Tabacco [sic] causes far more being legal, cheap and highly addictive (far more than heroin).
Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.
Look, all I'm saying is that a lot of researchers are beginning to suspect that it isn't actually bullshit, and that nicotine is in fact one of the most addictive substances commonly consumed by humans.
Here's a small example. If you don't beleive me, speak to your GP.
If you're replicating data between all three offices (and a fourth backup system?) then you are making backups. The vitriol is aimed at people who set up a RAID-5 array and then say "hooray my data is protected forevermore!".
Yes, I'll be replicating the data between 3 sites and using bacula to do incremenmtal backups to the 1 NAS. This seems to be my only option for the price point.
The only concern your system may have is: how do you handle corrupted data, or user error? If you've got a TB of data at each site it's unlikely that mistakes will be noticed quickly, so after the nightly synchronisation all your backups will now have the corrupt data and when someone realises in a month's time that someone deleted a file they shouldn't have or saved crap data over a file, how do you restore it? Hopefully your incremental backups can be used to recover the most recent good copy of the data, but how long do you keep those for?
I'm hoping that I can do a one monthly level 0 to the NAS, and then keep 1 months worth of incremental backups after that.
Since, as you say there's nothing to protect us from the "dumb user armed with a Delete key" beyond that 1 month safe window, I've amending the QA/QC and staff manuals to basically explain to the management team that if a user does this, we're screwed, but this is all we can afford so you have to live with that.
I'm pretty sure I have all angles covered, so I'll just have to see how I go implementing this:/
Judging by the budget you quoted, it's a combination of all of the above: you are a crappy sysadmin for a crappy company with limited growth potential.
Sigh. *ignores flamebait*
Anyway, here's the actual reality of the situation:
I'm a not brilliant (but certainly not crappy either) sysad who is working for a company that has rapidly expanded to the point where they need a full time sysad, and then felt the kaboom of the subprime mortgage debacle, since they consult to the property market. Hence why my original upgrade budget got shrunk big time.
The company BOTH cares about their data AND can't afford a proper backup system.
I love how you use the language "get what they deserve".
What about my situation, where I have to store ~ 1TB of unique data per office in 3 offices that are roughly 1000 km apart and I have to keep everything backed up with a budget of less than ~AU$ 4000 IN TOTAL?
I have to run a 4 x 1TB RAID arrays on the file servers and use rsync to synchronise all the data between the offices nightly "effectively" doing offsites, and have a 3 TB linux NAS (also using RAID 5) for incrementals at the main site.
That is all I can afford, and I feel that I'm doing my best for my employer given my budget and still maintaining my professional integrity as a sysad.
Why do I "get what they deserve" when I can't afford the necessary LTO4 drives, servers and tapes (I worked it out I'd need ~ AU$ 30,000) to do it any other way?
So you've never called someone you had a crush on and told them exactly how you feel because you're shitfaced, and completely buggered it up?
It does happen! I'm not saying I'm in the right and that binge drinking is perfectly fine, but I am saying that there is a market for something like this.
How much decent Net software is there out there anyway? Is it all in-house so we never see it? I've only seen VB shareware quality stuff no matter what I've had to pay for it.
Dude, we CAN afford it but that's not the point. The point is there's something seriously fucking wrong with the software world if we're at the stage where we need ~ 600 MB of RAM to merely open google.com (vista + drivers + IE).
Come on. If your job is that stressful, fucking find a new one. Or, sack up and learn to cope.
With IT experience only, what would that be, another IT job with similar problems or pushing a mop?
In 99% of cases, if you freak out and do stupid shit, it's cause you're weak, not because the workplace really is that bad.
A bit of a generalisation there mate, as in my experience; in tech support, it could be the fact that you have to close X number of tickets a week, but you get at least twice that on average. Or as a sysad, you know what your budget to fix things is, but you get less than a third of that. Or as a developer, half your team gets sacked, the sales guys get payrises, AND the shorten your deadline by a month.
I work for a scientific consultancy, and they receive a lot of their email from people they've not received anything from before.
Also, in regards to your "Hey, you got e-mail" thing wave , you can turn that off you know. Most dev shops I've worked at recommended at least 2 hours a day no email time, and during project crunch times all email would be off. Period.
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Oblig:
"I say your three percent titanium tax goes too far!"
"And I say your three percent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!"
You still haven't explained how that has anything to do with socialism.
For the love of god please learn to use close your tags.
Seriously, we should rename the 'cloud computing' tag to 'horseshit'.
Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.
Look, all I'm saying is that a lot of researchers are beginning to suspect that it isn't actually bullshit, and that nicotine is in fact one of the most addictive substances commonly consumed by humans.
Here's a small example. If you don't beleive me, speak to your GP.
http://www.tfy.drugsense.org/tfy/addictvn.htm
Tabacco causes far more being legal, cheap and highly addictive (far more than heroin).
In fact (according to the American Cancer Society circa 1993 for the USA) annual death statistics are:
Total tobacco related: 434,000
Heroin/Morphine: 2,400
And to sate your curiosity, here are the other common killers:
Alcohol-related: 105,000
Car accidents: 49,000
Suicide: 31,000
AIDS: 31,000
Murder: 22,000
Fire: 4,000
Cocaine: 3,300
Food for though, eh!
If you're replicating data between all three offices (and a fourth backup system?) then you are making backups. The vitriol is aimed at people who set up a RAID-5 array and then say "hooray my data is protected forevermore!".
Yes, I'll be replicating the data between 3 sites and using bacula to do incremenmtal backups to the 1 NAS. This seems to be my only option for the price point.
The only concern your system may have is: how do you handle corrupted data, or user error? If you've got a TB of data at each site it's unlikely that mistakes will be noticed quickly, so after the nightly synchronisation all your backups will now have the corrupt data and when someone realises in a month's time that someone deleted a file they shouldn't have or saved crap data over a file, how do you restore it? Hopefully your incremental backups can be used to recover the most recent good copy of the data, but how long do you keep those for?
I'm hoping that I can do a one monthly level 0 to the NAS, and then keep 1 months worth of incremental backups after that.
Since, as you say there's nothing to protect us from the "dumb user armed with a Delete key" beyond that 1 month safe window, I've amending the QA/QC and staff manuals to basically explain to the management team that if a user does this, we're screwed, but this is all we can afford so you have to live with that.
I'm pretty sure I have all angles covered, so I'll just have to see how I go implementing this :/
Judging by the budget you quoted, it's a combination of all of the above: you are a crappy sysadmin for a crappy company with limited growth potential.
Sigh. *ignores flamebait*
Anyway, here's the actual reality of the situation:
I'm a not brilliant (but certainly not crappy either) sysad who is working for a company that has rapidly expanded to the point where they need a full time sysad, and then felt the kaboom of the subprime mortgage debacle, since they consult to the property market. Hence why my original upgrade budget got shrunk big time.
The company BOTH cares about their data AND can't afford a proper backup system.
I love how you use the language "get what they deserve".
What about my situation, where I have to store ~ 1TB of unique data per office in 3 offices that are roughly 1000 km apart and I have to keep everything backed up with a budget of less than ~AU$ 4000 IN TOTAL?
I have to run a 4 x 1TB RAID arrays on the file servers and use rsync to synchronise all the data between the offices nightly "effectively" doing offsites, and have a 3 TB linux NAS (also using RAID 5) for incrementals at the main site.
That is all I can afford, and I feel that I'm doing my best for my employer given my budget and still maintaining my professional integrity as a sysad.
Why do I "get what they deserve" when I can't afford the necessary LTO4 drives, servers and tapes (I worked it out I'd need ~ AU$ 30,000) to do it any other way?
We did before anyway, using OSX :P
So you've never called someone you had a crush on and told them exactly how you feel because you're shitfaced, and completely buggered it up?
It does happen! I'm not saying I'm in the right and that binge drinking is perfectly fine, but I am saying that there is a market for something like this.
They had this for mobile phones :/
*me waits for google android*
Is that you?
Not quite, but there is a port (read: bit of a hackjob) being done by none other than Miguel de Icaza:
http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/
How much decent Net software is there out there anyway? Is it all in-house so we never see it? I've only seen VB shareware quality stuff no matter what I've had to pay for it.
Not really a killer app, but pretty nifty nonetheless: http://www.getpaint.net/ (paint.NET)
Shiny :) Thanks, I'll give it a go!
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I dunno, Renegade was awesome multiplayer :(
Please don't use it. Every time you use a buzz-phrase God kills a kitten.
Dude, we CAN afford it but that's not the point. The point is there's something seriously fucking wrong with the software world if we're at the stage where we need ~ 600 MB of RAM to merely open google.com (vista + drivers + IE).
O_o no kidding?
Come on. If your job is that stressful, fucking find a new one. Or, sack up and learn to cope.
With IT experience only, what would that be, another IT job with similar problems or pushing a mop?
In 99% of cases, if you freak out and do stupid shit, it's cause you're weak, not because the workplace really is that bad.
A bit of a generalisation there mate, as in my experience; in tech support, it could be the fact that you have to close X number of tickets a week, but you get at least twice that on average. Or as a sysad, you know what your budget to fix things is, but you get less than a third of that. Or as a developer, half your team gets sacked, the sales guys get payrises, AND the shorten your deadline by a month.
Bummer :(
I work for a scientific consultancy, and they receive a lot of their email from people they've not received anything from before.
Also, in regards to your "Hey, you got e-mail" thing wave , you can turn that off you know. Most dev shops I've worked at recommended at least 2 hours a day no email time, and during project crunch times all email would be off. Period.
Better not have to pay the same as PC/PS3 users since we already have to pay for a gold account to play online in the first place :(