Windows has the following standard options for scripting: vbscript, jscript, batch, and on most 2008 boxes powershell. Optional: perlscript
Also there are quite a few third party scripting engines available. There are a TON of things you can do on the command line that you can't do in the GUI including almost all AD debugging. I write batch files every week and vbscripts probably at least monthly. I can't wait until powershell supports remote objects so that it becomes more useful in a networked environment.
No, it undermines the market for html layout engines used for Windows apps which is not the same market as web browsers. Personally I would love it if MS DIDN'T ship IE but kept mshtml since it's the use as a browser that can make it a security hole, there aren't a ton of holes that can be exploited if it's used for local UI rendering.
Most of that thousands to one virtualization is based on the same idea that is driving commodity virtualization ala ESX, most servers spend most of their time idle. Also using the massive internal backplane of the mainframe for inter-server communications can make some things MUCH more efficient. Finally the mainframe is designed for massive I/O, on a level that even the biggest Unix boxes never get to. Personally I think you can buy a lot of racks and cooling for the difference in price between an equally capable ESX farm and a mainframe, but it must fit someones needs or it wouldn't be sold. The one thing that would intrigue me if I was at a mainframe shop would be hooking up commodity BI tools to the large mainframe datasets and running them in the same box where things would be more efficient than things like TCP over 10Gb ethernet.
Unisys was an Itanium shop but the low, low cost of 6 core Xeon's and their tremendous performance advantage means that almost all of their sales since the new models came out have been in that direction. I think things will be interesting for them in the next generation since Intel will have Tukwila socket compatible with Beckton so they should be able to support trays of either CPU architecture on a common board.
Actually virtualization on products from the following vendors are fully supported:
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Novell, Inc.
Oracle, USA Inc.
Red Hat, Inc.
Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Sun Microsystems
Unisys Corp.
Virtual Iron Software
VMware, Inc.
And of course Microsoft. link
And this is the current status of virtual vs hardware support which is a significant change:
Will customers running on validated solutions still be required to reproduce problems on hardware?
While we fully expect the Server Virtualization Validation Program to ferret out the majority of issues associated with running virtualized operating systems, there may be situations when the root cause problem cannot be isolated or duplicated without asking a customer to reproduce the error on hardware. Every situation will be examined on a case by case basis and we expect to ask customer to reproduce problems on "bare metal" only as a last resort. link
Oh, Sun will still sell you big iron, the M9000 is a beast of a box. It has both hardware and software virtualization with granularity and control far in excess of what is available in the commodity space. It's just that they found themselves squeezed from both the top and the bottom and so felt they had to flee into the commodity space to stay alive.
Good, if you disqualify my because of an opinion I have is different to yours I didn't want to work for you anyways! Really, who wants to work for close minded yes men? Personally I've always treated interviews as being mutual and have turned down jobs due to not liking the tone of the interview. I know that's easy to say but I actually did in during what turned out to be a 7 month stint of unemployment during the last recession. I found it's much better to find a job you love then it is to jump at the first opportunity, assuming you have your finances in order.
Land, cheaper in TAIWAN?!? I don't think so! This is all about fighting with ARM in the netbook and similar mid market categories. Intel hasn't been hugely successful in making a complete low power solution so turning this IP over to a third party and allowing Atom to become a licensed core will mean there will be single chip low power solutions using Intel designs at their heart. This is good for Intel since there is a real threat that Linux on ARM and company could completely lock Intel out of one of the few sectors that will see significant positive growth in the next couple years.
In Oracle land a hot standby server has to be fully licensed, a warm standby server does not. If your needs aren't for five 9's then it makes a LOT of sense to use a warm standby DR box.
There is essentially no untapped source that can be used for additional hydro in the developed world. Wrt modern nuclear, GE and Westinghouse are designing and building modern plants all over the world. What makes you think they can't build them in the US?
Coal isn't a strawman, the fact is we need both peak and baseload plants and the only two currently available and growable options for baseload are coal and nuclear. So the question is which do you want to use to grow baseload generation capacity? Personally I would prefer in be modern nuclear. The only other way things could go would be is a wholesale shift to electric vehicles which could be used as distributed storage for solar and wind to even out production versus demand curves.
Flat taxes are those applied to all parties at the same RATE, not the same VALUE and they are neither progressive nor regressive, but rather flat. I don't have much problem with true flat taxes, in fact I personally strongly believe in a slightly modified flat tax structure, the fair tax.
Well others have posted that there are ~200tons of the stuff produced per year currently. Assuming 2g used per panel that means they would have to produce ~180M panels per YEAR to use up the current world supply. I doubt there have been 180M panels produced in the entirety of solar panel production, aka it's basically a moot point. Btw 190M panels per year wouldn't be maintained for long since after just a couple years supply would equal total demand for electricity.
Unfortunately much (most?) of the US is subject to hard freezes which makes solar hot water systems much more complicated and expensive. I wish I could use on but the ROI is about 18 years and the life expectancy of most systems available today is 10-15 years, not exactly a good value proposition even ignoring the time value of money. I'm doubly screwed because I live in the county with the lowest level of insolation in the lower 48. Luckily I also live next to one of the best spots for wind power in the country so eventually much of my power should come from that source =)
Uh, high power DC transmission lines are pretty well understood and used commercially in quite a few places today including California. China has a 6.4TW line coming on next year from Xianjiaba to Shanghai.
Is there any locality that includes net metering with time of day pricing? Because of the way the grid works this would actually best reflect the true gains for the electric company as they have a huge marginal cost to bring certain plants online (and build those peak hour plants!). I know certain things like diesel generators are so expensive to run that they offer large consumers very significant discount to be able to take them offline during peak periods. Solar is really the ideal power source for smoothing those peak loads since their output is peaking right along with demand.
No, there are plenty of grid tied systems that have no batteries, just an inverter. Also you wouldn't deep cycle your batteries as you described, even expensive chemistries like those used in UPS systems don't really like to be deep cycled too often.
Why heat with electric at all? Even with the relatively high of delivery propane is still about 33% cheaper per BTU than electric @.10/kwh. It's even better if you have natural gas available, even with the recent rise in prices natural gas is about 40% cheaper per BTU.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to the fact that this type of flat use tax is regressive which is generally considered to be bad since it has a much higher marginal rate on those least able to afford it. Basically if the government wants more funding they should come up with a more progressive tax system to grow the overall economy (regressive taxes reduce the rate of currency flow through the market).
Verizon's 2008 operating margin was 17.34%, their return on average equity was 13.93%, neither are particularly stellar or out of line. Exxon and GE are similar, Walmart is lower for margin and higher for return. Basically they are an average Bluechip stock.
WRT is about a lot more than just wifi, you can do custom firewall rules (yeah there's uPnP for automating that, but sane people turn that off since it's so broken from a security perspective), share files and printers, run a webcam, play music, and probably some other things I'm forgetting. Basically it's a general purpose Linux distribution targeted at small lowpower embedded devices that just happen to start out as cots routers in most cases.
2000 is out of mainstream support and won't even have bugfixes after the end of this year so unless you want to be hit by some nasty worms and such down the road you need to have a strategy to move off it, and 2008 is the most logical path since it is stable and will be supported for 9 more years.
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Windows has the following standard options for scripting:
vbscript, jscript, batch, and on most 2008 boxes powershell.
Optional:
perlscript
Also there are quite a few third party scripting engines available. There are a TON of things you can do on the command line that you can't do in the GUI including almost all AD debugging. I write batch files every week and vbscripts probably at least monthly. I can't wait until powershell supports remote objects so that it becomes more useful in a networked environment.
There's often a ton of registry keys left behind, and on pre-Vista OS's quite often DLL's under the Windows/winnt folder.
No, it undermines the market for html layout engines used for Windows apps which is not the same market as web browsers. Personally I would love it if MS DIDN'T ship IE but kept mshtml since it's the use as a browser that can make it a security hole, there aren't a ton of holes that can be exploited if it's used for local UI rendering.
Most of that thousands to one virtualization is based on the same idea that is driving commodity virtualization ala ESX, most servers spend most of their time idle. Also using the massive internal backplane of the mainframe for inter-server communications can make some things MUCH more efficient. Finally the mainframe is designed for massive I/O, on a level that even the biggest Unix boxes never get to. Personally I think you can buy a lot of racks and cooling for the difference in price between an equally capable ESX farm and a mainframe, but it must fit someones needs or it wouldn't be sold. The one thing that would intrigue me if I was at a mainframe shop would be hooking up commodity BI tools to the large mainframe datasets and running them in the same box where things would be more efficient than things like TCP over 10Gb ethernet.
Unisys was an Itanium shop but the low, low cost of 6 core Xeon's and their tremendous performance advantage means that almost all of their sales since the new models came out have been in that direction. I think things will be interesting for them in the next generation since Intel will have Tukwila socket compatible with Beckton so they should be able to support trays of either CPU architecture on a common board.
Actually virtualization on products from the following vendors are fully supported:
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Novell, Inc.
Oracle, USA Inc.
Red Hat, Inc.
Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Sun Microsystems
Unisys Corp.
Virtual Iron Software
VMware, Inc.
And of course Microsoft. link
And this is the current status of virtual vs hardware support which is a significant change:
Will customers running on validated solutions still be required to reproduce problems on hardware? While we fully expect the Server Virtualization Validation Program to ferret out the majority of issues associated with running virtualized operating systems, there may be situations when the root cause problem cannot be isolated or duplicated without asking a customer to reproduce the error on hardware. Every situation will be examined on a case by case basis and we expect to ask customer to reproduce problems on "bare metal" only as a last resort.
link
Oh, Sun will still sell you big iron, the M9000 is a beast of a box. It has both hardware and software virtualization with granularity and control far in excess of what is available in the commodity space. It's just that they found themselves squeezed from both the top and the bottom and so felt they had to flee into the commodity space to stay alive.
Good, if you disqualify my because of an opinion I have is different to yours I didn't want to work for you anyways! Really, who wants to work for close minded yes men? Personally I've always treated interviews as being mutual and have turned down jobs due to not liking the tone of the interview. I know that's easy to say but I actually did in during what turned out to be a 7 month stint of unemployment during the last recession. I found it's much better to find a job you love then it is to jump at the first opportunity, assuming you have your finances in order.
Land, cheaper in TAIWAN?!? I don't think so! This is all about fighting with ARM in the netbook and similar mid market categories. Intel hasn't been hugely successful in making a complete low power solution so turning this IP over to a third party and allowing Atom to become a licensed core will mean there will be single chip low power solutions using Intel designs at their heart. This is good for Intel since there is a real threat that Linux on ARM and company could completely lock Intel out of one of the few sectors that will see significant positive growth in the next couple years.
In Oracle land a hot standby server has to be fully licensed, a warm standby server does not. If your needs aren't for five 9's then it makes a LOT of sense to use a warm standby DR box.
There is essentially no untapped source that can be used for additional hydro in the developed world. Wrt modern nuclear, GE and Westinghouse are designing and building modern plants all over the world. What makes you think they can't build them in the US?
Coal isn't a strawman, the fact is we need both peak and baseload plants and the only two currently available and growable options for baseload are coal and nuclear. So the question is which do you want to use to grow baseload generation capacity? Personally I would prefer in be modern nuclear. The only other way things could go would be is a wholesale shift to electric vehicles which could be used as distributed storage for solar and wind to even out production versus demand curves.
Flat taxes are those applied to all parties at the same RATE, not the same VALUE and they are neither progressive nor regressive, but rather flat. I don't have much problem with true flat taxes, in fact I personally strongly believe in a slightly modified flat tax structure, the fair tax.
Well others have posted that there are ~200tons of the stuff produced per year currently. Assuming 2g used per panel that means they would have to produce ~180M panels per YEAR to use up the current world supply. I doubt there have been 180M panels produced in the entirety of solar panel production, aka it's basically a moot point. Btw 190M panels per year wouldn't be maintained for long since after just a couple years supply would equal total demand for electricity.
Unfortunately much (most?) of the US is subject to hard freezes which makes solar hot water systems much more complicated and expensive. I wish I could use on but the ROI is about 18 years and the life expectancy of most systems available today is 10-15 years, not exactly a good value proposition even ignoring the time value of money. I'm doubly screwed because I live in the county with the lowest level of insolation in the lower 48. Luckily I also live next to one of the best spots for wind power in the country so eventually much of my power should come from that source =)
Uh, high power DC transmission lines are pretty well understood and used commercially in quite a few places today including California. China has a 6.4TW line coming on next year from Xianjiaba to Shanghai.
Is there any locality that includes net metering with time of day pricing? Because of the way the grid works this would actually best reflect the true gains for the electric company as they have a huge marginal cost to bring certain plants online (and build those peak hour plants!). I know certain things like diesel generators are so expensive to run that they offer large consumers very significant discount to be able to take them offline during peak periods. Solar is really the ideal power source for smoothing those peak loads since their output is peaking right along with demand.
No, there are plenty of grid tied systems that have no batteries, just an inverter. Also you wouldn't deep cycle your batteries as you described, even expensive chemistries like those used in UPS systems don't really like to be deep cycled too often.
Why heat with electric at all? Even with the relatively high of delivery propane is still about 33% cheaper per BTU than electric @.10/kwh. It's even better if you have natural gas available, even with the recent rise in prices natural gas is about 40% cheaper per BTU.
True, but regressive taxes do so to a larger extent.
Do you have a link to your research? I'd love to see what bands are most heavily utilized.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to the fact that this type of flat use tax is regressive which is generally considered to be bad since it has a much higher marginal rate on those least able to afford it. Basically if the government wants more funding they should come up with a more progressive tax system to grow the overall economy (regressive taxes reduce the rate of currency flow through the market).
Verizon's 2008 operating margin was 17.34%, their return on average equity was 13.93%, neither are particularly stellar or out of line. Exxon and GE are similar, Walmart is lower for margin and higher for return. Basically they are an average Bluechip stock.
WRT is about a lot more than just wifi, you can do custom firewall rules (yeah there's uPnP for automating that, but sane people turn that off since it's so broken from a security perspective), share files and printers, run a webcam, play music, and probably some other things I'm forgetting. Basically it's a general purpose Linux distribution targeted at small lowpower embedded devices that just happen to start out as cots routers in most cases.
2000 is out of mainstream support and won't even have bugfixes after the end of this year so unless you want to be hit by some nasty worms and such down the road you need to have a strategy to move off it, and 2008 is the most logical path since it is stable and will be supported for 9 more years.