I started reading one of the articles, and saw the following: "The liberal media report that suicides are up within the military, but they fail to report that the suicide rate within the military is less than half that of the general population."
A quick googling found the following: "That's a suicide rate for soldiers in Iraq of about 13.5 per 100,000, Winkenwerder said. During recent peacetime years, that number for the Army has hovered around 10.5 to 11 per 100,000, Winkenwerder said." and "In 2003, 24 soldiers deployed to Kuwait and Iraq committed suicide -- a rate of 17.3 per 100,000. The overall Army suicide rate during the same time period was 12.8 per 100,000 soldiers. This compares to the Army's rate of 12.2 for 2003 and 11.9 from 1995 to 2002." and several more just like them in contrast to: "The average suicide rate in the US is about 12 per 100000." and "The 2001 age-adjusted rate** was 10.7/100,000 or 0.01 percent."
We were slipstreamed into it, but I *think* the general requirement is: Pay a nominal fee and take a (completely irrelevant) test for individual certification.
As much as I hate to admit it, Dell's parts department kicks ass. It took some doing, but we're now part of their Warranty Parts Direct program and can order ad-hoc parts to be overnighted to us. I ordered 4 motherboards last Thursday and they were here on Friday.
Our dedicated farm of Dells numbers just about 1200 servers. Initally, we had to wrestle with them over every little disk and stick of RAM. Eventually, we just had to tell their support tech what we needed, and they greased the approval skids, shipping things out the same day. Now that we're WPD, we can do it online ourselves. It took me about 10 mins to order the mobos the other day.
I have to agree with the pricing and general coverage area of BART - it'd be great if they offered sliding-scale discounts for low-income commuters - a round-trip across the bay can easily eat up 15% of a minimum wage earner's daily income, and there's no way a minimum wager's going to be able to afford to live in the city itself. A commute from the other side will kill 'em financially. Hell- I'd be willing to pay a surcharge on my own ticket for that...
On the upside, to total coverage (and pricing) across the whole of the public trans system is fantastic - muni + AC Transit + BART will get you *anywhere* around the bay. Of course, the downside (because there's always one) is the amazing lack of interaction between the systems - I need 3 tickets and a couple of transfers if I want to go anywhere by public trans.
I was with Oracle for 5 years. As I'm no longer with them, I don't fear for my job. AC up there, however, as an Oracle consultant, good call.
Oracle reorgs its stovepipes annually, and there are divisional and departmental reorgs that shake out for months at a time in the aftermath of the larger reorgs. It happens. No big deal.
Safra, I encountered once. Not.the.most.pleasant.experience.of.my.life.
This is about large-scale computing, not your home machine. I run a 3600-processor Xeon cluster. Power consumption differences on that scale make a real difference.
What's your definition of top of the line? Our AMD renderfarm (simply an eval config right now) consists of 13 dual-proc dual-core machines with 16 gigs of RAM each. Our Intel renderfarm (production) consists of over 1700 dual-proc single-core machines with 8 gigs of RAM each. Our workstations are all dual-proc, single-core, 4 gigs each, but those aren't pumping out film-res renders.
On the interesting side, we're seeing roughly 25% better performance PER CORE out of the AMDs than we're seeing from the Intels. On the downside, the power consumption and heat output from those things is huge.
Uh. He was likening the magnitude of the incidents, not the causes behind them. Because Bhopal happened to someone else, we don't care about it, regardless of scale.
I would have categorized that entirely differently. In the current state of the nation, ruling conservatives seem to have reacted out of fear and anger, rahter than trying to address the true causes of events that take place in the world. One man's intellect is another man's pussyfooting, I suppose.
While certainly not opensource, Oracle's new Collaboration Suite handles that functionality remarkably gracefully. Straight to the inbox as (oog) a.wav file. Time to up the mail quotas.
I couldn't agree more, frankly. I posted as a tongue-in-cheek troll. How the hell'd I get modded up to +5 Interesting? I was hoping for a +2 Funny or an Offtopic at best.
For God's sake. While I realize the bulk of you asshats can't spell your way out of a paper bag, one might expect that the CEO of nearly any corporation would care enough about his company's public image to run a public statement by *somebody* with an eye for grammar and spelling before publishing it on the net.
The 10-second perusal: oru indictment on Red Hat fullly plaugerists (I can't work out how to pronounce this one...) SCOs... I give up. Once I hit "SCO already has like $60 million on hand ", I couldn't take it any longer.
By all means, everyone, give your money to EV1 Servers, the company with a flair for... damn. I can't think of anything relevant to rhyme with "flair".
Oracle, as well as being a software company, is an enormous sales organization. Windows is the dominant line of operating systems on internal non-coder machines. Developers (plsql/iAS/etc) also tend to run Windows, although more and more are moving to OSX, Linux, and BSD. By and large, the the nontechnical salesforce doesn't know what to do with Windows, much less Linux. Bah. The marketing push toward Linux isn't bogus. The Intel side of my datacenter is about 50/50 Win/Lin and in the last year, the ratio of new Linux to new Windows server installs has been about 15-1. That comes not only from internal demand, but also from customer and partner (hw vendor) pressure. I'm loving it. FWIW, we also maintain plenty of Tru64, Solaris, HP/UX and AIX/etc systems.
Have you been to London? The city was in place years before the asphalt, years before the cars. In order to revamp the roads, they'd have to raze the homes of tens and tens of thousands of people. Unlikely.
As I understand it, they're running RedHat (AS2.1?) on some number of Egenera BladeFrames. I've been using one of those beasts for months now - easily the coolest piece of hardware I've seen in a couple of years.
That map covers known, visible cameras. Including red light cams. Oooooooooo!
I'm going to hide a QuickCam up my ass, run around Manhattan, and see if I can make lyin' bitches out of them!
"The demonstrated tendency of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) operators to single out ethnic minorities for observation and to voyeuristically focus on women's breasts and buttocks provides the majority of the population ample legitimate reasons to avoid public surveillance cameras."
I run one datacenter server. 8-way intel hardware.
1: It got spanked by nimda. It's inside the corp. firewall, but the virus got into the network via email. Once inside, that particular region of the network is largely insecure. We're running it in a lab/demo environment, so security is not a huge concern.
2: The damned thing shipped with IIS installed and running. Since it's the only OEM OS we have in our lab, I didn't notice it there in the three days the box was plugged in.
3: see 2.
Called the vendor. Support was !ofclue about patches. The best I could do was apply all of the IIS-related patches, disable all MS internet services, and clean the hell out of the system. Love me some MS.
Taco - you're assaulting the victims of an external attack on a flawed operating system? Why isn't the ISP at fault then for failing to sniff for Code Plaid packets streaming across their connection?
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S'true. 1800 node renderfarms work just fine w/ gigE interconnects and NAS disk.
How about banning them for being *wrong*?
I started reading one of the articles, and saw the following:
"The liberal media report that suicides are up within the military, but they fail to report that the suicide rate within the military is less than half that of the general population."
A quick googling found the following:
"That's a suicide rate for soldiers in Iraq of about 13.5 per 100,000, Winkenwerder said. During recent peacetime years, that number for the Army has hovered around 10.5 to 11 per 100,000, Winkenwerder said."
and
"In 2003, 24 soldiers deployed to Kuwait and Iraq committed suicide -- a rate of 17.3 per 100,000. The overall Army suicide rate during the same time period was 12.8 per 100,000 soldiers. This compares to the Army's rate of 12.2 for 2003 and 11.9 from 1995 to 2002."
and several more just like them in contrast to:
"The average suicide rate in the US is about 12 per 100000."
and
"The 2001 age-adjusted rate** was 10.7/100,000 or 0.01 percent."
Jackasses.
We were slipstreamed into it, but I *think* the general requirement is: Pay a nominal fee and take a (completely irrelevant) test for individual certification.
0 00000.asp for info. We were effectively pushed into it by our Dell rep who recognized that our needs weren't being met by their standard support programs.
See http://warrantypartsdirect.dell.com/us/program/T0
If you can pony up the $$, their 4-hour replacement/on-site tech gig works wonders. They have parts depots and techs all over the world.
As much as I hate to admit it, Dell's parts department kicks ass. It took some doing, but we're now part of their Warranty Parts Direct program and can order ad-hoc parts to be overnighted to us. I ordered 4 motherboards last Thursday and they were here on Friday.
Our dedicated farm of Dells numbers just about 1200 servers. Initally, we had to wrestle with them over every little disk and stick of RAM. Eventually, we just had to tell their support tech what we needed, and they greased the approval skids, shipping things out the same day. Now that we're WPD, we can do it online ourselves. It took me about 10 mins to order the mobos the other day.
I have to agree with the pricing and general coverage area of BART - it'd be great if they offered sliding-scale discounts for low-income commuters - a round-trip across the bay can easily eat up 15% of a minimum wage earner's daily income, and there's no way a minimum wager's going to be able to afford to live in the city itself. A commute from the other side will kill 'em financially. Hell- I'd be willing to pay a surcharge on my own ticket for that...
On the upside, to total coverage (and pricing) across the whole of the public trans system is fantastic - muni + AC Transit + BART will get you *anywhere* around the bay. Of course, the downside (because there's always one) is the amazing lack of interaction between the systems - I need 3 tickets and a couple of transfers if I want to go anywhere by public trans.
I was with Oracle for 5 years. As I'm no longer with them, I don't fear for my job. AC up there, however, as an Oracle consultant, good call.
Oracle reorgs its stovepipes annually, and there are divisional and departmental reorgs that shake out for months at a time in the aftermath of the larger reorgs. It happens. No big deal.
Safra, I encountered once. Not.the.most.pleasant.experience.of.my.life.
This is about large-scale computing, not your home machine. I run a 3600-processor Xeon cluster. Power consumption differences on that scale make a real difference.
What's your definition of top of the line? Our AMD renderfarm (simply an eval config right now) consists of 13 dual-proc dual-core machines with 16 gigs of RAM each. Our Intel renderfarm (production) consists of over 1700 dual-proc single-core machines with 8 gigs of RAM each. Our workstations are all dual-proc, single-core, 4 gigs each, but those aren't pumping out film-res renders.
On the interesting side, we're seeing roughly 25% better performance PER CORE out of the AMDs than we're seeing from the Intels. On the downside, the power consumption and heat output from those things is huge.
They've done that before. Called 'em 'power units'. Was a nightmare.....
sudo mv ./(sunbird folder) /usr/local/ /usr/local/(sunbird folder)/(sunbird executable) /usr/local/bin/sunbird
sudo ln -s
Uh. He was likening the magnitude of the incidents, not the causes behind them. Because Bhopal happened to someone else, we don't care about it, regardless of scale.
I would have categorized that entirely differently. In the current state of the nation, ruling conservatives seem to have reacted out of fear and anger, rahter than trying to address the true causes of events that take place in the world. One man's intellect is another man's pussyfooting, I suppose.
While certainly not opensource, Oracle's new Collaboration Suite handles that functionality remarkably gracefully. Straight to the inbox as (oog) a .wav file. Time to up the mail quotas.
I couldn't agree more, frankly. I posted as a tongue-in-cheek troll. How the hell'd I get modded up to +5 Interesting? I was hoping for a +2 Funny or an Offtopic at best.
Yeah, I was going to go in that direction with it initially, but he didn't so much as have the decency to misspell it correctly. *sigh*
For God's sake. While I realize the bulk of you asshats can't spell your way out of a paper bag, one might expect that the CEO of nearly any corporation would care enough about his company's public image to run a public statement by *somebody* with an eye for grammar and spelling before publishing it on the net.
...
The 10-second perusal:
oru
indictment on Red Hat
fullly
plaugerists (I can't work out how to pronounce this one...)
SCOs
I give up. Once I hit "SCO already has like $60 million on hand ", I couldn't take it any longer.
By all means, everyone, give your money to EV1 Servers, the company with a flair for... damn. I can't think of anything relevant to rhyme with "flair".
What's Avocado's Number?
A Guacamole. Bwaaaahahahahaaaaa. Heeheehee.
*sniffle*
Oracle, as well as being a software company, is an enormous sales organization. Windows is the dominant line of operating systems on internal non-coder machines. Developers (plsql/iAS/etc) also tend to run Windows, although more and more are moving to OSX, Linux, and BSD. By and large, the the nontechnical salesforce doesn't know what to do with Windows, much less Linux. Bah.
The marketing push toward Linux isn't bogus. The Intel side of my datacenter is about 50/50 Win/Lin and in the last year, the ratio of new Linux to new Windows server installs has been about 15-1. That comes not only from internal demand, but also from customer and partner (hw vendor) pressure. I'm loving it.
FWIW, we also maintain plenty of Tru64, Solaris, HP/UX and AIX/etc systems.
What's Avocado's Number?
A Guacamole!
Haw!
Have you been to London? The city was in place years before the asphalt, years before the cars. In order to revamp the roads, they'd have to raze the homes of tens and tens of thousands of people. Unlikely.
As I understand it, they're running RedHat (AS2.1?) on some number of Egenera BladeFrames. I've been using one of those beasts for months now - easily the coolest piece of hardware I've seen in a couple of years.
That map covers known, visible cameras. Including red light cams. Oooooooooo!
I'm going to hide a QuickCam up my ass, run around Manhattan, and see if I can make lyin' bitches out of them!
"The demonstrated tendency of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) operators to single out ethnic minorities for observation and to voyeuristically focus on women's breasts and buttocks provides the majority of the population ample legitimate reasons to avoid public surveillance cameras."
I run one datacenter server. 8-way intel hardware.
1: It got spanked by nimda. It's inside the corp. firewall, but the virus got into the network via email. Once inside, that particular region of the network is largely insecure. We're running it in a lab/demo environment, so security is not a huge concern.
2: The damned thing shipped with IIS installed and running. Since it's the only OEM OS we have in our lab, I didn't notice it there in the three days the box was plugged in.
3: see 2.
Called the vendor. Support was !ofclue about patches. The best I could do was apply all of the IIS-related patches, disable all MS internet services, and clean the hell out of the system. Love me some MS.
Taco - you're assaulting the victims of an external attack on a flawed operating system? Why isn't the ISP at fault then for failing to sniff for Code Plaid packets streaming across their connection?