Time can be rewritten. He'll come back. Fix deepwater horizon, prevent the disaster and then none of this thread would have ever existed. I just wonder if my mod points would survive the change:)
The worst part of this oil spill is that you can't even boycott BP effectively without also boycotting the local gas station owner and the whole refinery chain. Say that this shady keyword purchasing damage control made you so upset that you went down and picketed the BP station in your neighborhood. Well, you might be affecting BP a little but you're having a much larger impact on the guy who owns that station. A huge impact if you're there all day appealing to people's empathy for the Gulf.
What can I do? Write my senator demanding what exactly?
Actually, odds are that none of the gas you are buying at a BP station actually came from BP. The stuff all comes from the same local distributors who pass it back and forth like it's water. Local stations (none of which in the US are actually owned by BP) just pay for the right to use the name. To boycott BP you'd need to track their shipments in and out of places and then find out where things went. Unless the local distributors boycott BP (not likely) there isn't anything you'll be able to do as a customer. And besides, if BP goes under, who then will pay for the spill.
Yes, the shuttle was to be retired with no immediate replacement, but with one on the horizon. Now there is nothing on the horizon except Falcon 9 and Dragon. Which NASA probably would never use.
Supply vs. Demand curve. It's economics 101. There is less supply to meet demand thanks to Obama gutting NASA. And considering the only other market provider is China, we've effectively given Russia a monopoly.
At least with RHEL I know a about their security procedures (quite rigorious).
Last I checked, crackers actually signed openssh packages sent out over RHN for RHEL 4. Also, lets compare. Redundant oracle database server, running Enterprise edition. Lets see. Server 8K. RHEL License 300 bucks. SAN so you can support RAC - 50K. Oracle licensing for an additional server, 125K. Total cost of around 183K to run RAC compared to a standalone server. That's a lot of money to justify being immune to the major cause of downtime (Kernel patches - hardware these days just doesn't fail in a way that brings systems down).
Payback for 183K at 4 dollars a month is 45,750 months. Or 3,812 years. That's a really long time to put RAC out there as a solution just to achieve HA. Now, I'm not saying that this solution is as good as RAC at eliminating downtime, but I have 5 full time production oracle servers in a mid sized company that have had exactly 0 minutes of hardware related outage over the past 18 months. Of the outages, 95% were kernel patches. To my boss, if I can eliminate 95% of our database downtime for $20 a month, what do you think he's going to say. It's a lot more convincing then saying I can eliminate 100% of it for $180K per server, that's for sure. Maybe the economics of my company (mid sized company, supporting about 140 servers total) are the exception, but in my case, this makes damn good sense.
Unless you have an incredibly unique name, you simply say, "I have no idea who that was, but it wasn't me". There is no other identifying informaton or anything else like that.
1. If they can't support the low end stuff, wouldn't I be insane to plop down a quarter of a million dollars on something from them? 2. As I said, it was a typo. I'm a human and 3 and 4 are right next to each other on the keyboard. Deal with it.
1. It's a DS400. The internals are the same as the DS300, the controller card is just different. Wouldn't be the first typo. 2. It's used as offline storage for our databases, not as a production system. It isn't a serious problem, but thank you for classifying my issues for me. I'm fully capable of determining the difference between a serious issue and a minor inconvenience. At the same time, any hardware that has been broken for 6 months after first notifying the vendor, regardless of the criticality of the situation is ridiculous. 3. 15+ E-mails is what we've received from IBM over the past 6 months, not the other way around. I assure you that we've been sending e-mails daily and we were calling till they stopped answering. 4. I'm not the primary sysadmin working on this case, so I'm not even the one involved with IBM. I'm just copied on the e-mails and amazed by the ridiculousness of it all, especially compared to my experiences with HP and Dell support.
And the whole process has been full of ridiculousness. They'd send a tech who found both controllers unresponsive. The tech rebooted the SAN and sent the diagnostics to IBM. IBM replied a week later saying "It looks like the SAN was rebooted before the tech got there, you need to start over". So the SAN freezes again, they want to send a tech back out to get the logs, to which we point out that we've already TRIED that and the whole process repeats.
No, we are replying within 24 hours. They've sent a tech onsite once. Then they send an e-mail requesting some other piece of info which they "analyze" for 2 or 3 weeks till we poke them again.
I've got an IBM DS300 Fiber SAN with 4 hour support from IBM. It's been broken for 5 1/2 months now while we try to get IBM to fix it (Or at this point, we'd just be happy for the maintenance contract fee to be refunded). We've had about 15+ emails, half the time claiming we haven't responded to them yet and therefore we are the cause of the delay, yet quoting our reply in their message back saying we haven't responded.
I wouldn't buy another piece of IBM server equipment if you held a gun to my head.
Looking the right way is hard enough for people from the other part of the world. You guys in Melbourne decided to add those bloody J turns to the mix.
Let me get this straight, to turn left, I pull to the right side and just stop perpendicular to the cross traffic? Then I wait for the light to turn red, at which point I turn hard left and cross the intersection.
I had AT&T threaten collection on my long distance bill because I accidentally online paid it to their Universal card through bill pay. I had been a customer for 10 years, I had never missed a payment before and I had no issues with their service, but one bill, 7 days late, and they were threatening collection before anything else was even attempted. When I canceled the service and went to Verizon for long distance, I got no fewer then 6 calls from AT&T asking how they could keep me as a customer. I told them, don't treat long time customers who make a simple mistake as douches right out of the gate. It seriously is a ridiculous industry these days and the breakup of the original AT&T and everything that it brought (Bell Labs) has killed what was a pretty beneficial monopoly. Yes, it was a monopoly, but it also paid it back in the common good it provided. Now that things are profit driven, innovation is dead because you simply can't exist to feed a massive R&D budget because your competitor will just undercut you and drive you out of business before you can bring it to market. Of course, we're almost back to 1 phone company anyway....
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Time can be rewritten. He'll come back. Fix deepwater horizon, prevent the disaster and then none of this thread would have ever existed. I just wonder if my mod points would survive the change :)
The worst part of this oil spill is that you can't even boycott BP effectively without also boycotting the local gas station owner and the whole refinery chain. Say that this shady keyword purchasing damage control made you so upset that you went down and picketed the BP station in your neighborhood. Well, you might be affecting BP a little but you're having a much larger impact on the guy who owns that station. A huge impact if you're there all day appealing to people's empathy for the Gulf.
What can I do? Write my senator demanding what exactly?
Actually, odds are that none of the gas you are buying at a BP station actually came from BP. The stuff all comes from the same local distributors who pass it back and forth like it's water. Local stations (none of which in the US are actually owned by BP) just pay for the right to use the name. To boycott BP you'd need to track their shipments in and out of places and then find out where things went. Unless the local distributors boycott BP (not likely) there isn't anything you'll be able to do as a customer. And besides, if BP goes under, who then will pay for the spill.
Except when it's the former :)
Yes, the shuttle was to be retired with no immediate replacement, but with one on the horizon. Now there is nothing on the horizon except Falcon 9 and Dragon. Which NASA probably would never use.
Supply vs. Demand curve. It's economics 101. There is less supply to meet demand thanks to Obama gutting NASA. And considering the only other market provider is China, we've effectively given Russia a monopoly.
Why do they always have to be villains? Tony Stark wasn't a villain.
Remember? heck, I even had a perstor controller so my 40 meg mfm drive was running as a 76 meg drive. I even had two of em in an external enclosure.
Does Ksplice Uptrack use cryptography?
Yes. All network traffic is encrypted, and all updates are
cryptographically signed.
http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/faq
Look harder next time.
At least with RHEL I know a about their security procedures (quite rigorious).
Last I checked, crackers actually signed openssh packages sent out over RHN for RHEL 4. Also, lets compare. Redundant oracle database server, running Enterprise edition. Lets see. Server 8K. RHEL License 300 bucks. SAN so you can support RAC - 50K. Oracle licensing for an additional server, 125K. Total cost of around 183K to run RAC compared to a standalone server. That's a lot of money to justify being immune to the major cause of downtime (Kernel patches - hardware these days just doesn't fail in a way that brings systems down).
Payback for 183K at 4 dollars a month is 45,750 months. Or 3,812 years. That's a really long time to put RAC out there as a solution just to achieve HA. Now, I'm not saying that this solution is as good as RAC at eliminating downtime, but I have 5 full time production oracle servers in a mid sized company that have had exactly 0 minutes of hardware related outage over the past 18 months. Of the outages, 95% were kernel patches. To my boss, if I can eliminate 95% of our database downtime for $20 a month, what do you think he's going to say. It's a lot more convincing then saying I can eliminate 100% of it for $180K per server, that's for sure. Maybe the economics of my company (mid sized company, supporting about 140 servers total) are the exception, but in my case, this makes damn good sense.
grr Lindor *IS* a brand name of Lindt.
Actually Lindor a brand name of Lindt.
Unless you have an incredibly unique name, you simply say, "I have no idea who that was, but it wasn't me". There is no other identifying informaton or anything else like that.
No, it's more like buying a 3.18ti BMW and having the dealer treat you like scum, then wonder why you aren't buying an M5.
1. If they can't support the low end stuff, wouldn't I be insane to plop down a quarter of a million dollars on something from them?
2. As I said, it was a typo. I'm a human and 3 and 4 are right next to each other on the keyboard. Deal with it.
1. It's a DS400. The internals are the same as the DS300, the controller card is just different. Wouldn't be the first typo.
2. It's used as offline storage for our databases, not as a production system. It isn't a serious problem, but thank you for classifying my issues for me. I'm fully capable of determining the difference between a serious issue and a minor inconvenience. At the same time, any hardware that has been broken for 6 months after first notifying the vendor, regardless of the criticality of the situation is ridiculous.
3. 15+ E-mails is what we've received from IBM over the past 6 months, not the other way around. I assure you that we've been sending e-mails daily and we were calling till they stopped answering.
4. I'm not the primary sysadmin working on this case, so I'm not even the one involved with IBM. I'm just copied on the e-mails and amazed by the ridiculousness of it all, especially compared to my experiences with HP and Dell support.
And the whole process has been full of ridiculousness. They'd send a tech who found both controllers unresponsive. The tech rebooted the SAN and sent the diagnostics to IBM. IBM replied a week later saying "It looks like the SAN was rebooted before the tech got there, you need to start over". So the SAN freezes again, they want to send a tech back out to get the logs, to which we point out that we've already TRIED that and the whole process repeats.
Sorry, typo. It's a DS400. And I'll post pictures if you prefer.
No, we are replying within 24 hours. They've sent a tech onsite once. Then they send an e-mail requesting some other piece of info which they "analyze" for 2 or 3 weeks till we poke them again.
I've got an IBM DS300 Fiber SAN with 4 hour support from IBM. It's been broken for 5 1/2 months now while we try to get IBM to fix it (Or at this point, we'd just be happy for the maintenance contract fee to be refunded). We've had about 15+ emails, half the time claiming we haven't responded to them yet and therefore we are the cause of the delay, yet quoting our reply in their message back saying we haven't responded.
I wouldn't buy another piece of IBM server equipment if you held a gun to my head.
And of course I screwed that up with right hand drive sides. It's actually to turn right I pull to the left side.....
Looking the right way is hard enough for people from the other part of the world. You guys in Melbourne decided to add those bloody J turns to the mix.
Let me get this straight, to turn left, I pull to the right side and just stop perpendicular to the cross traffic? Then I wait for the light to turn red, at which point I turn hard left and cross the intersection.
Brilliant!
Actually, the third option is that our definition of impossible is wrong.
I had AT&T threaten collection on my long distance bill because I accidentally online paid it to their Universal card through bill pay. I had been a customer for 10 years, I had never missed a payment before and I had no issues with their service, but one bill, 7 days late, and they were threatening collection before anything else was even attempted. When I canceled the service and went to Verizon for long distance, I got no fewer then 6 calls from AT&T asking how they could keep me as a customer. I told them, don't treat long time customers who make a simple mistake as douches right out of the gate. It seriously is a ridiculous industry these days and the breakup of the original AT&T and everything that it brought (Bell Labs) has killed what was a pretty beneficial monopoly. Yes, it was a monopoly, but it also paid it back in the common good it provided. Now that things are profit driven, innovation is dead because you simply can't exist to feed a massive R&D budget because your competitor will just undercut you and drive you out of business before you can bring it to market. Of course, we're almost back to 1 phone company anyway....
That sucks.
The consequences might be a little rough.