Engineering is simply unattractive compared to other professions, the pay is too low, therefore the social status derived is too low. Employers are simply not paying enough for engineers to make it an attractive profession, therefore people do something more rewarding.
The Nokia phones *are* Psion. The hardware platform and OS both came directly from Psion. The big problem with the Nokia phones is that they tend to remove features which were standard on the Psion; wordprocessing, database apps etc.
Tell them to fuck off and get another supplier. I'm sure they aren't worthy of your precious tables.
For crying out loud, what kind of DBA is unable to create views and restrict access to tables? I mean, come on, Oracle can restrict access to specific rows if you need to, that's both it's beauty and hideous ugliness.
Chipping the code into a specific shape by hand... Give it a few years and software development will be more like civil engineering. Pouring concrete into shapes which have known specifications.
It will slow down development progress, reduce competition between distributions. If Ubuntu, RedHat or Suse are unable to keep up with each other then they fall by the wayside, that's the nature of a competitive market.
I guess the attacks of September 11th don't count, because EVERYONE knows the government did that one. No, but the US is heavily behind the Saudi royal family... for some reason... and 15 of the 19 Sept 11th attackers were Saudi.
"How about getting a permit to get authorities to temporarily (say 10 minutes at most) block off certain streets to take pictures of the streets at every location desirable. I can't imagine it would take much longer." All they actually have to do is drive the street twice at different times and remove anything which doesn't appear in both photos.
When I switched from Windows to Linux, it turned out that I was able to function without specific applications, there are Linux equivalents for pretty much everything.
It isn't a problem. By that, I mean... Watch where you put your state...
Powering the boxes on and off may shorten their lives or reduce their reliability. Who cares, they are disposable 300 boxes. When it dies you take it out and put another one in it's place, send the old one back to the manufacturer to be replaced under warranty.
If the load on your boxes is below a threshold, remove one of them from the load balance list, wait for connections to end, or migrate the processes off to another machine, and switch it off. When the load is above a certain threshold, you power on an additional node, configure it for whichever service and add it to the load balancer.
Oh come on people, you call yourselves engineers? It really isn't that difficult.
Large organisations like to restrict the numbers of their suppliers as far as possible, this means there is little or no competition for vendors, who are then able to charge as they like.
I don't know which MBA came up with that concept, but there you go.
The ext3 file system is pretty much OK, ext4 is only tweaking functionality.
RAID on Linux handled by the MD subsystem, which is largely cluster unaware. This means it's unsafe for example to stripe across multiple iSCSI devices then run a cluster file system like GFS on top, which also therefore means that you have to have hardware RAID on a per device basis.
Psion were doing this decades ago... Psion Series 3, Psion Series 5, Netbook etc.
The OS they developed to do so was called Epoc. It is now installed on virtually all of the mobile phones being sold in Europe as Symbian OS... The philosophical successor to the Series 3 and Series 5 are the Nokia E90, Nokia E70 and older Nokia 9500, Nokia 9300 machines.
I have to be honest, the database, spreadsheet and word processing applications in the Psion machines were far better than the current bunch, but the machines are just as capable.
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Obviously Microsoft must send out an urgent update to Vista!
Disable the Yes button!
Phone them up and demand this urgent security feature!
Money is social status. It's the fact that it costs more and is out of reach of the mob that makes it stylish...
If you buy a pair of ripped jeans which cost you $5 you are cheap and have no style. If you buy the same pair for $200 you are a superstar.
Engineering is simply unattractive compared to other professions, the pay is too low, therefore the social status derived is too low. Employers are simply not paying enough for engineers to make it an attractive profession, therefore people do something more rewarding.
The Nokia phones *are* Psion. The hardware platform and OS both came directly from Psion. The big problem with the Nokia phones is that they tend to remove features which were standard on the Psion; wordprocessing, database apps etc.
Feel free to keep chasing it though. I'll get some popcorn and a comfy seat.
Tell them to fuck off and get another supplier. I'm sure they aren't worthy of your precious tables.
For crying out loud, what kind of DBA is unable to create views and restrict access to tables? I mean, come on, Oracle can restrict access to specific rows if you need to, that's both it's beauty and hideous ugliness.
Chipping the code into a specific shape by hand... Give it a few years and software development will be more like civil engineering. Pouring concrete into shapes which have known specifications.
It will slow down development progress, reduce competition between distributions. If Ubuntu, RedHat or Suse are unable to keep up with each other then they fall by the wayside, that's the nature of a competitive market.
e.g.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11176
Gee... Think there might be a connection?
keepalived.
When I switched from Windows to Linux, it turned out that I was able to function without specific applications, there are Linux equivalents for pretty much everything.
Good luck with that. Really.
It can be done with your standard job scheduling/load balancing systems and, yes, about half a dozen shell scripts.
Just switch them off...
If the load on your boxes is below a threshold, remove one of them from the load balance list, wait for connections to end, or migrate the processes off to another machine, and switch it off. When the load is above a certain threshold, you power on an additional node, configure it for whichever service and add it to the load balancer.
Oh come on people, you call yourselves engineers? It really isn't that difficult.
It's about the social status.
Gotta be honest though. Having the 'leetest rig' just makes you top of a very small pile.
Large organisations like to restrict the numbers of their suppliers as far as possible, this means there is little or no competition for vendors, who are then able to charge as they like.
I don't know which MBA came up with that concept, but there you go.
This sounds more like a version 2.4 or 2.5 than a 3.0 release.
Signing etc.
This is the one DRM system where they don't have to give you the key with the lock.
The ext3 file system is pretty much OK, ext4 is only tweaking functionality.
RAID on Linux handled by the MD subsystem, which is largely cluster unaware. This means it's unsafe for example to stripe across multiple iSCSI devices then run a cluster file system like GFS on top, which also therefore means that you have to have hardware RAID on a per device basis.
Psion were doing this decades ago... Psion Series 3, Psion Series 5, Netbook etc.
The OS they developed to do so was called Epoc. It is now installed on virtually all of the mobile phones being sold in Europe as Symbian OS... The philosophical successor to the Series 3 and Series 5 are the Nokia E90, Nokia E70 and older Nokia 9500, Nokia 9300 machines.
I have to be honest, the database, spreadsheet and word processing applications in the Psion machines were far better than the current bunch, but the machines are just as capable.
Feudal Theocracy.
If they'd have had oil, they'd have been declared an axis of evil by now.