Are there any other certifications besides the CCIE that have a lab requirement?
Anybody remember the old CCIE lab exam? It was TWO days long, and if you didn't pass the first day, you weren't allowed to continue the second day. Plus the proctors would 'break' you setup while you were at lunch.
Balmer IS the CEO, but when people talk about MSFT, it's BILL's company. He calls the shots. So you don't have to have the CEO title to steer the company.
I've been running lotus notes for 5 years now, and the reason why we didn't switch to exchange?
Because to scale exchange to support the number of users we have, we'd need to deploy *FARMS* of intel boxes.
Oddly, it's been about two years since we had to reboot our iSeries (AS/400). Yeah, it's not as sexy as running 100s of windows or linux servers. As it's just a pair of clustered boxes in the corner, each running multiple LPARs that serve to provide redundancy for the other. But it just works, plain and simple.
I'm sorry any device in which to shoot you had to say "FIRE!" into a microphone was just plain lame. I can't imagine playing Contra or Laser Invasion (the only game to support this contraption) this way..
By offering direct download of a piece of software, the software creator can *cut out middleman* (e.g. distributor) like Fry's, BestBuy, Egghead... etc and now take on more margin/profitability for itself even though the software is the same price to the consumer.
If you pay $50 for a game, whether $40 goes to MSFT and $10 goes to cheapsoftware.com or all $50 goes to MSFT, it stills costs YOU, the consumer $50. However, now MSFT financially looks so much better and the distributor, who was counting on you buying the game from them (rather than from another distributor) is the one that's left out in the cold.
You think MSFT (or any software creator) would actually reduce the price of the software from $50 to $40 and "pass on the savings" doubt it. You'd probably get a 'convenience fee' as well.
It's for MAN/WAN/LAN switch-switch or router-router connections. Not host to switch connections. Why do you think you can't have OC48/192/768 on a NIC...
At one point in my career I was a team leader for an IT group, both my manager (a woman) and I interviewed a female candidate and both I (for technical reasons) and my mgr (for personality reasons) didn't think that we should hire this candidate.
Our second line manager said we needed to hire this candidate as a matter of diversity (the IT group was 10 guys of varying races).
It wasn't like we couldn't find qualified candidates, it's just that they were all men, and when a woman came along our 2nd line manager forced us to hire her.
This woman didn't know how to reboot a solaris box and later took out one of our larger SANs.
To this day when I interview somebody, I tell my peers/mgmt that if somebody isn't qualified, I won't recommend them 'no matter what our diversity training requires'
As reported on/. the standard units of measurement are:
Football Fields in Length Mt Everest in Height (even tho the avg person has no idea how tall it really is). Olympic Sized Swimming Pools in Volume (which again the avg person has no idea) Number of Chins in a Chinese phonebook (when talking about someone's momma).
Look at how diversified IBM is... They survive disruptive technologies and paradigm switches. Switches like going from mainframe to client/server, windows to linux, even token ring to ethernet.
Also they bring in revenue from many many areas... when mainframes were threatened... they looked to PCs, as400, rs6000. How did they look to resurrect mainframes and as400? Introduce linux into their respective LPARs.
When customers talk about moving from one platform (windows) to the next (linux).. IBM says "no problem, use our hardware, and leverage our services." Getting rid of big iron unix boxes to go with hundreds of tiny 1U servers "how about using our blades..." Getting rid of your old SSA storage? "We'll help put in fibre channel switches..."
And don't forget about their microelectronics division... it's not just powerPC, but many companies send their designs to IBM for fabrication of custom ASICs.
IBM has always been a 'soup to nuts' company, MSFT on the other hand... is having trouble diversifying..
Their core business is windows and MSFT applications (office, SQL), but they are having trouble diversifying... They've gone to advertising (MSN), and home entertainment (Xbox), but they haven't had to survive losing one of their primary technologies (remember: IBM used to live off of mainframes). They do have services, and certifications, but I would guess those are pennies compared to OS and applications.
MSFT needs to diversify (yet we blame Google for not diversifying)...
From a Storage Admin's perspective, they've got a pretty old infrastructure and they are moving to a newer, faster more flexible setup... smart move.
They started out with DLT7000, which I don't think you can buy anymore, but those drives could only backup about 32MB/s with compression. Compare that with a modern day LTO-3 drive which can backup 80MB/s WITHOUT compression. Even if they just installed 3year old 1Gb/s FibreChannel HBAs, and upgraded the tape drives, they would have had a better set up. Hopefully they upgraded their backup servers otherwise they'll hit bottlenecks just trying to drive faster tape and disk.
Even though they went with a Xserve based upon a 'gut feeling', the Xserve, while not the greatest array out there (even in the midrange/low end segment), I've seen worse.
I think the bigger news in the article is that they kicked out Legato. For a small shop like this, Legato might be over kill.
So if I create a file (take a picture, create a home video of the kids at xmas). The average user is going to name it Xmas_05_opening_presents.mpg. Somehow I doubt they're going to spend 10minutes filling out "metadata" fields.
ANybody plan on adding metadata to 500 wedding pictures? Doubt it.
Take of your /. "I hate AOL" hat for a moment...
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/. crowd: Get your head out of the sand...
One of Google's issues right now is diversification of revenue streams. Most of their revenue comes from search and ads. They need to find more revenue from different areas, so what if they decided to provide the backend search and advertising infrastructure to AOL? AOL still provides the same interface and experience to it's users while Google still gets to have it's same interface that the general/. population likes.
What if google provided AOL with the ability to provide customized Ads to AOL users instead of AOL having to perform the work? It's called outsourcing, execute what you are good at and outsource the rest to people that are better at those tasks. If Google is good at displaying the correct ads, then it's in AOL's best interest to leverage this ability. AOL pays for this service and then Google has one more revenue stream.
I still use winamp.. Infact I like how it now has preset XM Radio stations preset into Winamp. Same small footprint as the old days, but now I can click my "Advertising Free" way to the radio station of my choice.
How do you capture this information.... do you try it at an application layer? You'd probably capture it at IP as you don't want to ignore TCP/UDP/other layer4 protocols. Do they expect telcos to SPAN all the traffic inbound AND outbound to some monster sniffer(s). You'd want to filter out the control (bgp,ospf etc..) traffic, but a 10Gb pipe (20Gb/s if you think about full duplex). If we used marketingmath whereby a 10Gb ~ 1GB...
The largest EMC DMX (DMX-3) can handle approximately 251TB of storage. You'd fill up the array in ~70hrs (3days!) using ONLY a single 10Gb/s link. Remember that large disk arrays out there have interfaces that are 2Gb/s FibreChannel. So you'd need atleast 5 interfaces (in a perfect world once again), that were capable of 2Gb/s. So you can forget about SATA arrays, as those couldn't dream of this bandwidth.
Oh yeah... how do you back this thing up... Fastest tape drives out there run 150MB/s (LTO-3) application throughput with compression.
Anybody remember in early episodes of ER, in EVERY episode there would either be a) somebody carrying a 'cow print' gateway box in the background. Or they'd be piled up in the corner.
However, my favorite product placement in ER, was how on the counter of the ER/receptionist area there was always a couple copies/boxes of CA Unicenter.
"Nurse this guy has a bad case of SNMPv3!" -"How do we catch it?" "Fire up Unicenter STAT!"
So they go through all the hassel of putting one together, but then when they justify components they use purely subjective reasoning and then later don't even bother to back up their claims
For example:
While the CPU is certainly important, a lot of the work in a home theater PC is offloaded to other components to a certain degree. If you're using hardware-based TV cards (whether digital or analog) and an audio card with hardware DSP, then the CPU becomes less of an issue. Still, the processor can get pretty busy just managing system chores when you're trying to capture multiple video streams in DVR mode. So we decided we wanted a dual-core processor.
Ok, so there's justification for not using a high end processor (offloading most processing to other components), but then they go ahead and drop in a a $330 dual core CPU. I think the only justification to pick this CPU is for the 'geek factor'.
Lastly, after putting in a design like this why don't they go through and demonstrate that they components they chose were the right ones. How much memory does this thing consume while actually running common operations. What is the CPU usage for these same operations?
Anybody can create a media PC, but a responsible reviewer should provide the justification for their steps and the proof that what they did was the best (or not the best) decision.
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Why doesn't someone review these headsets/earpieces while wearing glasses?
Are there any other certifications besides the CCIE that have a lab requirement?
Anybody remember the old CCIE lab exam? It was TWO days long, and if you didn't pass the first day, you weren't allowed to continue the second day. Plus the proctors would 'break' you setup while you were at lunch.
Hard disk actuators haven't been controlled by servos in YEARS/decades. They use voice coils.
Bill Gates isn't CEO of MSFT.
But he holds all the power...
Balmer IS the CEO, but when people talk about MSFT, it's BILL's company. He calls the shots. So you don't have to have the CEO title to steer the company.
I've been running lotus notes for 5 years now, and the reason why we didn't switch to exchange?
Because to scale exchange to support the number of users we have, we'd need to deploy *FARMS* of intel boxes.
Oddly, it's been about two years since we had to reboot our iSeries (AS/400). Yeah, it's not as sexy as running 100s of windows or linux servers. As it's just a pair of clustered boxes in the corner, each running multiple LPARs that serve to provide redundancy for the other. But it just works, plain and simple.
So would the case be any different if this guy shredded a filing cabinet of paperwork?
I thought so, they'd sue the heck outta him.
I have no qualms with a corporate "no delete policy", I'm in the storage business and soon selling tape drives to back up all this 'undeletable data'.
Thank you and the ferrari dealership is now on speed dial.
I'm sorry any device in which to shoot you had to say "FIRE!" into a microphone was just plain lame. I can't imagine playing Contra or Laser Invasion (the only game to support this contraption) this way..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserscope
By offering direct download of a piece of software, the software creator can *cut out middleman* (e.g. distributor) like Fry's, BestBuy, Egghead... etc and now take on more margin/profitability for itself even though the software is the same price to the consumer.
If you pay $50 for a game, whether $40 goes to MSFT and $10 goes to cheapsoftware.com or all $50 goes to MSFT, it stills costs YOU, the consumer $50. However, now MSFT financially looks so much better and the distributor, who was counting on you buying the game from them (rather than from another distributor) is the one that's left out in the cold.
You think MSFT (or any software creator) would actually reduce the price of the software from $50 to $40 and "pass on the savings" doubt it. You'd probably get a 'convenience fee' as well.
Buddy, YOU are missing the point.
It's for MAN/WAN/LAN switch-switch or router-router connections. Not host to switch connections. Why do you think you can't have OC48/192/768 on a NIC...
AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy did this years ago...
Move along, nothing to see here.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-588535134 2753379583
At one point in my career I was a team leader for an IT group, both my manager (a woman) and I interviewed a female candidate and both I (for technical reasons) and my mgr (for personality reasons) didn't think that we should hire this candidate.
Our second line manager said we needed to hire this candidate as a matter of diversity (the IT group was 10 guys of varying races).
It wasn't like we couldn't find qualified candidates, it's just that they were all men, and when a woman came along our 2nd line manager forced us to hire her.
This woman didn't know how to reboot a solaris box and later took out one of our larger SANs.
To this day when I interview somebody, I tell my peers/mgmt that if somebody isn't qualified, I won't recommend them 'no matter what our diversity training requires'
As reported on /. the standard units of measurement are:
Football Fields in Length
Mt Everest in Height (even tho the avg person has no idea how tall it really is).
Olympic Sized Swimming Pools in Volume (which again the avg person has no idea)
Number of Chins in a Chinese phonebook (when talking about someone's momma).
Look at how diversified IBM is... They survive disruptive technologies and paradigm switches. Switches like going from mainframe to client/server, windows to linux, even token ring to ethernet.
Also they bring in revenue from many many areas... when mainframes were threatened... they looked to PCs, as400, rs6000. How did they look to resurrect mainframes and as400? Introduce linux into their respective LPARs.
When customers talk about moving from one platform (windows) to the next (linux).. IBM says "no problem, use our hardware, and leverage our services." Getting rid of big iron unix boxes to go with hundreds of tiny 1U servers "how about using our blades..." Getting rid of your old SSA storage? "We'll help put in fibre channel switches..."
And don't forget about their microelectronics division... it's not just powerPC, but many companies send their designs to IBM for fabrication of custom ASICs.
IBM has always been a 'soup to nuts' company, MSFT on the other hand... is having trouble diversifying..
Their core business is windows and MSFT applications (office, SQL), but they are having trouble diversifying... They've gone to advertising (MSN), and home entertainment (Xbox), but they haven't had to survive losing one of their primary technologies (remember: IBM used to live off of mainframes). They do have services, and certifications, but I would guess those are pennies compared to OS and applications.
MSFT needs to diversify (yet we blame Google for not diversifying)...
So what's the big deal? This stuff has been around forever... is it because Imation makes one?
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http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=USB+wristwatc
Nothing to see here, move along.
Inspector Clouseau has replaced the dinosaur as the official FireFox French Police Edition Mascot.
From a Storage Admin's perspective, they've got a pretty old infrastructure and they are moving to a newer, faster more flexible setup... smart move.
They started out with DLT7000, which I don't think you can buy anymore, but those drives could only backup about 32MB/s with compression. Compare that with a modern day LTO-3 drive which can backup 80MB/s WITHOUT compression. Even if they just installed 3year old 1Gb/s FibreChannel HBAs, and upgraded the tape drives, they would have had a better set up. Hopefully they upgraded their backup servers otherwise they'll hit bottlenecks just trying to drive faster tape and disk.
Even though they went with a Xserve based upon a 'gut feeling', the Xserve, while not the greatest array out there (even in the midrange/low end segment), I've seen worse.
I think the bigger news in the article is that they kicked out Legato. For a small shop like this, Legato might be over kill.
Good to see they are upgrading with the times.
The government listens to lobbists, who represent large corporations... funny thing is..
Large corporations can't vote.
So if I create a file (take a picture, create a home video of the kids at xmas). The average user is going to name it Xmas_05_opening_presents.mpg. Somehow I doubt they're going to spend 10minutes filling out "metadata" fields.
ANybody plan on adding metadata to 500 wedding pictures? Doubt it.
/. crowd: Get your head out of the sand...
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One of Google's issues right now is diversification of revenue streams. Most of their revenue comes from search and ads. They need to find more revenue from different areas, so what if they decided to provide the backend search and advertising infrastructure to AOL? AOL still provides the same interface and experience to it's users while Google still gets to have it's same interface that the general
What if google provided AOL with the ability to provide customized Ads to AOL users instead of AOL having to perform the work? It's called outsourcing, execute what you are good at and outsource the rest to people that are better at those tasks. If Google is good at displaying the correct ads, then it's in AOL's best interest to leverage this ability. AOL pays for this service and then Google has one more revenue stream.
I still use winamp.. Infact I like how it now has preset XM Radio stations preset into Winamp. Same small footprint as the old days, but now I can click my "Advertising Free" way to the radio station of my choice.
How do you capture this information.... do you try it at an application layer? You'd probably capture it at IP as you don't want to ignore TCP/UDP/other layer4 protocols. Do they expect telcos to SPAN all the traffic inbound AND outbound to some monster sniffer(s). You'd want to filter out the control (bgp,ospf etc..) traffic, but a 10Gb pipe (20Gb/s if you think about full duplex). If we used marketingmath whereby a 10Gb ~ 1GB...
The largest EMC DMX (DMX-3) can handle approximately 251TB of storage. You'd fill up the array in ~70hrs (3days!) using ONLY a single 10Gb/s link. Remember that large disk arrays out there have interfaces that are 2Gb/s FibreChannel. So you'd need atleast 5 interfaces (in a perfect world once again), that were capable of 2Gb/s. So you can forget about SATA arrays, as those couldn't dream of this bandwidth.
Oh yeah... how do you back this thing up... Fastest tape drives out there run 150MB/s (LTO-3) application throughput with compression.
Good Luck...
Your local SAN Administrator.
Anybody remember in early episodes of ER, in EVERY episode there would either be a) somebody carrying a 'cow print' gateway box in the background. Or they'd be piled up in the corner.
However, my favorite product placement in ER, was how on the counter of the ER/receptionist area there was always a couple copies/boxes of CA Unicenter.
"Nurse this guy has a bad case of SNMPv3!"
-"How do we catch it?"
"Fire up Unicenter STAT!"
Time to invest in Cisco.... stock price is low now... with $25-75B....
For example:
Ok, so there's justification for not using a high end processor (offloading most processing to other components), but then they go ahead and drop in a a $330 dual core CPU. I think the only justification to pick this CPU is for the 'geek factor'.
Lastly, after putting in a design like this why don't they go through and demonstrate that they components they chose were the right ones. How much memory does this thing consume while actually running common operations. What is the CPU usage for these same operations?
Anybody can create a media PC, but a responsible reviewer should provide the justification for their steps and the proof that what they did was the best (or not the best) decision.