Just as an FYI, we've switched most of our databases to running RAID10 arrays of m4 512GB drives. We now use arrays of 8 drives, and sustain read rates of 1.7GB/sec. We switched over from fiber channel and SCSI arrays of 14 drives each w/ 73 or 146 GB drives in them and a top sustained read speed of 160MB/s. We will probably never go back to that. Whether it's because of the speed increases, the power usage, the noise, or shelf space required. We still use rotational media for slow access things like videos and documents, but as far as DB's go, "once you go SSD, you'll never go back".
Couldn't agree more. We've had great luck with them, and saved _stupid_ amounts of money. Using them allowed us to ditch our fiber channel, and move all of our DB's to 1TB raid 10 SSD systems, and still save 20 grand.
You might also want to try Super-micro boards. We use them exclusively for our servers which are all Linux. They feed a lot of the Appliance vendors their chassis and MB's so tend to be very Linux aware in what they build, even on their bleeding edge chipsets. I've found Asus to be kinda twitchy these last few years. Also straight Intel boards will rarely do you wrong, like the above folks have said.
Attempting to weed out the unqualified. Or at the same time, being able to show some company that you are qualified, little experience, but clear understanding of the concepts. Aka, I took the test, and should be okay, but you can pay me less and take a chance because I have little or no experience in this area. Even better if as i said, the testing is free with dues, and the company can send you back to get train in an area you have NO experience in. They just pay for travel, and time.
I agree, it's the weeding out that would be nice. But I think it wouldn't only move the certificate mess to someplace else. Now perhaps if that's what your Unions dues went for was a centralized Certificate/Experience program. Take all the tests you want, you've paid for them. All of the tests are voted on by the union body, perhaps just the related body. I think it'd be great to have someplace for employers to go, where they could get someone with a specific skill set. You could have a base suggested union pay based on experience, and certifications etc. This would probably lower pay for some folks, and raise it for others. Of course there are just some many damn ceritifcations, it would never work, not to mention that far too many companies, make far too much money developing and running these exams. But it would be nice to filter out the useless ones.
Perhaps the thing to do is couch it in terms of what the developers want. Decent pay for skills and experience. Useful/Meaningful certification and training. What do employers want? Knowing what their hiring, and a place to start as far as wage negotiations go. Can all of this be done? Probably not. Would it be a great big mess? Probably. Is it a great idea in theory? Yes. But as well all know, the devil is in the details and the implementation, not the design. The design is always perfect...
That is CORRECT! I had 6 256GB m4's die on me just last week, all at the same time. Not fun. Had them in a raid 10 configuration, which obviously didn't help. The other twin server used m3's (forget what they are actually called). Haven't had a single problem with them. Turned out to be a firmware issue. Upgrad of it fixed the problem. As to how they died? SATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT. After a point the wear leveling kicks in and can take too long esp for high transaction loads. We have a huge amount of churn on our data. So this begs the question are they worth it? with these drives in a raid 10 configuration, I have a sustained read rate of 2.7 gigaBYTES per second. This makes the users (gvt public access) very happy. Used to be our array speeds limited our peak usage. Now it's our net connection.
and to note: We've survived Richarrd Stallman- we'll survive Linus. You have to admit though, that all three of them have done wonderful and amazing things for he world, so I'm willing to cut them some slack.
The switch to caldera included an official copy of word perfect... Those were the days, I could actually do my home work on linux. When GIMP came out, I finally got to drop dual booting in to widows, which was in 98 I think, windows free since.
Slackware once cost me $300 dollars to download on a +800 dialup service. 30 hours was a long time to be online back in those days....seemed like a good idea at the time..
Seriously, this is just PR to get the tech crowd talking. Why would I ever want the any political party to use my location and know things about me that I keep on my phone. I trust them less than I trust advertisers. I might be interested if it showed his waffling on subjects in real-time, or meetings with special interest groups. I'd take an app that showed all of them, any elected official or their subordinates, meeting with folks. They've all gone crazy I tell you, all of them.
Almost. But perhaps it would help if they made it official, perhaps by coming up with their own script, which I'm sure they could do in their sleep if they wanted to.
That's sort of my point. Getting rid of Linux would leave only Solaris as a place for all of us Linux admins to go. Sure there is AIX but we all know IBM is a fickle mistress. Hell, I didn't even bring up IBM which is the other major DB vendor out there. And they've invested a huge amount in Linux on their systems. My real point is that Oracle is in one of the few positions to go after Linux in the enterprise space. And their tact could well be weakening Linux by weakening RedHat.
There is no technical reason why you shouldn't use OLE over SL/CENT/RHEL. This is all about their sun acquisition. let me have time for my tea leaves to settle to the bottom of my glass here.... Here's what I see. Oracle buys aligning sun micro systems who got their hat handed to them by Linux, but not just by Linux, but by Redhat . Redhat is the largest kernel contributor by far. This implies that the pay the most kernel developers. Redhat is funded by enterprise customers by and large. Not small shops who only need CentOS, but by the Shops that are more than willing to use Orcale DBs. Lets just consider for a moment that Oracle managed to switch everyone using oracle from RHEL to OEL. What kind of impact would that have on RHEL? Enough to put a dent into it? Enough to put RHEL out of business? Or enough to keep them from really throwing their support at the kernel? I don't know. But in the long run I think Oracle see Linux as the enemy, and their going to try and take it down by going after Redhat. I think Oracle is a much bigger threat to Linux than MS ever was, because Oracle is going to target Linux in the enterprise space, not the desktop. Do I think it will actually work? No. But do I think this is their plan? yes. I think Redhat could stop this amazingly quickly, by simply offering RHEL for free w/o a support contract. But they stopped that for a reason I can't remember long ago. Hell Redhat could just write their own damn script to port Cent over to RHEL. Perhaps push a fresher kernel choice out more often as well. So to recap, don't use OLE, because they don't actually LIKE Liniux, and will do everything they can to hurt it.
We currently run our main postgres DB servers with raid 10 across 3 pairs of 256GB SSD drives/ per server. We can sustain 2.8GB/sec read speeds. We used to have to shut our servers down for periods of time to do a full vacuum, this would generally take about 36 hours on our fiber channel system, and 12 hours on our direct attach SCSI 360 systems. No other use of the db allowed during that time. We now run vacuums on sunday mornings for about 3 hours while the DB's are still in use. I couldn't love these things more. Haven't checked on the cost savings related to power consumption yet, not my area.
Where I work we are a service provider for court public records, and are legally an agent of the court for exactly the same reasons. It allows any lawsuits or what have you to be directed to the court as opposed to us. If the court screws up, and makes some information public that shouldn't we do our best to correct the issue, but in the end it's the court's fault and not our own. We even have to be careful in how much help we give them in setting up what data they show, we can't direct them at all or it could make us liable for their bad choices. We can tell them what the majority of our other courts do in similar situations, but even that is a stretch.
I thought you all weren't giving it a chance, So I decided to actually watch it.... Although something can probably be learned by listening between the lines. I have to agree that this is the most obvious ad I've ever seen on/. And I've been here a long long long time, but like many people didn't get an account until they started advertising on the site, and you needed an account to disable the ads. Maybe they'll add a feature to the site that let's you take some additional step that filters out shit like this.
I'm in the exact same situation except the son is mine, and not hers. My 10 year old gets his panties in a bunch just as much as I do when some one mucks with his saved games. And I'm not even going to get into how incredibly sad the wife looks and thoroughly disappointed in the men around her and the world in general when someone advances her game without her being there.
Someone didn't learn enough from the X-Files here. "Trust No One." Esp other Hackers. Sure everyone likes to get together at one Con or another and brag about whatever. But in the end, it's how you're going to be taken down. Not by what you do, but by whom you do it with, or who you bragged about it to.
The fines were small enough, that I think once the kids were there, they wouldn't quit because of the fines. I do agree with you though that public schools are left holding the bag. I'm involved with work at a public school district where over 90% of the kids can't afford to buy school lunch, or breakfast. And if food isn't sent home with some for the weekends, they won't eat at all. We can't reasonably expect the parents involvement in the child education. There are too many to save every one. Fining in this case would obviously do no good. The only thing that keeps a lot of these kids out of trouble is community involvement. But it's not enough. All you can do is hope. And FYI I don't live in an urban area at all., just rural America, with a university in town. The other schools in the area have the same problems. It's a mess. You've got to just keep fighting until you're too tired and then let someone else with more energy come along and have your place.
I went to Missouri Military Academy. Although we didn't have to pay fines, sorry fees, there were a ton of different rules that would get you in trouble. Some demerits were worth more than others. For each point we got the joy and pleasure of marching in a square for 15 min/per demerit. Or 30 min of study hall, depending on the day, or holding an 8 lbs rife straight out for 5 min. The only thing we had to pay with was our free time. In a non boarding school situation money is the only thing you've got to work with, and it has the effect of getting the parent involved as well, since they are paying. I'm sure life isn't good for the kids when mom and dad get a bill for $X and the kid get to spend his time at home working it off. It's looks like the cost of the demerits are fairly cheap, less than a pack of off brand smokes. So it's not like people are getting saddled with huge costs. Sure the list of demerits seems pretty nit picky, but I've experienced worse. "Not sitting up straight, Running in front of the admin building, Gigline not straight." I'm glad some schools out there are trying something different, esp if it seems to be working.
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Just as an FYI, we've switched most of our databases to running RAID10 arrays of m4 512GB drives. We now use arrays of 8 drives, and sustain read rates of 1.7GB/sec. We switched over from fiber channel and SCSI arrays of 14 drives each w/ 73 or 146 GB drives in them and a top sustained read speed of 160MB/s. We will probably never go back to that. Whether it's because of the speed increases, the power usage, the noise, or shelf space required. We still use rotational media for slow access things like videos and documents, but as far as DB's go, "once you go SSD, you'll never go back".
Alas, I lack the mod points this comment so richly deserves.
Couldn't agree more. We've had great luck with them, and saved _stupid_ amounts of money. Using them allowed us to ditch our fiber channel, and move all of our DB's to 1TB raid 10 SSD systems, and still save 20 grand.
You might also want to try Super-micro boards. We use them exclusively for our servers which are all Linux. They feed a lot of the Appliance vendors their chassis and MB's so tend to be very Linux aware in what they build, even on their bleeding edge chipsets. I've found Asus to be kinda twitchy these last few years. Also straight Intel boards will rarely do you wrong, like the above folks have said.
Attempting to weed out the unqualified. Or at the same time, being able to show some company that you are qualified, little experience, but clear understanding of the concepts. Aka, I took the test, and should be okay, but you can pay me less and take a chance because I have little or no experience in this area. Even better if as i said, the testing is free with dues, and the company can send you back to get train in an area you have NO experience in. They just pay for travel, and time.
I agree, it's the weeding out that would be nice. But I think it wouldn't only move the certificate mess to someplace else. Now perhaps if that's what your Unions dues went for was a centralized Certificate/Experience program. Take all the tests you want, you've paid for them. All of the tests are voted on by the union body, perhaps just the related body. I think it'd be great to have someplace for employers to go, where they could get someone with a specific skill set. You could have a base suggested union pay based on experience, and certifications etc. This would probably lower pay for some folks, and raise it for others. Of course there are just some many damn ceritifcations, it would never work, not to mention that far too many companies, make far too much money developing and running these exams. But it would be nice to filter out the useless ones.
Perhaps the thing to do is couch it in terms of what the developers want. Decent pay for skills and experience. Useful/Meaningful certification and training.
What do employers want? Knowing what their hiring, and a place to start as far as wage negotiations go. Can all of this be done? Probably not. Would it be a great big mess? Probably. Is it a great idea in theory? Yes. But as well all know, the devil is in the details and the implementation, not the design. The design is always perfect...
That is CORRECT! I had 6 256GB m4's die on me just last week, all at the same time. Not fun. Had them in a raid 10 configuration, which obviously didn't help. The other twin server used m3's (forget what they are actually called). Haven't had a single problem with them. Turned out to be a firmware issue. Upgrad of it fixed the problem. As to how they died? SATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT. After a point the wear leveling kicks in and can take too long esp for high transaction loads. We have a huge amount of churn on our data. So this begs the question are they worth it? with these drives in a raid 10 configuration, I have a sustained read rate of 2.7 gigaBYTES per second. This makes the users (gvt public access) very happy. Used to be our array speeds limited our peak usage. Now it's our net connection.
You should check this out
Obviously modern mormans aren't this bad.... But they definatly have done some aweful things over the years. Of course, what religion hasn't?
and to note: We've survived Richarrd Stallman- we'll survive Linus. You have to admit though, that all three of them have done wonderful and amazing things for he world, so I'm willing to cut them some slack.
(93/4? thx tommyd)Yggdrasil->(95?)Slackware->(96/97?)Caldera->Redhat->Fedora->CentOS->Scientific
The switch to caldera included an official copy of word perfect... Those were the days, I could actually do my home work on linux. When GIMP came out, I finally got to drop dual booting in to widows, which was in 98 I think, windows free since.
Slackware once cost me $300 dollars to download on a +800 dialup service. 30 hours was a long time to be online back in those days. ...seemed like a good idea at the time..
Seriously, this is just PR to get the tech crowd talking. Why would I ever want the any political party to use my location and know things about me that I keep on my phone. I trust them less than I trust advertisers. I might be interested if it showed his waffling on subjects in real-time, or meetings with special interest groups. I'd take an app that showed all of them, any elected official or their subordinates, meeting with folks. They've all gone crazy I tell you, all of them.
Almost. But perhaps it would help if they made it official, perhaps by coming up with their own script, which I'm sure they could do in their sleep if they wanted to.
That's sort of my point. Getting rid of Linux would leave only Solaris as a place for all of us Linux admins to go. Sure there is AIX but we all know IBM is a fickle mistress. Hell, I didn't even bring up IBM which is the other major DB vendor out there. And they've invested a huge amount in Linux on their systems. My real point is that Oracle is in one of the few positions to go after Linux in the enterprise space. And their tact could well be weakening Linux by weakening RedHat.
There is no technical reason why you shouldn't use OLE over SL/CENT/RHEL. This is all about their sun acquisition. let me have time for my tea leaves to settle to the bottom of my glass here.... Here's what I see. Oracle buys aligning sun micro systems who got their hat handed to them by Linux, but not just by Linux, but by Redhat . Redhat is the largest kernel contributor by far. This implies that the pay the most kernel developers. Redhat is funded by enterprise customers by and large. Not small shops who only need CentOS, but by the Shops that are more than willing to use Orcale DBs. Lets just consider for a moment that Oracle managed to switch everyone using oracle from RHEL to OEL. What kind of impact would that have on RHEL? Enough to put a dent into it? Enough to put RHEL out of business? Or enough to keep them from really throwing their support at the kernel? I don't know. But in the long run I think Oracle see Linux as the enemy, and their going to try and take it down by going after Redhat. I think Oracle is a much bigger threat to Linux than MS ever was, because Oracle is going to target Linux in the enterprise space, not the desktop. Do I think it will actually work? No. But do I think this is their plan? yes. I think Redhat could stop this amazingly quickly, by simply offering RHEL for free w/o a support contract. But they stopped that for a reason I can't remember long ago. Hell Redhat could just write their own damn script to port Cent over to RHEL. Perhaps push a fresher kernel choice out more often as well. So to recap, don't use OLE, because they don't actually LIKE Liniux, and will do everything they can to hurt it.
We currently run our main postgres DB servers with raid 10 across 3 pairs of 256GB SSD drives/ per server. We can sustain 2.8GB/sec read speeds. We used to have to shut our servers down for periods of time to do a full vacuum, this would generally take about 36 hours on our fiber channel system, and 12 hours on our direct attach SCSI 360 systems. No other use of the db allowed during that time. We now run vacuums on sunday mornings for about 3 hours while the DB's are still in use. I couldn't love these things more. Haven't checked on the cost savings related to power consumption yet, not my area.
Where I work we are a service provider for court public records, and are legally an agent of the court for exactly the same reasons. It allows any lawsuits or what have you to be directed to the court as opposed to us. If the court screws up, and makes some information public that shouldn't we do our best to correct the issue, but in the end it's the court's fault and not our own. We even have to be careful in how much help we give them in setting up what data they show, we can't direct them at all or it could make us liable for their bad choices. We can tell them what the majority of our other courts do in similar situations, but even that is a stretch.
I thought you all weren't giving it a chance, So I decided to actually watch it.... Although something can probably be learned by listening between the lines. I have to agree that this is the most obvious ad I've ever seen on /. And I've been here a long long long time, but like many people didn't get an account until they started advertising on the site, and you needed an account to disable the ads. Maybe they'll add a feature to the site that let's you take some additional step that filters out shit like this.
I'm in the exact same situation except the son is mine, and not hers. My 10 year old gets his panties in a bunch just as much as I do when some one mucks with his saved games. And I'm not even going to get into how incredibly sad the wife looks and thoroughly disappointed in the men around her and the world in general when someone advances her game without her being there.
don't answer that....
Does any one know what the 'Mystery Achievement' is? I've got 19/20...
I'm pretty sure the genre is on a come back.... Isn't that the whole point of angry birds: space? It's a sign I tell you!
> What amazes me...
Being stupid pays better in the short term.
Someone didn't learn enough from the X-Files here. "Trust No One." Esp other Hackers. Sure everyone likes to get together at one Con or another and brag about whatever. But in the end, it's how you're going to be taken down. Not by what you do, but by whom you do it with, or who you bragged about it to.
The fines were small enough, that I think once the kids were there, they wouldn't quit because of the fines. I do agree with you though that public schools are left holding the bag. I'm involved with work at a public school district where over 90% of the kids can't afford to buy school lunch, or breakfast. And if food isn't sent home with some for the weekends, they won't eat at all. We can't reasonably expect the parents involvement in the child education. There are too many to save every one. Fining in this case would obviously do no good. The only thing that keeps a lot of these kids out of trouble is community involvement. But it's not enough. All you can do is hope. And FYI I don't live in an urban area at all., just rural America, with a university in town. The other schools in the area have the same problems. It's a mess. You've got to just keep fighting until you're too tired and then let someone else with more energy come along and have your place.
I went to Missouri Military Academy. Although we didn't have to pay fines, sorry fees, there were a ton of different rules that would get you in trouble. Some demerits were worth more than others. For each point we got the joy and pleasure of marching in a square for 15 min/per demerit. Or 30 min of study hall, depending on the day, or holding an 8 lbs rife straight out for 5 min. The only thing we had to pay with was our free time. In a non boarding school situation money is the only thing you've got to work with, and it has the effect of getting the parent involved as well, since they are paying. I'm sure life isn't good for the kids when mom and dad get a bill for $X and the kid get to spend his time at home working it off. It's looks like the cost of the demerits are fairly cheap, less than a pack of off brand smokes. So it's not like people are getting saddled with huge costs. Sure the list of demerits seems pretty nit picky, but I've experienced worse. "Not sitting up straight, Running in front of the admin building, Gigline not straight." I'm glad some schools out there are trying something different, esp if it seems to be working.