If you carry your cell phone on your persons as most do, then a kinetic system is better than solar. Most of the time, my cell is in my pocket, and so there is no light.
There is crypto for everyday use; like I upload a file and give an MD5 hash. That's probably PLENTY to verify if I have a bad download or not. Is someone gonna forge a zip package that comes out to the same MD5 but still uncompresses without a problem? Nope.
Like Bruce says, there's crypto to keep your sister out, and then there's crypto to keep NSA with a super computer out.
If we are talking about the latter, then it's a different ball of wax.
If I'm James Bond, and I need to verify Nuke Launch Codes, then yeah, a strong hash is world threatening important. If I need to verify a file is not corrupt or for use with Hello Kitty Island Adventures, it makes very very little difference.
Let's see, you hate Windoze so you went to linux.. Then you said, "WOW, Windows is unreliable, let me buy a MS spec video game console and try my luck there!!"
Why I bought a PS3. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice..
There really is only 1 reason that people pick ext3 over XFS, and that's ext2. If you have a ext2 system, slapping a journaling system on it let's you "upgrade" your filesystem with minimal work.
But for sheer raw performance, I think XFS is superior to ext3.
When you take YOUR hard work, and give it to everybody FOR FREE, and then act surprised that you aren't making a profit because it's FREE, I don't know what more can be said.
When you try to sell support to those who aren't even willing to buy software (more tangible item) what makes you think they will pay for service (less tangible item)?
There was a sales guy at my old company that kept asking me for a file which I sent to him a million times, but he didn't understand the concept of "attachments".
so I ended up calling him up, and
cat file.doc >/dev/audio
and left it on his voice mail.. That was probably the nerdiest *nix thing I ever did in my life..
When he called again, I said "yeah, I left the file on your voicemail".. and he never called back again..
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I've had the best IT manager in the world, and I've also had the worst in the world.
The bad one.. didn't know squat, over promised and under delivered, and when things went right, it was ALL him, and when things went south, it was all us.
My good manager, he said that a good IT manager has 2 jobs and 2 jobs only:
1) be an umbrella to protect the team from the crap that comes falling from upper management.
2) To provide all the necessary resources to get the job done.
If after he does that, and you can't get the job done, then you suck, not him.
That said, I find that when I lead a team, the fact that I'm more experienced (technically) than they are, earns their respect.
For IT nerds, income doesn't get you respect, fancy cars don't get you respect, superior technical know-how gets you respect. So in that way, I agree with the article.
That said, if you want to understand IT managers, just read Dilbert on a daily basis, and you will know why the manager should be fired first..
When I put in my 2 week notice on my boss's desk since he comes into work piss drunk and wasn't in until like 11am, he called me into his office. He asked if I was "serious"..?? What, I just put in 2 week notices as a joke?
Then he said ok, go to HR to fill out some paperwork, and when I finished the paperwork, ALL my accounts have been deleted... Not blocked, but DELETED. So I had 4 hour lunches for the next two weeks..
Think of it like vacation with an internet IV in your arm so you can't really go anywhere..
It's a good thing, trust me. When something breaks, now you can say "Hey guys, I'd LOVE to fix it but I don't have access.."
When things REALLY break, ask them to pay you as a consultant.
The real key is, can he get line of sight to his friend's house? If so, then a regular wifi G router on both ends with "creative" antenna (chinese dumpling spatula) or if you want to go even cheaper than that, then the "Pringles Yagi" is a GREAT choice!
Richard Dean Anderson is 58 years old this year. That said, I would rather watch him over someone like Ben Affleck. Whoever it is, just don't let it be the afflicted one..
If the sales pitch of M$ to the Yahoo! management is "We will liberate you like we did to hotmail!!" then the deal was dead before it started.
Y! has hundreds of BSD engineers... What is MS going to do with them?? Exactly, they will be given the option, come to the dark side, or be fired. Even if they aren't fired, I'm sure one morning when the engineers go to work, all the servers will boot up Vista, the management will say, "oops, it was orders from up above" and that will be the end of that.
I know linux depts that have moved to BSD. I know BSD departments that have moved to linux. I know linux and BSD departments that have moved to and from Solaris. I know small house IT's that have moved from *nix to Windows. But I don't think what MS will be proposing, which is a complete migration of Yahoo to *doze, will work. I think it'd take 2~3 buggy years, and yahoo would go to zero while facebook picked up the majority share of the headless sheeple.
Let's see, we spend cash to buy out Yahoo. We fire everybody, we hire them back to try to convert the old Yahoo into the new Yahoo.net, and we fail in the process, have Bill Gates come back and say we will be releasing Yahoo7 in the coming year, and start throwing out service packs to the Yahoo.net in the meantime.
For almost all consulting projects I do, I have moved to using SQLite for fast demo, because I can just copy the.db file or better yet, I can email the entire thing to someone and worry about.sql files importing correctly. For webpages demos, it's great.
I use postgresql for most productions, sans the big big projects. I find it stable, fast, and a lot more compliant when you are use to Oracle.
Big projects, I use Oracle.
That's it, I find that mysql doesn't have the smallness advantage of sqlite, doesn't have the robustness of postgresql, and doesn't really scratch oracle when I need 4~6 billion rows handled.
I'm glad that IBM is investing in Postgresql; and I'm actually quite shocked how a bunch of copy-leftist linux people love mysql so much.
I actually think that a 3 core system is fairly smart.
If I have 2 CPU's, one of them always suffers because it is then in charge of context switching. If I have 3 CPU's, two to do the work, and one to monitor and distribute the work, I might have 2 "pure" CPU's doing the work without lag..
;;Just think how many problems like this could be solved if someone went and invented some sort of free software licensing system, and everyone adopted it...
And Oracle's multi-billion income went down to multi-dollar income in the process.
Oracle's job is to make Ellison richer than Gates; its job isn't so you and SAP can rip off millions of man hours of work. Free software has its place, but so does proprietary software.
I'm not sure why people clamor to MySQL, and all its problems; when postgres is faster, cheaper, (yes it's cheaper, look at all the database engine within database you have to muck with for mysql, TCO is not measured only in money) and Postgres won't have these "engine" problems that Mysql has.
Yes yes, I know you Mysql toilet paper crowd will stick to Mysql no matter how much it shits on you..
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If you carry your cell phone on your persons as most do, then a kinetic system is better than solar. Most of the time, my cell is in my pocket, and so there is no light.
Obama using a Blackberry, is that called Black on Black action?
Bad jokes aside, he's a national security risk.
GPU's kick ass at SIMD's and so SSE is not as important if they put out their own uber uber SIMD instruction sets.
Another player in the chip is better for us all.
I use sqlite in ramdisk for all prototyping.
I use postgresql for production.
I use Oracle for mega-productions.
I actually don't have a place where mysql is the answer. with sqlite, I can email the entire database or back it up as a file with no problem.
postgres handles large loads better.
Oracle handles everything better but is $$$.
I recommend you move to 2.6 simply for XFS..
XFS vs ext3 on weaker hardware is a world of difference..
I think you need to draw the line in the sand..
There is crypto for everyday use; like I upload a file and give an MD5 hash. That's probably PLENTY to verify if I have a bad download or not. Is someone gonna forge a zip package that comes out to the same MD5 but still uncompresses without a problem? Nope.
Like Bruce says, there's crypto to keep your sister out, and then there's crypto to keep NSA with a super computer out.
If we are talking about the latter, then it's a different ball of wax.
If I'm James Bond, and I need to verify Nuke Launch Codes, then yeah, a strong hash is world threatening important. If I need to verify a file is not corrupt or for use with Hello Kitty Island Adventures, it makes very very little difference.
The PS3 is basically the Aerial Atom of the Super Computing world.
Mercedes McLaren:
$499K
0-60mph: 3.8sec
Ariel Atom:
$65K
0-60mph: 2.8sec
Plus, the XBox eats your DVD's..
Let's see, you hate Windoze so you went to linux.. Then you said, "WOW, Windows is unreliable, let me buy a MS spec video game console and try my luck there!!"
Why I bought a PS3. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice..
There really is only 1 reason that people pick ext3 over XFS, and that's ext2. If you have a ext2 system, slapping a journaling system on it let's you "upgrade" your filesystem with minimal work.
But for sheer raw performance, I think XFS is superior to ext3.
When you take YOUR hard work, and give it to everybody FOR FREE, and then act surprised that you aren't making a profit because it's FREE, I don't know what more can be said.
When you try to sell support to those who aren't even willing to buy software (more tangible item) what makes you think they will pay for service (less tangible item)?
There was a sales guy at my old company that kept asking me for a file which I sent to him a million times, but he didn't understand the concept of "attachments".
so I ended up calling him up, and
cat file.doc > /dev/audio
and left it on his voice mail.. That was probably the nerdiest *nix thing I ever did in my life..
When he called again, I said "yeah, I left the file on your voicemail".. and he never called back again..
I've had the best IT manager in the world, and I've also had the worst in the world.
The bad one.. didn't know squat, over promised and under delivered, and when things went right, it was ALL him, and when things went south, it was all us.
My good manager, he said that a good IT manager has 2 jobs and 2 jobs only:
1) be an umbrella to protect the team from the crap that comes falling from upper management.
2) To provide all the necessary resources to get the job done.
If after he does that, and you can't get the job done, then you suck, not him.
That said, I find that when I lead a team, the fact that I'm more experienced (technically) than they are, earns their respect.
For IT nerds, income doesn't get you respect, fancy cars don't get you respect, superior technical know-how gets you respect. So in that way, I agree with the article.
That said, if you want to understand IT managers, just read Dilbert on a daily basis, and you will know why the manager should be fired first..
I'm sure the tv series "Eureka" is roughly based on Bletchley park...
On my "to visit" list...
I guess his wife told him she prefers XFS.. and so he had to bust a cap in her ass..
Synology DS-207+
Is this filmed at the same location as they filmed the fake moon landings?
When I put in my 2 week notice on my boss's desk since he comes into work piss drunk and wasn't in until like 11am, he called me into his office. He asked if I was "serious"..?? What, I just put in 2 week notices as a joke?
Then he said ok, go to HR to fill out some paperwork, and when I finished the paperwork, ALL my accounts have been deleted... Not blocked, but DELETED. So I had 4 hour lunches for the next two weeks..
Think of it like vacation with an internet IV in your arm so you can't really go anywhere..
It's a good thing, trust me. When something breaks, now you can say "Hey guys, I'd LOVE to fix it but I don't have access.."
When things REALLY break, ask them to pay you as a consultant.
The real key is, can he get line of sight to his friend's house? If so, then a regular wifi G router on both ends with "creative" antenna (chinese dumpling spatula) or if you want to go even cheaper than that, then the "Pringles Yagi" is a GREAT choice!
Pringles Wireless Antenna
http://www.netscum.com/~clapp/wireless.html
I'd go Pringles.. If you Yagi both sides, and have line of sight, then you are looking at probably 10 miles easily.. So 500 yards would be nothing.
Richard Dean Anderson is 58 years old this year. That said, I would rather watch him over someone like Ben Affleck. Whoever it is, just don't let it be the afflicted one..
If the sales pitch of M$ to the Yahoo! management is "We will liberate you like we did to hotmail!!" then the deal was dead before it started.
Y! has hundreds of BSD engineers... What is MS going to do with them?? Exactly, they will be given the option, come to the dark side, or be fired. Even if they aren't fired, I'm sure one morning when the engineers go to work, all the servers will boot up Vista, the management will say, "oops, it was orders from up above" and that will be the end of that.
I know linux depts that have moved to BSD. I know BSD departments that have moved to linux. I know linux and BSD departments that have moved to and from Solaris. I know small house IT's that have moved from *nix to Windows. But I don't think what MS will be proposing, which is a complete migration of Yahoo to *doze, will work. I think it'd take 2~3 buggy years, and yahoo would go to zero while facebook picked up the majority share of the headless sheeple.
Let's see, we spend cash to buy out Yahoo. We fire everybody, we hire them back to try to convert the old Yahoo into the new Yahoo.net, and we fail in the process, have Bill Gates come back and say we will be releasing Yahoo7 in the coming year, and start throwing out service packs to the Yahoo.net in the meantime.
For almost all consulting projects I do, I have moved to using SQLite for fast demo, because I can just copy the .db file or better yet, I can email the entire thing to someone and worry about .sql files importing correctly. For webpages demos, it's great.
I use postgresql for most productions, sans the big big projects. I find it stable, fast, and a lot more compliant when you are use to Oracle.
Big projects, I use Oracle.
That's it, I find that mysql doesn't have the smallness advantage of sqlite, doesn't have the robustness of postgresql, and doesn't really scratch oracle when I need 4~6 billion rows handled.
I'm glad that IBM is investing in Postgresql; and I'm actually quite shocked how a bunch of copy-leftist linux people love mysql so much.
I actually think that a 3 core system is fairly smart.
If I have 2 CPU's, one of them always suffers because it is then in charge of context switching. If I have 3 CPU's, two to do the work, and one to monitor and distribute the work, I might have 2 "pure" CPU's doing the work without lag..
Just a thought...
If IBM wants to get in good with the Linux community, they should buy SCO right now..
If Micro$oft wants to pick another fight with the linux community, then they should buy SCO right now..
I'd love to read tomorrow "and in other news, IBM has purchased a controlling stake in SCO for $10.."
;;Just think how many problems like this could be solved if someone went and invented some sort of free software licensing system, and everyone adopted it...
And Oracle's multi-billion income went down to multi-dollar income in the process.
Oracle's job is to make Ellison richer than Gates; its job isn't so you and SAP can rip off millions of man hours of work. Free software has its place, but so does proprietary software.
I'm not sure why people clamor to MySQL, and all its problems; when postgres is faster, cheaper, (yes it's cheaper, look at all the database engine within database you have to muck with for mysql, TCO is not measured only in money) and Postgres won't have these "engine" problems that Mysql has.
Yes yes, I know you Mysql toilet paper crowd will stick to Mysql no matter how much it shits on you..
http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6 -- proof's in the pudding..