A year ago there were no IT jobs anywhere but the Washington DC metro. Yesterday a recruiter in Boston told me both coasts have recovered, but they're having real trouble finding qualified secure system engineers to fill jobs in the midwest.
If Blago didn't bribe a juror, then someone else did. Not the first time that's happened in Chicago, and it won't be the last. A lot of politicians from Chicago seem to think the only thing that can hurt them is Kryptonite.
As an American I don't pretend to understand the fine points of the Australian political system. From my viewpoint many time zones away, however, those politicians do seem hell-bent on returning Australian citizens to their historic status as Crown convicts banished to Botany Bay on trumped up charges in a guilty-until-proven-innocent legal system. I'm damned glad I'm not living there.
I have to agree. When I met them at the 1997 Atlanta Linux Showcase awards dinner I was struck by was their togetherness as partners, and by their very refreshing -- European? -- relationship as new parents. She appeared to be completely comfortable with his public persona and notoriety, maybe because they seemed to be in constant contact with each other at many private levels. As he gave his presentation to the ALS masses, one eye was always on Tove and their newborn daughter. Obviously two very luck people.
"Behind every great man there stands a great woman."
If Linus is ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize he'd have to hand it over to his wife who, if I recall correctly, was once a black belt karate champion in Finland. There's no doubt in my mind who keeps the peace in that family.
I think you have it exactly right. RAID 1 pairs can be chained as 1+0 strings to achieve truly enormous capacities without the exponential rebuild times of RAID 5 arrays. The rebuild / mirroring times for RAID 1+0 are fast and finite, and in most systems this can be done both on-line and on-the-fly. More significantly, with RAID 1+0 there's essentially no parity computation write penalty, making it a good choice for high-volume transaction systems.
The only downsides are the physical volume, electrical power, and cooling required by larger numbers of hard drives. The latest terabyte-class SATA drives have shrunk those numbers some, but not to the degrees seen in memory density and CPU line geometries.
My dad had cataract surgery and recovered his ability to read about 15 years ago. If only this new surgery had been available back then, my dear mother (who unfortunately also suffers from advanced Alzheimer's) would not have lost her ability to read, do crossword puzzles, or even look at family photos -- things she enjoyed immensely.
The only thing DHS is good at defending is its budget. Their own systems and networks are notoriously mismanaged and vulnerable. You have to go to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to find anything more inept.
The technical talent at NSA is the best in the world. It's their administrative and political leadership that could stand some fumigation.
If only we could find a way to bring my dear mother back to her husband and family today. She's living in the world of her teens and 20s, and always angry that no one else thinks it's 1940. She doesn't recognize her two sons, and we miss her terribly. Alzheimer's is the cruelest of diseases.
As a degreed electrical engineer and Air Force communications *engineering* officer I was expressly confined to assignments within that narrow career field. In a service dominated by flying ("rated") officers that was the kiss of death, career-wise. I was passed over for promotion again and again because I "lacked the breadth of assignments and experience required for advancement". My classmates with history and general studies degrees got the maintenance, operations, and command assignments and promotions I could not.
Now retired from the Air Force and working as an IT contractor, my skills are very much in demand. My salary is probably double that of my peers that got "definitely promote" ratings in uniform.
In my estimation there is absolutely no possibility that the military will ever adopt -- let alone embrace -- the computer nerd culture needed to develop any serious IT capability of its own. Its leadership is too narcissistic and firmly rooted in the past to allow it.
Fortunately the First Amendment is held holy above all other constitutional guarantees by most jurists. Down through the years the yelling fire in a theater and the knowingly false & libelous speech exceptions have been exhaustively well-defined by both state and federal courts. The only untested aspect of this case is the privacy afforded by anonymous posting on the Internet. I'm not being asked to decide that issue, but in general I think the essential basic tenets of libel do not include the identity of the defendant. If libel is sufficiently proved, then discovery of the libeler's identity would be the next logical step. The Fifth Amendment would seem to pose quite a high barrier to that. That would reduce the question to whether or not there is a compelling interest to expose a defendant's identity using technical means so often woefully misunderstood by the courts.
If this were to become an accepted precedent, then the obvious next step would be for plaintiffs to "judge shop" until they find one predisposed to their particular bias. This is far too important an issue to stop at the state appellate court level. It must be argued at least as high as a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals before it can set any meaningful precedent.
Dot ARPA The miracle of DNS Syncing crypto across satellite links Bit rates from 45.5 bps on up to the present The Morris Worm The Internet long before anyone could spell HTTP Ada dBase2 WordStar Osborne (books and luggable) 16/32-bit software upgrades (and now 64-bit) Y2K
I'm convinced that anyone in IT who is not equally experienced in both communications and computers is badly handicapped.
In the early 1970s Arizona State University, like many others, reorganized its Engineering curricula. Engineers have similar needs for advanced mathematics as physics majors and after PDE we were required to take a course called "Engineering Mathematics". It did quite a thorough job of relating the theoretical forms and formulas to the physical world. You did have to survive into your junior year to experience that reconciliation.
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(the person who wrote this script works for Red Hat...)
... this approach doesn't work at all with RHEL5.5 Server. Even the root user is not allowed to mkdir in /sys/fs:
[root@lion] /sys/fs
# mkdir cgroup
mkdir: cannot create directory `cgroup': Operation not permitted
Frankly I was a bit surprised by this response. Perhaps it's an old kernel thing. After all, RHEL5 is just Fedora 6 dressed in a tuxedo.
Does that much paper pulp exist in Australia?
Wouldn't that be like racing whales?
A year ago there were no IT jobs anywhere but the Washington DC metro. Yesterday a recruiter in Boston told me both coasts have recovered, but they're having real trouble finding qualified secure system engineers to fill jobs in the midwest.
"Robot Controlled By A Rat Brain"
Glenn Beck
Rush Limbaugh
Dubbyah
Katie Couric
Steve Balmer
RIAA
If Blago didn't bribe a juror, then someone else did. Not the first time that's happened in Chicago, and it won't be the last. A lot of politicians from Chicago seem to think the only thing that can hurt them is Kryptonite.
I am not a lawyer, but I'd sure like to read what Lawrence Lessig and EFF might have to say about this.
As an American I don't pretend to understand the fine points of the Australian political system. From my viewpoint many time zones away, however, those politicians do seem hell-bent on returning Australian citizens to their historic status as Crown convicts banished to Botany Bay on trumped up charges in a guilty-until-proven-innocent legal system. I'm damned glad I'm not living there.
I'm all set for the pre-cooked shrimp dinner of a lifetime.
As I recall, the last LISA was [also] a grossly overpriced failure.
Ahem... Perhaps a glorious year to *become* a Red Hat stockholder. 2008 and 2001, on the other hand, were horrible.
What I can't figure out is why it dropped a buck and a half today, unless one of the corporate bigwigs dumped a ton of it.
Captain Dunsel comes to mind...
I have to agree. When I met them at the 1997 Atlanta Linux Showcase awards dinner I was struck by was their togetherness as partners, and by their very refreshing -- European? -- relationship as new parents. She appeared to be completely comfortable with his public persona and notoriety, maybe because they seemed to be in constant contact with each other at many private levels. As he gave his presentation to the ALS masses, one eye was always on Tove and their newborn daughter. Obviously two very luck people.
"Behind every great man there stands a great woman."
If Linus is ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize he'd have to hand it over to his wife who, if I recall correctly, was once a black belt karate champion in Finland. There's no doubt in my mind who keeps the peace in that family.
I think you have it exactly right. RAID 1 pairs can be chained as 1+0 strings to achieve truly enormous capacities without the exponential rebuild times of RAID 5 arrays. The rebuild / mirroring times for RAID 1+0 are fast and finite, and in most systems this can be done both on-line and on-the-fly. More significantly, with RAID 1+0 there's essentially no parity computation write penalty, making it a good choice for high-volume transaction systems.
The only downsides are the physical volume, electrical power, and cooling required by larger numbers of hard drives. The latest terabyte-class SATA drives have shrunk those numbers some, but not to the degrees seen in memory density and CPU line geometries.
My dad had cataract surgery and recovered his ability to read about 15 years ago. If only this new surgery had been available back then, my dear mother (who unfortunately also suffers from advanced Alzheimer's) would not have lost her ability to read, do crossword puzzles, or even look at family photos -- things she enjoyed immensely.
The only thing DHS is good at defending is its budget. Their own systems and networks are notoriously mismanaged and vulnerable. You have to go to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to find anything more inept.
The technical talent at NSA is the best in the world. It's their administrative and political leadership that could stand some fumigation.
If only we could find a way to bring my dear mother back to her husband and family today. She's living in the world of her teens and 20s, and always angry that no one else thinks it's 1940. She doesn't recognize her two sons, and we miss her terribly. Alzheimer's is the cruelest of diseases.
As a degreed electrical engineer and Air Force communications *engineering* officer I was expressly confined to assignments within that narrow career field. In a service dominated by flying ("rated") officers that was the kiss of death, career-wise. I was passed over for promotion again and again because I "lacked the breadth of assignments and experience required for advancement". My classmates with history and general studies degrees got the maintenance, operations, and command assignments and promotions I could not.
Now retired from the Air Force and working as an IT contractor, my skills are very much in demand. My salary is probably double that of my peers that got "definitely promote" ratings in uniform.
In my estimation there is absolutely no possibility that the military will ever adopt -- let alone embrace -- the computer nerd culture needed to develop any serious IT capability of its own. Its leadership is too narcissistic and firmly rooted in the past to allow it.
Fortunately the First Amendment is held holy above all other constitutional guarantees by most jurists. Down through the years the yelling fire in a theater and the knowingly false & libelous speech exceptions have been exhaustively well-defined by both state and federal courts. The only untested aspect of this case is the privacy afforded by anonymous posting on the Internet. I'm not being asked to decide that issue, but in general I think the essential basic tenets of libel do not include the identity of the defendant. If libel is sufficiently proved, then discovery of the libeler's identity would be the next logical step. The Fifth Amendment would seem to pose quite a high barrier to that. That would reduce the question to whether or not there is a compelling interest to expose a defendant's identity using technical means so often woefully misunderstood by the courts.
If this were to become an accepted precedent, then the obvious next step would be for plaintiffs to "judge shop" until they find one predisposed to their particular bias. This is far too important an issue to stop at the state appellate court level. It must be argued at least as high as a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals before it can set any meaningful precedent.
I'm curious to know what critical cyber security projects or activities are "shovel ready" and awaiting funding...
Check out https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/
Dot ARPA
The miracle of DNS
Syncing crypto across satellite links
Bit rates from 45.5 bps on up to the present
The Morris Worm
The Internet long before anyone could spell HTTP
Ada
dBase2
WordStar
Osborne (books and luggable)
16/32-bit software upgrades (and now 64-bit)
Y2K
I'm convinced that anyone in IT who is not equally experienced in both communications and computers is badly handicapped.
In the early 1970s Arizona State University, like many others, reorganized its Engineering curricula. Engineers have similar needs for advanced mathematics as physics majors and after PDE we were required to take a course called "Engineering Mathematics". It did quite a thorough job of relating the theoretical forms and formulas to the physical world. You did have to survive into your junior year to experience that reconciliation.