It kind of sounds like the poster is stuck with pointsec, and bearing in mind his "industry" requires full disk encryption. I'd imagine he probably doesn't get much choice how its done.
"I had four tabs stuffed with content on my personalized homepage. Dozens of RSS feeds, half a dozen bookmark gadgets, friends blogs, all my web presences, dozens of other gadgets. I spent weeks tailoring [it] so it was just right for my very intensive Internet needs," a user wrote on a Google discussion group. "Now it's all gone."
You like beers that are full of flavour, it doesn't mean that beers that are lighter aren't any good.
It just means you don't like them, however they have other uses.
You can't drink 8 pints of any of the ones you name (WHY do you name tetley and Caffreys ? - which ARE both awful), but you can of the less full flavoured ones you don't like.
Don't get me wrong - I like many of the beers you name (I live about 2 miles from Fullers), but I think you are missing the point of lighter beers like Anchor, Sierra Nevada, and European IPA's (Green King IPA, Deuchars IPA, etc). They aren't meant to be full of flavour - they are mean to be refreshing.
The wierd thing is that a bunch of Unix users here use Evolution, and for another bunch (often on the same version of Linux) Evolution doesn't work at all.
Last week I switched from Linux to Mac OSX, purely so I could run Entourage and interface properly with Exchange.
Thunderbird is an awesome IMAP/POP3 client super stable, really great to use - in an organization that uses Exchange a lot not being able to interface with Exchange properly was a real pain in the arse.
I had a real nightmare trying to use Evolution, it was very unstable, I reinstalled my workstation and did all sorts of stuff but I couldn't get it to be as stable as Thunderbird.
So I've started using a mac for email so I've got a Unix box I can use Exchange on.
No one could give me a clear reason why we chose to pay $75 per license for Office XP instead of going to OpenOffice for free.
I use openoffice all of the time - and the answer to your question is "open office is only an acceptable replacement for basic users of office applications" - have you tried opening a complex spreadsheet in openoffice ? it'll take ages. On my 3 year old windows laptop similar spreadsheets open in 20% of the time in Excel.
Openoffice is very good - but for a small % of users it is a very poor replacement, 75$ is also a bargain for MS Office.
What? We are the program. We made it, we run it, we sell it. Free market, baaay-beee! Get with the program!
I mean look at our cable, land-line, and internet markets. It's all about competition and survival-of-the-fittest over here. The consumer rules! We have the best services for the best prices anywhere in the world. By definition. Anything, anywhere else is just some mock-up of the free market we have in place here in the U-S-of-A, likely held together with some pseudo-socialist glue. Our companies live and die in the market trenches without any pansy help from the government. Sheee-ooot.
Cheney/Lay 2008!
Mod this man up, funniest post on slashdot this year!
As someone who sees a lot of CVs and has hired a lot of staff, I couldn't agree more with this.
Keep the summary short and concise - a few lines ideally.
Give more details about recent jobs than old jobs (I'm more interested in your recent experience, than your job as a barman when you were 18).
A good piece of advice I heard a few years ago - if you've got the experience - focus on the experience (ie if you are sysadmin, wanting another sysadmin job - focus on what sysadmin stuff you know), if you haven't got the experience - focus on the skills (ie if you are helpdesk dude - applying for a sysadmin job - focus on what transferable skills you've got - maybe how good you are at solving complex problems).
Personally I think quotes from referees is a bit cheesey - but each to their own. If you think a bit about what references are - would you really want to hire someone who couldn't fake a set of references ?
Fitting it all onto less pages by taking out all the white space and using a smaller font is cheating, and has a side affect of makeing your CV harder to read. If your CV is hard to read - there is a risk that people won't, most hiring managers will be faced by a pile of CVs you want yours to be the one that stands out, being well presented and easy to read is at least as important as the skills on the CV.
And last of all leave out anything you do that could be considered wierd (by the most narrowminded person). Ultimate Frisbee / caving / climbing / extreme ironing - ok, role playing games with wired names - probably not.
good luck,
Alex
PS - Don't come back with "its my skills that are important not my CV", presenting information in a concise easy to read format is an important skill.
2 HDMI ports, and Sky HD looks great on it, especially the football - that'd be soccer for you heathens who think that football is played with a rugby ball.
You reply to a post about not getting open source - with a rant about getting linux. Hmmm - an interesting tactic.
It is largely thanks to the collaboration of competing conglomerates such as IBM, Red Hat, Novell, (even Sun), Oracle, Intel, AMD, HP, SGI and others on the Linux kernel that has made it so fantastically capable. We wouldn't have the world-class portability, the performance, support for all the hardware under the sun, CPU/PCI/memory hotplug, multiple journalling filesystems, etc. without the above named companies realizing that they can get _more_ ROI via controlled cooperation than with proprietary engineering. These companies compete with each-other in the market place and then pay their engineers to collaborate on making the OS better. It is a hugely successful strategy. The fact that Sun doesn't get it (and sometimes tries to/fight it/) makes Sun stupid and obsolete.
OK - lets examine your claims ? We'll look at the companies on your list, their crown jewels and how much they "get" open source.
IBM - AIX, DB2, Tivoli, Weblogic - 0% open source Red Hat - Redhat, JBOSS, Fedora core - 100% open source Novell - NDS, Suse, redcarpet - 33% open source Intel - Intel compilers, various drivers - 15% open source AMD - various drivers - not much else - 5% open source HP - HPUX, various drivers, openview, VMS, Tru64, TruCluster - 5% open source SGI - IRIX, Linux on the newer kit - 50% open source Oracle - database, application server, ocfs - 33% open source Sun - Solaris, Application server, Sun Cluster, Directory Server, gnome, openoffice, JES, Java - 95% open source
When you look at it many of the companies that you laud as true proponents of open source aren't really that open source at all are they ?
Surely if IBM "got" open source - they'd be springing into life and sharing the code of all of their products - contributing the guts of AIX with the Linux community under $OSI_approved_licence, sharing tivoli with the other open source monitoring products and generally spreading the love ?
But they aren't are they ? ( Maybe they aren't so open source after all! )
So the only company that gets open source more than Sun is Redhat.
[ You can debate if open source Sun Cluster is really a contribution to anything ]
But you are talking rubbish and Linux doesn't equal Open Source.
The end result is that rather than opensourcing AIX (which would be a rather pointless endeavor as the impression I get is that IBM is "sunsetting" it in favor of Linux), IBM is simply taking all of the Good Parts from AIX which they can and merging them into Linux.
If you talk to IBM about their P series boxes, you get rather the opposite impression. They talk about all sorts of very cool technology - technology they have no intention of transitioning to Linux.
2) Love thy Apple. XServe RAID's are 3u, 7tb (raw) and $13,000 - get a bunch - each controller see's 7 disks, set them up as a RAID 0 and uplink the thing to a FC switch.
3) Use DNFStorage.com's SANGear 4002 / 6002 devices to RAID 5 across the XServe RAID 0 LUN's. Your data security then can tolerate half of an XServe RAID going offline. RAID 6 allows for an entire unit to become DOA. Make sure to have an online spare or two.
Lets think about this - what happens when you loose a single disk in one of your Xserve's ? Your LUN fails and you then have to rebuild from parity 3.5TB of data.
How long will that take ? This is a horrible solution.
How convenient that most of the "top 100 beer" seems to be North American according to that North American website. I have serious reservations of the objectivity of their claims.
That word, "world". I do not think it means what they think it means.
1 - yes you can still patch Red Hat. You need to keep legal with Red Hat Licensing - which means you mirror content from Red Hat Network and then deliver that out to your machines.
Ximan used to provide this for you.
2 - the current version of ZLM does only run on SLES 9; however ZLM 6.x runs on RHEL and SLES; in the future you may see Novell re-add support for RHEL as a hosting server.
ZLM 7 is required if you run RHEL4 clients.
3 - Shitty Novellisms.. such as?
All of the stuff I'm sure you'd describe as "value add" - summarised in a post above as "eDirectory, Extend, etc...". Our primary objection is that Novell have taken a really great simple product and made it massively more complex. We aren't interested in NDS / all of the Novell stuff that you try to sell us - we are an AD / OpenLDAP shop - I think once it became clear that there wasn't an opportunity for any upsell the sales staff lost all interest.
4 - if you've not had a good experience with moving from Red Carpet to ZLM ping me offline and I'll see what we can set up.
Thanks for the offer - but we've made our minds up on this (you are by far the most useful person from Novell we've spoken to - to describe your UK sales staff as utterly useless doesn't really do them justice).
Imagine this: I'm running commercial Solaris. I have some app provided by the system, that does the work in a realy kludgy way, with some of my custom wrapper scripts to let it work at all. I know I can fix it and make it work as it should with a few simple changes to the source of the app. I don't need whole OS. I need sources of this one single component. And they lay there on the harddrives of SUN employees, ready to release, waiting till some completely different parts are finished, and in the meantime I lose $1000 a day because the kludge doesn't do its job well enough. So why won't they release it?
Our yacht club can't buy booze at Costco because the regulations require us to buy from a "distributor", not a manufacturer or retailor. At a informational meeting for club officers the ABC (alcoholic beverage control) spokesman was pestered with the question "why can't we just go to Costco?" and his rather amusing and refreshingly honest answer was, "because you didn't pay your lawmakers as much as the distribution cartel did."
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It kind of sounds like the poster is stuck with pointsec, and bearing in mind his "industry" requires full disk encryption. I'd imagine he probably doesn't get much choice how its done.
Alex
"I had four tabs stuffed with content on my personalized homepage. Dozens of RSS feeds, half a dozen bookmark gadgets, friends blogs, all my web presences, dozens of other gadgets. I spent weeks tailoring [it] so it was just right for my very intensive Internet needs," a user wrote on a Google discussion group. "Now it's all gone."
"Very intensive Internet needs"
Ha ha!
You like beers that are full of flavour, it doesn't mean that beers that are lighter aren't any good.
It just means you don't like them, however they have other uses.
You can't drink 8 pints of any of the ones you name (WHY do you name tetley and Caffreys ? - which ARE both awful), but you can of the less full flavoured ones you don't like.
Don't get me wrong - I like many of the beers you name (I live about 2 miles from Fullers), but I think you are missing the point of lighter beers like Anchor, Sierra Nevada, and European IPA's (Green King IPA, Deuchars IPA, etc). They aren't meant to be full of flavour - they are mean to be refreshing.
cheers,
Alex
The wierd thing is that a bunch of Unix users here use Evolution, and for another bunch (often on the same version of Linux) Evolution doesn't work at all.
Alex
Last week I switched from Linux to Mac OSX, purely so I could run Entourage and interface properly with Exchange.
Thunderbird is an awesome IMAP/POP3 client super stable, really great to use - in an organization that uses Exchange a lot not being able to interface with Exchange properly was a real pain in the arse.
I had a real nightmare trying to use Evolution, it was very unstable, I reinstalled my workstation and did all sorts of stuff but I couldn't get it to be as stable as Thunderbird.
So I've started using a mac for email so I've got a Unix box I can use Exchange on.
Just don't get me started on sharepoint.....
cheers,
Alex
No one could give me a clear reason why we chose to pay $75 per license for Office XP instead of going to OpenOffice for free.
I use openoffice all of the time - and the answer to your question is "open office is only an acceptable replacement for basic users of office applications" - have you tried opening a complex spreadsheet in openoffice ? it'll take ages. On my 3 year old windows laptop similar spreadsheets open in 20% of the time in Excel.
Openoffice is very good - but for a small % of users it is a very poor replacement, 75$ is also a bargain for MS Office.
Alex
Americans need to get with the program.
What? We are the program. We made it, we run it, we sell it. Free market, baaay-beee! Get with the program!
I mean look at our cable, land-line, and internet markets. It's all about competition and survival-of-the-fittest over here. The consumer rules! We have the best services for the best prices anywhere in the world. By definition. Anything, anywhere else is just some mock-up of the free market we have in place here in the U-S-of-A, likely held together with some pseudo-socialist glue. Our companies live and die in the market trenches without any pansy help from the government. Sheee-ooot.
Cheney/Lay 2008!
Mod this man up, funniest post on slashdot this year!
Alex
and you have a 4-digit slashdot ID??
Johnny come lately.
Alex
Just like the mob who don't want any chemicals in their food.#
"This food is chemical free"
LOL
Alex
As someone who sees a lot of CVs and has hired a lot of staff, I couldn't agree more with this.
Keep the summary short and concise - a few lines ideally.
Give more details about recent jobs than old jobs (I'm more interested in your recent experience, than your job as a barman when you were 18).
A good piece of advice I heard a few years ago - if you've got the experience - focus on the experience (ie if you are sysadmin, wanting another sysadmin job - focus on what sysadmin stuff you know), if you haven't got the experience - focus on the skills (ie if you are helpdesk dude - applying for a sysadmin job - focus on what transferable skills you've got - maybe how good you are at solving complex problems).
Personally I think quotes from referees is a bit cheesey - but each to their own. If you think a bit about what references are - would you really want to hire someone who couldn't fake a set of references ?
Fitting it all onto less pages by taking out all the white space and using a smaller font is cheating, and has a side affect of makeing your CV harder to read. If your CV is hard to read - there is a risk that people won't, most hiring managers will be faced by a pile of CVs you want yours to be the one that stands out, being well presented and easy to read is at least as important as the skills on the CV.
And last of all leave out anything you do that could be considered wierd (by the most narrowminded person). Ultimate Frisbee / caving / climbing / extreme ironing - ok, role playing games with wired names - probably not.
good luck,
Alex
PS - Don't come back with "its my skills that are important not my CV", presenting information in a concise easy to read format is an important skill.
http://blogs.sun.com/sbullen/entry/who_buys_cisco_ 3750_s
2 HDMI ports, and Sky HD looks great on it, especially the football - that'd be soccer for you heathens who think that football is played with a rugby ball.
cheers
Alex
You reply to a post about not getting open source - with a rant about getting linux. Hmmm - an interesting tactic.
/fight it/) makes Sun stupid and obsolete.
It is largely thanks to the collaboration of competing conglomerates such as IBM, Red Hat, Novell, (even Sun), Oracle, Intel, AMD, HP, SGI and others on the Linux kernel that has made it so fantastically capable. We wouldn't have the world-class portability, the performance, support for all the hardware under the sun, CPU/PCI/memory hotplug, multiple journalling filesystems, etc. without the above named companies realizing that they can get _more_ ROI via controlled cooperation than with proprietary engineering. These companies compete with each-other in the market place and then pay their engineers to collaborate on making the OS better. It is a hugely successful strategy. The fact that Sun doesn't get it (and sometimes tries to
OK - lets examine your claims ? We'll look at the companies on your list, their crown jewels and how much they "get" open source.
IBM - AIX, DB2, Tivoli, Weblogic - 0% open source
Red Hat - Redhat, JBOSS, Fedora core - 100% open source
Novell - NDS, Suse, redcarpet - 33% open source
Intel - Intel compilers, various drivers - 15% open source
AMD - various drivers - not much else - 5% open source
HP - HPUX, various drivers, openview, VMS, Tru64, TruCluster - 5% open source
SGI - IRIX, Linux on the newer kit - 50% open source
Oracle - database, application server, ocfs - 33% open source
Sun - Solaris, Application server, Sun Cluster, Directory Server, gnome, openoffice, JES, Java - 95% open source
When you look at it many of the companies that you laud as true proponents of open source aren't really that open source at all are they ?
Surely if IBM "got" open source - they'd be springing into life and sharing the code of all of their products - contributing the guts of AIX with the Linux community under $OSI_approved_licence, sharing tivoli with the other open source monitoring products and generally spreading the love ?
But they aren't are they ? ( Maybe they aren't so open source after all! )
So the only company that gets open source more than Sun is Redhat.
[ You can debate if open source Sun Cluster is really a contribution to anything ]
But you are talking rubbish and Linux doesn't equal Open Source.
cheers,
Alex
The end result is that rather than opensourcing AIX (which would be a rather pointless endeavor as the impression I get is that IBM is "sunsetting" it in favor of Linux), IBM is simply taking all of the Good Parts from AIX which they can and merging them into Linux.
If you talk to IBM about their P series boxes, you get rather the opposite impression. They talk about all sorts of very cool technology - technology they have no intention of transitioning to Linux.
Alex
2) Love thy Apple. XServe RAID's are 3u, 7tb (raw) and $13,000 - get a bunch - each controller see's 7 disks, set them up as a RAID 0 and uplink the thing to a FC switch.
3) Use DNFStorage.com's SANGear 4002 / 6002 devices to RAID 5 across the XServe RAID 0 LUN's. Your data security then can tolerate half of an XServe RAID going offline. RAID 6 allows for an entire unit to become DOA. Make sure to have an online spare or two.
Lets think about this - what happens when you loose a single disk in one of your Xserve's ? Your LUN fails and you then have to rebuild from parity 3.5TB of data.
How long will that take ? This is a horrible solution.
You won't be able to grow your LUNs either.
Alex
How convenient that most of the "top 100 beer" seems to be North American according to that North American website. I have serious reservations of the objectivity of their claims.
That word, "world". I do not think it means what they think it means.
You know - like the world series of baseball.
Alex
1 - yes you can still patch Red Hat. You need to keep legal with Red Hat Licensing - which means you mirror content from Red Hat Network and then deliver that out to your machines.
Ximan used to provide this for you.
2 - the current version of ZLM does only run on SLES 9; however ZLM 6.x runs on RHEL and SLES; in the future you may see Novell re-add support for RHEL as a hosting server.
ZLM 7 is required if you run RHEL4 clients.
3 - Shitty Novellisms.. such as?
All of the stuff I'm sure you'd describe as "value add" - summarised in a post above as "eDirectory, Extend, etc...". Our primary objection is that Novell have taken a really great simple product and made it massively more complex. We aren't interested in NDS / all of the Novell stuff that you try to sell us - we are an AD / OpenLDAP shop - I think once it became clear that there wasn't an opportunity for any upsell the sales staff lost all interest.
4 - if you've not had a good experience with moving from Red Carpet to ZLM ping me offline and I'll see what we can set up.
Thanks for the offer - but we've made our minds up on this (you are by far the most useful person from Novell we've spoken to - to describe your UK sales staff as utterly useless doesn't really do them justice).
Alex
All of the Aussie IT workers that aren't working in London ?
Alex
ps - Hi Neil.
My mistake - the HP box with 8 CPU's costs $90k - the v40z 4 x Opteron 875 costs $25k.
Alex
HP DL740
HP DL 760
i'm not sure why you are posting links to servers with list prices of approx $40k.
"The Solaris end (on Ultra 5s with Solaris 7 and a desktop Solaris 9 system) is full of funny little bugs
News at 10 - dong - "Old operating systems have bugs!" dong! - "sky is blue!" - dong!
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Imagine this: I'm running commercial Solaris. I have some app provided by the system, that does the work in a realy kludgy way, with some of my custom wrapper scripts to let it work at all. I know I can fix it and make it work as it should with a few simple changes to the source of the app. I don't need whole OS. I need sources of this one single component. And they lay there on the harddrives of SUN employees, ready to release, waiting till some completely different parts are finished, and in the meantime I lose $1000 a day because the kludge doesn't do its job well enough. So why won't they release it?
Doesn't sound much like you've ever used Solaris.
Alex
The americans will rename this to Freedom Discoverer anyway.
And GWB will call it Discovererer
Alex
Our yacht club can't buy booze at Costco because the regulations require us to buy from a "distributor", not a manufacturer or retailor. At a informational meeting for club officers the ABC (alcoholic beverage control) spokesman was pestered with the question "why can't we just go to Costco?" and his rather amusing and refreshingly honest answer was, "because you didn't pay your lawmakers as much as the distribution cartel did."
"The land of the free"
Alex