When the Bell Atlantic/GTE/AirTouch/PrimeCo merger was announced, it made lots of sense.
For the most part, the technology was the same, and there was little coverage overlap. They basically took 4 companies -- a Northeast, South, West, and Southwest company, and made them one.
Cingular/ATT is all overlap, but at least similar technology.
Nextel/Sprint is even worse..... It's all overlap, and completely different technologies.
Part of the beauty of life is knowing when enough's enough.
I get my fill of what I do at work. At home, I want to do other stuff -- spend time with my wife, do some work on the house, play some cards..... all stuff that's got NOTHING to do with being a sysadmin.
I wasn't a programmer (I'm not a programmer, but I play one on TV), but I was burned pretty bad as an end user.
I actually used the OS/2 implementation of OpenDoc, and even wrote a bunch of my documents with OpenDoc parts, figuring they'd be cross-platform enough to be around for a while.
Now I'm stuck with a Thinkpad T21 I keep around running Warp 4 just so I can read those documents....
Oops.:)
Learned my lesson there; now I just keep most of my documents in ASCII format and the worst I have to do is run "unix2dos" against them... (I LOVE having a Mac that runs Unix!)
I like your idea about standardized APIs and documentation; it's definitely the right thing to do. But part of me feels that we're STILL using the wrong tool for the job -- HTTP is a stateless protocol, and we're fudging stateful tasks on top of it. I'd like to see a stateful protocol developed as a complement to HTTP, so that we can solve a lot of 'web services' problems... But that's just me.
I ordered 2 of 'em, each half-loaded (40 CPU, 80 GB RAM) for $800k total (that's $400k each).
Even assuming full load, you're still overpaying by over $2 mil!
Time to re-negotiate your purchase price....
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+350, Super-Duper-Insightful.
SVM, aka SDS, aka ODS is a piece of junk. Nobody uses it for anything real.
Veritas has a stranglehold on the storage market, period. I've got about 300 Sun and HP-UX systems under my control, and even on the HP-UX system which have a real, working LVM, I *still* install Veritas.
Cross-platform compatibility is a wonderful thing. And if I have one of the Sun admins doing work on my systems, they know all the commands. Beautiful product, VxVM.
CDMA is NOT a Canadian thing. It's a standard developed by Qualcomm (A US company) which has been adopted all over the place by various carriers.
Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Alltel in the US... It's huge in Japan and Korea; and yes, it is used in Canada, but it's not a "Canadian thing" as your message would imply.
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Right, and NTFS itself is an offshoot of HPFS, which was introduced with OS/2 in 1990.
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You are so wrong, it's not funny.
Virgin Mobile, yes, Qwest, yes, VZW, wrong.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but VZW owns their own switches. Just how it goes.
Towers, yes, they probably rent space from Sprint since they divested the towers, but so what? So does everyone else.
well, that depends.
When the Bell Atlantic/GTE/AirTouch/PrimeCo merger was announced, it made lots of sense.
For the most part, the technology was the same, and there was little coverage overlap. They basically took 4 companies -- a Northeast, South, West, and Southwest company, and made them one.
Cingular/ATT is all overlap, but at least similar technology.
Nextel/Sprint is even worse..... It's all overlap, and completely different technologies.
iDEN (Nextel) and CDMA2000 (sprint) are about as functionally different as it's going to get.
...
If they want to act as one, they'll have to pick a technology and run with it.
This merger is just a me-too because of Cingular/ATT
We'll see how this goes.
...)
If you think Cingular/ATT is a bloodbath, wait till you see this one.
Divergent technologies, different networks, and completely different corporate philosophies.
Nextel caters to the business user (not typically the white-collar CEO types, but more of the blue-collar type) and it's great for that.
Sprint basically picks up the leftovers that VZW & Cingular don't want (those with iffy credit ratings
Yeah, good luck. Match made in heaven, really.
IronPort C60's at the border are even nicer. :-)
You are indeed correct. My apologies.
I'm usually a gud speeler, but i ges i had a brane fart.
Inferior But Marketable ... the list goes on and on ...
It's Better Manually
Incompetant Business Managers
(Yes, i know I just burned some karma... so what.)
Part of the beauty of life is knowing when enough's enough.
I get my fill of what I do at work. At home, I want to do other stuff -- spend time with my wife, do some work on the house, play some cards..... all stuff that's got NOTHING to do with being a sysadmin.
And that's exactly how I like it.
I wasn't a programmer (I'm not a programmer, but I play one on TV), but I was burned pretty bad as an end user.
....
:)
... But that's just me.
I actually used the OS/2 implementation of OpenDoc, and even wrote a bunch of my documents with OpenDoc parts, figuring they'd be cross-platform enough to be around for a while.
Now I'm stuck with a Thinkpad T21 I keep around running Warp 4 just so I can read those documents
Oops.
Learned my lesson there; now I just keep most of my documents in ASCII format and the worst I have to do is run "unix2dos" against them... (I LOVE having a Mac that runs Unix!)
I like your idea about standardized APIs and documentation; it's definitely the right thing to do. But part of me feels that we're STILL using the wrong tool for the job -- HTTP is a stateless protocol, and we're fudging stateful tasks on top of it. I'd like to see a stateful protocol developed as a complement to HTTP, so that we can solve a lot of 'web services' problems
One word: OpenDoc.
Been there, done that. Got burned.
Sorry that you have to pay for it, but MM is a great program for what you want.
http://www.meetingmaker.com/home.cfm
Bullsh*t.
That disc was (and still IS) the only way to play a video bowling game.
Period.
Sadly, that's just too close to reality.
12k?
That's peanuts.
Some of the systems we manage cost MILLIONS an hour in downtime, easy.
It really sucks when you have 48k employees that can't sell anything, can't help customers, and well, really can't do anything.
That's how you convince manangement to build a complete replica of production as a QA environment.
Boy did you overpay.
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I ordered 2 of 'em, each half-loaded (40 CPU, 80 GB RAM) for $800k total (that's $400k each).
Even assuming full load, you're still overpaying by over $2 mil!
Time to re-negotiate your purchase price
+350, Super-Duper-Insightful.
SVM, aka SDS, aka ODS is a piece of junk. Nobody uses it for anything real.
Veritas has a stranglehold on the storage market, period. I've got about 300 Sun and HP-UX systems under my control, and even on the HP-UX system which have a real, working LVM, I *still* install Veritas.
Cross-platform compatibility is a wonderful thing. And if I have one of the Sun admins doing work on my systems, they know all the commands. Beautiful product, VxVM.
The reason you're seeing banks deploy new ATM's at a rapid clips this year is because IBM is dropping support for "vintage" OS/2 releases.
Not for OS/2 Warp 4 (That's supported through 2006 at least), but for the earlier releases (3, 2.x, 1.x)...
I believe that most ATM's were based on either OS/2 1.3 or 2.0.
Why we're replacing them with something that is vulnerable to the virus-of-the-week, who knows?
When was the last time you saw an OS/2 virus?
No, you don't.
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CDMA is NOT a Canadian thing. It's a standard developed by Qualcomm (A US company) which has been adopted all over the place by various carriers.
Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Alltel in the US
It's huge in Japan and Korea;
and yes, it is used in Canada, but it's not a "Canadian thing" as your message would imply.
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
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Oh, you drive a Fiat?
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http://wp.netscape.com/download/archive/index.h
No, sorry, software RAID is a beautiful thing, at least for boot disk mirroring.
At least these guys think so.
If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?
That's not self help. That's help.
There's no such thing as self help. If you did it yourself, you didn't need help!
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D'oh!
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