For this crowd, yes the stability is great. For non-techies, the allure is all the great software that is available (such as for audio production) as well as for artists the great visual displays (photographers, videographers, etc). Still others because it's simpler to operate..
CAS (Content Addressed Storage) isn't new - EMC introduced the Centera in 2002. The current iteration supports cloud storage as well. https://www.emc.com/data-prote...
In Florida the cable company Brighthouse offers LOTS of free wifi hotspots all around for free if you're a customer. Basically they piggyback off of site modems they install, so it's not hard to find a place to connect.
You can get them cheap - often free from a friend. That was my daughter's first "computer". There are text editing software, spreadsheets, and the like available and you can watch videos as well. REMEMBER - YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A PHONE SERVICE TO USE THESE, JUST WI-FI ACCESS...
I use it every day at work. We support multiple sites and so having multiple windows VMs on my corporate windows laptop allows me to be VPN'ed (using a mix of VPN clients) into multiple sites as well as into corporate at the same time. I mostly now use W7 VM's, but I still also have 5gb sized XP based VM's that run with only 192MB memory allocated per VM which makes it easy run lots of these as well as being easy to back up and use on other systems. All the VM's have the tools I need for any of the sites I may connect to.
AFAIK, there isn't any other free alternative for Windows systems, and since the company won't pay for VMWare It works well for me.
why is it that Slashdot always reports on new scientific discoveries with a link to a lay press summary or a press release, and never gives us the useful link to the actual papers with the real words by actual scientists? Aaaargh.
Because the "actual papers" are behind paywalls...
Anyone remember SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language)? My Dad was a systems analyst and worked a lot with COBOL and SNOBOL. I used to go in to work with him on the weekends when he'd pickup the output from his batch jobs (no real-time processing back then) and often I'd just play with the card-punch machine. We'd take the "chads" from the machine's bin and put it in a bag and take it home to use as hamster shavings...
I would argue the Christian Right and all the televangelist scandals of the 80's did MUCH more to turn people away from religion.Then factor that most of us X-gens from that era have gone on to raise families who we don't introduce to religion and it multiplies from there...
For background - I'm a hard-core Unix Administrator (professionally) for the last 15 years (supporting SGI Irix, HP-UX, Solaris, RedHat, VMWare, etc...) who's mantra is "GUI's are for lazy people" and approach tasks from the concept of "what can you do when the system is down and you're using a VT term".
However, as much as I hate to say it, each time I try switching my home systems to Linux there is always something seemingly simple (in Windows) that after days/weeks researching I can never get working, so I go back to windows. Wi-FI? Forget it. Winamp replacements to listen to streaming audio? Forget it. Gnome3 desktop on dual monitors to work right? Forget it. Yes, I've tried lots of different distros, but I always eventually find SOMETHING that I can do easily on Windows that I can't do with Linux (and lets not even talk about games).
I can't even imagine trying to explain to a novice about device drivers and how to find, install, and make sure they work. Oh, you are trying to get your WiFi/Sound/Video card working? No, you have to search by the chips it uses, not the brand name. How do you find that? Depends on the distro which tools you can use. How do you add new software? Well, check your dependcies ("What are those???"), make sure those and their respective dependencies are installed ("How? Depends on your distro what tools it has...") and then install the app you want. Oh, it requires a kernel patch to work?
Yea, and us old-hat Solaris Admins are left to mire in the bog that is now Oracle/Sun post-merger with many of our clients sick of their new [lack of] support so much so that we now have to port entire data centers over to RedHat and realize that all those years of Solaris experience on our resume will soon mean nothing... Thanks USA/Oracle!!!!
Nah, I'm old-school. I never claimed expertise in Perl, just use it on occasion. Awk is my weapon of choice because "Back in my day that's all we had, and we LIKED it that way"....
By the way, never seen memory referenced by Kilowatts before - is that the current draw of the vacuum tubes in use?
No, compiling is for the Apps people, not us admins.
Your ID isn't much higher than mine. Are you so young you didn't have to write your own admin tools? Now I feel really old.
Sure, I've written lots of tools, but I never had to use a compiler for them. Shell scripts are all you need. Awk & Perl are the closest I come to programming languages generally speaking.
No, it's simpler than that - Developers and Applications people never bother with (or even think about) start/stop scripts, so after a reboot none of the applications are working (or working right because dependent applications aren't running) and they all blame the Unix Admin when after a reboot everything doesn't work right and expect us to fix their messes...
Well, it helps if it's installed on a laptop or on old hardware.
Also it goes to quicker recovery time in case of outages. Coming from the Solaris world before they had journaling UFS filesystem it could take hours to FSCK a large partition before the OS would come up. On a production system that is a big deal.
My problem with Perl is it started out as a replacement for AWK, and became an ungainly monster. As a sysadmin sometimes I find useful utilities that use Perl but then I can spend a LONG time trying to find and [attempt to] compile all the associated libraries (and the depenencies of the associated libraries, etc...). MY GOD, ALL THE STINK'N LIBRARIES...
And yes, let's not forget all the obfuscated perl code contests (although there are also obfuscated C contests as well).
I liked perl at first, but it morphed from a scripting language to a programming language and didn't do it all that well. It's a good example of scope creep.
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This makes me think of the beginning of the movie Heavy Metal.
This doesn't take into account the differences in cost-of-living based on location, so it's a bit skewed.
For this crowd, yes the stability is great. For non-techies, the allure is all the great software that is available (such as for audio production) as well as for artists the great visual displays (photographers, videographers, etc). Still others because it's simpler to operate..
CAS (Content Addressed Storage) isn't new - EMC introduced the Centera in 2002. The current iteration supports cloud storage as well.
https://www.emc.com/data-prote...
In Florida the cable company Brighthouse offers LOTS of free wifi hotspots all around for free if you're a customer. Basically they piggyback off of site modems they install, so it's not hard to find a place to connect.
You can get them cheap - often free from a friend. That was my daughter's first "computer". There are text editing software, spreadsheets, and the like available and you can watch videos as well. REMEMBER - YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A PHONE SERVICE TO USE THESE, JUST WI-FI ACCESS...
No, because VirtualBox requires an OS to run on. It's not a Hypervisor.
Sorry, meant to say BARE METAL (type-1) hypervisor. It technically is a type-2 (hosted) hypervisor.
No, because VirtualBox requires an OS to run on. It's not a Hypervisor.
I use it every day at work. We support multiple sites and so having multiple windows VMs on my corporate windows laptop allows me to be VPN'ed (using a mix of VPN clients) into multiple sites as well as into corporate at the same time. I mostly now use W7 VM's, but I still also have 5gb sized XP based VM's that run with only 192MB memory allocated per VM which makes it easy run lots of these as well as being easy to back up and use on other systems. All the VM's have the tools I need for any of the sites I may connect to.
AFAIK, there isn't any other free alternative for Windows systems, and since the company won't pay for VMWare It works well for me.
why is it that Slashdot always reports on new scientific discoveries with a link to a lay press summary or a press release, and never gives us the useful link to the actual papers with the real words by actual scientists? Aaaargh.
Because the "actual papers" are behind paywalls...
Um, yea - Lynx (the text based browser) has been around since the '90's (1992 I think). How is this a "new thing"?
Even more modern applications like Banner which is a Higher Ed. ERP system use COBOL...
Anyone remember SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language)? My Dad was a systems analyst and worked a lot with COBOL and SNOBOL. I used to go in to work with him on the weekends when he'd pickup the output from his batch jobs (no real-time processing back then) and often I'd just play with the card-punch machine. We'd take the "chads" from the machine's bin and put it in a bag and take it home to use as hamster shavings...
I would argue the Christian Right and all the televangelist scandals of the 80's did MUCH more to turn people away from religion.Then factor that most of us X-gens from that era have gone on to raise families who we don't introduce to religion and it multiplies from there...
Thank you for your complaint - please remain seated and an NSA agent will be by soon to "assist" you....
For background - I'm a hard-core Unix Administrator (professionally) for the last 15 years (supporting SGI Irix, HP-UX, Solaris, RedHat, VMWare, etc...) who's mantra is "GUI's are for lazy people" and approach tasks from the concept of "what can you do when the system is down and you're using a VT term".
However, as much as I hate to say it, each time I try switching my home systems to Linux there is always something seemingly simple (in Windows) that after days/weeks researching I can never get working, so I go back to windows. Wi-FI? Forget it. Winamp replacements to listen to streaming audio? Forget it. Gnome3 desktop on dual monitors to work right? Forget it. Yes, I've tried lots of different distros, but I always eventually find SOMETHING that I can do easily on Windows that I can't do with Linux (and lets not even talk about games).
I can't even imagine trying to explain to a novice about device drivers and how to find, install, and make sure they work. Oh, you are trying to get your WiFi/Sound/Video card working? No, you have to search by the chips it uses, not the brand name. How do you find that? Depends on the distro which tools you can use. How do you add new software? Well, check your dependcies ("What are those???"), make sure those and their respective dependencies are installed ("How? Depends on your distro what tools it has...") and then install the app you want. Oh, it requires a kernel patch to work?
Gimme the damn Windows install disk.....
Yea, and us old-hat Solaris Admins are left to mire in the bog that is now Oracle/Sun post-merger with many of our clients sick of their new [lack of] support so much so that we now have to port entire data centers over to RedHat and realize that all those years of Solaris experience on our resume will soon mean nothing... Thanks USA/Oracle!!!!
Nah, I'm old-school. I never claimed expertise in Perl, just use it on occasion. Awk is my weapon of choice because "Back in my day that's all we had, and we LIKED it that way"....
By the way, never seen memory referenced by Kilowatts before - is that the current draw of the vacuum tubes in use?
No, compiling is for the Apps people, not us admins.
Your ID isn't much higher than mine. Are you so young you didn't have to write your own admin tools? Now I feel really old.
Sure, I've written lots of tools, but I never had to use a compiler for them. Shell scripts are all you need. Awk & Perl are the closest I come to programming languages generally speaking.
No, compiling is for the Apps people, not us admins. Besides, it's not as impressive a Web Server written in Postscript
No, it's simpler than that - Developers and Applications people never bother with (or even think about) start/stop scripts, so after a reboot none of the applications are working (or working right because dependent applications aren't running) and they all blame the Unix Admin when after a reboot everything doesn't work right and expect us to fix their messes...
Stupid lUsers.......
Sounds similar to Dell's MediaDirect...
Well, it helps if it's installed on a laptop or on old hardware.
Also it goes to quicker recovery time in case of outages. Coming from the Solaris world before they had journaling UFS filesystem it could take hours to FSCK a large partition before the OS would come up. On a production system that is a big deal.
My problem with Perl is it started out as a replacement for AWK, and became an ungainly monster. As a sysadmin sometimes I find useful utilities that use Perl but then I can spend a LONG time trying to find and [attempt to] compile all the associated libraries (and the depenencies of the associated libraries, etc...). MY GOD, ALL THE STINK'N LIBRARIES...
And yes, let's not forget all the obfuscated perl code contests (although there are also obfuscated C contests as well).
I liked perl at first, but it morphed from a scripting language to a programming language and didn't do it all that well. It's a good example of scope creep.
Some important limitations of iSCSI :
1) TCP/IP doesn't guarantee in-order delivery of packets (think of stuttering with streaming media, etc...)
2) Frame sizes are smaller and have more overhead than Fibre Channel packets.
3) Most NICs rely on the system to encapsulate & process packets - a smart NIC [TCP Ofload Engine card] costs almost as much as a Fibre Channel card.