It does rock though, doesn't it. Tie it in to your NIS/NIS+ netgroups stuff, CVS config management repository, drive from a SQL rdbms and put a nice Zope based front end to the database.
I manage a couple of hundred boxes. Once you're past 10 or so, everything has to be automated and architected in a scalable manner anyway. Once you've got that bit right, you can manage 50 boxes as easily as 10 and 500 boxes as easily as 50 and 5000 boxes as easily as 500.
For some hints and tips check out: http://www.infrastructures.org/
BTW, this kind of attitude to system management, along with no license Linux, this DOES mean that the Windows system administrator is dead as a long term job proposition.
Would that be US government prices?
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Droning On
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I don't get spam. At all. Despite my email address being posted to usenet groups regularly and being available on web sites.
If you're still getting spam, and whining about it, you really need to start thinking about how competent you are with respect to information technology and perhaps, maybe, it isn't the right profession for you.
There are many anti-spam technologies available and you know what? Some of them even work.
Mine's picked up a bunch of stuff I'd have missed otherwise.
Philly (on at 4am for some reason) MotoGP racing Cleopatra 2525 First wave (Ok, so it's crap, but I like it) Futurama Farscape Loads of films.
It has of course, picked crap as well, it likes S club 7 and The Office.
The secret is to be sparing at first with the thumbs, it'll initially record all sort of junk suggestions.
Clear all the thumb data it's got so far. Go through your season passes and give them 1 thumbs up. Then as it suggests stuff, set up passes for stuff you like and give them a thumbs up, only give a single thumbs down when it actually records a suggestion you really don't like.
Mine's pretty much house trained now. Takes a few weeks.
And I can't emphasise strongly enough how important that stability is. I can get actual work done instead of fighting fires.
e.g. average AIX box: #> uptime
10:15AM up 368 days, 42 mins, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.12, 0.12
Everyone's on holiday at the moment, so all the systems are idle.
Our Linux boxes are quite good but the AIX boxes still beat them easily in terms of stability and flexibility and it's not as if IBM's Unix systems are their most stable platforms. Windows is comparatively shite.
We could argue all day about the relative merits of the various operating systems and hardware platforms, but I would have no qualms about spending a bit more cash up front and spec'ing an IBM box for an application.
I hear they are very warm and cosy at this time of year. Everything will be lovely and soft, no need to make any decisions or take responsibility for anything ever again.
After all, nobody is going to believe that speeding information won't be passed to the police, despite any laws currently in place, therefore, they may well switch off their bloody phones rather than weave randomly across lanes of traffic when making or answering a call the way they do at the moment.
The term "pissed" in the UK refers to the state of being smashed out of your skull on whichever booze is available. However in today's politically correct times, that's not an option.
That's the best present a company can give it's employees at christmas. Think of it as team building.
I've been thinking of getting one and looking for insipiration. The tree of life from Celtic/Norse mythology is top of the list so far for a number of reasons.
Favourite design so far is: http://www.kelticdesigns.com/Pages/Treeprint. html
Though I haven't yet asked permission from the artist.
Mainframes are too expensive, and proprietary.
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Use a 3 tiered system architecture instead.
As you suggest, cheap Windows/X terminals on the desktop.
A cluster of cheap, obsolete desktop PCs as the middle layer login servers.
Backend application servers running the applications and accessible from the login servers.
Slashdot Mirror
This is Microsoft we're talking about here. You just *know* that the key to the Xbox is going to be "password" followed by 2000 or so spaces.
Don't f*cking tell everyone!!!!
It does rock though, doesn't it. Tie it in to your NIS/NIS+ netgroups stuff, CVS config management repository, drive from a SQL rdbms and put a nice Zope based front end to the database.
Why not.
I manage a couple of hundred boxes. Once you're past 10 or so, everything has to be automated and architected in a scalable manner anyway. Once you've got that bit right, you can manage 50 boxes as easily as 10 and 500 boxes as easily as 50 and 5000 boxes as easily as 500.
For some hints and tips check out:
http://www.infrastructures.org/
BTW, this kind of attitude to system management, along with no license Linux, this DOES mean that the Windows system administrator is dead as a long term job proposition.
Cos not everyone spends $30,000 on a lav seat.
You think they're going to use a single vehicle for all purposes?
These guys already make airship based cargo drones:
http://www.ahausa.com/
And no I'm not American.
Cooped up in a car for 2-4 hours per day.
Seriously. Go work out how much of your life you'd spend sitting in traffic over say 50 years.
After all, a 10mpg SUV pays more tax than an 80mpg Smartcar for each mile it travels anyway, so what's the problem?
And whiz through those traffic jams all the while enjoying yourself immensely.
I don't get spam. At all. Despite my email address being posted to usenet groups regularly and being available on web sites.
If you're still getting spam, and whining about it, you really need to start thinking about how competent you are with respect to information technology and perhaps, maybe, it isn't the right profession for you.
There are many anti-spam technologies available and you know what? Some of them even work.
No kidding.
http://www.bosshosscycle.com/
Or more reasonably:
http://home.mira.net/~iwd/
Mine's picked up a bunch of stuff I'd have missed otherwise.
Philly (on at 4am for some reason)
MotoGP racing
Cleopatra 2525
First wave (Ok, so it's crap, but I like it)
Futurama
Farscape
Loads of films.
It has of course, picked crap as well, it likes S club 7 and The Office.
The secret is to be sparing at first with the thumbs, it'll initially record all sort of junk suggestions.
Clear all the thumb data it's got so far. Go through your season passes and give them 1 thumbs up. Then as it suggests stuff, set up passes for stuff you like and give them a thumbs up, only give a single thumbs down when it actually records a suggestion you really don't like.
Mine's pretty much house trained now. Takes a few weeks.
Alternatively, you could always learn spanish.
US payphones, European payphones and UK payphones.
Good riddance.
It's the global marketplace. Working.
If you charge too much for something, customers go elsewhere.
IBM boxes == rock solid.
And I can't emphasise strongly enough how important that stability is. I can get actual work done instead of fighting fires.
e.g. average AIX box:
#> uptime
10:15AM up 368 days, 42 mins, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.12, 0.12
Everyone's on holiday at the moment, so all the systems are idle.
Our Linux boxes are quite good but the AIX boxes still beat them easily in terms of stability and flexibility and it's not as if IBM's Unix systems are their most stable platforms. Windows is comparatively shite.
We could argue all day about the relative merits of the various operating systems and hardware platforms, but I would have no qualms about spending a bit more cash up front and spec'ing an IBM box for an application.
I hear they are very warm and cosy at this time of year. Everything will be lovely and soft, no need to make any decisions or take responsibility for anything ever again.
After all, nobody is going to believe that speeding information won't be passed to the police, despite any laws currently in place, therefore, they may well switch off their bloody phones rather than weave randomly across lanes of traffic when making or answering a call the way they do at the moment.
The cadence and rhythm of the words is completely lost when translated. Essentially, simply translating it into english is a pointless exercise.
I deal with DDTS every day and you really don't need it...
It's a pagan holiday celebrating the winter solstice. The start of a new year.
Go check your dates, people.
The term "pissed" in the UK refers to the state of being smashed out of your skull on whichever booze is available. However in today's politically correct times, that's not an option.
That's the best present a company can give it's employees at christmas. Think of it as team building.
Lets PARTY!
A sign of the times indeed.
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I've been thinking of getting one and looking for insipiration. The tree of life from Celtic/Norse mythology is top of the list so far for a number of reasons.
Favourite design so far is:
http://www.kelticdesigns.com/Pages/Treeprint
Though I haven't yet asked permission from the artist.
Use a 3 tiered system architecture instead.
As you suggest, cheap Windows/X terminals on the desktop.
A cluster of cheap, obsolete desktop PCs as the middle layer login servers.
Backend application servers running the applications and accessible from the login servers.
Live with it. I ride 25,000 miles a year and I accept and live with the risk.
You don't like that risk? Drive a car like all the other cagers.
And yes, there are MAC and Linux clients:
http://folding.stanford.edu/