Whatever AC, we are talking about The Daily Telegraph, the voice of the neo-conservatives light of the UK, whinning about the BBC (which has reported widely about US relief efforts as well as problems that have ensued in both Indonesia an Tamil controlled Sri Lanka).
As a survivor of 1985 earthquake in Mexico City (that officially killed "only" 6000, trustworthy accounts, of which the goverment of the day's was not one, put the figure in around 30000) I can tell you that you learn to trust the means available to you to prevent loss of human life.
After the disaster in Mexico City it was implemented a seismic alert that gives you some valuable *seconds* (around a minute or there abouts) between the moment an earthquake happens (normally in the west coast of Mexico) and when it is felt.
When we received alerts (many of them false) I rarely heard people whinning abuut it, in the contrary, I saw and experienced people doing ordered evacuations.
Knowing about previous catastrophes concentrates your mind, which at the end is a matter of education.
Once you go over 20 employees in a company the processes and procedures to be followed are as complex as a company woth 5000 employees, what changes is the liability the company incours if they screw up.
What you do is that you have three stages of deployment:
-One of initial testing in systems that you can whipe-out as needed. There you asses glaring initial problems.
-The second stage is a testing system (or systems, since if possbile you want to test contingency situations) with identical configuration to your production machines (which are wholly redundant btw).
-The last stage is the production stage. Depending on circumstances you can update both machines (or all, some services are provided by multiple redundant machines) or one at the time. In most circumstances I have encountered professionally you normally update the full lot of machines providing a given service or set of services since you don't want unpredictable inconsistencies due to different version of your software running at the same time.
I you are a piss poor or small company go and get el cheapo machines, do your intial testing, whipe out your testing machine and build a Production replica and do your pro-production test there.
Services, even in companies with tight budgets, should be fully redundant and resilient.
That is the cost of doing business, meet the costs or go out of operation, I will not care if you are sourcing the parts from IBM's support or from you friend with the small shop around the corner (well, I will care, but services are first, we can periodically check if we are getting the better deals around).
I think the heaviest part of the work designing a website is the research part of it.
You need to devote some time to understanding what he person in front of you is doing so you can grasp what she wants to see on a site.
If you have a clear idea in general terms of the field and context of a website, then it is easier to ask the right questions to obtain the right answers from a prospective client.
You clearly lack the skills to be reviewing CVs of other people.
Do your company and yourself a favour and either outsource or delegate this responsibility.
If you were reporting to me I would take this responsibility away from you.
When you have so many CVs you either are not narrowing the position well enough or you are lucky and are trying to fill a position for which there is an abundance of skilled people, in which case there are metholodiges and people expert at them to filter the different candidates.
I assume 4.0 is the best grade in the US, sorry but I am not familiar enough with your education system.
Your assumptions are so wrong that it is not funny.
if somebody is getting some low grades it could be that they did not give a toss about that subject, then they were your derided degree 4.0 elsewhere, and they got your wet dream of 3.5. Not quite what you think you are getting.
As for clever people not having a life, I thing/. people should give that a rest, honestly.
I enjoy my free time much more now that I have the means to do so than when I was a piss poor student.
I can puruse more of my real interests, travel, get to know many nice ladies, eat in the best places, etc.
Kill yourself learning when you have the chance, wasting your time "enjoying yourself" when you should be learning and studying is, IMNSVHO, a grave misallocation of a scarce resources and an example of diminishing returns.
Build a pyramid starting from the point as its base.
Now, tell me, you are an intelligent chap living anywhere on this planet, lets say 3000 or 4000 years ago.
If you decided to build something tall and impresive, would you start with a wide base and aggregate on top of that or the other way around?..... Yeah, I thought so.....
My goodness, you seem to be interested in the nonsense that religion is but neverhteless get your fact completely and utterly wrong.
Repetance leads to salvation only if you are sincere about repenting (and this only in Catholicism, because I am sure Chistians from different protestant sects have their own baseless domga on this regard).
If you sin and intend to keep sining you can visit the confessional as much as you want, if there is no sincere repetance then your maker will judge as the piece of shit you are and condemn you to ethernal damnation.
But all the above is irrelevant since no god exists in any case.
Slashdot Mirror
... are waiting for?
In many places, big datacentres specially, Systems Administrators have no physical access to the machines they administer.
Under those circumstances to have a rescue CD is , er, stupid and unnecessary.
There are many kinds of Systems Administrators, don't give recipes that you think apply to everybody because more often than not they don't
.... seem to be agreeing there:
"....fallacy about them being tax funded. They're....."
Which leaves us with precious little to mock about you in regards to what you are trying to say.
How inconsiderate!
Iron.
Iron.
Iron.
Whatever AC, we are talking about The Daily Telegraph, the voice of the neo-conservatives light of the UK, whinning about the BBC (which has reported widely about US relief efforts as well as problems that have ensued in both Indonesia an Tamil controlled Sri Lanka).
Quelle surprise.
As a survivor of 1985 earthquake in Mexico City (that officially killed "only" 6000, trustworthy accounts, of which the goverment of the day's was not one, put the figure in around 30000) I can tell you that you learn to trust the means available to you to prevent loss of human life.
After the disaster in Mexico City it was implemented a seismic alert that gives you some valuable *seconds* (around a minute or there abouts) between the moment an earthquake happens (normally in the west coast of Mexico) and when it is felt.
When we received alerts (many of them false) I rarely heard people whinning abuut it, in the contrary, I saw and experienced people doing ordered evacuations.
Knowing about previous catastrophes concentrates your mind, which at the end is a matter of education.
Once you go over 20 employees in a company the processes and procedures to be followed are as complex as a company woth 5000 employees, what changes is the liability the company incours if they screw up.
That will increase you ironic levels.
What you do is that you have three stages of deployment:
-One of initial testing in systems that you can whipe-out as needed. There you asses glaring initial problems.
-The second stage is a testing system (or systems, since if possbile you want to test contingency situations) with identical configuration to your production machines (which are wholly redundant btw).
-The last stage is the production stage. Depending on circumstances you can update both machines (or all, some services are provided by multiple redundant machines) or one at the time.
In most circumstances I have encountered professionally you normally update the full lot of machines providing a given service or set of services since you don't want unpredictable inconsistencies due to different version of your software running at the same time.
I you are a piss poor or small company go and get el cheapo machines, do your intial testing, whipe out your testing machine and build a Production replica and do your pro-production test there.
... about technological lingo.
Now I have a shinny example of obfuscated English language from another field of human knowledge.
Well, I am guessing some knowledge is contained in the intro, because frankly I have fuck idea what they are talking about.
I have two Shuttles stacked where I used to have 1 ATX machine before.
In all honestly I want some of what you are smoking.
... other rich political institutions (because the church acted and still acts as such) or individuals would have done so.
Check 20th century art. The church is gone as a patron because it lost political influence.
Their contribution to the arts is incidental rather then planned.
Honestly, read other replies to this nonsense.
No wonder the post was as an AC...
... I will fire you.
It is that simple.
Services, even in companies with tight budgets, should be fully redundant and resilient.
That is the cost of doing business, meet the costs or go out of operation, I will not care if you are sourcing the parts from IBM's support or from you friend with the small shop around the corner (well, I will care, but services are first, we can periodically check if we are getting the better deals around).
Most people nowadays lack any ideals and are bent in convenience.
Thay are willing ton hand they asses to fundamentalist nuts, agreeing that those people have free reing to undermine their most basic freedoms.
Witsh such social landscape is easy to predict that people will prefer convenience over principles.
They do it every day, it will not be different with software, specially here where people should suppossedely know better.
I think the heaviest part of the work designing a website is the research part of it.
You need to devote some time to understanding what he person in front of you is doing so you can grasp what she wants to see on a site.
If you have a clear idea in general terms of the field and context of a website, then it is easier to ask the right questions to obtain the right answers from a prospective client.
You clearly lack the skills to be reviewing CVs of other people.
Do your company and yourself a favour and either outsource or delegate this responsibility.
If you were reporting to me I would take this responsibility away from you.
When you have so many CVs you either are not narrowing the position well enough or you are lucky and are trying to fill a position for which there is an abundance of skilled people, in which case there are metholodiges and people expert at them to filter the different candidates.
I assume 4.0 is the best grade in the US, sorry but I am not familiar enough with your education system.
/. people should give that a rest, honestly.
Your assumptions are so wrong that it is not funny.
if somebody is getting some low grades it could be that they did not give a toss about that subject, then they were your derided degree 4.0 elsewhere, and they got your wet dream of 3.5. Not quite what you think you are getting.
As for clever people not having a life, I thing
I enjoy my free time much more now that I have the means to do so than when I was a piss poor student.
I can puruse more of my real interests, travel, get to know many nice ladies, eat in the best places, etc.
Kill yourself learning when you have the chance, wasting your time "enjoying yourself" when you should be learning and studying is, IMNSVHO, a grave misallocation of a scarce resources and an example of diminishing returns.
.... dumbass :-P
Build a pyramid starting from the point as its base.
..... Yeah, I thought so.....
Now, tell me, you are an intelligent chap living anywhere on this planet, lets say 3000 or 4000 years ago.
If you decided to build something tall and impresive, would you start with a wide base and aggregate on top of that or the other way around?
My goodness, you seem to be interested in the nonsense that religion is but neverhteless get your fact completely and utterly wrong.
Repetance leads to salvation only if you are sincere about repenting (and this only in Catholicism, because I am sure Chistians from different protestant sects have their own baseless domga on this regard).
If you sin and intend to keep sining you can visit the confessional as much as you want, if there is no sincere repetance then your maker will judge as the piece of shit you are and condemn you to ethernal damnation.
But all the above is irrelevant since no god exists in any case.
... but most modern religious nuts don't have the balls to at least admit the lack of perfection (moral an ethical) of their imagined god.
And the god you are talking about is so useless that it could not create a fully deterministic Universe.
Better keep us guessing! Stellar work god...
You have no idea how stupid that sounds.
If that is the best an all powerful, perfect, all loving god can come up with, then we are truly fucked as his creations.