I for one appreciate the position you find yourself in, but I have to ask, do your wife, kids, and parents need Exchange connectivity?
Oh no, not by any means. In fact, the kids PC is an 8 year old Gateway (PII 266mhz, 128mb ram, crappy on-board video) which runs Fedora 10 wonderfully. Websites; noggin, nickjr, webkinz for the under 10 crowd its perfect, and for the 16 year old, IM, flash/java games/sites, facebook (ugh!) and e-mail needs, its still fine. I wrote that in my original post, just not as detailed.;)
The wife has a similar Exchange need as I do, just a different OWA or VPN client settings.
Exchange is a proprietary product from MS, who afaik haven't released any documentation for the Exchange protocol,
Yeah, I've toyed with VMs like VirtualBox, and its certainly functional, although I still need a valid Windows license. It's disapointing to utilize and contribute the open source folks and still have the Windows binds.
I am grateful that Ubuntu and Fedora have world class support, improvements, and update frequently. Ditto for OOO, and many other open source projects (cluster ssh, firefox, openssh, apache, etc...) As long as the support for exchange mail is an OWA connector, I can't leave windows behind. OWA sucks, OWA sucks from IE on Windows, it double sucks with evolution-exchange.
No, I won't virtualize WIN/Outlook. No, I won't run 2 desktops. No, the Exchange server is not going to be replaced with insight or kroupware or any other open source replacement.
While I am happy for the 9.04 release, I can't help but not being too excited because in spite of all the goodness that Linux is, if it can't meet my needs, it's simply not a viable option.
If I can't run it, how the hell am I supposed to get my wife, kids, or parents on it? Yeah, thats a loaded question, and in actuality my kids PC is Fedora 10. I still have to continually answer the "why do you use Windows" style questions from them.
The boundary that you are on vacation, or 'not on-call', or even simply not required to respond to e-mails for, as you put it, if the situation warrants it, is just too simple to fix. I'm sure they send e-mails now, that you don't respond to (because your present mobile solution doesn't offer it), unless you spend your days off surfing your mail and responding.
full disclosure: I have a blackberry 8830, and I am one of two admins (and we are the only 2 with UNIX responsibilities) managing 200+ servers in multiple datacenters. We own the environments from rack, power, cabling to consoles, hardware, OS, uptime, performance and capacity planning. We also own the SANs, and the backup strategy.
I get e-mails all freaking day/night long, but if I'm on vacation (like today) I am not required to respond, unless I want to. If a production issue pops up, I am still not expected to respond, or jump in, again, unless I want to. If it's really bad, someone will call me, and I will still not be required to respond. There are times that I just can't pitch in, but I often do for that really important stuff. If it my week on call, I understand thats a 24x7 responsibility, but the escalation process specifically requires that the issue is a production class service or system.
I understand that many admins are the only admin, but that shouldn't stop a proper classification of systems/services into categories of 'what can wait', and 'what needs immediate attention'. Set some reasonable boundaries, and the blackberry will actually make it easier to do your job.
Agreed. If I can block them, which I do at home, and my company's web filter conveniently does for me at work, then they are a waste of time and bandwidth.
I think the limitations probably have more to do with our forces being so heavily committed on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WE (the USA) don't need to be there. WE (the USA) should avoid the area entirely to ensure we don't need to be there. WE (the USA) should stop running around the world solving, or attempting to solve, other people's (not the US) problems.
Let the fucking Euro-weenies go fix it, or something.
The TPB lawyers didn't do their homework, which is a sentiment that rings very loudly in a lot of commentary about this trial.
It will hopefully come up in the appeal. This may have been a strategy all along -- i.e. let the music industry lawyers put all their cards on the table during the trial, and destroy them in the appeal.
As with any infrastructure that has national security implications
There should not be national security implications, because there shouldn't be anything on the internet or attached to it that could threaten national security.
Parents (or spouses) get lied to because they LET themselves be lied to. It is the parents responsibility to manage (and zOMG!!!111 participate in perhaps) their children's time and activities.
If kids are playing games 24 hours week and fall into (or perform poorly in) the risk categories defined in TFA, then there is clearly no adult paying attention. This is not a pathological condition, this is a case of stupid parents.
Children want to be entertained. Games are entertaining. Duh.
You pick on an 11 year old server! (SPARC II's, sheesh!). I can't recall any of the E series having no ECC memory in them... sounds like a colossal error, or 3rd party memory.;)
The HCL for the E4500 [sunsolve|bigadmin account required] and full components list shows all memory. None of that recommended stuff is non ECC. I won't say you're incorrect about the situation (we've all seen crazier stuff than this:)), but the documentation clearly shows that SUN didn't offer non ECC memory for that system.
The SUN memory installation PDF makes no mention of non ECC memory either. Dated Jan 2000, 2 years after release..
Odd, i'm in a similar situation, and I find myself constantly fixing the SPARC boxes.
I can't offer any suggestions as to why your SPARCS need more attention than other platforms. That condition is really the opposite of my 15+ years in the business.
How many times have you called SUN, and they instructed you reboot, or install BIOS (OBP) firmware, or upgrade drivers to fix your problems?
How many phone calls to DELL would net the same result?
I'll answer. SUN has almost never required a firmware, OBP, reboot, or device driver upgrade to resolve a problem on a system THAT WAS WORKING fine for months. SUN doesn't ask you to "fall forward" from an outage or a change, they fix the problem.
It is DELL's first response after they ask you for dset and PERC log dump (not even a sysreport or sosreport!!). HP isn't much different than DELL. These manufacturers demand that you "fall forward" from nearly every outage phone or chat conversation with their support teams.
That is one of the main reasons that intel/amd are toys. If you can't install an OS on it, and have it just run, without have to keep dicking around with them (driver updates, firmware updates, etc which cause downtime), they cost more to run in admin time because of all the needless upgrades to stay "compliant" with support rules.
The thing is these are unauthorized users, the folks responsible for the satellites should treat all unauthorized use access as enemy agent access unless it is verified that it isn't.
How is it unauthorized if you shoot a pile of hardware into orbit where there is no real "ownership"? If these "folks responsible" can't (or won't) protect and secure it, tough shit.
But, Sun is a hardware company - many/most of those customers were buying hardware.
You don't buy SPARCs to run Linux.
The Enterprise solution on DELL/HP (either (L|W)Intel or AMD) may be cheaper on the front end, but as with anything else, you get what you pay for.
I have no real passion or hatred for Linux, but I find the Intel/AMD hardware are just toys compared to the Sun gear. I support 100 or so RedHat/Oracle 9i/10g instances on Dell. I spend the majority of my time fixing Dell issues, as opposed to fixing Sun issues.
What are the chances that Oracle will sell off the hardware line?
I sincerely hope Oracle leverages Sun hardware, and does not spin it off. In addition to Java, MySQL, ZFS, and Dtrace the HW side is a real nice bonus to this deal. It gives Oracle something that MS doesn't have... control of the hardware, which will negate the device driver issues MS faces with whatever OS they drop on the shelves.
There is an EUelection comming up soon and if file sharers gets the same punishment as a sombody that robs you in the street, people may change their votes, and vote for parties that care for personal freedom.
THAT didn't exactly work out so well for the US just a few short months ago. Even the centrist right-wing is like "wtf" here in the USA. The RIAA got promoted from money-grubbing, thick-headed, litigating, capitalist bastards to a role in which they get to support and further their broken down business model.
The centrist left, and further left are now salivating for the mid term elections in 2010 to unscrew America, and hopefully put the nail in the socialist coffin in 2012. If only there were a real Conservative/Republican plan that wasn't just trash-talk.:/
I'll take playability over eye-candy any day of the week. Playability is why it's common to turn off many of the graphics features, even with a decent rig.
I was going to say that Slashdot isn't a good example, but even this very story links to at least two major newspapers who I would guess are part of the NAA. What would Slashdot link to if they pulled the plug on aggregation?
Someone would post a link. The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
The bottom line is that "Dead Tree Publications" are afraid of the digital world taking over their business and are doing whatever they can to protect themselves.
Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah... RIAA and MPAA related stories.
Why do artists continue to fall into the "label" trap and sign contracts guaranteeing a lopsided pay schedule? Is there not enough evidence, documentation, and common knowledge that the labels are evil and their business model is dead? Do they not know about the Courtney Love manifesto? Reznor hosts a version of it as well, and has interesting comments of his own.
Any new artist (or existing artist exiting a contract) that doesn't at least try to leverage the internet is helping perpetuate the label problem. I'm sorry to say, those folks deserve what they get.
I'm not going to support labels or their artists with my money. Right, wrong, or indifferent, thats just a fact of life.
My meager ~4.5k tracks collection is something I would never have spent $4k on. $450 (since its been growing over 6 years) I would definitely have spent. Maybe even $900 ($0.20/track). That would have been better than $0, wouldn't it have?
That wouldn't have supported all the coke, cars, houses, and hookers the label execs have grown accustomed to.
Historically, and until recently, the labels 'owned' the spins a song got from the radio stations. Here is a decent article detailing the politics in how the labels own the spins, and therefore the content from "free" radio in spite of the fact thats its supposed to be illegal to do so.
But they'll never get a win because of people like you.
Whoa there, cowboy. I stated how the system worked, and why it wouldn't change, which is my belief. I never said I voted R or D. Matter-of-fact, in spite of being a registered R, I vote conservative, regardless of party. You can take a guess who won my confidence, pointless as it was. No, it wasn't McCain.
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I for one appreciate the position you find yourself in, but I have to ask, do your wife, kids, and parents need Exchange connectivity?
Oh no, not by any means. In fact, the kids PC is an 8 year old Gateway (PII 266mhz, 128mb ram, crappy on-board video) which runs Fedora 10 wonderfully. Websites; noggin, nickjr, webkinz for the under 10 crowd its perfect, and for the 16 year old, IM, flash/java games/sites, facebook (ugh!) and e-mail needs, its still fine. I wrote that in my original post, just not as detailed. ;)
The wife has a similar Exchange need as I do, just a different OWA or VPN client settings.
Exchange is a proprietary product from MS, who afaik haven't released any documentation for the Exchange protocol,
Yeah, I've toyed with VMs like VirtualBox, and its certainly functional, although I still need a valid Windows license. It's disapointing to utilize and contribute the open source folks and still have the Windows binds.
I am grateful that Ubuntu and Fedora have world class support, improvements, and update frequently. Ditto for OOO, and many other open source projects (cluster ssh, firefox, openssh, apache, etc...) As long as the support for exchange mail is an OWA connector, I can't leave windows behind. OWA sucks, OWA sucks from IE on Windows, it double sucks with evolution-exchange.
No, I won't virtualize WIN/Outlook. No, I won't run 2 desktops. No, the Exchange server is not going to be replaced with insight or kroupware or any other open source replacement.
While I am happy for the 9.04 release, I can't help but not being too excited because in spite of all the goodness that Linux is, if it can't meet my needs, it's simply not a viable option.
If I can't run it, how the hell am I supposed to get my wife, kids, or parents on it? Yeah, thats a loaded question, and in actuality my kids PC is Fedora 10. I still have to continually answer the "why do you use Windows" style questions from them.
Unless you're Rush Limbaugh you would want him to manage the Federal Executive branch at least as well.
I'm not Rush Limbaugh.
I hope Obama fails with a nice new 8830 secure Blackberry. The sooner the failure, the sooner a replacement.
I agree with the others here. (sorry, bud).
The boundary that you are on vacation, or 'not on-call', or even simply not required to respond to e-mails for, as you put it, if the situation warrants it, is just too simple to fix. I'm sure they send e-mails now, that you don't respond to (because your present mobile solution doesn't offer it), unless you spend your days off surfing your mail and responding.
full disclosure: I have a blackberry 8830, and I am one of two admins (and we are the only 2 with UNIX responsibilities) managing 200+ servers in multiple datacenters. We own the environments from rack, power, cabling to consoles, hardware, OS, uptime, performance and capacity planning. We also own the SANs, and the backup strategy.
I get e-mails all freaking day/night long, but if I'm on vacation (like today) I am not required to respond, unless I want to. If a production issue pops up, I am still not expected to respond, or jump in, again, unless I want to. If it's really bad, someone will call me, and I will still not be required to respond. There are times that I just can't pitch in, but I often do for that really important stuff. If it my week on call, I understand thats a 24x7 responsibility, but the escalation process specifically requires that the issue is a production class service or system.
I understand that many admins are the only admin, but that shouldn't stop a proper classification of systems/services into categories of 'what can wait', and 'what needs immediate attention'. Set some reasonable boundaries, and the blackberry will actually make it easier to do your job.
If WE didn't rely so much on imports and exports I would agree
I wish I could choose between "Made in China", and "Made in the USA".
But that is a far larger question, and pirates are but a small factor in that discussion.
Agreed.
Except 'selling ads' doesn't work
Agreed. If I can block them, which I do at home, and my company's web filter conveniently does for me at work, then they are a waste of time and bandwidth.
I think the limitations probably have more to do with our forces being so heavily committed on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WE (the USA) don't need to be there. WE (the USA) should avoid the area entirely to ensure we don't need to be there. WE (the USA) should stop running around the world solving, or attempting to solve, other people's (not the US) problems.
Let the fucking Euro-weenies go fix it, or something.
Clearly, they could not, or did not.
The TPB lawyers didn't do their homework, which is a sentiment that rings very loudly in a lot of commentary about this trial.
It will hopefully come up in the appeal. This may have been a strategy all along -- i.e. let the music industry lawyers put all their cards on the table during the trial, and destroy them in the appeal.
As with any infrastructure that has national security implications
There should not be national security implications, because there shouldn't be anything on the internet or attached to it that could threaten national security.
Sweet Judas Priest, this is bullshit.
Parents (or spouses) get lied to because they LET themselves be lied to. It is the parents responsibility to manage (and zOMG!!!111 participate in perhaps) their children's time and activities.
If kids are playing games 24 hours week and fall into (or perform poorly in) the risk categories defined in TFA, then there is clearly no adult paying attention. This is not a pathological condition, this is a case of stupid parents.
Children want to be entertained. Games are entertaining. Duh.
You pick on an 11 year old server! (SPARC II's, sheesh!). I can't recall any of the E series having no ECC memory in them ... sounds like a colossal error, or 3rd party memory. ;)
:)), but the documentation clearly shows that SUN didn't offer non ECC memory for that system.
The HCL for the E4500 [sunsolve|bigadmin account required] and full components list shows all memory. None of that recommended stuff is non ECC. I won't say you're incorrect about the situation (we've all seen crazier stuff than this
The SUN memory installation PDF makes no mention of non ECC memory either. Dated Jan 2000, 2 years after release..
I'm trying to understand how this 3 app limit is any different from Vista Ultimate.
Why just the other day I tried to open a 4th app (it was actually a comment thread on /.), and I got a blue scr^NO CARRIER
Odd, i'm in a similar situation, and I find myself constantly fixing the SPARC boxes.
I can't offer any suggestions as to why your SPARCS need more attention than other platforms. That condition is really the opposite of my 15+ years in the business.
How many times have you called SUN, and they instructed you reboot, or install BIOS (OBP) firmware, or upgrade drivers to fix your problems?
How many phone calls to DELL would net the same result?
I'll answer. SUN has almost never required a firmware, OBP, reboot, or device driver upgrade to resolve a problem on a system THAT WAS WORKING fine for months. SUN doesn't ask you to "fall forward" from an outage or a change, they fix the problem.
It is DELL's first response after they ask you for dset and PERC log dump (not even a sysreport or sosreport!!). HP isn't much different than DELL. These manufacturers demand that you "fall forward" from nearly every outage phone or chat conversation with their support teams.
That is one of the main reasons that intel/amd are toys. If you can't install an OS on it, and have it just run, without have to keep dicking around with them (driver updates, firmware updates, etc which cause downtime), they cost more to run in admin time because of all the needless upgrades to stay "compliant" with support rules.
devil's advocate mode = ON
The thing is these are unauthorized users, the folks responsible for the satellites should treat all unauthorized use access as enemy agent access unless it is verified that it isn't.
How is it unauthorized if you shoot a pile of hardware into orbit where there is no real "ownership"? If these "folks responsible" can't (or won't) protect and secure it, tough shit.
But, Sun is a hardware company - many/most of those customers were buying hardware.
You don't buy SPARCs to run Linux.
The Enterprise solution on DELL/HP (either (L|W)Intel or AMD) may be cheaper on the front end, but as with anything else, you get what you pay for.
I have no real passion or hatred for Linux, but I find the Intel/AMD hardware are just toys compared to the Sun gear. I support 100 or so RedHat/Oracle 9i/10g instances on Dell. I spend the majority of my time fixing Dell issues, as opposed to fixing Sun issues.
What are the chances that Oracle will sell off the hardware line?
I sincerely hope Oracle leverages Sun hardware, and does not spin it off. In addition to Java, MySQL, ZFS, and Dtrace the HW side is a real nice bonus to this deal. It gives Oracle something that MS doesn't have... control of the hardware, which will negate the device driver issues MS faces with whatever OS they drop on the shelves.
Slightly offtopic:
There is an EUelection comming up soon and if file sharers gets the same punishment as a sombody that robs you in the street, people may change their votes, and vote for parties that care for personal freedom.
THAT didn't exactly work out so well for the US just a few short months ago. Even the centrist right-wing is like "wtf" here in the USA. The RIAA got promoted from money-grubbing, thick-headed, litigating, capitalist bastards to a role in which they get to support and further their broken down business model.
The centrist left, and further left are now salivating for the mid term elections in 2010 to unscrew America, and hopefully put the nail in the socialist coffin in 2012. If only there were a real Conservative/Republican plan that wasn't just trash-talk. :/
Good luck Swedish citizens, seriously.
I'll take playability over eye-candy any day of the week. Playability is why it's common to turn off many of the graphics features, even with a decent rig.
Reviews from a clearly biased crowd -- they were there to see a 27 year old movie with an advertised 10 extra minutes of footage.
I'm not pissing on the parade, just making the point that I would not have expected a negative review, given the circumstances.
I was going to say that Slashdot isn't a good example, but even this very story links to at least two major newspapers who I would guess are part of the NAA. What would Slashdot link to if they pulled the plug on aggregation?
Someone would post a link.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
The bottom line is that "Dead Tree Publications" are afraid of the digital world taking over their business and are doing whatever they can to protect themselves.
Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah... RIAA and MPAA related stories.
tag:deadbusiness
Why do artists continue to fall into the "label" trap and sign contracts guaranteeing a lopsided pay schedule? Is there not enough evidence, documentation, and common knowledge that the labels are evil and their business model is dead? Do they not know about the Courtney Love manifesto? Reznor hosts a version of it as well, and has interesting comments of his own.
Any new artist (or existing artist exiting a contract) that doesn't at least try to leverage the internet is helping perpetuate the label problem. I'm sorry to say, those folks deserve what they get.
I'm not going to support labels or their artists with my money. Right, wrong, or indifferent, thats just a fact of life.
My meager ~4.5k tracks collection is something I would never have spent $4k on. $450 (since its been growing over 6 years) I would definitely have spent. Maybe even $900 ($0.20/track). That would have been better than $0, wouldn't it have?
That wouldn't have supported all the coke, cars, houses, and hookers the label execs have grown accustomed to.
/sarcasm
How quaint.
QFT.
As soon as it hits my audio gear, its mine.
Historically, and until recently, the labels 'owned' the spins a song got from the radio stations. Here is a decent article detailing the politics in how the labels own the spins, and therefore the content from "free" radio in spite of the fact thats its supposed to be illegal to do so.
But they'll never get a win because of people like you.
Whoa there, cowboy. I stated how the system worked, and why it wouldn't change, which is my belief. I never said I voted R or D. Matter-of-fact, in spite of being a registered R, I vote conservative, regardless of party. You can take a guess who won my confidence, pointless as it was. No, it wasn't McCain.
New Zealand.
Excellent. Best of luck.