Yeah. At some point, no one is going to want to be CEO/CFO.
Massive CEO/CFO churn is a sign of a company in deep, serious trouble. Companies can handle occasional sudden losses of key personnel, but if it happens on a regular basis - that company is fucked.
It's also going to be bad for morale if the CEO/CFO keep getting whacked. Now, in the short term the company might have enough succession/disaster recovery plans to keep continuity going, but if the CEO/CFO in a company keep dying (as do the CEOs/CFOs of all other companies in the same industry), the employees are eventually going to say, "Fuck this, time for a career change."
On the other hand, the motivations for a terrorist organization are not the same as they are for a corporation, regardless of how similarly they operate. CEOs expect their 72 virgins now, not after they die.
Religions and ideologies usually consider hardship to be a vindication of what they're doing, not something to slough off onto employees, investors, or future quarters.
I've heard "10th May, 2014" or even "10 May, 2014". And actually, the common US reference isn't so much "September 11th" as it is "Nine-eleven", written 9/11.
My preferred date format is "2014-05-10". It collates better.
Fedora is the proving ground for just about all the stuff that may someday find its way into RHEL servers.
However, the process of getting from one to the other involves considerably delay, so some people will run Fedora as a server. It's not as stable, and doesn't get the maintenance lifespan, but that's the trade-off if you have to have the bleeding-edge stuff.
It seems like they should just make a distro with everything, and then remove some packages for the people who don't want them (remove openstack from their desktop distro, for example).
I've got an idea! Why don't they make a Fedora Core and then build flavors on top of that!
Hell, lets even ignore all that. What would I, as an end user, use OpenStack for? I'm sincerely asking: what is the use case for an end user directly using OpenStack?
That, I think is the answer to TFA's question. You shouldn't. That's for the DevOps people to worry about.
As an end user, you shouldn't have to care what the data center underpinnings are. And for personal systems, the standardized images of cloud systems aren't much use. Although if you're running a call center or some other group where lots of people are running essentially identical systems, they're a better candidate for commodity virtual hosting.
If I want to host my own, I get VMware in my own datacenter.
If I want to host in the cloud, I buy storage+compute from AWS.
I see no reason to deploy OpenStack at a small to medium sized business. Am I just looking to get myself fired for insisting on a solution that is not VMware?
Openstack is not a VM manager. It's a cloud management system. If you want your cloud units to run in VMWare containers, OpenStack supports that. It also supports Xen, VirtualBox, several other VM hosts and Containers.
The advantage of a cloud is that you can toss stuff around without having to dedicate specific machines to them. This allows easier recovery from hardware failures as well as the ability to add nodes and capacity on-demand without having to sit down with paper and pencil and allocate physical resources.
If your site has 5 boxes or less, a cloud isn't really much use. But as you get more physical machines, the flexibility you get from having an automated system to allocate resources over them becomes more attractive. I've worked in a shop where a major server had its own box, even though its normal workload was only 15% and we were blowing circuit breakers because of all the hardware we were running mostly idle.
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It's easy to say "just accept a small amount of binary code" when you're not the one who has to debug the whole system looking for errant code.
Actually, the correct expression is "All You Have To Do Is..."
At the Edinburgh airport, I noticed the security cameras had a spinning ring of white LEDs around the lens. It was basically impossible not to look directly at them.
Not because of water level drop, but because the minerals dissolve out of an area, because of ground water being there. It's a natural phenomenon.
Well, actually, both. The water dissolves the minerals, but water is relatively incompressible. It isn't a perfect replacement for the missing minerals, but it serves, for the most part.
Replace the water with air, however, and even that level of support is lost. Which is why the seeds of sinkholes are sown during wet times, but the actual number of collapse events goes up when things get dry.
Yeah, and he could also be the guy responsible for sinkholes that show up an alarming rate lately because the wildfires he sets make Earth crust softer thus more likely to sink.
Actually, sinkholes commonly form when underground water levels drop, leaving unsupported empty spaces.
Underground water levels are likely to drop when there's less rain to replenish the water which is pumped up for human use and/or which flows to other areas (like Miami).
In the mean time, less rain also means more wildfires.
So we're all absolutely certain you understand the "whoosh" notes you've received, the GP was obviously making a humorous reference to the old expression RAID is not a backup. HTH, HAND.
Um, you do know that RAID is designed to protect against hardware errors and can do nothing if a command is given at the OS level to write over stuff, don't you?
I have never seen a real camera with anything close to a blinking LED. Those just scream "Fake!". I doubt anybody is stupid enough to fall for that kind of crap, especially since they can just browse Amazon to check for popular fake cameras and learn what fake ones look like.
A blinking LED is actually a good idea. People look to see what's blinking, which means that you can get a full-on shot of their face. But I haven't seen one either.
The police DO answer my alarm company promptly. Making bail on the cat is a bitch, too! And they'll fine you if it happens too often.
If you've got more than a few friends or relatives, you know a few people with hidden addictions, or at least people with friends that have hidden addictions.
I'm a computer geek. So no worries about too many friends!
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Yeah. At some point, no one is going to want to be CEO/CFO.
Massive CEO/CFO churn is a sign of a company in deep, serious trouble. Companies can handle occasional sudden losses of key personnel, but if it happens on a regular basis - that company is fucked.
It's also going to be bad for morale if the CEO/CFO keep getting whacked. Now, in the short term the company might have enough succession/disaster recovery plans to keep continuity going, but if the CEO/CFO in a company keep dying (as do the CEOs/CFOs of all other companies in the same industry), the employees are eventually going to say, "Fuck this, time for a career change."
On the other hand, the motivations for a terrorist organization are not the same as they are for a corporation, regardless of how similarly they operate. CEOs expect their 72 virgins now, not after they die.
Religions and ideologies usually consider hardship to be a vindication of what they're doing, not something to slough off onto employees, investors, or future quarters.
I've heard "10th May, 2014" or even "10 May, 2014". And actually, the common US reference isn't so much "September 11th" as it is "Nine-eleven", written 9/11.
My preferred date format is "2014-05-10". It collates better.
Maybe, but don't forget about the loads of sugar that has been added to all kinds of food, even tea bags!
Now if they'd only add tea to them.
Why the hell would you live in Florida? It's not a sustainable place to live. If you're not an old person who has gone there to die, move.
Because the water doesn't turn solid there and citrus trees grow freely.
And because I'm a child of the tropics and hate the cold.
Besides, it's only like living in boiling water for 6 months or so out of the year.
Someone lives next to work it seems
Or you walk 200km?
Someone obviously doesn't live in Florida. Where the same word means "pedestrian" and "target".
Lol, fedora as a server
Fedora is the proving ground for just about all the stuff that may someday find its way into RHEL servers.
However, the process of getting from one to the other involves considerably delay, so some people will run Fedora as a server. It's not as stable, and doesn't get the maintenance lifespan, but that's the trade-off if you have to have the bleeding-edge stuff.
Yeah, it feels like a bad idea.
It seems like they should just make a distro with everything, and then remove some packages for the people who don't want them (remove openstack from their desktop distro, for example).
I've got an idea! Why don't they make a Fedora Core and then build flavors on top of that!
Hell, lets even ignore all that. What would I, as an end user, use OpenStack for? I'm sincerely asking: what is the use case for an end user directly using OpenStack?
That, I think is the answer to TFA's question. You shouldn't. That's for the DevOps people to worry about.
As an end user, you shouldn't have to care what the data center underpinnings are. And for personal systems, the standardized images of cloud systems aren't much use. Although if you're running a call center or some other group where lots of people are running essentially identical systems, they're a better candidate for commodity virtual hosting.
If I want to host my own, I get VMware in my own datacenter.
If I want to host in the cloud, I buy storage+compute from AWS.
I see no reason to deploy OpenStack at a small to medium sized business. Am I just looking to get myself fired for insisting on a solution that is not VMware?
Openstack is not a VM manager. It's a cloud management system. If you want your cloud units to run in VMWare containers, OpenStack supports that. It also supports Xen, VirtualBox, several other VM hosts and Containers.
The advantage of a cloud is that you can toss stuff around without having to dedicate specific machines to them. This allows easier recovery from hardware failures as well as the ability to add nodes and capacity on-demand without having to sit down with paper and pencil and allocate physical resources.
If your site has 5 boxes or less, a cloud isn't really much use. But as you get more physical machines, the flexibility you get from having an automated system to allocate resources over them becomes more attractive. I've worked in a shop where a major server had its own box, even though its normal workload was only 15% and we were blowing circuit breakers because of all the hardware we were running mostly idle.
It's easy to say "just accept a small amount of binary code" when you're not the one who has to debug the whole system looking for errant code.
Actually, the correct expression is "All You Have To Do Is..."
Had they done this with Cayman Islands they could have possible nabbed some real criminals, and probably made the world a better/safer place.
The Bahamas host a lot of "Corporate America" themselves. This could could ignite a real stinkstorm.
At the Edinburgh airport, I noticed the security cameras had a spinning ring of white LEDs around the lens. It was basically impossible not to look directly at them.
Spinning white lights? After the distillery tour?
You used to see them everywhere, not really the case for the last decade or two.
You cannot compare the Rubik's cube to Barbie or Play-Doh on that front.
It's been on a comeback lately. So has Tetris, I think.
Not because of water level drop, but because the minerals dissolve out of an area, because of ground water being there.
It's a natural phenomenon.
Well, actually, both. The water dissolves the minerals, but water is relatively incompressible. It isn't a perfect replacement for the missing minerals, but it serves, for the most part.
Replace the water with air, however, and even that level of support is lost. Which is why the seeds of sinkholes are sown during wet times, but the actual number of collapse events goes up when things get dry.
Yeah, and he could also be the guy responsible for sinkholes that show up an alarming rate lately because the wildfires he sets make Earth crust softer thus more likely to sink.
Actually, sinkholes commonly form when underground water levels drop, leaving unsupported empty spaces.
Underground water levels are likely to drop when there's less rain to replenish the water which is pumped up for human use and/or which flows to other areas (like Miami).
In the mean time, less rain also means more wildfires.
[Farmers] manage to [buy fuel for their equipment] just fine without my fuel getting taxed extra to pay for their fuel
Sorry, I had to stop chuckling. Have you ever heard of something called farm subsidies?
I'd argue that fuel is a lot more important to the process than cheap high-speed Internet.
Making it uncomfortable to be a farmer will force a lot of farm families out of farming, which could hurt a country's food security.
It's been uncomfortable to be a "farm family" for a long, long time now.
Unless you mean "farm family of companies' [TM].
So we're all absolutely certain you understand the "whoosh" notes you've received, the GP was obviously making a humorous reference to the old expression RAID is not a backup. HTH, HAND.
But that's what my firewall is for!
If they can rip four 3" lag screws out of the stud to which they're attached, they're welcome to the monitors. :)
Theyre just as likely to rip out the studs. And a good chunk of the wall. Remember the attempts that have been made to steal entire ATMs?
That's what RAID-5 is for, jeez.
Um, you do know that RAID is designed to protect against hardware errors and can do nothing if a command is given at the OS level to write over stuff, don't you?
What no tape backup?
Look at all the money we saved!
No, aim to kill. You don't want to leave the criminal as a witness.
Who said we'd only enjoy shooting at criminals???
Seriously. Stop worrying about "what if somebody takes my stuff."
It's true. If my gear was cleaned out, I could start over again, pay less and have more up-to-date equipment.
Electronics. Where it's obsolete before you open it.
I have never seen a real camera with anything close to a blinking LED. Those just scream "Fake!". I doubt anybody is stupid enough to fall for that kind of crap, especially since they can just browse Amazon to check for popular fake cameras and learn what fake ones look like.
A blinking LED is actually a good idea. People look to see what's blinking, which means that you can get a full-on shot of their face. But I haven't seen one either.
The police DO answer my alarm company promptly. Making bail on the cat is a bitch, too! And they'll fine you if it happens too often.
I'm as anti-gun as the next guy, but I'm sure there's quite a few people I'd enjoy shooting down. You just need to be picky.
Aim to maim!
If you've got more than a few friends or relatives, you know a few people with hidden addictions, or at least people with friends that have hidden addictions.
I'm a computer geek. So no worries about too many friends!