Yes, you need to have dev, test, and/or qa servers for every system in your environment. This is IT 101, and now that we have VM's it's cheaper than ever to achieve. Between those nonprod systems and our DR failover systems we probably average 3-3.5 servers for every production machine except for our Citrix servers which constitutes a large farm of identical machines.
While that's generally true (hyper-specific specialization) in the case of what we were looking for if JDE were to go away they would still be able to do Oracle DBA work and SQL Server DBA work so at worst they might lose a small bit of money by taking a more generalist position (or not, DBA's seem to be able to pretty much write their own ticket and it's been that way for quite some time, if someone asked me today what they should go to school for CS with an emphasis on databases would be my recommendation along with a coop in database administration).
Programmers absolutely need CS to be effective, all the others might work as a tech school. On the other hand if you want to be IT management then management science classes and accounting classes would both be very useful and aren't likely to be found in a trade school (at least as they exist in the US today).
Or, it could be that there are plenty of specialties where there aren't enough good people. Unemployment in IT is around 5% which is a fairly tight labor market, throw in some specific requirements and it's easy to see why some companies might complain that they can't find good people despite a rough broader economy. As an example we had an open position for a DBA with experience with JDE on Oracle and SQL Server experience, we looked for over six months while using consultants to do the work in the meantime. After interviewing three candidates and making one offer which wasn't accepted (they got a better offer elsewhere) we decided to outsource the position to a regional DBA consortium. We were offering around six figures which is a ton in NE Ohio.
Yep, actually my calculations took the UPS and AC portions as a straight kVA/BTU versus total capacity calculations which of course extremely pessimistic since infrastructure last much longer than the equipment it services. I didn't include PM contracts into the cost but they wouldn't materially change the numbers.
Uh, MS has the exact same issue, 99+% of BSOD's are caused by third party drivers. Run a Windows NT based box with basic video drivers and no sound drivers and your chances of experiencing a BSOD are almost nill. Moving the audio path into user space and switching video to WDDM is the reason that most users of Win7 have never experienced a BSOD.
No, it's really not unless you are running huge datacenters full of computers all doing the same thing. My ROI calculations show power and power for cooling are less than 5% of the 3 year cost of a server and that's only for the infrastructure portion, when you add in software and software configuration it's quite literally a rounding error. Now, if you have have maxed out your existing infrastructure and the alternatives are to either replace existing systems with more efficient ones or build a new facility, THEN you can start to talk serious ROI numbers, but power in and of itself is an inconsequential expense for most enterprises.
You are correct, being an old school digital camera guy portable flash is linked in my brain to CF so even though I knew it was mSD my brain pulled up CF =)
Nook Color, it boots from the CF slot first so you just put down your own OS on a CF card and should you ever have a problem you just pull the card and it's back to factory fresh.
That's pretty much how low integrity processes work in Vista/Windows 7. IE and its plugins are low integrity by default as is anything you download from the internet until you grant it an elevated token, the thing is unless you deny the user the ability to promote them they WILL grant a full integrity token to a piece of malware. Also As to the hardware direct access, nothing on modern windows talks directly to hardware, the closest you get is DirectX, and while it's far from perfect it's still lightyears from direct hardware access. One downside of this is that you no longer have ASIO drivers for soundcards which makes realtime sound production on Windows Vista and above nearly impossible because the latency involved in going through the abstraction API's and the stupid DRM checks means you can't really sync up with real world sources like mics and external instruments.
Actually, back when I bought my DL585 I could have used the ability to fix the BIOS myself, boot from SAN was listed as a feature but it didn't work for the first few months I owned it due to a BIOS bug. We ended up having to buy a pair of drives to put the OS on which also meant we couldn't remotely boot the development database server with the production OS image like we could later servers (came in handy when we lost a prod server over the weekend with 2' of snow on the roads, just map the OS LUN to the development HBA's and use iLo to power cycle the machine).
Hehe, I run an S&P 500 company on 40kW and 12 tons of AC, virtualization and SSD's for high IOPS loads are a wonderful thing. In fact I'll probably be well below 30kW in 6 months if I can get the 4 shelves of 450GB drives to fill out my new SAN (damn floods in Asia) so I can retire the old one and all the old P4 based servers connected to it that constitute almost half my physical server count at this point.
I have nothing against secure boot, just like I had nothing against TPM. They are merely tools that allow you to make a computer more secure if you so choose. Unless and until Microsoft completely shuts off significant Windows functionality if you aren't running these technologies then I have nothing against them. I don't want PC's to become glorified XBOX's with a different application set but I also recognize that it's impossible to have a completely secure environment without the help of hardware enforcement.
Toledo only needs 260 kW electric and 100 tons of cooling, much too small for a traditional gas turbine. In fact BHP's largest project is 2MW electric. I know I've lookup into such a setup but the noise level was unacceptable as our generators sit in the middle of the three buildings in our campus.
You are correct, this is just an update of his previous exploit against other Windows versions, it only works with legacy BIOS, not against EUFI with secure boot. The story over at ARS has been updated.
Except anyone with a resolver running BIND is potentially affected since all the attacker needs to do is point you at the invalid domain twice, that could be as simple as a webpage with the domain included and a meta refresh longer than the TTL on the domain.
Most likely it was an attempt to shore up the patent against the inevitable calls for a re-evaluation by whomever they use it against. Apple can now argue that the patent has already made it through two reviews by patent examiners and that further evaluation is unnecessary.
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Yes, you need to have dev, test, and/or qa servers for every system in your environment. This is IT 101, and now that we have VM's it's cheaper than ever to achieve. Between those nonprod systems and our DR failover systems we probably average 3-3.5 servers for every production machine except for our Citrix servers which constitutes a large farm of identical machines.
Or JAVA, we run all the big enterprise application servers and they all run considerably better if they are rebooted on a regular basis.
While that's generally true (hyper-specific specialization) in the case of what we were looking for if JDE were to go away they would still be able to do Oracle DBA work and SQL Server DBA work so at worst they might lose a small bit of money by taking a more generalist position (or not, DBA's seem to be able to pretty much write their own ticket and it's been that way for quite some time, if someone asked me today what they should go to school for CS with an emphasis on databases would be my recommendation along with a coop in database administration).
Programmers absolutely need CS to be effective, all the others might work as a tech school. On the other hand if you want to be IT management then management science classes and accounting classes would both be very useful and aren't likely to be found in a trade school (at least as they exist in the US today).
Or, it could be that there are plenty of specialties where there aren't enough good people. Unemployment in IT is around 5% which is a fairly tight labor market, throw in some specific requirements and it's easy to see why some companies might complain that they can't find good people despite a rough broader economy. As an example we had an open position for a DBA with experience with JDE on Oracle and SQL Server experience, we looked for over six months while using consultants to do the work in the meantime. After interviewing three candidates and making one offer which wasn't accepted (they got a better offer elsewhere) we decided to outsource the position to a regional DBA consortium. We were offering around six figures which is a ton in NE Ohio.
Yep, actually my calculations took the UPS and AC portions as a straight kVA/BTU versus total capacity calculations which of course extremely pessimistic since infrastructure last much longer than the equipment it services. I didn't include PM contracts into the cost but they wouldn't materially change the numbers.
Uh, MS has the exact same issue, 99+% of BSOD's are caused by third party drivers. Run a Windows NT based box with basic video drivers and no sound drivers and your chances of experiencing a BSOD are almost nill. Moving the audio path into user space and switching video to WDDM is the reason that most users of Win7 have never experienced a BSOD.
No, it's really not unless you are running huge datacenters full of computers all doing the same thing. My ROI calculations show power and power for cooling are less than 5% of the 3 year cost of a server and that's only for the infrastructure portion, when you add in software and software configuration it's quite literally a rounding error. Now, if you have have maxed out your existing infrastructure and the alternatives are to either replace existing systems with more efficient ones or build a new facility, THEN you can start to talk serious ROI numbers, but power in and of itself is an inconsequential expense for most enterprises.
You are correct, being an old school digital camera guy portable flash is linked in my brain to CF so even though I knew it was mSD my brain pulled up CF =)
Nook Color, it boots from the CF slot first so you just put down your own OS on a CF card and should you ever have a problem you just pull the card and it's back to factory fresh.
That's pretty much how low integrity processes work in Vista/Windows 7. IE and its plugins are low integrity by default as is anything you download from the internet until you grant it an elevated token, the thing is unless you deny the user the ability to promote them they WILL grant a full integrity token to a piece of malware. Also As to the hardware direct access, nothing on modern windows talks directly to hardware, the closest you get is DirectX, and while it's far from perfect it's still lightyears from direct hardware access. One downside of this is that you no longer have ASIO drivers for soundcards which makes realtime sound production on Windows Vista and above nearly impossible because the latency involved in going through the abstraction API's and the stupid DRM checks means you can't really sync up with real world sources like mics and external instruments.
I was going to say any Android device without the "with Google" trademark.
Not if the surface can stand up to 1atm which isn't exactly an impossible task.
You think ichat isn't CALEA certified? How cute.
Actually, back when I bought my DL585 I could have used the ability to fix the BIOS myself, boot from SAN was listed as a feature but it didn't work for the first few months I owned it due to a BIOS bug. We ended up having to buy a pair of drives to put the OS on which also meant we couldn't remotely boot the development database server with the production OS image like we could later servers (came in handy when we lost a prod server over the weekend with 2' of snow on the roads, just map the OS LUN to the development HBA's and use iLo to power cycle the machine).
Hehe, I run an S&P 500 company on 40kW and 12 tons of AC, virtualization and SSD's for high IOPS loads are a wonderful thing. In fact I'll probably be well below 30kW in 6 months if I can get the 4 shelves of 450GB drives to fill out my new SAN (damn floods in Asia) so I can retire the old one and all the old P4 based servers connected to it that constitute almost half my physical server count at this point.
I have nothing against secure boot, just like I had nothing against TPM. They are merely tools that allow you to make a computer more secure if you so choose. Unless and until Microsoft completely shuts off significant Windows functionality if you aren't running these technologies then I have nothing against them. I don't want PC's to become glorified XBOX's with a different application set but I also recognize that it's impossible to have a completely secure environment without the help of hardware enforcement.
Toledo only needs 260 kW electric and 100 tons of cooling, much too small for a traditional gas turbine. In fact BHP's largest project is 2MW electric. I know I've lookup into such a setup but the noise level was unacceptable as our generators sit in the middle of the three buildings in our campus.
You are correct, this is just an update of his previous exploit against other Windows versions, it only works with legacy BIOS, not against EUFI with secure boot. The story over at ARS has been updated.
I was referring to him as a person, the fact that some of his idiosyncrasies bleed over to his software is the least of the issues I have with him =)
Falcon heavy can do ~20 tons to TLO with a few tweaks and the first launch is scheduled for next year.
Ah, good to know.
Except anyone with a resolver running BIND is potentially affected since all the attacker needs to do is point you at the invalid domain twice, that could be as simple as a webpage with the domain included and a meta refresh longer than the TTL on the domain.
How is "a smartphone with rounded edges" not a specific technology?
Most likely it was an attempt to shore up the patent against the inevitable calls for a re-evaluation by whomever they use it against. Apple can now argue that the patent has already made it through two reviews by patent examiners and that further evaluation is unnecessary.