...cries out for an approach similar to the combating of piracy back in the 1700 and 1800's, eg) issues of letters of marque, allowing private citizens to capture or do damage to the criminals.
With the steady slide of the value of the US dollar compared to every other currency in the world, it'll get easier to get products that are made in the US.
Yeah, the nukes have stayed in storage for 17 years, except for the ones on the ballistic missile submarines on patrol, and the ones sitting atop ICBM's.
Anyone who thinks that the flying around of 6 cruise missiles is shorthand for a drastic change in American defense policy needs to have their head examined, and promptly lined with tinfoil.
...with some bearing on your problem. Listed in no particular order.
1. IT folks will protect their work. If their work gets assigned elsewhere, they're out of a job. Of course, be too protective and you don't get much done, and you eventually get out of a job also.
2. IT is responsible for delivering applications to users. That means making sure things don't break, but it also means introducing new stuff. Sometimes one is in conflict with the other.
3. IT needs a mix of people to go forth and do new things, and people that maintain systems in good running order. It's tricky to get the right mix.
Sorry to spring this on everyone, but here's the only thing we can be sure of:
Worldwide mortality is always 100%, or, everybody dies.
Live life to the fullest, live healthy and try to prolong things, but sooner or later, your time is going to come.
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Yes, because all of those research scientists enjoy working for free, investors should give away their money, and we should stop all drug research because of profits.
Go look up the history of the soviet union, and see how well the great communist experiment worked there. Pay special attention to the part of people willing to die to get out of the workers paradise.
...they didn't just use a few rifles. Probably would have solved the problem a lot quicker, and not left the bad guys alive to continue their attacks on shipping.
...but my users and my bosses don't care much what searchdatacenter.com has to say about the situation, in the event hardware failure takes down a critical application.
If the people that pay me are willing to invest in the extra HW and SW to make a critical app available, then we do it.
The logistics of disaster relief operations I didn't think that Ann Althouse would panic, but she did, in a way that would make MoDo proud.
There's something called "logistics." Check it out.
You cannot just snap your fingers and make the military suddenly appear somewhere.
Nor can you legally send federal troops willy-nilly to shoot looters, courtesy of the Posse Comitatus act. You should know this, Ann. You're a lawyer by profession. You shouldn't need a dumb grunt to explain it to you.
But watch for much of our news commentary and public debate to predicate itself around a vast ignorance of logistical capacity and principals.
For instance: Suppose you got a brigade worth of troops (5,000 or so) available,. How are you going to support them? How will you transport them? Think organic trans is sufficient? Think again. Even at 100% operational readiness, a typical infantry battalion can only self transport perhaps a company at a time. And if every soldier is bringing a rucksack and a dufflebag, you're really talking about maybe two platoons. And unless you expect the unit to become a drain on local resources, every company is going to take a half truck or more of MREs and a half truck or more of bottled water, along with its own water trailers. I've seen it happen. I've done it. I've been a battalion S4 in combat, an HHC XO for dozens of major moves of a hundred miles or more, and an HHC company commander for six hurricane mobilizations.
Now, you can use busses. But only if you take busses away from the immediate mission of transporting people out of the most severely affected areas of New Orleans. Well, suppose a 44 passenger bus has a round trip of a half day between a National Guard armory in Texas. That bus can not even transport a platoon of soldiers in a single day (and will have to refuel somewhere.) But that same bus, if you keep it in New Orleans, can make as many as 8 or 10 trips back and forth, and evacuate maybe 600 to 800 people, assuming an hour round trip between an affected area and a safe area.
So which do you choose? My money's on the evac.
But suppose you stripped the evac effort dry and got enough busses to support a 5,000 man move. Well, a few hundred of them would show up driving the brigade's vehicles (armed with fuel cards to use at pumps that don't work, so the army would also have to transport in its own bulk fuel).
Well, in order to move 4,400 soldiers by bus in 48 hours, with a 1-day turnaround time, you would need 100 busses. Which is most of the FEMA effort right there. The available truck transportation would be hauling food, water, tents, portable kitchens, and other gear -- not troops.
Well, I think FEMA came up with 140 busses. You want to strip 70 percent of the FEMA effort to bring in National Guard? I didn't think so.
And then when the Brigade got there, it would take them nearly a day to set up. Where are you going to put them? You'd need an entire park or fairground, and you'd need to clear vagrants out of there. That's doable, but it takes time. And meanwhile, you've got 5,000 soldiers on the ground. Where are they going to crap, Ann? Did you consider that question?
No.
So you'd have to contract with portalet providers -- competing for the vendors with bidders from the city, county, churches, and neighboring cities and counties. Portable shower and latrine facilities can be trucked in from all over the country. But that takes time as well. Oh, and you might have to contract with Brown and Root. I can imagine the screeching and howling already.
Trust me. Brown and Root is good at this. If we're not contracting with Brown and Root, we're fools. They're even better if they can hire all Palestinians, Bosnians, and Philippinas.
Well, suppose you've overcome all these hurdles. Congratulations. You've only
1. The evacuation, too little, too late, and poorly planned. "Mandatory evacuation" in NO apparently meant something else. 75% or so of the city got out, the remaining 25% didn't and are paying the price. 2. Contingency plans for handling catastrophic levee failure either non-existent, or grossly inadequate. 3. Civil disorder should have been addressed with deadly force on day 1 of the disaster, when the deterrent effect could have positively influenced events over the next few days. Now it's too late, and valuable time and resources have been wasted that could have otherwise been used for rescue and evacuation. 4. Post-disaster priorities needed to be set and acted upon. Evacuate the city, secure the hospitals and critical facilities. 5. Local government needs to plan for these things, and prepare to cope for a few days without outside aid. It takes time for the federal bureaucracy to get things moving. 6. People need to be more resilient and forward thinking. Sorry folks, but the only one who can protect you and your loved ones is you. Prepare to bug out in case of a disaster, and prepare to hunker down in case you can't bug out. Water, food, shelter, clothing, medical supplies, weapons, and the knowledge to use them all. 7. If you live in a flood area, you're going to get flooded. Don't live there, or lay on plans and resources to evacuate in case things get bad.
We recently implemented vmware ESX into our production environment, purchasing 4 physical servers, ESX licenses, vmotion licenses, and a virtual center license. After connecting everything to the SAN, we can move a running VM to another physical node without any downtime. Total cost of the whole shebang was around 24 physical servers, which bought us at least 50 physical servers worth of capacity, given what we currently use the vm's for. A pretty good deal, especially when you throw in vmotion, really fine grained control over resource utilization, not having to cable, power, and network those 50 virtual machines, and a number of other nice features that vmware gets you.
The camera's "actually make the streets safer", yet you still "have a bit of a problem with drunken violence."
I'd say the UK's problem is more that the authorities are more keen to lock up people that try to defend themselves, rather than going after the true criminals.
http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_ sm allestminority_archive.html#108615212458308161
Buying a weapon is fine, but doesn't get you much unless you know how to maintain it.
Iran bought some pretty neat toys back in the 70's, most of which became useless once their sources of spare parts and maintenance knowledge (the US) became the enemy.
Perhaps its because that what happened at enron is 10x more complex than what happened at World Com and Adelphia.
White collar crime cases take time to put together. Arresting people for the sake of looking like "we're doing something": 1. doesn't work out too good 2. tramples on the rights of the innocent
I'm getting a bit tired of all the whining. I don't recall hearing much bitching and holier-than thou economic speech making when everything seemed to be going well.
The biggest advantage of free markets and societies is that they are able to clean up their mistakes. In any system, mistakes are going to be made with allocating capital (financial and personal). The capitalist system is the only one that allows the mistakes to be recognized and cleaned up.
It's sad what's happening to people that depended on Enron, WorldCom and all of the rest. I refuse to believe, however, that this the ultimate condemnation against the United States and society. There's a reason why the Soviet Union collapsed, why China is still a 2nd rate economic power, and why growth in most of Europe has stagnated during the past few years: market economies with a minimum of regulation are better for everyone in the long run.
How to protect yourself from getting splattered in the short run: 1. diversify your investments, both financially and personally 2. educate yourself about how the economy works, what's happened in the past. There's no excuse for ignorance these days 3. learn to think critically about economic and investing matters. Anyone with any kind of sense could see that the US stock market bubble was bound to burst, and that the results would be nasty 4. make "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" your goal, not "greed, fear, and anxiety"
By all means write your legislative representatives; we may see a few beneficial reforms come out of all this mess.
Never forget, however, that capital markets and economies are changed by people making individual decisions. The lessons of history need to be learned by those people. Governmental action may help a little, but ultimately it's the thousands of people that pushed the 'buy' button that rewarded the execs of these companies for making bad decisions.
The EF-111's got phased out after the gulf war, leaving the EA-6B prowler the only dedicated tactical jamming aircraft in the US inventory.
This presents big problems, because these aircraft have been used quite a bit, are wearing out, and really need to be replaced. Even missions with stealth aircraft are planned using jamming support.
I'd find links to everything I just wrote, but I'm too lazy today.
Real wars are fought by men on the ground, with weapons in hand, that go out an convince the enemy through fire, maneuver, and shock effect to end the battle, either through death or surrender.
Saddam didn't make any moves towards cease fire during the gulf war until the Army and Marine Corps crossed the border and started kicking ass.
The recent campaign in Afghanistan would have been about 10% as effective as it was, if there weren't men on the ground finding bad guys, calling in targets, and pressing forward with rifles and bayonets to kill the last of the die-hards.
1. Ideally you can go with -a file server to provide home directories, combined with logon scripts to map drives -backup software and tape drive(s) to backup the file server -some sort of software to install on each client, eg. www.connected.com, used to backup client-based files (ideal for your road warriors and anyone who doesn't always have access to the file server. This software will automatically back up designated directories to a server, which then should also be backed up to tape. I've used this product before; backups and recoveries are a snap -a good rotation/offsite storage scheme
2. at a minimum you can go with -a file server for users to dump their files to on a regular basis -a script of some sort that replicates certain portions of user hard drives to the server -backup software and hardware -tape rotation/offsite storage
Some open questions: -do you have a domain controller to authenticate againse, and push logon scripts from, or are all your clients and servers not part of a domain? -how much budget do you have available? -how much data are we talking about? -how many users are we talking about?
Depending on how many users/how much data, you may be able to get by with ntbackup, provided as part of NT4.0/Win2000 as your backup software. My company primarily uses NetBackup, but we use ntbackup for 1 or 2 isolated networks.
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...cries out for an approach similar to the combating of piracy back in the 1700 and 1800's, eg) issues of letters of marque, allowing private citizens to capture or do damage to the criminals.
With the steady slide of the value of the US dollar compared to every other currency in the world, it'll get easier to get products that are made in the US.
1. join the consipiracy, or
2. quit
Blowing the whistle makes you a big target. Ignoring the problem makes you guilty.
Yeah, the nukes have stayed in storage for 17 years, except for the ones on the ballistic missile submarines on patrol, and the ones sitting atop ICBM's.
Anyone who thinks that the flying around of 6 cruise missiles is shorthand for a drastic change in American defense policy needs to have their head examined, and promptly lined with tinfoil.
...with some bearing on your problem. Listed in no particular order.
1. IT folks will protect their work. If their work gets assigned elsewhere, they're out of a job. Of course, be too protective and you don't get much done, and you eventually get out of a job also.
2. IT is responsible for delivering applications to users. That means making sure things don't break, but it also means introducing new stuff. Sometimes one is in conflict with the other.
3. IT needs a mix of people to go forth and do new things, and people that maintain systems in good running order. It's tricky to get the right mix.
There's others, but I'm tired.
A working pro discusses his transition from film to digital.- 7883-7913
- 6463-7191
http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7
A fascinating article on how far digital cameras have come in the past 7 or so years:
http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7
...to police fraud on its auctions, when they have to bear the costs of the fraud.
Those costs will come in the form of greater governmental regulation, or people not using the service.
"No greater friend, no worse enemy."
Play nice with the United States and you have nothing to fear.
Kill our citizens, destroy our buildings, and you should expect the war that you've started.
Sorry to spring this on everyone, but here's the only thing we can be sure of:
Worldwide mortality is always 100%, or, everybody dies.
Live life to the fullest, live healthy and try to prolong things, but sooner or later, your time is going to come.
Yes, because all of those research scientists enjoy working for free, investors should give away their money, and we should stop all drug research because of profits.
Go look up the history of the soviet union, and see how well the great communist experiment worked there. Pay special attention to the part of people willing to die to get out of the workers paradise.
...they didn't just use a few rifles. Probably would have solved the problem a lot quicker, and not left the bad guys alive to continue their attacks on shipping.
...but my users and my bosses don't care much what searchdatacenter.com has to say about the situation, in the event hardware failure takes down a critical application.
If the people that pay me are willing to invest in the extra HW and SW to make a critical app available, then we do it.
http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2005/09/logistics-of-d isaster-relief.html
The logistics of disaster relief operations
I didn't think that Ann Althouse would panic, but she did, in a way that would make MoDo proud.
There's something called "logistics." Check it out.
You cannot just snap your fingers and make the military suddenly appear somewhere.
Nor can you legally send federal troops willy-nilly to shoot looters, courtesy of the Posse Comitatus act. You should know this, Ann. You're a lawyer by profession. You shouldn't need a dumb grunt to explain it to you.
But watch for much of our news commentary and public debate to predicate itself around a vast ignorance of logistical capacity and principals.
For instance: Suppose you got a brigade worth of troops (5,000 or so) available,. How are you going to support them? How will you transport them? Think organic trans is sufficient? Think again. Even at 100% operational readiness, a typical infantry battalion can only self transport perhaps a company at a time. And if every soldier is bringing a rucksack and a dufflebag, you're really talking about maybe two platoons. And unless you expect the unit to become a drain on local resources, every company is going to take a half truck or more of MREs and a half truck or more of bottled water, along with its own water trailers. I've seen it happen. I've done it. I've been a battalion S4 in combat, an HHC XO for dozens of major moves of a hundred miles or more, and an HHC company commander for six hurricane mobilizations.
Now, you can use busses. But only if you take busses away from the immediate mission of transporting people out of the most severely affected areas of New Orleans. Well, suppose a 44 passenger bus has a round trip of a half day between a National Guard armory in Texas. That bus can not even transport a platoon of soldiers in a single day (and will have to refuel somewhere.) But that same bus, if you keep it in New Orleans, can make as many as 8 or 10 trips back and forth, and evacuate maybe 600 to 800 people, assuming an hour round trip between an affected area and a safe area.
So which do you choose? My money's on the evac.
But suppose you stripped the evac effort dry and got enough busses to support a 5,000 man move. Well, a few hundred of them would show up driving the brigade's vehicles (armed with fuel cards to use at pumps that don't work, so the army would also have to transport in its own bulk fuel).
Well, in order to move 4,400 soldiers by bus in 48 hours, with a 1-day turnaround time, you would need 100 busses. Which is most of the FEMA effort right there. The available truck transportation would be hauling food, water, tents, portable kitchens, and other gear -- not troops.
Well, I think FEMA came up with 140 busses. You want to strip 70 percent of the FEMA effort to bring in National Guard? I didn't think so.
And then when the Brigade got there, it would take them nearly a day to set up. Where are you going to put them? You'd need an entire park or fairground, and you'd need to clear vagrants out of there. That's doable, but it takes time. And meanwhile, you've got 5,000 soldiers on the ground. Where are they going to crap, Ann? Did you consider that question?
No.
So you'd have to contract with portalet providers -- competing for the vendors with bidders from the city, county, churches, and neighboring cities and counties. Portable shower and latrine facilities can be trucked in from all over the country. But that takes time as well. Oh, and you might have to contract with Brown and Root. I can imagine the screeching and howling already.
Trust me. Brown and Root is good at this. If we're not contracting with Brown and Root, we're fools. They're even better if they can hire all Palestinians, Bosnians, and Philippinas.
Well, suppose you've overcome all these hurdles. Congratulations. You've only
1. The evacuation, too little, too late, and poorly planned. "Mandatory evacuation" in NO apparently meant something else. 75% or so of the city got out, the remaining 25% didn't and are paying the price.
2. Contingency plans for handling catastrophic levee failure either non-existent, or grossly inadequate.
3. Civil disorder should have been addressed with deadly force on day 1 of the disaster, when the deterrent effect could have positively influenced events over the next few days. Now it's too late, and valuable time and resources have been wasted that could have otherwise been used for rescue and evacuation.
4. Post-disaster priorities needed to be set and acted upon. Evacuate the city, secure the hospitals and critical facilities.
5. Local government needs to plan for these things, and prepare to cope for a few days without outside aid. It takes time for the federal bureaucracy to get things moving.
6. People need to be more resilient and forward thinking. Sorry folks, but the only one who can protect you and your loved ones is you. Prepare to bug out in case of a disaster, and prepare to hunker down in case you can't bug out. Water, food, shelter, clothing, medical supplies, weapons, and the knowledge to use them all.
7. If you live in a flood area, you're going to get flooded. Don't live there, or lay on plans and resources to evacuate in case things get bad.
VMware expensive? Not really.
We recently implemented vmware ESX into our production environment, purchasing 4 physical servers, ESX licenses, vmotion licenses, and a virtual center license. After connecting everything to the SAN, we can move a running VM to another physical node without any downtime. Total cost of the whole shebang was around 24 physical servers, which bought us at least 50 physical servers worth of capacity, given what we currently use the vm's for. A pretty good deal, especially when you throw in vmotion, really fine grained control over resource utilization, not having to cable, power, and network those 50 virtual machines, and a number of other nice features that vmware gets you.
The camera's "actually make the streets safer", yet you still "have a bit of a problem with drunken violence."
_ sm allestminority_archive.html#108615212458308161
I'd say the UK's problem is more that the authorities are more keen to lock up people that try to defend themselves, rather than going after the true criminals.
http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2004_06_01
QiNetix from CommVault, Storage Migrator from Veritas.
The commvault product is pretty flexible on the server end, being able to do most of what you described.
If you're going to migrate to tape, you'll probably be locked into using whatever works with your backup software/tape library.
So let me get this straight: we can't defend against everything, so we shouldn't defend against everything?
We defend against a nuke by stopping them before they even get produced, by firm diplomacy backed up by men on the ground with rifles if necessary.
Buying a weapon is fine, but doesn't get you much unless you know how to maintain it.
Iran bought some pretty neat toys back in the 70's, most of which became useless once their sources of spare parts and maintenance knowledge (the US) became the enemy.
Perhaps its because that what happened at enron is 10x more complex than what happened at World Com and Adelphia.
White collar crime cases take time to put together. Arresting people for the sake of looking like "we're doing something":
1. doesn't work out too good
2. tramples on the rights of the innocent
I'm getting a bit tired of all the whining.
I don't recall hearing much bitching and holier-than thou economic speech making when everything seemed to be going well.
The biggest advantage of free markets and societies is that they are able to clean up their mistakes. In any system, mistakes are going to be made with allocating capital (financial and personal). The capitalist system is the only one that allows the mistakes to be recognized and cleaned up.
It's sad what's happening to people that depended on Enron, WorldCom and all of the rest. I refuse to believe, however, that this the ultimate condemnation against the United States and society. There's a reason why the Soviet Union collapsed, why China is still a 2nd rate economic power, and why growth in most of Europe has stagnated during the past few years: market economies with a minimum of regulation are better for everyone in the long run.
How to protect yourself from getting splattered in the short run:
1. diversify your investments, both financially and personally
2. educate yourself about how the economy works, what's happened in the past. There's no excuse for ignorance these days
3. learn to think critically about economic and investing matters. Anyone with any kind of sense could see that the US stock market bubble was bound to burst, and that the results would be nasty
4. make "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" your goal, not "greed, fear, and anxiety"
By all means write your legislative representatives; we may see a few beneficial reforms come out of all this mess.
Never forget, however, that capital markets and economies are changed by people making individual decisions. The lessons of history need to be learned by those people. Governmental action may help a little, but ultimately it's the thousands of people that pushed the 'buy' button that rewarded the execs of these companies for making bad decisions.
The EF-111's got phased out after the gulf war, leaving the EA-6B prowler the only dedicated tactical jamming aircraft in the US inventory.
This presents big problems, because these aircraft have been used quite a bit, are wearing out, and really need to be replaced. Even missions with stealth aircraft are planned using jamming support.
I'd find links to everything I just wrote, but I'm too lazy today.
Real wars are fought by men on the ground, with weapons in hand, that go out an convince the enemy through fire, maneuver, and shock effect to end the battle, either through death or surrender.
Saddam didn't make any moves towards cease fire during the gulf war until the Army and Marine Corps crossed the border and started kicking ass.
The recent campaign in Afghanistan would have been about 10% as effective as it was, if there weren't men on the ground finding bad guys, calling in targets, and pressing forward with rifles and bayonets to kill the last of the die-hards.
1. Ideally you can go with
-a file server to provide home directories, combined with logon scripts to map drives
-backup software and tape drive(s) to backup the file server
-some sort of software to install on each client, eg. www.connected.com, used to backup client-based files (ideal for your road warriors and anyone who doesn't always have access to the file server. This software will automatically back up designated directories to a server, which then should also be backed up to tape. I've used this product before; backups and recoveries are a snap
-a good rotation/offsite storage scheme
2. at a minimum you can go with
-a file server for users to dump their files to on a regular basis
-a script of some sort that replicates certain portions of user hard drives to the server
-backup software and hardware
-tape rotation/offsite storage
Some open questions:
-do you have a domain controller to authenticate againse, and push logon scripts from, or are all your clients and servers not part of a domain?
-how much budget do you have available?
-how much data are we talking about?
-how many users are we talking about?
Depending on how many users/how much data, you may be able to get by with ntbackup, provided as part of NT4.0/Win2000 as your backup software. My company primarily uses NetBackup, but we use ntbackup for 1 or 2 isolated networks.