Why the hell didn't you stand up for yourself to a friggin' rent-a-cop?
Let him call the real police. Unless the cops tell you you can take the picture and cite the actual statute by number that tells you why not, then you can take the bloody picture.
If people like you constantly give in to this kind of treatment, it only empowers them. Get some backbone.
A whiteboard or a wiki would encounter a large amount of scrutiny while trying to explain to a DER (designated engineering representative) how the highest priority issue on the whiteboard got replaced by your five year old who likes to draw purple kitties...
What's your five-year old doing at work unsupervised?
# Partition Magic (bought out by Symantec and discontinued)
It's not quite discontinued - it is still being sold. I guess Symantec has said they do not plan to update it, but that was said when Microsoft was going to ship a fancy new filesystem in Vista. If it doesn't work with Vista and people demand an update, you may just see one.
On the other hand, the kind of people who feel the need to resize partitions are probably just as likely to try FIPS or Parted anyway.
The article seems to be equating IT with software engineering - especially when he linked "it's debatable whether IT qualifies as a profession" to a page on the professional status of software engineering.
Where I work most of our software engineers aren't in the IT department, and there are certainly a lot of IT people who don't routinely call their customers idiots, lusers, or clueless.
However, I am a UNIX sysadmin and freely admit that I willfully piss off my "customers". Yes, it's true. I deny requests that are against policies and procedures established by the business. The sad thing is that the customer is 99% of the time fully aware of the policy and are merely trying to circumvent it, often by trying the different sysadmins, especially the newer ones who are still learning.
Most often reason for me to deny a request? Failure to follow change control procedures and obtain the appropriate approvals from all stakeholders before requesting the change. Change control procedures aren't just put into place by IT - they are demanded by the business and for some systems are required by regulations. The second most often reason is that the request violates security policy or procedure.
Yet, when I deny such a request because proper procedure hasn't been followed, I get to hear about how "IT gets in the way and we could do this so much (better|faster|easier) by ourselves."
I also do evil things that inconvenience users such as requiring them to change their passwords four times a year. I personally make their life rough by setting the system to lock their account after three unsuccessful logins - and I do it on purpose. I make it so hard for the developers by not giving them accounts on the production systems, and I interfere with the ability of the QA teams to do their jobs by not giving them access to unscrubbed logs containing containing the personally identifiable information of real people using our online services.
Believe me, I've heard about what a jerk admin I am.
My aunt was making 70k/yr in San Jose as a secretary. As I understand it, going out to dinner can cost 200$... I would believe that 14/hr would make you quite poor.
What? Going out to dinner in San Jose can cost $200 for how many people?
The last time I was in San Jose we went to a nice Sushi place in a fancy newer shopping district. There were two Lamborghinis parked out front and we still fed six people for only $300.
(Insert snide comment about lack of reading comprehension here.)
The GP was pointing out that as long as people have the rights to free association and to peaceably assemble, there is nothing that can stop them from associating with each other and peaceably assembling in an office building as something we might call a "corporation."
The fact that government officially recognizes such an entity doesn't mean it couldn't or shouldn't exist without that recognition.
by editing these production scripts in place on the web server (!).
Yeah. That exclamation point does not begin to describe what a Bad Idea this is.
Here's what you should do first, this is similar to what we are doing with one of our setups (note, I am thinking cheaply here - this won't be the "best practice" but it will be good enough): Get two more servers. Put Solaris 10 on both of them.
Call the first one your development/integration machine and create a bunch of Solaris 10 zones on it, one for each developer plus a few for integration and release candidate functional testing. Each zone should have a copy of the software used in production. If you have a lot of developers, then you'll need more machines. A good mid-level server will easily host 15-20 zones if they aren't all running a C compiler constantly - as long as you put a lot of memory into the machine. Create a master zone that can be restored onto any of the developer zones (in case they want to start clean).
Call the second one your QA/Staging server. Create a zone for staging releases as the final step before you put them into production, and use the root zone for QA. Aside from the staging zone, everything should be configured as close as possible to your production setup.
Ideally, you'd want a separate QA and staging environment, with QA exactly replicating the production setup so, but the above is a good compromise if you can't afford that much hardware.
Finally, implement some change control procedures. Putting code into production is a risky thing to do. I don't know what business you are in, but you want to have a specific process and documentation for putting code into production. Trust me, it's worth it, especially when it all breaks and somebody higher up the food chain says "what changed?" followed by "can we go back to the previous release?"
Its too bad vista bans running windows on a virtual machine. I imagine this solution will be outdated quick as soon as directx10 games become standard.
No. What you mention only applies to the Vista Home edition license. The Vista Ultimate version specifically gives permission to use it in a virtual machine. Both of these are "Vista".
I don't like Microsoft either, but at least I try to badmouth them accurately.
The GC will always cut in at the worst possible times
Try using the parallel collector on a multi-CPU machine. Much less impact on the running application. You should also spend some time learning how to tune the VM and GC parameters if that's your problem.
YOU try collecting 30 Gbytes of uncompressed data daily with it sometime.
I'm not quite at 30 gigs a day, but the systems I work on will reach that within a year or so. We don't expect that it will be a problem.
I am sorry, I deal with web developers where I work, xNIX and Microsoft. I just finished an argument with a Microsoft web developer of why DNS could not change the port numbers in a URL. I get this all the time. Some of these developers are dumb as nails.
You so need one of these. I've been able to pull miracles using Big-IPs (mainly fixing the mistakes of our Windows-loving web developers and product teams). If you've got it fronting all of your services, you can even change the port numbers in your URLs...
I remember first time I saw them, I thought console emulators were really cool. After my education, I have no idea how someone would begin writing one.
Didn't you have a computer organization and architecture class? You know, one the professor talked about low-level CPU stuff and you had to memorize the stages of the original MIPS pipeline? The one where they had discussions of Von Neumann vs. Harvard architecture, caching, ALU operations, fundamental logic, port- vs. memory-mapped I/O, etc? If not, your "theory"-based education left you a very big blind spot.
If you did have this particular class, it should seem quite obvious how to proceed with writing an emulator.
... climate change is happening. We know that it is. It's more about the following:
How much is caused by natural phenomena (Solar cycles, precession, etc.)?
How much is caused by human activity?
Is it necessarily a Bad Thing(TM) (this is the big one)?
If so, what should be done about it? (e.g. radical solutions vs. not-so-radical solutions)
There aren't that many people denying that average temperatures have risen. There are plenty of people with differing answers to the above questions.
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And this doesn't even begin to address population growth issues, which are just as big a problem.
Don't worry. When your dream of $15/gallon gas makes it impossible to have affordable food everywhere during all times of the year due to shipping costs, mass starvation will take care of that population thing for you.
This included sections on project management, software lifecycle, requirements analysis and engineering, and development models. While I did not go into development or software engineering, I work with developers all the time and it's certainly helpful to speak the language. Also, project management skills are necessary in any kind of work in IT (and most other fields, too).
At UO the software methodology class was treated as a "capstone" type of class and we had to do some reasonably substantial projects that kept us working late hours.
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Why the hell didn't you stand up for yourself to a friggin' rent-a-cop?
Let him call the real police. Unless the cops tell you you can take the picture and cite the actual statute by number that tells you why not, then you can take the bloody picture.
If people like you constantly give in to this kind of treatment, it only empowers them. Get some backbone.
A whiteboard or a wiki would encounter a large amount of scrutiny while trying to explain to a DER (designated engineering representative) how the highest priority issue on the whiteboard got replaced by your five year old who likes to draw purple kitties...
What's your five-year old doing at work unsupervised?
Why bother? Vista's Disk Manager can natively resize partitions.
Figured it might, but since I don't have Vista I didn't know for sure before now.
# Partition Magic (bought out by Symantec and discontinued)
It's not quite discontinued - it is still being sold. I guess Symantec has said they do not plan to update it, but that was said when Microsoft was going to ship a fancy new filesystem in Vista. If it doesn't work with Vista and people demand an update, you may just see one.
On the other hand, the kind of people who feel the need to resize partitions are probably just as likely to try FIPS or Parted anyway.
The article seems to be equating IT with software engineering - especially when he linked "it's debatable whether IT qualifies as a profession" to a page on the professional status of software engineering.
Where I work most of our software engineers aren't in the IT department, and there are certainly a lot of IT people who don't routinely call their customers idiots, lusers, or clueless.
However, I am a UNIX sysadmin and freely admit that I willfully piss off my "customers". Yes, it's true. I deny requests that are against policies and procedures established by the business. The sad thing is that the customer is 99% of the time fully aware of the policy and are merely trying to circumvent it, often by trying the different sysadmins, especially the newer ones who are still learning.
Most often reason for me to deny a request? Failure to follow change control procedures and obtain the appropriate approvals from all stakeholders before requesting the change. Change control procedures aren't just put into place by IT - they are demanded by the business and for some systems are required by regulations. The second most often reason is that the request violates security policy or procedure.
Yet, when I deny such a request because proper procedure hasn't been followed, I get to hear about how "IT gets in the way and we could do this so much (better|faster|easier) by ourselves."
I also do evil things that inconvenience users such as requiring them to change their passwords four times a year. I personally make their life rough by setting the system to lock their account after three unsuccessful logins - and I do it on purpose. I make it so hard for the developers by not giving them accounts on the production systems, and I interfere with the ability of the QA teams to do their jobs by not giving them access to unscrubbed logs containing containing the personally identifiable information of real people using our online services.
Believe me, I've heard about what a jerk admin I am.
Well, as a maths student, I would prefer to ban degrees and keep radians. Radians are actually useful to work with.
Yeah, well, as a former Field Artillery Fire Support Specialist, I would prefer to ban both degrees and radians. Mils are a lot easier to work with when blowing stuff up.
Okay, for four that's a reasonable figure for that area.
No Lamborghinis out front though. (No parking in the front)
Well, the parking out front wasn't for ordinary people. You need a fancy car to park there.
My aunt was making 70k/yr in San Jose as a secretary. As I understand it, going out to dinner can cost 200$... I would believe that 14/hr would make you quite poor.
What? Going out to dinner in San Jose can cost $200 for how many people?
The last time I was in San Jose we went to a nice Sushi place in a fancy newer shopping district. There were two Lamborghinis parked out front and we still fed six people for only $300.
Yes, I know science is objective ...
Science may be objective, but scientists are not necessarily objective.
(Insert snide comment about lack of reading comprehension here.)
The GP was pointing out that as long as people have the rights to free association and to peaceably assemble, there is nothing that can stop them from associating with each other and peaceably assembling in an office building as something we might call a "corporation."
The fact that government officially recognizes such an entity doesn't mean it couldn't or shouldn't exist without that recognition.
Insert "see" immediately after the second "don't".
Why don't you RTFF and then go make your own web site if you're unhappy with the answer?
You don't Americans running around and telling this site to stop being so Euro-centric, do you?
In short: Either put up with an American-run web site putting up US-centric articles, or piss off.
Ah, that means you aren't the only one who's thought of the church idea.
It's a damn good idea, too.
Hey, was your church -> house just featured on a local TV station?
by editing these production scripts in place on the web server (!).
Yeah. That exclamation point does not begin to describe what a Bad Idea this is.
Here's what you should do first, this is similar to what we are doing with one of our setups (note, I am thinking cheaply here - this won't be the "best practice" but it will be good enough): Get two more servers. Put Solaris 10 on both of them.
Call the first one your development/integration machine and create a bunch of Solaris 10 zones on it, one for each developer plus a few for integration and release candidate functional testing. Each zone should have a copy of the software used in production. If you have a lot of developers, then you'll need more machines. A good mid-level server will easily host 15-20 zones if they aren't all running a C compiler constantly - as long as you put a lot of memory into the machine. Create a master zone that can be restored onto any of the developer zones (in case they want to start clean).
Call the second one your QA/Staging server. Create a zone for staging releases as the final step before you put them into production, and use the root zone for QA. Aside from the staging zone, everything should be configured as close as possible to your production setup.
Ideally, you'd want a separate QA and staging environment, with QA exactly replicating the production setup so, but the above is a good compromise if you can't afford that much hardware.
Finally, implement some change control procedures. Putting code into production is a risky thing to do. I don't know what business you are in, but you want to have a specific process and documentation for putting code into production. Trust me, it's worth it, especially when it all breaks and somebody higher up the food chain says "what changed?" followed by "can we go back to the previous release?"
If price was the subject of the discussion, then I would have.
Its too bad vista bans running windows on a virtual machine. I imagine this solution will be outdated quick as soon as directx10 games become standard.
No. What you mention only applies to the Vista Home edition license. The Vista Ultimate version specifically gives permission to use it in a virtual machine. Both of these are "Vista".
I don't like Microsoft either, but at least I try to badmouth them accurately.
The GC will always cut in at the worst possible times
Try using the parallel collector on a multi-CPU machine. Much less impact on the running application. You should also spend some time learning how to tune the VM and GC parameters if that's your problem.
YOU try collecting 30 Gbytes of uncompressed data daily with it sometime.
I'm not quite at 30 gigs a day, but the systems I work on will reach that within a year or so. We don't expect that it will be a problem.
I am sorry, I deal with web developers where I work, xNIX and Microsoft. I just finished an argument with a Microsoft web developer of why DNS could not change the port numbers in a URL. I get this all the time. Some of these developers are dumb as nails.
You so need one of these. I've been able to pull miracles using Big-IPs (mainly fixing the mistakes of our Windows-loving web developers and product teams). If you've got it fronting all of your services, you can even change the port numbers in your URLs...
No, I think this is probably the biggest.
I remember first time I saw them, I thought console emulators were really cool. After my education, I have no idea how someone would begin writing one.
Didn't you have a computer organization and architecture class? You know, one the professor talked about low-level CPU stuff and you had to memorize the stages of the original MIPS pipeline? The one where they had discussions of Von Neumann vs. Harvard architecture, caching, ALU operations, fundamental logic, port- vs. memory-mapped I/O, etc? If not, your "theory"-based education left you a very big blind spot.
If you did have this particular class, it should seem quite obvious how to proceed with writing an emulator.
Even if it turns out that the court rules that this applies to the militia and not to free citizens (which I doubt it will), there are workarounds.
In Idaho, for instance, all males between the ages of 18 and 45 are members of the state militia. Would be simple to reword this to include everyone who could currently now keep and bear arms.
There aren't that many people denying that average temperatures have risen. There are plenty of people with differing answers to the above questions.
And this doesn't even begin to address population growth issues, which are just as big a problem.
Don't worry. When your dream of $15/gallon gas makes it impossible to have affordable food everywhere during all times of the year due to shipping costs, mass starvation will take care of that population thing for you.
... should be required.
At the University of Oregon, we had CIS422.
This included sections on project management, software lifecycle, requirements analysis and engineering, and development models. While I did not go into development or software engineering, I work with developers all the time and it's certainly helpful to speak the language. Also, project management skills are necessary in any kind of work in IT (and most other fields, too).
At UO the software methodology class was treated as a "capstone" type of class and we had to do some reasonably substantial projects that kept us working late hours.