Of the same name, not related. Go figure. I got both and the one above is the better of the two, IMHO. Chapter 5 of this one is golden, lots of simple tables covering built in operaters, varibles, and control structures.
I really did not GET programming until the book above, it made it click for me. Perl came right after, as this got the concepts in my thick head.
A shell-less admin is a useless as a mermaid, and not as pretty to look at.
Developers are doing increasingly stupid things like:
Take data from A mung via B load to C. B mungs data again to load to D. B reloads back to A from D the data that orginally comes from A.
so A->b->C->B->D->B->A
yep closed circuit and data is unrecognizable. Did I mention A and D are secure and C is not? B is quasi because it is just a Informatica Data munger. And that B is the MOST BUSY network user, 1.1 to 1.5 GIGABITS average usage during peak hours? Had to trunk 2 interfaces to get the bandwidth, plus a secondary network to handle local data loads.
I call it either plain stupidity or someone cooking the books. This is all billing/actuary data...so you figure it out.
I could go on and on and on with all the stupid things developers do that we stop as Sys/DBA admins... but that would be a whole new article.
Suffice to say DEVELOPERS need to think about how they will impact the PRODUCTION MONEY MAKING SYSTEMS when they develop. Because our job is to protect the revenue stream, not make it easier for you to code away.
Snowblind (boards) a.k.a. Tinrock (toon), a player of the game for the last few months.
This is a "I am the Content" kinda game. We interact alot ala MUD's especially on the RolePlay server Opals.
Currently I am trying to organize WACOS We Are Content Online Society to save the game as a hobby.
We will see if it works. Core user community may drop to the 500 range, but this is enough given the quality of players. Go look at the material we have created in the Tavern. Good stuff.
The reason for collecting taxes is to improve the infrastructure supporting business (such as roads, public works, chamber of commerce, etc). What is the value add to E-tailers? are they going to help build up the Net? Do we want them to? Government can legitimally claim a portion of the sales of Brick and Morters, but they do not contribute to E-tailing at the level of requiring them to kick in extra taxes.
Alphas are being phased out, they maxed at just over 1GHz. I have heard that a third party may continue to make them at 1.2GHz. I know you can run *BSD's on them, OpenVMS and I am sure a Linux. We also saw a NT2000 port, but it was never sold.
Future OpenVMS versions will run on server class Itaniums
Well, they certianly have that setup in most chain books stores. You can find all kinds of quackery mixed in with the various section. You'll see Homopathic books Herbology books right next to Herbology books, "get-rich-quick" next to solid finacial advice, and Astrology next to Astronomy, or lovely titles like "How to write Solid Code" by Microsoft right next to Knuth.
Relative to this article, they do it to legitimize hacks like P. Anthony's teen hormone ragings (granted, I read them when I was afflicted by said hormones) by putting them next to Azimov musings on the nature of humanity, or Paol Anderson's space opera's.
Well, remember a good number of their customers might be in the same boat, most ISP have local customers. After all, could you replace your home machine in 3 days? how about a small bussiness?
But you are right, the only way to do it is to have half your capacity somewhere else if you are truely that important.
I remember a white paper detailing how half of the bussinesses that went under after the first WTC bombing went under because of data loss.
look for a company that does some or all of the following things:
1. Publish whitepapers. 2. Does basic research. 3. Is a goverment agency.
A good example here in Cali. is Lawerence Livermore Labs, or Standford, Berkely, UCLA or on the priviate sector, IBM or Transmeta.
These are places you need PhD to push or exceed the current state of the art. Whitepapers bring grants or prestige to the company/agency, and you training in writing academic papers will come in handy.
In the "real world" (I use that term lightly, as some things here are just unreal, really), i.e. IT is a utility, not a money maker, a PhD will do little for your getting inside the door. It will be no more good than a regular degree or an suitable amount of work experence.
We had two PhD's apply for a job in the last year. One said "Oncall is unacceptable and should not be expected of your top employee.", so he was right out. The other told us we were doing everything wrong, we should be using IPv6, NUMA machines, latest TLA, blah, blah, blah. He too, was slotted in the round file.
Slashdot Mirror
The temple from Tron?
Approch, Program, and speak to your User...
That means you over cooked it!
Mmmmm.... tasty!
USN Retired.
Best thing about mermaids is they breath with gills. No coming up for air.
UNIX(r) Shell Programming, 4th Edition
Of the same name, not related. Go figure. I got both and the one above is the better of the two, IMHO. Chapter 5 of this one is golden, lots of simple tables covering built in operaters, varibles, and control structures.
I really did not GET programming until the book above, it made it click for me. Perl came right after, as this got the concepts in my thick head.
A shell-less admin is a useless as a mermaid, and not as pretty to look at.
so no impact when it was banned by our upper management.
Having said that, we use HP/UX and AIX 5L which use Linux libs. Nope, no Linux here...
But being in healthcare makes you paranoid about lawsuits, mainly because we have so many lawyers working for us, so that is why they said that.
Besides, IT already got the death knell when it was placed under Finance.
This company values 3 letters or less companies, so HP (DEC), IBM, SUN...no Dell, Linux or Gateway.
Yes, but any magazine that puts its bias so far forward is suspect.
Nature != New York Times. Who has a totally different bias.
placed on us via Pheniox doing away with the BIOS and others trying to make hardware "Trusted".
Look up that Slashdot article. Makes this important.
Developers are doing increasingly stupid things like:
Take data from A mung via B load to C.
B mungs data again to load to D.
B reloads back to A from D the data that orginally comes from A.
so
A->b->C->B->D->B->A
yep closed circuit and data is unrecognizable.
Did I mention A and D are secure and C is not? B is quasi because it is just a Informatica Data munger. And that B is the MOST BUSY network user, 1.1 to 1.5 GIGABITS average usage during peak hours? Had to trunk 2 interfaces to get the bandwidth, plus a secondary network to handle local data loads.
I call it either plain stupidity or someone cooking the books. This is all billing/actuary data...so you figure it out.
I could go on and on and on with all the stupid things developers do that we stop as Sys/DBA admins... but that would be a whole new article.
Suffice to say DEVELOPERS need to think about how they will impact the PRODUCTION MONEY MAKING SYSTEMS when they develop. Because our job is to protect the revenue stream, not make it easier for you to code away.
come as a suppository?
I'm gonna get those little bastards...
Snowblind (boards) a.k.a. Tinrock (toon), a player of the game for the last few months.
This is a "I am the Content" kinda game. We interact alot ala MUD's especially on the RolePlay server Opals.
Currently I am trying to organize WACOS We Are Content Online Society to save the game as a hobby.
We will see if it works. Core user community may drop to the 500 range, but this is enough given the quality of players. Go look at the material we have created in the Tavern. Good stuff.
The reason for collecting taxes is to improve the infrastructure supporting business (such as roads, public works, chamber of commerce, etc).
What is the value add to E-tailers? are they going to help build up the Net? Do we want them to?
Government can legitimally claim a portion of the sales of Brick and Morters, but they do not contribute to E-tailing at the level of requiring them to kick in extra taxes.
IBM's legal department?
"Eat Flaming Death - Caldera Mongrels!"
welcome our new Demming Method overlords.
Alphas are being phased out, they maxed at just over 1GHz.
I have heard that a third party may continue to make them at 1.2GHz.
I know you can run *BSD's on them, OpenVMS and I am sure a Linux. We also saw a NT2000 port, but it was never sold.
Future OpenVMS versions will run on server class Itaniums
Well, they certianly have that setup in most chain books stores. You can find all kinds of quackery mixed in with the various section. You'll see Homopathic books Herbology books right next to Herbology books, "get-rich-quick" next to solid finacial advice, and Astrology next to Astronomy, or lovely titles like "How to write Solid Code" by Microsoft right next to Knuth.
Relative to this article, they do it to legitimize hacks like P. Anthony's teen hormone ragings (granted, I read them when I was afflicted by said hormones) by putting them next to Azimov musings on the nature of humanity, or Paol Anderson's space opera's.
I nearly slit my wrists it was so bad.
MUCH worse than what they did to Starship Troopers, and I thought THAT deserved to be shoved out the airlock sans suit.
Well, remember a good number of their customers might be in the same boat, most ISP have local customers.
After all, could you replace your home machine in 3 days? how about a small bussiness?
But you are right, the only way to do it is to have half your capacity somewhere else if you are truely that important.
I remember a white paper detailing how half of the bussinesses that went under after the first WTC bombing went under because of data loss.
yes, well, read the whole thing after the snide remark.
1010 is closer to 1011 than 10, so there!
There are actually 1010 items listed.
Sorry, it was just getting too silly on this thread.
Now, for something compleately different...
WARNING!: Do not attempt to eat a Happy Meal larger than your head.
Considering most of that dust is probably YOU, in little tiny bits of dead skin, it is unlikely to harm you
look for a company that does some or all of the following things:
1. Publish whitepapers.
2. Does basic research.
3. Is a goverment agency.
A good example here in Cali. is Lawerence Livermore Labs, or Standford, Berkely, UCLA or on the priviate sector, IBM or Transmeta.
These are places you need PhD to push or exceed the current state of the art. Whitepapers bring grants or prestige to the company/agency, and you training in writing academic papers will come in handy.
In the "real world" (I use that term lightly, as some things here are just unreal, really), i.e. IT is a utility, not a money maker, a PhD will do little for your getting inside the door. It will be no more good than a regular degree or an suitable amount of work experence.
We had two PhD's apply for a job in the last year. One said "Oncall is unacceptable and should not be expected of your top employee.", so he was right out. The other told us we were doing everything wrong, we should be using IPv6, NUMA machines, latest TLA, blah, blah, blah. He too, was slotted in the round file.
So will your PhD help?
Depends on who you show it to, now does'nt it?
but being a nerd, all you would do with it is piss on your shoes.
I can no longer say: "Is that in lira? I think I have 2 cents around here somewhere."
Italy's currency WAS good for something.