Ever hear of 'backups'? Even if Iron Mountain lost half the tapes on the way back to Fannie Mae (again)... there are digital records of your mortgage somewhere.
Surely you have copies of your payments, insurance, property taxes, etc to prove you don't owe the full amount listed on the closing contract, yes?
Hi, you'll need 1$ to scrub the flash drive and 1 million bucks to find out which one.
No. You need someone with a brain to say, "no more flash drives of any kind, and no exceptions". There; it's been said, for free even.
There is no sensible reason for variance when one needs information moved from one 'secure' computer to another 'secure' computer with a highly suspect, easily compromised method in the middle. That's free info as well.
This is completely avoidable with 100% surety. My original point remains (and a big booyah fuckyou to the moderator of GPP for not understanding or modding content)... we the taxpayers foot the bill for example after example of incompetence and stupidity, with very little reward in return.
As long as the money grubbing corporation are involved, there will always be more overhead.
See: $2.00 fees on ATM transactions if you use the wrong bank machine.
In spirit, it's a great idea, however will not ever be useful if someone 'has to get paid' to use the service. There may be overhead with cash, but if you're counting (and many are these days) there is no value-add if it costs more.
Coolthreads are great for multi threaded apps and processes. They are really horrible for linear processes. You can see 1 of 32 threads at 100% usage, and 31 of 32 doing squat.
If you lost time/performance by switching to a Coolthread box, it's because of the linear apps/processes the sun4u SPARCs would chew through in no time.
I forgotten the exact spec but it was T... Not sure what what number was.
T1000 or T2000. Until you 'uname' it. Then it's a T200.
It can also be referred to as the sun4v platform as opposed to the SPARC IIIi sun4u.
First, in a friendly way... nobody gives a rat about workstation class machines. Any fool can dump Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows, BSD, OpenSolaris, or whatever, and google up enough support/fun tools to get the job done and post on/. on most any cheap-ass 2 year disposable wintel capable machine.
So, on server class machines... number 1 reason: Support contracts.
Sun is one stop shopping; hardware and software by the folks that make it. Dell also supports RH linux through their customer care center, and I'll assume that HP/IBM do as well, but they are not RedHat, they are $vendor with RH knowledge and expertise. Thats a separate subscription to get RedHat support and you then get the RHNetwork portals in addition to standard phone support. So you pay twice (1 for $vendor and 1 for RH), and it ain't cheap as Sun's.
Number 2 reason: Reliability.
SPARCs just don't die. When they do, its very pretty of course, but it just doesn't happen as often as Intel/AMD architectures do.
Also, Suns do not often have the compatibility problems that Intel/AMD arch's have. By compatibility, I mean the mobo + raid + firmware + kernel version + PCIx firmware + BMC version = "unsupported" type compatibility.
Fact is, I've been admin on Sun's for nearly 15 years, been through the really bad 5/7 releases and lots of other SUN 'badtimes'. hey are nothing like the hassles I have to go through daily with AMD/Intel arch's. I'm in a 4:1 Sun:Intel/AMD shop, and have a documented (ticketing system) 5:1 Intel/AMD:SUN hardware problem ratio.
Yes, my alias is 'sun.jedi', I've worked on Sun's a long time. This was not intended as a 'fanboy' post. I'm a beer/vacation fanboy before I'm a SUN fanboy.
The bride tells me we need new curtains for the living room. We surf, and shop, and surf, and shop and end up at JCPenny. I use my debit card and the bride got new curtains.
JCPenny turns around my info to a subsidiary called Stonebridge, and I get spammed for insurance, and other stuff. Other stuff like a bullshit 'membership' which somehow I failed to opt-out of that charges my card $10/mo. Well, 3 months later I finally get that charge removed, with large amounts of swearing on the phone (hey, if 2 months of 'nice' phone calls won't work, break out the profanity).
I still recieve Stonebridge insurance scams in my snail-mail, after months and months of calling them and asking (yep... more swearing too, although unsuccessful so far).
Technically, nothing super. This probably falls under the "stupid user tricks" section. Heh.
There was a planned upgrade on a prod box for the disks that contained a well-paying clients oracle db. The contractor had surmised that by upgrading one half of the mirror (letting it sync) and then other half they would not have to struggle with backups/restores and whatnot. While technically possible, all arms went up in frustration when the size of the volume did not increase and a defiant cry about "vendor bugs" and "Sun sucks" emanated from Mr. Contractor.
The solution? Well, it was SVM, not Veritas, and I didn't like the 'growfs' option because of the multiple partitions. Since the system was already down for maintenance, and the original disks were rather small (9gb) adn we were moving to 300gb... I submitted a thought of breaking the mirror, breaking the metadevice, repartition the 1st disk using all space, mount them both and copy the 9gb to the new 300gb filesystem. Once that completed, recreate the metadevices and remirror. Took about an hour, and then another 2 to complete the mirror sync.
I had experience with the COBOL mess at an insurance company in 2000. The Millineum bug was a 2 year + effort alone.
The simple fact that COBOL was bad, from a staff knowledge/experience viewpoint only worsens the budget/time estimates when you add in MUMPS and other obscure languages.
Some of them may not be up to the task, but most can convert their tables to the specified format if you tell them what that is.
I'd wager that a majority of this information is not in Oracle/SQL, but that its on DB/2 on a IBM390. I'd also think that the format shift of the data isn't really the big deal, but the data entry, workflow between hospital and insurance, encryption, and regulation are really big issues.
so it's difficult to understand where they're pulling this $100billion figure from.
They are not already doing it because of the cost for the hospitals to get off the big iron they paid a ridiculous amount of money for in the 1970's. The proprietary, custom, and non-standard recording formats have always been determined to be too expensive to change, although they may be quite inconvenient.
Besides... who wants to pay for a gazillion lines of COBOL to be re-written. I'd theorize that the estimates of $75-100b and 212k jobs are woefully low. 5 years seems a bit light to me as well. I'm sure there is some potential for efficiency, but the accuracy requirement alone means lots of time and lots of bodies. It's not just hospitals either; add in insurance companies, and 3rd party billing. Then figure in the oversight/regulation for HIPPA compliance.
We used to call them booksmart engineers/admins "paper CNE's". I've never been turned away from an interview for not having a piece of paper with a logo and a blurb about correctly answering a negative information test.
Many companies may require it, but would be foolish to hire solely 'certified' candidates.
It's weird, it's like if you show up, talking the right way, and dressed to not care, you get far. I don't understand it.
QFT.
I interviewed with my present shop the day before Xmas, dressed in jeans and a hoodie (they were clean), and unshaven for a few days. I did have a smart resume, and also have 12 years UNIX admin/engineering experience. I have no degrees, or advanced training outside of vendor classes. I was candidate number 11, and the last to be interviewed.
During the interview, I was asked how I would solve X problem, which coincidentally, the majority of their IT staff spent the better part of the night trying to fix. After asking a few routine questions, I was asked to 'demonstrate'. After 20 minutes, I got a 25k signing bonus, and the contractor that fsck'd it all up got 2 weeks notice.
To echo what others are saying... EXPERIENCE and demonstrable ability will get you farther than any degree. At least that resounds loud from my experience.
I'll bet there are a -ton- of elderly folks in those huge apartment towers I see all over town that have bunny ears though... They're going to be pissed, and they vote.
If the blue-hair-brigade were to change their political viewpoints based on whether or not they get to see Hollywood Squares... I'd see that as a net gain.
It'd be about time we pull them into the 'now', and left all that irrelevant old crap they preach behind.
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But when you have digital, what then? No alien race would be able to decode digital text; there's no Rosetta Stone.
And...
The DRM will likely install a rootkit on their radio, which will piss them off, and they will come fry us with red lasers.
Ever hear of 'backups'? Even if Iron Mountain lost half the tapes on the way back to Fannie Mae (again)... there are digital records of your mortgage somewhere.
Surely you have copies of your payments, insurance, property taxes, etc to prove you don't owe the full amount listed on the closing contract, yes?
authors of the malware do have SOME sense of morals
You are an idiot if you believe that.
Hi, you'll need 1$ to scrub the flash drive and 1 million bucks to find out which one.
No. You need someone with a brain to say, "no more flash drives of any kind, and no exceptions". There; it's been said, for free even.
There is no sensible reason for variance when one needs information moved from one 'secure' computer to another 'secure' computer with a highly suspect, easily compromised method in the middle. That's free info as well.
This is completely avoidable with 100% surety. My original point remains (and a big booyah fuckyou to the moderator of GPP for not understanding or modding content)... we the taxpayers foot the bill for example after example of incompetence and stupidity, with very little reward in return.
The US spends ~$146B plus $46.5B per year for 2 wars and DHS, but they can't even scrub an old flash drive?
Allowing that kind of data (if true) is an unconscionable crime. It is a treasonous act, even if in error.
Kudos to Chris Ogle for doing the right thing with this information.
As long as the money grubbing corporation are involved, there will always be more overhead.
See: $2.00 fees on ATM transactions if you use the wrong bank machine.
In spirit, it's a great idea, however will not ever be useful if someone 'has to get paid' to use the service. There may be overhead with cash, but if you're counting (and many are these days) there is no value-add if it costs more.
Except that Mac users, being more affluent
[Citation needed]
MUCH more likely to actually PAY
[Citation needed]
Methinks you are completely full of iShit.
Coolthreads are great for multi threaded apps and processes. They are really horrible for linear processes. You can see 1 of 32 threads at 100% usage, and 31 of 32 doing squat.
If you lost time/performance by switching to a Coolthread box, it's because of the linear apps/processes the sun4u SPARCs would chew through in no time.
I forgotten the exact spec but it was T... Not sure what what number was.
T1000 or T2000. Until you 'uname' it. Then it's a T200.
It can also be referred to as the sun4v platform as opposed to the SPARC IIIi sun4u.
First, in a friendly way ... nobody gives a rat about workstation class machines. Any fool can dump Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows, BSD, OpenSolaris, or whatever, and google up enough support/fun tools to get the job done and post on /. on most any cheap-ass 2 year disposable wintel capable machine.
So, on server class machines... number 1 reason: Support contracts.
Sun is one stop shopping; hardware and software by the folks that make it. Dell also supports RH linux through their customer care center, and I'll assume that HP/IBM do as well, but they are not RedHat, they are $vendor with RH knowledge and expertise. Thats a separate subscription to get RedHat support and you then get the RHNetwork portals in addition to standard phone support. So you pay twice (1 for $vendor and 1 for RH), and it ain't cheap as Sun's.
Number 2 reason: Reliability.
SPARCs just don't die. When they do, its very pretty of course, but it just doesn't happen as often as Intel/AMD architectures do.
Also, Suns do not often have the compatibility problems that Intel/AMD arch's have. By compatibility, I mean the mobo + raid + firmware + kernel version + PCIx firmware + BMC version = "unsupported" type compatibility.
Fact is, I've been admin on Sun's for nearly 15 years, been through the really bad 5/7 releases and lots of other SUN 'badtimes'. hey are nothing like the hassles I have to go through daily with AMD/Intel arch's. I'm in a 4:1 Sun:Intel/AMD shop, and have a documented (ticketing system) 5:1 Intel/AMD:SUN hardware problem ratio.
Yes, my alias is 'sun.jedi', I've worked on Sun's a long time. This was not intended as a 'fanboy' post. I'm a beer/vacation fanboy before I'm a SUN fanboy.
And then duplicated by kdawson on Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Wiff diffrent speling misstakes one awl thrree dais.
I don't even see the pixels anymore ... All I see is blond, brunette, redhead. Hey uh, you want a drink?
Here's the one I got messed up in.
The bride tells me we need new curtains for the living room. We surf, and shop, and surf, and shop and end up at JCPenny. I use my debit card and the bride got new curtains.
JCPenny turns around my info to a subsidiary called Stonebridge, and I get spammed for insurance, and other stuff. Other stuff like a bullshit 'membership' which somehow I failed to opt-out of that charges my card $10/mo. Well, 3 months later I finally get that charge removed, with large amounts of swearing on the phone (hey, if 2 months of 'nice' phone calls won't work, break out the profanity).
I still recieve Stonebridge insurance scams in my snail-mail, after months and months of calling them and asking (yep ... more swearing too, although unsuccessful so far).
Never do business with JCPenny as they appear to have other instances, and multiple ways to rip you off.
That is Not in any way energy-star complaint.
$170 sounds exactly like a complaint is necessary.
Technically, nothing super. This probably falls under the "stupid user tricks" section. Heh.
There was a planned upgrade on a prod box for the disks that contained a well-paying clients oracle db. The contractor had surmised that by upgrading one half of the mirror (letting it sync) and then other half they would not have to struggle with backups/restores and whatnot. While technically possible, all arms went up in frustration when the size of the volume did not increase and a defiant cry about "vendor bugs" and "Sun sucks" emanated from Mr. Contractor.
The solution? Well, it was SVM, not Veritas, and I didn't like the 'growfs' option because of the multiple partitions. Since the system was already down for maintenance, and the original disks were rather small (9gb) adn we were moving to 300gb ... I submitted a thought of breaking the mirror, breaking the metadevice, repartition the 1st disk using all space, mount them both and copy the 9gb to the new 300gb filesystem. Once that completed, recreate the metadevices and remirror. Took about an hour, and then another 2 to complete the mirror sync.
Best. Interview. Ever.
Haha.
I had experience with the COBOL mess at an insurance company in 2000. The Millineum bug was a 2 year + effort alone.
The simple fact that COBOL was bad, from a staff knowledge/experience viewpoint only worsens the budget/time estimates when you add in MUMPS and other obscure languages.
Some of them may not be up to the task, but most can convert their tables to the specified format if you tell them what that is.
I'd wager that a majority of this information is not in Oracle/SQL, but that its on DB/2 on a IBM390. I'd also think that the format shift of the data isn't really the big deal, but the data entry, workflow between hospital and insurance, encryption, and regulation are really big issues.
so it's difficult to understand where they're pulling this $100billion figure from.
I think that figure is a bit low.
They are not already doing it because of the cost for the hospitals to get off the big iron they paid a ridiculous amount of money for in the 1970's. The proprietary, custom, and non-standard recording formats have always been determined to be too expensive to change, although they may be quite inconvenient.
Besides... who wants to pay for a gazillion lines of COBOL to be re-written. I'd theorize that the estimates of $75-100b and 212k jobs are woefully low. 5 years seems a bit light to me as well. I'm sure there is some potential for efficiency, but the accuracy requirement alone means lots of time and lots of bodies. It's not just hospitals either; add in insurance companies, and 3rd party billing. Then figure in the oversight/regulation for HIPPA compliance.
We used to call them booksmart engineers/admins "paper CNE's". I've never been turned away from an interview for not having a piece of paper with a logo and a blurb about correctly answering a negative information test.
Many companies may require it, but would be foolish to hire solely 'certified' candidates.
It's weird, it's like if you show up, talking the right way, and dressed to not care, you get far. I don't understand it.
QFT.
I interviewed with my present shop the day before Xmas, dressed in jeans and a hoodie (they were clean), and unshaven for a few days. I did have a smart resume, and also have 12 years UNIX admin/engineering experience. I have no degrees, or advanced training outside of vendor classes. I was candidate number 11, and the last to be interviewed.
During the interview, I was asked how I would solve X problem, which coincidentally, the majority of their IT staff spent the better part of the night trying to fix. After asking a few routine questions, I was asked to 'demonstrate'. After 20 minutes, I got a 25k signing bonus, and the contractor that fsck'd it all up got 2 weeks notice.
To echo what others are saying... EXPERIENCE and demonstrable ability will get you farther than any degree. At least that resounds loud from my experience.
It's not 'fast enough enough to kill'; it's 'smart enough to back up'. ;)
I'll bet there are a -ton- of elderly folks in those huge apartment towers I see all over town that have bunny ears though... They're going to be pissed, and they vote.
If the blue-hair-brigade were to change their political viewpoints based on whether or not they get to see Hollywood Squares ... I'd see that as a net gain.
It'd be about time we pull them into the 'now', and left all that irrelevant old crap they preach behind.
IT IS YOURS to do with as you please. Imagine that, a firmware updating utility (nudge nudge). No worries about licensing, copyright, or patent.
Lucky bastard.`
That comment was meant in jest. It was apparently only funny to me.
If you don't have a full time job, why are you watching TV?
when did any of their songs not sound identical
Bon Scott had more range than Brian Johnson, IMHO, allowing more diversity.
There is a difference between the 'sound' of AC/DC, and all their songs sounding alike.