I would like to see the State build the data center. Worse case (and they'll probably do this anyway) is sell co-lo space to various local and county departments that need government level security for their servers and SANs. That is what Yakima County did when they built their space, built it as a co-lo and they were just another customer (for accounting.)
Those Washington State computers keep me from having to interact with State employees. wa.gov has been a leader in getting government online. I remember back in '95 when the head data guy, Jim Culp, raised a big stink with the powers-that-be by listing ALL government phone numbers on the gopher and www site, including the Governer's cell-phone. His reasoning was that the people of the State paid for it so they were entitled to the information.
I haven't been to a DMV office in over a decade because I can renew my VOL and my car tabs online. I can pay my property tax, register to vote, look up laws, ask staff questions and perform many other actions, all sitting on my fat citizen ass. All because Washington State has put so much info online. I even setup a S-corp my self just by filling out forms online.
Take a look at ftp.wsdot.wa.gov sometime. They have had this open since '95 so tax payers can dig into where their money is going.
I'm not sure if Dunshee is just along for the ride (I'll have to call or stop by his office) but Carlyle is deep into tech. From his bio:
Reuven Carlyle is an entrepreneur in the wireless, software and clean energy industries as well as a citizen legislator.
A passionate advocate for foster children and national and community service, Reuven served as co-founder of City Year, an AmeriCorps program in King County. He's a recent member of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges where he focused on the use of technology in education.
Professionally, Reuven helps early and mid stage firms bring new, leading edge technologies to market worldwide. He provides business development, financing, sales, board development and consulting services to technology companies especially in the wireless, software and clean technology fields.
Reuven has served on the boards of directors or advisors for AirSage, Inc., Compelling Technologies, Inc., and V2Green, Inc. He also served as chairman of the board of Twisted Pair Solutions, now the nation's premier provider of radio interoperability and communications software. He was a senior business development executive with Xypoint where he helped build the Seattle-based startup into the largest provider of wireless E911 location services in the nation. Reuven was also a public policy manager with McCaw Cellular Communications and AT&T Wireless Services. He co-founded an international business development firm to help Israeli-based technology companies enter the U.S. and European markets. In his early career, Reuven served as a communications aide in the Washington State House of Representatives. He developed an interest in government while serving as a teenage page in Congress for Sens Warren Magnuson and Scoop Jackson.
Reuven grew up in Bellingham, Wash. and has a master in public administration (M.P.A.) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor of arts (BA) in Communications from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
I did a 100 racks of servers, switches, and routers in Seattle like that. I just got tired of getting my arms all chewed-up fishing cables in the tray and didn't allow any wire-ties in my NOC. Got lots of complements. At a job a few years later in Alaska I was talking to one of the engineers at the local ISP and he remembered that install. Same response you got, "That was you? That's how a server room should look!"
I had an sx-64 (the luggable) which most common failure was to blow the fuse that was wrapped in the coil of the power transformer. Sometimes wish it did have a fan. Though the most common failure mode was to pull a modem off the user port at an angle and short the 9VAC tabs. Bam! dead $600 computer.
re #2: Doesn't the "Whoops Two" reactor use graphite moderators? Unlike the RBMK-1000 they don't push them up but rather let them fall into the pile. I also remember something about a heat fuse link (like of fire systems) that will drop the rods into the pile in case of meltdown conditions.
Of course, it was 32 years ago that I got a tour of WNP-2.
I just saw a show on the German V2 of WW2 last night. I couldn't believe how complex those things were for the time, and that the Germans were building and firing 700 a month at one point. Of course they were able to by actually working to death tens of thousands of Jews. Sad and strange things us humans do.
I remember writing a Mandelbrot program for the c64. I even wrote my own machine code (128 byte) to poke the pixels. It would take over night to just render one screen in monochrome. That was like in '89 IIRC.
Considering my age that would be setting up the Super-8 projector, hitting ebay to find a good bulb and hanging a sheet. We also have a box of photos that have been scanned, burnt to CD and hard drive and stored at my sisters home. And yes, we get the weekly video updates of the grandkids and archive them on gmail. But we don't archive everything that hit the cutting floor.
Exactly! When it comes down to it the really important stuff I have could be backed up on paper tape. My resume, my tax returns and some other odds and bits. I use to try to save all sorts of crap, tried to "download the Internet." Ya know, I never looked at it again. Once in a while I'll find an old drive in a drawer, mount it up and then wonder why I was saving all my killer CGI scripts from '96. (Most of those "send a comment" scripts today would be called a spam-proxy:)
If the stuff is that important then that is what hard-copy and fire safes are for.
Rule one: If you got it from bit-torrent, then you don't need to archive it. If it ever was on TV, it will be again. If it's porn, there is lots more where that came from.
Rule two: If it's for work, then ask your boss how she wants it backed-up. Then you're covered.
Rule three: If it's 3 TB of video of the first year of your kid's life then edit it down to 5 minutes because that's all that anyone will watch (willingly) anyway.
Rule four: If it's killer code then tar-zip-gmail is your friend. Ask some other project if you can stash a copy on their CVS server.
Rule five: five-nines of everything is crap. Live now, not in the past.
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Are you talking about "Blowups Happen" or "Magic Inc."?
I would like to see the State build the data center. Worse case (and they'll probably do this anyway) is sell co-lo space to various local and county departments that need government level security for their servers and SANs. That is what Yakima County did when they built their space, built it as a co-lo and they were just another customer (for accounting.)
Those Washington State computers keep me from having to interact with State employees. wa.gov has been a leader in getting government online. I remember back in '95 when the head data guy, Jim Culp, raised a big stink with the powers-that-be by listing ALL government phone numbers on the gopher and www site, including the Governer's cell-phone. His reasoning was that the people of the State paid for it so they were entitled to the information.
I haven't been to a DMV office in over a decade because I can renew my VOL and my car tabs online. I can pay my property tax, register to vote, look up laws, ask staff questions and perform many other actions, all sitting on my fat citizen ass. All because Washington State has put so much info online. I even setup a S-corp my self just by filling out forms online.
Take a look at ftp.wsdot.wa.gov sometime. They have had this open since '95 so tax payers can dig into where their money is going.
I'm not sure if Dunshee is just along for the ride (I'll have to call or stop by his office) but Carlyle is deep into tech. From his bio:
Reuven Carlyle is an entrepreneur in the wireless, software and clean energy industries as well as a citizen legislator.
A passionate advocate for foster children and national and community service, Reuven served as co-founder of City Year, an AmeriCorps program in King County. He's a recent member of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges where he focused on the use of technology in education.
Professionally, Reuven helps early and mid stage firms bring new, leading edge technologies to market worldwide. He provides business development, financing, sales, board development and consulting services to technology companies especially in the wireless, software and clean technology fields.
Reuven has served on the boards of directors or advisors for AirSage, Inc., Compelling Technologies, Inc., and V2Green, Inc. He also served as chairman of the board of Twisted Pair Solutions, now the nation's premier provider of radio interoperability and communications software. He was a senior business development executive with Xypoint where he helped build the Seattle-based startup into the largest provider of wireless E911 location services in the nation. Reuven was also a public policy manager with McCaw Cellular Communications and AT&T Wireless Services. He co-founded an international business development firm to help Israeli-based technology companies enter the U.S. and European markets. In his early career, Reuven served as a communications aide in the Washington State House of Representatives. He developed an interest in government while serving as a teenage page in Congress for Sens Warren Magnuson and Scoop Jackson.
Reuven grew up in Bellingham, Wash. and has a master in public administration (M.P.A.) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor of arts (BA) in Communications from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
...but until we can make it "run", all we have is a stopped engine.
It's fairly BASIC. Just type "run" and hit [enter] at the Ready prompt!
I did a 100 racks of servers, switches, and routers in Seattle like that. I just got tired of getting my arms all chewed-up fishing cables in the tray and didn't allow any wire-ties in my NOC. Got lots of complements. At a job a few years later in Alaska I was talking to one of the engineers at the local ISP and he remembered that install. Same response you got, "That was you? That's how a server room should look!"
Do it the old school way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing
I've seen what microwaves do in a metal waveguide. They move along at quite a nice clip.
Fire on the Mountain was the Grateful Dead.
So will this make my local salmon festival start looking like Xmas?
Lucky you. I found The Bastard Hamelin when looking up my surname.
I had an sx-64 (the luggable) which most common failure was to blow the fuse that was wrapped in the coil of the power transformer. Sometimes wish it did have a fan. Though the most common failure mode was to pull a modem off the user port at an angle and short the 9VAC tabs. Bam! dead $600 computer.
re #2: Doesn't the "Whoops Two" reactor use graphite moderators? Unlike the RBMK-1000 they don't push them up but rather let them fall into the pile. I also remember something about a heat fuse link (like of fire systems) that will drop the rods into the pile in case of meltdown conditions.
Of course, it was 32 years ago that I got a tour of WNP-2.
I just saw a show on the German V2 of WW2 last night. I couldn't believe how complex those things were for the time, and that the Germans were building and firing 700 a month at one point. Of course they were able to by actually working to death tens of thousands of Jews. Sad and strange things us humans do.
I remember writing a Mandelbrot program for the c64. I even wrote my own machine code (128 byte) to poke the pixels. It would take over night to just render one screen in monochrome. That was like in '89 IIRC.
Considering my age that would be setting up the Super-8 projector, hitting ebay to find a good bulb and hanging a sheet. We also have a box of photos that have been scanned, burnt to CD and hard drive and stored at my sisters home. And yes, we get the weekly video updates of the grandkids and archive them on gmail. But we don't archive everything that hit the cutting floor.
Exactly! When it comes down to it the really important stuff I have could be backed up on paper tape. My resume, my tax returns and some other odds and bits. I use to try to save all sorts of crap, tried to "download the Internet." Ya know, I never looked at it again. Once in a while I'll find an old drive in a drawer, mount it up and then wonder why I was saving all my killer CGI scripts from '96. (Most of those "send a comment" scripts today would be called a spam-proxy :)
If the stuff is that important then that is what hard-copy and fire safes are for.
Rule one: If you got it from bit-torrent, then you don't need to archive it. If it ever was on TV, it will be again. If it's porn, there is lots more where that came from.
Rule two: If it's for work, then ask your boss how she wants it backed-up. Then you're covered.
Rule three: If it's 3 TB of video of the first year of your kid's life then edit it down to 5 minutes because that's all that anyone will watch (willingly) anyway.
Rule four: If it's killer code then tar-zip-gmail is your friend. Ask some other project if you can stash a copy on their CVS server.
Rule five: five-nines of everything is crap. Live now, not in the past.
The porn would still suck on his Herc card.
D.D. Harriman, is that you?
Agree. Back 30 years ago I was only taught evolution in science class... at my Catholic high school.
Bewitched switched "Darrin Stephens" from Dick York (1964-1969) to Dick Sargent (1969-1972) and did well. Even spun off a few shows and cartoons.
Man, am I dating myself.
How is this much different from the fire department going around and asking if you have fresh batteries in your smoke detectors?
Change police to firefighters and crime to fires and see how the logic holds.
Then jbeale53 is making a pass at you.
Bill: Any listening suggestions for an old deadhead?