I have seen this too. That's my concern about MAID devices (Massive Array of Idle Disk). Yes, they save on the electrical costs of running large disk farms, but I still worry about spin-ups of long-idle disks.
Buy a new one and replace it. Granted they should not be made to low quality and not everyone can do that, but it's not that terribly big a deal, is it? I mean, I have a TV where the tuner is going, and it's out of warranty - if I want to keep the TV, it has to go to the shop for repair.
I don't know much about this, but might Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ work? Or you could try using a WAFS appliance to squeeze as much possible out of that line and keep everything centralized.
Ha, even found a quote from the strip:
Lucy: Schroeder, What do you think the odds are that you and I will get married someday?
Schroeder: Oh, I'd say about "Googol" to one.
Lucy: How much is a "Googol"?
Schroeder: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
The first time I heard the term googol was in a Peanuts cartoon when I was about 8 yrs old (which is a lot longer ago than it used to be...). I think it was Linus that was talking about it.
Aw, I would have modded you up if only you could have worked my personal favorite, 'loose,' in there somehow. Like "If you keep mispeeling, u will loose the meaning of what i am saying."
I started as a desktop tech (I too, have a degree in Philosophy). It was a small enough shop (two of us, supporting a Hospital's research clinic) that I was able to take on some simple sys-admin and work my way up as I showed ability. I agree with the comment that a University is a good environment - my experience, too, is that it is chaotic becuase the different areas have such divergent needs. This chaos gives you more flexibility and opportunity to learn.
And don't worry about your age. There is always room for someone who is good (or at least competent!). Where I've been, age was never an issue, ability was, although I havae seen younger peopler get a little more slack. But if you are good, you will find people that will want you.
Actually, state price fixes (i.e., regulation) caused the CA power probs. The power cos were forced to charge less for their electricy than they had to pay to get it. Thus, it was cheaper not to provide it.
This is a great point that the best antidote to ill-gotten monopolies is swift retribution, but you _don't_ want to regulate them. That just replaces a monopoly with another monopoly - the state. And the State has guns:)
I think there are some (like me, I would like to hope), that would make micropayments, but I think it's more or less just ingrained into the culture. Just like the concept of a lending library (where you actualy _pay_ to borrow books) is a foreign concept to most, because they think you should get them free "becasue they've always been free". Now I know the quick-minded will point out that we DO pay for library services through taxes, but I think it's just in the geek culture that it has to be free.
Oh, I thought he was talking about a new baseall stadium in California "Xerox Park! We play under te lights (when we have electricity)!"
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It may be ignored by the philosophical literature, but not by the philosophers. There were multiple copies of her epistemological introduction in our Philosophy dept, and each professor had at lest a basic understanding of her principles.
One fairly evident reason she does not loom larger in the circles of modern philosophy is the same reason Aquinas doesn't loom large in 60's-era social commentary - their views run counter to those of the majority, so they are ignored.
Imagine, say, someone who has spent a lifetime studying Wittgenstein. Even if he sees some lucidity in Rand's principles, it would be a very difficult thing indeed for him to admit that what he had been spending his whole lifetaime doing was just - wrong. Oops, wasted my lifetime, darn it all, and all that. And I don't mean just emotionally letting go of the commitment he made - mentally, he has spent decades training himself to think using a certain methodology, and that is going to be hard for him to break and more so to throw away. It is simply difficult for any minority view (including Rand) to break through, but especially one as dramatically different as hers.
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They aren't (currently anyway) illegal.
I have seen this too. That's my concern about MAID devices (Massive Array of Idle Disk). Yes, they save on the electrical costs of running large disk farms, but I still worry about spin-ups of long-idle disks.
Buy a new one and replace it. Granted they should not be made to low quality and not everyone can do that, but it's not that terribly big a deal, is it? I mean, I have a TV where the tuner is going, and it's out of warranty - if I want to keep the TV, it has to go to the shop for repair.
I don't know much about this, but might Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ work? Or you could try using a WAFS appliance to squeeze as much possible out of that line and keep everything centralized.
Bingo. What this really mirrors is fascism, where the property is proveately owned, but the usage of it is controlled by the government.
Yes! And while you're sitting there, you can learn how to spell the name of the mall!
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/aristotle.soul .html
I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that it's running AIX 5.3.
Ha, even found a quote from the strip: Lucy: Schroeder, What do you think the odds are that you and I will get married someday? Schroeder: Oh, I'd say about "Googol" to one. Lucy: How much is a "Googol"? Schroeder: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
The first time I heard the term googol was in a Peanuts cartoon when I was about 8 yrs old (which is a lot longer ago than it used to be...). I think it was Linus that was talking about it.
Aw, I would have modded you up if only you could have worked my personal favorite, 'loose,' in there somehow. Like "If you keep mispeeling, u will loose the meaning of what i am saying."
Seems like a lot of an ATA array. I can get 'em off newegg for $100!
Sounds like a low-tech Matrix scenario ("I don't even see the blinking lights anymore; just a Blond crossing the street")
I started as a desktop tech (I too, have a degree in Philosophy). It was a small enough shop (two of us, supporting a Hospital's research clinic) that I was able to take on some simple sys-admin and work my way up as I showed ability. I agree with the comment that a University is a good environment - my experience, too, is that it is chaotic becuase the different areas have such divergent needs. This chaos gives you more flexibility and opportunity to learn.
And don't worry about your age. There is always room for someone who is good (or at least competent!). Where I've been, age was never an issue, ability was, although I havae seen younger peopler get a little more slack. But if you are good, you will find people that will want you.
Actually, state price fixes (i.e., regulation) caused the CA power probs. The power cos were forced to charge less for their electricy than they had to pay to get it. Thus, it was cheaper not to provide it.
This is a great point that the best antidote to ill-gotten monopolies is swift retribution, but you _don't_ want to regulate them. That just replaces a monopoly with another monopoly - the state. And the State has guns :)
I think there are some (like me, I would like to hope), that would make micropayments, but I think it's more or less just ingrained into the culture. Just like the concept of a lending library (where you actualy _pay_ to borrow books) is a foreign concept to most, because they think you should get them free "becasue they've always been free". Now I know the quick-minded will point out that we DO pay for library services through taxes, but I think it's just in the geek culture that it has to be free.
Oh, I thought he was talking about a new baseall stadium in California "Xerox Park! We play under te lights (when we have electricity)!" 8-)
It may be ignored by the philosophical literature, but not by the philosophers. There were multiple copies of her epistemological introduction in our Philosophy dept, and each professor had at lest a basic understanding of her principles.
One fairly evident reason she does not loom larger in the circles of modern philosophy is the same reason Aquinas doesn't loom large in 60's-era social commentary - their views run counter to those of the majority, so they are ignored.
Imagine, say, someone who has spent a lifetime studying Wittgenstein. Even if he sees some lucidity in Rand's principles, it would be a very difficult thing indeed for him to admit that what he had been spending his whole lifetaime doing was just - wrong. Oops, wasted my lifetime, darn it all, and all that. And I don't mean just emotionally letting go of the commitment he made - mentally, he has spent decades training himself to think using a certain methodology, and that is going to be hard for him to break and more so to throw away. It is simply difficult for any minority view (including Rand) to break through, but especially one as dramatically different as hers.
The article says MS is moving to Solaris, but they are still on BSD? Could it be Solaris could not handle it either???