I bet you are also the kind of Linux fanatic who keeps telling people, "the source is right there, fix it yourself".
Even though source code is available it can be quite a daunting task to figure out why something is running slow, end even then you are still faced with the task of making it go faster. Poking around some CMS or other (usually) small scale system with a few thousands lines of codes is not a biggie, but trying to fix something with 100.000+ lines of code is pretty much impossible unless you have extensive knowledge of the project.
Also please tone down the Linux zealotry, you are more than likely hurting Linux image rather than achieving what you want.
Now think about a corporate drone using Windows. Your desktop is locked down, updates are rolled out by IT. If your machine is taken over by an IE exploit, the Exchange server fails, etc. etc., there is nothing you can do about it.
Why would it be any different on Linux?
My workstation is controlled by our sys admin and I'm quite happy that I don't have to mess around with Linux internals, if there's a problem with my machine it becomes his problem.
We get to choose if we want to admin them ourselves or have him do it, and mine is way more stable than those managing their own machine.
Yes, but unless you can make them break the speed of light there is going to be a very hard limit on how far you can send the signal within an oscillation. At 1 Ghz the signal can travel around 30 centimeters before next cycle, at 5 Ghz you are down to 6 cm (compared to speed of light, since they are going slightly slower mileage will vary), when things go fast enough "almost instantaneously" is quite a long time.
".. , and that knowledge has been stable for a century."
Has it now? I thought people where arguing quite a lot about physics, the whole point of the defunct LHC was to prove or disprove once and for all some major parts of physics.
Also, look at history, we managed to believe the earth was flat for quite a lot longer than a century, going by your "stable" logic that means the earth is flat and what we know now is wrong?
but it's certainly going to be harder getting a foot in the door.
I've seen autodidact sysadmins do quite a lot better than ones with degrees, however the reverse is also true.
In general my experience is companies will prefer one with a degree over autodidact people, reason being someone with a degree has shown ability to sit down and learn - this is very important since pretty much no matter what job you end up getting there is going to be some learning to get familiar with the running systems.
And I really really wish people like you would claim they are valid.
Yes software patents has been granted all over EU, however, just because it has been granted, doesn't make it valid, it would be thrown out of court if it ever got to that point since as the GP said, they aren't valid (yet).
It's called a roof, it stops rain from falling on your loved ones.
It's called food, it stops hunger.
Having a job and being secure in said job helps with this. Pushing easter eggs into the code when you should have fixed #00314224 Critical could end up costing your ability to supply roof and food.
Uhm, RAID 10 on databases has for a very long time been the defacto way of doing things (mirror and stripe everything). And your comment below about it being a raid 5 raided over 5 makes little sense - to me it seems like you have no idea what you are talking about.
Granted these days you would most likely opt for RAID 60 if you got the money for it, but RAID 10 is still the best price/performance for databases.
No, they put in sequences of dots to identify the theater the movie was shown in. Depending on movie and maker they will either form single patterns or running patterns across the silver screen.
The term water marking isn't necessary covering what they doing/calling it, just the best word I could think of to describe whats going on.
Just like the dots used for water marking in movies. They are supposedly unnoticeable since they are only on one frame, but I sure as hell see them every time they pop up.
Also I get nauseous when I try to use a CRT screen running in less than 85 hz. People are indeed adapting.
The power companies have decided not to make any money on their fiber links, however early companies like Com-X was in it for the money, they of course failed miserably due to bad management, but the idea is sound enough.
Local community calls up some provider, they dig in cables, each home owner coughs up with the money for the digging+cables (around 10.000DKR ($1800) the houses value increase by the value of the new cables - cables belong to the houses, switch boxes etc. belong to whatever provider you choose.
Nah, police in Denmark never gets convicted for anything.
Also something like that would at most be an angry(ish) letter from head of their department. (Which incidentally would also commend them for their fine busts (not the statue kind))
Also it says Canada, so different rules might apply.
Here in Denmark during some riots in the spring the police raided several apartments illegally, they where searching for some of the instigators - while raiding they came across different illegal things like drugs and weapons, while the searches where illegal, so was the items found and there is no getting out of jail free card for those implicated.
Our guild lost a kid to leukemia and while never having met him in person, it was a nice gesture to inform us (his online friends) of his fate. Getting closure makes it a bit easier for those left behind.
Ubuntu uses Grub for choosing what to boot and that has the active flag. No matter what OS you use, if you want something else to handle booting you have to use fdisk or the like for changing the boot flag.
Well for the box not to get a chance to shutdown would require something very terminally happening, and in that case you are going to have to run down and grab your backups anyways.
Also as I recall the system will periodically flush everything to discs so it doesn't have to make the full write in case of emergencies.
You should read up on Tera Ram-San - the data is indeed persistent, it even comes with internal backup making sure it can dump all data to its internal discs before shutting down.
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I bet you are also the kind of Linux fanatic who keeps telling people, "the source is right there, fix it yourself".
Even though source code is available it can be quite a daunting task to figure out why something is running slow, end even then you are still faced with the task of making it go faster. Poking around some CMS or other (usually) small scale system with a few thousands lines of codes is not a biggie, but trying to fix something with 100.000+ lines of code is pretty much impossible unless you have extensive knowledge of the project.
Also please tone down the Linux zealotry, you are more than likely hurting Linux image rather than achieving what you want.
Bad advice, the new AMD cards runs fine under Linux, since radeon 9600 I've never had any problems getting ATI/AMD to run under Linux.
Why would it be any different on Linux?
My workstation is controlled by our sys admin and I'm quite happy that I don't have to mess around with Linux internals, if there's a problem with my machine it becomes his problem.
We get to choose if we want to admin them ourselves or have him do it, and mine is way more stable than those managing their own machine.
Yes, but unless you can make them break the speed of light there is going to be a very hard limit on how far you can send the signal within an oscillation. At 1 Ghz the signal can travel around 30 centimeters before next cycle, at 5 Ghz you are down to 6 cm (compared to speed of light, since they are going slightly slower mileage will vary), when things go fast enough "almost instantaneously" is quite a long time.
Except the dead sea scrolls is hide from animals, not paper from your printer. Normal printing paper has a very short life span (comparatively).
".. , and that knowledge has been stable for a century."
Has it now? I thought people where arguing quite a lot about physics, the whole point of the defunct LHC was to prove or disprove once and for all some major parts of physics.
Also, look at history, we managed to believe the earth was flat for quite a lot longer than a century, going by your "stable" logic that means the earth is flat and what we know now is wrong?
Thanks for elaborating, been around slashdot since 2002, never heard of the guy.
but it's certainly going to be harder getting a foot in the door.
I've seen autodidact sysadmins do quite a lot better than ones with degrees, however the reverse is also true.
In general my experience is companies will prefer one with a degree over autodidact people, reason being someone with a degree has shown ability to sit down and learn - this is very important since pretty much no matter what job you end up getting there is going to be some learning to get familiar with the running systems.
And I really really wish people like you would claim they are valid.
Yes software patents has been granted all over EU, however, just because it has been granted, doesn't make it valid, it would be thrown out of court if it ever got to that point since as the GP said, they aren't valid (yet).
It's called a roof, it stops rain from falling on your loved ones.
It's called food, it stops hunger.
Having a job and being secure in said job helps with this. Pushing easter eggs into the code when you should have fixed #00314224 Critical could end up costing your ability to supply roof and food.
Uhm, RAID 10 on databases has for a very long time been the defacto way of doing things (mirror and stripe everything). And your comment below about it being a raid 5 raided over 5 makes little sense - to me it seems like you have no idea what you are talking about.
Granted these days you would most likely opt for RAID 60 if you got the money for it, but RAID 10 is still the best price/performance for databases.
Wrong approach, hand him a Terry Pratchett book and tell him to look for the answer, his life will be better.
No, they put in sequences of dots to identify the theater the movie was shown in. Depending on movie and maker they will either form single patterns or running patterns across the silver screen.
The term water marking isn't necessary covering what they doing/calling it, just the best word I could think of to describe whats going on.
No smoking!
Just like the dots used for water marking in movies. They are supposedly unnoticeable since they are only on one frame, but I sure as hell see them every time they pop up.
Also I get nauseous when I try to use a CRT screen running in less than 85 hz. People are indeed adapting.
sharks with friggin lasers on their heads?
I mean the poor thing is going to keep biting and not understand why the pray wont die.
Yes and no.
The power companies have decided not to make any money on their fiber links, however early companies like Com-X was in it for the money, they of course failed miserably due to bad management, but the idea is sound enough.
This has been going on for ages in Denmark.
Local community calls up some provider, they dig in cables, each home owner coughs up with the money for the digging+cables (around 10.000DKR ($1800) the houses value increase by the value of the new cables - cables belong to the houses, switch boxes etc. belong to whatever provider you choose.
Seriously US, get with the times!
Nah, police in Denmark never gets convicted for anything.
Also something like that would at most be an angry(ish) letter from head of their department. (Which incidentally would also commend them for their fine busts (not the statue kind))
Also it says Canada, so different rules might apply.
Here in Denmark during some riots in the spring the police raided several apartments illegally, they where searching for some of the instigators - while raiding they came across different illegal things like drugs and weapons, while the searches where illegal, so was the items found and there is no getting out of jail free card for those implicated.
Yes they do need to know.
Our guild lost a kid to leukemia and while never having met him in person, it was a nice gesture to inform us (his online friends) of his fate. Getting closure makes it a bit easier for those left behind.
You have to do what now?
Ubuntu uses Grub for choosing what to boot and that has the active flag. No matter what OS you use, if you want something else to handle booting you have to use fdisk or the like for changing the boot flag.
Well for the box not to get a chance to shutdown would require something very terminally happening, and in that case you are going to have to run down and grab your backups anyways.
Also as I recall the system will periodically flush everything to discs so it doesn't have to make the full write in case of emergencies.
You should read up on Tera Ram-San - the data is indeed persistent, it even comes with internal backup making sure it can dump all data to its internal discs before shutting down.
Ok, got my facts wrong. 3.2 Million IOPS, 24GB/s sustainable random data access.
And a linky:
http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/