Well done, sysadmin! Three minutes ago, nothing. Now a nice quick page! What did you do to increase capacity? Were you already on a cluster or did you increase a VMs memory or CPU?
I use bacula extensively between various flavours of linux and windows. It just works. You can set your retention period and it will automatically purge old information. It will write to various backup media (tape, disk etc) and create volume sizes of your choice.
I use OpenVpn for encrypted connectivity between the machines as I am backing up a number of them across the net. It also has linux and windows clients.
One caveat is that I don't use it to backup the entire system. I back up the users' data and configuration information as the rest can be easily restored from the original media.
I have been developing DB based applications for 13 years along with being a full time DBA for the last 3. Primarily with Oracle but also using Postgres and Mysql. Every time I have been part of an development project that tried to implement the Business Rules in the middle tier it has taken forever and been buggy.
Applications that have used all the facilities of the database GENERALLY take less time and have fewer bugs.
Typically we could have rewritten the entire application for a different platform in equal or less time than trying to maintain platform or DB independance. As well I have NEVER seen a project designed to be independant actually take advantage of that and move to a different platform, NEVER.
You must be thinking of OMNIMax theatres. We have one close to me in Vancouver BC. It is just as you describe with a curved screen like the inside of a sphere. In the case of the theatre here, it is actually inside a geodesic dome that was part of Expo 86 but is now a science centre called Science World.
In reality, as I understand it, OMNIMax is just an IMAX file projected on the curved screen. Whatever it is, I like it way better. Much more immersive because it includes your peripheral vision.
Actually, the article is a little unclear. I am on Shaw Cable up here in BC, Canada and my mail server on my machine in my office would not be allowed to send mail to AOL. (I actually don't know if Shaw is targeted but you get the point.)
But please, for the love of INSERT DIETY, don't listen to those polarized-my-way-is-the-only-way INSERT INSULT's.
There is always a case for normalization or denormalization. I have developed many different databases of various sizes. ( 10 terabytes) and as a rule I try to be a s normalized as possible. I have worked on some data conversions that were rathy messy due to denormalization. However, I can't think of a single database where there wasn't some type of denormalization for various reasons. From speeding query results to the client's demands.
Yes, I could have recommended that my clients buy bigger hardware but when a summary table can be used instead of spending $X thousand dollars, what do you think you would do?
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Well done, sysadmin! Three minutes ago, nothing. Now a nice quick page! What did you do to increase capacity? Were you already on a cluster or did you increase a VMs memory or CPU?
Vancouver, BC up in Canada has an extensive system of overhead lines for the electric trolleys which have been in operation since 1948.
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When I was a kid the diesel buses were always the "Stinky Buses".
I use OpenVpn for encrypted connectivity between the machines as I am backing up a number of them across the net. It also has linux and windows clients.
One caveat is that I don't use it to backup the entire system. I back up the users' data and configuration information as the rest can be easily restored from the original media.
Applications that have used all the facilities of the database GENERALLY take less time and have fewer bugs.
Typically we could have rewritten the entire application for a different platform in equal or less time than trying to maintain platform or DB independance. As well I have NEVER seen a project designed to be independant actually take advantage of that and move to a different platform, NEVER.
You must be thinking of OMNIMax theatres. We have one close to me in Vancouver BC. It is just as you describe with a curved screen like the inside of a sphere. In the case of the theatre here, it is actually inside a geodesic dome that was part of Expo 86 but is now a science centre called Science World.
In reality, as I understand it, OMNIMax is just an IMAX file projected on the curved screen. Whatever it is, I like it way better. Much more immersive because it includes your peripheral vision.
Actually, the article is a little unclear. I am on Shaw Cable up here in BC, Canada and my mail server on my machine in my office would not be allowed to send mail to AOL. (I actually don't know if Shaw is targeted but you get the point.)
There is always a case for normalization or denormalization. I have developed many different databases of various sizes. ( 10 terabytes) and as a rule I try to be a s normalized as possible. I have worked on some data conversions that were rathy messy due to denormalization. However, I can't think of a single database where there wasn't some type of denormalization for various reasons. From speeding query results to the client's demands.
Yes, I could have recommended that my clients buy bigger hardware but when a summary table can be used instead of spending $X thousand dollars, what do you think you would do?