You might have a pretty common name. To avoid any appearance of (God Forbid!) racial profiling the List is based on name only and no other physical characteristics, so if you are named "Joe Brown" and some dipshit named "Joe Brown" made a stink about taking his Leatherman on a flight siz months ago in some other city, you're going to be on the list too.
I've had just as many disruptions from blizzards, regional outages, etc, in "heartland" data centers as in California and New York City. No location is safe. It's is a tradeoff - you don't want to be out in BFEJ at the end of a T1 line either. Currently Arizona seems to everyone's favorite secure location.
The most common "disaster" I've experienced in 15 years of inhabiting SF Bay Area data centers has actually been external HVAC piping freezing up during the winter. I've been at the ass-end of three mass outages in my career, and that was the cause of two of them.
I was left with the over all impression that the electric car fanboys in the film generally attributed the demise to the same shadowy global industrial-gummint conspiracy that no doubt saps and impurifies their Precious Bodily Fluids.
I'm not saying electric cars are a bad idea. But huge corporations are in business to make money, not suck up to corspiracy theorists.
There are lots of "mom and pop" sized operations making electric vehicles, and it's almost trivially easy to MAKE you own electric car, so just do it and stop whining.
"How the HELL did that crack get in my shoes! Those aren't even my damn shoes - they're my friend's shoes! I've never even seen those shoes! How'd those shoes get on my feet! Those aren't even my feet!"
At least this is legal strategy intended for use with law enformcement personnel. May not work as well in a court:
Maybe a carerr limiting move - depends on who gets elected in 2008!
There is already a faction in Congress trying to move the 9th District C of A (known to be a bunch of crazy motherf**er liberal hippies) to Boise or some other godforsaken place. Don't give them any ideas.
I sort of see the key insight of Briscoe, Odlyzko, and Tilly that, if you are going to pull a function out of your ass, it makes more sense if the differential of the function flattens out rather than slopes linearly upwards forever, because there is ultimately a decreasing value of each connection as the number of connections increases.
So they were correct to pull a log function of of their ass, but they could have just as easily pulled out n*ln(n) or some other base. They made no attempt to "calibrate" the model.
A good insigt is this quotation:
"Iif Metcalfe's Law were true, it would create overwhelming incentives for all networks relying on the same technology to merge, or at least to interconnect. These incentives would make isolated networks hard to explain. Consider two networks, each with n members. By Metcalfe's Law, each one's value is on the order of n 2, so the total value of both of these separate networks is roughly 2n 2. But suppose these two networks merge. Then we will effectively have a single network with 2n members, which, by Metcalfe's Law, will be worth (2n)2 or 4n 2--twice as much as the combined value of the two separate networks.
Surely it would require a singularly obtuse management, to say nothing of stunningly inefficient financial markets, to fail to seize this obvious opportunity to double total network value by simply combining the two."
Inflating these "synergies" was exactly what led to the Bombing Off of the Bubble.
These are 1998 vintage Sun 9G and no-name 9G ATA drives. Still running. Many more 1999-vintage 9G's out there, maybe 5% of our total. Still useful for such clusterable "applicance" applications as DNS servers. Nevertheless, when the machine dies (more likely due to a 99-cent CPU fan locking up) we just chuck the whole machine.
Considering that the latest drives are far more reliable than those old crappy things, a finite 10-year life for a disk drive is definitely Planned Obsolescence for Filling Up Landfills. Bah!
If they will offer a liberal trade-in allowance for recycling, then OK. Pretty much 100% of our disks are mirrored anyway.
A Brizilian tribe composed of refugees from the Biz-Dev departments of imploded dot coms: "Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study."
TFA discusses a meticulously built, meticulously inspected model home. Ha! Your real simulation needs to evaluate the effects on a house built by the usual motley crew of drug-addled, untrained, dunderheads who were probably herding sheep 3 weeks before they were hired at minimum wage by cheap-ass contractors to work on the house.
Flying debris aside (which punches huge holes in houses and allows wind to get inside), many homes destroyed by Andrew were found to have substandard construction, some with the roofs not even nailed to the frame of the house.
If you can make the house immune to flying debris (big heavy EXPENSIVE builtin window shutters), build the house well, and of course build it high enough above sea level, you can easily make a house hurricane-proof. Maybe it will add 20% to the cost of the house.
Making homebuilding idiot proof is a big topic right now, and if I wanted to go back and get my PhD, I'd study the role of construction defects in structural integrity. And I'd probably want to use the facility in TFA.
The CCIE is fscking useless, get yourself a Nobel Prize instead and then MAYBE Google might hire you.
Seriously, I know very talented, experienced people that have interviewed there multiple times and never been hired. Their process is inscrutable.I am sure that even their Gourmet Free Meal Chefs have multiple patents registered in their names.
If you were to subscibe to the Linux-Poweredge mailing list (http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-p oweredge), you would find that Linux is alive and well and that questions are quickly answered by a small band of hardy Linux experts in house.
If you're running an unsupported distro, you expect Dell to fix it? Fix it yourself, you've got the source code.
Likewise, it you are paying $$$ to RedHat or Suse for a supported distro, you'll get decent answers as I understand it.
Granted, their embedded RAID controllers seem to suck. They're as bad on Windows as Linux, pretty much. Here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a read RAID card.
If you're trying to install anything but Windows on the laptop you bought last week, well, yes, you will get only puzzlement from the consumer support people.
Consider being a plumber, it pays well, it is a skilled profession, and there are about 90% dumb asses in the profession, so if you are any good you can charge top dollar and do wery well.
We have such as guy in our neighborhood. I pay him about the same as I charge as a senior sysadmin - he's like me, a perfectionist, charges a premium, takes a little extra time, and doesn't leave a job fucked up of half-hone.
Coincidentally, there's an article in today's WSJ about bugs in flight control software, including an account of a Malaysian 777 that experienced 3000-foot altitude oscillations brought on by the computer before it could we wrestled back into control, and a 747 that automatically shut down two of its engines by mistake. Most of these seems to be responses to bad sensor information.
A relative of mine is an A320 captain, and says he COULD let the plane basically fly itself from gate to gate these days. There are still some situations where you need a hand on the stick and have to revert to your basic instrument-scan training when the computers reboot or the instrumentpanel goes dark. It does happen from time to time. For a single pilot, it may be a once in a lifetime thing, but multiply that by a lot of pilots....not so uncommon.
..or cheap enough to use Ethernet for processor interconnect.
SGI had some kind of shared-memory-over-Ethernet protocol back in the day. Worked about as well as a steam-powered ornithopter. It was designed for customers too cheap or unconcerned about performance to use when they had to.
And I dabbled in OpenMP or whateveritwas back at a contract with just one such cheap customer, and they got what they paid for. Here's a nickel, kid.
Ethernet is Ethernet, and Infiniband et.al. is Infiniband et.al., dad-gummit.
This is all starting to look like a big load of paranoid crap to me:
1) Yeah, the NSA is tapping data from all the OC48s in the world and funneling them back to Fort Meade, using what? Short wave radios? Peer to peer radios secretly implanted in our buttocks?
2) ISPs install splitters all the time in feeds for debugging and SLA monitoring purposes. It's easy to do, and essentially undetectable by end users.
3) Klein's logic if you read TFDs is basically - I saw a guy who said he was from the NSA, then secret rooms appeared, therefore the NSA is monitoring all our phone calls.
4) The Bush administration has shown itself uttely imcompetent at conducting routine governmental activities, like Intelligence about WMDs and Hurricane Relief, so why would we think they would be even minimally proficient at Monitoring All The Phone Calls In The US?
5) There is a new domestic intelligence chief up for confirmation, and now is perfect time to orchestrate FUD campaigns that will scuttle his appointment.
This may or not work for you but all the spam I've gotten via IM (not very much) has been via email. Verizon at least lets you set an aribtrary, random email alias for your phone number, and then block email sent to @vzwwiress.com or whetever their domain is.
This works for me since the only email I ever intend to get via my phone is pages from my own personal servers.
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You might have a pretty common name. To avoid any appearance of (God Forbid!) racial profiling the List is based on name only and no other physical characteristics, so if you are named "Joe Brown" and some dipshit named "Joe Brown" made a stink about taking his Leatherman on a flight siz months ago in some other city, you're going to be on the list too.
I've had just as many disruptions from blizzards, regional outages, etc, in "heartland" data centers as in California and New York City. No location is safe. It's is a tradeoff - you don't want to be out in BFEJ at the end of a T1 line either. Currently Arizona seems to everyone's favorite secure location.
The most common "disaster" I've experienced in 15 years of inhabiting SF Bay Area data centers has actually been external HVAC piping freezing up during the winter. I've been at the ass-end of three mass outages in my career, and that was the cause of two of them.
I was left with the over all impression that the electric car fanboys in the film generally attributed the demise to the same shadowy global industrial-gummint conspiracy that no doubt saps and impurifies their Precious Bodily Fluids.
I'm not saying electric cars are a bad idea. But huge corporations are in business to make money, not suck up to corspiracy theorists.
There are lots of "mom and pop" sized operations making electric vehicles, and it's almost trivially easy to MAKE you own electric car, so just do it and stop whining.
"How the HELL did that crack get in my shoes! Those aren't even my damn shoes - they're my friend's shoes! I've never even seen those shoes! How'd those shoes get on my feet! Those aren't even my feet!"
At least this is legal strategy intended for use with law enformcement personnel. May not work as well in a court:
1) "Deny deny deny"
2) "Delay delay delay"
3) "Lie lie lie"
This is ND California, not court of appeals.
Maybe a carerr limiting move - depends on who gets elected in 2008!
There is already a faction in Congress trying to move the 9th District C of A (known to be a bunch of crazy motherf**er liberal hippies) to Boise or some other godforsaken place. Don't give them any ideas.
6 ) Only an idiot doesn't clear the factory configuration.
Like OS installs - first thing I do is reset the BIOS and reinstall the OS.
Selling overpriced, over engineered technological marvels to chumps.
Like the poster said, here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a rack full of cheap storage.
So it's 10 times better than the Evil (tm) telcos!
And my software puts a green stripe around the edge of the data too... sucka!
I sort of see the key insight of Briscoe, Odlyzko, and Tilly that, if you are going to pull a function out of your ass, it makes more sense if the differential of the function flattens out rather than slopes linearly upwards forever, because there is ultimately a decreasing value of each connection as the number of connections increases.
So they were correct to pull a log function of of their ass, but they could have just as easily pulled out n*ln(n) or some other base. They made no attempt to "calibrate" the model.
A good insigt is this quotation:
"Iif Metcalfe's Law were true, it would create overwhelming incentives for all networks relying on the same technology to merge, or at least to interconnect. These incentives would make isolated networks hard to explain. Consider two networks, each with n members. By Metcalfe's Law, each one's value is on the order of n 2, so the total value of both of these separate networks is roughly 2n 2. But suppose these two networks merge. Then we will effectively have a single network with 2n members, which, by Metcalfe's Law, will be worth (2n)2 or 4n 2--twice as much as the combined value of the two separate networks.
Surely it would require a singularly obtuse management, to say nothing of stunningly inefficient financial markets, to fail to seize this obvious opportunity to double total network value by simply combining the two."
Inflating these "synergies" was exactly what led to the Bombing Off of the Bubble.
Original BOT paper:
http://spectrum.ieee.org.nyud.net:8080/print/4109
With "exponential" just a special case with the base being e?
They have two, you insensitive clod!
They still haven't been able to break that 225000 to 1 host to sysadmin ratio barrier yet. But they're working on it.
These are 1998 vintage Sun 9G and no-name 9G ATA drives. Still running. Many more 1999-vintage 9G's out there, maybe 5% of our total. Still useful for such clusterable "applicance" applications as DNS servers. Nevertheless, when the machine dies (more likely due to a 99-cent CPU fan locking up) we just chuck the whole machine.
Considering that the latest drives are far more reliable than those old crappy things, a finite 10-year life for a disk drive is definitely Planned Obsolescence for Filling Up Landfills. Bah!
If they will offer a liberal trade-in allowance for recycling, then OK. Pretty much 100% of our disks are mirrored anyway.
A Brizilian tribe composed of refugees from the Biz-Dev departments of imploded dot coms: "Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study."
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6303
This is the numbering scheme used to count the people that get rich on EBay.
And everyone knows that on a true Black Ops Website, the text streams out one line at a time at 30 cps, and goes "deedle deedle deedle".
Also check out this famous Usenet post:
http://jwz.livejournal.com/94645.html
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/McCollumPDF/42.Masters.p df
TFA discusses a meticulously built, meticulously inspected model home. Ha! Your real simulation needs to evaluate the effects on a house built by the usual motley crew of drug-addled, untrained, dunderheads who were probably herding sheep 3 weeks before they were hired at minimum wage by cheap-ass contractors to work on the house.
Flying debris aside (which punches huge holes in houses and allows wind to get inside), many homes destroyed by Andrew were found to have substandard construction, some with the roofs not even nailed to the frame of the house.
If you can make the house immune to flying debris (big heavy EXPENSIVE builtin window shutters), build the house well, and of course build it high enough above sea level, you can easily make a house hurricane-proof. Maybe it will add 20% to the cost of the house.
Making homebuilding idiot proof is a big topic right now, and if I wanted to go back and get my PhD, I'd study the role of construction defects in structural integrity. And I'd probably want to use the facility in TFA.
Or God made Physicists?
Or God made physics?
Or God made the things that made Physicists make Physics?
[Headache]
Oh, the hell with it. The Universe was created 6735 years ago and My Grandpappy Warn't No Monkey!
The CCIE is fscking useless, get yourself a Nobel Prize instead and then MAYBE Google might hire you.
Seriously, I know very talented, experienced people that have interviewed there multiple times and never been hired. Their process is inscrutable.I am sure that even their Gourmet Free Meal Chefs have multiple patents registered in their names.
If you were to subscibe to the Linux-Poweredge mailing list (http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-p oweredge), you would find that Linux is alive and well and that questions are quickly answered by a small band of hardy Linux experts in house.
If you're running an unsupported distro, you expect Dell to fix it? Fix it yourself, you've got the source code.
Likewise, it you are paying $$$ to RedHat or Suse for a supported distro, you'll get decent answers as I understand it.
Granted, their embedded RAID controllers seem to suck. They're as bad on Windows as Linux, pretty much. Here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a read RAID card.
If you're trying to install anything but Windows on the laptop you bought last week, well, yes, you will get only puzzlement from the consumer support people.
Consider being a plumber, it pays well, it is a skilled profession, and there are about 90% dumb asses in the profession, so if you are any good you can charge top dollar and do wery well.
We have such as guy in our neighborhood. I pay him about the same as I charge as a senior sysadmin - he's like me, a perfectionist, charges a premium, takes a little extra time, and doesn't leave a job fucked up of half-hone.
Add one phrase to that old aviation maxim.
Coincidentally, there's an article in today's WSJ about bugs in flight control software, including an account of a Malaysian 777 that experienced 3000-foot altitude oscillations brought on by the computer before it could we wrestled back into control, and a 747 that automatically shut down two of its engines by mistake. Most of these seems to be responses to bad sensor information.
A relative of mine is an A320 captain, and says he COULD let the plane basically fly itself from gate to gate these days. There are still some situations where you need a hand on the stick and have to revert to your basic instrument-scan training when the computers reboot or the instrumentpanel goes dark. It does happen from time to time. For a single pilot, it may be a once in a lifetime thing, but multiply that by a lot of pilots....not so uncommon.
..or cheap enough to use Ethernet for processor interconnect.
SGI had some kind of shared-memory-over-Ethernet protocol back in the day. Worked about as well as a steam-powered ornithopter. It was designed for customers too cheap or unconcerned about performance to use when they had to.
And I dabbled in OpenMP or whateveritwas back at a contract with just one such cheap customer, and they got what they paid for. Here's a nickel, kid.
Ethernet is Ethernet, and Infiniband et.al. is Infiniband et.al., dad-gummit.
This is all starting to look like a big load of paranoid crap to me:
1) Yeah, the NSA is tapping data from all the OC48s in the world and funneling them back to Fort Meade, using what? Short wave radios? Peer to peer radios secretly implanted in our buttocks?
2) ISPs install splitters all the time in feeds for debugging and SLA monitoring purposes. It's easy to do, and essentially undetectable by end users.
3) Klein's logic if you read TFDs is basically - I saw a guy who said he was from the NSA, then secret rooms appeared, therefore the NSA is monitoring all our phone calls.
4) The Bush administration has shown itself uttely imcompetent at conducting routine governmental activities, like Intelligence about WMDs and Hurricane Relief, so why would we think they would be even minimally proficient at Monitoring All The Phone Calls In The US?
5) There is a new domestic intelligence chief up for confirmation, and now is perfect time to orchestrate FUD campaigns that will scuttle his appointment.
Feh.
This may or not work for you but all the spam I've gotten via IM (not very much) has been via email. Verizon at least lets you set an aribtrary, random email alias for your phone number, and then block email sent to @vzwwiress.com or whetever their domain is.
This works for me since the only email I ever intend to get via my phone is pages from my own personal servers.