It wont be cheep - but how about this idea. You'll get plenty of data redundancy out of it, however you may need to spend some extra bucks on stability and maintainability.
eWare 12x S-ATA raid5 card 12x 300GB raid5 linux machine iscsi software - share out 1 LUN.
Duplicate this machine until you have enough storage.
One big box with a number of trunked/bonded gigE ports Iscsi initiator software - mount all the luns. software raid them together - striping if you arent too worried - raid5 if you are.
tada - big storage, one volume, all accessable from one machine.
That's actually not true at all. They still own the code, the GPL is a license, not relinquishing ownership. What they can't do is use any code contributed by anyone outside the company. That code they'll have to re-write since it's licensed under the GPL and doesn't belong to them.
hum.. isnt that exactly what i just said? "remove any code from parties that havent agreed to the new license"..
Maybe i'm just sour for getting modded flamebait and im missing something, but i would swear that was almost exactly what i said.
They cant go "closed source" - they've licensed it under the GPL. Unless they rewrite the app from scratch, or remove any code from parties that havent agreed to the new license... If linus wanted to close-source linux all the sudden, he couldnt do it either.
So.. are they ripping everything else out, or are they rewriting from scratch?
And obviously, the existing version cant be relicensed either. The latest release under the GPL is stuck there from now until forever.
Those are fairly complex motherfuckers. Far more complex than anything that was even conceived a few decades back.
And, being one of those young bloods at 24 and comparitively new to the industry.. this is one of the problems with it from my perspective. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
A lot of the projects I've seen have been unnessecarily complex. They use java and.net, which was designed to make everything simpler. But its like the developers need to make up for it somehow, and they make the system unnessecarily complex. Universities teach the complexities required of good C and assembly design, but concentrate on teaching and pushing java - so students leave university and go out, java and.NET in hand, and design software that would make a C programmer cry.
Software is rarely more complex than it was 10 years ago - hell, its doing mostly the same thing - and yet I get developers coming to me saying we need to drop $100,000 grand on hardware to support their application. I get what their application does, and I cant fathom how it requires so many resources to do it.
Or outsource the whole damn thing. There are dozens of providers out there that could drop a rack worth of gear into your datacenter and maintain the whole thing with plenty more experience in handling mail systems of that size. And at that level, I'm sure you'd have no problem getting it branded however you like.
Computer Science programs dont teach nearly any applied operating system management. Not that it nessecarily belongs in a Comp-sci program, but if most comp-sci grads cant even navigate linux with any competancy, then why should we be looking universities to fix this?
My issues with comp-sci programs aside, why cant these younger people simply take the normal approach of learning on the job? Dont worry about it, just start training people.
As someone who has intentionally turned off access logs because 800 megs of daily logs is stupid, I agree. I cant exactly imagine that suprnova kept consistant logs for very long - its a huge data warehousing project.
Please explain how the logs you cite prove I downloaded your movie. The logs show a 28k ".torrent" file. I was unaware that your movies could be compressed to such a degree! I would now like to direct you to my large DVD collection.
My sister is 12. She can type nearly as fast as I can - and while she does make use of that internet shorthand that I hate so much, I think a laptop would probably be a good thing for her to have. What kind of laptop is a little harder to call. I would probably suggest something limited enough that it would almost work out as an appliance though. Perhaps a linux system designed specifically for school type applications.
A really good idea would be for school boards to develope a little knoppix type system that could be provided to kids as nessecary - on a DVD-RW perhaps, to allow for saving their projects.
I'm only six years out of school, but I swear, kids these days are amazing. At 12, most can type quite quickly. When I was in school, at 15 I was one of three students that could type with any speed.
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I'm sorry - I'm one of those "PC server culture whiz kids". I'm 23, and I know all about change control. You're not talking about some cultural difference here, you're just talking about the influx of crappy and inexperienced management that flooded the industry when it exploaded. There are plenty of operational practices that have been codified around. Any company that runs a production system of any size should be using that software and operating by those practices.
Oh - another point. Most people have computers already. If most people had houses already, then the growth would be in knocking down the old one and building a new one. But, if the house you have serves its purpose, isnt falling apart and is big enough for your needs - why buy a new one? (Ignoring market concerns..)
How often do you go out and buy a new copy of a book you own - provided the book is still quite readable?
I probably wont buy a new machine until the current one dies. How is that not impeding sales? It used to be that I needed to ugprade every two years, otherwise I couldnt run anything with any decency. I can play all my media, run everything except games and perform all my work just fine - multitasking all the way. I currently have two SSH windows open, winamp, gaim, two instances of mirc, firefox with six tabs, a few notepads for "scrap paper", bittorrent. I'm using a wireless network, and I've got ipod plugged in charging. I'm streaming MP3s from magnatune and boucing around doing all kinds of stuff. And my machine is NOT slow.
Why would I want to upgrade? Throw $2000 for what? Games? I can play games on playstation. I could not do this on a 500Mhz machine, but I definitely dont need a 4 GHz machine to do it.
My fastest machine is an AMD Athlon 800Mhz. I dont do the gaming thing very often, and I honestly feel like the machine performs quite sufficiently for me. I have the money to upgrade, but its simply not a priority for me.
The fact that I can do everything I need to (I dont do video editing or photoshop type stuff) without excessive latency makes that 800Mhz quite sufficient.
That being said, I've also avoided going to heavier OS's. I ran W2k for many years, and recently went to XP. Turn off all that eye candy and it performs just as fast.
Hate to say it, but if I were running linux, I'd probably want something with a little more beef, because the eye candy with some of the X.org window managers is accually functional eye candy, and I would make use of it. As it stands, I dont need it.
I'd like to point to Gates Law - which I think Longhorn is specifically designed to achieve: The speed of software halves every 18 months. We've got machines now quite capable of running most everyday purposes. The only way to get people to buy the newest and greatest is to introduce overhead in the OS. Under the guise of "perty!" and "search!" M$ is throwing massive amounts of unnessecary crap into OS overhead. Relational database for filesystem? Completely unnessecary.
I applied for a RIM job about a year ago. I had a friend who already had a RIM job, so that gave me a leg up on the competition. The interview for my RIM job was a little disappointing. I didnt realize I had to talk to so many people just to get a RIM job. And to top it all off, they asked me some really easy questions. I think I had a good shot at getting a RIM job, but I ended up going elsewhere. I'll probably apply for a RIM job again in a year or two, because eventually I want one. I just have to get some other experience first. Cant really get a RIM job without having experienced some other things first, eh..
Netapp. They have excellent customer service, and they cover what I want in service quite well.
There are three basic lines of support, which I appreciate - and a methodology that is very important.
Online Documentation and forums. You can find information, HOWTOs, simular problems, best practices, example deployments, in depth technical details into how things work under the hood. This is an invaluble resource - I want to find and learn it myself, not depend on telephone technicians.
Application (or in this case, appliance) phone home and two or four hour onsite support. I prefer to find out that I had a hardware failure when I wake up in the morning to find a set of emails - one from the appliance, one from the vendor, one from the datacenter, and one from the tech - that my problem has been fixed.
Competant telephone support. If they cant answer my question on the phone, they'll escalate. If they cant cant resolve my problem, they'll escalate. I'll get an accual engineer on the phone if my problem is big enough.
Willing to take responsibility. If its broken, and I didnt break it, then its the vendors' problem. We had a problem a few weeks ago with one of our Filers, and after two failed attempts to fix the problem they accually flew a tech to our office and told him he wasnt leaving until it was properly fixed according to our schedule (as it was a production filer). And he was there for two weeks.
Go the extra mile. Thats what I look for in support and customer service.
Well then, maybe as a guy that uses and likes many things about both BSD and Linux, I can suggest a few things to the Linux folks out there that would really make me happy to see in Linux that are in BSD.
Direct FD number control in the kernel build. BSD has this 'maxusers' settings in its kernel configuration taht maps directly to the number of FDs available on a system. I dislike having to mess around with settings post-boot in order to get a bigger FD table.
Text file kernel configuration. That.config thing doesnt cut it - doesnt work cleanly if I edit it. I want a file I can move around, store in CVS and track. I've had to go through some annoying steps to get a clean kernel tree to compile against it. FreeBSD does this fantastically well.
Simpler kernel configuration and build period. I dont want to have to spend 90 minutes going through kernel options since there are options turned on that I will never have any use for. And that damn menuconfig is horrible to get around. The prompting non-ncurses version is even worse, and xconfig doesnt count since its basically the ncurses version inside X.
Either way, I use and build linux daily. I like it, is isnt bad, but the BSD kernel is just easier to work with in a lot of ways.
I should mention that Perfect Blue can be rather violent. Its a suspense thriller involving rape and serial murder... so, it can rather disturbing at times.
If you enjoy Perfect Blue, go next to Full Metal Alchemist. Its fantasy, and the characters are kids, but the story line is fantastic. Its 52 episodes in total.
If you're looking for something closer to reality, Berzerk might be to your liking. Berserk's first few episodes are about the main character earlier in his life - but be warned, it can get extremely violent. The ending is confusing, but the rest of the plot is quite good.
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It wont be cheep - but how about this idea. You'll get plenty of data redundancy out of it, however you may need to spend some extra bucks on stability and maintainability.
eWare 12x S-ATA raid5 card
12x 300GB raid5
linux machine
iscsi software - share out 1 LUN.
Duplicate this machine until you have enough storage.
One big box with a number of trunked/bonded gigE ports
Iscsi initiator software - mount all the luns.
software raid them together - striping if you arent too worried - raid5 if you are.
tada - big storage, one volume, all accessable from one machine.
the maintenance will suck though.
That's actually not true at all. They still own the code, the GPL is a license, not relinquishing ownership. What they can't do is use any code contributed by anyone outside the company. That code they'll have to re-write since it's licensed under the GPL and doesn't belong to them.
hum.. isnt that exactly what i just said? "remove any code from parties that havent agreed to the new license"..
Maybe i'm just sour for getting modded flamebait and im missing something, but i would swear that was almost exactly what i said.
They cant go "closed source" - they've licensed it under the GPL. Unless they rewrite the app from scratch, or remove any code from parties that havent agreed to the new license... If linus wanted to close-source linux all the sudden, he couldnt do it either.
So.. are they ripping everything else out, or are they rewriting from scratch?
And obviously, the existing version cant be relicensed either. The latest release under the GPL is stuck there from now until forever.
Those are fairly complex motherfuckers. Far more complex than anything that was even conceived a few decades back.
.net, which was designed to make everything simpler. But its like the developers need to make up for it somehow, and they make the system unnessecarily complex. Universities teach the complexities required of good C and assembly design, but concentrate on teaching and pushing java - so students leave university and go out, java and .NET in hand, and design software that would make a C programmer cry.
And, being one of those young bloods at 24 and comparitively new to the industry.. this is one of the problems with it from my perspective. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
A lot of the projects I've seen have been unnessecarily complex. They use java and
Software is rarely more complex than it was 10 years ago - hell, its doing mostly the same thing - and yet I get developers coming to me saying we need to drop $100,000 grand on hardware to support their application. I get what their application does, and I cant fathom how it requires so many resources to do it.
Or outsource the whole damn thing. There are dozens of providers out there that could drop a rack worth of gear into your datacenter and maintain the whole thing with plenty more experience in handling mail systems of that size. And at that level, I'm sure you'd have no problem getting it branded however you like.
disclaimer: I work for one of those companies.
Computer Science programs dont teach nearly any applied operating system management. Not that it nessecarily belongs in a Comp-sci program, but if most comp-sci grads cant even navigate linux with any competancy, then why should we be looking universities to fix this?
My issues with comp-sci programs aside, why cant these younger people simply take the normal approach of learning on the job? Dont worry about it, just start training people.
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As someone who has intentionally turned off access logs because 800 megs of daily logs is stupid, I agree. I cant exactly imagine that suprnova kept consistant logs for very long - its a huge data warehousing project.
Dear MPAA:
Please explain how the logs you cite prove I downloaded your movie. The logs show a 28k ".torrent" file. I was unaware that your movies could be compressed to such a degree! I would now like to direct you to my large DVD collection.
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My sister is 12. She can type nearly as fast as I can - and while she does make use of that internet shorthand that I hate so much, I think a laptop would probably be a good thing for her to have. What kind of laptop is a little harder to call. I would probably suggest something limited enough that it would almost work out as an appliance though. Perhaps a linux system designed specifically for school type applications.
A really good idea would be for school boards to develope a little knoppix type system that could be provided to kids as nessecary - on a DVD-RW perhaps, to allow for saving their projects.
I'm only six years out of school, but I swear, kids these days are amazing. At 12, most can type quite quickly. When I was in school, at 15 I was one of three students that could type with any speed.
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I'm sorry - I'm one of those "PC server culture whiz kids". I'm 23, and I know all about change control. You're not talking about some cultural difference here, you're just talking about the influx of crappy and inexperienced management that flooded the industry when it exploaded. There are plenty of operational practices that have been codified around. Any company that runs a production system of any size should be using that software and operating by those practices.
Oh - another point. Most people have computers already. If most people had houses already, then the growth would be in knocking down the old one and building a new one. But, if the house you have serves its purpose, isnt falling apart and is big enough for your needs - why buy a new one? (Ignoring market concerns..)
How often do you go out and buy a new copy of a book you own - provided the book is still quite readable?
I probably wont buy a new machine until the current one dies. How is that not impeding sales? It used to be that I needed to ugprade every two years, otherwise I couldnt run anything with any decency. I can play all my media, run everything except games and perform all my work just fine - multitasking all the way. I currently have two SSH windows open, winamp, gaim, two instances of mirc, firefox with six tabs, a few notepads for "scrap paper", bittorrent. I'm using a wireless network, and I've got ipod plugged in charging. I'm streaming MP3s from magnatune and boucing around doing all kinds of stuff. And my machine is NOT slow.
Why would I want to upgrade? Throw $2000 for what? Games? I can play games on playstation. I could not do this on a 500Mhz machine, but I definitely dont need a 4 GHz machine to do it.
Uhh.. yes?
My fastest machine is an AMD Athlon 800Mhz. I dont do the gaming thing very often, and I honestly feel like the machine performs quite sufficiently for me. I have the money to upgrade, but its simply not a priority for me.
The fact that I can do everything I need to (I dont do video editing or photoshop type stuff) without excessive latency makes that 800Mhz quite sufficient.
That being said, I've also avoided going to heavier OS's. I ran W2k for many years, and recently went to XP. Turn off all that eye candy and it performs just as fast.
Hate to say it, but if I were running linux, I'd probably want something with a little more beef, because the eye candy with some of the X.org window managers is accually functional eye candy, and I would make use of it. As it stands, I dont need it.
I'd like to point to Gates Law - which I think Longhorn is specifically designed to achieve: The speed of software halves every 18 months. We've got machines now quite capable of running most everyday purposes. The only way to get people to buy the newest and greatest is to introduce overhead in the OS. Under the guise of "perty!" and "search!" M$ is throwing massive amounts of unnessecary crap into OS overhead. Relational database for filesystem? Completely unnessecary.
Is "Opera vs FireFox" the new "vi vs emacs" ?
No, "Firefox vs Opera" is the new "vi vs emacs".
And, just like before, everyone knows firefox is better than opera.
That settles it! I'm going ahead with my lawsuit against slashdot. I've never gotten a first post, and its fucked up my chi.
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I applied for a RIM job about a year ago. I had a friend who already had a RIM job, so that gave me a leg up on the competition. The interview for my RIM job was a little disappointing. I didnt realize I had to talk to so many people just to get a RIM job. And to top it all off, they asked me some really easy questions. I think I had a good shot at getting a RIM job, but I ended up going elsewhere. I'll probably apply for a RIM job again in a year or two, because eventually I want one. I just have to get some other experience first. Cant really get a RIM job without having experienced some other things first, eh..
There are three basic lines of support, which I appreciate - and a methodology that is very important.
Go the extra mile. Thats what I look for in support and customer service.
You missed the boat.
Samsung to release 16GB IDE flash drive in august.
I want them in my servers.
yes, but this is the logic of most of batmans' opponents, and everyone knows that they always loose.
Either way, I use and build linux daily. I like it, is isnt bad, but the BSD kernel is just easier to work with in a lot of ways.
I should mention that Perfect Blue can be rather violent. Its a suspense thriller involving rape and serial murder... so, it can rather disturbing at times.
If you enjoy Perfect Blue, go next to Full Metal Alchemist. Its fantasy, and the characters are kids, but the story line is fantastic. Its 52 episodes in total.
If you're looking for something closer to reality, Berzerk might be to your liking. Berserk's first few episodes are about the main character earlier in his life - but be warned, it can get extremely violent. The ending is confusing, but the rest of the plot is quite good.