I can't believe he didn't have some sort of Non-Compete contract as well, making it nearly impossible for him to do anything with the financial markets for a few years...
We have people at our office like that.. Come bonus time.. "But I bring in $X every year! and my salary is small % of $X"..
They kindly forget things like Secretaries, Marketing, office facilities, power, IT, Lower level people actually doing the work, etc... I hate people that work in roles that involve Sales....
You know.. the actual work they are selling has a cost...
The last SAN I bought was about $40k for about 4TB (it was several years ago) It was cheap, iSCSI and 250GB SATA drives.. That did not include any other facilities overhead, networking equipment (it was iSCSI) and only gave us 2TB of actual use, since they were two mirrored systems. That right there would be closer to $20/GB (or $10/GB of non-redundant storage). then, after the second year, we had to pay support contracts to keep things running, and figured a 5 year life for the system. That price also didn't include my wages to manage the system, where it sounds like his company has a full time staff.
Granted there are some economies of scale going bigger, but were buying fairly cheap, and most overhead factors where already paid for us.
Equalogic and some other fancier SAN vendors where quoting us around $100,000 for 4TB systems. (4TB redundant, 8TB raw) so twice as big,but more than twice the cost, and the annual maintenance was much higher.
This is why I am so against some of the deep packet inspection coupled with Ads some ISP's have been looking at. When charter was looking at it, you could get a cookie that would prevent the targeted ads from displaying in your browser, however, they are still tracking your every move, just don't show you the ads. (its easier to scan everything than scan selectively).
Some people are okay with that, but a few years later, and now, without a warrant, the FBI can see what you were looking at.
Meanwhile, in the little town where I lived in Southern Oregon a few years ago, a Natural Gas 500MW power plant cost something like $80-100 million to build.
If you can build and operate ten 100 megawatt solar plants for the cost of building, operating and decommissioning one 1 gigawatt nuke plant (and insuring it for liability, and dealing with its waste), why not go with solar?
Maybe not all of us want to see every square inch of desert covered in solar panels. Compare the surface area used to generate 1Gigawatt at a Nuke vs Solar...
Interesting thought.. Imagine if Oracle offered Linus and Alan Cox, and maybe a few other key players jobs at $5million a year. And then tried to feed them the company kool-aid. That could really stunt the growth of linux for a while. (not that I think they would, but many of the biggest projects have a very key person or two)
I would love this for ceiling mounted projectors or wall mounted TV's.. you could move the equipment far away from the TV, such as in a closet behind the couch..
I disagree.. If Deepthroat had not leaked info about Watergate to the press, there would have been many things different today.. (well, at least it wouldn't have taken so long for the campaigns to be run by crooks again)
Leaks are how the people learn about how the government is corrupt, and change happens.
I can't help but wonder what helping Pakistan financially and militarily has done to our relationship with India. yes, government spokesman, I'm sure all the guns and weapons are only being used to protect against people on the west side....
Sad thing is, the major news companies used to do this kind of stuff, (watergate anyone?) but over the last few years, the government has really gotten nasty in fighting back.. So now it takes a media group, with no central authority, outside the US Jurisdiction to do what news companies used to..
Several SAN vendors do similar things right now.. either manually or some automatically, moving older, less frequently used data from fast SCSI and Fiber Channel drives to slower SATA drives.. last I looked, they were looking to add SSD's to the mix as well, either replacing SCSI, or as a very top tier.
Heh.. You forgot about Police (you used to hire Pinkerton security or other private companies) fire, (you had to have a contract with a private fire company in some places, god help you if they were busy when your house caught on fire) Water distribution and sanitation (hey, were trying to help some contries go back to that! private water! horay!, why are they rioting?)
I live 10 miles outside of Madison, WI, and the best I can get is 600k/s wireless (I could go to 1MB, but thats almost $100/month!). Ad Servers are not my problem. The problem is that ATT doesn't want to upgrade the central office in my town, and won't even tell us how many neighbors have to sign up to get a DSLAM added to a remote site near our 75 houses in our neighborhood. Charter comes within a half mile of us, but they won't tell us what it would take to come out to our neighborhood either.
Were doing the same thing, for a few thousand laptops. 7200 RPM drives in laptops eat batteries, generate heat, and can't keep up with all the background application needed for monitoring, compliance, AV scanning, etc.
really, at a couple hundred more each (less if you order in quantity) they pay for themselves very quickly if you have a mobile workforce. If you have a 10 minute boot up, and people on the road visiting clients, several times a day, (and standby is disabled because of security concerns with disk encryption) then a 3 minute boot can pay for itself in a few months.
I was disappointed to not see any Samsung SSD's on the list. They are in a TON of OEM laptops.
It isn't just us.. I seem to remember Ebay being sued, because they allowed the sale of Nazi things on their website, which broke German (I think it was german, might be france) law. Not the country specific ebay.co.de or whatever.. but ebay.com. Because Ebay did not prevent someone from accessing a foreign site..
You know.. Cell phone manufacturers were in the exact same camp. Until China decided no Cell phone could be sold in China without a Mini or Micro USB power adapter. Suddenly, darn near every cell phone now has one..
We use it too.. Weird thing, it seems to block wikileaks. I guess since were a financial firm, thats good for the company, but I hope it doesn't dampen whisleblowing at the TSA..
Yet all the support pages are still on ibm.com for those models... and when I call support for our thinkpads, I get IBM in atlanta, and their onsite techs are IBM onsite techs.... All thinkpad development still happens in the US. Go buy a thinkpad. then buy an "ideapad". Completely different materials, build quality, support sites, plugs, adapaters, etc.
The sale of IBM computers to Lenovo was either really weird, or really botched.
Or, if you have a linux web server (as he claims he can setup) setup SSL on there, and redirect all web traffic over the SSL Tunnel. Bonus points if he authenticates to his linux box using keys, instead of a password.
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This is 90% of what makes the American government unworkable.
yeah.. All those congressmen are crooks. ... Except mine.. he's okay..
I can't believe he didn't have some sort of Non-Compete contract as well, making it nearly impossible for him to do anything with the financial markets for a few years...
We have people at our office like that.. Come bonus time.. "But I bring in $X every year! and my salary is small % of $X"..
They kindly forget things like Secretaries, Marketing, office facilities, power, IT, Lower level people actually doing the work, etc...
I hate people that work in roles that involve Sales....
You know.. the actual work they are selling has a cost...
Shocking news: Microsoft working on a project very similar to one developed by Apple.
The last SAN I bought was about $40k for about 4TB (it was several years ago) It was cheap, iSCSI and 250GB SATA drives.. That did not include any other facilities overhead, networking equipment (it was iSCSI) and only gave us 2TB of actual use, since they were two mirrored systems. That right there would be closer to $20/GB (or $10/GB of non-redundant storage). then, after the second year, we had to pay support contracts to keep things running, and figured a 5 year life for the system. That price also didn't include my wages to manage the system, where it sounds like his company has a full time staff.
Granted there are some economies of scale going bigger, but were buying fairly cheap, and most overhead factors where already paid for us.
Equalogic and some other fancier SAN vendors where quoting us around $100,000 for 4TB systems. (4TB redundant, 8TB raw) so twice as big,but more than twice the cost, and the annual maintenance was much higher.
This is why I am so against some of the deep packet inspection coupled with Ads some ISP's have been looking at. When charter was looking at it, you could get a cookie that would prevent the targeted ads from displaying in your browser, however, they are still tracking your every move, just don't show you the ads. (its easier to scan everything than scan selectively).
Some people are okay with that, but a few years later, and now, without a warrant, the FBI can see what you were looking at.
Meanwhile, in the little town where I lived in Southern Oregon a few years ago, a Natural Gas 500MW power plant cost something like $80-100 million to build.
If you can build and operate ten 100 megawatt solar plants for the cost of building, operating and decommissioning one 1 gigawatt nuke plant (and insuring it for liability, and dealing with its waste), why not go with solar?
Maybe not all of us want to see every square inch of desert covered in solar panels. Compare the surface area used to generate 1Gigawatt at a Nuke vs Solar...
Interesting thought.. Imagine if Oracle offered Linus and Alan Cox, and maybe a few other key players jobs at $5million a year. And then tried to feed them the company kool-aid. That could really stunt the growth of linux for a while. (not that I think they would, but many of the biggest projects have a very key person or two)
I would love this for ceiling mounted projectors or wall mounted TV's.. you could move the equipment far away from the TV, such as in a closet behind the couch..
I disagree.. If Deepthroat had not leaked info about Watergate to the press, there would have been many things different today.. (well, at least it wouldn't have taken so long for the campaigns to be run by crooks again)
Leaks are how the people learn about how the government is corrupt, and change happens.
I can't help but wonder what helping Pakistan financially and militarily has done to our relationship with India. yes, government spokesman, I'm sure all the guns and weapons are only being used to protect against people on the west side....
Afghanistan is unwinnable as long as that porous border allows Taliban, al Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence to cross unhindered.
You mean Vietnam is unwinnable as long as the porous border allows NVA and Vietcong to cross into Cambodia unhindered..
Oh, wait.. you didn't.. Damn..
Sad thing is, the major news companies used to do this kind of stuff, (watergate anyone?) but over the last few years, the government has really gotten nasty in fighting back.. So now it takes a media group, with no central authority, outside the US Jurisdiction to do what news companies used to..
Several SAN vendors do similar things right now.. either manually or some automatically, moving older, less frequently used data from fast SCSI and Fiber Channel drives to slower SATA drives.. last I looked, they were looking to add SSD's to the mix as well, either replacing SCSI, or as a very top tier.
Heh.. You forgot about Police (you used to hire Pinkerton security or other private companies) fire, (you had to have a contract with a private fire company in some places, god help you if they were busy when your house caught on fire) Water distribution and sanitation (hey, were trying to help some contries go back to that! private water! horay!, why are they rioting?)
I live 10 miles outside of Madison, WI, and the best I can get is 600k/s wireless (I could go to 1MB, but thats almost $100/month!). Ad Servers are not my problem. The problem is that ATT doesn't want to upgrade the central office in my town, and won't even tell us how many neighbors have to sign up to get a DSLAM added to a remote site near our 75 houses in our neighborhood. Charter comes within a half mile of us, but they won't tell us what it would take to come out to our neighborhood either.
Were doing the same thing, for a few thousand laptops. 7200 RPM drives in laptops eat batteries, generate heat, and can't keep up with all the background application needed for monitoring, compliance, AV scanning, etc.
really, at a couple hundred more each (less if you order in quantity) they pay for themselves very quickly if you have a mobile workforce. If you have a 10 minute boot up, and people on the road visiting clients, several times a day, (and standby is disabled because of security concerns with disk encryption) then a 3 minute boot can pay for itself in a few months.
I was disappointed to not see any Samsung SSD's on the list. They are in a TON of OEM laptops.
It isn't just us.. I seem to remember Ebay being sued, because they allowed the sale of Nazi things on their website, which broke German (I think it was german, might be france) law. Not the country specific ebay.co.de or whatever.. but ebay.com. Because Ebay did not prevent someone from accessing a foreign site..
You know.. Cell phone manufacturers were in the exact same camp. Until China decided no Cell phone could be sold in China without a Mini or Micro USB power adapter. Suddenly, darn near every cell phone now has one..
We use it too.. Weird thing, it seems to block wikileaks. I guess since were a financial firm, thats good for the company, but I hope it doesn't dampen whisleblowing at the TSA..
Yet all the support pages are still on ibm.com for those models...
and when I call support for our thinkpads, I get IBM in atlanta, and their onsite techs are IBM onsite techs....
All thinkpad development still happens in the US. Go buy a thinkpad. then buy an "ideapad". Completely different materials, build quality, support sites, plugs, adapaters, etc.
The sale of IBM computers to Lenovo was either really weird, or really botched.
I have been using group policy to manage firefox (especially proxy settings) since about 2004 on several hundred machines.
it is not built into the product, true, but still, search google for Firefox ADM templates.
Its really not hard at all.
Oh goodness.. I have been dealing with SSL all morning.. Of course, I meant SSH.. grr
http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-create-ssh-tunnel-for-firefox-to.html
Add squid if you are nervous about other web based tools, besides a single browser window.
Or, if you have a linux web server (as he claims he can setup) setup SSL on there, and redirect all web traffic over the SSL Tunnel. Bonus points if he authenticates to his linux box using keys, instead of a password.
Then they just do what haliburton did, and move their headquarters out of the US, to Dubai...