The fundamental thing that everybody seems to be missing is the use of *WRITE* cache. If you add a big write cache to a HD, along with a small battery to keep it going should the system fail, you'll blow the doors off of everything. That's what the large fibre-channel RAID arrays do.
That's why the increase in cache sizes helps so tremendously. You can avoid the spindle delay entirely.
Think of techies just like Doctors. They troubleshoot and tell you what is wrong with your system. If your system (or body) is sick, you *must* go to the Doctor, or you will not survive.
You can talk about marketing, engineering, finance, etc. all you want. When you've *lost* your business data, your business teeters at the point of ruin.
Lose a marketing person and see if your business folds.
But, I don't expect you to understand. You're a Top 50 IT Executive... idiot. It's people like you that think that outsourcing (key competencies) is a good thing.
I agree that the company that comes up with information management will be successful.
However, until such time as we get away from Word, Excel (documents and spreadsheets) and traditional relational database products, we'll never see the next jump into information management. We need to get from our processes of today to the processes that will drive information management.
Kinda like the jump between communism and socialism to me. You want to do it, but you can't figure out how.
Like the old joke: The step between communism and socialism is alcoholism.
Actually, I think it indicates that the use of a computer isn't necessary to teach CS. In other words, CS no longer teaches about computers, but about (old) theories that are basically irrelevant today.
My main complaint re: html is that the distributions don't put the html documention into any sort of easily-browsable format. The html doc is in/usr/share/doc/program/html or some such that *I* have to find to access. If a program supports html doc, it should be placed into a heirarchy so that regular users can point their browser at it. Nevermind that the standard webserver should offer the html docs by default under SERVERROOT.
I disagree. I've had my hard drives on OSX corrupt multiple times. UFS may introduce some performance penalties for sync writes, but:
- There are literally dozens of vendors that use UFS for their filessystems due to it's reliability. Sun, HP, BSD, etc. I don't see anybody beating a path to Apple's door because HFS+ is *so* superior. - I see no mention of HFS+ from filesystem researchers. If it were superior (in any way), I tend to think that features from HFS+ would make it into other filesystems. - Apple can't even get fsck to work right -- you have to depend on external vendors (Norton, others) to fsck your data. That's LAME.
I realized this after college. A college degree represents the amount of bullsh*t you can deal with, and still make it through. It has nothing to do with learning, nothing to do with 'real life', nothing to do with what you know.
Bachelor's = lots of BS
Masters = TONS of BS
Doctors = Physically and Mentally damaged (beyond hope, able to handle only niche research)
After all, the real answer in life:
It's not what you know, it's WHO you know.
Go to college. Get your piece of paper. Get Big Bucks afterwords.
If you can get by w/o college, go for the gold. It's, after all, only a piece of paper.
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The fundamental thing that everybody seems to be missing is the use of *WRITE* cache. If you add a big write cache to a HD, along with a small battery to keep it going should the system fail, you'll blow the doors off of everything. That's what the large fibre-channel RAID arrays do.
That's why the increase in cache sizes helps so tremendously. You can avoid the spindle delay entirely.
Spoken like a Fortune 50 IT executive.
... idiot. It's people like you that think that outsourcing (key competencies) is a good thing.
Think of techies just like Doctors. They troubleshoot and tell you what is wrong with your system. If your system (or body) is sick, you *must* go to the Doctor, or you will not survive.
You can talk about marketing, engineering, finance, etc. all you want. When you've *lost* your business data, your business teeters at the point of ruin.
Lose a marketing person and see if your business folds.
But, I don't expect you to understand. You're a Top 50 IT Executive
I agree that the company that comes up with information management will be successful.
However, until such time as we get away from Word, Excel (documents and spreadsheets) and traditional relational database products, we'll never see the next jump into information management. We need to get from our processes of today to the processes that will drive information management.
Kinda like the jump between communism and socialism to me. You want to do it, but you can't figure out how.
Like the old joke: The step between communism and socialism is alcoholism.
Actually, I think it indicates that the use of a computer isn't necessary to teach CS. In other words, CS no longer teaches about computers, but about (old) theories that are basically irrelevant today.
My main complaint re: html is that the distributions don't put the html documention into any sort of easily-browsable format. The html doc is in /usr/share/doc/program/html or some such that *I* have to find to access. If a program supports html doc, it should be placed into a heirarchy so that regular users can point their browser at it. Nevermind that the standard webserver should offer the html docs by default under SERVERROOT.
I disagree. I've had my hard drives on OSX corrupt multiple times. UFS may introduce some performance penalties for sync writes, but:
- There are literally dozens of vendors that use UFS for their filessystems due to it's reliability. Sun, HP, BSD, etc. I don't see anybody beating a path to Apple's door because HFS+ is *so* superior.
- I see no mention of HFS+ from filesystem researchers. If it were superior (in any way), I tend to think that features from HFS+ would make it into other filesystems.
- Apple can't even get fsck to work right -- you have to depend on external vendors (Norton, others) to fsck your data. That's LAME.
I trust UFS and ext3. I trust vxfs more.
I trust HFS+ not at all.
I realized this after college. A college degree represents the amount of bullsh*t you can deal with, and still make it through. It has nothing to do with learning, nothing to do with 'real life', nothing to do with what you know. Bachelor's = lots of BS Masters = TONS of BS Doctors = Physically and Mentally damaged (beyond hope, able to handle only niche research) After all, the real answer in life: It's not what you know, it's WHO you know. Go to college. Get your piece of paper. Get Big Bucks afterwords. If you can get by w/o college, go for the gold. It's, after all, only a piece of paper.