Its been what, 2-3 years since the open-source solaris announcement came out? How much has been open sourced? AFAIK, all the have opened sourced is DTrace (a very cool tool/framework), but nay else. Lets see them open up the kernel internals like the thread model... I am skeptical that Sun will ever release their Kernel as open source as I recently had Sun reps argue with me that Linux/FreeBSD is 'single threaded' and cant scale across more than one cpu, to which I replied 'Bovine Scatlogical Pathology'. Sun is a hardware company people, and keeping Solaris uber-elite and closed source is their only way to sell expensive hardware.
Reading the comments below, people keep saying how contracting is a nightmare. My contracting experience over the last 4 years has been anything but. How fricking hard is it to keep 2 spreadsheets with expenses/wage disbursements in one, and revenues in the other? Get an accountant and pay them a grand a year to do your business and personal taxes.
Anyone who says this is hard is on crack. I have maybe 2 days of work at year end to review my recipts, cancelled cheques, bank statements and pull my *TWO* spreadsheets into an envelope to give my accountant. He calls a couple of weeks later, tells me how much tax I owe and how much I owe him. I always leave with a smile on my face.
... you will have as much job security as any perm employee. I have also been told that since contracts are budgeted in advance they, at times, can be more secure than regular employment.
This is plain ol server gear. Sun is very late to the commodity x86 platform and they want to trump it up? Sure the product has a slight differentiation with AMD64, but I know that HP has AMD64 offerings in 4 and 8 way systems.
Sun should have released cost effective gear like the 240, 440, 20z, 40z and these new boxen 3 years ago instead of milking customers for 50 grand (CDN) a pop for 420R servers.
I think you are simply oblivious to reality in large (> 100 people) companies. Again, the retarded IT manager passes the poorly drafted requirements to the *even more retarded* HR recruiter who then applies their own uber 'regex' to the stack of resumes to determine who gets interviewed.
If I gather correctly, you are an IT manager. If so, I forgive your retardedness...
Most IT managers are dimwitted when it comes to qualifications. Keep in mind that HR recruiters, who are usually even more retarded than IT managers, screen resumes before the IT manager sees them. Certs are a good way to back up what your resume says and get yourself into the 'to be interviewed' pile.
I just left a site where the guy with the most certs was probably the worst technical person in a team of ~10. I wouldnt trust him to swap tapes in the library, nevermind have root...
Everyone ensure they remember that Sun is a hardware company, first and foremost. Solaris is a mechanism for Sun to sell more hardware and service contracts.
Kids can stop themselves from losing their lunchboxes, mittens or GBA. Why would you give a ~$1500-2000 laptop to a child? Morons.
Tax dollars build it, government privatizes it...
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Like all other good bits of infrastructure, government money must be used to build it, otherwise it will never get done. Once built, the government will privatize it, and the new private corporations will charge the people who paid for it in the first place (the taxpayers) through the nose to use it.
well you could get a bank of solar cells and betteries to run this for you. Totally uneconomical at this point, but wait until Natural Gas costs $20/m^3.
A dupe of a story posted earlier today. I emailed the onduty editor who did not take the story down. I am beginning to think the 'email the on duty editor' is just there for placebo effect...
Allow me to refer to you a wonderful book; "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire". Please take time to read carefully and extrapolate events in Roman times to modern times.
I was just thinking; MS is a large SW development house, and it stands to reason that they would have a smattering of Linux boxes for R&D/Competitive analysis purposes. Is it possible that MS is one of the 'large companies' that bought a linux license from SCO? If SCO wins, they come out looking compliant, if SCO loses, they sue SCO, or just write off the loss. For a company with 40 billion in the bank, a couple hundred K might be worth it...
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Its been what, 2-3 years since the open-source solaris announcement came out? How much has been open sourced? AFAIK, all the have opened sourced is DTrace (a very cool tool/framework), but nay else. Lets see them open up the kernel internals like the thread model... I am skeptical that Sun will ever release their Kernel as open source as I recently had Sun reps argue with me that Linux/FreeBSD is 'single threaded' and cant scale across more than one cpu, to which I replied 'Bovine Scatlogical Pathology'. Sun is a hardware company people, and keeping Solaris uber-elite and closed source is their only way to sell expensive hardware.
So does JVM i/o performance, specifically disk, still suck the big one when dealing with moderate i/o loads?
Reading the comments below, people keep saying how contracting is a nightmare. My contracting experience over the last 4 years has been anything but. How fricking hard is it to keep 2 spreadsheets with expenses/wage disbursements in one, and revenues in the other? Get an accountant and pay them a grand a year to do your business and personal taxes.
Anyone who says this is hard is on crack. I have maybe 2 days of work at year end to review my recipts, cancelled cheques, bank statements and pull my *TWO* spreadsheets into an envelope to give my accountant. He calls a couple of weeks later, tells me how much tax I owe and how much I owe him. I always leave with a smile on my face.
This isnt rocket science by a long shot people...
I smell a useless windows admin tasked with running a linux server(s). I deal with shit like this all the time.
Wtf?
This is plain ol server gear. Sun is very late to the commodity x86 platform and they want to trump it up? Sure the product has a slight differentiation with AMD64, but I know that HP has AMD64 offerings in 4 and 8 way systems.
Sun should have released cost effective gear like the 240, 440, 20z, 40z and these new boxen 3 years ago instead of milking customers for 50 grand (CDN) a pop for 420R servers.
I think you are simply oblivious to reality in large (> 100 people) companies. Again, the retarded IT manager passes the poorly drafted requirements to the *even more retarded* HR recruiter who then applies their own uber 'regex' to the stack of resumes to determine who gets interviewed.
If I gather correctly, you are an IT manager. If so, I forgive your retardedness...
Most IT managers are dimwitted when it comes to qualifications. Keep in mind that HR recruiters, who are usually even more retarded than IT managers, screen resumes before the IT manager sees them. Certs are a good way to back up what your resume says and get yourself into the 'to be interviewed' pile.
I just left a site where the guy with the most certs was probably the worst technical person in a team of ~10. I wouldnt trust him to swap tapes in the library, nevermind have root...
Given the propensity for critcising your boss that this thread will create I wonder how many people will respond as AC's?
In my case, the boss isnt psychopathic. Apathetic as all hell, but a decent human being.
They are probably linked to Al Qaeda.
Isn't the beaver a noble and beautiful animal?
Everyone ensure they remember that Sun is a hardware company, first and foremost. Solaris is a mechanism for Sun to sell more hardware and service contracts.
Kids can stop themselves from losing their lunchboxes, mittens or GBA. Why would you give a ~$1500-2000 laptop to a child? Morons.
Like all other good bits of infrastructure, government money must be used to build it, otherwise it will never get done. Once built, the government will privatize it, and the new private corporations will charge the people who paid for it in the first place (the taxpayers) through the nose to use it.
well you could get a bank of solar cells and betteries to run this for you. Totally uneconomical at this point, but wait until Natural Gas costs $20/m^3.
Like the frickin morons in Washington do any better?
His work here is done.
Anyone else see a 'Rise Of The Machines' potential here? :
A dupe of a story posted earlier today. I emailed the onduty editor who did not take the story down. I am beginning to think the 'email the on duty editor' is just there for placebo effect...
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Too Funny. I almost shot coffee out my nose.
You are completely off base here. Wireless is only provided in the major centers, and along major corridors. There is no dog-sled wireless.
Allow me to refer to you a wonderful book; "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire". Please take time to read carefully and extrapolate events in Roman times to modern times.
AFAIK, rsync is not really suitable for a realtime scenario. A nbd raid-5 device would be virtually realtime, no?
I was just thinking; MS is a large SW development house, and it stands to reason that they would have a smattering of Linux boxes for R&D/Competitive analysis purposes. Is it possible that MS is one of the 'large companies' that bought a linux license from SCO? If SCO wins, they come out looking compliant, if SCO loses, they sue SCO, or just write off the loss. For a company with 40 billion in the bank, a couple hundred K might be worth it...