10) Patch Current. Then ask for the unreleased patches. Then ask for development involvement. 9) Patching only works 30% of the time 8) Metalink is like a massive "Magic 8 Ball" that pulls responses from the database. Treat it as such. 7) Tars are the same as 8, except you have a customer service rep reading the 8 Ball. 6) If it generates core files it's the DBA's problem. 5) It's ALWAYS the DBA's fault. 4) RMAN is your friend. 3) You know more about Apache than Oracle does. 2) Oracle won't admit this. 1) Autconfig doesn't.
Ellison's lawyers filed an appeal under the 8th Amendment when it was revealed that Ellison would have to give the $100m to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Hawking has come out and relented on the whole 'destruction of information' thing with regards to a singularity. Now, he HAS said that any information that you drop into a singularity is munged so badly as to be useless for re-constructing the original information when it comes back out. Oddly, this seems more appropriate for a Microsoft product....
As a VERY satisfied customer, I say, just buy the damned thing from EMC. There's few enough warm fuzzy feelings that SysAdmins have in this day and age, like your CE calling at 7:00am saying: "Hey, you had a few hard SCSI errors on Disk 3 Enclosure 0 Tray 0 last night, that's your production LUNs isn't it? There should be a courier there with a disk by 10, and I'll stop by to make sure things are hotsparing back properly after you replace the disk okay?" And *THIS* is just because my CE knows I can handle replacing a disk. Normally he'd come out and do that, and sit around while it re-built the Raid Group.
Yeah, EMC costs. THIS is why. The support, when needed, is top top top notch. Which would you rather have in a DR situation?
Vietnam and Thailand have seen several isolated cases where human-to-human transmission of the virus has been suspected. In one case the original carrier, who received the disease from a bird, was held by her mother for roughly 5 days as the young girl died. Shortly afterwards, the mother became ill and perished as well. In March, 2005 it was revealed that two nurses who had cared for avian flu patients have tested positive for the disease.
I read the article head as the above and thought, hey cool, IBM's not gonna be axing my old mainframer friends (yes a UNIX admin can have tn3270 friends). Imagine my surprise. Well, here's hopin' they'll eventually get around to helping the boomers keep their jobs.
This actually reminds me of a story I remember when I was just a lowly little Desktop Support Tech.
Seems an old support person, former Mainframe Operator told be a story of a largish corporation that had a whole *CLUSTER* of Mainframes, and an odd issue that kept crashing a Mainframe every now and then. Apparently the in-house people couldn't figure it out, and the vendor wanted to take things down for a little while to work on it. Of course, being a 7x24 shop management wouldn't have it. So they added another machine to the cluster. Don't ask my how or why, but the extra machine made sure that the processes kept going while one node of the cluster fell to it's knees and re-IPLed. Cheaper than shutting down a production shift.
How does Oracle charge for SPARC IV and POWER systems? Those are already Dual Core systems. If they're extending pricing from those established markets I see no foul on the play. If they are changing the pricing scheme then it would also extend to the 'Big Iron' shops with those current Dual Core designs wouldn't it?
IIs there something about multicore technology which caused IBM/Motorola to decide it was not worth the bother of putting in a box and selling?
In a word yes. There wasn't a buyer. Until Apple discovered that hell must freeze over before it can get a G5 into a laptop.
Check out the new Dual Core G4's with nice bus attachments.
Inversely, is there something about multicore technology that makes Intel think we'd actually start caring about the P4 again once it's included?
Yes. It's this brick wall we're starting to butt up against in relation to processor speed and heat dissipation. If you can't keep making things faster you're going to have to parallelize and get a boost by doing things across more processors.
Stick with me here. I am amazingly keyboard oriented (my fingers know vi without intervention from my brain). I find that a single button mouse helps immensely BECAUSE there's no dependable context menu. Think of it this way, without a context menu developers have to provide keyboard shortcuts for more functions, the really important ones that on the PC seem to end up in the context menu.
For me to open an appliction that isn't in the dock is a single button click. I click somwhere to get teh focus of Finder (because I never have been an ALT-TAB person for app switching) then I het Command-Shift-A, which opens the applications folder, then type the first few letters of the app I want to open (helps if you have an alias named 'Word' in Applications or whatever) then Command-O to open the app. One click. How can I do that in Windows? Alt-Esc and arrow all over hell and hit enter. The point is the process is predictible on the Mac. I shudder to think what the process would be like in Gnome or KDE (of course in CDE it's easy, open a terminal and start everything from the command line so that's predictible as well)
Would a two-button mouse help me in this situation? No. (unless this was GNUStep then with the launch menu on the 2nd button it would)
The sad thing in all of this really is that Apple ignores it's Human Interface guidelines more often than not anymore. There is a lot to be said for consistency and muscle memory. Contextural menus are for lazy slobs that can't deal with chorded commands. Then again, not everyone is a guitar player either.
Mouse prices came down after the Mini. Bluetooth mice are all expensive though. Apple's price for a corded mouse now? $30. Yeah it's still overpriced, but not as much now.
Hrm... this seems.... like a potential for evil. I can see this as a virus propagation vector. Just like floppies, but better because you can put a lot larger payload on a thumb drive. Am I the only one who can see a 'Windows XP Root Kit Thumbdrive' surfacing on eBay? Will we be talking about 'Thumb Kiddies' in a few years?
With universities pushing USB flash as the storage medium of choice in their computer labs I think that college IT's job is about to get a bit tougher.
I'm still waiting for The Secret of Vulcan Fury. Okay so they put the Trekies out out our misery and cancelled it, but still, this looks better than any old dumb Duke Nukem.
What you mean like a.app Package for Mac OS X? Granted, things get a bit more bloated by pseudo-statically linking frameworks, but it has the effect of making installation and removal dead drop simple.
An Apple/IBM alliance could be a good thing for both companies, but I don't see IBM shilling Apple iMacs to business. However selling into the Workstation market and lower end server market... that has some merit. Nobody yet knows what an IBM spin off of their PC division will look like, but you can bet it will impact their PC based workstation line. I'm willing to bet that should IBM sell it's PC Division it will be reluctant, or contractually prohibited from selling PC based workstations.
I'm not talking about desktops here, but fairly high powered workstations but not as high powered (or as high priced) as POWER based workstations. The PowerMac G5 seems to sit comfortably in between these two platforms. What if IBM ported Mac OS X to POWER for their higher-end stations and in the deal sold PowerMacs on the lower end? What if they ported AIX to the PowerMac? Kinda makes you think doesn't it?
The same can be said of the X Series of Servers. Intel based, sometimes Windows machines. Now, I think there's less of a chance that IBM would halt it's X-Series line, but... here's the prediction, what if IBM started selling XServe solutions a la Virginia Tech? I'm not real sure what Apple's support services can do as far as large supercomputer type installations, but I know IBM has been dropping X-Series based supercomputer clusters into Universities over the past few years. XServe would just be another product they'd be able to deliver for applications that could make use of the vector unit in the G5.
It's all wild speculation. Still, a POWER based AVID system with a Fiber Channel Disk RAID running Final Cut Pro might go over pretty well at NAB or with the Movie Studios. It's something to think about.
Okay so the subject is semi-lame. BUT.... here's a cool what if. What if a company committed to the high-standards of the Thinkpad line snaggs that part of the business? People are willing to pay the Apple Tax for quality, would they be willing to pay the Thinkpad tax? I think maybe there's a future for the Thinkpad in a niche market just like the Apples.
Develop a standard app on Tomcat that you can use to test. Develop a JMeter test set for that app. (I'm thinking shopping card or some other transaction based application) Ramp JMeter from relatively few concurrent users to the infrastructure's breaking point. Figure out why it breaks. Tell us.
The beauty is that JMeter can run a pretty good stress test with a small farm of clients, and Tomcat is the reference application for J2EE. You're not just testing Tomcat though, you're testing the backend database as well and how well the Box/OS deals with Java issues. This sort of test should be fairly portable thus it will work for most hardware/OS combinations.
Big Iron is about scalability and reliability. You can't really test reliability, though you could call support and claim a part is broken and see what support is like. In which case I'd say call three different times with three different theoretical issues and average the response. Scalability though is where it's at as far at the machine/OS is concerned.
Now All that said. I don't doubt that SPEC already has a test that does just that. (Scalability of J2EE Apps) but you might get something from developing your own test.
Yes. I am actually a Fan, though not becuase of his work in computers. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is, if not one of the largest, then one of the deepest pocketed philanthropic foundations around. They do good things with the money that Bill has made over the years. You can't say the same of teh Steve, and while I'm a Mac user, and an iTunes Music Store purchaser, and generally despise Microsoft, my opinion of Bill is tempered by his good works outside of the computer industry.
While you might think evil Windows when you hear the name Bill Gates, I think of helping people in Africa.
Duh. 4th Week of January, right after MacWorld San Francisco and the edge is still on the Reality Distortion Field induced stuppor that teh Steve has left us with.
"Go for the eyes Boo! Go for the Eyes! RUSK!"
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Ah Minsc, how I miss you. Minsc had to be the most endearing, humerous character in a video game I've seen to date. His 'Misncisms' should be put in a coffee table book and sold.
"Evil around every corner. Careful you don't step in any."
"Sword, meet evil. EVIL MEAT MY SWORD!"
"I trust those who prey on children no farther than they can be thrown, even if I manage to throw them pretty far!"
"What? Boo is outraged! See his fury! It's small, so look close. Trust me, it's there."
"I would hate being forgotten in a bottle. It might depend somewhat on the type of bottle, but overall I expect the effect would be similar."
"Boo will have clean wood shavings, you evil bastards!"
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it! I'm huge!"
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10) Patch Current. Then ask for the unreleased patches. Then ask for development involvement.
9) Patching only works 30% of the time
8) Metalink is like a massive "Magic 8 Ball" that pulls responses from the database. Treat it as such.
7) Tars are the same as 8, except you have a customer service rep reading the 8 Ball.
6) If it generates core files it's the DBA's problem.
5) It's ALWAYS the DBA's fault.
4) RMAN is your friend.
3) You know more about Apache than Oracle does.
2) Oracle won't admit this.
1) Autconfig doesn't.
Ellison's lawyers filed an appeal under the 8th Amendment when it was revealed that Ellison would have to give the $100m to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Hawking has come out and relented on the whole 'destruction of information' thing with regards to a singularity. Now, he HAS said that any information that you drop into a singularity is munged so badly as to be useless for re-constructing the original information when it comes back out. Oddly, this seems more appropriate for a Microsoft product....
As a VERY satisfied customer, I say, just buy the damned thing from EMC. There's few enough warm fuzzy feelings that SysAdmins have in this day and age, like your CE calling at 7:00am saying: "Hey, you had a few hard SCSI errors on Disk 3 Enclosure 0 Tray 0 last night, that's your production LUNs isn't it? There should be a courier there with a disk by 10, and I'll stop by to make sure things are hotsparing back properly after you replace the disk okay?" And *THIS* is just because my CE knows I can handle replacing a disk. Normally he'd come out and do that, and sit around while it re-built the Raid Group.
Yeah, EMC costs. THIS is why. The support, when needed, is top top top notch. Which would you rather have in a DR situation?
Of course, drugs that temporary kill libido would be very welcome too.
Tell you what, if you get sent you can take my Mother-in-law along.
The relevant quote from wikipedia:
Vietnam and Thailand have seen several isolated cases where human-to-human transmission of the virus has been suspected. In one case the original carrier, who received the disease from a bird, was held by her mother for roughly 5 days as the young girl died. Shortly afterwards, the mother became ill and perished as well. In March, 2005 it was revealed that two nurses who had cared for avian flu patients have tested positive for the disease.
Sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1
It's not apparently easily transmittable, but it does seem transmittable.
I read the article head as the above and thought, hey cool, IBM's not gonna be axing my old mainframer friends (yes a UNIX admin can have tn3270 friends). Imagine my surprise. Well, here's hopin' they'll eventually get around to helping the boomers keep their jobs.
This actually reminds me of a story I remember when I was just a lowly little Desktop Support Tech.
Seems an old support person, former Mainframe Operator told be a story of a largish corporation that had a whole *CLUSTER* of Mainframes, and an odd issue that kept crashing a Mainframe every now and then. Apparently the in-house people couldn't figure it out, and the vendor wanted to take things down for a little while to work on it. Of course, being a 7x24 shop management wouldn't have it. So they added another machine to the cluster. Don't ask my how or why, but the extra machine made sure that the processes kept going while one node of the cluster fell to it's knees and re-IPLed. Cheaper than shutting down a production shift.
pkill -9 timed
Next problem?
How does Oracle charge for SPARC IV and POWER systems? Those are already Dual Core systems. If they're extending pricing from those established markets I see no foul on the play. If they are changing the pricing scheme then it would also extend to the 'Big Iron' shops with those current Dual Core designs wouldn't it?
IIs there something about multicore technology which caused IBM/Motorola to decide it was not worth the bother of putting in a box and selling?
In a word yes. There wasn't a buyer. Until Apple discovered that hell must freeze over before it can get a G5 into a laptop.
Check out the new Dual Core G4's with nice bus attachments.
Inversely, is there something about multicore technology that makes Intel think we'd actually start caring about the P4 again once it's included?
Yes. It's this brick wall we're starting to butt up against in relation to processor speed and heat dissipation. If you can't keep making things faster you're going to have to parallelize and get a boost by doing things across more processors.
Stick with me here. I am amazingly keyboard oriented (my fingers know vi without intervention from my brain). I find that a single button mouse helps immensely BECAUSE there's no dependable context menu. Think of it this way, without a context menu developers have to provide keyboard shortcuts for more functions, the really important ones that on the PC seem to end up in the context menu.
For me to open an appliction that isn't in the dock is a single button click. I click somwhere to get teh focus of Finder (because I never have been an ALT-TAB person for app switching) then I het Command-Shift-A, which opens the applications folder, then type the first few letters of the app I want to open (helps if you have an alias named 'Word' in Applications or whatever) then Command-O to open the app. One click. How can I do that in Windows? Alt-Esc and arrow all over hell and hit enter. The point is the process is predictible on the Mac. I shudder to think what the process would be like in Gnome or KDE (of course in CDE it's easy, open a terminal and start everything from the command line so that's predictible as well)
Would a two-button mouse help me in this situation? No. (unless this was GNUStep then with the launch menu on the 2nd button it would)
The sad thing in all of this really is that Apple ignores it's Human Interface guidelines more often than not anymore. There is a lot to be said for consistency and muscle memory. Contextural menus are for lazy slobs that can't deal with chorded commands. Then again, not everyone is a guitar player either.
Mouse prices came down after the Mini. Bluetooth mice are all expensive though. Apple's price for a corded mouse now? $30. Yeah it's still overpriced, but not as much now.
Hrm... this seems.... like a potential for evil. I can see this as a virus propagation vector. Just like floppies, but better because you can put a lot larger payload on a thumb drive. Am I the only one who can see a 'Windows XP Root Kit Thumbdrive' surfacing on eBay? Will we be talking about 'Thumb Kiddies' in a few years?
With universities pushing USB flash as the storage medium of choice in their computer labs I think that college IT's job is about to get a bit tougher.
I'm still waiting for The Secret of Vulcan Fury. Okay so they put the Trekies out out our misery and cancelled it, but still, this looks better than any old dumb Duke Nukem.
Any bets on if there will be a special exemption for lasers used as gun aiming devices?
What you mean like a .app Package for Mac OS X? Granted, things get a bit more bloated by pseudo-statically linking frameworks, but it has the effect of making installation and removal dead drop simple.
in order to generate a self-sustaining level of radioactivity that would not have otherwise occured.
While I can agree with you on substance, Sometimes high levles of self-sustaining radioactivity do occur. Granted, not with the frequency of artificial creation, but Fission isn't a creation of Man.
I woulda said buying a new Ferrari and welding armour plate onto it, but to each his own.
An Apple/IBM alliance could be a good thing for both companies, but I don't see IBM shilling Apple iMacs to business. However selling into the Workstation market and lower end server market... that has some merit. Nobody yet knows what an IBM spin off of their PC division will look like, but you can bet it will impact their PC based workstation line. I'm willing to bet that should IBM sell it's PC Division it will be reluctant, or contractually prohibited from selling PC based workstations.
I'm not talking about desktops here, but fairly high powered workstations but not as high powered (or as high priced) as POWER based workstations. The PowerMac G5 seems to sit comfortably in between these two platforms. What if IBM ported Mac OS X to POWER for their higher-end stations and in the deal sold PowerMacs on the lower end? What if they ported AIX to the PowerMac? Kinda makes you think doesn't it?
The same can be said of the X Series of Servers. Intel based, sometimes Windows machines. Now, I think there's less of a chance that IBM would halt it's X-Series line, but... here's the prediction, what if IBM started selling XServe solutions a la Virginia Tech? I'm not real sure what Apple's support services can do as far as large supercomputer type installations, but I know IBM has been dropping X-Series based supercomputer clusters into Universities over the past few years. XServe would just be another product they'd be able to deliver for applications that could make use of the vector unit in the G5.
It's all wild speculation. Still, a POWER based AVID system with a Fiber Channel Disk RAID running Final Cut Pro might go over pretty well at NAB or with the Movie Studios. It's something to think about.
Okay so the subject is semi-lame. BUT.... here's a cool what if. What if a company committed to the high-standards of the Thinkpad line snaggs that part of the business? People are willing to pay the Apple Tax for quality, would they be willing to pay the Thinkpad tax? I think maybe there's a future for the Thinkpad in a niche market just like the Apples.
Develop a standard app on Tomcat that you can use to test. Develop a JMeter test set for that app. (I'm thinking shopping card or some other transaction based application) Ramp JMeter from relatively few concurrent users to the infrastructure's breaking point. Figure out why it breaks. Tell us.
The beauty is that JMeter can run a pretty good stress test with a small farm of clients, and Tomcat is the reference application for J2EE. You're not just testing Tomcat though, you're testing the backend database as well and how well the Box/OS deals with Java issues. This sort of test should be fairly portable thus it will work for most hardware/OS combinations.
Big Iron is about scalability and reliability. You can't really test reliability, though you could call support and claim a part is broken and see what support is like. In which case I'd say call three different times with three different theoretical issues and average the response. Scalability though is where it's at as far at the machine/OS is concerned.
Now All that said. I don't doubt that SPEC already has a test that does just that. (Scalability of J2EE Apps) but you might get something from developing your own test.
Yes. I am actually a Fan, though not becuase of his work in computers. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is, if not one of the largest, then one of the deepest pocketed philanthropic foundations around. They do good things with the money that Bill has made over the years. You can't say the same of teh Steve, and while I'm a Mac user, and an iTunes Music Store purchaser, and generally despise Microsoft, my opinion of Bill is tempered by his good works outside of the computer industry.
While you might think evil Windows when you hear the name Bill Gates, I think of helping people in Africa.
Duh. 4th Week of January, right after MacWorld San Francisco and the edge is still on the Reality Distortion Field induced stuppor that teh Steve has left us with.