Jesus on a donkey, you're obviously not a parent, are you? If you are, and you're asking such an astounding question, well... there are no words except to question your motives for asking such a question.
You must be aware of the prevalence of child abuse, rape, murder, world-wide. You must be aware of child sexual-enslavement happening right now, worldwide. You must be aware of the catholic church's criminally poor record when it comes to helping police prosecute priests who have been guilty of abusing children, of actually HIDING evidence, of ignoring the plight of raped children.
Finally, countries around the world are getting serious about this issue and passing stiffer laws to combat this. In many countries, possession of child porn is finally an offence. In many, enlightened, countries you are *required* to report this kind of crime, just as you are *required* to report seeing someone murder another.
Then you get people like yourself who question.
For fuck sakes. It sounds like you're trying to justify yourself. Have some child-porn on your PC, hey? Feeling a twinge of guilt, my son?
I second that, although I appreciate the escapism/relaxation it provides. The last time I played games was as a youngster on C64 -- but even then I'd get bored and return to hacking 6502 assembly... waay more fun.
/me takes off employer hat Correct - his priority should be his family, it would be mine. He'd be a fool to turn down the other gig.
/me puts employer hat back on It sucks crusty pustule arse when someone you have invested in and someone you have proven your loyalty to, and befriended, picks up and leaves. But hey, that's the way it works - you get over it. Ultimately, the best performing company is one which acts aggressively, ruthlessly and decisively, much like a psychopath would - no feelings, pure need and logic (hence the comment by someone else that you shouldn't feel too much for a company because when it comes down to it, you will be fired if the need arises) - a company is, after all, not a person. It's a business. If it's not turning a profit, it's dying.
However, a company is still run by people who can hold grudges: Give *plenty* of notice. Two weeks is not enough, irrespective of local laws. It's all about being decent and respectful (you are after all, not a psychopath:). If you resign correctly and do all that you can to train your replacement, they (management) will respect you for it, no matter how much it stings that you are leaving them. Do *not* burn your bridges by giving the bare minimum notice, and playing solitaire (how nineties of me, you kids do facebook all fucking day) to kill time. That shit will ultimately come back to haunt you when future employers/agencies contact them for a reference.
Nonsense. Incremental rsyncs with periodic full rsyncs is a perfect, more efficient and faster backup system. Importantly, recovery is lightning fast compared to tape. Do some research: you can rsync only files which have changed, or everything. With a simple script on the backup machine which uses redundant storage (or machines, some offsite) you can archive these snapshots by day, week, month, whatever.
We haven't used tape for over a decade and recovering a specific file with a specific timestamp or doing a mass recovery is just as simple - and quick.
Your post smacks of so many who have drunk the The Backup Company (tm) koolaid and who refuse to believe that a better system exists. You're an IT manager, right?:D
...and universal cross-application copy/paste (currently, depending on what application you're in, different key-combos are required (or mouse-menus)). Apologists will whimper about this and that, but other systems get it right, so why not gnome?
I'm sure people like you made similar tired arguments when magnetic media first came out - as opposed to nice reliable, stackable, punch cards.
You do realise that magnetic disks also fail, right? You seem to be missing the point about SSDs: performance, reliability.
We use SSDs extensively in our enterprise data centre - the performance gains are worth the price and if they fail (only one has btw, while tens of traditional drives fail every year), then you simply replace them.
You speak about A Backup Plan as if it's a Novel Thing.
...arrogant sheep shagging basturds. They have funny accents too....and too many flies. They know how to keep their serving wenches in their place though.:D
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It also helps underscore how much basic hygiene and sanitation help in reducing disease.
Roger that, for confirmation see http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-mobile-uk-contaminated-fecal-bacteria.html
Jesus on a donkey, you're obviously not a parent, are you? If you are, and you're asking such an astounding question, well... there are no words except to question your motives for asking such a question.
You must be aware of the prevalence of child abuse, rape, murder, world-wide. You must be aware of child sexual-enslavement happening right now, worldwide. You must be aware of the catholic church's criminally poor record when it comes to helping police prosecute priests who have been guilty of abusing children, of actually HIDING evidence, of ignoring the plight of raped children.
Finally, countries around the world are getting serious about this issue and passing stiffer laws to combat this. In many countries, possession of child porn is finally an offence. In many, enlightened, countries you are *required* to report this kind of crime, just as you are *required* to report seeing someone murder another.
Then you get people like yourself who question.
For fuck sakes. It sounds like you're trying to justify yourself. Have some child-porn on your PC, hey? Feeling a twinge of guilt, my son?
Thank you for all the good memories, Dennis.
Times like this I really wish there was a better place after death.
void main (void) {
printf ("Goodbye, word\n");
}
Vote that horse-riding ex-KGB fucker out of power then.
If the fucker refuses to be voted out, then have a Russian Spring. The Arabs can't have it all to themselves.
I second that, although I appreciate the escapism/relaxation it provides. The last time I played games was as a youngster on C64 -- but even then I'd get bored and return to hacking 6502 assembly... waay more fun.
Exactly - peer referral is often very effective.
/me takes off employer hat
Correct - his priority should be his family, it would be mine. He'd be a fool to turn down the other gig.
It sucks crusty pustule arse when someone you have invested in and someone you have proven your loyalty to, and befriended, picks up and leaves. But hey, that's the way it works - you get over it. Ultimately, the best performing company is one which acts aggressively, ruthlessly and decisively, much like a psychopath would - no feelings, pure need and logic (hence the comment by someone else that you shouldn't feel too much for a company because when it comes down to it, you will be fired if the need arises) - a company is, after all, not a person. It's a business. If it's not turning a profit, it's dying.
However, a company is still run by people who can hold grudges: Give *plenty* of notice. Two weeks is not enough, irrespective of local laws. It's all about being decent and respectful (you are after all, not a psychopath :). If you resign correctly and do all that you can to train your replacement, they (management) will respect you for it, no matter how much it stings that you are leaving them. Do *not* burn your bridges by giving the bare minimum notice, and playing solitaire (how nineties of me, you kids do facebook all fucking day) to kill time. That shit will ultimately come back to haunt you when future employers/agencies contact them for a reference.
Like any geek we can but hope that one day something like this will be more than smoke and mirrors.
It reminds me of this case http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2748936.ece
Nonsense. Incremental rsyncs with periodic full rsyncs is a perfect, more efficient and faster backup system. Importantly, recovery is lightning fast compared to tape. Do some research: you can rsync only files which have changed, or everything. With a simple script on the backup machine which uses redundant storage (or machines, some offsite) you can archive these snapshots by day, week, month, whatever.
We haven't used tape for over a decade and recovering a specific file with a specific timestamp or doing a mass recovery is just as simple - and quick.
Your post smacks of so many who have drunk the The Backup Company (tm) koolaid and who refuse to believe that a better system exists. You're an IT manager, right? :D
...and universal cross-application copy/paste (currently, depending on what application you're in, different key-combos are required (or mouse-menus)). Apologists will whimper about this and that, but other systems get it right, so why not gnome?
but given that 4-8 cores is the most that will typically get used
You clearly don't understand the target market of these chips. In fact, your statement is hilariously ignorant.
I'm sure people like you made similar tired arguments when magnetic media first came out - as opposed to nice reliable, stackable, punch cards.
You do realise that magnetic disks also fail, right? You seem to be missing the point about SSDs: performance, reliability.
We use SSDs extensively in our enterprise data centre - the performance gains are worth the price and if they fail (only one has btw, while tens of traditional drives fail every year), then you simply replace them.
You speak about A Backup Plan as if it's a Novel Thing.
If they rank their own shit higher, well, that's their choice.
While pretending that their ranking is based on automation and mathematical formulas only and is not biased? I don't think so pal.
That's monopolistic behaviour, is illegal and is no different to MS fucking over the competition.
Wake up.
...arrogant sheep shagging basturds. They have funny accents too. ...and too many flies. They know how to keep their serving wenches in their place though. :D
woop! woop!
I'm green, bitch.
oops, respect m'am. pls ignore previous profanity.
You're not bald right? So shut the fuck up and allow the rest of us to dream.
I can just imagine you sitting there with your ridiculously thick mop of lush hair and pompously stomping on our hopes.
I hate these buzzwords. For me to take the time to reply to this story in cyberspace shows how much I hate buzzwords.
Please don't let me wake up and suddely find that I'm a responsible 40 year old IT professional/business person
Sigh, too late for many of us.
exactly
What's your point? Politicians manage to say and do a lot without saying or doing anything substantive.
yes, like your arse.