I run a large backup environment with Tivoli on IBM pSeries. We carve the pSeries up into multiple LPARs which write to a physical library which is logically carved up. I have to separate the backup environments due to regulatory issues and virtualizing both the backup servers and the library makes things much easier for me. I can set up between 4-8 LPARs per virtual library, and given the horsepower of the pSeries that I'm using, I don't have a ton of physical servers to manage.
Should the public also have keys to the government offices? The reasoning around here being if we paid with our tax dollars for the software, we should get the source code. Should we also get all the keys to all the doors? Or should we just not have locks on the doors to the gov't buildings?
They know that there's more to life than being forced to stay home on the weekends because you're assigned the duty pager. Also that they enjoy not having to do things like "maintenance windows" at 2am.
There are plenty of female developers/QA engineers out there. Who cares if there isn't enough (how much is enough?) women in IT applying patches, deploying networks, managing storage.
btw: There's also a shortage of women zamboni drivers, male daycare workers and nursery school teachers.
Mount a LCD monitor on the wall or put it out of arms reach of the kid on a dresser with a webcam and some cheap PC speakers. Put the computer farther away using a 10ft VGA/HDMI cable.
Why make it so complex, does your toddler really need to touch the screen?
Also, nothing like exposing your kids to the benefits of watching TV when they're still in the crib. Instead of TV being the "new babysitter", it'll be skype.
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All of these cost a few cents extra to get more "eyeballs" to see your listing and then eventually to click on it and hopefully to buy the item(s) you're selling.
Always wondered why I couldn't format my FB posts with bold/italics or justifications (left/right/center). Now, I can see them saying, "You want bold... that will be $.05."
Of course it would be really slick to have a setting similar to what email clients have which is to display all email messages, regardless of formatting as "plain text". Thereby getting rid of all the formatting people have paid for and display it in plain text (like it is now).
I work for a large fortune 500 company and i was recently told by an org that if I did x, y and z I could then put a 'badge of honor' in my directory profile. So basically I could link to some.jpg that says "I'm a super contributor". Now my company already has the ability to reward people on the spot for a job well done. It's a token cash award and any manager can give them out (a couple hundred dollars).
I might as well walk around with ribbons on my chest for "blogger of the month, webserver team!"
Nothing like telling the facilities team "ok, we're going with 21" wide racks and you'll need to replace all the floor tiles as well.
Also floor standing equipment (high end disk arrays and floor standing servers) are also made to the 19" standard (either 1-3 tiles wide and 1-2 tiles deep)
If comcast just said that "CAP" was the amount of bandwidth that was used by a customer which left Comcast's network. Such that all traffic that stayed within Comcast's network did not count toward the customer's bandwidth limit.
Nobody said they had to measure it at the modem? Also, I don't believe how much traffic you use is part of this neutrality debate, I though it was around the speed at which it was used. So the same 1GB netflix movie is streamed at the same speed to the consumer as a 1GB xfinity movie.
Backups. The enterprise has the advantage that once they pay for the LTO-5 tape drives, individual cartridges are cheap, rugged, and have a lifetime guarantee.
Who modded this moron up? Obviously, he's never had to buy LTO-5 tape drives in bulk. I don't mean a few boxes totally 25 tapes, but hundreds and THOUSANDS of cartridges. LTO-5 isn't cheap. The enterprises may be upgrading their tape drives, but the cartridges that are often bought are LTO-4 because they are so much cheaper. Plus they can still be used in the LTO-4 drives, for which putting an LTO-5 media in an LTO-4 is a waste of $$.
This is why backup to disk is moving in. Media is expensive and restore times are slow. However, backing up to tape is actually quite fast. Still requires a pretty fast source and server to saturate an LTO-5 drive with compression.
Having the ability to have fiber-channel bandwidth over the WAN fabric on the cheap would revolutionize things.
Hello. FC over WAN is called FCIP. It's already here and used as an ISL (inter switch link) rather than a host to array (or array to array) method. Yes I know that EMC has 1GbE blades for their arrays which do replicate SCSI over IP, but that's a proprietary solution and doesn't scale. How do all the arrays move data from site A to site B? They plug into a switch via FC and then the switch encapsulates the FC packets in IP packets. Then it's up to good old TCPIP to get you to your destination.
FCIP isn't exactly cheap, but the alternative, FC over DWDM is quite a bit more expensive. Go price out your next Cisco 15454 and get back to us.
I used to do a ton of work in a colo facility at a previous company. The colo I worked required you to use the hand scanner to get into and out of the "man trap" by the lobby. This was a problem in two ways:
1. To get to the restroom you had to go through the lobby. No telling how many people would use the restroom and then bypass washing their hands, proceeding directly to the hand scanner and back to the datacenter. You had to put your hand on a metal plate and in my 2years working in this colo, I never saw them once clean that thing.
2. About 8 months into my job, I broke my right hand and it required me to wear a hard cast. The hand scanner was not made for your left hand, but your right hand palm down due to the orientation of some plastic finger pegs. So with a broken hand, not only did I have to call security every time I needed to go through a door, but they called a VP every time i entered the facility.
So good luck if you hurt your right hand or don't want to receive the bacteria from the previous users.
1. Are you that confident that your vendor will always meet the four hour SLA? I've worked with a myriad of vendors (IBM, Dell, HP, EMC, Hitachi, etc) and there has been multiple times they couldn't meet the SLA. In a few cases it took days for the replacement drive to arrive.
I've got a contract with the vendor that they stock spare parts onsite, so they're only requirement is to get the engineer onsite to replace the part. Also given that my datacenters aren't in the middle of the Oklahoma prairies, there are parts depots in the area.
I manage a team that oversees PB of disk, both within an enterprise array and internal to the server. For testing the arrays, since there's GB of cache in front of the disks, I can only rely on the vendor to do the appropriate post installation testing to make sure there are no DOA disks. For internal disks, as others have mentioned you could run IOMeter for days without a problem and then the very next day it's dead. Unlike memory, disks have moving parts that can fail much easier than chips. However, with proper precautions like RAID, single disk failures can be avoided.
The bigger problem is having a double disk failure. This is due to the amount of time required to rebuild the failed disk. Back when disks were 100GB this was a "relatively" quick process. However, in some of my arrays with 3TB drives in them, it can take much longer to replace the drive. Even to the point whereby having hotspares has been considered to be not worth it as my array vendor will have a new disk in the array within 4hrs. With what an enterprise disk costs from the array vendor (not Frys), it can start to add up.
We should have an immediate jump back to pre-9/11 security screenings, meaning we all get to keep shoes, bring water, and walk only through metal detectors, not the stupid body scanners that mean you cannot even keep a kleenex in your pocket but you can strap a gun to the side of your body.
I do not care about the remote chance of a plane being blown up in the air, and there is no way hijacking a plane will succeed any more
Didn't we say in the pre-9/11 days that you couldn't hijack a plane? Or do we go back to pre-9/11 security screenings until $DISASTER takes place? Kinda like how parent's tell their kids, "If you behave for 5 hours you can have your TV privileges back" I can see it now, "If you don't blow up a plane for 5years, we'll take away the metal detectors and body scanners."
I can purchase a plan that gives me that bandwidth, but it's hard to fill that pipe. How long can you maintain a 17Mb/s stream? Better yet, what costs would be passed on to you the consumer for your content provider to be able to constantly stream that?
I can't imagine what netflix/hulu would charge per month if they wanted to be able to stream to their individual customers at that rate.
When will we be able to stream bluray quality to our homes over an affordable internet connection? Given that a bluray based 1080p movie is about 15GB in size, to stream that amount of data to your house in 2 hours would require an internet connection of about 17Mb/s.
I know, I know, most people can't tell when you're getting heavily compressed, downsampled whatever using H.264 ogg-something-or-other. But when someone invests a couple grand into their TV+stereo+speakers, we'd like to be able to get a high quality input into it and not a something that's sufficient for the 6 o'clock news.
I'm not a audiophile, but a believer in garbage-in = garbage-out. I hope the media companies or movie studios don't force us down the path of the lowest common denominator which would be low quality streams fit for an iphone. It's a shame that in order to get a high quality stream you need to pay a ton for the internet connection and then most likely pay a ton for a 1080p stream.
Not only is the graphics and sound amazing for its' time, but these guys wrote their own memory manager and audio/video drivers for this demo. Slashdot even voted it one of the top 10 hacks of all time.
So "don't buy a iPhone with MSFT's company's funds" is a lot easier than "don't consume our competitors products while on business." Not so easy when you're flying and you want a drink and the only drinks that the airline carries are from your competitor...
A backlog of 29.2 million cases pending across hundreds of subordinate state-level courts, 21 high courts and the Supreme Court. According to figures released recently [2008] by the Indian Supreme Court - the country's highest judicial authority - out of this mind-boggling number, over 25.4 million cases are pending in subordinate courts, 3.7 million cases in various high courts while the Supreme Court is stuck with 45,887 cases awaiting justice. According to the Supreme Court's findings, among the states, Uttar Pradesh - India's most populous state with a population of 180 million - leads the pack with 4.8 million cases awaiting trial followed by Maharashtra and Gujarat with 4 million and 3.4 million cases, respectively.
This huge backlog of unresolved cases, experts claim, is directly proportional to a lack of judges. So, while Uttar Pradesh has a vacancy of 521 judges against a required roster of 2,172, Maharashtra suffers from a shortfall of 376 against the current strength of 1,897 posts.
Although cases are resolved at an undeniably high speed, India has roughly 11 judges for every million people compared with roughly 110 per million in the United States.
You do realize that the worst drivers in India come to Northern California? The only difference is that here they drive SUVs and Benz's, while in India they take the bus.
I've lived in Boston, New York and Chicago. And Northern California easily takes the cake for worst drivers. They hesitate when they should commit, they never use turn signals, roll through stop signs, drive until 7-8pm without their lights on (or just use their parking lights).
So I would welcome driverless cars, because it can't get much worse than this.
So now using your reasoning, we'll have to throw away all of our existing appliances and get 'smart ones'. I'm sorry but my $10 clock radio doesn't need firmware to negotiate with some plug. I want dumb appliances to plug in and work.
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I run a large backup environment with Tivoli on IBM pSeries. We carve the pSeries up into multiple LPARs which write to a physical library which is logically carved up. I have to separate the backup environments due to regulatory issues and virtualizing both the backup servers and the library makes things much easier for me. I can set up between 4-8 LPARs per virtual library, and given the horsepower of the pSeries that I'm using, I don't have a ton of physical servers to manage.
Should the public also have keys to the government offices? The reasoning around here being if we paid with our tax dollars for the software, we should get the source code. Should we also get all the keys to all the doors? Or should we just not have locks on the doors to the gov't buildings?
They know that there's more to life than being forced to stay home on the weekends because you're assigned the duty pager. Also that they enjoy not having to do things like "maintenance windows" at 2am.
There are plenty of female developers/QA engineers out there. Who cares if there isn't enough (how much is enough?) women in IT applying patches, deploying networks, managing storage.
btw: There's also a shortage of women zamboni drivers, male daycare workers and nursery school teachers.
nobody's writing an article about them...
wall-mounted monitor + webcam
Mount a LCD monitor on the wall or put it out of arms reach of the kid on a dresser with a webcam and some cheap PC speakers. Put the computer farther away using a 10ft VGA/HDMI cable.
Why make it so complex, does your toddler really need to touch the screen?
Also, nothing like exposing your kids to the benefits of watching TV when they're still in the crib. Instead of TV being the "new babysitter", it'll be skype.
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In your item to be sold...
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Multiple colors
Pictures
highlighted in the listing...
All of these cost a few cents extra to get more "eyeballs" to see your listing and then eventually to click on it and hopefully to buy the item(s) you're selling.
Always wondered why I couldn't format my FB posts with bold/italics or justifications (left/right/center). Now, I can see them saying, "You want bold... that will be $.05."
Of course it would be really slick to have a setting similar to what email clients have which is to display all email messages, regardless of formatting as "plain text". Thereby getting rid of all the formatting people have paid for and display it in plain text (like it is now).
I work for a large fortune 500 company and i was recently told by an org that if I did x, y and z I could then put a 'badge of honor' in my directory profile. So basically I could link to some .jpg that says "I'm a super contributor". Now my company already has the ability to reward people on the spot for a job well done. It's a token cash award and any manager can give them out (a couple hundred dollars).
I might as well walk around with ribbons on my chest for "blogger of the month, webserver team!"
Nothing like telling the facilities team "ok, we're going with 21" wide racks and you'll need to replace all the floor tiles as well.
Also floor standing equipment (high end disk arrays and floor standing servers) are also made to the 19" standard (either 1-3 tiles wide and 1-2 tiles deep)
I know... this is for greenfield datacenters...
Ironically, Do you think he made his wife sign a prenup?
Isn't that pretty similar to the NDA that he's so much against...
If comcast just said that "CAP" was the amount of bandwidth that was used by a customer which left Comcast's network. Such that all traffic that stayed within Comcast's network did not count toward the customer's bandwidth limit.
Nobody said they had to measure it at the modem? Also, I don't believe how much traffic you use is part of this neutrality debate, I though it was around the speed at which it was used. So the same 1GB netflix movie is streamed at the same speed to the consumer as a 1GB xfinity movie.
Backups. The enterprise has the advantage that once they pay for the LTO-5 tape drives, individual cartridges are cheap, rugged, and have a lifetime guarantee.
Who modded this moron up? Obviously, he's never had to buy LTO-5 tape drives in bulk. I don't mean a few boxes totally 25 tapes, but hundreds and THOUSANDS of cartridges. LTO-5 isn't cheap. The enterprises may be upgrading their tape drives, but the cartridges that are often bought are LTO-4 because they are so much cheaper. Plus they can still be used in the LTO-4 drives, for which putting an LTO-5 media in an LTO-4 is a waste of $$.
This is why backup to disk is moving in. Media is expensive and restore times are slow. However, backing up to tape is actually quite fast. Still requires a pretty fast source and server to saturate an LTO-5 drive with compression.
Having the ability to have fiber-channel bandwidth over the WAN fabric on the cheap would revolutionize things.
Hello. FC over WAN is called FCIP. It's already here and used as an ISL (inter switch link) rather than a host to array (or array to array) method. Yes I know that EMC has 1GbE blades for their arrays which do replicate SCSI over IP, but that's a proprietary solution and doesn't scale. How do all the arrays move data from site A to site B? They plug into a switch via FC and then the switch encapsulates the FC packets in IP packets. Then it's up to good old TCPIP to get you to your destination.
FCIP isn't exactly cheap, but the alternative, FC over DWDM is quite a bit more expensive. Go price out your next Cisco 15454 and get back to us.
I used to do a ton of work in a colo facility at a previous company. The colo I worked required you to use the hand scanner to get into and out of the "man trap" by the lobby. This was a problem in two ways:
1. To get to the restroom you had to go through the lobby. No telling how many people would use the restroom and then bypass washing their hands, proceeding directly to the hand scanner and back to the datacenter. You had to put your hand on a metal plate and in my 2years working in this colo, I never saw them once clean that thing.
2. About 8 months into my job, I broke my right hand and it required me to wear a hard cast. The hand scanner was not made for your left hand, but your right hand palm down due to the orientation of some plastic finger pegs. So with a broken hand, not only did I have to call security every time I needed to go through a door, but they called a VP every time i entered the facility.
So good luck if you hurt your right hand or don't want to receive the bacteria from the previous users.
1. Are you that confident that your vendor will always meet the four hour SLA? I've worked with a myriad of vendors (IBM, Dell, HP, EMC, Hitachi, etc) and there has been multiple times they couldn't meet the SLA. In a few cases it took days for the replacement drive to arrive.
I've got a contract with the vendor that they stock spare parts onsite, so they're only requirement is to get the engineer onsite to replace the part. Also given that my datacenters aren't in the middle of the Oklahoma prairies, there are parts depots in the area.
I manage a team that oversees PB of disk, both within an enterprise array and internal to the server. For testing the arrays, since there's GB of cache in front of the disks, I can only rely on the vendor to do the appropriate post installation testing to make sure there are no DOA disks. For internal disks, as others have mentioned you could run IOMeter for days without a problem and then the very next day it's dead. Unlike memory, disks have moving parts that can fail much easier than chips. However, with proper precautions like RAID, single disk failures can be avoided.
The bigger problem is having a double disk failure. This is due to the amount of time required to rebuild the failed disk. Back when disks were 100GB this was a "relatively" quick process. However, in some of my arrays with 3TB drives in them, it can take much longer to replace the drive. Even to the point whereby having hotspares has been considered to be not worth it as my array vendor will have a new disk in the array within 4hrs. With what an enterprise disk costs from the array vendor (not Frys), it can start to add up.
So if I can't go to some big box store and see a selection of 10 different TVs, what does the average person do?
Read online reviews? These are normally stuffed by the vendors themselves.
avsforums? Often too niche/technical for the average person consumer.
We should have an immediate jump back to pre-9/11 security screenings, meaning we all get to keep shoes, bring water, and walk only through metal detectors, not the stupid body scanners that mean you cannot even keep a kleenex in your pocket but you can strap a gun to the side of your body.
I do not care about the remote chance of a plane being blown up in the air, and there is no way hijacking a plane will succeed any more
Didn't we say in the pre-9/11 days that you couldn't hijack a plane? Or do we go back to pre-9/11 security screenings until $DISASTER takes place? Kinda like how parent's tell their kids, "If you behave for 5 hours you can have your TV privileges back" I can see it now, "If you don't blow up a plane for 5years, we'll take away the metal detectors and body scanners."
I can purchase a plan that gives me that bandwidth, but it's hard to fill that pipe. How long can you maintain a 17Mb/s stream? Better yet, what costs would be passed on to you the consumer for your content provider to be able to constantly stream that?
I can't imagine what netflix/hulu would charge per month if they wanted to be able to stream to their individual customers at that rate.
When will we be able to stream bluray quality to our homes over an affordable internet connection? Given that a bluray based 1080p movie is about 15GB in size, to stream that amount of data to your house in 2 hours would require an internet connection of about 17Mb/s.
I know, I know, most people can't tell when you're getting heavily compressed, downsampled whatever using H.264 ogg-something-or-other. But when someone invests a couple grand into their TV+stereo+speakers, we'd like to be able to get a high quality input into it and not a something that's sufficient for the 6 o'clock news.
I'm not a audiophile, but a believer in garbage-in = garbage-out. I hope the media companies or movie studios don't force us down the path of the lowest common denominator which would be low quality streams fit for an iphone. It's a shame that in order to get a high quality stream you need to pay a ton for the internet connection and then most likely pay a ton for a 1080p stream.
This is the demo that blew me away back in '93:
Future Crew (Second Reality)
Not only is the graphics and sound amazing for its' time, but these guys wrote their own memory manager and audio/video drivers for this demo. Slashdot even voted it one of the top 10 hacks of all time.
At Coca Cola, you can't even talk about P*psi based products, bring one in to work or eat at their sponsored establishments.
As a comparison... here's Coca Cola's list of brands.
So "don't buy a iPhone with MSFT's company's funds" is a lot easier than "don't consume our competitors products while on business." Not so easy when you're flying and you want a drink and the only drinks that the airline carries are from your competitor...
Our systems could end up like the huge backlog of cases in India
From the article:
A backlog of 29.2 million cases pending across hundreds of subordinate state-level courts, 21 high courts and the Supreme Court. According to figures released recently [2008] by the Indian Supreme Court - the country's highest judicial authority - out of this mind-boggling number, over 25.4 million cases are pending in subordinate courts, 3.7 million cases in various high courts while the Supreme Court is stuck with 45,887 cases awaiting justice. According to the Supreme Court's findings, among the states, Uttar Pradesh - India's most populous state with a population of 180 million - leads the pack with 4.8 million cases awaiting trial followed by Maharashtra and Gujarat with 4 million and 3.4 million cases, respectively.
This huge backlog of unresolved cases, experts claim, is directly proportional to a lack of judges. So, while Uttar Pradesh has a vacancy of 521 judges against a required roster of 2,172, Maharashtra suffers from a shortfall of 376 against the current strength of 1,897 posts.
Although cases are resolved at an undeniably high speed, India has roughly 11 judges for every million people compared with roughly 110 per million in the United States.
You do realize that the worst drivers in India come to Northern California? The only difference is that here they drive SUVs and Benz's, while in India they take the bus.
...some of the worst drivers in the world.
I've lived in Boston, New York and Chicago. And Northern California easily takes the cake for worst drivers. They hesitate when they should commit, they never use turn signals, roll through stop signs, drive until 7-8pm without their lights on (or just use their parking lights).
So I would welcome driverless cars, because it can't get much worse than this.
You're in deep trouble when you build an ESX cluster. Then you'll have blue-1 running on the ESX server red and blue-2 running on orange.
Stupid uses if you ask me...
So now using your reasoning, we'll have to throw away all of our existing appliances and get 'smart ones'. I'm sorry but my $10 clock radio doesn't need firmware to negotiate with some plug. I want dumb appliances to plug in and work.
Android Tutorial: http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/basic4android-getting-started-tutorials/10839-android-kiosk-mode-tutorial.html
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiosk-pro/id409918026?mt=8