One bad thing about a RAID 1 array is that a lot of times what you're restoring for people is something they accidentally rm'd themselves. Or "mysteriously" disappeared ("I didn't do anything, I swear!"...yeah, right).
Also, if the OS freaked out, and trashed part of the FS, you're most likely to lose both here, too.
mirroring only saves you from hardware failures, which do definitely happen. But the last several times I had to pull some stuff off tape, it was from human error.
I do this at home...using raid between a couple of bigass disks...if there's a fire, i'll miss my data, but I think I'll have bigger worries.
But this is unacceptable for a business. For a lot of businesses, the data IS the business. Recreating lost data would be the most expensive and timeconsuming task after a catastrophic event...you must have off site backups, and tapes are still best for this.
Well, I think their argument is that it's a "trade secret." If they had it available in plaintext, their competitors could freely propogate the mistakes to their own software. And we all know companies don't like sharing their screwups for free.
Uh, what's wrong with choices? Isn't that part of what all of this is about? Maybe IBM's JFS isn't the fastest, but it has a higher chance of avoiding corruption on a poweroff or crash. Maybe ext3 will be faster, but has other problems. If we have choices, we can choose what is important to our own work, at the current time. Limitting choice is bad, m'kay?
Plus, I'm sure whatever additions/improvements that end up in JFS from open source developers will end up back in AIX's code base. There's no motivation for IBM to take developers off of a solid, reliable, proven project and move them to an experimental open source project where they'll have to reinvent the wheel. Sounds like a waste of everyone's time.
If you have some work experience, you might want to consider consulting. It sounds like you're talking about doing marketing for a consulting business. No one is going to come to you with a great business possibility...they'll start it themselves. Then, when you come up with an idea that you think you could make a company to focus on...THEN worry about making a start-up.
Chicks dig jerks. Why don't they like nice guys like me?
Wrong.
Chicks don't dig jerks. Chicks dig guys with self-confidence. It just so happens that the jerks have a near monopoly on self-confidence, while self-proclaimed "nice guys," are shy and self-deprecating. No girl is going to find out that you're "nice" if you won't even talk to her, or when you do, you come off as insecure and pitiful.
Hold your head up high. Look a girl in the eyes when you talk to her. Don't whine. Be sure of yourself...after all, you are a "nice guy." If you've got the confidence to talk to a woman...REALLY TALK TO HER...and be nice, and attentive, and all those things you claim to be, you WILL meet women.
Be careful, though...if you really are insecure, you're probably not the "nice guy" you think you are. Insecure people do things that truly nice people would never do. You're going to have to check that insecurity at the door to have a good relationship.
I've used Visio for years, and while I've loved it, there have been a few features I've been asking for, but have never gotten.
Finally, with Microsoft at the helm, I'm sure to get the things I've been needing to work productively. My needs are simple and few: increased instability, bloat, and improved incompatibility.
I was beginning to wonder if I was asking for too much from Visio, and I guess I was. But Microsoft has the background necessary to deliver. Hallelujia!
Just like every other knee-jerk reaction to some tragedy, the "new" enforcement of age restrictions will blow over. Give it 6 months, and the rules will still be on the books, but nobody will be paying attention.
As much as I dislike Domino/Notes, calling it a "glorified email system" is not entirely accurate.
I've worked at businesses that have used it for integrating helpdesk knowledge bases (all in Notes databases), change management, and infrastructure documentation on a site supporting over 10k users. It was even used to interface with S/390 VM applications.
Forget lining up another job before you quit, as long as you've socked away a bit of cash. Some of the best times in my life have come when I've been between jobs.
Having a break between jobs allows you to get your head screwed back on straight. After working in a job where you've had to either quit or lose your sanity, you don't want to walk into that next, possibly cool as shit job, burned out.
Take a much needed break. You and your next employer will thank you.
I agree with the problems with the usability of VAJ. There's definitely a learning curve, but once you get beyond that, it's great. IBM has a few movies or whatever you can download that walk you through developing stuff under VAJ, and after watching a couple of those, I had no problems being very productive in the IDE.
As for performance...I thought the performance was acceptable on my P200 with 96Megs. Not great, but definitely acceptable. Sometimes things took a bit longer than you'd think they'd need to, but when I actually wanted to run the application...no compile time! It just runs. And when I make a change in my code, it immediately affects the running applet, etc. No quitting, recompiling, rerunning.
I have been VERY impressed with VAJ. Both usability and performance could use some help, but these problems are largely outweighed by the speed with which I can prototype and finish development of applications.
I have yet to see TPM, and went to see Trekkies this last weekend instead of waiting in line. The people working the ticket booth knew nothing about the film, and there were only about 6 people in the theater.
This movie was great. While not quite as entertaining as _Hands On a Hard Body_ (another cool documentary about a contest for a truck in a small Texas town), I laughed almost constantly throughout.
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One bad thing about a RAID 1 array is that a lot of times what you're restoring for people is something they accidentally rm'd themselves. Or "mysteriously" disappeared ("I didn't do anything, I swear!"...yeah, right).
Also, if the OS freaked out, and trashed part of the FS, you're most likely to lose both here, too.
mirroring only saves you from hardware failures, which do definitely happen. But the last several times I had to pull some stuff off tape, it was from human error.
I do this at home...using raid between a couple of bigass disks...if there's a fire, i'll miss my data, but I think I'll have bigger worries.
But this is unacceptable for a business. For a lot of businesses, the data IS the business. Recreating lost data would be the most expensive and timeconsuming task after a catastrophic event...you must have off site backups, and tapes are still best for this.
now gravitational shielding. There must be something in the water.
Well, I think their argument is that it's a "trade secret." If they had it available in plaintext, their competitors could freely propogate the mistakes to their own software. And we all know companies don't like sharing their screwups for free.
Uh, what's wrong with choices? Isn't that part of what all of this is about? Maybe IBM's JFS isn't the fastest, but it has a higher chance of avoiding corruption on a poweroff or crash. Maybe ext3 will be faster, but has other problems. If we have choices, we can choose what is important to our own work, at the current time. Limitting choice is bad, m'kay?
Plus, I'm sure whatever additions/improvements that end up in JFS from open source developers will end up back in AIX's code base. There's no motivation for IBM to take developers off of a solid, reliable, proven project and move them to an experimental open source project where they'll have to reinvent the wheel. Sounds like a waste of everyone's time.
If you have some work experience, you might want to consider consulting. It sounds like you're talking about doing marketing for a consulting business. No one is going to come to you with a great business possibility...they'll start it themselves. Then, when you come up with an idea that you think you could make a company to focus on...THEN worry about making a start-up.
Chicks dig jerks. Why don't they like nice guys like me?
Wrong.
Chicks don't dig jerks. Chicks dig guys with self-confidence. It just so happens that the jerks have a near monopoly on self-confidence, while self-proclaimed "nice guys," are shy and self-deprecating. No girl is going to find out that you're "nice" if you won't even talk to her, or when you do, you come off as insecure and pitiful.
Hold your head up high. Look a girl in the eyes when you talk to her. Don't whine. Be sure of yourself...after all, you are a "nice guy." If you've got the confidence to talk to a woman...REALLY TALK TO HER...and be nice, and attentive, and all those things you claim to be, you WILL meet women.
Be careful, though...if you really are insecure, you're probably not the "nice guy" you think you are. Insecure people do things that truly nice people would never do. You're going to have to check that insecurity at the door to have a good relationship.
What is "the free"?
Obviously, they meant it's going to Americans. The home of The Free and The Brave, yo.
OK, so it's going only to rich Americans...the only free ones.
I've used Visio for years, and while I've loved it, there have been a few features I've been asking for, but have never gotten.
Finally, with Microsoft at the helm, I'm sure to get the things I've been needing to work productively. My needs are simple and few: increased instability, bloat, and improved incompatibility.
I was beginning to wonder if I was asking for too much from Visio, and I guess I was. But Microsoft has the background necessary to deliver. Hallelujia!
Just like every other knee-jerk reaction to some tragedy, the "new" enforcement of age restrictions will blow over. Give it 6 months, and the rules will still be on the books, but nobody will be paying attention.
He didn't say it would be more favorable...he said it looked like they *WERE* going to get a clue...but it's obvious that now they aren't.
Except by himself...
Heathen...
EVERYONE knows the internet was invented by none other than Al Gore!
This is an accepted fact! Just ask him.
I've worked at businesses that have used it for integrating helpdesk knowledge bases (all in Notes databases), change management, and infrastructure documentation on a site supporting over 10k users. It was even used to interface with S/390 VM applications.
And it worked pretty well.
Having a break between jobs allows you to get your head screwed back on straight. After working in a job where you've had to either quit or lose your sanity, you don't want to walk into that next, possibly cool as shit job, burned out.
Take a much needed break. You and your next employer will thank you.
I agree with the problems with the usability of VAJ. There's definitely a learning curve, but once you get beyond that, it's great. IBM has a few movies or whatever you can download that walk you through developing stuff under VAJ, and after watching a couple of those, I had no problems being very productive in the IDE.
As for performance...I thought the performance was acceptable on my P200 with 96Megs. Not great, but definitely acceptable. Sometimes things took a bit longer than you'd think they'd need to, but when I actually wanted to run the application...no compile time! It just runs. And when I make a change in my code, it immediately affects the running applet, etc. No quitting, recompiling, rerunning.
I have been VERY impressed with VAJ. Both usability and performance could use some help, but these problems are largely outweighed by the speed with which I can prototype and finish development of applications.
I was reading through the info on that site, and the fact that it quotes Texe Marrs as a reliable source basically blew its credibility.
I have yet to see TPM, and went to see Trekkies this last weekend instead of waiting in line. The people working the ticket booth knew nothing about the film, and there were only about 6 people in the theater.
This movie was great. While not quite as entertaining as _Hands On a Hard Body_ (another cool documentary about a contest for a truck in a small Texas town), I laughed almost constantly throughout.
Ignore Star Wars...go see this movie.