I'm a NorCal/Oakland commuter as well. It takes a big pot of client money for me to fly commercial.
Starting from my driveway, I can be in Seattle, San Diego, Salt Lake City faster than commercial (counting the parking dance at SMF and hour long security theater).
I fly nearly every week and I cannot remember a "near miss" either. I don't usually fly on weekends, though.
The problem is that many people believe they grok aviation, but really don't. This is especially true of people who have had some PP training but no IFR training. They don't understand our responsibilities in the system.
FWIW, I drive a Turbo Arrow to work and I can confidently land/take off in under 2000 feet, even over 100F (I do this almost every flight in the summer). My Super Cub never needs more than 800 feet. I wish more places had a dedicated short runway for us.
I am interested in ADS-B, but I don't mind managing the transponder either. Given all the things I have to do over the course of a flight, the transponder is typically a set once and forget operation (especially when IFR).
I think the best feature of ADS-B will be that marginal english speakers will talk less. If you haven't heard a Chinese or Japanese student stumble over a IFR vector/handoff... well... it is no treat. Especially when other aircraft need something at the same time (and when IMC, we all need something).
Absolutely spot on. The dumbest manager I've had since I left the Navy spent all his time trying to show off by memorizing trivia like all the corporate phone numbers (and getting them frequently wrong). This same person could barely create shell scripts.
I have 5 linear shelf feet of notebooks, plus notes on my laptop. It's the only way. I am routinely called to arbitrate "he said she said" arguments because my notes trump all the "photographic" memories of all my local geniuses.
If your lucky, you get old. You either develop coping skills or you don't. Notebooks work for me.
I bought a MacBookPro two years ago because "it's UNIX, you'll love it". It's not UNIX and I don't love it.
Have you noticed the file system is not case sensitive? Or perhaps you noticed all the extra files that reside on Mac systems when you tar a directory? Not really UNIX, but where are dump and restore?
And there *are* problems getting X-11 to play nice w/cocoa. For example, look at the issues between MagicDrawUML and Eclipse. Works great on X boxes, won't work at all under cocoa. This isn't the only example, just the one irrtating me today.
Granted, at least it isn't windows and the hardware is nice enough. But it isn't UNIX.
I've been contracting since 1992 (mostly SF Bay Area). I'm cheap, around $125/hour. I could not imagine anybody worthy of the job to work for much less.
Consider a post to CraigsList, and see what comes back.
Not to discourage you, but this will be a long journey, much of which involves stuff you apparently are not interested in. You will have to staff and supervise the work. If you are unable to communicate what you want done, you might have to pay for multiple attempts to get it right.
Another alternative: If you really have some coding ability (however meager) you should try to produce a prototype and make it available. Perhaps you will attract some interest and attract a community, which is what you wanted anyway.
This book is not a big leap over the supplied Nagios documentation. I bought it out of guilt, but I doubt I have gotten my moneys worth. This is not so much a criticism of the book as praise for the supplied documentation (which is rather decent, given the topic).
Getting Nagios (or OpenView or whatever management system you have) working is a big job which will not be solved w/a $40 book and a afternoon.
For all of you who complain about Nagios being complicated, I hope you never see OpenView (et al).
If you haven't seen Nagios, there is a daemon which performs the collection. The UI is browser based (Apache HTTPD CGI applications). Sometimes there are agents on remote machines to collect status like process tables, disk utilization, etc.
Nagios is essentially a job scheduler/messaging system. Monitoring is performed by invoking little programs dedicated to collecting information, and these are easy enough to create. There are lots of hooks if you need to extend the system.
Since the UI is owned by HTTPD, so is access control. Who doesn't know how to set up LDAP or a auth file for Apache? Most of the CGI plugins are implemented in C and are not ugly to look at.
The agent issue is a little clouded because there are many agents to choose from. I usually just use the Net-SNMP agent because I have a lengthy SNMP background, but that is just my personal choice.
I will stop here since the article is about a book and not Nagios. I merely wanted to address some of the criticisms of Nagios.
Hahaha... I have worked for banks, perhaps even the same bank - and I can assure you that almost EVERYBODY is a "vice president". In fact, if your are note a "senior vp" or a "executive vp" or a "super duper vp" than I guess you are just the "entry level vp".
I have flown a Citabria. And I have flown a Decathalon, which is what Fossett was tooling around in.
These are both fine boonie planes, but I prefer the Decathalon (these days typically 200HP fuel injected). FWIW, Citabria come w/different engines but they are all rather under powered (I am agreeing w/you).
I have a hard time believing anybody w/a ragwing taildragger would not be able to glide to a happy ending.
My bet is a big downdraft. Eastern Sierra is famous for it.
It's not "cell phone" - it's satellite based, but your right to mention this.
All major carriers have their own dedicated communications systems. If it wasn't an immediate safety issue, the flight crew would probably call ground maintenance for help troubleshooting a problem.
This story is dramatic and stupid.
If I lost my electrics, I would simply reach for the battery powered VHF radio I keep in my flight bag. Cell phone wouldn't even feature into the discussion.
I used to code NELIAC (another DoD ALGOL derivative) for several years. Perhaps C isn't the best next step but I am all for retiring the old tool chains. IMO, there is nothing inherently wonderful about ALGOL syntax and modern development tools should be a big improvement.
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I'm a NorCal/Oakland commuter as well. It takes a big pot of client money for me to fly commercial.
Starting from my driveway, I can be in Seattle, San Diego, Salt Lake City faster than commercial (counting the parking dance at SMF and hour long security theater).
I fly nearly every week and I cannot remember a "near miss" either. I don't usually fly on weekends, though.
The problem is that many people believe they grok aviation, but really don't. This is especially true of people who have had some PP training but no IFR training. They don't understand our responsibilities in the system.
FWIW, I drive a Turbo Arrow to work and I can confidently land/take off in under 2000 feet, even over 100F (I do this almost every flight in the summer). My Super Cub never needs more than 800 feet. I wish more places had a dedicated short runway for us.
C-FBQN is so stealthy, it isn't even registered. Put another way, it doesn't show up on landings.com
Did you already get shot down?
Spot on. Mods, give the controller a lift.
I am interested in ADS-B, but I don't mind managing the transponder either. Given all the things I have to do over the course of a flight, the transponder is typically a set once and forget operation (especially when IFR).
I think the best feature of ADS-B will be that marginal english speakers will talk less. If you haven't heard a Chinese or Japanese student stumble over a IFR vector/handoff... well... it is no treat. Especially when other aircraft need something at the same time (and when IMC, we all need something).
Absolutely spot on. The dumbest manager I've had since I left the Navy spent all his time trying to show off by memorizing trivia like all the corporate phone numbers (and getting them frequently wrong). This same person could barely create shell scripts.
I have 5 linear shelf feet of notebooks, plus notes on my laptop. It's the only way. I am routinely called to arbitrate "he said she said" arguments because my notes trump all the "photographic" memories of all my local geniuses.
If your lucky, you get old. You either develop coping skills or you don't. Notebooks work for me.
I bought a MacBookPro two years ago because "it's UNIX, you'll love it". It's not UNIX and I don't love it.
Have you noticed the file system is not case sensitive? Or perhaps you noticed all the extra files that reside on Mac systems when you tar a directory? Not really UNIX, but where are dump and restore?
And there *are* problems getting X-11 to play nice w/cocoa. For example, look at the issues between MagicDrawUML and Eclipse. Works great on X boxes, won't work at all under cocoa. This isn't the only example, just the one irrtating me today.
Granted, at least it isn't windows and the hardware is nice enough. But it isn't UNIX.
I've been contracting since 1992 (mostly SF Bay Area). I'm cheap, around $125/hour. I could not imagine anybody worthy of the job to work for much less.
Consider a post to CraigsList, and see what comes back.
Not to discourage you, but this will be a long journey, much of which involves stuff you apparently are not interested in. You will have to staff and supervise the work. If you are unable to communicate what you want done, you might have to pay for multiple attempts to get it right.
Another alternative: If you really have some coding ability (however meager) you should try to produce a prototype and make it available. Perhaps you will attract some interest and attract a community, which is what you wanted anyway.
NetSNMP works even on windows. It is readily extended using shell scripts (to support your frequent reboots).
Of course, SNMP also provides remote monitoring as well.
I hope you have the ability remotely power cycle unresponsive boxes.
I will go you one further: we should do away w/primaries as well.
That would be Mena, ARKANSAS. And you would be referring to Iran/Contra, which was a Regan affair.
No TP for you! Budget problems...
Yawn. These surplus jets are cheap and common. I personally know several people who have L-29's, some of which actually fly once or twice a year.
I wouldn't give you $5 for any of them.
Might be interested in a CJ-6 or Yak-50 though.
Little airplanes are rather helpful w/the wealth redistribution as well. I went through a engine overhaul (etc) for my Turbo Arrow this year.
Which of course, isn't even in the same league as what you are describing. I'll be quiet now.
Our genius marketing people decided we had to match the current Oracle version (back in 1992).
It's been 16 years, I saw this first hand and it still surprises me.
Have you looked at the sample commands which come w/the distribution?
This book is not a big leap over the supplied Nagios documentation. I bought it out of guilt, but I doubt I have gotten my moneys worth. This is not so much a criticism of the book as praise for the supplied documentation (which is rather decent, given the topic).
Getting Nagios (or OpenView or whatever management system you have) working is a big job which will not be solved w/a $40 book and a afternoon.
For all of you who complain about Nagios being complicated, I hope you never see OpenView (et al).
If you haven't seen Nagios, there is a daemon which performs the collection. The UI is browser based (Apache HTTPD CGI applications). Sometimes there are agents on remote machines to collect status like process tables, disk utilization, etc.
Nagios is essentially a job scheduler/messaging system. Monitoring is performed by invoking little programs dedicated to collecting information, and these are easy enough to create. There are lots of hooks if you need to extend the system.
Since the UI is owned by HTTPD, so is access control. Who doesn't know how to set up LDAP or a auth file for Apache? Most of the CGI plugins are implemented in C and are not ugly to look at.
The agent issue is a little clouded because there are many agents to choose from. I usually just use the Net-SNMP agent because I have a lengthy SNMP background, but that is just my personal choice.
I will stop here since the article is about a book and not Nagios. I merely wanted to address some of the criticisms of Nagios.
Hahaha... I have worked for banks, perhaps even the same bank - and I can assure you that almost EVERYBODY is a "vice president". In fact, if your are note a "senior vp" or a "executive vp" or a "super duper vp" than I guess you are just the "entry level vp".
I have flown a Citabria. And I have flown a Decathalon, which is what Fossett was tooling around in.
These are both fine boonie planes, but I prefer the Decathalon (these days typically 200HP fuel injected). FWIW, Citabria come w/different engines but they are all rather under powered (I am agreeing w/you).
I have a hard time believing anybody w/a ragwing taildragger would not be able to glide to a happy ending.
My bet is a big downdraft. Eastern Sierra is famous for it.
I like the Decathalon, I would own one if I had room. They aren't sailplanes, but Steve certainly would know how to milk an engine out situation.
My bet is he got sucked into a downdraft, although I doubt we will ever know.
I never go anywhere on the east side of the sierras without at least 2000 feet to spare, I bought a turbo arrow just for the altitude.
*sigh* thats the stuff
Hey, loan me one of your job cards. The keypunch machine ate mine.
If I had mod points, you would get them all.
It's not "cell phone" - it's satellite based, but your right to mention this.
All major carriers have their own dedicated communications systems. If it wasn't an immediate safety issue, the flight crew would probably call ground maintenance for help troubleshooting a problem.
This story is dramatic and stupid.
If I lost my electrics, I would simply reach for the battery powered VHF radio I keep in my flight bag. Cell phone wouldn't even feature into the discussion.
I used to code NELIAC (another DoD ALGOL derivative) for several years. Perhaps C isn't the best next step but I am all for retiring the old tool chains. IMO, there is nothing inherently wonderful about ALGOL syntax and modern development tools should be a big improvement.
I've never been prouder of AOPA than this moment.
In fact, I think I'll double my donation to the foundation next time.
What a terrible burden. You have to test fly in a designated area. Like any other experimental aircraft.
Your war story here. Thanks for playing.