along, and gave him a shove in the back.
That Ian Tomlinson died is unfortunate, but the officer in question did nothing wrong in shoving him.
Let's be honest, the Amiga wouldn't have had a shot even if it was the only computer in the world. Even Commodore management could have managed to screw that up, somehow.
They didn't need to. They bought On2, who have been developing video codecs for decades. Now that On2 is Google, Google have the staff and intellectual property for video decoding technology that stretches back as long as On2 have been in business. That means Google now know quite a lot about video codec technology.
On2 were developing codecs long before H.264 was developed. On2 have never been an MPEG-LA member: it is equally possible that On2 hold patents that H.264 infringe upon.
People will begin to address that fact once the MPEG-LA begin to offer patent indemnification for people using H.264 and all the other codecs they license. Until then, everyone who continues to push this ridiculous double standard can continue to look ridiculous and uninformed.
I need to dump millions of lines of syslog output to a structured datastore. I don't give a toss about ACID: I just need to know that the write succeeded. A NoSQL like MongoDB does the job brilliantly.
Then the correct answer is to replace ageing nuclear plants with new ones.
If only the had access to a successful billionaire who could mentor them and help them gain those skills.
As a teenager in Britain in the 90's, it was IRC all the way for me. I've never really taken to these new-fangled IM systems, although Jabber is quite nice.
To be totally accurate, Puppet has support for managing Ruby gems. You're right about the others, although one could probably also add PEAR support to Puppet.
Come again?
I don't disagree that Ethernet is not the *best performing* interconnect, but on a price/performance basis it clearly isn't losing the battle.
Gravity is not the theory that the universe will spontaneously create watches.
They've done studies. 60% of the time, it works every time...
What's the point in asking and then just making up your own figure?
I live right on the edge of Bristol: it's town one side, greenbelt on the other, and I get 20Mb just fine. If I wanted it I could get 50Mb with no hassle at all. Even the small towns and villages in this area get the same speeds.
Have you ever read the ELF specification?
I'll believe it when I see it (& I'll cheer when I see it). However I'm optimistic, given the promise to scrap ID cards & the National Identity Register.