Look for a mixed house. Very few companies even try to use one OS exclusively. At my current workplace, we have Solaris, Linux and Windows stacked floor to ceiling across more than an Acre of Data Center space. Within the environment, different people are recognized as experts on different platforms and expected to administer accordingly.
I.e. I am one of the Linux guys and I am in a department where everyone else is a Cisco or Firewall specialist. End result I do Linux 40 hours or more, each week, and once in a while help out with hardware, Windows, Networking etc...
This is a phone company/ISP with 2.1 Million customers (in a 2.7 Million person country). So there may not be an identical company in your area. However, look out for those features, which may have contributed to my ability to find work doing Linux full time here.
Telecom (Primarily cellphone)
ISP
Rapid growth
New company (10 years old)
Market leader
Young staff
I am not sure of the name of the package.. but it has a web interface that you can use to check how many days you have available and to apply for time off. I can use that to not just request a 1/2 day, but also to request just a few hours.
Does this mean we (and whoever created our HR software) have to sue IBM? Or can we just ask for a cut when they start collecting license fees on this patent?
Beam, Shuttle Craft or some primitive transport (Like Jet plane or Camel). I still want to get there.
BTW: How many TV Series can boast having 2 of the best known "Kings" as Fans (The other being Martin Luther King)
Work at the data from the other direction. Start from the guy who has some explosives and some people to plant it, but is looking for a target.
This list provides him the raw data to find the easiest target for his particular teem, gear and location.
Worse yet, for those talking about the perils of security throgh obscurity. Dose America have the resources to fully protect 200+ facilities around the world?
How much less will be left for Medicaid if they spend that much on this mission?
The news story I saw (over on BBC) mentioned an anti-venom site in Australia. If you know how this stuff is made, then you would also know how vulnerable such a facility is and how difficult to secure.
I.e. It's basically a zoo and a Vet station with a little lab attached and a dozen clones of Steve Erwin on staff.
We occasionally listen to music by characters facing some pretty serious charges. Some of them have even been convicted. And that's just music. Helping someone leak information that you want, may still be a good idea, even if for an unrelated reason you want that guy locked away.
After yesterday's leak, they may as well dump the whole shebang. IMHO: "A list of stuff that people can blow up if they want to screw with us", is something that legitimately deserves to be hidden from everyone but the guy dispatching people to guard that stuff.
That so many of these assets are important to other countries, compounds the danger.
What Ambassadors have to say about the Government's that host them? Bring it on. Back door deals on how to cover up embarrassing events? OK. Private communications that conflict directly with what was said publicly by the same people? lovely.
The technology can't be all that interesting considering that the device in the picture is bigger than my "TomTom". And my commercial GPS had to make additional room for a touch screen and battery. Why wasn't the FBI device seriously tiny?
Unless it's like those giant pieces of Armor some ancient army discarded to intimidate the enemy? I.e. This was a not so subtle hint that: "We are watching you so you better not try any $#!!7"
How about dumping the flight attendants? On short flights and budget airlines, they hardly serve a purpose. (Unless you were going to follow the suggestion of lowering the educational requirements and removing the uniforms... Ohh... and adding some music, mood lighting and garters designed for holding cash.)
Do you mean the one mentioned in the middle of this article
"Molten salts have been used in many industries as a high temperature heat transfer medium. The 'highest profile' use of molten salts in this regard is the Solar Power Tower near Dagget, California (excuse the pun). It uses a Sodium Nitrite/Nitrate mixture to absorb and store the sun's heat from the focus of many mirrors in the desert upon a central tower. The heat from the salt is then transfered via a heat exchanger to produce steam to drive a conventional steam turbine and generator to produce electricity from the sun for Southern California.3a"
It is all cost vs Benefit. If a company can get a major application ported to a cloud environment at a fraction of the cost of moving it to the next generation of compatible big iron, they will do just that.
Hardware, Software, Support, Power, Space, Labor etc... All costs matter.
This is why Linux is taking over more jobs in the Data Center and when it dose loose a task it's usually to a more specialized Open Platform, Like our bandwidth testing server which we dumped on an old 1u Sun box running OpenBSD, so we could avoid buying a box for that small job, cluttering a virtual environment with this none critical task, and be reasonable sane putting the machine on the other side of our firewall.
May I ask: what's your opinion on the TCO of "lots of little boxes" vs Big Iron, especially in terms of energy consumption and maintenance?
This depends on your specific situation and the specific application and hardware in question. Where we have replaced big iron with lots of little boxes, the total Electricity consumption was about the same. But that was mostly because of age. Newer machines do more per watt consumed.
The savings come from increased reliability and reduced hardware cost. I.e. The Million Dollar Sun box mentioned in my initial post would be replaced by about a dozen $5,000 Dell Servers. This won't happen anytime soon however as the software is not written for the cloud and porting it is none trivial.
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Except in that version, it was in the eye socket.
I'm actually surprised this didn't get flagged as it looks like a bomb.
Bet it doesn't SMELL like a Bomb. (I.e. No fumes from the usual explosive or poisonus chemicals).
Look for a mixed house. Very few companies even try to use one OS exclusively. At my current workplace, we have Solaris, Linux and Windows stacked floor to ceiling across more than an Acre of Data Center space. Within the environment, different people are recognized as experts on different platforms and expected to administer accordingly.
I.e. I am one of the Linux guys and I am in a department where everyone else is a Cisco or Firewall specialist. End result I do Linux 40 hours or more, each week, and once in a while help out with hardware, Windows, Networking etc...
This is a phone company/ISP with 2.1 Million customers (in a 2.7 Million person country). So there may not be an identical company in your area. However, look out for those features, which may have contributed to my ability to find work doing Linux full time here.
Telecom (Primarily cellphone)
ISP
Rapid growth
New company (10 years old)
Market leader
Young staff
It does. Both to get approval, then to notify those who must know I am out and finally an auto-response.
I am not sure of the name of the package.. but it has a web interface that you can use to check how many days you have available and to apply for time off. I can use that to not just request a 1/2 day, but also to request just a few hours.
Does this mean we (and whoever created our HR software) have to sue IBM? Or can we just ask for a cut when they start collecting license fees on this patent?
Beam, Shuttle Craft or some primitive transport (Like Jet plane or Camel). I still want to get there.
BTW: How many TV Series can boast having 2 of the best known "Kings" as Fans (The other being Martin Luther King)
I can vouch for the vintage of that UID. I was around here when it was assigned :)
Thank you Thorgil. I stand corrected.
Perhaps it slipped into a Neutrino flow and hit warp speeds. The Cardassians are now trying to figure out where it came from.
Opps... Ended a sentence too early.
... At the Same time?
Dose America have the resources to fully protect 200+ facilities around the world
Work at the data from the other direction. Start from the guy who has some explosives and some people to plant it, but is looking for a target.
This list provides him the raw data to find the easiest target for his particular teem, gear and location.
Worse yet, for those talking about the perils of security throgh obscurity. Dose America have the resources to fully protect 200+ facilities around the world?
How much less will be left for Medicaid if they spend that much on this mission?
The news story I saw (over on BBC) mentioned an anti-venom site in Australia. If you know how this stuff is made, then you would also know how vulnerable such a facility is and how difficult to secure.
I.e. It's basically a zoo and a Vet station with a little lab attached and a dozen clones of Steve Erwin on staff.
We occasionally listen to music by characters facing some pretty serious charges. Some of them have even been convicted. And that's just music. Helping someone leak information that you want, may still be a good idea, even if for an unrelated reason you want that guy locked away.
After yesterday's leak, they may as well dump the whole shebang. IMHO: "A list of stuff that people can blow up if they want to screw with us", is something that legitimately deserves to be hidden from everyone but the guy dispatching people to guard that stuff.
That so many of these assets are important to other countries, compounds the danger.
What Ambassadors have to say about the Government's that host them? Bring it on. Back door deals on how to cover up embarrassing events? OK. Private communications that conflict directly with what was said publicly by the same people? lovely.
Just go easy on the target lists.
Long Live Shihaloode. Can we go ride a worm now?
So what trauma must these golas be subjected to in order to trigger the memories of the original dolly?
So you are saying that if it was genetic the trait would have died out because it dose not promote it's own propagation?
Now that we we have that cleared up. Dose this renew hope that, they will one day find the illusive gay gene?
I wonder how well Pink text on Yellow paper will work?
The technology can't be all that interesting considering that the device in the picture is bigger than my "TomTom". And my commercial GPS had to make additional room for a touch screen and battery. Why wasn't the FBI device seriously tiny?
Unless it's like those giant pieces of Armor some ancient army discarded to intimidate the enemy? I.e. This was a not so subtle hint that: "We are watching you so you better not try any $#!!7"
How about dumping the flight attendants? On short flights and budget airlines, they hardly serve a purpose. (Unless you were going to follow the suggestion of lowering the educational requirements and removing the uniforms... Ohh... and adding some music, mood lighting and garters designed for holding cash.)
Yeah. But at least they can beet it. the tool for changing the appearance of this body-part was one of the 1st ever invented. http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/33936.jpg
And it's far easier to manipulate than those lasers and contacts for fooling a retina scan.
http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/plusdeck.html Sorry I couldn't do the link properly. busted keyboard :(
Do you mean the one mentioned in the middle of this article
"Molten salts have been used in many industries as a high temperature heat transfer medium. The 'highest profile' use of molten salts in this regard is the Solar Power Tower near Dagget, California (excuse the pun). It uses a Sodium Nitrite/Nitrate mixture to absorb and store the sun's heat from the focus of many mirrors in the desert upon a central tower. The heat from the salt is then transfered via a heat exchanger to produce steam to drive a conventional steam turbine and generator to produce electricity from the sun for Southern California.3a"
"Last modified, 20 Nov 97"
It is all cost vs Benefit. If a company can get a major application ported to a cloud environment at a fraction of the cost of moving it to the next generation of compatible big iron, they will do just that.
Hardware, Software, Support, Power, Space, Labor etc... All costs matter.
This is why Linux is taking over more jobs in the Data Center and when it dose loose a task it's usually to a more specialized Open Platform, Like our bandwidth testing server which we dumped on an old 1u Sun box running OpenBSD, so we could avoid buying a box for that small job, cluttering a virtual environment with this none critical task, and be reasonable sane putting the machine on the other side of our firewall.
May I ask: what's your opinion on the TCO of "lots of little boxes" vs Big Iron, especially in terms of energy consumption and maintenance?
This depends on your specific situation and the specific application and hardware in question. Where we have replaced big iron with lots of little boxes, the total Electricity consumption was about the same. But that was mostly because of age. Newer machines do more per watt consumed.
The savings come from increased reliability and reduced hardware cost. I.e. The Million Dollar Sun box mentioned in my initial post would be replaced by about a dozen $5,000 Dell Servers. This won't happen anytime soon however as the software is not written for the cloud and porting it is none trivial.