Do not LEARN on the job. LEARN in class or in a proper lab... not during an outage or during an install.
That is proper IT, anything else is flying by the seat of your pants which will cost..your customer's their data,...your company revenue and....you your job.
-There's no 'local news' (sports, traffic, concerts, etc..) on XM/Sirius/mp3. -Broadcast radio already has a library bigger than what I can download. -Broadcast radio can introduce me to new songs, with satellite the channels are too 'narrowly focused' and mp3s I have to find the new music myself.
-My car, living room stereo, alarm clock, all use MINIMAL power to play the radio. I don't want to have a 2TB disk array spinning away so my alarm clock can play/stream MP3s...
Broadcast radio makes my life simpler. Not more complex, I don't need disk arrays, iPod/home computer synchronization, hard drive crashes to ruin my music collection.
MP3s are no different than the 'mix tapes' we made in the 80s.
There's a baseball that's been out for a while that records it's own speed on a display on the baseball itself. It wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to have it send the speed to some sort of baseunit..
writes "John Dvorak managed to get Neil Gaiman to come onto his video podcast and discuss writing technique and such. I'm not a huge Dvorak fan, but Gaiman will get my attention pretty much any time." Well, it is worth noting that there are other folks before Gaiman, but Gaiman's piece is excellent.
As regular readers know, I've been a huge fan/proponent of Neil's work and having meet him a couple years back and exchanged some e-mail over the years it's good to see him getting the recognition he deserves. Watching this video also made me think of some other unusual pairings; I'm thinking Katie Couric doing an interview with Stephen Hawking should happen.
Hey Editors, other than the bolded sentence, could you put up a better summary? I'm a regular/daily reader and how am I supposed to know you are a fan/proponent. Enough of the editorializing. Summarize the article, don't fill it with your pontification of your importance in our lives.
Depends on what field in IT you want to specialize... (this would have been helpful if you said more than you took the CCNA).
Want to further your DBA career... look to Oracle/IBM
Networking.. CCIE and it's various flavors (R&S, Security, SP, VOIP, SAN). IMHO this is one of the best as it requires you to pass a LAB exam in addition to the written. (BTW, the lab used to be TWO days and if you didn't pass the first day, you couldn't come back. Also, proctors would often 'break' your setup during lunch:) Other networking companies probably have their own certs.
I was really hoping this was a look at how the SCREENSHOTS often depicted on the front/back/inside flap of the box look nothing like one can get on a 3mo old gaming rig.
I guarantee you that I'm a more "dedicated" gamer than 99% of the people out there. I've been playing all my life, played almost every classic game and every sleeper hit in some form or another. I've played games on every platform, and I've played multiplayer games on competitive levels. I've played almost every MMOG in existence to some extent. Next month I'm joining one of the world's best game developers to work on what will be some of the next few years' biggest games.
This is the geek equivilant of driving a Corvette to make up for your "shortcomings."
Although initial licensing fees, cost of call manager software may be significant (CapEx or Capital Expenses), any large project boils down the OpEx (operational expenses) as these are the costs that can truly make or break a project. What does it cost to support a project over a long term?
Although many of these arguments have been stated against OSS for a long time they still apply here. Technically Asterisk may be just as good as Cisco, but there's an old addage for support "Having one neck to choke." What does this mean? If you have a Cisco LAN, IP core, WAN and telephony, if something breaks you go after ONE vendor. With the OSS telephony solution if the telephony solution breaks, either a) you take on the task of fixing it b) you try to get all your vendors to work together to fix it.
Lastly, professional services can play a large part in a corporations decision to go with a non-Cisco solution. Most large companies probably pay cisco to provide consultative services on their LAN/WAN/Content/optical and so being able to ask cisco "Is my current LAN infrastructure going to be impacted by this telephony change? Or how will VOIP be impacted by this MPLS modification?"
(note: I'm all for OSS, but for a business critical function like VOIP, I don't want to be dependent on the one or two asterisk guys on my staff not quitting. And if the system goes down, I want to be able to have cisco fly an army of engineers on site.
Why aren't some of these internet companies regulated/audited/etc like the Utilities (phone, power, water etc..). I would expect atleast root DNS server owners and the major ISPs to fall under the same umbrella as a SBC/ATT.
This is why if SBC has a major phone service outage, the Feds can levy heavy fines... but if Google goes out... they lose some face and ad revenue but are not responsible to the gov't.
A female friend of mine was emailed by some guy on her myspace account. She told him she wasn't interested in dating, and he proceeded to email everyone on her "friends list" that she had an STD, this list included friends, family, coworkers, ex-boyfriends etc... So she's been trying to do 'damage control' for 3 weeks now at this falacy.
Even though it was probably some 'script kiddie', this kind of stuff being emailed to nontechies can be mortifying.
So if we took this list of Greatest Software ever? And you look at the list, it would seem to think that IBM is the greatest software company ever... Looking at the list they made:
VMware? C'mon... is it because it was implemented on x86? It's not exactly revolutionary. Hypervisors in one form or another have been around since the 80s (anybody remember MVS?).
When the controller/circuit board is mated to the platter assembly it is programmed for that specific set of platters and any anomolies on those platters. This is why you cannot take a circuitboard/controller from one drive and put it on another one.
Don't forget to include the costs your ISP will charge you for the bandwidth usage... or if you need to restore 10GB over a T1, I hope you didn't need that data that quickly:)
It's not the online backups that sound like your concern but "outsourcing backups", otherwise you'd backup to a RAIDed pair of disks or backup to tape, both which will be cheaper than $onlineserver + $bandwidth costs. If the tech (could be you) loses the tape, breaks the tape, corrupts the filesystem that is the target for the backups, you can't sue them. But if a company that you are paying to keep your data, loses it, you can sue them for $lost per minute.
If you are going to outsource to a backup company, make sure they a) will be around for a while b) have been around for a while c) have references from people more complex than you.
Some people say backups aren't exciting, try losing a backup tape sometime...
The problem is this 'island' of storage is inaccessible by any other host. You can't mount it (not using NFS) for block based backups on a dedicated media server...
If you liked the concept of the e450, you'll like this box.
If you are interested in storage consolidation and increasing utilization while reducing storage islands. This isn't for you.
With 48disks, you'll want protection... all implemented in software raid. So you do raid-5, probably create raid groups of 12 disks? 8 disks? as the number of disks in the raid group goes down, the amount of disk you waste on parity, and the amount of CPU cycles done on calculating parity goes up.
As the industry moves to FC boot and iSCSI boot to alleviate the need to stock disk drives from 15 different vendors, this is an interesting idea for those who don't want to have a raid array. But in most shops, huge internal storage is sooooo '90s. How do you replicate this beast? VeritasVolume Replicator. Serverless backup? Nope.
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Do NOT play LAB in a production environment.
..your customer's their data, ...your company revenue and ....you your job.
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Do not LEARN on the job. LEARN in class or in a proper lab... not during an outage or during an install.
That is proper IT, anything else is flying by the seat of your pants which will cost
What is this? One midrange disk array?
I bet if the editor walked into their datacenter they'd find more than 40TB...
Why do I NOT listen to XM/mp3s...
-There's no 'local news' (sports, traffic, concerts, etc..) on XM/Sirius/mp3.
-Broadcast radio already has a library bigger than what I can download.
-Broadcast radio can introduce me to new songs, with satellite the channels are too 'narrowly focused' and mp3s I have to find the new music myself.
-My car, living room stereo, alarm clock, all use MINIMAL power to play the radio. I don't want to have a 2TB disk array spinning away so my alarm clock can play/stream MP3s...
Broadcast radio makes my life simpler. Not more complex, I don't need disk arrays, iPod/home computer synchronization, hard drive crashes to ruin my music collection.
MP3s are no different than the 'mix tapes' we made in the 80s.
There's a baseball that's been out for a while that records it's own speed on a display on the baseball itself. It wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to have it send the speed to some sort of baseunit..
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http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=speed+sensing
Hey Editors, other than the bolded sentence, could you put up a better summary? I'm a regular/daily reader and how am I supposed to know you are a fan/proponent. Enough of the editorializing. Summarize the article, don't fill it with your pontification of your importance in our lives.
Depends on what field in IT you want to specialize... (this would have been helpful if you said more than you took the CCNA).
:) Other networking companies probably have their own certs.
Want to further your DBA career... look to Oracle/IBM
Networking.. CCIE and it's various flavors (R&S, Security, SP, VOIP, SAN). IMHO this is one of the best as it requires you to pass a LAB exam in addition to the written. (BTW, the lab used to be TWO days and if you didn't pass the first day, you couldn't come back. Also, proctors would often 'break' your setup during lunch
Host OS: Look to the vendors.
I was really hoping this was a look at how the SCREENSHOTS often depicted on the front/back/inside flap of the box look nothing like one can get on a 3mo old gaming rig.
A whole generation of kids playing a video game instead of taking up the guitar.
Kinda like bragging about being a trackstar yet the only track you ever saw was Konami's Track n Field.
It's not like an entry level guitar and amp are that expensive.
This is the geek equivilant of driving a Corvette to make up for your "shortcomings."
Although initial licensing fees, cost of call manager software may be significant (CapEx or Capital Expenses), any large project boils down the OpEx (operational expenses) as these are the costs that can truly make or break a project. What does it cost to support a project over a long term?
Although many of these arguments have been stated against OSS for a long time they still apply here. Technically Asterisk may be just as good as Cisco, but there's an old addage for support "Having one neck to choke." What does this mean? If you have a Cisco LAN, IP core, WAN and telephony, if something breaks you go after ONE vendor. With the OSS telephony solution if the telephony solution breaks, either a) you take on the task of fixing it b) you try to get all your vendors to work together to fix it.
Lastly, professional services can play a large part in a corporations decision to go with a non-Cisco solution. Most large companies probably pay cisco to provide consultative services on their LAN/WAN/Content/optical and so being able to ask cisco "Is my current LAN infrastructure going to be impacted by this telephony change? Or how will VOIP be impacted by this MPLS modification?"
(note: I'm all for OSS, but for a business critical function like VOIP, I don't want to be dependent on the one or two asterisk guys on my staff not quitting. And if the system goes down, I want to be able to have cisco fly an army of engineers on site.
Why aren't some of these internet companies regulated/audited/etc like the Utilities (phone, power, water etc..). I would expect atleast root DNS server owners and the major ISPs to fall under the same umbrella as a SBC/ATT.
This is why if SBC has a major phone service outage, the Feds can levy heavy fines... but if Google goes out... they lose some face and ad revenue but are not responsible to the gov't.
How do you prove that a kid got his parent's permission?
Have your parent click here [__] to proceed.
A female friend of mine was emailed by some guy on her myspace account. She told him she wasn't interested in dating, and he proceeded to email everyone on her "friends list" that she had an STD, this list included friends, family, coworkers, ex-boyfriends etc... So she's been trying to do 'damage control' for 3 weeks now at this falacy.
Even though it was probably some 'script kiddie', this kind of stuff being emailed to nontechies can be mortifying.
So if we took this list of Greatest Software ever? And you look at the list, it would seem to think that IBM is the greatest software company ever... Looking at the list they made:
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7. Sabre system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_sys
4. IBM System 360 OS
2. IBM's System R
VMware? C'mon... is it because it was implemented on x86? It's not exactly revolutionary. Hypervisors in one form or another have been around since the 80s (anybody remember MVS?).
AIX? Got em
HPUX? Got 'em
Solaris? Got em...
When the controller/circuit board is mated to the platter assembly it is programmed for that specific set of platters and any anomolies on those platters. This is why you cannot take a circuitboard/controller from one drive and put it on another one.
Somehow this reminds me of the old addage about putting lipstick on a pig.
Don't forget to include the costs your ISP will charge you for the bandwidth usage... or if you need to restore 10GB over a T1, I hope you didn't need that data that quickly :)
It's not the online backups that sound like your concern but "outsourcing backups", otherwise you'd backup to a RAIDed pair of disks or backup to tape, both which will be cheaper than $onlineserver + $bandwidth costs. If the tech (could be you) loses the tape, breaks the tape, corrupts the filesystem that is the target for the backups, you can't sue them. But if a company that you are paying to keep your data, loses it, you can sue them for $lost per minute.
If you are going to outsource to a backup company, make sure they a) will be around for a while b) have been around for a while c) have references from people more complex than you.
Some people say backups aren't exciting, try losing a backup tape sometime...
Let's say in the course of troubleshooting this issue, they reload their computer and in the process lose data. Could they go after you?
Doubt it, but i'd love to see the expressions on their faces.
SO does this mean that items like gauze/cottonballs etc... will now have RFIDs embedded in them?
So why does /. link to a blog which in turn links to the actual article: http://www.sagags.com/?p=441? The normally adds NO value.
We're a Cisco VOIP shop and phone conversations sound fine. I'm not sure how going from 8->16 would make it any better.
The problem is this 'island' of storage is inaccessible by any other host. You can't mount it (not using NFS) for block based backups on a dedicated media server...
If you liked the concept of the e450, you'll like this box.
If you are interested in storage consolidation and increasing utilization while reducing storage islands. This isn't for you.
With 48disks, you'll want protection... all implemented in software raid. So you do raid-5, probably create raid groups of 12 disks? 8 disks? as the number of disks in the raid group goes down, the amount of disk you waste on parity, and the amount of CPU cycles done on calculating parity goes up.
As the industry moves to FC boot and iSCSI boot to alleviate the need to stock disk drives from 15 different vendors, this is an interesting idea for those who don't want to have a raid array. But in most shops, huge internal storage is sooooo '90s.
How do you replicate this beast? VeritasVolume Replicator. Serverless backup? Nope.
You'll get your privacy when you get your FastForward button on your TiVo back...