I seems you don't understand the concept of selling something at a loss.
They lose MORE money if you buy it. Try to follow the logic here: Costs them $X, they sell it for $X-$100. Result: you buy one, their balance sheet is $-100. You don't buy one and their balance sheet is $0.
File locking for one. I'm sorry, but the unix notion of locking a file is a joke. "I'll create this here lock file, and then other programs that see the lock will know not to open my file. I sure hope the other programs agree to play nice."
Give me a break. In MPE the locking mechanism is built into the file system, and is enforced by the OS. It is easy to build complex locks like "lock bytes 7643-8126 for exclusive write access" and then other programs can do whatever they want with the other parts of the file, and they can read the locked part, but only you can write. *Very* useful for databases.
That's what database servers do. It's simply a matter of a different theory of operation. You don't make file-based tables on unix boxen and expect them to work that way. You make your tables in Oracle, mySQL, etc.
Someone I worked with told me his favorite 3000 war story: there was a brief power failure in his building during the middle of the day, but power came back on fairly quickly. At 5:00pm the 3000 sysadmins all made a point of walking by the computer room and saying things like "Gee did the power go out?" for the benefit of the Unix admins who were still checking their filesystems and trying to recover their machines.
What should have been happening there is someone being held accountable for not having proper power protection on all of the servers. It's simply sloppy and ridiculious to have a power problem take a server down hard. No IT manager worth 1/2 his salary would allow a data center to run that way.
Yeah...but would you rather run your mission critical services on a not so pretty, not so fast but rock solid machine, or on something that just came out, has lots of pretty pictures, runs fast, and crashes even faster?
People in IT need to drag themselves out of the "new toy" mentality when making business recomendations and decisions.
You don't replace TFT's in laptops. Unless they're broken and under warranty. THe manufacturer always want about $1k for a replacement, and you really can't change what goes in it unless you are going to do some serious hacking.
...but I specifically remember people criticizing all of our efforts to beef up passenger security in airports while neglecting to beef up tarmac security. It was said that nearly anyone can get on the tarmac, and anyone who can pass the test can become a mechanic, often times with no background check.
It seems more likely to me that if this is a result of terrorst activities, it was done as an inside job. Our own press probably gave them the idea.
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I seems you don't understand the concept of selling something at a loss.
They lose MORE money if you buy it. Try to follow the logic here: Costs them $X, they sell it for $X-$100. Result: you buy one, their balance sheet is $-100. You don't buy one and their balance sheet is $0.
Learn english. It's waste, not waist.
They also had at least two blatant plugs on Will and Grace.
Quite shameless, really.
That's what database servers do. It's simply a matter of a different theory of operation. You don't make file-based tables on unix boxen and expect them to work that way. You make your tables in Oracle, mySQL, etc.
Someone I worked with told me his favorite 3000 war story: there was a brief power failure in his building during the middle of the day, but power came back on fairly quickly. At 5:00pm the 3000 sysadmins all made a point of walking by the computer room and saying things like "Gee did the power go out?" for the benefit of the Unix admins who were still checking their filesystems and trying to recover their machines.
What should have been happening there is someone being held accountable for not having proper power protection on all of the servers. It's simply sloppy and ridiculious to have a power problem take a server down hard. No IT manager worth 1/2 his salary would allow a data center to run that way.
Yeah...but would you rather run your mission critical services on a not so pretty, not so fast but rock solid machine, or on something that just came out, has lots of pretty pictures, runs fast, and crashes even faster? People in IT need to drag themselves out of the "new toy" mentality when making business recomendations and decisions.
Well good luck with that.
No, you need to crack it out of the case, put it on an IDE bus, and format it. Then put it back in. Better yet, just buy a note pad and a box of pens.
You don't replace TFT's in laptops. Unless they're broken and under warranty. THe manufacturer always want about $1k for a replacement, and you really can't change what goes in it unless you are going to do some serious hacking.
...but I specifically remember people criticizing all of our efforts to beef up passenger security in airports while neglecting to beef up tarmac security. It was said that nearly anyone can get on the tarmac, and anyone who can pass the test can become a mechanic, often times with no background check.
It seems more likely to me that if this is a result of terrorst activities, it was done as an inside job. Our own press probably gave them the idea.