1. New patch is announced.
2. 14 months later govt worker checks for new patches.
3. submits form asking for approval to patch
systems with new patch.
4. 28 months later receives approval letter authorizing patch installation.
5. goes on vacation.
6. comes back and puts it on his list.
7. 11 months later begins patch installation.
Public has now had patch installed for 3.5 years.
That number does not include research reactors and others so the number is actually higher. I spent 11 years in the nuclear field and believe it to be the safest environment I have ever worked in. At all times you know what you are breathing, drinking, and what level of even background or cosmic radiation you are being exposed to.
Large Government agencies are most likely the reason that IBM still offers the AS/400. There is no money in new customers for it but they can charge big bucks to the military and government agencies who don't have the choice to upgrade without an act of congress. They price is somewhat justified because it is less profitable to continue to support older technology with a small customer base.
They are however giving customers other options like running OS390 on Power5 Frames in a logical partition next to AIX and Linux. I have heard a rumor that soon you may be able to run MS OS's also. This frame (P5 595) just took the lead with 3.2 million tpmC. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200411 20-4412.html
With machines like this I'm not so sure IBM is getting completely out of the hardware market. They have surpassed Sun in sales of UNIX machines and may soon have the majority of market share if they don't already.
For Obviscated Bloatware like PeopleSoft I wouldn't run any other hardware but IBM.
"Chernobyl's problem was not the release of radiation into the atmosphere. That is disapated very rapidly by prevailing winds and does not affect the surrounding area significantly (not from a single event such as that). The problem with Chernobyl was that when the top blew chunks of radioactive debris like pieces of the graphite cooling system rained down over the surrounding countryside and got into the ground and the water supply."
Which all could have been avoided if they had constructed a containment building like every other nuclear plant on the planet. All other plants have a reactor building usually 7 feet thick steel reinforced concrete. Chernobyl had
a stucture not constructed with containment
in mind.
Getting all the Bloggers or Slashdot commenters to spin a story in one direction is dam near impossible. However if there is sufficient political or monetary gain how hard would it be for the folks at CBS to all pull in the same direction? Of Course you cannot rely on the bloggers for the gospel truth everytime but you can take in many internet sources sift through the information and form your own opinion. At CBS they form it for you. I don't really need CBS, Michael Moore, or Bill Oreilly to help me make sense of what is out there. Maybe some folks do and more power to them. I am very greatfull to all the independent voices on the web. I trust the people much more than any
"News Organization".
Then I guess my job as "IT staff" is even worse.
I'm just glad to have a job at the moment.
However I'm ready to move when and if the market gets better.
One of my kids just got a super soaker inflateable rocket for his birthday and it works great. It stands about 6 feet tall and reaches just over 100 feet in the air using water and compressed air.
When your product becomes so worthless that no intelligent being has a use for it then its time to force the public to pay for it by government decree? I love capitalism. The internet with all of its false stories and hoxes is more trusted by the public the the media conglomerates. Can you say "agenda". Snail mail is a prime example of the government keeping alive something that is out dated.
"Behavior like that wont't help his cause regarding his 1992 match that was in violation of UN sanctions."
Actually his anti-semitic comments are now much more in line with the current policies and attitude of the UN. He may be in line for a pulitzer prize or similar award from the Europeans and the UN.
When JFK took office the highest tax rate was 90%.
In contrast middle class tax rates of 50 to 60% don't seem so bad. Some would like to see tax rates of 500% on the very rich. Then 120% on the middle class wouldnt seem so bad. Then we could have free health care run by the government which like most things that the government runs would cost 100 times more than the same thing run by private industry. Just talk to the Swedes to find out about the utopia of socialism.
I also liked linuxconf. When attending the red hat road show I ask them about it and they said that they dropped it from the distribution in favor of the newer system-config tools.
You're correct. I am trolling. Would you like to take issue with the point I was trying to make now that you have corrected my spelling and grammar? Do you believe that we do not have an open border to the south? You are also correct that I spent time in Government schools. However I would not go so far as to say I received my education there. I am mostly self-educated and have some higher education from the military and various technical courses. I will do my best to use a spelling and grammar checker in the future. May I ask where you were educated?
Respectfully Yours
MoronBob --- It does not say GeniusBob.
Unfortunately I do know how right I am. I would like to see some serious reform to the US immigration policy. However I would
never blame anyone for taking full advantage of any loophole they can find in their efforts to make a better life for them and their
family. Our country is mostly made up of people that share the same dream of freedom and prosperity for all. I am American Indian,
Irish, and Dutch and my Wife is Korean. That makes our children all of the above. Immigration is good for our county as long as we don't take in too many criminals and not enough workers which the current policies seem to be slanting towards. I would like to see us close our borders and increase the number of legal immigrants coming into the US. Its just becoming a free for all that encourages dishonesty and law breaking.
You should have come in Illeagally from the southern border. Then you would automatically get amnasty from mr bush. Not to mention free health care and a free college degree(if Orin Hatch has his way). Following immigration law is so Passay. Its no longer polically correct to follow laws if you find them distastefull or unconstitutional.
"It's interesting that Indian immigration policies are more restrictive than U.S. immigration policies."
Do you mean to tell me that other countries actually have more restrictive immigration policies than wide
open borders with free health care and education to all but their own citizens? I'm not really sure this could be true.
And where else can a taxi driver and his two passengers stop and squat for a quick dump on the side of the road while they discuss perl programming. America really should embrace such cultural diversity.
Most Extream Elimination Challenge(MXC) on spike TV is the closest thing to what you describe. You get to watch Japanese game show contestants take extream
punishment while being made fun of buy the english tranlators. Of course it would be much better if it was interactive and you held the controls.
I buy no less than 2 unix, linux, or technology related books a month. I also have a wife and two kids that keep me from getting much reading done. I try to read at work in between puting out fires. The
end result is that I have a great library which I dont use much. The upside is that I don't have to go far to get answers when I need them. I also have a PVR to record TV programs and can now selectively watch what I want which leads to much less couch time and more Joystick time.
I have been diagnosed with Adult Attention Deficit Disorder and headphones seem to help a great deal. However I have a question. What kind of disorder do the women around me have that makes them yell into the telephone at the top of their voice as if noone can here them. Or maybe they want the entire office to know that they are going skiing for the weekend. I wish they would come up with some medication for that. Are they just complete morons or is it just me ? Should I like hearing that crap all day at full volume?
I am in the process of transforming an excersize
machine into an electric mast raising system for my
25 foot sailboat. When finished it will allow me to
raise the 30ft mast with the push of a button. I have decided to avoid as much physical labor as possible.
I was a platform worker doing inspections of steam generators inside the reactor building in a high radiation area. Shorts and a tee-shirt, two cotton jumpsuits followed by three plastic jumpsuits, three pairs of plastic gloves, four pairs of plastic booties all taped together with duck tape, a full face respirator three cotton hoods and two plastic hoods on top of that. The 2 foot thick steel steam generators remain at 140 degrees for a week after the shutdown. You are wearing all this with the air temp at about 130 ten feet from the generator. You have a headset on so that the hungover drug addict that is you boss can screem at you to fix stuff. your shift is 12 hours unless like me you double as an electronics tech and have to fix stuff for 8 hours after your containment shift ends. (I did get a short break when I passed out from heat stroke) The drive to and from the plant was one hour. Should I eat or sleep for the two hours I have off? I choose to
sleep for the first three two hour breaks I had and ate a stale sandwitch on the third day. All the plants shutdown in the spring and fall because that is their low demand time so you fly from one plant to another and work a minimum 14 hour day for about three months. Then you get layed off for five months and have no choice but to take the same job again if you cant find work. Now I'm in IT and can't find much to complain about.
I cut my teeth on DOS and Windows 3.1 and still prefer windows over Linux for the desktop.
I also agree with you that Linux should be the server of choice.
I believe that small business owners would benefit by hiring a Linux Guru to come in and set things up on a Linux platform. Then contract for time and materials the maintainence of the systems. This could mostly be done remotely using ssh or something like webmin.
I'm not a small business owner but feel that this type of arrangement would be more cost effective than having a full time monkey maintaining windows
servers.
I work for a large school district in Colorado and
watch very talented Microsoft Sysadmins somtimes struggle to keep their systems up. I even feel sorry for them when they have to do a suprise reinstall that takes them all night.
Also if you consider the amount of time these folks spent last year alone fighting viruses I really do believe that running most businesses small or large on Windows is almost irresponsible.
However it really depends on the size of your business and what you are running. Anyone running databases with critical business data would be nuts to run it on Windows or Linux without an absolutely full proof backup and recovery plan.
I would never leave that up to BestBuy, CompUSA or even quite a few professional outfits we have hired to consult with this district.
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1. New patch is announced. 2. 14 months later govt worker checks for new patches. 3. submits form asking for approval to patch systems with new patch. 4. 28 months later receives approval letter authorizing patch installation. 5. goes on vacation. 6. comes back and puts it on his list. 7. 11 months later begins patch installation. Public has now had patch installed for 3.5 years.
That number does not include research reactors and others so the number is actually higher. I spent 11 years in the nuclear field and believe it to be the safest environment I have ever worked in. At all times you know what you are breathing, drinking, and what level of even background or cosmic radiation you are being exposed to.
Large Government agencies are most likely the reason
1 20-4412 .html
that IBM still offers the AS/400. There is no money in new customers for it but they can charge big bucks to the military and government agencies who don't have the choice to upgrade without an act of congress. They price is somewhat justified because it is less profitable to continue to support older technology with a small customer base.
They are however giving customers other options like running OS390 on Power5 Frames in a logical partition next to AIX and Linux. I have heard a rumor that soon you may be able to run MS OS's also. This frame (P5 595) just took the lead
with 3.2 million tpmC.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041
With machines like this I'm not so sure IBM is getting completely out of the hardware market. They have surpassed Sun in sales of UNIX machines and may soon have the majority of market share if they don't already.
For Obviscated Bloatware like PeopleSoft I wouldn't run any other hardware but IBM.
"Chernobyl's problem was not the release of radiation into the atmosphere. That is disapated very rapidly by prevailing winds and does not affect the surrounding area significantly (not from a single event such as that). The problem with Chernobyl was that when the top blew chunks of radioactive debris like pieces of the graphite cooling system rained down over the surrounding countryside and got into the ground and the water supply." Which all could have been avoided if they had constructed a containment building like every other nuclear plant on the planet. All other plants have a reactor building usually 7 feet thick steel reinforced concrete. Chernobyl had a stucture not constructed with containment in mind.
Getting all the Bloggers or Slashdot commenters to spin a story in one direction is dam near impossible. However if there is sufficient political or monetary gain how hard would it be for the folks at CBS to all pull in the same direction? Of Course you cannot rely on the bloggers for the gospel truth everytime but you can take in many internet sources sift through the information and form your own opinion. At CBS they form it for you. I don't really need CBS, Michael Moore, or Bill Oreilly to help me make sense of what is out there. Maybe some folks do and more power to them. I am very greatfull to all the independent voices on the web. I trust the people much more than any "News Organization".
Then I guess my job as "IT staff" is even worse. I'm just glad to have a job at the moment. However I'm ready to move when and if the market gets better.
Don't pour it on yourself.
One of my kids just got a super soaker inflateable rocket for his birthday and it works great. It stands about 6 feet tall and reaches just over 100 feet in the air using water and compressed air.
When your product becomes so worthless that no intelligent being has a use for it then its time to force the public to pay for it by government decree? I love capitalism. The internet with all of its false stories and hoxes is more trusted by the public the the media conglomerates. Can you say "agenda". Snail mail is a prime example of the government keeping alive something that is out dated.
So then what we need to do is just raise taxes higher and higher to have a better economy? Wow that is so simple.
"Behavior like that wont't help his cause regarding his 1992 match that was in violation of UN sanctions." Actually his anti-semitic comments are now much more in line with the current policies and attitude of the UN. He may be in line for a pulitzer prize or similar award from the Europeans and the UN.
When JFK took office the highest tax rate was 90%. In contrast middle class tax rates of 50 to 60% don't seem so bad. Some would like to see tax rates of 500% on the very rich. Then 120% on the middle class wouldnt seem so bad. Then we could have free health care run by the government which like most things that the government runs would cost 100 times more than the same thing run by private industry. Just talk to the Swedes to find out about the utopia of socialism.
I also liked linuxconf. When attending the red hat road show I ask them about it and they said that they dropped it from the distribution in favor of the newer system-config tools.
You're correct. I am trolling. Would you like to take issue with the point I was trying to make now that you have corrected my spelling and grammar? Do you believe that we do not have an open border to the south? You are also correct that I spent time in Government schools. However I would not go so far as to say I received my education there. I am mostly self-educated and have some higher education from the military and various technical courses. I will do my best to use a spelling and grammar checker in the future. May I ask where you were educated? Respectfully Yours MoronBob --- It does not say GeniusBob.
Unfortunately I do know how right I am. I would like to see some serious reform to the US immigration policy. However I would never blame anyone for taking full advantage of any loophole they can find in their efforts to make a better life for them and their family. Our country is mostly made up of people that share the same dream of freedom and prosperity for all. I am American Indian, Irish, and Dutch and my Wife is Korean. That makes our children all of the above. Immigration is good for our county as long as we don't take in too many criminals and not enough workers which the current policies seem to be slanting towards. I would like to see us close our borders and increase the number of legal immigrants coming into the US. Its just becoming a free for all that encourages dishonesty and law breaking.
You didn't read my name?
You should have come in Illeagally from the southern border. Then you would automatically get amnasty from mr bush. Not to mention free health care and a free college degree(if Orin Hatch has his way). Following immigration law is so Passay. Its no longer polically correct to follow laws if you find them distastefull or unconstitutional.
"It's interesting that Indian immigration policies are more restrictive than U.S. immigration policies." Do you mean to tell me that other countries actually have more restrictive immigration policies than wide open borders with free health care and education to all but their own citizens? I'm not really sure this could be true.
And where else can a taxi driver and his two passengers stop and squat for a quick dump on the side of the road while they discuss perl programming. America really should embrace such cultural diversity.
Most Extream Elimination Challenge(MXC) on spike TV is the closest thing to what you describe. You get to watch Japanese game show contestants take extream punishment while being made fun of buy the english tranlators. Of course it would be much better if it was interactive and you held the controls.
I buy no less than 2 unix, linux, or technology related books a month. I also have a wife and two kids that keep me from getting much reading done. I try to read at work in between puting out fires. The end result is that I have a great library which I dont use much. The upside is that I don't have to go far to get answers when I need them. I also have a PVR to record TV programs and can now selectively watch what I want which leads to much less couch time and more Joystick time.
I have been diagnosed with Adult Attention Deficit Disorder and headphones seem to help a great deal. However I have a question. What kind of disorder do the women around me have that makes them yell into the telephone at the top of their voice as if noone can here them. Or maybe they want the entire office to know that they are going skiing for the weekend. I wish they would come up with some medication for that. Are they just complete morons or is it just me ? Should I like hearing that crap all day at full volume?
I am in the process of transforming an excersize machine into an electric mast raising system for my 25 foot sailboat. When finished it will allow me to raise the 30ft mast with the push of a button. I have decided to avoid as much physical labor as possible.
I was a platform worker doing inspections of steam generators inside the reactor building in a high radiation area. Shorts and a tee-shirt, two cotton jumpsuits followed by three plastic jumpsuits, three pairs of plastic gloves, four pairs of plastic booties all taped together with duck tape, a full face respirator three cotton hoods and two plastic hoods on top of that. The 2 foot thick steel steam generators remain at 140 degrees for a week after the shutdown. You are wearing all this with the air temp at about 130 ten feet from the generator. You have a headset on so that the hungover drug addict that is you boss can screem at you to fix stuff. your shift is 12 hours unless like me you double as an electronics tech and have to fix stuff for 8 hours after your containment shift ends. (I did get a short break when I passed out from heat stroke) The drive to and from the plant was one hour. Should I eat or sleep for the two hours I have off? I choose to sleep for the first three two hour breaks I had and ate a stale sandwitch on the third day. All the plants shutdown in the spring and fall because that is their low demand time so you fly from one plant to another and work a minimum 14 hour day for about three months. Then you get layed off for five months and have no choice but to take the same job again if you cant find work. Now I'm in IT and can't find much to complain about.
I cut my teeth on DOS and Windows 3.1 and still prefer windows over Linux for the desktop. I also agree with you that Linux should be the server of choice. I believe that small business owners would benefit by hiring a Linux Guru to come in and set things up on a Linux platform. Then contract for time and materials the maintainence of the systems. This could mostly be done remotely using ssh or something like webmin. I'm not a small business owner but feel that this type of arrangement would be more cost effective than having a full time monkey maintaining windows servers. I work for a large school district in Colorado and watch very talented Microsoft Sysadmins somtimes struggle to keep their systems up. I even feel sorry for them when they have to do a suprise reinstall that takes them all night. Also if you consider the amount of time these folks spent last year alone fighting viruses I really do believe that running most businesses small or large on Windows is almost irresponsible. However it really depends on the size of your business and what you are running. Anyone running databases with critical business data would be nuts to run it on Windows or Linux without an absolutely full proof backup and recovery plan. I would never leave that up to BestBuy, CompUSA or even quite a few professional outfits we have hired to consult with this district.