We already had a DBA for our 10 MSSQL servers and needed something to run the financials for an S&P 500 company. If our package had supported SQL 2005 we probably would have gone that route but they didn't so we went with Oracle and 18 months later we are looking at moving to a Unix server, something we couldn't have done with MSSQL. I'm mostly a Windows admin but I've support Unix, Linux, Novell, etc over the years and really just want a good product with a decent support organization.
Actually we got Oracle 10gR2 Enterprise for less than what MS would license SQL Server for. The sales guy even made a call to Redmond to try to get approval for the deal but they wouldn't go that low. My VP is a master negotiator but I will say that Oracles support is horrible compared to MS's, I've never had an issue serious enough to call PSS that wasn't resolved but we've had a number of issues with Oracle where they either couldn't isolate the issue or told us to wait months for the next public patch to resolve.
While this quote from wikipedia is more about what was contributed to the USSR than England I think it illustrates the magnitude of the program:
For example, the USSR was highly dependent on trains, yet the desperate need to produce weapons meant that only about 92 locomotives were produced in the USSR during the entire war. In this context, the supply of 1,981 US locomotives can be better understood. Likewise, the Soviet air force was enhanced by 18,700 aircraft, which amounted to about 14% of Soviet aircraft production (19% for military aircraft)[5].
Although most Red Army tank units were equipped with Soviet-built tanks, their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of US-made trucks. Indeed by 1945 nearly two-thirds of the truck strength of the Red Army was US-built. Trucks such as the Dodge ¾ ton and Studebaker 2.5 ton, were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front.[6] US supplies of telephone cable, aluminium, and canned rations were also critical. link.
It's under the file server role, it's for when your idiot user moves their files and forget where they put them or can't remember the name of the file they wrote 4 years ago to that guy. It's the stuff I get calls for way too often and having an indexer that works and doesn't crush the performance of the system would be great. Of course I've yet to test it on something like my 1.2TB fileserver so I don't know how good it really is =) I'll get there after I clear the backlog of 20 server refreshes and 4 projects from last year...
Do you know of a remote code vulnerability in the default install of IIS6? I know of one in the default install and a handful with ASP turned on. Since IIS6 is 5 years old I would say that's pretty damn good, even having the source to Apache isn't going to get you much better security than that since it's programmed by humans and is a non-trivial application.
Yeah it's almost criminal since they still don't have a good object serialization method implemented to interact with remote objects so you really need to run the scripts where they are manipulating the objects. I started to really like powershell until I realized that I would have to install the environment on all the servers I wanted to script and would still have to use something like psexec to run them, why not just continue to use WMI and batch scripting? Oh and the memory overhead for dealing with large numbers of objects kind of limited its use in large environments unless you are very careful about how you write your code.
You must have missed the part of history class where they taught about the Lend-Lease Act. The US was very much involved in the war starting in March of 1941, we might not have had boots on the ground but without our help the UK wouldn't have stood much of a chance. Even before the formal act the US had been sending quite a lot of supplies to the UK under various other programs.
A scientist making $150K/year probably has a total cost to their employer close to $300K/year once all the ancillaries including retirement are factored in.
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If you think for a minute that slashdot is widely read by the institutional investors that control the majority of stock transactions then you are a fool. No amount of crappy speculation on a site like slashdot is going to move the stock of a Fortune 1000 company. For penny stocks you might get enough momentum through rumors and speculation to make a difference but even in an irrational market this kind of story will have near-zero impact.
I don't disagree that we need to obtain new airframes from time to time, I was just commenting that doing it to reduce operating costs is a non-sequitur. I actually love the F-22 and aviation tech in general which is why I've made repeated trips to the Air Force museum at Wright Patterson over the years =)
Based on a cost of $250K per day 18 aircraft would cost $2.74B over 30 years. That comes out to $152M per airframe. The cost per additional unit for the F22 is ~$160m and they would STILL require similar maintenance and support facilities so I don't see how it could save money to buy F22's to replace F16 as long as the F16 can still complete the mission profiles assigned to it. Oh and to your comment about Congress only buying a handful of F22's, they are buying 183 at current procurement rates, hardly a handful!
Power and cooling penalties? Are you looking at the same spec sheets I am because I'm seeing better performance per Watt out of Barcelona systems than out of Intel quad core Xeon's based systems. Most of it has to do with the fact that Intel uses power sucking FB-Dimms, but that's a design tradeoff that Intel made.
Huh? The F117A had its public unveiling in 1988, three years before the first gulf war. In fact I had seen them well before the war when visiting Wright Patterson to see the Airforce museum.
I think just as important to them is that there is no chance of the sub-meter resolution spy satellite technology falling into the hands of a foreign power.
Dated joke, Excel 2007 supports millions of rows. Excel is one of Microsoft's better products, it's not perfect but it's darn good. The data import and graphing features are better than any other spreadsheet program I have worked with.
That's because AIDS isn't actually a disease, but rather a description of a bunch of symptoms. If you expand the acronym it stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Scientists unlike doctors normally focus on the cause of the problem rather than the results.
It's only unsearchable today, give it a few weeks until someone OCR's the whole bunch and creates a searchable index. I'm not sure if there's a suitable open source OCR engine but there are plenty of commercial engines that can take an image PDF and output a PDF with both the image and the results of the OCR process as an additional underlying layer. Those files can easily be indexed by a multitude of open source indexing engines like Lucerne.
There are limited exceptions. For example a farmer who is organizing food donations can visit to meet with the people who will be receiving and distributing the stuff. I'm not sure how a school of business trip would get an exemption as the whole purpose of the embargo is to stop economic flow from the US to Cuba.
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Dude, they are all patched, that's in the entire 5 year history of IIS 6.
The dust is electrostatically charged to the panels so it requires more force then the force of gravity on Mars to remove it.
We already had a DBA for our 10 MSSQL servers and needed something to run the financials for an S&P 500 company. If our package had supported SQL 2005 we probably would have gone that route but they didn't so we went with Oracle and 18 months later we are looking at moving to a Unix server, something we couldn't have done with MSSQL. I'm mostly a Windows admin but I've support Unix, Linux, Novell, etc over the years and really just want a good product with a decent support organization.
Actually we got Oracle 10gR2 Enterprise for less than what MS would license SQL Server for. The sales guy even made a call to Redmond to try to get approval for the deal but they wouldn't go that low. My VP is a master negotiator but I will say that Oracles support is horrible compared to MS's, I've never had an issue serious enough to call PSS that wasn't resolved but we've had a number of issues with Oracle where they either couldn't isolate the issue or told us to wait months for the next public patch to resolve.
While this quote from wikipedia is more about what was contributed to the USSR than England I think it illustrates the magnitude of the program:
For example, the USSR was highly dependent on trains, yet the desperate need to produce weapons meant that only about 92 locomotives were produced in the USSR during the entire war. In this context, the supply of 1,981 US locomotives can be better understood. Likewise, the Soviet air force was enhanced by 18,700 aircraft, which amounted to about 14% of Soviet aircraft production (19% for military aircraft)[5].
Although most Red Army tank units were equipped with Soviet-built tanks, their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of US-made trucks. Indeed by 1945 nearly two-thirds of the truck strength of the Red Army was US-built. Trucks such as the Dodge ¾ ton and Studebaker 2.5 ton, were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front.[6] US supplies of telephone cable, aluminium, and canned rations were also critical.
link.
It's under the file server role, it's for when your idiot user moves their files and forget where they put them or can't remember the name of the file they wrote 4 years ago to that guy. It's the stuff I get calls for way too often and having an indexer that works and doesn't crush the performance of the system would be great. Of course I've yet to test it on something like my 1.2TB fileserver so I don't know how good it really is =) I'll get there after I clear the backlog of 20 server refreshes and 4 projects from last year...
Do you know of a remote code vulnerability in the default install of IIS6? I know of one in the default install and a handful with ASP turned on. Since IIS6 is 5 years old I would say that's pretty damn good, even having the source to Apache isn't going to get you much better security than that since it's programmed by humans and is a non-trivial application.
Yeah it's almost criminal since they still don't have a good object serialization method implemented to interact with remote objects so you really need to run the scripts where they are manipulating the objects. I started to really like powershell until I realized that I would have to install the environment on all the servers I wanted to script and would still have to use something like psexec to run them, why not just continue to use WMI and batch scripting? Oh and the memory overhead for dealing with large numbers of objects kind of limited its use in large environments unless you are very careful about how you write your code.
You must have missed the part of history class where they taught about the Lend-Lease Act. The US was very much involved in the war starting in March of 1941, we might not have had boots on the ground but without our help the UK wouldn't have stood much of a chance. Even before the formal act the US had been sending quite a lot of supplies to the UK under various other programs.
A scientist making $150K/year probably has a total cost to their employer close to $300K/year once all the ancillaries including retirement are factored in.
Millions? How many scientist man years does it take at ~$300K/year to study a single food item?
Yeah because COPA is SO much better....
If you think for a minute that slashdot is widely read by the institutional investors that control the majority of stock transactions then you are a fool. No amount of crappy speculation on a site like slashdot is going to move the stock of a Fortune 1000 company. For penny stocks you might get enough momentum through rumors and speculation to make a difference but even in an irrational market this kind of story will have near-zero impact.
I don't disagree that we need to obtain new airframes from time to time, I was just commenting that doing it to reduce operating costs is a non-sequitur. I actually love the F-22 and aviation tech in general which is why I've made repeated trips to the Air Force museum at Wright Patterson over the years =)
Based on a cost of $250K per day 18 aircraft would cost $2.74B over 30 years. That comes out to $152M per airframe. The cost per additional unit for the F22 is ~$160m and they would STILL require similar maintenance and support facilities so I don't see how it could save money to buy F22's to replace F16 as long as the F16 can still complete the mission profiles assigned to it. Oh and to your comment about Congress only buying a handful of F22's, they are buying 183 at current procurement rates, hardly a handful!
Power and cooling penalties? Are you looking at the same spec sheets I am because I'm seeing better performance per Watt out of Barcelona systems than out of Intel quad core Xeon's based systems. Most of it has to do with the fact that Intel uses power sucking FB-Dimms, but that's a design tradeoff that Intel made.
Ok, that is just so geeky and so hackish as to be wonderful.
Solution: In BIOS disable all boot options except for local HDD/Raid Controller and set a BIOS password.
Huh? The F117A had its public unveiling in 1988, three years before the first gulf war. In fact I had seen them well before the war when visiting Wright Patterson to see the Airforce museum.
I think just as important to them is that there is no chance of the sub-meter resolution spy satellite technology falling into the hands of a foreign power.
Holy moderator abuse batman, marking down a Score 1 comment as overrated because you disagree with it.
Dated joke, Excel 2007 supports millions of rows. Excel is one of Microsoft's better products, it's not perfect but it's darn good. The data import and graphing features are better than any other spreadsheet program I have worked with.
That's because AIDS isn't actually a disease, but rather a description of a bunch of symptoms. If you expand the acronym it stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Scientists unlike doctors normally focus on the cause of the problem rather than the results.
It's only unsearchable today, give it a few weeks until someone OCR's the whole bunch and creates a searchable index. I'm not sure if there's a suitable open source OCR engine but there are plenty of commercial engines that can take an image PDF and output a PDF with both the image and the results of the OCR process as an additional underlying layer. Those files can easily be indexed by a multitude of open source indexing engines like Lucerne.
There are limited exceptions. For example a farmer who is organizing food donations can visit to meet with the people who will be receiving and distributing the stuff. I'm not sure how a school of business trip would get an exemption as the whole purpose of the embargo is to stop economic flow from the US to Cuba.