I suspect that the Digital Storage Works is what HP is after. The new HSG80 fiber controllers are truely amazing. We have them installed on 4 platforms: NT,VMS,Sun,RS6000.
They work like a charm and make big storage (30+ TB) areas easier to manage. OpenVMS can replace the ailing HP3000 environment, and True64 will merge into HP-UX, as the clustering ablities of True64 are worth a mint.
Who I feel for is all those old DEC employees that just go their bussiness cards. Crap! here we go again.
One of our guys is going to CTS (old DECUS) next week, advised him to bring riot gear, he may need it.
You have a shell script that runs just fine at the command prompt, but complains when run as cron job. What might be the problem?
You have been given a second nic card for this machine. For (choose operating system) how do you configure this card? Note: This is truly evil for Sun.
A developer calls you to change the number of semaphores available to kernel on the production machine, how do you do that? ANY other answer besides "Get lost!" or "Tested it in DEV yet?" is WRONG and a Bad Thing(tm).
What is your favorite password? Better not have one!
During the boot process, the system hangs or reboots. How do determine the problem?
A patch has gone horribly wrong, the root disk is corrupt, etc. and you must recover from tape. Do you have a tape? How do you do it on (insert OS)? Have you done it?
What is your Disaster Recovery process at your current employer? Have your every tested it? How?
Your have been told to support a new DB app, here is a white board and a pen. Draw out a basic architecture for the hardware/software needed to support the project. Hint: if he draws anything before asking you some pointed questions, get rid of him. What questions he asks, and what he fills in by default will show what he really knows, and what his prejudices are, and what he thinks you want to hear. One candidate put together a 3-teir Sun/Veritas/Oracle/iPlanet web enabled enterprise class using E10K's before he even asked a question!
The CTO/CIO calls you to change the number of semaphores available to kernel on the production machine, how do you do that? (See above)
The other thing to do is to go down paths to see how far it goes. No question is a bad question (unless prohibited by labor laws) as it always tells you something about the candidate, even if it is only how he reacts to stupid questions. Also, don't forget to ask about carring a pager/oncall/cell phone. SOme people won't do it.
Sounds like the prof was actually trying to prevent cheating in the class, not limit your right to use or publish your work.
Bit heavy handed, but then tenure has the poison of godhood.
Anyone planning to clone me is gonna buy themselves a whole lotta trouble.
The very thought of more than one of me running around make me afraid. Very, very afraid.
The biggest problem with p2p is the "give to take" ratio, or the second "p" in the equation. Some of you will contribute great things to the system, rare out-of-print recordings or printings, excellent code, or whatever.
I on the other hand, will simply suck the marrow out of the system.
Why? Because I am a no good bastard? =)
No, because I am, for all intents and purposes of p2p, boring and useless. But I do make a killer martini.
I can't code very well, I have no CD collection (I think I own about 10 or so), and I am no graphic artist. I am also, as you may have noticed, not the best writer. What does that leave me to contribute? Perhaps some bandwidth or processing power.
Big deal.
And so it goes with hundreds of others like me who are talented in the non-digital world, but have little to offer to others in the p2p world. We will burden the system with our taking, and we are unable to give in return.
P.S. The offer of a martini stands for the bloke who put those killer Black Sabbath recordings out on the net. You know, the ones that you can't buy anywhere.
I can confirm the senators assertion. I turned 31 on the 10th and ever since I have been unable to operate a computer properly, nor am I able to log onto the internet without the help of the 28y.o. next door.
Some thing must be done in the next 3 years to fix this problem or I will be unable to use a computer at all!
Even after the kind hearted youngen' next door help me get on the net I still had problems.
I tried patching my FreeBSD box and all it kept saying was "Stop, Dave. I can feel my mind going Dave. Stop."
Something needs to be done about the sudden loss of computer knowledge at age 31! How will I remain employed when my boss figures out I have forgotten all my Sysadmin knowledge?! Oh wait, he is over thirty as well...
Oh please, DEC Alpha's had them longbefore this
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Please, this is not a new idea.
Here is an article from DEC (now Compaq) that describes how the Alpha chip does it:
http://www.compaq.com/hpc/ref/ref_alpha_ia64.doc for word.
and
http://www.compaq.com/hpc/ref/ref_alpha_ia64.pdf
for pdf.
Digital has always tried to do things "the Right Way" and it shows in their products.
The data transfer is the hard part, but you could do it with a small linux PC like some of the posts last week, running off a Nightrider type battery in the Bottle cage. Some of these brick type computers have big harddrives, and you could just spool and forward when you can. X-10.com has some cool mini cams that can run on USB, and could fit wedged in a helmet vent.
PS. Don't worry about the drag, just shave your legs or lose 5 pounds;->
HMM you just the variable Money equal to God. Are you sure you did not want to test instead?
#include
int main(void)
if ( Money==God )i
then
{
printf ("Win98 is Good, *nix is Bad. );
pub->beer = "$3" ;
}
else
pub->beer = "Free" ;
Great theory, they were hit on the back of the head by flying rocks. The absolute precision of a totally random event.
Geez, where do you get this stuff?
-- Racism is one of the few jokes the Devil laughs at, and the only one he bothers to retell. Think of it, the cosmic irony of "They are lesser men then I because of their skin", and its ugly brother "They will treat me as less of a man because of the color of my skin" coming from the mouths of creatures made in the image of God. --
I plan on paying close attention to each of these ads.
So I can avoid their sites and products. If I feel cranky I will even e-mail them and let them know my intentions. I'll even include those vital statistics: 25-35, male, and $50-100 a year, that make them shiver with anticipation of my spare dollars.
Bastards.
Before I get on my soapbox, let me thank David Brin for many hours spent reading and re-reading his writings. I would rank his books up with Azimov, Hienlien, and Herbert.
Hear is the question I would like to see answered by Gore:
"Mr. Gore, one of the unstable nuclear powers, take your pick, Russia, Pakistan, India or China, has launched a large scale missile attack against the United States. This is every Presidents nightmare. Given your long term commitment to the environment, how could you use our own nuclear arsenal knowing that it most likely would result in the destruction of most of the earth's biosphere?"
As much as we would like to think the end of the Cold War has reduced the risk of nuclear war, it has not. If anything it is worse now then ever before. Gore position on the environment conflicts heavily with the required mental state to carry through with MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction, for those who did not grow up in the shadow of the mushroom cloud). Despite how incredibly insane this philosophy is, it has nonetheless kept the use of Atomic weapons to a minimum.
Who can't wonder if Gore will waiver when ICBM head for major US cities and he must decide to launch? He may decide that 50/100/150 American lives are a small price to pay to have a chance at saving the biosphere from total destruction? Problem is, once the "First Strike" country is able to even rationalize the thought that we might or might not respond we have made a fatal mistake. It is only the guarantee that we WILL retaliate and destroy the world keeps them from firing at us. Even worse, what if Israel decides that it can use its weapons (assuming they have them) because they know we won't launch if it escalates? What if Pakistan or India decides the same?
I know this whole discussion fails to pass the logic test, because it is illogical to build and have nuclear weapons. Yet even Brin resorts to this in many of his books. In Earth, the Grazers are turned off because the treat of all out destruction is just too great. The Grubu Prince is terminated by his underling at the end of Uplift Wars, precisely because victory is not worth the destruction of one world.
Gore is too much of wild card. Nader would be better, at least we, and the rest of the world, would know he would not use them at all. Period. You can work with that, but Gore's uncertainty is the killer.
Before I get on my soapbox, let me thank David Brin for many hours spent reading and re-reading his writings. I would rank his books up with Azimov, Hienlien, and Herbert.
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I suspect that the Digital Storage Works is what HP is after. The new HSG80 fiber controllers are truely amazing. We have them installed on 4 platforms: NT,VMS,Sun,RS6000.
They work like a charm and make big storage (30+ TB) areas easier to manage. OpenVMS can replace the ailing HP3000 environment, and True64 will merge into HP-UX, as the clustering ablities of True64 are worth a mint.
Who I feel for is all those old DEC employees that just go their bussiness cards. Crap! here we go again.
One of our guys is going to CTS (old DECUS) next week, advised him to bring riot gear, he may need it.
Even more useful would be the standard "Our website has moved, click here to jump to our new website". QED.
My faves at an interview:
You have a shell script that runs just fine at the command prompt, but complains when run as cron job. What might be the problem?
You have been given a second nic card for this machine. For (choose operating system) how do you configure this card?
Note: This is truly evil for Sun.
A developer calls you to change the number of semaphores available to kernel on the production machine, how do you do that? ANY other answer besides "Get lost!" or "Tested it in DEV yet?" is WRONG and a Bad Thing(tm).
What is your favorite password? Better not have one!
During the boot process, the system hangs or reboots. How do determine the problem?
A patch has gone horribly wrong, the root disk is corrupt, etc. and you must recover from tape. Do you have a tape? How do you do it on (insert OS)? Have you done it?
What is your Disaster Recovery process at your current employer? Have your every tested it? How?
Your have been told to support a new DB app, here is a white board and a pen. Draw out a basic architecture for the hardware/software needed to support the project. Hint: if he draws anything before asking you some pointed questions, get rid of him. What questions he asks, and what he fills in by default will show what he really knows, and what his prejudices are, and what he thinks you want to hear.
One candidate put together a 3-teir Sun/Veritas/Oracle/iPlanet web enabled enterprise class using E10K's before he even asked a question! The CTO/CIO calls you to change the number of semaphores available to kernel on the production machine, how do you do that? (See above)
The other thing to do is to go down paths to see how far it goes. No question is a bad question (unless prohibited by labor laws) as it always tells you something about the candidate, even if it is only how he reacts to stupid questions. Also, don't forget to ask about carring a pager/oncall/cell phone. SOme people won't do it.
I blame Canada!
Sounds like the prof was actually trying to prevent cheating in the class, not limit your right to use or publish your work.
Bit heavy handed, but then tenure has the poison of godhood.
Dammit, I AM your sysadmin, and if I see one of these things on your desk, your password will be OPIE'd, with keywords in Sanskrit...
But you can keep the one at home. =}
Just a warning from your favorite BOFH.
You think this is bad?
Wait till some similar process screws an election up.
Oh, wait....
Anyone planning to clone me is gonna buy themselves a whole lotta trouble.
The very thought of more than one of me running around make me afraid. Very, very afraid.
BOFH's of the world unite!
The biggest problem with p2p is the "give to take" ratio, or the second "p" in the equation. Some of you will contribute great things to the system, rare out-of-print recordings or printings, excellent code, or whatever.
I on the other hand, will simply suck the marrow out of the system.
Why? Because I am a no good bastard? =)
No, because I am, for all intents and purposes of p2p, boring and useless. But I do make a killer martini.
I can't code very well, I have no CD collection (I think I own about 10 or so), and I am no graphic artist. I am also, as you may have noticed, not the best writer. What does that leave me to contribute? Perhaps some bandwidth or processing power.
Big deal.
And so it goes with hundreds of others like me who are talented in the non-digital world, but have little to offer to others in the p2p world. We will burden the system with our taking, and we are unable to give in return.
P.S. The offer of a martini stands for the bloke who put those killer Black Sabbath recordings out on the net. You know, the ones that you can't buy anywhere.
I can confirm the senators assertion. I turned 31 on the 10th and ever since I have been unable to operate a computer properly, nor am I able to log onto the internet without the help of the 28y.o. next door.
Some thing must be done in the next 3 years to fix this problem or I will be unable to use a computer at all!
Even after the kind hearted youngen' next door help me get on the net I still had problems.
I tried patching my FreeBSD box and all it kept saying was "Stop, Dave. I can feel my mind going Dave. Stop."
Something needs to be done about the sudden loss of computer knowledge at age 31! How will I remain employed when my boss figures out I have forgotten all my Sysadmin knowledge?! Oh wait, he is over thirty as well...
Please, this is not a new idea.
Here is an article from DEC (now Compaq) that describes how the Alpha chip does it:
http://www.compaq.com/hpc/ref/ref_alpha_ia64.doc
for word.
and
http://www.compaq.com/hpc/ref/ref_alpha_ia64.pdf
for pdf.
Digital has always tried to do things "the Right Way" and it shows in their products.
Jerry Brown tried this with the Med fly. Look where that got us.
Sprayed with pesticide from helicopters in the dead of night.
At least, they that is what they CLAIMED to spray us with...
The data transfer is the hard part, but you could do it with a small linux PC like some of the posts last week, running off a Nightrider type battery in the Bottle cage. Some of these brick type computers have big harddrives, and you could just spool and forward when you can. X-10.com has some cool mini cams that can run on USB, and could fit wedged in a helmet vent.
;->
PS. Don't worry about the drag, just shave your legs or lose 5 pounds
HMM you just the variable Money equal to God. Are you sure you did not want to test instead?
#include
int main(void)
if ( Money==God )i
then
{
printf ("Win98 is Good, *nix is Bad. );
pub->beer = "$3" ;
}
else
pub->beer = "Free" ;
Great theory, they were hit on the back of the head by flying rocks. The absolute precision of a totally random event. Geez, where do you get this stuff? -- Racism is one of the few jokes the Devil laughs at, and the only one he bothers to retell. Think of it, the cosmic irony of "They are lesser men then I because of their skin", and its ugly brother "They will treat me as less of a man because of the color of my skin" coming from the mouths of creatures made in the image of God. --
I plan on paying close attention to each of these ads. So I can avoid their sites and products. If I feel cranky I will even e-mail them and let them know my intentions. I'll even include those vital statistics: 25-35, male, and $50-100 a year, that make them shiver with anticipation of my spare dollars. Bastards.
Watch the first 10 minutes of the movie, it mentions the rebellion against machines in the voice over.
Give Gurney a break, he was tring to best Patrick Stewert back when he could actually act.
Before I get on my soapbox, let me thank David Brin for many hours spent reading and re-reading his writings. I would rank his books up with Azimov, Hienlien, and Herbert. Hear is the question I would like to see answered by Gore: "Mr. Gore, one of the unstable nuclear powers, take your pick, Russia, Pakistan, India or China, has launched a large scale missile attack against the United States. This is every Presidents nightmare. Given your long term commitment to the environment, how could you use our own nuclear arsenal knowing that it most likely would result in the destruction of most of the earth's biosphere?" As much as we would like to think the end of the Cold War has reduced the risk of nuclear war, it has not. If anything it is worse now then ever before. Gore position on the environment conflicts heavily with the required mental state to carry through with MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction, for those who did not grow up in the shadow of the mushroom cloud). Despite how incredibly insane this philosophy is, it has nonetheless kept the use of Atomic weapons to a minimum. Who can't wonder if Gore will waiver when ICBM head for major US cities and he must decide to launch? He may decide that 50/100/150 American lives are a small price to pay to have a chance at saving the biosphere from total destruction? Problem is, once the "First Strike" country is able to even rationalize the thought that we might or might not respond we have made a fatal mistake. It is only the guarantee that we WILL retaliate and destroy the world keeps them from firing at us. Even worse, what if Israel decides that it can use its weapons (assuming they have them) because they know we won't launch if it escalates? What if Pakistan or India decides the same? I know this whole discussion fails to pass the logic test, because it is illogical to build and have nuclear weapons. Yet even Brin resorts to this in many of his books. In Earth, the Grazers are turned off because the treat of all out destruction is just too great. The Grubu Prince is terminated by his underling at the end of Uplift Wars, precisely because victory is not worth the destruction of one world. Gore is too much of wild card. Nader would be better, at least we, and the rest of the world, would know he would not use them at all. Period. You can work with that, but Gore's uncertainty is the killer.
Before I get on my soapbox, let me thank David Brin for many hours spent reading and re-reading his writings. I would rank his books up with Azimov, Hienlien, and Herbert.