Yeah, it matters. And I would expect someone who listed both Sun Enterprise experience, as well as Red Hat, to know both of those things.
But I guess I'm a jerk. I actually expect people to know the things they put on their resume. Like the kid who was very proud of himself for "building a Beowulf cluster" (yes! How many times do you get to mention that on Slashdot IN CONTEXT??). He was very proud - and somewhat cocky about it - until I asked what message passing API he was using. Oops. Seems he, well, watched his professor build one.
To be fair, I -had- a Nintendo in the middle (the original NES, with the light gun and the robot). I've since gotten rid of it in favor of an NES emulator for the Dreamcast.
Correctamundo. Warp 4 was where I ended up. It worked - why change? It had Netscape, SSH, and Lotus SmartSuite - what more did I need, really?
Then I bought a Mac and I've been even happier since. I'm not a technophobe by any means - I manage HP Superdomes, Sun E25k's, Hitachi and EMC storage, Brocade and Cisco SANs and lots more at my day job. At home, I want stuff to Just Work.
Well, only if you play a game written for WinCE (how appropriately named!), which was most of the online-type titles. Lots of games were written without it.:-)
I'm not a Microsoft fan - not by a longshot (I've never - NEVER - used Windows at home. Went from DOS to OS/2 to Mac OS X. But I digress...)
Anyway, this is a great decision on their part. It's nice to see that they acknowledge the problem and are willing to stand behind their product. Nothing negative about that. And they're going to reimburse people who've previously had the repairs done.
This is a good thing, and I'll applaud them for doing the Right Thing (tm).
Not that I'd buy an XBox (hell, all I have in the house is an Intellivision and a Dreamcast...), but it's still good to see them do what's right.
> How many times do you Apple haters have to have this beaten into you ? We, the great unwashed, just want the damn thing to work. Make it easy. We're stupid. Not as smart as you, Mr. "I can build a computer > out of tinfoil and Linux"
Apple hater? Are you kidding me? I'm typing this on my G5; the Powerbook is VPN'd into work next to me, and my old G4 Cube is on the floor waiting for me to reload the OS. I've got an original iPod (not a '1G' iPod, but the ORIGINAL iPod - the one that didn't list a size on the back, because there was only one...). I love Apple technology more than just about anyone. All I was trying to say is that, in the world of business, some things are a good move, and some aren't. Sure, Apple's going to sell some iPhones - probably even a few million. But VZW has over 60 million customers. Even if 5 million had iPhones, that's still 55 million 'other' customers to worry about. Again, I think that's the biggest thing - the fact that it would open the door for Moto, LG, Samsung, et al. to demand a chunk of service revenue too. Not a huge loss to give up a piece of revenue for the 5 mil iPhone customers - but for all 60 million, month after month? That's a lot of money to give up.
At the end of the day, no matter how cool or innovative or seamless a device is, money talks. This deal goes way beyond Apple - it has repercussions throughout the cell phone industry....
> If I were running an AT&T competitor right now I would be wondering why Jobs didn't approach me with this opportunity and what I could do to earn his approval. I wouldn't want to be left behind
Unless, of course, you're Verizon who had the balls to stand up to Apple. Right decision in the end or not, at least they stood up for their business.
If someone came to you and said:
1) We want you to agree to sell our product, sight unseen. 2) You have to cut all of your partners out of it. 3) We will tell you whether the phone can be replaced if a customer has a problem. 4) We want a percentage of service revenue.
- does that sound like a good business decision to you? You're going to alienate all of your other partners (i.e. Best buy, Walmart, etc..) You're going to alienate your customers (Sorry, we'd love to replace your handset Mr. Big-Important-VIP-Customer, but Apple said no. Can't help you.), and worst of all, you open the door for *EVERYONE* to take a piece of your service revenue - why wouldn't Motorola/LG/Samsung/etc. ask for the same deal? (You did it for Apple - either split revenue with us, or no RAZR2 for you.)
I agree - I think it would've kicked butt if VZW had the iPhone. A real 3G network (EV-DO) would complement iPhone wonderfully, as would a real voice network (GSM quality is crap. CDMA not only covers more area per tower, but it has a better vocoder as well.)
But can you blame them for turning it down? I would have, given the way Apple approached them.
Project Blackbox is one incredibly cool device. Sun was gracious enough to park one as a demo at my company, and it's just a very well engineered, game-changing design. The beauty is that it can be done relatively cheap, because shipping containers are CHEAP in the US. Most of them come from China, and since we import more than we export, we're stuck with a boatload (literally) of excess containers.
Imagine - rather than spending many millions building a true data center, you can just purchase a (relatively) cheap warehouse and line these things up inside. Instant data center - with lots of inherent redundancy.
Mirror one Blackbox to another across the warehouse.
Disaster Recovery? This the best thing since sliced bread. Park one at another facility 50 miles away and off you go.
I'm highly impressed. It's a bit cramped in there, but if you do your work neatly and place the servers in the racks correctly, it's not an issue. One shouldn't spend much time in the data center anyway!
and I asked...
#1 - yes, they are standard racks, so other vendors' equipment will fit. #2 - I asked about "oversized" equipment (such as Superdomes, E25k's, disk arrays, etc.) - they're working on a solution for that too. My guess is that it would involve removing some of the racks to make room.
I think Blackbox is a great idea with lots of deployment potential. Another thing to note - I was told that the air filters are designed to filter out lots of particulate matter -- sand included. You can guess why.
.... so does everyone now understand WHY Verizon turned down iPhone ?? Why piss off their customers by someone else's rules? If you're going to piss 'em off, at least let it be of your own accord!
the ping binary is in/usr/sbin on HPUX. There is a symlink to it in/etc, but that's not where the binary lives.
Try again sometime.
root@mrsparkle# ls -l/usr/sbin/ping -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 49152 Oct 18 15:54/usr/sbin/ping root@mrsparkle# ls -l/etc/ping lr-sr-xr-t 1 root sys 14 Mar 14 2006/etc/ping ->/usr/sbin/ping
HPUX is actually much LESS retarded than most in a lot of ways. They actually moved the init startup scripts to/sbin/init.d (as well as/sbin/rc0.d->rc6.d) which makes sense. They're executables, for the super-user, which belong in/sbin.
It makes more logical sense. It's just 'different' than most Unices.
(and if you've ever used the Software Distributor, you know what real package management is like.... RPM, pkgadd and the ilk can go scratch. swinstall is where it's at!:)
Linux: "This is the year of Linux on the Desktop" for almost 15 years running.....
Seriously, AIX and HP-UX both have kick-ass volume management. Check out Dynamic Root Disk from HP... whoa, cool! And it only works if you have a real LVM...
Why is a System Operator out of date? We've got quite a few of those at my place of employment, actually. They do good work, keep a 24x7 eye on the system, monitor the applications, databases, tape mounts, etc.
Not out of date at all, at least in Large IT.
(I'm a Senior Member - Technical Staff, BTW, if that means anything.)
And see, that's where you're wrong. I'm a bonafide hardware junkie, I just play on a -much- bigger scale than my desktop PC. Let me know the next time you overclock a Superdome, m'kay?
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Yeah, it matters. And I would expect someone who listed both Sun Enterprise experience, as well as Red Hat, to know both of those things.
But I guess I'm a jerk. I actually expect people to know the things they put on their resume. Like the kid who was very proud of himself for "building a Beowulf cluster" (yes! How many times do you get to mention that on Slashdot IN CONTEXT??). He was very proud - and somewhat cocky about it - until I asked what message passing API he was using. Oops. Seems he, well, watched his professor build one.
I had one of those. The "PC 7300".
Thanks. I thought I repressed those memories. Root shell holes everywhere!
To be fair, I -had- a Nintendo in the middle (the original NES, with the light gun and the robot). I've since gotten rid of it in favor of an NES emulator for the Dreamcast.
Correctamundo. Warp 4 was where I ended up. It worked - why change? It had Netscape, SSH, and Lotus SmartSuite - what more did I need, really?
Then I bought a Mac and I've been even happier since. I'm not a technophobe by any means - I manage HP Superdomes, Sun E25k's, Hitachi and EMC storage, Brocade and Cisco SANs and lots more at my day job. At home, I want stuff to Just Work.
Well, only if you play a game written for WinCE (how appropriately named!), which was most of the online-type titles. Lots of games were written without it. :-)
I'm not a Microsoft fan - not by a longshot (I've never - NEVER - used Windows at home. Went from DOS to OS/2 to Mac OS X. But I digress...)
Anyway, this is a great decision on their part. It's nice to see that they acknowledge the problem and are willing to stand behind their product. Nothing negative about that. And they're going to reimburse people who've previously had the repairs done.
This is a good thing, and I'll applaud them for doing the Right Thing (tm).
Not that I'd buy an XBox (hell, all I have in the house is an Intellivision and a Dreamcast...), but it's still good to see them do what's right.
> How many times do you Apple haters have to have this beaten into you ? We, the great unwashed, just want the damn thing to work. Make it easy. We're stupid. Not as smart as you, Mr. "I can build a computer > out of tinfoil and Linux"
...). I love Apple technology more than just about anyone. All I was trying to say is that, in the world of business, some things are a good move, and some aren't. Sure, Apple's going to sell some iPhones - probably even a few million. But VZW has over 60 million customers. Even if 5 million had iPhones, that's still 55 million 'other' customers to worry about. Again, I think that's the biggest thing - the fact that it would open the door for Moto, LG, Samsung, et al. to demand a chunk of service revenue too. Not a huge loss to give up a piece of revenue for the 5 mil iPhone customers - but for all 60 million, month after month? That's a lot of money to give up.
Apple hater? Are you kidding me? I'm typing this on my G5; the Powerbook is VPN'd into work next to me, and my old G4 Cube is on the floor waiting for me to reload the OS. I've got an original iPod (not a '1G' iPod, but the ORIGINAL iPod - the one that didn't list a size on the back, because there was only one
At the end of the day, no matter how cool or innovative or seamless a device is, money talks. This deal goes way beyond Apple - it has repercussions throughout the cell phone industry....
> If I were running an AT&T competitor right now I would be wondering why Jobs didn't approach me with this opportunity and what I could do to earn his approval. I wouldn't want to be left behind
z on-iphone_x.htm
Unless, of course, you're Verizon who had the balls to stand up to Apple. Right decision in the end or not, at least they stood up for their business.
If someone came to you and said:
1) We want you to agree to sell our product, sight unseen.
2) You have to cut all of your partners out of it.
3) We will tell you whether the phone can be replaced if a customer has a problem.
4) We want a percentage of service revenue.
- does that sound like a good business decision to you? You're going to alienate all of your other partners (i.e. Best buy, Walmart, etc..) You're going to alienate your customers (Sorry, we'd love to replace your handset Mr. Big-Important-VIP-Customer, but Apple said no. Can't help you.), and worst of all, you open the door for *EVERYONE* to take a piece of your service revenue - why wouldn't Motorola/LG/Samsung/etc. ask for the same deal? (You did it for Apple - either split revenue with us, or no RAZR2 for you.)
I agree - I think it would've kicked butt if VZW had the iPhone. A real 3G network (EV-DO) would complement iPhone wonderfully, as would a real voice network (GSM quality is crap. CDMA not only covers more area per tower, but it has a better vocoder as well.)
But can you blame them for turning it down? I would have, given the way Apple approached them.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-28-veri
It's got an integrated GPS and alarming system. If it moves, pagers all over the place go off. Gotta love cellular technology!
Project Blackbox is one incredibly cool device. Sun was gracious enough to park one as a demo at my company, and it's just a very well engineered, game-changing design. The beauty is that it can be done relatively cheap, because shipping containers are CHEAP in the US. Most of them come from China, and since we import more than we export, we're stuck with a boatload (literally) of excess containers.
...
Imagine - rather than spending many millions building a true data center, you can just purchase a (relatively) cheap warehouse and line these things up inside. Instant data center - with lots of inherent redundancy.
Mirror one Blackbox to another across the warehouse.
Disaster Recovery? This the best thing since sliced bread. Park one at another facility 50 miles away and off you go.
I'm highly impressed. It's a bit cramped in there, but if you do your work neatly and place the servers in the racks correctly, it's not an issue. One shouldn't spend much time in the data center anyway!
and I asked
#1 - yes, they are standard racks, so other vendors' equipment will fit.
#2 - I asked about "oversized" equipment (such as Superdomes, E25k's, disk arrays, etc.) - they're working on a solution for that too. My guess is that it would involve removing some of the racks to make room.
I think Blackbox is a great idea with lots of deployment potential. Another thing to note - I was told that the air filters are designed to filter out lots of particulate matter -- sand included. You can guess why.
.... so does everyone now understand WHY Verizon turned down iPhone ?? Why piss off their customers by someone else's rules? If you're going to piss 'em off, at least let it be of your own accord!
I remember that too.
...
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A quick google search reveals it to be "Lycopodium"
http://www.cmste.uregina.ca/Quickstarts/powderglo
So long Mr. Wizard, and thanks for all the memories.
....
I always wanted my own HERO robot
VxFS. ROCKS.
Forget ReiserFS, forget ExtWhatever, VxFS kicks unholy butt.
Seriously.
Thanks for bringing back those awful, awful memories.
</sarcasm>
SunOS begone!
Nah, too easy. Way, way too easy.
I saw "Netgear EVA8000" and thought of HP's midrange disk array.
I'm actually surprised that Netgear chose the name, since it's blatantly similar to this.
Oh, I'm sorry.
/usr/sbin on HPUX. There is a symlink to it in /etc, but that's not where the binary lives.
/usr/sbin/ping /usr/sbin/ping /etc/ping /etc/ping -> /usr/sbin/ping
/sbin/init.d (as well as /sbin/rc0.d->rc6.d) which makes sense. They're executables, for the super-user, which belong in /sbin.
:)
the ping binary is in
Try again sometime.
root@mrsparkle# ls -l
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 49152 Oct 18 15:54
root@mrsparkle# ls -l
lr-sr-xr-t 1 root sys 14 Mar 14 2006
HPUX is actually much LESS retarded than most in a lot of ways. They actually moved the init startup scripts to
It makes more logical sense. It's just 'different' than most Unices.
(and if you've ever used the Software Distributor, you know what real package management is like.... RPM, pkgadd and the ilk can go scratch. swinstall is where it's at!
Linux: "This is the year of Linux on the Desktop" for almost 15 years running .....
...
Seriously, AIX and HP-UX both have kick-ass volume management. Check out Dynamic Root Disk from HP... whoa, cool! And it only works if you have a real LVM
On OpenVMS?
No, I'm not being facetious. It still works great. Especially over those serial connections.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/commercial/decforms/
Even if you use NTP, your OS still needs to recognize when to switch from EST to EDT (or PST to PDT, etc.)
..... way to go. Gotta patch that too.
What's worse (at least for us) is that the JVM has its own daylight-savings-time rule handling
There has been way, way too much work poured into Aqua to rip it out from underneath everyone right now.
.... -that- I can see a wholesale replacement of. It needs it.
Subtle (and not-so-subtle) tweaks I can see, but actual honest-to-goodness UI replacement? That I doubt.
Now, the Finder on the other hand
Why is a System Operator out of date? We've got quite a few of those at my place of employment, actually. They do good work, keep a 24x7 eye on the system, monitor the applications, databases, tape mounts, etc.
Not out of date at all, at least in Large IT.
(I'm a Senior Member - Technical Staff, BTW, if that means anything.)
And see, that's where you're wrong. I'm a bonafide hardware junkie, I just play on a -much- bigger scale than my desktop PC. Let me know the next time you overclock a Superdome, m'kay?
Just as soon as you buy a Macintosh.