Instead of taking the jobs that pay the most, find someplace with sane administraton. The 'case' about administration was roaming profiles and backups.
A) DONT USE ROAMING PROFILES, USE A SAMBA SHARE ATTACHED TO A DRIVE LETTER, BACKED UP ON A UNIX BOX. B) BACK UP THE PROFILES ANYHOW, LIMIT PROFILE SIZES TO SOMETHING SANE LIKE 30-40MB. C) RESOLVE RESTORE REQUESTS PROMPTLY, LIKE WITHIN 6 HOURS AT WORST.
Three simple rules there. Undelete software is moot, most filesystems don't have that sort of support anymore. Having consistency on what gets backed up is easy, we have clear rules (and filesystem directories, ie:/project and/scratch) on it. Lastly, providing access to backups online is easy except for authorization. It's hard in a large system to automate the authorization for restore requests. We definately don't want one user asking for a restore of some shared project space of another group that contains data that they shouldn't have, etc.
In short, good admins know what they are doing, bad admins make your days suck. I think places with good admins end up paying their developers less because they offer a workplace where their needs are attented to easily instead of asking them to do it themselves.
Note that this has nothing to do with outsourcing, either. Outsourcing is happening because dev jobs are half-price in India, duh!
Hey, dont get the cheap phone! Look on the interweb to find out which phones dont suck.:)
Also, demand a firmware upgrade. I upgraded the firmware on my Ericsson T39m and it helped *tons* with my GPRS problems. At least my phone works just fine as a phone, however. That might also be because I'm on t-mobile.
I agree, this sounds like a big ati vs nvidia brewhaha with microsoft choosing who they want by getting both of them to get the crap 'in silicon' and then choosing which standard to use.
It sounds like a monopolist helping out whoever they want to and then making the 'other guys' get screwed. Suck.
I took a old college paper that I wrote and plugged it into the program and got 100% on everything except for creativity (99.973). Considering that I don't think I got a 'perfect' score on this paper, I'm really surprised by the scores.:)
How great though, throwing a paper about the fear of technology through something many people (rightfully) fear.:)
I guess we need education, enviromental protection (pollution enforcement), senior healthcare, interstate funding, transit funding, and other checkboxes to make everybody happy too, right?
I'm still waiting.... I think the whole 'economy takes a long time to change' theory is really bunk, though. They react *daily* to changes that the governmen't can't engineer.
I figure anything the government does to try to 'fix the economy' can't really affect how business work and grow in the long term (barring totaly stupidity, which we haven't seen just yet). I also figure what they do is really just a big circle jerk where everyone is really happy that they got their perk for getting canidate XYZ elected.
So, in itself it doesn't matter to the economy what figurehead is in office. What changes is the public policy (abortion, etc) and who gets the spoils (ILECs vs other telco stuff, for instance).
It's quite easy to work with others in the community to backport some software to stable. Really though, the base system on your machines shouldn't be changing every 6 months. Updating the browser yes, I understand though. Luckily, you'll find most debian package maintainers give a crap about making sure the packages are reproducable from source files! Many packages can be backported to stable if you are working with other backport repositories (or help make a central one).
Really, its not like you were getting support anyhow. At at least the people your dealing with in bug reports are working with you, not for your dollar.
While both goals are great, I really, really hope the system is not castrated for the benefit of the second goal. Long development cycles, massively stable base software, great administration tools, and well thought out ancillairy tools all make Debian work. Having a good massive-installer is nice, but I've been taking care of that problem myself in a farily small amount of time over the past year by modifying the autoinstall package. Because of this, we can install most modern machines within an hour, and do *no* manual configuration aside from (a bug at the moment) display resolution.
I figure, if a user really needs something easy, I hand them Mandrake. I'm not going to see Debian machines going away because people are also using Mandrake. It takes a massive amount of system design to make it easy-for-self-administration compared to just a 'really good system'.
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I actually use autoinstall for the most part. Its way better and more flexible than kickstart, but it has a hell of a learning curve.
Hopefully this winter I'll find some time to release my patches and either fork autoinstall or get it merged into the official debian package.
Instead of taking the jobs that pay the most, find someplace with sane administraton. The 'case' about administration was roaming profiles and backups.
/project and /scratch) on it. Lastly, providing access to backups online is easy except for authorization. It's hard in a large system to automate the authorization for restore requests. We definately don't want one user asking for a restore of some shared project space of another group that contains data that they shouldn't have, etc.
A) DONT USE ROAMING PROFILES, USE A SAMBA SHARE ATTACHED TO A DRIVE LETTER, BACKED UP ON A UNIX BOX.
B) BACK UP THE PROFILES ANYHOW, LIMIT PROFILE SIZES TO SOMETHING SANE LIKE 30-40MB.
C) RESOLVE RESTORE REQUESTS PROMPTLY, LIKE WITHIN 6 HOURS AT WORST.
Three simple rules there. Undelete software is moot, most filesystems don't have that sort of support anymore. Having consistency on what gets backed up is easy, we have clear rules (and filesystem directories, ie:
In short, good admins know what they are doing, bad admins make your days suck. I think places with good admins end up paying their developers less because they offer a workplace where their needs are attented to easily instead of asking them to do it themselves.
Note that this has nothing to do with outsourcing, either. Outsourcing is happening because dev jobs are half-price in India, duh!
Except the Gas Pedal was really a lever. Perhaps you need a ride in a Real Model T and not whatever you think you might be talking about.
Cisco is IPSEC with XAUTH, *not* MPPE.
Dude, stop duping your complaints, we heard you the first time.
I can do the same thing here between Cingular, AT&T, and T-mobile. Please think before you post! Thanks!
BTW, I don't pay for calls to or from other T-Mobile USA customers nationwide. Your callers, however, pay money.
Hey, dont get the cheap phone! Look on the interweb to find out which phones dont suck. :)
Also, demand a firmware upgrade. I upgraded the firmware on my Ericsson T39m and it helped *tons* with my GPRS problems. At least my phone works just fine as a phone, however. That might also be because I'm on t-mobile.
HowardForums is your friend.
Yes, least cost keeps spaceships in orbit, people off of the streets, and kids disease free! Please, qualify your statements. :)
yeah, right, your going to convince me to stop listening to Music that Doesn't Suck for some theo song?
Gnome and KDE really aren't that bad. Distributions that add lots of fluff are.
Apple is a nitch player. Dell is joining *Gateway* in consumer electronics.
Woot!
I agree, this sounds like a big ati vs nvidia brewhaha with microsoft choosing who they want by getting both of them to get the crap 'in silicon' and then choosing which standard to use.
It sounds like a monopolist helping out whoever they want to and then making the 'other guys' get screwed. Suck.
If you are requiring reliable transport, you should be using IPSEC over long links. Grr.
I took a old college paper that I wrote and plugged it into the program and got 100% on everything except for creativity (99.973). Considering that I don't think I got a 'perfect' score on this paper, I'm really surprised by the scores. :)
How great though, throwing a paper about the fear of technology through something many people (rightfully) fear. :)
You know, how many users do you know actually use Windows-F? Therefore, how useful is WinFS to 'consumers' compared to power users?
:)
I think it just makes intrusive datamining from spyware easier.
Jeezus, they've only paid for about a month of the war? ;)
Young people already invest in houses, when they can.
House poor! man!
If you've got a 'entry level' house in a major metropolitan area these days, thats amazing enough for anyone on 'entry level' wages.
Many areas (bay area) people can't even buy houses on two modest incomes. Hell, they can barely pay rent!
I guess we need education, enviromental protection (pollution enforcement), senior healthcare, interstate funding, transit funding, and other checkboxes to make everybody happy too, right?
I'm still waiting.... I think the whole 'economy takes a long time to change' theory is really bunk, though. They react *daily* to changes that the governmen't can't engineer.
I figure anything the government does to try to 'fix the economy' can't really affect how business work and grow in the long term (barring totaly stupidity, which we haven't seen just yet). I also figure what they do is really just a big circle jerk where everyone is really happy that they got their perk for getting canidate XYZ elected.
So, in itself it doesn't matter to the economy what figurehead is in office. What changes is the public policy (abortion, etc) and who gets the spoils (ILECs vs other telco stuff, for instance).
Only in the bay area do true sysadmins start at $70k. Move to the midwest. :)
It's quite easy to work with others in the community to backport some software to stable. Really though, the base system on your machines shouldn't be changing every 6 months. Updating the browser yes, I understand though. Luckily, you'll find most debian package maintainers give a crap about making sure the packages are reproducable from source files! Many packages can be backported to stable if you are working with other backport repositories (or help make a central one).
Really, its not like you were getting support anyhow. At at least the people your dealing with in bug reports are working with you, not for your dollar.
Let them know about the problem in the software. Provide examples. Demand that they do not reveal their sources.
AFAIR, CERT exists exactly for these sorts of problems, when you want to tell, but you don't want to get in trouble for misunderstanding.
I'm really interested as to if people involved:
* Manage more than 50 desktop Debian machines
or
* Just wish everyone was running Debian
While both goals are great, I really, really hope the system is not castrated for the benefit of the second goal. Long development cycles, massively stable base software, great administration tools, and well thought out ancillairy tools all make Debian work. Having a good massive-installer is nice, but I've been taking care of that problem myself in a farily small amount of time over the past year by modifying the autoinstall package. Because of this, we can install most modern machines within an hour, and do *no* manual configuration aside from (a bug at the moment) display resolution.
I figure, if a user really needs something easy, I hand them Mandrake. I'm not going to see Debian machines going away because people are also using Mandrake. It takes a massive amount of system design to make it easy-for-self-administration compared to just a 'really good system'.