The best backup solution is a damn rsync script that replicates to another server.
Yes, because that provides the ability to restore previous backups, and if someone makes a mistake on the primary, the problem does not wipe out your only good copy, and...
Discussion sections were the biggest waste of time in college. Get 20 undergrads and one grad student in a room to "discuss". I was a history major and every class had the same two or three hours a week devoted to these tedious discussions.
I did not care what my fellow undergrads thought. I cared what the guy with the PhD thought. My fellow undergrads were spouting off their own ill-informed ideas (as was I, to get credit). Complete waste of time. We'd have been better served to spend those 8-10 hours a week reading.
I've heard things about SANS, though I've never taken a course from them. They do have some courses on web development. Even if you can't afford to take one of their courses, you might look through the content brief to see what it covers and what areas you should be looking at, or find someone who's taken the course and ask what was covered.
They were already pretty much washed up and a has-been by the time the smartphone revolution rolled around. Not saying their phones weren't nice or quality or anything, just saying they weren't anything revolutionary.
Exactly right. Palm in the 1990s was pioneering, but they stumbled once smartphones came along. Not sure why, really - I mean, everyone could see that manufacturers would put more and more stuff on phones and eventually everything a Palm Pilot could do, a phone would one day be able to do. But Palm was a one trick pony that didn't adapt (or at least, didn't adapt fast enough).
Zuckerberg does have that killer instinct for business that Jobs had.
Um, no. He's a 27-year-old who sweats so much when asked a mild non-softball question on TV that he has to wipe the perspiration off his head and take off his jacket.. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were mature adults when they were 27 (1982). Zuckerberg is a child.
Spare us. Even though it's an appeal to authority I'm sure NewYorkCountryLawyer knows a shit-load more about conflicts of interest than most people here, including me.
And you.
Because, of course, it's impossible to create a Slashdot name like that unless the creator is a lawyer.
I don't mean to pick on linode in particular but last i checked their west coast facility was hurricane electric, fremont 2.
In their defense, they are in many datacenters. Also, I wouldn't say Linode is a "cheap VPS provider" - they're one of the pricier ones, particularly if you look at the bandwidth.
I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)
How can you say this and feature a LEB staple on the page in your sig?
BuyVM is a budget provider, and are labeled so on my page in the Budget section. It's not that LEBs are bad, it's just that someone who's never used a VPS before could walk onto LEB/LET and pick a provider and many providers there are not good. If someone is going to use a LEB, they should go into it eyes open.
You should be asking on WHT, which is the best-known forum for discussing web hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers.
I would echo the linode suggestion, particularly if it's the first VPS you've ever used. However, they are not KVM. If you want KVM, try 6sync. Another fine choice is BuyVM, though you have to wait until they have stock, which is a minor media event.
I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)
The laws depend on the kind of company. I don't know what the rules are, but I believe publicly traded companies are required to have a retention of some number of years,
That is untrue. I work for a large public company (Fortune 500) and our email retention is 90 days. After that, stuff is purged. Backup retention for email is also 90 days. The goal is that if we're sued, we only have 90 days' worth of email to be discovered.
Yes, there are plenty of loopholes - e.g., if I print an email and stick it in a filing cabinet.
I don't believe there is any rule that says "public companies must keep email for X days". However, some industries have regulations - I'm sure our retention would be different if my company was in the legal, financial, etc. industries.
There is some logic in what you say. However, if I was on Apple's board, I'd be worried about tying up a ton of management time, energy, and focus. If you buy Yahoo, you buy big headaches - morale, layoffs, merging cultures, skeletons in the closet, hundreds of decisions about what to do with different properties (virtual and physical), many new vendor relationships, new legal relationships/issues, etc.
And it wouldn't be a small purchase - we're still talking billions. Yes, Apple could afford it, but by size I mean king-sized issues. This isn't like buying some small startup with interesting tech where you roll into into yourself and six months later it's no longer part of your day-to-day worry. Buying a company the size of Yahoo will take X% of your management talent for a year or two.
The questions are (a) how big is X, and (b) is what you get for that X% worth the headache and (more importantly) the opportunity cost.
Kind of ironic that Wal-Mart (a corporation that often makes sales arguments based on religious overtones)
Do you have an example of this? And perhaps an explanation of what an "argument based on religious overtones" means, because that is vague, bordering on non-English...
Even though publishing Windows desktop software is completely orthogonal to your overall business strategy and it's a symptom of your dysfunctional, undisciplined management...please don't cancel Sketchup.
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Google don't have a freemium business model they have an ad-supported business model.
True. Evernote or Dropbox would be better examples of freemium businesses.
Both deduplication and conventional compression are a questionable idea on a file server which has many clients.
Out of curiosity, why do you say that? I assume what you're saying is true regardless if we're talking Linux or Windows or any OS.
The best backup solution is a damn rsync script that replicates to another server.
Yes, because that provides the ability to restore previous backups, and if someone makes a mistake on the primary, the problem does not wipe out your only good copy, and...
Oh wait...
Politicians should never make laws about technology. Which is why machine guns should be free for everyone to own.
Discussion sections were the biggest waste of time in college. Get 20 undergrads and one grad student in a room to "discuss". I was a history major and every class had the same two or three hours a week devoted to these tedious discussions.
I did not care what my fellow undergrads thought. I cared what the guy with the PhD thought. My fellow undergrads were spouting off their own ill-informed ideas (as was I, to get credit). Complete waste of time. We'd have been better served to spend those 8-10 hours a week reading.
Any "good" virus will be caught, captured, studied, mutated, and turned into a "bad" virus very quickly.
Also, a virus by definition installs software on a machine without the owner's consent. So it's never a good idea.
I've heard things about SANS, though I've never taken a course from them. They do have some courses on web development. Even if you can't afford to take one of their courses, you might look through the content brief to see what it covers and what areas you should be looking at, or find someone who's taken the course and ask what was covered.
From the article:
"Constant revision and improvement is part of our overarching philosophy," he said.
What is the difference between an overarching philosophy and a philosophy?
apple app store censorship is close to anti trust levels.
What does that sentence even mean?
Politics, foreign policy, sanctions, blah blah...the real question is, are we going to get some new scenarios for Harpoon from this?
They were already pretty much washed up and a has-been by the time the smartphone revolution rolled around. Not saying their phones weren't nice or quality or anything, just saying they weren't anything revolutionary.
Exactly right. Palm in the 1990s was pioneering, but they stumbled once smartphones came along. Not sure why, really - I mean, everyone could see that manufacturers would put more and more stuff on phones and eventually everything a Palm Pilot could do, a phone would one day be able to do. But Palm was a one trick pony that didn't adapt (or at least, didn't adapt fast enough).
Zuckerberg does have that killer instinct for business that Jobs had.
Um, no. He's a 27-year-old who sweats so much when asked a mild non-softball question on TV that he has to wipe the perspiration off his head and take off his jacket.. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were mature adults when they were 27 (1982). Zuckerberg is a child.
Working on his tech might be fun, but being a roady when he goes on tour to do his hip hop concerts would be a lot of work.
Spare us. Even though it's an appeal to authority I'm sure NewYorkCountryLawyer knows a shit-load more about conflicts of interest than most people here, including me.
And you.
Because, of course, it's impossible to create a Slashdot name like that unless the creator is a lawyer.
How is life as a neo-medieval toilet, btw?
I don't mean to pick on linode in particular but last i checked their west coast facility was hurricane electric, fremont 2.
In their defense, they are in many datacenters. Also, I wouldn't say Linode is a "cheap VPS provider" - they're one of the pricier ones, particularly if you look at the bandwidth.
I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)
How can you say this and feature a LEB staple on the page in your sig?
BuyVM is a budget provider, and are labeled so on my page in the Budget section. It's not that LEBs are bad, it's just that someone who's never used a VPS before could walk onto LEB/LET and pick a provider and many providers there are not good. If someone is going to use a LEB, they should go into it eyes open.
You should be asking on WHT, which is the best-known forum for discussing web hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers.
I would echo the linode suggestion, particularly if it's the first VPS you've ever used. However, they are not KVM. If you want KVM, try 6sync. Another fine choice is BuyVM, though you have to wait until they have stock, which is a minor media event.
I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)
The laws depend on the kind of company. I don't know what the rules are, but I believe publicly traded companies are required to have a retention of some number of years,
That is untrue. I work for a large public company (Fortune 500) and our email retention is 90 days. After that, stuff is purged. Backup retention for email is also 90 days. The goal is that if we're sued, we only have 90 days' worth of email to be discovered.
Yes, there are plenty of loopholes - e.g., if I print an email and stick it in a filing cabinet.
I don't believe there is any rule that says "public companies must keep email for X days". However, some industries have regulations - I'm sure our retention would be different if my company was in the legal, financial, etc. industries.
Rather, it's the SNAP reactor buried in an avalanche at the headwaters of the Ganges river.
Autumn 1965
Experimenting on dogs to get better medical cures is ethically questionable...but just to get better airport dogs?!?
May Professor Lee and his children die of cancer.
There is some logic in what you say. However, if I was on Apple's board, I'd be worried about tying up a ton of management time, energy, and focus. If you buy Yahoo, you buy big headaches - morale, layoffs, merging cultures, skeletons in the closet, hundreds of decisions about what to do with different properties (virtual and physical), many new vendor relationships, new legal relationships/issues, etc.
And it wouldn't be a small purchase - we're still talking billions. Yes, Apple could afford it, but by size I mean king-sized issues. This isn't like buying some small startup with interesting tech where you roll into into yourself and six months later it's no longer part of your day-to-day worry. Buying a company the size of Yahoo will take X% of your management talent for a year or two.
The questions are (a) how big is X, and (b) is what you get for that X% worth the headache and (more importantly) the opportunity cost.
Kind of ironic that Wal-Mart (a corporation that often makes sales arguments based on religious overtones)
Do you have an example of this? And perhaps an explanation of what an "argument based on religious overtones" means, because that is vague, bordering on non-English...
Private contractors are usually people like me who were in the government (or military, in my case) and still want to make a difference
"make a difference"? Who talks like that?
Fuck you, buddy.
Ah.
What we have here is: A person notorious anti government
Is that a rapper?
Even though publishing Windows desktop software is completely orthogonal to your overall business strategy and it's a symptom of your dysfunctional, undisciplined management...please don't cancel Sketchup.