The world doesn't want or need another arrogant IT worker with a "I'm smarter than you because I admin this network" chip on their shoulders. And people wonder why we outsource to India.
While I think outsourcing is generally a byproduct from the papermill MBA doctrine of the 90's, I wholeheartedly agree with you on the arrogance bit. The days of the BOFH-all-users-are-stupid mentality has no place today. If you don't communicate early and often to your users and generally act like an arrogant ass someone else will do your job for you. Granted, technically they could be inferior but at that point does it really matter? I'm sick of the arrogant fiefdoms some IT pros and SA's think is cool to promote. I can't stand the negativity that mentality creates. I'm a Sr. SA in a small, global team of Linux sysadmins supporting a fortune 50 - negativity and 90's-esque god-complex BOFH has no place in an environment where things just need to get done and things have to stay up and running (and improving).
The military justice system is a whole different world than that of civilians, it will be interesting to see if any of the circumstantial evidence will even matter.
I can't help to think this is why more emphasis on QA and staging changes appropriately and testing thoroughly and less focus on agile, devops type methodology would have helped. It's a well known fact that Facebook developers work on live production data.
Well in 2011, Oracle is the new boogeyman. They love to embrace, extend and extinguish open source projects - far more so than Microsoft.
Um, I don't think so, unless I'm missing something. Oracle still supports several open-source projects, such as OpenOffice. They haven't "extinguished" them, they haven't made them closed-source, they're still there. The problem is that they do a half-ass job of supporting their open-source projects. That's still better than MS, who hasn't stopped trying to extinguish OSS and certainly doesn't produce its own significant open-source projects. The only reason that MS isn't the boogeyman they used to be is because they just don't wield the power they once did; they're slowly fading into irrelevancy.
Looks Like Oracle is no longer supporting OpenOffice as of Friday the 15th
This is great news, Redhat will keep it open source. I'm glad Oracle didn't get their hands on it and commercialize it like they did MySQL (The commercial plugins in 5.5.16 is what I'm referencing).
I much prefer Redhat's approach.
I couldn't agree more, they have a track record for doing the right thing.
It doesn't time out and you can use it forever you just won't receive updates after 60 days. You can also compile your own updates from the freely available SRC rpms like all the other RHEL clones do should you choose.
> I never liked(/got?) the Desktop metaphor: I run everything I can at Full Screen, and Alt-Tab between my apps, whether on Windows XP or FVWM2 on Linux.
That seems to be the way GNOME3 forces workflow, folks I know that prefer to work this way are fans of it and everyone else is not. Personally, I prefer XFCE + Compiz + Emerald theme manager on Fedora - I find it's simplistic enough to stay out of my way but provides the expose-like window management features for multi-tasking lots of different things. To each his/her own I suppose, choice is a good thing.
The reason any OS has an issue with acceptance has to due with an early 80's marketing decision to flood the global market with windows preemptively. Don't fool yourself into thinking that it is by any means superior to any other.
Windows: Good for Games Crap for Security Crap for Stability Crap for support Crap for any major media editing.
Linux Mediocre for popular gaming for now Excellent for Security Excellent for Stability Excellent for Community Support Crap for any major media editing
Mac Crap for Gaming Crap for Security Excellent for Stability Excellent for Support only for Apple products Excellent for major media editing.
seriously, who runs their web servers on Windows anymore? (read: ever)
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In my experience on XFCE 4.6.x and Fedora (11 to 14+) it is much faster than GNOME on several different laptop/desktop hardware configurations. Average startup from login to usable desktop is 1/2 the time it takes GNOME at least, and that's with compiz + emerald running.
It boils down to what you are after, the galaxytab is quite small (7" or so) and I could get the same functionality out of a phone. I opted for something a big larger (11") with an NVidia tegra chipset so I could play HD movies. Do you want something with good hardware and size (350USD+) or something small and more economical? (200USD+)
I have the Viewsonic gtablet[1] and it's quite nice. The default firmware/rom that it ships with is horrible but you can use an alternate ROM like TNT Lite[2] and it's really slick. I am able to watch 720p/1080p HD movies on long plane rides (after i've re-encoded them with ffmpeg to fit native reso and mp4 format) use Skype and any other Android apps with an 8-10hr battery life.
no, it was stated in the article x11 tunnelling featureset would still be available. The better question to ask is why your server admins rely on graphical admin programs.
I started my career in I.T. with Novell, but I left it behind when I saw the writing on the wall. I had been wishing for a miracle for the company like Google acquiring it, since IMHO a easy intuitive GUI driven directory service is lacking in the Non-Microsoft world. Especially one that plays well with other operating systems. Yes you can use other operating systems in an AD environment, but not as "out of the box" as Novell IMHO. Oh well... I guess we will see.
Have you taken a look at Fedora Directory Server? Red Hat also sells/supports an enterprise version.
There are _lots_ of other tweaks including newer hardware support that has happened in the past 4.5 years.
You bet, and it's all backported into the 2.6.18 EL kernels. That's why when you boot up said RHEL5.x it picks up that shiny new i7 you have or whatever other piece of new hardware is the rage.
The U.S never lost a single major engagement/battle in Vietnam, from a military perspective it was a crushing victory against the NVA. They had superior firepower, communication and resources. What the U.S lost horribly at was public opinion and social sentiment of the efforts, ultimately ending in withdrawing troops and where you probably derive your opinion. As well all should know, war is won on the political front first, if that backing isn't there then military success is irrelevant.
References: "Even though the US is said to have won every major battle and killed up to thirteen times as many enemy combatants, the war was a defeat for America."
Get a better job and MTF out of the ghetto if you are so scared of home invasions that you do all this.
Home invasions are a real threat regardless of where you live. Where I live (N.C) the most influential neighbourhoods are often the most prevalent target - lots of space between houses and the exact sort of thinking you describe here - "it can never happen if you don't live in the ghetto."
It's nice to see this come from the Suse folks, sounds like it would be a nice tool for the Suse users/admins that don't want to use something like: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo (which can create another distribution livecd)
The web test drive stuff really looks neat as well.
It seems expensive to pay $15,000 for an OS and the rights to use it, but it becomes cheaper when you consider that it takes a very well built Linux system (which can run you $150,000+ a year for one guy to set up and maintain) to match a standard MS server setup
I would love to know where this $150k/year Linux sysadmin position administrating one server can be found. I would be interested in such an opportunity.
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The world doesn't want or need another arrogant IT worker with a "I'm smarter than you because I admin this network" chip on their shoulders. And people wonder why we outsource to India.
While I think outsourcing is generally a byproduct from the papermill MBA doctrine of the 90's, I wholeheartedly agree with you on the arrogance bit. The days of the BOFH-all-users-are-stupid mentality has no place today. If you don't communicate early and often to your users and generally act like an arrogant ass someone else will do your job for you. Granted, technically they could be inferior but at that point does it really matter? I'm sick of the arrogant fiefdoms some IT pros and SA's think is cool to promote. I can't stand the negativity that mentality creates. I'm a Sr. SA in a small, global team of Linux sysadmins supporting a fortune 50 - negativity and 90's-esque god-complex BOFH has no place in an environment where things just need to get done and things have to stay up and running (and improving).
The military justice system is a whole different world than that of civilians, it will be interesting to see if any of the circumstantial evidence will even matter.
I can't help to think this is why more emphasis on QA and staging changes appropriately and testing thoroughly and less focus on agile, devops type methodology would have helped. It's a well known fact that Facebook developers work on live production data.
Reboot a webserver nightly?
You must be doing something wrong I'd that's required.
Well in 2011, Oracle is the new boogeyman. They love to embrace, extend and extinguish open source projects - far more so than Microsoft.
Um, I don't think so, unless I'm missing something. Oracle still supports several open-source projects, such as OpenOffice. They haven't "extinguished" them, they haven't made them closed-source, they're still there. The problem is that they do a half-ass job of supporting their open-source projects. That's still better than MS, who hasn't stopped trying to extinguish OSS and certainly doesn't produce its own significant open-source projects. The only reason that MS isn't the boogeyman they used to be is because they just don't wield the power they once did; they're slowly fading into irrelevancy.
Looks Like Oracle is no longer supporting OpenOffice as of Friday the 15th
http://www.neowin.net/news/oracle-drops-openofficeorg
This is great news, Redhat will keep it open source. I'm glad Oracle didn't get their hands on it and commercialize it like they did MySQL (The commercial plugins in 5.5.16 is what I'm referencing).
I much prefer Redhat's approach.
I couldn't agree more, they have a track record for doing the right thing.
Have to agree.
And the support fees are mandatory- no way to download a copy of RHEL from them without signing up to pay.
You can download a 60-day trial of RHEL here, just make a free RHN account first.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/eval/index.html?evaluation_id=1008
It doesn't time out and you can use it forever you just won't receive updates after 60 days. You can also compile your own updates from the freely available SRC rpms like all the other RHEL clones do should you choose.
> I never liked(/got?) the Desktop metaphor: I run everything I can at Full Screen, and Alt-Tab between my apps, whether on Windows XP or FVWM2 on Linux.
That seems to be the way GNOME3 forces workflow, folks I know that prefer to work this way are fans of it and everyone else is not.
Personally, I prefer XFCE + Compiz + Emerald theme manager on Fedora - I find it's simplistic enough to stay out of my way but provides the expose-like window management features for multi-tasking lots of different things. To each his/her own I suppose, choice is a good thing.
"the more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed."
There is quite a lot of truth to this statement.
The reason any OS has an issue with acceptance has to due with an early 80's marketing decision to flood the global market with windows preemptively. Don't fool yourself into thinking that it is by any means superior to any other.
Windows:
Good for Games
Crap for Security
Crap for Stability
Crap for support
Crap for any major media editing.
Linux
Mediocre for popular gaming for now
Excellent for Security
Excellent for Stability
Excellent for Community Support
Crap for any major media editing
Mac
Crap for Gaming
Crap for Security
Excellent for Stability
Excellent for Support only for Apple products
Excellent for major media editing.
FTFY
seriously, who runs their web servers on Windows anymore? (read: ever)
In my experience on XFCE 4.6.x and Fedora (11 to 14+) it is much faster than GNOME on several different laptop/desktop hardware configurations. Average startup from login to usable desktop is 1/2 the time it takes GNOME at least, and that's with compiz + emerald running.
It boils down to what you are after, the galaxytab is quite small (7" or so) and I could get the same functionality out of a phone. I opted for something a big larger (11") with an NVidia tegra chipset so I could play HD movies. Do you want something with good hardware and size (350USD+) or something small and more economical? (200USD+)
I have the Viewsonic gtablet[1] and it's quite nice. The default firmware/rom that it ships with is horrible but you can use an alternate ROM like TNT Lite[2] and it's really slick. I am able to watch 720p/1080p HD movies on long plane rides (after i've re-encoded them with ffmpeg to fit native reso and mp4 format) use Skype and any other Android apps with an 8-10hr battery life.
[1] - http://www.viewsonic.com/gtablet/
[2] - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
no, it was stated in the article x11 tunnelling featureset would still be available. The better question to ask is why your server admins rely on graphical admin programs.
I started my career in I.T. with Novell, but I left it behind when I saw the writing on the wall. I had been wishing for a miracle for the company like Google acquiring it, since IMHO a easy intuitive GUI driven directory service is lacking in the Non-Microsoft world. Especially one that plays well with other operating systems. Yes you can use other operating systems in an AD environment, but not as "out of the box" as Novell IMHO. Oh well... I guess we will see.
Have you taken a look at Fedora Directory Server? Red Hat also sells/supports an enterprise version.
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Screenshots
There are _lots_ of other tweaks including newer hardware support that has happened in the past 4.5 years.
You bet, and it's all backported into the 2.6.18 EL kernels. That's why when you boot up said RHEL5.x it picks up that shiny new i7 you have or whatever other piece of new hardware is the rage.
The Vietnam War was indisputably a major loss.
The U.S never lost a single major engagement/battle in Vietnam, from a military perspective it was a crushing victory against the NVA. They had superior firepower, communication and resources. What the U.S lost horribly at was public opinion and social sentiment of the efforts, ultimately ending in withdrawing troops and where you probably derive your opinion. As well all should know, war is won on the political front first, if that backing isn't there then military success is irrelevant.
References:
"Even though the US is said to have won every major battle and killed up to thirteen times as many enemy combatants, the war was a defeat for America."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States
Get a better job and MTF out of the ghetto if you are so scared of home invasions that you do all this.
Home invasions are a real threat regardless of where you live. Where I live (N.C) the most influential neighbourhoods are often the most prevalent target - lots of space between houses and the exact sort of thinking you describe here - "it can never happen if you don't live in the ghetto."
It's a rough world out there, be prepared.
I find Kate to be of equal usefulness.
It has a horizontal sidebar approach when opening new files, freeing me from the clutter of having multiple tabs or windows open.
To be hoist, one of the main reasons I turn my office computer off when I go home is so it is not hacked by script kiddies at night
Your office computer has a routable, public facing ip address? Surely your company has heard of NAT?
I'm just worried that that freaky Pre chick knows where I live now.
Is it bad that I leave my window open at night hoping that she will show up?
It's nice to see this come from the Suse folks, sounds like it would be a nice tool for the Suse users/admins that don't want to use something like:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo (which can create another distribution livecd)
The web test drive stuff really looks neat as well.
This would have been to their advantage because it would be very difficult to assign monetary value to something already given away for free
There are ways to gauge this, looks like it would cost 10.8 billion to create Fedora 9.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/estimatinglinux.php
It seems expensive to pay $15,000 for an OS and the rights to use it, but it becomes cheaper when you consider that it takes a very well built Linux system (which can run you $150,000+ a year for one guy to set up and maintain) to match a standard MS server setup
I would love to know where this $150k/year Linux sysadmin position administrating one server can be found. I would be interested in such an opportunity.
Software RAID is the devil, don't use that, except for testing, it's definitely not suitable for live use
Linux mdadm and FreeBSD's gmirror are both very stable, mature implementations of software RAID - both a viable solution in a production environment.
Especially so if you have servers without dedicated asics HW controllers.