Some states (see: Connecticut) have drivers licenses that are extremely difficult-if not impossible-to copy physically without having the exact same equipment that the DMV has.
So how hard would it be to scam/bribe a DMV worker?
And then you move 250 machines to a new colo a few miles away, yet closer to a different airport.
If you don't have hosts in the old system, then do nothing. If you do, then suck it up - having the DC in the host name fixes a lot of problems, including name resolution. Of course, most of the hosts I've owned were tool-managed and fronted by VIPs - buy new gear, provision, move in the vip, decommission old gear (and let someone else use it).
Name them whatever you want on the inside, then use an alias for stuff on the outside.
These are all internal names. Don't ever expose internal hostnames if someone is going to link it directly.
But don't tie geography to the hosts. You'll always have to rename them if they move, even aliased.
what's the big deal? I must be spoiled, since this was a matter of putting in a request from a web form, which pulled hardware from a pool, automatically installed OS and base crap, then sent me some email so I could do an app install, smoke it, and add it to the vip.
I liked the way they did it in my last job: --####, so you'd have a host called payment-gw-den-1001. Since this was enforced, and there were thousands of hosts, you'd be able to look at a box, figure out who owned the thing and where it was (if a DC is having local problems, for instance). Not clever, but clever just gets you into trouble.
The plan was to convert things with halflifes of 50,000 years to half lifes of hours.
I've got a different idea: separate out the 50,000 year halflife stuff and just ignore it. I mean really - who cares about something that's barely radioactive?
although "computer" is also used colloquially to refer to this+monitor, in fact there is no real "correct" word for this collection.
I dunno, computers as 'boxes with stuff inside' works pretty well. You just have to distinguish computer from computer with peripherals.
What's a core? What's a processor?
A core is something that the OS can run threads on. A processor has 1 or more cores and plugs into a socket in the computer. Threads are where the actual computing is done, and being able to run a bunch of them at once is good so long as your apps can make use of them sensibly.
What if my machine is running SETI@Home; what's the "computer" in that case?
Same thing. It's just that the app is really big.
And what, fundamentally, are REALLY the differences between hard drive, RAM, and cache? Aren't these not fundamental concepts, but rather a hack to deal with the perhaps temporary practical matter that "storage" is either fast or cheap but not both?
Fundamentally, our computers have persistent storage and nonpersistent storage. HDs fall in one bucket and ram in another. Cache isn't storage, it's there to make your processor wait less. Your point about the fast/cheap thing is valid, but this changes over time - old school computers used something like a HD to store memory, and Palm stores everything in persistent memory. I usually explain it with 'here is where you store documents and pics and apps, and here is where you load them to do work'. Sometimes it works better than others.
I always hated that quote. How about "those who do can't teach".
How about "we get the quality of teachers we're willing to pay for." I'm pretty good at software - you'd have to pay be double or more the median salary for teachers to match what I make now, and that's assuming that a teaching cert has no value (it does in fact add to the cost). If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
I'd go so far as to say that skilled politicians are somewhat sociopathic in that regard - they can lie without any stress because they see nothing wrong with it and expect to get away with it.
Yes because you calling your grandmother to chit chat using VoIP is far more important than me sending Magnetic Resonance Imaging files to India via FTP.
Sure is. In fact, you are stating as much by choosing to use residential cable service to do it. If it's that important, pay for a guarantee.
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To a lot of Joe-Six packs, "fast enough" won't be enough until they can push the power button and the thing comes on and when they click the application is up and running before they lift their finger off the mouse button.
We've got that with laptops; all that is needed is to apply it on a desktop deployment.
I don't think you're kidding - a month or so ago, I read about some guy who received a package of pot by mistake (2kg in a bag in a box). SWAT showed up, ordered everyone on the ground and searched the place, all because he got a box delivered to his house by mistake.
Don't be simple - that's a fairly thin veil on a death threat, and you know it. As for you example, do you think the folded note for dad is any less chilling than actually doing the deed? It states in simple terms 'we can get to you at a time of our choosing'.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic, but the rest of us include the software that the server is there to run and its config in server setup. Invalid security certs don't give me a warm fuzzy.
No, the BOFH is a make believe character that allows IT types to vent about their idiot bosses/users/etc. In real life, you need social skills or a damn near unassailable position.
Yeah, because everyone who immigrates to the US illegally is a triggerhappy thug.
I was referencing a specific triggerhappy thug from a month or two back.
I guess we shouldn't give anyone who immigrates illegally any benefit of the doubt before they actually commit a crime--clearly, the only people worth that are born here!
Basically - if you come here illegally, you should get booted back out. The only people worth keeping are the ones who actually are here legally - imagine that!
Seems to me that destroying a dead hdd is a perfect excuse for making and deploying thermite. Good luck recovering a lump of burnt metal embedded into a concrete brick.
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Nah, walmart would never stand for it.
In the olden days, you could move to a new town and start over if you screwed up bad enough. Nowadays, you have to leave the country.
Some states (see: Connecticut) have drivers licenses that are extremely difficult-if not impossible-to copy physically without having the exact same equipment that the DMV has.
So how hard would it be to scam/bribe a DMV worker?
And then you move 250 machines to a new colo a few miles away, yet closer to a different airport.
If you don't have hosts in the old system, then do nothing. If you do, then suck it up - having the DC in the host name fixes a lot of problems, including name resolution. Of course, most of the hosts I've owned were tool-managed and fronted by VIPs - buy new gear, provision, move in the vip, decommission old gear (and let someone else use it).
Name them whatever you want on the inside, then use an alias for stuff on the outside.
These are all internal names. Don't ever expose internal hostnames if someone is going to link it directly.
But don't tie geography to the hosts. You'll always have to rename them if they move, even aliased.
what's the big deal? I must be spoiled, since this was a matter of putting in a request from a web form, which pulled hardware from a pool, automatically installed OS and base crap, then sent me some email so I could do an app install, smoke it, and add it to the vip.
And a server that serves more than 1 role?
Gets virtualized. Then you can move the virt to better hardware if its role requires it.
I liked the way they did it in my last job: --####, so you'd have a host called payment-gw-den-1001. Since this was enforced, and there were thousands of hosts, you'd be able to look at a box, figure out who owned the thing and where it was (if a DC is having local problems, for instance). Not clever, but clever just gets you into trouble.
I think the same thing with Saturday Night Live.
No, SNL just sucks. The stuff with Steve Martin is still funny 20 years later. Current stuff, not so much.
Good thing I didn't say better idea, huh?
The plan was to convert things with halflifes of 50,000 years to half lifes of hours.
I've got a different idea: separate out the 50,000 year halflife stuff and just ignore it. I mean really - who cares about something that's barely radioactive?
* didn't understand why "to boldly go" was poor language
Why is that bad? Sure, you split an infinitive, but so what? This isn't latin.
although "computer" is also used colloquially to refer to this+monitor, in fact there is no real "correct" word for this collection.
I dunno, computers as 'boxes with stuff inside' works pretty well. You just have to distinguish computer from computer with peripherals.
What's a core? What's a processor?
A core is something that the OS can run threads on. A processor has 1 or more cores and plugs into a socket in the computer. Threads are where the actual computing is done, and being able to run a bunch of them at once is good so long as your apps can make use of them sensibly.
What if my machine is running SETI@Home; what's the "computer" in that case?
Same thing. It's just that the app is really big.
And what, fundamentally, are REALLY the differences between hard drive, RAM, and cache? Aren't these not fundamental concepts, but rather a hack to deal with the perhaps temporary practical matter that "storage" is either fast or cheap but not both?
Fundamentally, our computers have persistent storage and nonpersistent storage. HDs fall in one bucket and ram in another. Cache isn't storage, it's there to make your processor wait less. Your point about the fast/cheap thing is valid, but this changes over time - old school computers used something like a HD to store memory, and Palm stores everything in persistent memory. I usually explain it with 'here is where you store documents and pics and apps, and here is where you load them to do work'. Sometimes it works better than others.
I always hated that quote. How about "those who do can't teach".
How about "we get the quality of teachers we're willing to pay for." I'm pretty good at software - you'd have to pay be double or more the median salary for teachers to match what I make now, and that's assuming that a teaching cert has no value (it does in fact add to the cost). If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
I'd go so far as to say that skilled politicians are somewhat sociopathic in that regard - they can lie without any stress because they see nothing wrong with it and expect to get away with it.
Yes because you calling your grandmother to chit chat using VoIP is far more important than me sending Magnetic Resonance Imaging files to India via FTP.
Sure is. In fact, you are stating as much by choosing to use residential cable service to do it. If it's that important, pay for a guarantee.
To a lot of Joe-Six packs, "fast enough" won't be enough until they can push the power button and the thing comes on and when they click the application is up and running before they lift their finger off the mouse button.
We've got that with laptops; all that is needed is to apply it on a desktop deployment.
His original statement has not held true.
Sure it did. His original statement was an observation, not a prediction.
I don't think you're kidding - a month or so ago, I read about some guy who received a package of pot by mistake (2kg in a bag in a box). SWAT showed up, ordered everyone on the ground and searched the place, all because he got a box delivered to his house by mistake.
Don't be simple - that's a fairly thin veil on a death threat, and you know it. As for you example, do you think the folded note for dad is any less chilling than actually doing the deed? It states in simple terms 'we can get to you at a time of our choosing'.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic, but the rest of us include the software that the server is there to run and its config in server setup. Invalid security certs don't give me a warm fuzzy.
Predator? Are you high? These are teenagers passing nudie pics around; just ignore it.
No, the BOFH is a make believe character that allows IT types to vent about their idiot bosses/users/etc. In real life, you need social skills or a damn near unassailable position.
This kind of reminds me when a dorky buddy of mine suddenly became an expert in "The Game".
Hehe, I remember that book/website/incoherent rant. It's partly true, but you're better off applying the non-asshole portions than going whole hog.
Hey, if my margins are 15% and revenues drop 10% without a drop in costs, my margin is suddenly 3.5% - that's a 77% drop in profit.
Yeah, because everyone who immigrates to the US illegally is a triggerhappy thug.
I was referencing a specific triggerhappy thug from a month or two back.
I guess we shouldn't give anyone who immigrates illegally any benefit of the doubt before they actually commit a crime--clearly, the only people worth that are born here!
Basically - if you come here illegally, you should get booted back out. The only people worth keeping are the ones who actually are here legally - imagine that!
Seems to me that destroying a dead hdd is a perfect excuse for making and deploying thermite. Good luck recovering a lump of burnt metal embedded into a concrete brick.