The problem is, instead of using a well-established filesystem like ext2, jfs, xfs, etc he choose to put critical data on ReiserFS, which changes so often the data recovery companies do not know how to recover from it.
He should try another company, and if that fails he should take a good look at the configuration choices that he makes.
It's not too rare at all, and stresses the importance of having good backup power availability and quality storage hardware.
If disks run continuously, 24 hours a day for months and months, they are very likely to see one or more failures when they are powered on and off.
The "very unlikely, buy a lotto ticket" problems occur if you get a bad lot of disks. I was at a customer site last year where several slowly failing disks corrupted the partity of a RAID-5 volume in an EMC array and wiped out the data when one of the disks eventually failed. All data on the volume was lost. I turns out there was a manufacturing problem with the disks, and all of these disks were packed on the same day.
How are you going to be able to process large amounts of XML data?
Think about the massive, bloated overhead already associated with XML... now you are going to encrypt individual elements of XML with a variety of different schemes?
This whole XML thing seems to be Intel's wet dream come true.
IBM Global Services does "Best of Breed" consulting. They push whatever will do the job (and get comissions for the salesmen). If you want Sun, IBM will sell you Sun. If you think RS/6000's and DB2 are shit, they'll sell you Windows 2000 and Oracle.
Red Hat and VA is/was a Linux-focused company. Nobody is interested in having an evangelist/salesman push Linux as a solution to all problems. With the IBM deal, RedHat gets to sell services to a more diversified group of companies.
Also consider that it is time-consuming and difficult to get on government acquisition contracts. IBM is on all state contracts and most federal agency contracts. So through IBM, RedHat can access the massive gov't IT market without getting on contract!
We are all provided at birth with a high-capacity, dynamic computer called a brain.
Those equipped with a good brain who have clients so important that you sometimes have to drop everything and drive there at high speed MIGHT WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET THERE!
Paper map is the way to go -- ever hear of a road atlas with indexes and city detail maps?
"While I was definitely partly to blame, it would never, in a million years, have occurred to me that anyone would do what Aimster did to me"
I can understand that. Fortunately ( or unfortunately) I worked for ascumbag employer when I was a teenager, which left me cynical enough not to blindly trust in a employer's ethics.
I can identify with your plight -- it sucks to work for a scumbag thief.
On the other hand, when you decide to join a company that does not and cannot make money, a company which very obviously is stealing/riding the tradmark of one of the largest corporations in the US and then choose to stay with a company that regularly misses payrolls, you have to accept some of the fault.
I work with some folks whose offices are in the same building on State St. as AIMster was located. They all saw the writing on the wall.
I mail between 10-15 pieces of mail per month ranging from 1st class letters to small ( 35 lbs) packages.
For a cut-rate price, my mail gets to most points in the continental US in 2-3 days. NY-SF is two days, NY-rural Alabama in three days.
Being a mailman/mailwoman for the USPS is a frustrating and sometimes maddening experience. Give them a break. I have had some shitty customer service experiences with the Post Office, but I've never encountered any as pretentious as the Slashdot crew.
I'll try to shine some light, since you seem to be pretty dim.
A double digit drop is when the quantity of some falls (or goes down, or is less) by more than -9.9%.
-3.0% would be a single digit drop. -11.0% would be a double digit drop.
Sources:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,18693,0 0. html http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodre porter/music/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1600689 h ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/193 2344.stm http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,136 7,36961,00.html
More sources can be found at http://www.google.com
If the original poster just needs monitoring, it may be worth looking into configuring SMNP on the servers. I know of a couple of people who do that and are reasonably satisfied with it.
Getting anything out of a home brewed solution will take far too many man-hours to deliver something cost effective that provides the functionality that you need.
You might want to look at products like Tivoli Monitoring (www.tivoli.com). It is IBM commercial software, (read expensive) but it is one of the most flexible and powerful pieces of software out there.
We use it for monitoring, software distribution, inventory and remote control. Our implementation is currently at 10,000 computers and when complete will reach 85,000 workstations and 1,800 servers. All of this is done with a staff of 4.
Otherwise, check out this stuff:
Java Mgm't Extensions Home Page (Tivoli uses this for monitoring using CIM and WMI)0 http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagement /
Tivoli's Implementation of JMX http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/TMX4J
"See ID" is not a replacement for a signature. Hence the notation "Authorized Signature, not valid unless signed" which appears on all credit cards.
Not signing your credit card indicates that you have not agreed to adhere to the credit agreement with the issuer. A merchant is in violation of the merchant agreement for accepting such a card as payment.
Matching signatures between receipt and card is also not crucial -- you are simply re-affirming your agreement to ahere to the terms & conditions of the credit agreement. Other than being a (poor) indicator of whether a card is legitimate or not, checking the signature is a useless exercise.
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That's exactly what the poster did.
The problem is, instead of using a well-established filesystem like ext2, jfs, xfs, etc he choose to put critical data on ReiserFS, which changes so often the data recovery companies do not know how to recover from it.
He should try another company, and if that fails he should take a good look at the configuration choices that he makes.
It's not too rare at all, and stresses the importance of having good backup power availability and quality storage hardware.
If disks run continuously, 24 hours a day for months and months, they are very likely to see one or more failures when they are powered on and off.
The "very unlikely, buy a lotto ticket" problems occur if you get a bad lot of disks. I was at a customer site last year where several slowly failing disks corrupted the partity of a RAID-5 volume in an EMC array and wiped out the data when one of the disks eventually failed. All data on the volume was lost. I turns out there was a manufacturing problem with the disks, and all of these disks were packed on the same day.
It drops onto the turf, (just like a 'mulching' mower) thickening it and strengthening the lawn against weeds and insects.
You can also rake it up if you prefer.
The environmental impact of toxic battery manufacturing and disposal is far worse than engine emissions.
If your wife bitches, who cares. Is she mowing the lawn?
How are you going to be able to process large amounts of XML data?
Think about the massive, bloated overhead already associated with XML... now you are going to encrypt individual elements of XML with a variety of different schemes?
This whole XML thing seems to be Intel's wet dream come true.
IBM Global Services does "Best of Breed" consulting. They push whatever will do the job (and get comissions for the salesmen). If you want Sun, IBM will sell you Sun. If you think RS/6000's and DB2 are shit, they'll sell you Windows 2000 and Oracle.
Red Hat and VA is/was a Linux-focused company. Nobody is interested in having an evangelist/salesman push Linux as a solution to all problems. With the IBM deal, RedHat gets to sell services to a more diversified group of companies.
Also consider that it is time-consuming and difficult to get on government acquisition contracts. IBM is on all state contracts and most federal agency contracts. So through IBM, RedHat can access the massive gov't IT market without getting on contract!
We are all provided at birth with a high-capacity, dynamic computer called a brain.
Those equipped with a good brain who have clients so important that you sometimes have to drop everything and drive there at high speed MIGHT WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET THERE!
Paper map is the way to go -- ever hear of a road atlas with indexes and city detail maps?
"Battle Bots" is outrageously lame.
Robots fit a couple of genres
-Cool looking contraptions -- these are always too hard to control and lose.
-Doorjams with wheels. Always win
-Spinning discs
The easiest to evaluate a "sport" is to think "Could you gamble on this". Battlebots is too predictable to be called anything like a sport.
The real "geek" sport on TV is "Junkyard Wars". That is far more of an intellectual and competitive exercise than putting wheels on a metal box.
Figure you get two IBM Sharks with two expansion frames, maximum cache and 36GB disk eighpacks.
... about $500k
That's like $6MM for most customers.
Fibre channel directors and switches
Tape robot... $1 MM
Storage Mgmt software like TSM... $400,000
The extra $10MM is probaly for full-time consultants, a more expensive solution like EMC or a more fault-tolerant solution.
Get a clue man.
Where is your failover?
How are you going to connect this disks together? NFS? Samba? That kind of speed (or lack of) is not an enterprise storage solution.
How do you replace disks as they fail without taking stuff offline?
"While I was definitely partly to blame, it would never, in a million years, have occurred to me that anyone would do what Aimster did to me"
I can understand that. Fortunately ( or unfortunately) I worked for ascumbag employer when I was a teenager, which left me cynical enough not to blindly trust in a employer's ethics.
Life will go on I guess. Enjoy.
I can identify with your plight -- it sucks to work for a scumbag thief.
On the other hand, when you decide to join a company that does not and cannot make money, a company which very obviously is stealing/riding the tradmark of one of the largest corporations in the US and then choose to stay with a company that regularly misses payrolls, you have to accept some of the fault.
I work with some folks whose offices are in the same building on State St. as AIMster was located. They all saw the writing on the wall.
There is no such thing as overnight service overseas, with the possible exception of Canada.
All parcels headed overseas must clear customs, a process that takes from 12-48 hours. From there it must be sent to the local delivery agent.
You are welcome to have other boxes. In many towns the local newspaper puts box up for paper delivery.
You are then welcome to pay UPS $11 to deliver a letter or small parcel in two days.
Get a metal box and slap some brown paint on it then stamp "UPS Box" on it. UPS will put packages in there.
Jumping a mass-transit turnstile in NYC is a class-A misdemeanor, with a maximum sentence of $5000 and/or 2 years in prison.
I wouldn't recommend it.
I mail between 10-15 pieces of mail per month ranging from 1st class letters to small ( 35 lbs) packages.
For a cut-rate price, my mail gets to most points in the continental US in 2-3 days. NY-SF is two days, NY-rural Alabama in three days.
Being a mailman/mailwoman for the USPS is a frustrating and sometimes maddening experience. Give them a break. I have had some shitty customer service experiences with the Post Office, but I've never encountered any as pretentious as the Slashdot crew.
I'll try to shine some light, since you seem to be pretty dim.
0 0. htmle porter /music/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1600689
h ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/193 2344.stm6 7,36961,00 .html
A double digit drop is when the quantity of some falls (or goes down, or is less) by more than -9.9%.
-3.0% would be a single digit drop.
-11.0% would be a double digit drop.
Sources:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,18693,
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodr
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,13
More sources can be found at http://www.google.com
You actually agree with me, but you cannot see the forest for the trees.
People ARE wising up... they are downloading music and copying CD's instead of purchasing them. Why is this so difficult to accept?
How can you say that the massive double-digit drops in CD sales has nothing to do with piracy via computer?
Only an idiot would buy something when it is available for free.
As an example, the "singles" section of the music market is dead... sales are down as much as 80%. Why? Piracy.
That's a good point too.
If the original poster just needs monitoring, it may be worth looking into configuring SMNP on the servers. I know of a couple of people who do that and are reasonably satisfied with it.
Getting anything out of a home brewed solution will take far too many man-hours to deliver something cost effective that provides the functionality that you need.
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You might want to look at products like Tivoli Monitoring (www.tivoli.com). It is IBM commercial software, (read expensive) but it is one of the most flexible and powerful pieces of software out there.
We use it for monitoring, software distribution, inventory and remote control. Our implementation is currently at 10,000 computers and when complete will reach 85,000 workstations and 1,800 servers. All of this is done with a staff of 4.
Otherwise, check out this stuff:
Java Mgm't Extensions Home Page (Tivoli uses this for monitoring using CIM and WMI)0
http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagemen
Tivoli's Implementation of JMX
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/TMX4J
Open Source JMX
http://mx4j.sourceforge.net/
Good luck!
Plexiglass is very strong -- I highly doubt that a typical hailstorm would have any effect on it.
I'd be more worried about the plexiglass reducing the effectiveness of the solar cells.
Most AM stations have news every half hour.
"See ID" is not a replacement for a signature. Hence the notation "Authorized Signature, not valid unless signed" which appears on all credit cards.
Not signing your credit card indicates that you have not agreed to adhere to the credit agreement with the issuer. A merchant is in violation of the merchant agreement for accepting such a card as payment.
Matching signatures between receipt and card is also not crucial -- you are simply re-affirming your agreement to ahere to the terms & conditions of the credit agreement. Other than being a (poor) indicator of whether a card is legitimate or not, checking the signature is a useless exercise.
OpenSSH is a subproject of the OpenBSD project.
The OpenBSD version (the refrence version) of SSH is unaffected by this trojan.