In a sensitive government facility, if you are caught with an unregistered prohibited device you can be tried for espionage. That's a few years breaking rocks whether or not you had intended to do something with said device. In most other settings it's instant dismissal, with cause.
Sure, the law doesn't prevent theft. NO law prevents theft. It's the enforcement of the law that makes attempting to steal not worth the risk.
Indeed, I don't believe in any backup that doesn't have multiple copies that can be stored offsite. Fire really doesn't care what was on your hard drive, nor do thieves, or axe-wielding maniacs.
And anyone who has been in IT long enough can tell you one of the above stories first hand.
Yes you do have to backup your backup. This is why I abhor backing up to disk. (Or at least a single disk.) The advantage of tapes, for all their warts, is that you have several copies of them going back through time. When a user shows up at my desk looking for a file that MAY have been on the array a week ago, something that get's mirror (and only mirrored) once a night isn't going to cover it.
You always need at least 3 generations of backup. The Current backup, the "father", and the "Grandfather." These are complete backups, not incremental. And you need them in case you run into a media error. In our case we keep the last week of tapes, a weekly backup from the last 30 days, a monthly backup from the last year, and a yearly backup starting at the dawn of time.
If the data isn't worth backing up properly, you might as well not bother backing it up at all.
Heck, our Terabyte array holds data that far exceeds the $10k we paid for it. Thus a $12k robotic tape backup system is cheap at twice the price.
Considering we are talking about storing the collective work of 200 people who range in salary from $30,000 to $500,000, $22K to prevent the loss of several years worth of work is an ROI in about a week.
I'm just glad the $22K buys 3 terabytes of RAID and backup. When I did this three years ago $22K bought 100GB of tape and backup.
It's what incompetent IT seat warmers in "corperations" and Colleges trust. It's what people who aren't aware of the alternatives pay for with someone else's money. It's what you get when you want to justify overtime spent reading magazines while you switch tapes occasionally.
Learn to spell, moron - and save your advice for when (or if) you graduate high school and do this professionally.
Well it's what IT seat warmers who actually have had to do backups for 3 years in a row trust. Let's face it, when I bought my drives DLT was the best. Everything else here was either in development, or just plain didn't exist.
And you never trust backups to something new.
That said, with this year's equipment replacement we are going with AIT. But having been through several data "oopsies", DLT has proven to be a reliable backup medium.
By the way, spelling is not measure of intelligence, nor education. Herman Melville was a terrible speller, yet that didn't keep him from a career in writing (books like Moby Dick). Spelling is generally the job of anonymous anal-retentive editors who are fogotten 10 minutes after something is published.
Nah, just tarball your backup into 1 or 2 GB file sizes, name it "PR0N XXX TEEN SEX DONKEY LOVE - MILITANT ISLAMIC BUKAKKE KITTEN.MPG.AVI.WMV" and share is on Gnutella.
O2 is your best all-around setting. Os does make smaller code, but the stuff it outputs is slower. It also causes weird problems with certain apps. It could be useful to condense the memory footprint of properly designed code (like GlibC.) But remember, decreased memory footprint=more hoops the computer has to go through. Think of it like employing fold out-tables. Sure it saves space, but you spend time folding it and unfolding it.
O3 is a waste of time, except for certain scientific computing apps, or apps where you don't mind blowing out your memory for the sake of speed (i.e. games).
You would only see a performance improvement if the participants in a distcc cluster are all on the same LAN. Unless you have a really slow computer, the time it takes to upload the code and download the results over a broadband connection exceeds the time savings in shipping the job out.
In my home environment, I have my slow lil' K6 400 ship it's compile jobs to my Athlon XP with 512MB of RAM. Both are on the same local network. In a home environment, if you have a brawny box and a scrawny box, DISTCC is your best friend. (Assuming you have to do a pile of compiles.)
Another approach is to simply compile all your stuff on a powerful box, and copy the binaries to the scrawny ones.
Well that's easy. Upgrade the GCC on cygwin, or downgrade the GCC on Gentoo. Custom package masks are your friend. I use them for my box at home, because my ATI All-In-Wonder needs a heap of patches to the Kernel and X11 for the video capture board to work properly. Basically I mask off all versions of xfree86 that are higher and lower than the current one.
One of these days I'm going to get around to fixing the Gatos ebuild that is supposed to take care of all this for me. I guess while I'm at it I'll fix the Win4lin kernel ebuild that never seems to work too...
Man OSS is no fun. You can't bitch about something not working. You are then compelled to fix it yourself. It's like owning your own house. If it bothers you, fix it or get over it.
AT&T was given a demo of the first internet routers by the researchers who would later found Cisco. The demo had it's normal goofs when your are showing off something radically new.
The AT&T guys chuckled at the problems. Who is chuckling now phone boy!
I know that blacklists can be heavy handed, but Macedonia's reputation does preceed it.
US Embasy Brief for Travelers To whit: Macedonia has a cash-based economy. The local currency is the denar. Few establishments accept dollars, credit cards or travelers' checks. Travelers are advised to avoid using credit cards due to numerous instances of credit card fraud.
I realize the State Department may be parroting back the same biases as banks and such.
A quick search for "+macedonia +fraud +crime" and "+macedonia +online +fraud" has it listed on almost every bank, shipping, and e-commerce site as a country to suspect. On most of the lists, it's third after Nigeria and Columbia.
People do other things than watch TV. If a show has some mass appeal, people will stop whatever the doing in the Blue Room to watch the program. If they don't find anything interesting to watch, they go outside and play, flip on le' game console, or surf the net. You have the most viewers after work and before bed on weeknights (thus Prime Time.)
On CPU serving 4 stations means I'm not at the mercy of the network to run LTSPs, I'm not maintaining 4 stations (a PITA). You really want exhibits to be as sealed as humanly possible. Especially for traveling shows. And you generally want as few parts as possible. Having to lug along a network switch is 4 extra cables, and a power supply, in addition to the 4 additional power supplies you need to feed.
Yes, it's an exotic example. But it is one I deal with.
Speaking German fluently, I can think of a few common phrases in that language that would sound strange if translated word for word. Conversely, there are some common phrases in English that are pretty funny sounding in German when translated word for word.
Another thing English speakers fail to appreciate is that in many languages, one word has several different uses.
In German (again, because I know it), Glucklich is both happy and lucky. In the lord's prayer there is some word Jesus used in Arameic that simultaneously meant "Debt, Obligation, Sin, Trespass, and Fault." We don't have a direct translation for it, thus why the Catholics use Trespasses and the Baptists use Debts.
Odds are the Portugese phrase for download is the same phrase for "to catch." As in, to hunt and return with.
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Sure, the law doesn't prevent theft. NO law prevents theft. It's the enforcement of the law that makes attempting to steal not worth the risk.
Indeed, I don't believe in any backup that doesn't have multiple copies that can be stored offsite. Fire really doesn't care what was on your hard drive, nor do thieves, or axe-wielding maniacs.
And anyone who has been in IT long enough can tell you one of the above stories first hand.
You always need at least 3 generations of backup. The Current backup, the "father", and the "Grandfather." These are complete backups, not incremental. And you need them in case you run into a media error. In our case we keep the last week of tapes, a weekly backup from the last 30 days, a monthly backup from the last year, and a yearly backup starting at the dawn of time.
If the data isn't worth backing up properly, you might as well not bother backing it up at all.
Considering we are talking about storing the collective work of 200 people who range in salary from $30,000 to $500,000, $22K to prevent the loss of several years worth of work is an ROI in about a week.
I'm just glad the $22K buys 3 terabytes of RAID and backup. When I did this three years ago $22K bought 100GB of tape and backup.
Learn to spell, moron - and save your advice for when (or if) you graduate high school and do this professionally.
Well it's what IT seat warmers who actually have had to do backups for 3 years in a row trust. Let's face it, when I bought my drives DLT was the best. Everything else here was either in development, or just plain didn't exist.
And you never trust backups to something new.
That said, with this year's equipment replacement we are going with AIT. But having been through several data "oopsies", DLT has proven to be a reliable backup medium.
By the way, spelling is not measure of intelligence, nor education. Herman Melville was a terrible speller, yet that didn't keep him from a career in writing (books like Moby Dick). Spelling is generally the job of anonymous anal-retentive editors who are fogotten 10 minutes after something is published.
And you really need to fire your accountant. Your Caymon Island bank account was overdrawn twice in a month.
Nah, just tarball your backup into 1 or 2 GB file sizes, name it "PR0N XXX TEEN SEX DONKEY LOVE - MILITANT ISLAMIC BUKAKKE KITTEN.MPG.AVI.WMV" and share is on Gnutella.
O2 is your best all-around setting. Os does make smaller code, but the stuff it outputs is slower. It also causes weird problems with certain apps. It could be useful to condense the memory footprint of properly designed code (like GlibC.) But remember, decreased memory footprint=more hoops the computer has to go through. Think of it like employing fold out-tables. Sure it saves space, but you spend time folding it and unfolding it.
O3 is a waste of time, except for certain scientific computing apps, or apps where you don't mind blowing out your memory for the sake of speed (i.e. games).
In my home environment, I have my slow lil' K6 400 ship it's compile jobs to my Athlon XP with 512MB of RAM. Both are on the same local network. In a home environment, if you have a brawny box and a scrawny box, DISTCC is your best friend. (Assuming you have to do a pile of compiles.)
Another approach is to simply compile all your stuff on a powerful box, and copy the binaries to the scrawny ones.
One of these days I'm going to get around to fixing the Gatos ebuild that is supposed to take care of all this for me. I guess while I'm at it I'll fix the Win4lin kernel ebuild that never seems to work too...
Man OSS is no fun. You can't bitch about something not working. You are then compelled to fix it yourself. It's like owning your own house. If it bothers you, fix it or get over it.
File under "old news".
Most indexing systems aren't case sensitive.
The AT&T guys chuckled at the problems. Who is chuckling now phone boy!
Any characterization of Geeks are about as wrong as they are right.
Well OSS is all about overcoming bundling...
I dunno, the Republicans are always harping about their platform this and platform that...
That makes sense in a strange sort of way. Corrupt societies tend to traffic heavily in prostitution and intravenous drug use.
US Embasy Brief for Travelers To whit: Macedonia has a cash-based economy. The local currency is the denar. Few establishments accept dollars, credit cards or travelers' checks. Travelers are advised to avoid using credit cards due to numerous instances of credit card fraud.
I realize the State Department may be parroting back the same biases as banks and such.
A quick search for "+macedonia +fraud +crime" and "+macedonia +online +fraud" has it listed on almost every bank, shipping, and e-commerce site as a country to suspect. On most of the lists, it's third after Nigeria and Columbia.
People do other things than watch TV. If a show has some mass appeal, people will stop whatever the doing in the Blue Room to watch the program. If they don't find anything interesting to watch, they go outside and play, flip on le' game console, or surf the net. You have the most viewers after work and before bed on weeknights (thus Prime Time.)
My playstation connects to my video card.
On CPU serving 4 stations means I'm not at the mercy of the network to run LTSPs, I'm not maintaining 4 stations (a PITA). You really want exhibits to be as sealed as humanly possible. Especially for traveling shows. And you generally want as few parts as possible. Having to lug along a network switch is 4 extra cables, and a power supply, in addition to the 4 additional power supplies you need to feed.
Yes, it's an exotic example. But it is one I deal with.
Be grateful you have a keyboard you insulant worm.
--The Management
Speaking German fluently, I can think of a few common phrases in that language that would sound strange if translated word for word. Conversely, there are some common phrases in English that are pretty funny sounding in German when translated word for word.
Another thing English speakers fail to appreciate is that in many languages, one word has several different uses.
In German (again, because I know it), Glucklich is both happy and lucky. In the lord's prayer there is some word Jesus used in Arameic that simultaneously meant "Debt, Obligation, Sin, Trespass, and Fault." We don't have a direct translation for it, thus why the Catholics use Trespasses and the Baptists use Debts.
Odds are the Portugese phrase for download is the same phrase for "to catch." As in, to hunt and return with.
You'll just create new-age music if two folks start trying to play mp3's at the same time.