Back in 1994, I was rocking my 9600 baud modem, now it is a 20 MB connection that is wireless throughout my home, work, and my car and person if you include my cell data plan.
Back in 1994, we fingered, now we poke
Back in 1994, the world was my oyster as I was studying to be a computer engineer, now my job is being out sourced as fast my 20 MB connection. It is a shame I had to go non-technical to survive.
I agree with this post. In fact I think I have learned the most in mgmt. The most in that I can learn about more things to a level of detail that is necessary, without have to learn every nat's ass about a subject to build it, code it, etc.
I get to play technical without having to do technical.
I have always been told I am a damn good technical person, but I knew I was even better at making other people more effective through leadership. So my only question would be, "Where are you the most effective"? That is where you should be.
Sounds like you may want to go back to school and get you masters. It is a common theme that in economic times like this it may just be better to delay entry into your target work force a couple years and pick up the extra education.
I'm a hiring manager for developers and I would have to say that I would really question someone who could not get something in their field. Usually programmers always know somebody who knows somebody that is developing something and can get some hours on the project.
I hope every one realizes that this has nothing to do with the goop you put on before you snap your heatsink on. This is the thermal grease that goes on the die before they put the cap on processor.
Actually it is not as bad as you think. I was working with the government to help outfit their AWACS and they were using off the shelf laptops and servers (Tier 1 brands). They were also loading Linux on them. I've also worked with their testing labs, and they all run Linux too. Now, I'm sure they over paid for it all, but that is a different story.
I work for a computer manufacturer and one of the test we do is plastic outgasing. Basically we measure how much chemicals are being released into the air over time from plastic parts. The limits for this have been changing and so have the plastics. Many of the new plastics have very low outgasing. These should start showing up soon, if not already.
Now we don't have much issue with this in my division (server) because everything is made out metal except for a few small fillers, etc.
P.S. That film you get on inside of your car window. That is your dash outgasing chemicals.
PCI-E adapters will be over taking the market very soon. They will be cheaper to build (less wires, pins on chips, etc) and will run faster. PCI-E scales from x1 to x32. A x1 is fast enough to run a single gigabit ethernet adapter. A x4 slot has the same theoretical through-put as a PCI-X 133Mhz slot. So do the math and you can see the PCI-E has a lot of head room.
While it is true that there exists a spec for PCI-X 2.0 which will run up to speeds of 533Mhz (eqiv to x16 PCI-E) it takes a lot of special work to make that work on a motherboard. The voltages have to be reduced from 3.3v to 1.5v and all the signals have to be exactly matched in length. Also errors are expected so error correction (ECC) has to be used to keep data intact.
The second half of 2004 and 2005 will be the transition period for PCI-X to PCI-E. Most of Intel's new chipsets are based on PCI-E and since they own the protocol, they are really driving the change over to PCI-E.
The current number of procs is 3300. The machines they are using are 16 headed machines and they are installing 1024 machines. That means they are only populating 3 procs in each box. This means that over time they can expand the system to over 52000 procs. Sounds like a good way to go. It will allow expansion with time and money.
I have visited the Shell cluster in Haag and it was 1024 dual CPU machines running Linux. The new cluster will be based on 16 processor machines. They 16 headed machines use a custom IBM chipset that allows SMP operation.
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Back in 1994, I was rocking my 9600 baud modem, now it is a 20 MB connection that is wireless throughout my home, work, and my car and person if you include my cell data plan.
Back in 1994, we fingered, now we poke
Back in 1994, the world was my oyster as I was studying to be a computer engineer, now my job is being out sourced as fast my 20 MB connection. It is a shame I had to go non-technical to survive.
I agree with this post. In fact I think I have learned the most in mgmt. The most in that I can learn about more things to a level of detail that is necessary, without have to learn every nat's ass about a subject to build it, code it, etc.
I get to play technical without having to do technical.
I have always been told I am a damn good technical person, but I knew I was even better at making other people more effective through leadership. So my only question would be, "Where are you the most effective"? That is where you should be.
Sounds like you may want to go back to school and get you masters. It is a common theme that in economic times like this it may just be better to delay entry into your target work force a couple years and pick up the extra education.
I'm a hiring manager for developers and I would have to say that I would really question someone who could not get something in their field. Usually programmers always know somebody who knows somebody that is developing something and can get some hours on the project.
Sure your name is not Wally?
For those of you who don't get it. Read Dilbert.
I hope every one realizes that this has nothing to do with the goop you put on before you snap your heatsink on. This is the thermal grease that goes on the die before they put the cap on processor.
Actually it is not as bad as you think. I was working with the government to help outfit their AWACS and they were using off the shelf laptops and servers (Tier 1 brands). They were also loading Linux on them. I've also worked with their testing labs, and they all run Linux too. Now, I'm sure they over paid for it all, but that is a different story.
I work for a computer manufacturer and one of the test we do is plastic outgasing. Basically we measure how much chemicals are being released into the air over time from plastic parts. The limits for this have been changing and so have the plastics. Many of the new plastics have very low outgasing. These should start showing up soon, if not already.
Now we don't have much issue with this in my division (server) because everything is made out metal except for a few small fillers, etc.
P.S. That film you get on inside of your car window. That is your dash outgasing chemicals.
PCI-E adapters will be over taking the market very soon. They will be cheaper to build (less wires, pins on chips, etc) and will run faster. PCI-E scales from x1 to x32. A x1 is fast enough to run a single gigabit ethernet adapter. A x4 slot has the same theoretical through-put as a PCI-X 133Mhz slot. So do the math and you can see the PCI-E has a lot of head room.
While it is true that there exists a spec for PCI-X 2.0 which will run up to speeds of 533Mhz (eqiv to x16 PCI-E) it takes a lot of special work to make that work on a motherboard. The voltages have to be reduced from 3.3v to 1.5v and all the signals have to be exactly matched in length. Also errors are expected so error correction (ECC) has to be used to keep data intact.
The second half of 2004 and 2005 will be the transition period for PCI-X to PCI-E. Most of Intel's new chipsets are based on PCI-E and since they own the protocol, they are really driving the change over to PCI-E.
The current number of procs is 3300. The machines they are using are 16 headed machines and they are installing 1024 machines. That means they are only populating 3 procs in each box. This means that over time they can expand the system to over 52000 procs. Sounds like a good way to go. It will allow expansion with time and money.
I have visited the Shell cluster in Haag and it was 1024 dual CPU machines running Linux. The new cluster will be based on 16 processor machines. They 16 headed machines use a custom IBM chipset that allows SMP operation.