You are a thing. A Marvelous machine. If you are poked and prodded we can illicit love, hunger, fear...why NOT spirituality? It does not make the phenomena any less real, you've just figured out how to manipulate the machine to do it on command.
The loudest debators in a topic are the ones that are cost-constrained. I don't debate consoles because I have all or them. I don't debate OSX vs Linux vs Windows because I have all of them.
They addressed that, they wanted a car that was structurally sound but not a trailer queen. It drove in under it's own power...an inline 6. So, it was useful to demonstrate the advances without being overly conspicuous in it's consumption.
Starting Nmap 4.60 ( http://nmap.org/ ) at 2009-09-12 19:46 MDT Interesting ports on [redacted].com (XX.XX.XX.XX): PORT STATE SERVICE 8080/tcp closed http-proxy
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.210 seconds OldnBusted:~ mike$
Lets compare your Impala to my 1966 Cadillac Hearse Length: 21.6 feet Width: 8 feet Height: about 6 feet Weight: 6000 lbs.
It gets 11 mpg and is like driving your livingroom.
I'm making sure the kids have to come up with a new way to get around. Let THEM find a replacement for the oil economy. I'll help, but I'll also give them incentive too.
Having had more than a good run with XP, our office is seriously considering a mass upgrade to 2008 server, Exchange 2010, and Windows 7. We saved quite a bit in migration and training costs by skipping major versions of Server, Mail, Office, and OS products.
And it's surprisingly easy to do. Monitor the ingress/egress traffic, throw away everything but the first 130-odd bits of the TCP Header and you get surprisingly good compression on the data.
Several years ago, I took a SANS class on Snort. Evidently Sandia Labs captured every packet on the wire and kept the transaction info, indefinitely. It was roughly a DVD-R a week.
On th other end of the spectrum, I syslog all of the connection info from our firewalls. I rotate the logs daily, and compress them when they're 30 days old (gzip logs-03-*) So far this year, the enterprise logs are 43 Gb. And disks are cheap.
The 250 giggers are on the nas box holding backups, one 100 gig laptop drive replaced the 40 gig drive on the Apple TV, the other is holding a copy of Windows 7 so I didn't bork the Ubuntu drive on the media box...
The 512 mb sd cards, OTOH, pitch 'em. I can't believe I'm saying this, but half a gig just isn't enough space to do anything with...movies are 700 Mb, as are most distros. (I use unetbootin to get away from burning CD's when testing out new distros these days.)
That's the price of progress, I guess.
Now, count the number of mass storage devices you have, between phones, DVR's, game machines, MP3 players, etc.
I've got an AspireOne. I've had a BUNCH of different *ix's on it and ended up going back to Linpus (after using all that I'd learned on the other OS's to get it to do what I want.)
Sure, it doesn't have wobbly windows, but it DOES have the latest Firefox, AND it returns dependably from sleep, has a working wifi switch, and boots in under 20 seconds.
I found all I REALLY wanted in that form factor was FireFox 3 (F11 full screen is GREAT), and a shell. recompiling the Wifi drivers with every Ubuntu kernel update was getting to be a PITA.
Not _entirely_ true. See, the internet DID achieve sentience, but it wasn't the Singularity you'd hoped for. Instead of uber computers and floaty holograms, it presented itself as an Commentbot for all fora. Kind of a cross between Eliza and a kiwi. (The fruit, not the bird.)
Then it's up to you to stay relevant. There will always be a place for knowledge specific to a company of the right size. Always. If that weren't the case, all companies in all industries would be the same.
Webmasters don't make the money they used to. If you WERE a webmaster making 6 figures and now you're not, because it's become commodotized, then who do you have to blame?
We're centralizing all of State IT under one organization. The idea that a whole state can negotiate contracts better than a dozen smaller seperate shops, that three departements at a single location don't need three seperate IT infrastructures.
Typically this is done to cut bodycount, but we're already down 10-15% due to retirement and staff leaving the state.
One of the new tenets is 'internal service providers.' A talented internal staff will _always be_ cheaper than outsourcing, as they know the environment, have a desire to keep their house in order (ideally), and don't have the overhead of the golden parachutes and Sales-force of a consulting firm.
And frankly, the success rate of those huge, top tier contractors (the ones that advertise down entire terminals of airports) is hovering around 0% here.
The problem within _our_ management is cronyism. One or two crappy managers gets their job here (state Gov't) and pulls in their friends. They squeak through the time until they're certified than then they effectively can't be fired. (6 months to a year)
We have the shell of a management group who's brilliant idea was to fire everyone and let them compete for their jobs. It's happened in the private sector, within our State Personnel rules, it's illegal.
End result: They lost, the figurehead was replaced, and everybody hates everybody else, because you had to choose sides in the battle, you got to find out who was gunning for you. The bulk of the managerial stupidity is still there, but the talent, the folks that really know the workings of the system, are finding better things to do (and are happier doing them away from the stupidity) it's pretty sad when you've poluted the waters bad enough that the staff doen't care if the department succeeds or not.
This happened to or three years ago, and while things have settled down in the last 6 months or so. I guarantee _everybody_ in the shop has their resumes polished and up to date.
Management doesn't HAVE to have an IT background to run a shop, but it should at least listen to the folks there that know IT.
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You are a thing. A Marvelous machine. If you are poked and prodded we can illicit love, hunger, fear...why NOT spirituality? It does not make the phenomena any less real, you've just figured out how to manipulate the machine to do it on command.
The loudest debators in a topic are the ones that are cost-constrained. I don't debate consoles because I have all or them. I don't debate OSX vs Linux vs Windows because I have all of them.
It proves you don't know much about computer forensics, that's for sure.
Sure, don't actually blame the _scud_ for the deaths.
They addressed that, they wanted a car that was structurally sound but not a trailer queen. It drove in under it's own power...an inline 6. So, it was useful to demonstrate the advances without being overly conspicuous in it's consumption.
Funny thing that...you drop it off a building and it wouldn't go this fast. You need downforce and traction. Dude's got balls of Depleted Uranium.
OldnBusted:~ mike$ nmap -p 8080 [redacted].com
Starting Nmap 4.60 ( http://nmap.org/ ) at 2009-09-12 19:46 MDT
Interesting ports on [redacted].com (XX.XX.XX.XX):
PORT STATE SERVICE
8080/tcp closed http-proxy
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.210 seconds
OldnBusted:~ mike$
I'm good!
If $1.3 billion profit on $8.34 billion sales is failing, sign me up!
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/22/apple-q309-results-breaking-records-not-taking-names/
Lets compare your Impala to my 1966 Cadillac Hearse
Length: 21.6 feet
Width: 8 feet
Height: about 6 feet
Weight: 6000 lbs.
It gets 11 mpg and is like driving your livingroom.
I'm making sure the kids have to come up with a new way to get around. Let THEM find a replacement for the oil economy. I'll help, but I'll also give them incentive too.
Having had more than a good run with XP, our office is seriously considering a mass upgrade to 2008 server, Exchange 2010, and Windows 7. We saved quite a bit in migration and training costs by skipping major versions of Server, Mail, Office, and OS products.
And it's surprisingly easy to do. Monitor the ingress/egress traffic, throw away everything but the first 130-odd bits of the TCP Header and you get surprisingly good compression on the data.
Several years ago, I took a SANS class on Snort. Evidently Sandia Labs captured every packet on the wire and kept the transaction info, indefinitely. It was roughly a DVD-R a week.
On th other end of the spectrum, I syslog all of the connection info from our firewalls. I rotate the logs daily, and compress them when they're 30 days old (gzip logs-03-*) So far this year, the enterprise logs are 43 Gb. And disks are cheap.
Was it worth it?
How the heck can _Cisco_ get into the server market...most of their hardware is rebranded HP stuff!
yeah, but 4 gb devices are _$8_ at Microcenter.
The 250 giggers are on the nas box holding backups, one 100 gig laptop drive replaced the 40 gig drive on the Apple TV, the other is holding a copy of Windows 7 so I didn't bork the Ubuntu drive on the media box...
The 512 mb sd cards, OTOH, pitch 'em. I can't believe I'm saying this, but half a gig just isn't enough space to do anything with...movies are 700 Mb, as are most distros. (I use unetbootin to get away from burning CD's when testing out new distros these days.)
That's the price of progress, I guess.
Now, count the number of mass storage devices you have, between phones, DVR's, game machines, MP3 players, etc.
Flash taketh away.
I've got an AspireOne. I've had a BUNCH of different *ix's on it and ended up going back to Linpus (after using all that I'd learned on the other OS's to get it to do what I want.) Sure, it doesn't have wobbly windows, but it DOES have the latest Firefox, AND it returns dependably from sleep, has a working wifi switch, and boots in under 20 seconds. I found all I REALLY wanted in that form factor was FireFox 3 (F11 full screen is GREAT), and a shell. recompiling the Wifi drivers with every Ubuntu kernel update was getting to be a PITA.
Not _entirely_ true. See, the internet DID achieve sentience, but it wasn't the Singularity you'd hoped for. Instead of uber computers and floaty holograms, it presented itself as an Commentbot for all fora. Kind of a cross between Eliza and a kiwi. (The fruit, not the bird.)
Nah. $28 per disk is why consumers don't like it. Netflix for as many movie as I want for $15 a month or damnear $30 for a single movie? No thanks.
Funny. That's about what folks pay for an all-you-can-eat internet connected cellphone plan.
Naw man, my laptop has a sticker that says it's 'Vista Capable'.
What ELSE are you gonna do with three of four cores idle?
Webmasters don't make the money they used to. If you WERE a webmaster making 6 figures and now you're not, because it's become commodotized, then who do you have to blame?
Typically this is done to cut bodycount, but we're already down 10-15% due to retirement and staff leaving the state.
One of the new tenets is 'internal service providers.' A talented internal staff will _always be_ cheaper than outsourcing, as they know the environment, have a desire to keep their house in order (ideally), and don't have the overhead of the golden parachutes and Sales-force of a consulting firm.
And frankly, the success rate of those huge, top tier contractors (the ones that advertise down entire terminals of airports) is hovering around 0% here.
We have the shell of a management group who's brilliant idea was to fire everyone and let them compete for their jobs. It's happened in the private sector, within our State Personnel rules, it's illegal.
End result: They lost, the figurehead was replaced, and everybody hates everybody else, because you had to choose sides in the battle, you got to find out who was gunning for you. The bulk of the managerial stupidity is still there, but the talent, the folks that really know the workings of the system, are finding better things to do (and are happier doing them away from the stupidity) it's pretty sad when you've poluted the waters bad enough that the staff doen't care if the department succeeds or not.
This happened to or three years ago, and while things have settled down in the last 6 months or so. I guarantee _everybody_ in the shop has their resumes polished and up to date.
Management doesn't HAVE to have an IT background to run a shop, but it should at least listen to the folks there that know IT.