This touched a nerve. I've been sysadmin'ing for a long time now (well, not THAT long. 10 years or so), and I've seen my share of abusive system administrators, it annoyes me every single time.
In my experience, about 98% of the time, there are only two ways we learn. One is through pain. The network breaker, among many flaws, had insufficient caution, but I'm sure the pain of humiliation here taught him some. (That's one of the skills he'll need if he ever wants to be a highly paid admin.) The other way is through observing the pain of others. By making a semi-public example of the yutz, a room-full of network engineers (and I'm sure, a lot of their friends) got a great example of how not to behave. You can bet that at least some minor fuckups were avoided thanks to this.
People don't learn anything useful from pain, they only learn behaviorism - and then they learn that their senior system administrators is some elitist assholes. Okay, the latter is somewhat useful to know.
Sysadmins are often dicks to fools for a reason: it helps a lot in their work. I didn't like hating everybody all the time, so now I'm a recovering sysadmin. Bitch all you want, but however unforgiving sysadmins are, the machines they run are far less so.
Many system administrators are exactly as unforgiving as the machinery they run - and it don't have to be that way. System administrators must provide (as everybody in IT) vertical support for the entire organization, not the other way around. Many system administrators don't realize this. Instead they only accept one truth. Their own.
How many of us have servers that don't need to be live?
Probably not many, but some has - and it's a very real problem. Say you have 50 webservers to sustain load in the afternoon, but 40 of them is just sitting idle at night. Wouldn't it be nice to simply power most of those down?
(DB servers are somewhat more complicated because they need to be in synchronized before use)
Some people here are saying that a CD player will attempt to play the data track as audio, and it will be random noise. I have never experienced this from data/audio CDs.
You have to buy an older CD player;)
The Philips CD-100 - one of the first players - will happily play anything you put into it.
I've always wondered about this. In American movies, the hero always hauls boxes from the office when he gets fired. What's in those boxes? My personal stuff at my workplace can fit in my pocket (or the trashcan).
Assuming, of course, that you can actually *get* an iodrive. They've been remarkably quiet since 'shipping' in 'April'. No benchmarks, no stockists, nothing.
Amiga systems came with simply instructions to copy the workbench disks, and then declared you can do anything you like to the copy
No wonder the Commodore went bankrupt, if only they had used some kind of copy protection. Why didn't they think of something like AGA (Amiga Genuine Advantage), then they could force their loyal users to buy the software again and again?
Assuming, of course, that you can actually *get* an iodrive.
I'm not sure if they're lying or not, but I just ordered 2 of these cards, I was promised two weeks delivery (to Europe). We'll see in about 10 days if they actually deliver;)
These Intel drives are $595. Your $4,500 would buy 7 of these, for 560GB of storage, and 1750MB/s read / 490MB/s write in aggregate. Slice the speeds in half because you'll never balance loads that well, and you still get 875MB/s / 245MB/s. Slower writes but faster reads and 7 times the capacity.
It's not about sustained read/write, it's about io's per second. Try to take a look at iostat at a busy database server, I bet you'll notice how there's hardly anything transferred at all, but a lot of IO-requests - and a lot of iowait.
Your RAID controller will probably make it even worse, trying to bundle request to allow higher transfer speeds - and even if it's a dumb controller you'll be limited by SAS/SATA-performance.
I haven't priced machines with 64GB of RAM this month, but it was a little spendy last time I looked.
Considering the cost of traditional ram based SAN, I think you'll find it cheap.
I understand the outrage at having our government use spy satellites to spy on us, but I haven't seen anyone complain about Google virtually doing the same thing.
With Google imagery everyone can see everything, with spy satellites a select few can see everything and everybody else is left in the dark. IMHO that's the heart of the problem.
Believe me, the thought of buying an international plane ticket and a weapon has crossed my mind many times. We, here at the NSA, thank you for your comment.
To fix this misrepresenatation of Mac market share, why don't these consulting firms just look at a category called "personal computing" or "home computing". I'm sure Apple would be closer to the 20% range in the States, and closer to 50% in metropolitan areas. I would guess 5% would be more correct, but these 5% talks, advocates and preaches like 50%.
As a scientist, he should have known better than to not wear a helmet....
Scientists are the worst. They are always focused on the "important" work or experiment, a helmet was not in any way important to this experiment. Therefore, he left it out of the equation.
I tried something like that with WMI when MOM agent (or was it SMS agent, can't recall) was eating up way too much CPU. I disabled WMI service. Reboot the machine, to my shock, WMI service was started despite being disabled. If MOM or SMS can do that, I am sure Windows Update could force start BITS even if it's disabled. This is the first post I've seen in months archiving almost 3 TPS (Three letter acronyms Per Sentence). Nice!
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This touched a nerve. I've been sysadmin'ing for a long time now (well, not THAT long. 10 years or so), and I've seen my share of abusive system administrators, it annoyes me every single time.
People don't learn anything useful from pain, they only learn behaviorism - and then they learn that their senior system administrators is some elitist assholes. Okay, the latter is somewhat useful to know.
Many system administrators are exactly as unforgiving as the machinery they run - and it don't have to be that way. System administrators must provide (as everybody in IT) vertical support for the entire organization, not the other way around. Many system administrators don't realize this. Instead they only accept one truth. Their own.
Ohh. You we're the slashdot user that was married ... once.
Probably not many, but some has - and it's a very real problem. Say you have 50 webservers to sustain load in the afternoon, but 40 of them is just sitting idle at night. Wouldn't it be nice to simply power most of those down?
(DB servers are somewhat more complicated because they need to be in synchronized before use)
WHAT?! Static discharges have their own association? Cool.
You have to buy an older CD player ;)
The Philips CD-100 - one of the first players - will happily play anything you put into it.
So basically the boxes are for looting. Cool.
1 download ought to be enough for anybody.
Does it run Linux?
I've always wondered about this. In American movies, the hero always hauls boxes from the office when he gets fired. What's in those boxes? My personal stuff at my workplace can fit in my pocket (or the trashcan).
- and today two drives arrived at my office! :)
No wonder the Commodore went bankrupt, if only they had used some kind of copy protection. Why didn't they think of something like AGA (Amiga Genuine Advantage), then they could force their loyal users to buy the software again and again?
I'm not sure if they're lying or not, but I just ordered 2 of these cards, I was promised two weeks delivery (to Europe). We'll see in about 10 days if they actually deliver ;)
It's not about sustained read/write, it's about io's per second. Try to take a look at iostat at a busy database server, I bet you'll notice how there's hardly anything transferred at all, but a lot of IO-requests - and a lot of iowait.
Your RAID controller will probably make it even worse, trying to bundle request to allow higher transfer speeds - and even if it's a dumb controller you'll be limited by SAS/SATA-performance.
Considering the cost of traditional ram based SAN, I think you'll find it cheap.
If you're an enterprise that can turn IOPS into profits, you can do much better than these Intel SSD's.
IODrive for example:
100.000 IOPS, 700MB/s read, 600MB/s write: http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx - you get a 80GB disk for about $4.500.
- another option is to run your database/whatever entirely in ram.
After more than 150 years of experience in software development, I have come to a very simple conclusion about coding standards.
Very good coding standard that is readable and maintainable: My standard.
Very bad, unreadable and unusable coding standard: Everything else.
Element 115 to the rescue!
So true. Administrating Windows boxes ain't so bad as many say, but the license-bullshit is really hell!
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