For Solaris 10 & below, this is true. Sun has repeatedly explained that they cannot open source those because they contain code that they do not have the legal license to open source. Solaris 11 & above will be completely based on OpenSolaris and more akin to what Fedora/RHEL is. If you need to SEE the source of older versions for your own development needs, that is available, just not openly published.
A better analogy is 'can someone walk through your yard?'. If someone connects to an open WAP and surfs, they are more akin to walking on my grass to get to the street behind me than walking through my house without permission. Putting up a fence and no trespassing sign is just like securing your wireless network.
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Didn't work for me. it allowed me to connect, but gave me an error saying that IMAP was not enabled for my account. I'll try again in a day or two.
He's not claiming to know more. He's saying he's as VALUABLE as they are, because he allows them to do their work with no interuptions.
SysAdmins (and IT in general) are often looked at in business as a cost center (because servers and people cost money) and not a profit center (like the sales force that brings in checks). This is the underlying attitude that needs to be realized in this case. The beancounter boss is looking at his department as a cost, and trying to minimize it. Turn the argument around like others have suggested, and explain how the workers (and the costly servers) are actually value-add to the business. You allow others to do their job better. Like the BASF commercial used to say, "we don't make the products, we make the products you use better".
One example is to come up with an estimate of cost of downtime. In a Fortune 150 company, downtime costs big money. Show what you do to ensure minimal downtime (redundant fault tolerant architecture, security, change management processes to ensure nothing unexpected, etc). When downtime on a cluster costs $150,000 US per hour in lost revenue/productivity (I use this figure because of a real-life customer of mine has this situation) it becomes easier to show the value of your diligence.
When you start thinking about your role as adding value to the company, not just the "Guy's in the server room we never see do anything", you will start looking at yourself as the company sees you (or how they should see you) and you will start speaking their language and they will understand and respect that. You can show them that giving you a server and time to play with the latest version of X is time well spent FOR THE COMPANIES SAKE. You can show them that all that work you put into automating a task is BRINGING VALUE by having a business process that was manual, error prone, and took two hours is now automated and takes 5 minutes, allowing other workers to do more with their time.
The important thing for us geeks to remember is that we like technology for technologies sake. It isn't that way, though. Technology is used by business for business's sake. Couch your argument in those terms.
Ask your CEO if he also canceled his business insurance as well, since no one sued him last year. And ask him if he canceled his life insurance, since he didn't die last year.
Well, you could look at other vendors that have high quality 1u servers with remote management (ILOM) and 4 sas drives with hw mirroring. You know, I seem to remember that SUN sells some, and they run RH, SUSE, windows, and Solaris.
it would take about 20 minutes to write a bot that would browse at random for you and render this useless. Sounds like a great way to look anonymous. Or really, really weird, depending on where your bot runs off to.....
The water at the bottom of the marianna's trench is very close to freezing, but in this case, the pressure is actually what keeps if from freezing. Water has a strange property where the liquid form can (at certain temp/pressures) have a greater density than the solid form (ice). This is why ice floats, and also what makes ice skates work (the pressure of the skate turns the top layer of ice into a thin film of water. If you compress ice at 0 degrees celsius it will turn into water, while compressing water at 100 degrees celsius will eventually result in hot ice. The phase diagram for H2O can be found here
It's always a good idea to give at least a month of notice, in writing. The worst case is that you leave on good terms with the company, the best case is that they immediately escort you to the door, and have to pay you for as long as your notice was for. (If they fire you after you give them notice, you can sue them for unlawful termination). I had a friend that got a 3 month 'paid vacation' by submitting his resignation letter to an employer with 3 months notice.
apples & oranges. You are dropping HW & SW support from HP/SUN and getting SW support only from RHEL. If you compare SW only support costs from Sun/RedHat/HP at equivilant support levels, they are fairly equivilant.
*full disclosure. I work for Sun Support, onsite at a large company that uses HP, RHEL, and Sun. I work with the folx who purchase support from all three vendors, and I'm going off of what they tell me, plus what I've seen elsewhere.
The problem you describe is tough to solve due to one fact: A manager who is not also a programmer will always have a tough time telling a good programmer from a bad programmer. And there are plenty of bad programmers in this country, too.
Not fundamentally broken-- fundamentally a part of our species. As distasteful as arrogance, greed, war, and conquering are, they are necessary tools in our survival. There may have been peaceful, pacifist nations in the past, but they were conquered by your ancestors.
Oh really. Hmmm, how about pricing out their $32,000 enterprise servers with an IBM x86 farm equivalent?
Oh, lets compare a Mac truck with a bunch of Ford Rangers, too. If you need serverfarm servers, go with the serverfarm servers from Sun. If your app can't be turned into a farm, then you need higher-end (more expensive) servers. All vendors make servers that cost 30k+, for a reason.
I've used Sunray's in 3 different corporations, and haven't seen 'SLLoooooowwwwww' performance (The latest of which is in a Sun office, where I work for Sun, so full discosure, blahblahbla). I have to say that I like them. Alot. A properly sized server is indeed important, but the architecture allows you to use more than one server in a 'cluster', too. Also, the SunRay server softare runs on linux and Solaris, and the latest version can connect you to Windows servers as well. The hot-desking is really useful. I've actually hot-desked from from other states, which was cool. That is the only time it was sslllooowwww, but considering that the server was over 1000 miles away on a frac-T1 line, I'll forgive it.
However you wish to frame it, I would think it preferable for all the momentum of a bullet to be distributed over an area (causing great bruising and 'Americas Funniest Home Video' style groin strikes) than for the bullet to penetrate and spread precious bodily fluid all over the area.
have you checked into wheelchair fencing? I got the chance to practice with the British Paralympic team back in '96 before the Paralympic games, and it was pretty cool.
Likewise, I got into fencing in college, and have been doing now competitively for 15 years. I would highly recommend any martial sport/ martial art that works both the brain and the body. I have done SCA heavy fighting, SCA fencing, olympic fencing, as well as a couple of weaponless hand to hand combat styles, and I can say that fencing lends itself to geeks best of them. Fencing requires a comptetive spirit and analytical mind that can multitask between strategic analysis and tactical decision making and can take on another opponent of a like mindset in real time. Sound like anyone you know?
It's also an incredibly safe sport. I read an article in a sports mag years ago (sorry, can't remember which one) that rated sports based on injury frequency, and fencing was right next to golf. I can say that the worst injury I have had in 15 years was a slight case of tendonitis that was caused by me lunging wrong. It's also a sport that can be done at a competitive level for most of your life. Three of the better fencers in our club are in they're 50's, and I've been beaten in tournaments by guys in they're 60's. In 1996, there was a 55 year old woman on the US Olympic fencing team.
If you're looking for a fun way to get in shape, it's hard to beat.
Oh, please. So a company releases something that you don't need, and you want to complain about it? A couple of questions for you? Your 163,000 hours of compute time on old hardware -- how much of that time was your cpu actually in use? Were you were your CPU's pegged for the whole year? Second, they are using brand new gear, not 'years old' equipment, so that ought to cut down on the number of hours of computing.
Maybe this offering isn't of use to you. However, if you have bill runs that takes 16 hours each day to run on your current gear, and you can farm it off to Sun and get the data back in an hour, that might be pretty handy for a business.
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For Solaris 10 & below, this is true. Sun has repeatedly explained that they cannot open source those because they contain code that they do not have the legal license to open source. Solaris 11 & above will be completely based on OpenSolaris and more akin to what Fedora/RHEL is. If you need to SEE the source of older versions for your own development needs, that is available, just not openly published.
A better analogy is 'can someone walk through your yard?'. If someone connects to an open WAP and surfs, they are more akin to walking on my grass to get to the street behind me than walking through my house without permission. Putting up a fence and no trespassing sign is just like securing your wireless network.
Didn't work for me. it allowed me to connect, but gave me an error saying that IMAP was not enabled for my account. I'll try again in a day or two.
He's not claiming to know more. He's saying he's as VALUABLE as they are, because he allows them to do their work with no interuptions.
SysAdmins (and IT in general) are often looked at in business as a cost center (because servers and people cost money) and not a profit center (like the sales force that brings in checks). This is the underlying attitude that needs to be realized in this case. The beancounter boss is looking at his department as a cost, and trying to minimize it. Turn the argument around like others have suggested, and explain how the workers (and the costly servers) are actually value-add to the business. You allow others to do their job better. Like the BASF commercial used to say, "we don't make the products, we make the products you use better".
One example is to come up with an estimate of cost of downtime. In a Fortune 150 company, downtime costs big money. Show what you do to ensure minimal downtime (redundant fault tolerant architecture, security, change management processes to ensure nothing unexpected, etc). When downtime on a cluster costs $150,000 US per hour in lost revenue/productivity (I use this figure because of a real-life customer of mine has this situation) it becomes easier to show the value of your diligence.
When you start thinking about your role as adding value to the company, not just the "Guy's in the server room we never see do anything", you will start looking at yourself as the company sees you (or how they should see you) and you will start speaking their language and they will understand and respect that. You can show them that giving you a server and time to play with the latest version of X is time well spent FOR THE COMPANIES SAKE. You can show them that all that work you put into automating a task is BRINGING VALUE by having a business process that was manual, error prone, and took two hours is now automated and takes 5 minutes, allowing other workers to do more with their time.
The important thing for us geeks to remember is that we like technology for technologies sake. It isn't that way, though. Technology is used by business for business's sake. Couch your argument in those terms.
Ask your CEO if he also canceled his business insurance as well, since no one sued him last year. And ask him if he canceled his life insurance, since he didn't die last year.
"Linux: The only operating system the NSA doesn't 0wn."
Hate to troll here, but the *BSD variants that could claim that, too. Hell, OpenSolaris could, for that matter.
Well, you could look at other vendors that have high quality 1u servers with remote management (ILOM) and 4 sas drives with hw mirroring. You know, I seem to remember that SUN sells some, and they run RH, SUSE, windows, and Solaris.
It's what happens in the physical world when you divide by zero.
it would take about 20 minutes to write a bot that would browse at random for you and render this useless. Sounds like a great way to look anonymous. Or really, really weird, depending on where your bot runs off to.....
The water at the bottom of the marianna's trench is very close to freezing, but in this case, the pressure is actually what keeps if from freezing. Water has a strange property where the liquid form can (at certain temp/pressures) have a greater density than the solid form (ice). This is why ice floats, and also what makes ice skates work (the pressure of the skate turns the top layer of ice into a thin film of water. If you compress ice at 0 degrees celsius it will turn into water, while compressing water at 100 degrees celsius will eventually result in hot ice. The phase diagram for H2O can be found here
Oh, me without my mod points. GNU screen is the best productivity tool for a unix admin that I know of.
It's always a good idea to give at least a month of notice, in writing. The worst case is that you leave on good terms with the company, the best case is that they immediately escort you to the door, and have to pay you for as long as your notice was for. (If they fire you after you give them notice, you can sue them for unlawful termination). I had a friend that got a 3 month 'paid vacation' by submitting his resignation letter to an employer with 3 months notice.
from what I understand, Sun will offer servers with all 3 processors (AMD, opteron, sparc).
apples & oranges. You are dropping HW & SW support from HP/SUN and getting SW support only from RHEL. If you compare SW only support costs from Sun/RedHat/HP at equivilant support levels, they are fairly equivilant.
*full disclosure. I work for Sun Support, onsite at a large company that uses HP, RHEL, and Sun. I work with the folx who purchase support from all three vendors, and I'm going off of what they tell me, plus what I've seen elsewhere.
The problem you describe is tough to solve due to one fact: A manager who is not also a programmer will always have a tough time telling a good programmer from a bad programmer. And there are plenty of bad programmers in this country, too.
uh, the V490 does have hotswap power supplies. As a matter of fact, all servers that sun makes that have dual power supplies are hotswappable.
Not fundamentally broken-- fundamentally a part of our species. As distasteful as arrogance, greed, war, and conquering are, they are necessary tools in our survival. There may have been peaceful, pacifist nations in the past, but they were conquered by your ancestors.
Oh really. Hmmm, how about pricing out their $32,000 enterprise servers with an IBM x86 farm equivalent?
Oh, lets compare a Mac truck with a bunch of Ford Rangers, too. If you need serverfarm servers, go with the serverfarm servers from Sun. If your app can't be turned into a farm, then you need higher-end (more expensive) servers. All vendors make servers that cost 30k+, for a reason.
I've used Sunray's in 3 different corporations, and haven't seen 'SLLoooooowwwwww' performance (The latest of which is in a Sun office, where I work for Sun, so full discosure, blahblahbla). I have to say that I like them. Alot. A properly sized server is indeed important, but the architecture allows you to use more than one server in a 'cluster', too. Also, the SunRay server softare runs on linux and Solaris, and the latest version can connect you to Windows servers as well. The hot-desking is really useful. I've actually hot-desked from from other states, which was cool. That is the only time it was sslllooowwww, but considering that the server was over 1000 miles away on a frac-T1 line, I'll forgive it.
However you wish to frame it, I would think it preferable for all the momentum of a bullet to be distributed over an area (causing great bruising and 'Americas Funniest Home Video' style groin strikes) than for the bullet to penetrate and spread precious bodily fluid all over the area.
The drives do pop out the front. They are 2.5" sata drives.
have you checked into wheelchair fencing? I got the chance to practice with the British Paralympic team back in '96 before the Paralympic games, and it was pretty cool.
Likewise, I got into fencing in college, and have been doing now competitively for 15 years. I would highly recommend any martial sport/ martial art that works both the brain and the body. I have done SCA heavy fighting, SCA fencing, olympic fencing, as well as a couple of weaponless hand to hand combat styles, and I can say that fencing lends itself to geeks best of them. Fencing requires a comptetive spirit and analytical mind that can multitask between strategic analysis and tactical decision making and can take on another opponent of a like mindset in real time. Sound like anyone you know?
It's also an incredibly safe sport. I read an article in a sports mag years ago (sorry, can't remember which one) that rated sports based on injury frequency, and fencing was right next to golf. I can say that the worst injury I have had in 15 years was a slight case of tendonitis that was caused by me lunging wrong. It's also a sport that can be done at a competitive level for most of your life. Three of the better fencers in our club are in they're 50's, and I've been beaten in tournaments by guys in they're 60's. In 1996, there was a 55 year old woman on the US Olympic fencing team.
If you're looking for a fun way to get in shape, it's hard to beat.
No, the original poster was correct. Toasters are hot, and therefore migrate TOWARDS the cold. North in the winter, south in the summer.
this joke is dead now...
Oh, please. So a company releases something that you don't need, and you want to complain about it? A couple of questions for you? Your 163,000 hours of compute time on old hardware -- how much of that time was your cpu actually in use? Were you were your CPU's pegged for the whole year? Second, they are using brand new gear, not 'years old' equipment, so that ought to cut down on the number of hours of computing.
Maybe this offering isn't of use to you. However, if you have bill runs that takes 16 hours each day to run on your current gear, and you can farm it off to Sun and get the data back in an hour, that might be pretty handy for a business.