"First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer, and by and large are a bit more affluent than those who buy cheapo commodity Windows PCs..."
Code Words Dictionary
Self-Selected = Chosen Ones Average PC Buyer = Stupid Ones Bit More Affluent = Upper Class
I would take defenders of the Mac platform (not that anyone should really have to defend any platform honestly) more seriously and actually read their articles thoroughly and in-depth if they didn't toss verbiage like the above around.
I want arguments that are straight to the point, avoid emotional slapstick comments - and more importantly let the pure unadulterated data carry the case.
Around 1978...
Red LED display hand-held calculator.
Next was the Apple IIe in the very early eighties...this was when I introduced to BASIC. Was fun playing Space Invaders.
Then the Commodore around 1982 or 1983...
High school was back to the Apple IIe again through 1987...
IBM XT in 1989...
HP Vectra 286-12 in 1991...overclocked the sucker to play Wolfenstein.
Pretty quick uphill ride speed-wise from there on...
=8-)
Tell that to people who do...
I've seen it...kinda nice...but I agree in a sense that the raised floor is a better placed for long cable runs hidden from view - no appearance of band aids all over the place as is common in many data rooms.
I like things, nice, neat, orderly, and easy to trace and fix...raised floor certainly helps.
Another nice thing is that assuming cables in a raised floor are suspended somewhat - it makes a great drainage duct in the event of a floor or spill of some kind...assuming an outlet somewhere...
A raised floor can be used as a safety and or equipment protection feature...
=8-)
All must be done - or no go!!! You can't pick and choose...
1. Go with concrete floor that is certified SEALED. 2. Arrange racks in the same row arrangement...i.e., all in parallel. 3. At each end of the racks - place your coolers - usually 20 tonners...that's where the heat pickup occurs.
4. Have those coolers dump their recycled air via the ceiling throughout the room.
The next steps are extremely important...
5. For every set of entrance/exit doors to the room, there must be a room between those doors and the main corridors outside - i.e., to exit one must exit from the data room through doors into a small adjacent room and then through doors again to the main traffic areas outside.
6. This buffer room between the data room and the main traffic corridors must have it's own 3-5 ton cooling unit - usually in the ceiling.
Why?
1. Sealing concrete floor reduces moisture seepage from the ground... 2. Parallel rows allow for a air circulation pattern to and from coolers... 3. Obvious postion for the coolers...they create the cycle and flow... 4. Obvious...
5. Creates an air exchange buffer for treated, semi-treated and untreated air. 6. Pre-cooling of air in the adjacent room before it seeps through the doors into the dataroom itself prevent ice buildup on the coils of your coolers in the data room.
There's nothing more irritating than having moisture brought in via warm outside air directly creating ice buildup on your coolers. Thus you need a cooled buffer room with it's own moisture removal piping.
=8-)
The above design works quite well for a 100 rack / 1000-2000 server room relatively squarish in configuration. Includes EMC/Netapp cabinets...
so the little monster in me pops out and expresses bewilderment at a certain kind of posting that has occurred on Slashdot lately:
"Hi I'm Bob. And I have a problem. I have this...I have that...I have that also...I've been doing this...my wife has been doing that...and now we've found ourselves with the following situation. I don't want to do X. I also don't won't to do Z. I heard about Z not being so reliable afterall...so I don't want to do that either. I want my cake and I wan't to eat it too.
So...
Here I am...I've painted myself into a corner so friggin tight...so tight that I'm controlling how people help me...so much so that I'm holding a gun to my head with my finger on the trigger already half way squeezed.
What to do?"
If you don't know what I'm refering to...then move along.
on various boards and to friends, co-workers and family...
When "Osama/Al Queda/Biggy Terrorists" acquire a nuke...they will acquire just one and THEY WILL NOT BRING IT TO THE US.
Instead they will set it off in India in the general area where the US and other Westernized nations have sent their offshored technical/support and engineering jobs.
This action alone will bring the US/Westernized economies to their knees worldwide. Furthermore, it is how the terrorists can actually win by getting winning through the efforts of their enemies.
India's response will be to assume that IT HAD TO COME THROUGH PAKISTAN...and launch a nuke at Pakistan.
With that powder keg lit...US comes to India's aid...China presses Taiwan thinking our hands our full...we hit back as a form of saying, "not so fast".
And Russia? Germany? UK? France? I find myself having a hard time calling their responses. Lot has changed since the Cold War.
If and when this happens - the terrorists get to watch the big boys do most of their work for them which is simple - take each other down - while they go one building their network.
Love how all three in reply danced around the simple note:
Stick to the topic...don't inject politics are remotely related crap into it. Post it...comment on IT!.
Got a problem with that folks?
As to the "well look who's pointing out the guys failure to clarify which type of stem cell" reply...
Didn't think about the point I was making did you?
Does the phrase "purposely misleading representation of an issue" ring a bell?
=8-)
Needs to re-read my post...
1. Google...not the only to note link...
2. Bringing "meaning" implies that someone decides what is "meaningful" and too often that someone has an agenda.
=8-)
who sit on the floor with their legs crossed with their eyes rolled back and fingers forming circles are taking the Internet over with their "holistic", "whole-language", "non-judgemental", "authentic", "culturally-sensitive", "non-anglo-saxon centric", "green" politically correct approach to communication...
is the following:
1. The mindset that the government is who we are to depend upon to solve all our ills beyond those specifically spelled out in the constitution...
2. The the mindset that somehow we owe or should play a leading role in UN and other global orgs.
3. The mindset that we are a democracy - we are not...
4. The mindset that government should be the arbitrer of how we live our private daily lives...
5. The almost total absence of questions regarding the illegal alien problem, insecure borders, and the families of H1-Bs families being allowed to use taxpayer provided services - and the existence of H1-Bs themselves.
6. The almost total absence of questions regarding the legality of the income tax, the fraud of the 16th Amendment, and the fiat system we currently operate under. Hell, lop in Social Security while we are at it.
7. The total absence of questions regarding the very clearly worded 2nd Amendment and the continued assault upon it as well as the 4th Amendment.
8. etc....
Instead all we get is a constant train of "defining marriage", "AIDs", "the electoral college", many of which are driven by and are from the agenda of the Socialist and Communist's of America...many of which are hiding behind labels such as, "MoveOn.Org, NOW, Greenpeace, The Green Party, The Sierra Club, People for the American Way, Mecha, etc., etc.,"
Our Constitution and our rights and our national soveriegnty are under daily assault and those are the questions submitted?
And yes...no electronic voting of any kind should exist in my honest opinion.
=8-)
Without using a penny of E-Rate money, or money intended for traditional classroom, pullout, or library materials - I and another teacher did the following:
1997-1998
Repaired and put 15 existing P-166s into place running Win95 onto a 16 port 10Mpbs hub. Then when out and bought parts for 13 C686-200s. Had a dozen students build them and install Win95 OSR2 on them. Linked them to another 16 port 10Mpbs hub and uplinked that to the first. All were physically placed behind a Celeron 300a running Slackware and IP_Masq which of course was running a public IP via the school ISDN line. I also ran Squid on the Linux box to efficiently use the ISDN line - even later when upgraded to a T-1.
The resulting lab cost only $8000 bucks tech-wise, and the new tables that arrived a few months later another $5000. The lab was used at least 5 periods a day on average for almost every week of the school year.
Once again, not a penny used from E-Rate.
Right when I left, the 3 month old administrative servers were being replaced with the exact same but newer administrative servers. And a board req. for dozens of high-end Cisco hardware items was being acted upon.
And of course the Union was screaming during negotiations:
"The District says they have no more money - how are they buying this stuff?"
1. Open front door. 2. Power down and unplug computer. 3. Toss out front door. 4. Listen to it, bang, crash, and splatter. 5. Turn around and say, "Now there! Happy?" 6. Walk away while she is still in shock.
She'll buy you a new and better one, let you play when you usually do. She'll also give you a schedule of her free time...instead of whining. And you'll be certain to take advantage of the hint.
I believe that Atlantis is really a reference to a global cilization that existed a long while back - that was brought to its knees by one or more natural catastrophes...
Sites are being explored off the coast of India, Japan, Cuba, Ireland and in the Mediterranean...
In other words, where the pre-Greek civilization dealt with Atlantis...they saw that part as it existed in the Med...where the Japanese tales refer to the Temple of Mu was their interface with Atlantis. And the Indian likewise...
As explorers of past civilizations dig deeper and deeper - they are discovering that it is more and more likely that our current global trade and interaction is not the first in human history.
Personally, I'm getting a real kick out of it...
Assuming I'm right, sure would be nice to know what was the primary cause for it's breakdown or demise...asteroid? Volcanoes? Global Cooling?
=8-)
Then give it a good boost to send it out in the footsteps of our good friend in the heliopause...
Of course, all the naysayers will pop up and talk it down due to power requirements, payload, mods, orbits and orbital velocities for escape, the shuttle program, Bush, Congress, Osama...etc...kinda explaining why they don't have NASA jobs to begin with - negativism without even giving it a thought at trying it...
Simply cannot get to the web site today...
It's pingable, can browse site initially with telnet://www.php.net 80 and do a GET/index.html.
Elsewise, no cookie when using browser...
Just hangs...
=8-(
I find that most folks in IT with a PhD are founders of companies...and serve in a senior role in development, QA or as CIO.
Keyword being founder...
Seems like the path for PhD folks is to become their own employer...a different path in life than those simply doing the coding, testing the product, etc.
=8-)
First, do call an electrical contractor who is also allowed to consult for those doing the work themselves. Plan a couple hours up front, a couple in the middle, and a couple inspection hours at the end.
Let him/her know several things:
1. Shutting down the panel for a total of 3 days time throughout the project is acceptable. 2. That you want to address the safety issues first. 3. That you want to do it right. 4. That you want to have him/her lay down the ground rules - even if it means going the simple route only such as outlets only on 12g circuits and lights only on 14g circuits, etc. 5. That you want a serious critiqe of your work before signing off - that means real tugs on nuts, checking torque on breaker screws - testing GFCIs etc.
Before proceeding, be sure your company's HR and Legal departments are okay with it - and the company insurance covers you.
Be prepared to replace enclosures, and undo junction boxes that were put in place to repair wiring - i.e., replace them with complete haul wires.
Most importantly, do all neutral and ground wires before completing connections of hots. This adds a significant layer of safety while working.
Also, anytime you are working in panels - instruct others around you what to do if you do the "twist".
Finally, if for any reason those running the environment start to throw around the usual "we gotta have it up and running now", or "we can't do it tonight", "or this is mission critical" bullshit - inform those in charge you are unable to do the job. Best to deal with this before you start.
If it doesn't work out, the company will just have to pay an electrician to do it - they probably deserve it too. Stuff like this doesn't happen by accident.
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"First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer, and by and large are a bit more affluent than those who buy cheapo commodity Windows PCs..."
Code Words Dictionary
Self-Selected = Chosen Ones
Average PC Buyer = Stupid Ones
Bit More Affluent = Upper Class
I would take defenders of the Mac platform (not that anyone should really have to defend any platform honestly) more seriously and actually read their articles thoroughly and in-depth if they didn't toss verbiage like the above around.
I want arguments that are straight to the point, avoid emotional slapstick comments - and more importantly let the pure unadulterated data carry the case.
=8-)
Around 1978... Red LED display hand-held calculator. Next was the Apple IIe in the very early eighties...this was when I introduced to BASIC. Was fun playing Space Invaders. Then the Commodore around 1982 or 1983... High school was back to the Apple IIe again through 1987... IBM XT in 1989... HP Vectra 286-12 in 1991...overclocked the sucker to play Wolfenstein. Pretty quick uphill ride speed-wise from there on... =8-)
Tell that to people who do... I've seen it...kinda nice...but I agree in a sense that the raised floor is a better placed for long cable runs hidden from view - no appearance of band aids all over the place as is common in many data rooms. I like things, nice, neat, orderly, and easy to trace and fix...raised floor certainly helps. Another nice thing is that assuming cables in a raised floor are suspended somewhat - it makes a great drainage duct in the event of a floor or spill of some kind...assuming an outlet somewhere... A raised floor can be used as a safety and or equipment protection feature... =8-)
The low cost BUT viable solution I've used...
All must be done - or no go!!! You can't pick and choose...
1. Go with concrete floor that is certified SEALED.
2. Arrange racks in the same row arrangement...i.e., all in parallel.
3. At each end of the racks - place your coolers - usually 20 tonners...that's where the heat pickup occurs.
4. Have those coolers dump their recycled air via the ceiling throughout the room.
The next steps are extremely important...
5. For every set of entrance/exit doors to the room, there must be a room between those doors and the main corridors outside - i.e., to exit one must exit from the data room through doors into a small adjacent room and then through doors again to the main traffic areas outside.
6. This buffer room between the data room and the main traffic corridors must have it's own 3-5 ton cooling unit - usually in the ceiling.
Why?
1. Sealing concrete floor reduces moisture seepage from the ground...
2. Parallel rows allow for a air circulation pattern to and from coolers...
3. Obvious postion for the coolers...they create the cycle and flow...
4. Obvious...
5. Creates an air exchange buffer for treated, semi-treated and untreated air.
6. Pre-cooling of air in the adjacent room before it seeps through the doors into the dataroom itself prevent ice buildup on the coils of your coolers in the data room.
There's nothing more irritating than having moisture brought in via warm outside air directly creating ice buildup on your coolers. Thus you need a cooled buffer room with it's own moisture removal piping.
=8-)
The above design works quite well for a 100 rack / 1000-2000 server room relatively squarish in configuration. Includes EMC/Netapp cabinets...
=8-)
so the little monster in me pops out and expresses bewilderment at a certain kind of posting that has occurred on Slashdot lately:
"Hi I'm Bob. And I have a problem. I have this...I have that...I have that also...I've been doing this...my wife has been doing that...and now we've found ourselves with the following situation. I don't want to do X. I also don't won't to do Z. I heard about Z not being so reliable afterall...so I don't want to do that either. I want my cake and I wan't to eat it too.
So...
Here I am...I've painted myself into a corner so friggin tight...so tight that I'm controlling how people help me...so much so that I'm holding a gun to my head with my finger on the trigger already half way squeezed.
What to do?"
If you don't know what I'm refering to...then move along.
Night!
=8-)
And you are replying to me because? (Read my post very carefully....) =8-)
...whether the prevailing attitude was computers as tools or computers as toys in the environment where they were used...
Makes a huge difference.
As as a teacher - I never used them as the instructor - that was ME!
They are an instruction tool - one among many. Very important distinction to be made there.
And great for use in completing some ASSIGNMENTS but not all.
Oh...and beleive me...whether or not one knows how to use one make a big difference in getting a job...
I find myself suspicious of the article...either they are quoting a poorly designed or biased study - or using a good study but spinning it.
=8-)
on various boards and to friends, co-workers and family...
When "Osama/Al Queda/Biggy Terrorists" acquire a nuke...they will acquire just one and THEY WILL NOT BRING IT TO THE US.
Instead they will set it off in India in the general area where the US and other Westernized nations have sent their offshored technical/support and engineering jobs.
This action alone will bring the US/Westernized economies to their knees worldwide. Furthermore, it is how the terrorists can actually win by getting winning through the efforts of their enemies.
India's response will be to assume that IT HAD TO COME THROUGH PAKISTAN...and launch a nuke at Pakistan.
With that powder keg lit...US comes to India's aid...China presses Taiwan thinking our hands our full...we hit back as a form of saying, "not so fast".
And Russia? Germany? UK? France? I find myself having a hard time calling their responses. Lot has changed since the Cold War.
If and when this happens - the terrorists get to watch the big boys do most of their work for them which is simple - take each other down - while they go one building their network.
=8-)
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Love how all three in reply danced around the simple note: Stick to the topic...don't inject politics are remotely related crap into it. Post it...comment on IT!. Got a problem with that folks? As to the "well look who's pointing out the guys failure to clarify which type of stem cell" reply... Didn't think about the point I was making did you? Does the phrase "purposely misleading representation of an issue" ring a bell? =8-)
Sick of this kind of sleight of hand shit with remotely related crap...
And isn't it odd how the poster tossed out the general term stell cell research...instead of clarifying adult or embryonic...
Kinda reminds me of the post way back about one topic and suddenly half-way through it suddenly goes the "Bush evil" or "Republican's bad" crap.
Keep your side politically motivated comments to yourself people. Post the fucking commentary and article...stick to it or don't bother.
This kind of behavior is worse than trolling on a BB...
=8-(
Needs to re-read my post... 1. Google...not the only to note link... 2. Bringing "meaning" implies that someone decides what is "meaningful" and too often that someone has an agenda. =8-)
who sit on the floor with their legs crossed with their eyes rolled back and fingers forming circles are taking the Internet over with their "holistic", "whole-language", "non-judgemental", "authentic", "culturally-sensitive", "non-anglo-saxon centric", "green" politically correct approach to communication...
OR
Google is about to get better...
=8-)
is the following: 1. The mindset that the government is who we are to depend upon to solve all our ills beyond those specifically spelled out in the constitution... 2. The the mindset that somehow we owe or should play a leading role in UN and other global orgs. 3. The mindset that we are a democracy - we are not... 4. The mindset that government should be the arbitrer of how we live our private daily lives... 5. The almost total absence of questions regarding the illegal alien problem, insecure borders, and the families of H1-Bs families being allowed to use taxpayer provided services - and the existence of H1-Bs themselves. 6. The almost total absence of questions regarding the legality of the income tax, the fraud of the 16th Amendment, and the fiat system we currently operate under. Hell, lop in Social Security while we are at it. 7. The total absence of questions regarding the very clearly worded 2nd Amendment and the continued assault upon it as well as the 4th Amendment. 8. etc.... Instead all we get is a constant train of "defining marriage", "AIDs", "the electoral college", many of which are driven by and are from the agenda of the Socialist and Communist's of America...many of which are hiding behind labels such as, "MoveOn.Org, NOW, Greenpeace, The Green Party, The Sierra Club, People for the American Way, Mecha, etc., etc.," Our Constitution and our rights and our national soveriegnty are under daily assault and those are the questions submitted? And yes...no electronic voting of any kind should exist in my honest opinion. =8-)
Without using a penny of E-Rate money, or money intended for traditional classroom, pullout, or library materials - I and another teacher did the following:
1997-1998
Repaired and put 15 existing P-166s into place running Win95 onto a 16 port 10Mpbs hub. Then when out and bought parts for 13 C686-200s. Had a dozen students build them and install Win95 OSR2 on them. Linked them to another 16 port 10Mpbs hub and uplinked that to the first. All were physically placed behind a Celeron 300a running Slackware and IP_Masq which of course was running a public IP via the school ISDN line. I also ran Squid on the Linux box to efficiently use the ISDN line - even later when upgraded to a T-1.
The resulting lab cost only $8000 bucks tech-wise, and the new tables that arrived a few months later another $5000. The lab was used at least 5 periods a day on average for almost every week of the school year.
Once again, not a penny used from E-Rate.
Right when I left, the 3 month old administrative servers were being replaced with the exact same but newer administrative servers. And a board req. for dozens of high-end Cisco hardware items was being acted upon.
And of course the Union was screaming during negotiations:
"The District says they have no more money - how are they buying this stuff?"
=8-)
Guess how?
When she brings up the issue...
1. Open front door.
2. Power down and unplug computer.
3. Toss out front door.
4. Listen to it, bang, crash, and splatter.
5. Turn around and say, "Now there! Happy?"
6. Walk away while she is still in shock.
She'll buy you a new and better one, let you play when you usually do. She'll also give you a schedule of her free time...instead of whining. And you'll be certain to take advantage of the hint.
=8-)
I believe that Atlantis is really a reference to a global cilization that existed a long while back - that was brought to its knees by one or more natural catastrophes... Sites are being explored off the coast of India, Japan, Cuba, Ireland and in the Mediterranean... In other words, where the pre-Greek civilization dealt with Atlantis...they saw that part as it existed in the Med...where the Japanese tales refer to the Temple of Mu was their interface with Atlantis. And the Indian likewise... As explorers of past civilizations dig deeper and deeper - they are discovering that it is more and more likely that our current global trade and interaction is not the first in human history. Personally, I'm getting a real kick out of it... Assuming I'm right, sure would be nice to know what was the primary cause for it's breakdown or demise...asteroid? Volcanoes? Global Cooling? =8-)
...otherwise you wouldn't have so much trouble with closing tags...
=8-)
Send up a crew to do repairs...
Then give it a good boost to send it out in the footsteps of our good friend in the heliopause...
Of course, all the naysayers will pop up and talk it down due to power requirements, payload, mods, orbits and orbital velocities for escape, the shuttle program, Bush, Congress, Osama...etc...kinda explaining why they don't have NASA jobs to begin with - negativism without even giving it a thought at trying it...
the Net Integrator series... http://www.net-itech.com =8-)
bashing article in the guise of post-employment enlightenment.
Don't people have better things to do then live for every opportunity to bash someone...geesh...
Go hound the IRS or something...or join Al-Queda...
=8-)
...the bugs don't send these moons our way.
=8-)
Simply cannot get to the web site today... It's pingable, can browse site initially with telnet://www.php.net 80 and do a GET /index.html.
Elsewise, no cookie when using browser...
Just hangs...
=8-(
I find that most folks in IT with a PhD are founders of companies...and serve in a senior role in development, QA or as CIO. Keyword being founder... Seems like the path for PhD folks is to become their own employer...a different path in life than those simply doing the coding, testing the product, etc. =8-)
First, do call an electrical contractor who is also allowed to consult for those doing the work themselves. Plan a couple hours up front, a couple in the middle, and a couple inspection hours at the end.
Let him/her know several things:
1. Shutting down the panel for a total of 3 days time throughout the project is acceptable.
2. That you want to address the safety issues first.
3. That you want to do it right.
4. That you want to have him/her lay down the ground rules - even if it means going the simple route only such as outlets only on 12g circuits and lights only on 14g circuits, etc.
5. That you want a serious critiqe of your work before signing off - that means real tugs on nuts, checking torque on breaker screws - testing GFCIs etc.
Before proceeding, be sure your company's HR and Legal departments are okay with it - and the company insurance covers you.
Be prepared to replace enclosures, and undo junction boxes that were put in place to repair wiring - i.e., replace them with complete haul wires.
Most importantly, do all neutral and ground wires before completing connections of hots. This adds a significant layer of safety while working.
Also, anytime you are working in panels - instruct others around you what to do if you do the "twist".
Finally, if for any reason those running the environment start to throw around the usual "we gotta have it up and running now", or "we can't do it tonight", "or this is mission critical" bullshit - inform those in charge you are unable to do the job. Best to deal with this before you start.
If it doesn't work out, the company will just have to pay an electrician to do it - they probably deserve it too. Stuff like this doesn't happen by accident.
=8-)