I can imagine that using zfs send/receive to export/import pools would be an extremely efficient/safe method of replicating data. Perhaps some sort of ".mac mirror" could work. This would make Time Machine exceptionally useful, and I'd definitely commit extra $ for.mac services (if reasonable) for this.
Mac OS X is really lacking a modern volume manager. ZFS adds this plus a whole lot of other data integrity/portability features. And it's open source. I hope this isn't just a rumor.
I wonder if this was one of the "new APIs" they were talking about at the Time Machine session I attended...
why are those guys still pointing the damn thing at the monitor, as if it needed line of sight to work? Doesn't that just annoy you? I mean, the whole benefit of this thing is I could move the cursor around while my hand is stuffed down my pants...
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
True scientists are "experts" because they use logic to rate one's findings and conclusions. The "problem" with Wikipedia isn't a lack of often very good, "expert" knowledge. Rather, it's the lack of editorial value that limits its credibility. Experts familiar with a given area already have credible sources to conjur whenever they evaluate Wikipedia entries. I "believe" the entry on the MPEG standard because I'm very familiar with that topic. But were Wikipedia to be my first exposure to the topic, I'd be skeptical simply because I cannot vouch for its "truthiness" (the same goes for elephants). This is the same old "what's wrong with Wikipedia" thing.
unless I already know there's something I want to watch on a SD channel (BSG on Sci-Fi, for example). So, I only really find new shows that are broadcast on the HD channels. Some of these are network, ad supported channels. So, HD is definitely a draw for this consumer...
The "seven wonders of the world" don't all exist any longer. But we know about them, because "popular" reference to them survives. The dinosaur is long gone, but it's impression in the mud lingers...
The era of restoration comes. However, when people blow the dust off those old DVDs and players, they discover that the DVDs have decayed to the point of unreadability. Massive quantities of archived data and knowledge are irretrievably lost.
Working at a University, this is not a subject I'm not unfamiliar with. We've had lots of discussions about this. Everyone always talks about how many zillions of "pieces of information" are out there. The number of web pages in existence is always brandied about. My point in these discussions is that most of what's out there is crap. Humanity is not lessened by its loss. Good stuff gets reproduced, reviewed, studied, dissected, etc. and survives. It *is* stupid to try to solve this problem, because the problem doesn't need solving.
...that use both sides of the "just the kernel" argument to serve the purposes. This one bitches that indemnification "only covers the kernel" but whenever there are security or other negatives behind the typical Linux distro, fanbois always proclaim "Linux is just the kernel." You can't have it both ways!
This is one of the reasons "Solaris is better than Linux." There are few things that we've deployed on Solaris 2.5 (possibly none, but I won't swear to my memory) that don't also work under Solaris 10. This is a far cry from the Linux 2.4-2.6 headaches we've experienced.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes."
Of course, the latency kind of sucks, but that doesn't seem to affect your requirements. And, these days, you're just as likely to pop it in a FedEx canister, and they don't use station wagons. But the saying still holds...
Novell just bent over and let Stevie "embrace and extend." Rather than usurp Red Hat, this is going to make Microsoft-connected SuSE Linux software coda non grata in the OSS community.
It matters because it's against our code of conduct. As is berating or yelling at others. Simple things like this. It's about mutual respect. And, it's about misuse of public property. But most of the offense WRT this is about running your own business or somesuch on work time and equipment.
And nobody said a word about spying. It's an honor code. If you're caught (people are caught even without spyware- behavior is what gets you noticed), you're dealt with. There's little active monitoring of online activity (besides "excessive bandwidth" usage, which is almost always the result of compromised hosts being used as warez servers).
The training sessions are out of our control. But they're actually quite good. I sent feedback to the team that created them RE: the "computer security" sessions. They were very receptive and incorporated my edits (they initially had a statement that said essentially you should NEVER access a computer without the owner's consent - I informed them that state code and our rules allow my team to do that very thing - as long as it's part of our job of information system custodians). Anyway, I refer to those screenshots routinely. They help to collapse the various rules into easy-to-follow bullet points, with explanations if you forget what the points mean.
The typical/. aversion to management is disappointing. Management is important, particularly in IT. Without it, nothing gets done, nobody gets paid.
I have sit-downs with my direct reports, as they do for their own. We print out our position descriptions, which include pointers to our rules and regs. and we make sure to discuss the fact that they are responsible for knowing the regs. and abiding by them. They sign this in person. Our Compliance Office also has automated systems that require staff to periodically review training sessions that cover important topics and these are signed electronically. You're pretty much screwed if you do what this guy did. We have good lawyers and much better systems in the last 10 years...
How exactly does Wikipedia reflect the state of modern human life? Most humans don't have computers. Most humans don't have Internet access. Many humans don't even have basic sanitation. A better place to look for the real human story is our landfills and cemeteries, as archaeologists currently do when they find an ancient site...
This is why we're in space. It's not to "fully exploit space" and, as such must "control it." We've learned a lot in very recent history. Since I was a child, the robotic missions to the far reaches of the solar system have taken us from very primitive knowledge to a better understanding of the nature of the universe and all the cool stuff out there. NASA being used to push political rhetoric gets in the way. This is a good development.
If you don't have any, or they're incompetent, then get rid of the computers. If the parents complain, have them talk to the pricipal and/or district about insufficient IT resources.
I had a discussion with some colleagues yesterday at the launch of our latest Dell/Xeon-based cluster, Lonestar. I explained that I was concerned how little development was going into TRUE supercomputers, not simply supercomputing clusters. Single-image, large ccNUMA systems are rare. But they're still needed for "non-chunkable" processes. OK, so only a few people need them, whereas Googles and the like can benefit from highly parallel cluster technologies, I still hope there remains the kind of brilliant engineering we saw in the '90s. Craylink, for example, was like magic, and Hypertransport (on Opteron and others) borrows a lot from those sorts of designs.
The best thing SGI had was excellent software frameworks. The MP libraries, GRIO and other technologies were great. IRIS/OpenGL is legendary. Running on top of then state-of-the-art hardware was what made SGI magical. I hope they can bring that back.
Slashdot Mirror
I can imagine that using zfs send/receive to export/import pools would be an extremely efficient/safe method of replicating data. Perhaps some sort of ".mac mirror" could work. This would make Time Machine exceptionally useful, and I'd definitely commit extra $ for .mac services (if reasonable) for this.
Mac OS X is really lacking a modern volume manager. ZFS adds this plus a whole lot of other data integrity/portability features. And it's open source. I hope this isn't just a rumor.
I wonder if this was one of the "new APIs" they were talking about at the Time Machine session I attended...
why are those guys still pointing the damn thing at the monitor, as if it needed line of sight to work? Doesn't that just annoy you? I mean, the whole benefit of this thing is I could move the cursor around while my hand is stuffed down my pants...
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
will become familiar with "goatse." Don't say I didn't warn you!
It works best if you put half your palm down your pants, just under the belt, like this guy...
True scientists are "experts" because they use logic to rate one's findings and conclusions. The "problem" with Wikipedia isn't a lack of often very good, "expert" knowledge. Rather, it's the lack of editorial value that limits its credibility. Experts familiar with a given area already have credible sources to conjur whenever they evaluate Wikipedia entries. I "believe" the entry on the MPEG standard because I'm very familiar with that topic. But were Wikipedia to be my first exposure to the topic, I'd be skeptical simply because I cannot vouch for its "truthiness" (the same goes for elephants). This is the same old "what's wrong with Wikipedia" thing.
unless I already know there's something I want to watch on a SD channel (BSG on Sci-Fi, for example). So, I only really find new shows that are broadcast on the HD channels. Some of these are network, ad supported channels. So, HD is definitely a draw for this consumer...
The "seven wonders of the world" don't all exist any longer. But we know about them, because "popular" reference to them survives. The dinosaur is long gone, but it's impression in the mud lingers...
The era of restoration comes. However, when people blow the dust off those old DVDs and players, they discover that the DVDs have decayed to the point of unreadability. Massive quantities of archived data and knowledge are irretrievably lost.
There goes my copy of Just Like Heaven! Oh the humanity!
pr0n. At least the stuff worth decoding. Just like with cave writing...
I wonder what archaeologists will think of the Zune :)
Working at a University, this is not a subject I'm not unfamiliar with. We've had lots of discussions about this. Everyone always talks about how many zillions of "pieces of information" are out there. The number of web pages in existence is always brandied about. My point in these discussions is that most of what's out there is crap. Humanity is not lessened by its loss. Good stuff gets reproduced, reviewed, studied, dissected, etc. and survives. It *is* stupid to try to solve this problem, because the problem doesn't need solving.
...that use both sides of the "just the kernel" argument to serve the purposes. This one bitches that indemnification "only covers the kernel" but whenever there are security or other negatives behind the typical Linux distro, fanbois always proclaim "Linux is just the kernel." You can't have it both ways!
Didn't Ben Affleck do this? IIRC, there was a dire message in that movie: Ben Affleck can't act, even in the future...
This is one of the reasons "Solaris is better than Linux." There are few things that we've deployed on Solaris 2.5 (possibly none, but I won't swear to my memory) that don't also work under Solaris 10. This is a far cry from the Linux 2.4-2.6 headaches we've experienced.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes."
Of course, the latency kind of sucks, but that doesn't seem to affect your requirements. And, these days, you're just as likely to pop it in a FedEx canister, and they don't use station wagons. But the saying still holds...
Novell just bent over and let Stevie "embrace and extend." Rather than usurp Red Hat, this is going to make Microsoft-connected SuSE Linux software coda non grata in the OSS community.
It matters because it's against our code of conduct. As is berating or yelling at others. Simple things like this. It's about mutual respect. And, it's about misuse of public property. But most of the offense WRT this is about running your own business or somesuch on work time and equipment.
/. aversion to management is disappointing. Management is important, particularly in IT. Without it, nothing gets done, nobody gets paid.
And nobody said a word about spying. It's an honor code. If you're caught (people are caught even without spyware- behavior is what gets you noticed), you're dealt with. There's little active monitoring of online activity (besides "excessive bandwidth" usage, which is almost always the result of compromised hosts being used as warez servers).
The training sessions are out of our control. But they're actually quite good. I sent feedback to the team that created them RE: the "computer security" sessions. They were very receptive and incorporated my edits (they initially had a statement that said essentially you should NEVER access a computer without the owner's consent - I informed them that state code and our rules allow my team to do that very thing - as long as it's part of our job of information system custodians). Anyway, I refer to those screenshots routinely. They help to collapse the various rules into easy-to-follow bullet points, with explanations if you forget what the points mean.
The typical
I have sit-downs with my direct reports, as they do for their own. We print out our position descriptions, which include pointers to our rules and regs. and we make sure to discuss the fact that they are responsible for knowing the regs. and abiding by them. They sign this in person. Our Compliance Office also has automated systems that require staff to periodically review training sessions that cover important topics and these are signed electronically. You're pretty much screwed if you do what this guy did. We have good lawyers and much better systems in the last 10 years...
How exactly does Wikipedia reflect the state of modern human life? Most humans don't have computers. Most humans don't have Internet access. Many humans don't even have basic sanitation. A better place to look for the real human story is our landfills and cemeteries, as archaeologists currently do when they find an ancient site...
This is why we're in space. It's not to "fully exploit space" and, as such must "control it." We've learned a lot in very recent history. Since I was a child, the robotic missions to the far reaches of the solar system have taken us from very primitive knowledge to a better understanding of the nature of the universe and all the cool stuff out there. NASA being used to push political rhetoric gets in the way. This is a good development.
If you don't have any, or they're incompetent, then get rid of the computers. If the parents complain, have them talk to the pricipal and/or district about insufficient IT resources.
worth of pr0n!
I had a discussion with some colleagues yesterday at the launch of our latest Dell/Xeon-based cluster, Lonestar. I explained that I was concerned how little development was going into TRUE supercomputers, not simply supercomputing clusters. Single-image, large ccNUMA systems are rare. But they're still needed for "non-chunkable" processes. OK, so only a few people need them, whereas Googles and the like can benefit from highly parallel cluster technologies, I still hope there remains the kind of brilliant engineering we saw in the '90s. Craylink, for example, was like magic, and Hypertransport (on Opteron and others) borrows a lot from those sorts of designs.
:)
The best thing SGI had was excellent software frameworks. The MP libraries, GRIO and other technologies were great. IRIS/OpenGL is legendary. Running on top of then state-of-the-art hardware was what made SGI magical. I hope they can bring that back.
Maybe I should look for a firesale FUEL too