If it takes someone a week to figure out if their candidate is "the right fit" they're either doing it wrong or they're angling for free development work. Personally, I believe that anyone but a true PHB could figure out how inefficient is the latter case. So that leaves us with the former, in which case they're probably a bad bet as a prospective employer. Now, careful evaluation does need to be done, but if it can't be done in a day or two, tops, I'm suspicious.
An eye opening moment on this subject was when CNN was doing some story and was talking to a single mother of two or three who wasn't well educated and living around Atlanta. This was two or three years after 911 and her life's biggest fear was terrorism. She lived in the outskirts of Atlanta and didn't work near any real target but thought the suicide bomber was coming at any minute.
So the terrorists have won. Or is it "the people who would use your ignorance and fear to manipulate you into doing things that you wouldn't normally do" who have won? Either way, we're fucked, so stop being ignorant and stupid, already. Tall order, I know. It's so easy to let Fox News tell us what to fear and how to think.
The people who think "immigrants" are the problem are idiots, because it doesn't take "immigrants" to introduce such problems.
People who ignore the plain fact that immigrants are the most significant vector are bigger idiots. It's got nothing to do with the color of their skin or the language they speak. It has everything to do with the fact that they have access to little or no health care and live in conditions conducive to the transmission of the disease. If you or I travel to Mexico, we are far less likely to contract (and return with) such a disease, because we will not be spending our time in those locations. Is it possible? Sure, but to suggest that it's "just the same" as the risk suffered by the typical immigrant from there is just plain stupid. Look, I'm just about as liberal as they come, but please, let's keep the politics out of a discussion about transmission vectors of communicable diseases. M'kay?
I think we're missing the point here. Wales is threatening to make a statement, one that will demonstrate the stupidity of the bill. The simple measure he proposes will immediately mask the content of all traffic between wikipedia servers and their users. Yes, there's still a record that a user visited this or that IP address, but the point being made is that technology should, can, and will easily bypass ill-conceived government moves like this.
Well said but I think if politicians need to release tax records then they all should. Mitt Romney pays less taxes (~15%) because his money was taxed when it was initially earned and now he's paying taxes on his investments so he's being taxed twice - a fact often omitted form reports.
"...when it was originally earned...", by someone else, who also paid the taxes on those earnings. Nice try.
If your parents did you any disservice, maybe it was a failure to instill a sense of collective power and efficacy. But it seems that every generation through history has had to discover that on its own.
A fairly astute observation, but I think the problem is broader. There's a tendency to accept someone else's authority about "what's good for us", but without any serious contemplation. Witness the fact that Republican's are still getting mileage out of the failed "trickle-down" economics. 30 years and a demonstrable record of failure to deliver as promised, and all people do is whine about the unemployment rate. You'd think that (the collective) we would be smart enough to laugh those idiots out of office forever, but I guess we're so afraid that homosexuals might get the same rights as everyone else that we keep electing the corporate shills.
"Flammable" is a relative term, in practice. Most things will burn, given the right conditions, "oil" included. But there are many types of "oil", some hydrocarbon, some not. Each type will have it's own "flash point" and "flame point". It's safe to assume that the oil used for cooling servers will have values for those characteristics will above what will likely be seen in the data center.
'Silicon Valley proper is soul-crushing suburban sprawl,'...
And a city is "soul-crushing urban sprawl".
Big difference!
Big difference yes, but "sprawl" is the antithesis of the dense urban high-rise community. Phoenix, Houston, Colorado Springs, and of course the Silicon Vallery are just a few places that come to mind when community "leaders" reject "restrictive" ideas like community planning. The result is miles and miles of surface streets as the only way to get from place to place, and those places are strip malls and tract homes, interspersed with ugly apartment complexes. Miles and miles and miles... and miles of them. I've lived in both and between the two, I'll take the city, hands down. Urban life is not for everyone, certainly not for me, but it beats all hell out of living in the middle of hundreds of square miles of ticky-tac houses and strip malls.
If your aim is to clean up your sloppy directory organization and the almost inevitable dupes that will ensue over the years, good luck to you. Several respondents have made good suggestions. If, however, your aim is to just save space, use a storage platform that will de-dupe for you, at the block level. Nexenta comes to mind, but there are others, of course. I wouldn't do this on a file system that saw a lot of interactive use, but you have indicated that this is an archive. Perfect fit.
Most airline accidents that aren't due to terrorism or mechanical malfunction are due to pilots overriding the autopilots.
[citation needed]
Hint - there is a difference between "pilot error" and "overriding the autopilots". There innumerable factors, input and output, that contribute to a safe flight, only a small fraction of those are handled by an autopilot. Arguably, the same holds true for automobile travel. Then again, I live in a city where the humans regularly demonstrate that machines are better drivers.
When Google does the same thing it's okay, because Google has only goodness and altruism in its heart.
Not quite. When only one company does it or, more precisely, when only one company can afford to do it - evil. When enough companies can legitimately engage in the game and level the playing field or, ideally, bring about reform - good. It's got nothing to do with who the bully is, fan-boy.
It most certainly is, and if you can't see that, you're deliberately ignoring the obvious, or you're just an idiot. Regardless, the plain fact is that such a technology would be available only to those who could afford it, gifting the engineered children of wealthy parents with advantages far in excess of what they already enjoy. And that, my friend is absolutely fair game in a discussion about the ethics surrounding the use of such technology.
Uhm..., no. Cars travel in very narrow channels that are clearly delineated by white and yellow lines and, where it really counts, Jersey barriers. Aircraft pilots have no such niceties at their disposal. At best, they have a collection of instruments that will tell them about their position, speed, and direction in three-dimensional space. Most aircraft have no instruments that will directly provide that information about other aircraft. Instead, their pilots must rely on air traffic controllers to advise them about other traffic or, under VFR, their own eyesight to identify that traffic. With the dramatically higher speeds involved, that's a tall order even on the clearest days. As for the collision probability, I will grant that en route it is slim, but as you near larger cities, most of which have multiple airports, the congestion becomes intense, requiring the utmost attention to flying in prescribed vectors, again without any painted lines to delineate them. Consider too that even en route over open terrain, everything on the ground is a potentially lethal obstruction if you have lost the ability to stay above it or steer around it.
It may be bullshit, but it's damned effective. We've allowed various versions of the "...then the terrorists win" argument to be used as reasons to repeatedly deprive us of our rights and liberties. You're quite right, of course. Timothy McVeigh showed us that any dim-witted sociopath can put together a car-bomb that will destroy an entire building, and you don't even have to "martyr" yourself in the process. That 24' Ryder truck holds a LOT more ANFO than your average flying car. Alas, GP has swallowed the bullshit whole and now lives in fear of airplanes.
I third that. Use QuickBooks, or PeachTree, or whatever well supported package strikes your fancy and meets your needs. I am a big proponent of using open source software, but this is one area where the gulf between FOSS and commercial is large. Given the stakes, and that making an open source bookkeeping package is neither your core competency nor something that will earn money for your business, why waste your valuable time on it? Go to Costco, buy a copy of QuickBooks and don't look back.
Granted, this is talking about RAID 5, so let's naively assume that doubling the parity disks for RAID 6 will halve the risk... but then since we're trying to duplicate 24 terabytes instead of twelve, we can also assume the risk doubles again, and we're back to being practically guaranteed a failure.
Bottom line is that 24 terabytes is still a huge amount of data. There is no reliable solution I can think of for backing it all up that will be cheap. At that point, you're looking at file-level redundancy managed by a backup manager like Backup Exec (or whatever you prefer) with the data split across a dozen drives. As also mentioned already, the problem becomes much easier if you're able to reduce that volume of data somewhat.
Quite so.
So the correct answer to the question in TFS is "There is no 'simple' way to do this."
Better questions would be along the lines of, "How can I organize my data better, so that I don't have to perform one huge monolithic backup of 24 TB?" or, "Where can I go to learn about basic principles of IT architecture?"
FTS... "... very strict guidelines about what code can be implemented due to the high cost of failure..." It's other people's money, after all. Who gives a shit if we pissed a bunch of it away with one of our toys? It's not like we're writing software that controls airliners or something.
The conservative/liberal dynamic applied to software development is total bullshit.
Software development has and Agile/Waterfall split, professionals in the business know this, its as simple as that. Applying conservative and liberal as tags is stupid.
...but buzzy, and guaranteed to generate views and clicks. Brilliant.
Yeah, 'cause them college boys and their pure research are always just a waste of money. Nothing worthwhile ever came out of the quest for knowledge and understanding. Right?
It's really nothing special. Just a standard semi-automatic rifle (not much different than any other varmint rifle).
This particular one is in.308 - so not exactly varmint, unless your goal is to make them explode or something. ~
Actually, exploding them, I mean real, nothin'-but-red-mist disintegration, requires fast, really fast, projectiles. Caliber doesn't matter nearly so much as velocity for that particular kind of spectacular "terminal performance".
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If it takes someone a week to figure out if their candidate is "the right fit" they're either doing it wrong or they're angling for free development work. Personally, I believe that anyone but a true PHB could figure out how inefficient is the latter case. So that leaves us with the former, in which case they're probably a bad bet as a prospective employer. Now, careful evaluation does need to be done, but if it can't be done in a day or two, tops, I'm suspicious.
Survivalist-type MRE buyers are, by definition, suckers, so stop messing the business model, please.
An eye opening moment on this subject was when CNN was doing some story and was talking to a single mother of two or three who wasn't well educated and living around Atlanta. This was two or three years after 911 and her life's biggest fear was terrorism. She lived in the outskirts of Atlanta and didn't work near any real target but thought the suicide bomber was coming at any minute.
So the terrorists have won. Or is it "the people who would use your ignorance and fear to manipulate you into doing things that you wouldn't normally do" who have won? Either way, we're fucked, so stop being ignorant and stupid, already. Tall order, I know. It's so easy to let Fox News tell us what to fear and how to think.
Whoosh...
The people who think "immigrants" are the problem are idiots, because it doesn't take "immigrants" to introduce such problems.
People who ignore the plain fact that immigrants are the most significant vector are bigger idiots. It's got nothing to do with the color of their skin or the language they speak. It has everything to do with the fact that they have access to little or no health care and live in conditions conducive to the transmission of the disease. If you or I travel to Mexico, we are far less likely to contract (and return with) such a disease, because we will not be spending our time in those locations. Is it possible? Sure, but to suggest that it's "just the same" as the risk suffered by the typical immigrant from there is just plain stupid. Look, I'm just about as liberal as they come, but please, let's keep the politics out of a discussion about transmission vectors of communicable diseases. M'kay?
I think we're missing the point here. Wales is threatening to make a statement, one that will demonstrate the stupidity of the bill. The simple measure he proposes will immediately mask the content of all traffic between wikipedia servers and their users. Yes, there's still a record that a user visited this or that IP address, but the point being made is that technology should, can, and will easily bypass ill-conceived government moves like this.
Well said but I think if politicians need to release tax records then they all should. Mitt Romney pays less taxes (~15%) because his money was taxed when it was initially earned and now he's paying taxes on his investments so he's being taxed twice - a fact often omitted form reports.
"...when it was originally earned...", by someone else, who also paid the taxes on those earnings. Nice try.
If your parents did you any disservice, maybe it was a failure to instill a sense of collective power and efficacy. But it seems that every generation through history has had to discover that on its own.
A fairly astute observation, but I think the problem is broader. There's a tendency to accept someone else's authority about "what's good for us", but without any serious contemplation. Witness the fact that Republican's are still getting mileage out of the failed "trickle-down" economics. 30 years and a demonstrable record of failure to deliver as promised, and all people do is whine about the unemployment rate. You'd think that (the collective) we would be smart enough to laugh those idiots out of office forever, but I guess we're so afraid that homosexuals might get the same rights as everyone else that we keep electing the corporate shills.
I though V....ger went off-line in 1998.
"Flammable" is a relative term, in practice. Most things will burn, given the right conditions, "oil" included. But there are many types of "oil", some hydrocarbon, some not. Each type will have it's own "flash point" and "flame point". It's safe to assume that the oil used for cooling servers will have values for those characteristics will above what will likely be seen in the data center.
Jeez... Generalize much?
'Silicon Valley proper is soul-crushing suburban sprawl,' ...
And a city is "soul-crushing urban sprawl".
Big difference!
Big difference yes, but "sprawl" is the antithesis of the dense urban high-rise community. Phoenix, Houston, Colorado Springs, and of course the Silicon Vallery are just a few places that come to mind when community "leaders" reject "restrictive" ideas like community planning. The result is miles and miles of surface streets as the only way to get from place to place, and those places are strip malls and tract homes, interspersed with ugly apartment complexes. Miles and miles and miles... and miles of them. I've lived in both and between the two, I'll take the city, hands down. Urban life is not for everyone, certainly not for me, but it beats all hell out of living in the middle of hundreds of square miles of ticky-tac houses and strip malls.
If your aim is to clean up your sloppy directory organization and the almost inevitable dupes that will ensue over the years, good luck to you. Several respondents have made good suggestions. If, however, your aim is to just save space, use a storage platform that will de-dupe for you, at the block level. Nexenta comes to mind, but there are others, of course. I wouldn't do this on a file system that saw a lot of interactive use, but you have indicated that this is an archive. Perfect fit.
Most airline accidents that aren't due to terrorism or mechanical malfunction are due to pilots overriding the autopilots.
[citation needed]
Hint - there is a difference between "pilot error" and "overriding the autopilots". There innumerable factors, input and output, that contribute to a safe flight, only a small fraction of those are handled by an autopilot. Arguably, the same holds true for automobile travel. Then again, I live in a city where the humans regularly demonstrate that machines are better drivers.
Right...
When Apple does it - evil.
When Google does the same thing it's okay, because Google has only goodness and altruism in its heart.
Not quite. When only one company does it or, more precisely, when only one company can afford to do it - evil. When enough companies can legitimately engage in the game and level the playing field or, ideally, bring about reform - good. It's got nothing to do with who the bully is, fan-boy.
This topic isn't even about the rich...
It most certainly is, and if you can't see that, you're deliberately ignoring the obvious, or you're just an idiot. Regardless, the plain fact is that such a technology would be available only to those who could afford it, gifting the engineered children of wealthy parents with advantages far in excess of what they already enjoy. And that, my friend is absolutely fair game in a discussion about the ethics surrounding the use of such technology.
Uhm..., no. Cars travel in very narrow channels that are clearly delineated by white and yellow lines and, where it really counts, Jersey barriers. Aircraft pilots have no such niceties at their disposal. At best, they have a collection of instruments that will tell them about their position, speed, and direction in three-dimensional space. Most aircraft have no instruments that will directly provide that information about other aircraft. Instead, their pilots must rely on air traffic controllers to advise them about other traffic or, under VFR, their own eyesight to identify that traffic. With the dramatically higher speeds involved, that's a tall order even on the clearest days. As for the collision probability, I will grant that en route it is slim, but as you near larger cities, most of which have multiple airports, the congestion becomes intense, requiring the utmost attention to flying in prescribed vectors, again without any painted lines to delineate them. Consider too that even en route over open terrain, everything on the ground is a potentially lethal obstruction if you have lost the ability to stay above it or steer around it.
It may be bullshit, but it's damned effective. We've allowed various versions of the "...then the terrorists win" argument to be used as reasons to repeatedly deprive us of our rights and liberties. You're quite right, of course. Timothy McVeigh showed us that any dim-witted sociopath can put together a car-bomb that will destroy an entire building, and you don't even have to "martyr" yourself in the process. That 24' Ryder truck holds a LOT more ANFO than your average flying car. Alas, GP has swallowed the bullshit whole and now lives in fear of airplanes.
...it is available to anyone with a receiver.
Available, yes, but if you decrypt it, you have broken the law.
I third that. Use QuickBooks, or PeachTree, or whatever well supported package strikes your fancy and meets your needs. I am a big proponent of using open source software, but this is one area where the gulf between FOSS and commercial is large. Given the stakes, and that making an open source bookkeeping package is neither your core competency nor something that will earn money for your business, why waste your valuable time on it? Go to Costco, buy a copy of QuickBooks and don't look back.
Granted, this is talking about RAID 5, so let's naively assume that doubling the parity disks for RAID 6 will halve the risk... but then since we're trying to duplicate 24 terabytes instead of twelve, we can also assume the risk doubles again, and we're back to being practically guaranteed a failure.
Bottom line is that 24 terabytes is still a huge amount of data. There is no reliable solution I can think of for backing it all up that will be cheap. At that point, you're looking at file-level redundancy managed by a backup manager like Backup Exec (or whatever you prefer) with the data split across a dozen drives. As also mentioned already, the problem becomes much easier if you're able to reduce that volume of data somewhat.
Quite so.
So the correct answer to the question in TFS is "There is no 'simple' way to do this."
Better questions would be along the lines of, "How can I organize my data better, so that I don't have to perform one huge monolithic backup of 24 TB?" or, "Where can I go to learn about basic principles of IT architecture?"
FTS...
"... very strict guidelines about what code can be implemented due to the high cost of failure..."
It's other people's money, after all. Who gives a shit if we pissed a bunch of it away with one of our toys? It's not like we're writing software that controls airliners or something.
The conservative/liberal dynamic applied to software development is total bullshit.
Software development has and Agile/Waterfall split, professionals in the business know this, its as simple as that. Applying conservative and liberal as tags is stupid.
...but buzzy, and guaranteed to generate views and clicks. Brilliant.
Yeah, 'cause them college boys and their pure research are always just a waste of money. Nothing worthwhile ever came out of the quest for knowledge and understanding. Right?
It's really nothing special. Just a standard semi-automatic rifle (not much different than any other varmint rifle).
This particular one is in .308 - so not exactly varmint, unless your goal is to make them explode or something. ~
Actually, exploding them, I mean real, nothin'-but-red-mist disintegration, requires fast, really fast, projectiles. Caliber doesn't matter nearly so much as velocity for that particular kind of spectacular "terminal performance".