Personally, I don't mind. Right now we have to maintain two seperate user bases, our US domain and the Novell server. Which becomes a pain when a user resets their US domain password after it expires and calls up saying that they can't login to their computer when really it's because their domain and novell passwords are not synchronized.
Well, if your office used Novell Identity Manager that wouldn't be a problem. I worked for a bank which had 600 Netware servers and 200 Win2k/Win2k3 servers, with over 5000 users. We used Identity Manager and had virtually no problems with unsynched passwords...
Well, after reading TFA, instead of coming away with a sense that he's giving good advice, I've come away with the sense that he hasn't been out of school long enough and worked at enough places to give any useful advice in this area...
If you follow his advice you'll do nothing but job-hop your entire career...
Yes, cubes suck. Yes, managers can be dumb and pig-headed. Waahhhh! I'm smarter than my manager, who's too old and feeble to know what he's talking about...
Clustering: Several systems that do parallel computing. Fault Tolerant Servers: Serval systems will a failover loadbalancers in front. I get frustrated when people use the latter and call it the former.
Not necessarily: High Availability Clusters are what we're talking about here.
You're talking about High Performance Clusters, which is NOT what we're talking about...
I've worked with both fairly extensively and I'd have to say that although NetWare clusters seem to be more stable than Windows clusters, neither is a great solution for anything...
In my experience, the Windows Cluster Nodes will fail into some sort of "undead" state, in which the dead node isn't quite dead yet and the live node never quite picks up the slack, so you end up having to reboot both of them...
The NetWare Cluster Nodes have such a hair-trigger with the default settings that they seem to fail-over for no particular reason and get into a tail-chasing situation, which would be amusing if you didn't have 200 screaming attorneys looking over your shoulder as you try stop the failover merry-go-round...
It's still possible for other countries to do their own TLDs...
They just have to have the will to do it.
Then all they gotta do is convince/coerce all of the Internet entities in their respective countries to use THEIR TLD servers, they become the de-facto TLDs for those countries...
There's nothing to stop them but their lack of will...
They can put these things up there, but how will they really be powered? 15kW of energy is a lot to expect from any sort of battery system, unless the weapon can only be used once.
I can't find an exact figure anywhere, but those F-100 and F-110 engines generate several kW of energy already...
Way back in the 80's I was working at a computer builder/reseller when we got a phone call from a customer who wanted his hard drive (probably a Seagate 30M RLL drive, for you old-timers) replaced under warranty.
When we asked him what was wrong he said the drive had started to make a lot of noise, so he opened up the case and lubed the bearings and cleaned the heads while he was at it, but now it wasn't working at all...
Back in the late '80s I found one for sale at a used record store in Miami Only $300... That thing was fun to play with...
I kept going to the store and amusing the owner with all the weird noises I made with it, but I just kept procrastinating over buying it and eventually someone else got it...
I'm a Windows hacker and I know how to do all kinds of leet things with WIndows that would amaze the experts...With Windows XP's SMP support it should be able to take full advantage of the Cray's parallel architecture. Just wait until I get Halo running on this beast!
I'm not going to go into much detail, but I'm looking to backup about 400G online/offsite, weekly.
Most of what I've seen so far is "toy" solutions that don't scale up to 400G well, or cost $2k-$3k per month for that amount of data... Neither of those will do.
On the advice of a friend who is a certified Disaster Recovery specialist, I think I'm going to build linux based "backup appliances" with SATA arrays for each of our remote offices, back up all the data locally to the array and then replicate data between the "appliances" using RSYNC.
Building the "appliances" from off the shelf parts ensures that I'll be able to maintain and upgrade them without paying exorbitant prices for proprietary systems that are running Linux underneath a custom interface anyway...
How is it determined which of the justices is the "swing vote"?
I don't know that it is "determined", but usually a swing voter would be a Centrist, which O'Connor has shown herself to be, in the long run...
A real Centrist's votes would/should "swing" back and forth between Progressive (formerly Liberal) and Conservative issues. Otherwise, they would fall into either of the other camps...
Do other enterprise admins think that this is too much for us to take on, and companies are just expecting more bang for their buck these days?
I've been in the systems administration business for 23 years.
I currently support NetWare, Win2k, Win2k3, Mac OS-X, WinXP, O/S-2 and in the past have also supported VMS, DEC Unix and a wonderful HP creation, MPE-XL.
One of the saddest days in my life came last year when I watched a half-dozen good friends lose their jobs because our employer phased out VMS and these people had no experience with other operating systems. A couple of them were actually PROUD of that fact. More than half of them are still out of work.
Well, the business world is no different from any other natural system, evolution in action.
The solution is simple. Pass an amendment giving the President a line-item veto. Let each item stand on its own merit. Perhaps a line-item veto could be overturned by a simple majority rather than a supermajority as with normal vetos. In other words, prevent Congress from blackmailing the President and each other with these (usually spending) bills that normally would never pass.
The line-item veto was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court a few years ago, so THAT ain't gonna happen...
According to our Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam gateway, only 1/2 of 1% of the messages being stopped by the gateway were being stopped because they were on an RBL...
I stopped using it because I figured the overhead/bandwidth being consumed wasn't worth it...
The FCC is an independent agency. It does not take orders from the executive branch. Its powers are delegated to it by Congress through the Communications Act of 1934.
Hahahahahaha!
What country do you live in?
Who appoints the head of the FCC? The Executive Branch.
So who really has influence over the appointee? Big Medi..um, uh, the Executive Branch.
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Personally, I don't mind. Right now we have to maintain two seperate user bases, our US domain and the Novell server. Which becomes a pain when a user resets their US domain password after it expires and calls up saying that they can't login to their computer when really it's because their domain and novell passwords are not synchronized.
Well, if your office used Novell Identity Manager that wouldn't be a problem.
I worked for a bank which had 600 Netware servers and 200 Win2k/Win2k3 servers, with over 5000 users.
We used Identity Manager and had virtually no problems with unsynched passwords...
Well, after reading TFA, instead of coming away with a sense that he's giving good advice, I've come away with the sense that he hasn't been out of school long enough and worked at enough places to give any useful advice in this area...
If you follow his advice you'll do nothing but job-hop your entire career...
Yes, cubes suck.
Yes, managers can be dumb and pig-headed.
Waahhhh! I'm smarter than my manager, who's too old and feeble to know what he's talking about...
I think the author needs to grow up a little...
Clustering: Several systems that do parallel computing.
Fault Tolerant Servers: Serval systems will a failover loadbalancers in front.
I get frustrated when people use the latter and call it the former.
Not necessarily:
High Availability Clusters are what we're talking about here.
You're talking about High Performance Clusters, which is NOT what we're talking about...
I've worked with both fairly extensively and I'd have to say that although NetWare clusters seem to be more stable than Windows clusters, neither is a great solution for anything...
In my experience, the Windows Cluster Nodes will fail into some sort of "undead" state, in which the dead node isn't quite dead yet and the live node never quite picks up the slack, so you end up having to reboot both of them...
The NetWare Cluster Nodes have such a hair-trigger with the default settings that they seem to fail-over for no particular reason and get into a tail-chasing situation, which would be amusing if you didn't have 200 screaming attorneys looking over your shoulder as you try stop the failover merry-go-round...
It's still possible for other countries to do their own TLDs...
They just have to have the will to do it.
Then all they gotta do is convince/coerce all of the Internet entities in their respective countries to use THEIR TLD servers, they become the de-facto TLDs for those countries...
There's nothing to stop them but their lack of will...
I learned a lot about programming back in the '80s by playing Robot Wars on the Apple II.
You programmed virtual robots in a Basic-like language to go into the arena and do combat with other robots...
I even wrote my own version of the game for the Atari ST and the PC...Neither of which never left my home machine......
They can put these things up there, but how will they really be powered? 15kW of energy is a lot to expect from any sort of battery system, unless the weapon can only be used once.
I can't find an exact figure anywhere, but those F-100 and F-110 engines generate several kW of energy already...
Way back in the 80's I was working at a computer builder/reseller when we got a phone call from a customer who wanted his hard drive (probably a Seagate 30M RLL drive, for you old-timers) replaced under warranty.
When we asked him what was wrong he said the drive had started to make a lot of noise, so he opened up the case and lubed the bearings and cleaned the
heads while he was at it, but now it wasn't working at all...
I swear, true story...
Back in the late '80s I found one for sale at a used record store in Miami
Only $300...
That thing was fun to play with...
I kept going to the store and amusing the owner with all the weird noises I made with it, but I just kept procrastinating over buying it and eventually someone else got it...
I'm a Windows hacker and I know how to do all kinds of leet things with WIndows that would amaze the experts...With Windows XP's SMP support it should be able to take full advantage of the Cray's parallel architecture. Just wait until I get Halo running on this beast!
God I hope this is a joke...
I'm no Luddite, but there have been studies that have shown that kids being taught with the aid of computers actually do worse, rather than better.
I know from personal experience that it's almost too easy to get distracted while using the computer...
Look at what I'm doing right now (posting) instead of what I SHOULD be doing (Monthly TPS Report, can't forget the coversheet).
No, really...
More breathless, incoherent blather from Wired.
Tired: Wired
Wired: Wireless
Sounds just like setting up several BackupPC servers.
Close.
But I'm backing up NetWare clusters and not laptop and desktop PCs...
I'm not going to go into much detail, but I'm looking to backup about 400G online/offsite, weekly.
Most of what I've seen so far is "toy" solutions that don't scale up to 400G well, or cost $2k-$3k per month for that amount of data...
Neither of those will do.
On the advice of a friend who is a certified Disaster Recovery specialist, I think I'm going to build linux based "backup appliances" with SATA arrays for each of our remote offices, back up all the data locally to the array and then replicate data between the "appliances" using RSYNC.
Building the "appliances" from off the shelf parts ensures that I'll be able to maintain and upgrade them without paying exorbitant prices for proprietary systems that are running Linux underneath a custom interface anyway...
One more note:
We may not be able to reliably measure their destructive force because there are no trailer parks for them to tear up...
The height of a Martian dust devil can reach 10km (6 miles), which means it's more like the size of a terran tornado
But no where near the destructive force of a tornado, which may be why they're calling them dust devils...
It's less than 1/3 the windspeed and since the atmosphere is less dense the total energy will not be anywhere close...
This means that Bush has his chance to appoint John Ashcroft to the Supreme Court where he can do some REAL damage.
Jeez.
Don't even joke about this...
IMHO, that man is one of the most dangerous men on the planet...
How is it determined which of the justices is the "swing vote"?
I don't know that it is "determined", but usually a swing voter would be a Centrist, which O'Connor has shown herself to be, in the long run...
A real Centrist's votes would/should "swing" back and forth between Progressive (formerly Liberal) and Conservative issues. Otherwise, they would fall into either of the other camps...
I, for one, welcome our new Zombie Dog masters!
Down boy, down!...Stop eating the neighborhood kids' brains!
Do other enterprise admins think that this is too much for us to take on, and companies are just expecting more bang for their buck these days?
I've been in the systems administration business for 23 years.
I currently support NetWare, Win2k, Win2k3, Mac OS-X, WinXP, O/S-2 and in the past have also supported VMS, DEC Unix and a wonderful HP creation, MPE-XL.
One of the saddest days in my life came last year when I watched a half-dozen good friends lose their jobs because our employer phased out VMS and these people had no experience with other operating systems. A couple of them were actually PROUD of that fact. More than half of them are still out of work.
Well, the business world is no different from any other natural system, evolution in action.
Adapt or die.
The solution is simple. Pass an amendment giving the President a line-item veto. Let each item stand on its own merit. Perhaps a line-item veto could be overturned by a simple majority rather than a supermajority as with normal vetos. In other words, prevent Congress from blackmailing the President and each other with these (usually spending) bills that normally would never pass.
The line-item veto was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court a few years ago, so THAT ain't gonna happen...
....might have benefitted from the service that's been taken down.
Well, it sounds to me like they were pretty thin-skinned as well as a little short-sighted, if they didn't think this kind of thing would happen...
At least for us...
According to our Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam gateway, only 1/2 of 1% of the messages being stopped by the gateway were being stopped because they were on an RBL...
I stopped using it because I figured the overhead/bandwidth being consumed wasn't worth it...
The FCC is an independent agency. It does not take orders from the executive branch. Its powers are delegated to it by Congress through the Communications Act of 1934.
Hahahahahaha!
What country do you live in?
Who appoints the head of the FCC?
The Executive Branch.
So who really has influence over the appointee?
Big Medi..um, uh, the Executive Branch.