a professional system administrator would have a jumpbox with all their tools setup, and all the smartphone would do is provide some type of connection to that system. Possibly ssh, possibly web-based, just depending on how fancy you wanted to get and what kind of tools you may need.
Now you're talking, and that basically describes my setup. Except that I'm just your basic Linux geek, no pretensions to "professional sysadmin" status, whatever that is.
Ah, to which labour law were you specifically referring? And how does apply to "exempt" employees?
I think you're a little confused as to what "on-call" actually means. It is not regular work. You don't handle tickets, respond to emails or any of that. On-call is for emergencies, and it is typcially uncompensated. Your job is to respond if called. Otherwise you can do what you want. You are not by any means expected to stay sitting in your room hanging onto a laptop. Or if you are and you're not getting paid straight time for it, it's time to freshen up your resume.
Now that you understand what on-call is, if all you need to do is reset somebody's password or similar "emergency" and you can do that from your phone, then just do it and get on with life. Of course if you prefer to drive into the office instead then feel free.
Are you trying to tell me that a professional sysadmin never goes to a party on Saturday night? You are obviously not one, or you're an ancient one. In either case, just don't worry to much about sshing on your phone ok?
With a bluetooth keyboard and external display you could use your phone for dev, but I'd have to ask why. On the other hand, as an admin tool its great. I have often sshed into my home network to take care of one thing or another. For a professional sysadmin on call, scripting from the phone could will make the difference between needing to drive into the office on the weekend or not.
Did you post that from your iPhone? If not, why not? Oh don't bother, I know why not: the iPhone just doesn't have what it takes to handle a demanding site like Slashdot.
Meanwhile, my G2 on Gingerbread can handle Slashdot easily and obviously a lot more, and is running all current, updated apps. So whine away Apple cultist, your shiny marginally functional toy will be orphaned by Apple long before mine stops getting updates.
Desktops were locked down under the Microsoft Tax, Linux never had a chance. Along comes another platform, and it was Microsoft left flapping in the wind.
Proving conclusively that the only thing keeping Microsoft in business is their illegal market control of PC makers. Which is showing signs of cracking. Dell is offering Ubuntu preloaded again, this time on ultrabooks. The last half dozen machines I have bought all came with Linux preloaded from various vendors, and in no case was a Microsoft tax paid on any of them.
Customers are learning that if you want updates, by an iPhone.
Really? I got several updates on my G2, and apparently T-Mobile has ICS in the queue. I'm not panicking because I've been able to update all my apps without issue. All my apps still work on Gingerbread, you see. My previous Slashdot comment was posted from the G2, using the latest Firefox Beta.
Say, why don't you try posting to Slashdot using your iPhone, I'd love to see how that works out for you.
Is Microsoft, by chance, involved in WHATWG??? Sounds like their MO.
You could always consider reading the Wikipedia arcticle. It basically says "no". Looks more like Google and Opera with Apple also playing some role. I really don't know what's going on here, maybe pushback against W3C's agenda of abandoning HTML in favor of XML? Educate me, please.
Google Plus's chat feature has rudimentary desktop screening, and is just more convenient than Skype for small group projects.
Not to mention more reliable, responds faster and presence notification is low latency. And doesn't crash like Skype does (some platforms). And seems to have better sound qualilty. And I'm more like to find people actually logged in there, people don't seem to hang on Skype any more like they used to. These days, it's more like send an email or call on a land line or cell phone to set up a Skype call. And that makes sense exactly why?
If you saw the conference that announced the new "particle" none of the people behind the table said that they found the higgs, they kept on repeating that they found a new particle.
I did see the conference. What they all kept repeating over and over again, in so many words, was "further research is needed". In their position I would have said the same, no matter how many sigmas I showed in my powerpoint.
Every new discovery of the past few decades has supposedly "killed" SUSY, but every time it makes a comeback with a modification to avert whatever problem the observation caused.
Which just goes to show that supersymmetry theorists are very adept at predicting the past.
the measured mass of the Higgs boson is exactly where it should be if the Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model is correct
That doesn't sound right to me. I think "not ruled out by" is more accurate characterization than "exactly where it should be". The so called Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model definitely did not predict the Higgs' mass.
Since mass is apparently simply drag in the Higgs field...
Ah, I don't know anything about this to speak of, but obviously mass is not drag. Drag always slows things down while mass has momentum which tends to keep things going. I'm afraid the drag thing (journalists hanging onto thus slowing down celebrities) was just a crude analogy sombody cooked up in a press conference to try to explain the abstract mathematical nature of what is really going on to journalists and other mere knuckle draggers like myself. Frankly, I think they need to get back to the drawing board and cook up a better metaphor.
Obviously, there is a deeper theory because the Standard Model makes no attempt to explain why the elementary particles have exactly the masses they do, just to mention one huge gap of which this armchair physics watcher is aware. It's about time for another Einstein to come along and deduce it.
I'm just itching for Microsoft to bid for Nokia right now. First thing that will happen is: Google will bid the price up to a stupid level, but Ballmer will still buy it out of pure ego, then we (the community) will destroy Nokia the rest of the way without feeling the least bit guilty, because it's not Nokia, it's Microsoft. Which it already effectively is, but it would be nice to make it official so Microsoft can take the loss.
Please go ahead and provide instructions on how to install and run LibreOffice 3.4.0 on Warty Warthog.
Seriously? There are multiple ways to do it. One obvious (to a guru) way is: start with a chroot. As the interested student, you should be able to figure out the rest.
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a professional system administrator would have a jumpbox with all their tools setup, and all the smartphone would do is provide some type of connection to that system. Possibly ssh, possibly web-based, just depending on how fancy you wanted to get and what kind of tools you may need.
Now you're talking, and that basically describes my setup. Except that I'm just your basic Linux geek, no pretensions to "professional sysadmin" status, whatever that is.
Ah, to which labour law were you specifically referring? And how does apply to "exempt" employees?
I think you're a little confused as to what "on-call" actually means. It is not regular work. You don't handle tickets, respond to emails or any of that. On-call is for emergencies, and it is typcially uncompensated. Your job is to respond if called. Otherwise you can do what you want. You are not by any means expected to stay sitting in your room hanging onto a laptop. Or if you are and you're not getting paid straight time for it, it's time to freshen up your resume.
Now that you understand what on-call is, if all you need to do is reset somebody's password or similar "emergency" and you can do that from your phone, then just do it and get on with life. Of course if you prefer to drive into the office instead then feel free.
Are you trying to tell me that a professional sysadmin never goes to a party on Saturday night? You are obviously not one, or you're an ancient one. In either case, just don't worry to much about sshing on your phone ok?
With a bluetooth keyboard and external display you could use your phone for dev, but I'd have to ask why. On the other hand, as an admin tool its great. I have often sshed into my home network to take care of one thing or another. For a professional sysadmin on call, scripting from the phone could will make the difference between needing to drive into the office on the weekend or not.
ICS is in the queue for T-Mobile G2. Provided they actually deliver, that's good enough for me. Do you have an issue?
Did you post that from your iPhone? If not, why not? Oh don't bother, I know why not: the iPhone just doesn't have what it takes to handle a demanding site like Slashdot.
Meanwhile, my G2 on Gingerbread can handle Slashdot easily and obviously a lot more, and is running all current, updated apps. So whine away Apple cultist, your shiny marginally functional toy will be orphaned by Apple long before mine stops getting updates.
Desktops were locked down under the Microsoft Tax, Linux never had a chance. Along comes another platform, and it was Microsoft left flapping in the wind.
Proving conclusively that the only thing keeping Microsoft in business is their illegal market control of PC makers. Which is showing signs of cracking. Dell is offering Ubuntu preloaded again, this time on ultrabooks. The last half dozen machines I have bought all came with Linux preloaded from various vendors, and in no case was a Microsoft tax paid on any of them.
With speeds now comparable to DDR memory, what's to stop blank USB sticks being used as a temporary RAM boost?
Lots. Starting with, what happens when you pull the stick out while it has random parts of your system memory on it?
Customers are learning that if you want updates, by an iPhone.
Really? I got several updates on my G2, and apparently T-Mobile has ICS in the queue. I'm not panicking because I've been able to update all my apps without issue. All my apps still work on Gingerbread, you see. My previous Slashdot comment was posted from the G2, using the latest Firefox Beta.
Say, why don't you try posting to Slashdot using your iPhone, I'd love to see how that works out for you.
"I can't run Google Now or Chrome on my G2, because it's stuck at Gingerbread (and I don't have the time or inclination to root it.)."
Firefox Beta runs just fine on Gingerbread
Posted from my G2
Is Microsoft, by chance, involved in WHATWG??? Sounds like their MO.
You could always consider reading the Wikipedia arcticle. It basically says "no". Looks more like Google and Opera with Apple also playing some role. I really don't know what's going on here, maybe pushback against W3C's agenda of abandoning HTML in favor of XML? Educate me, please.
Microsoft Windows prior to 95 and NT4 was complete garbage.
As opposed to what after that? Incomplete garbage?
The title of this article implies that there is something significantly new now. There's not.
Time went by. It didn't die like pundits said it would.
Google Plus's chat feature has rudimentary desktop screening, and is just more convenient than Skype for small group projects.
Not to mention more reliable, responds faster and presence notification is low latency. And doesn't crash like Skype does (some platforms). And seems to have better sound qualilty. And I'm more like to find people actually logged in there, people don't seem to hang on Skype any more like they used to. These days, it's more like send an email or call on a land line or cell phone to set up a Skype call. And that makes sense exactly why?
If you saw the conference that announced the new "particle" none of the people behind the table said that they found the higgs, they kept on repeating that they found a new particle.
I did see the conference. What they all kept repeating over and over again, in so many words, was "further research is needed". In their position I would have said the same, no matter how many sigmas I showed in my powerpoint.
There are no experiments you can perform to confirm or invalidate the existence of God.
Actually there is. Unfortunately it requires death...
Is that an assertion you'd bet your life on?
Every new discovery of the past few decades has supposedly "killed" SUSY, but every time it makes a comeback with a modification to avert whatever problem the observation caused.
Which just goes to show that supersymmetry theorists are very adept at predicting the past.
the measured mass of the Higgs boson is exactly where it should be if the Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model is correct
That doesn't sound right to me. I think "not ruled out by" is more accurate characterization than "exactly where it should be". The so called Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model definitely did not predict the Higgs' mass.
Since mass is apparently simply drag in the Higgs field...
Ah, I don't know anything about this to speak of, but obviously mass is not drag. Drag always slows things down while mass has momentum which tends to keep things going. I'm afraid the drag thing (journalists hanging onto thus slowing down celebrities) was just a crude analogy sombody cooked up in a press conference to try to explain the abstract mathematical nature of what is really going on to journalists and other mere knuckle draggers like myself. Frankly, I think they need to get back to the drawing board and cook up a better metaphor.
Obviously, there is a deeper theory because the Standard Model makes no attempt to explain why the elementary particles have exactly the masses they do, just to mention one huge gap of which this armchair physics watcher is aware. It's about time for another Einstein to come along and deduce it.
This scientific achievement clearly ranks right up there with discovery of the Higgs Boson. Is there a Nobel prize for underpants?
And YOU go, Tough Love! Rail against the Borg, from your basement lair!
Gosh, how did you know??? Like you managed to slip a camera into my chandelier or something.
I'm just itching for Microsoft to bid for Nokia right now. First thing that will happen is: Google will bid the price up to a stupid level, but Ballmer will still buy it out of pure ego, then we (the community) will destroy Nokia the rest of the way without feeling the least bit guilty, because it's not Nokia, it's Microsoft. Which it already effectively is, but it would be nice to make it official so Microsoft can take the loss.
They have a long way to go before their situation gets dire.
It's a great start though. You go, Steve!
Please go ahead and provide instructions on how to install and run LibreOffice 3.4.0 on Warty Warthog.
Seriously? There are multiple ways to do it. One obvious (to a guru) way is: start with a chroot. As the interested student, you should be able to figure out the rest.