I have heard once or twice that Steve Jobs is called "The Father of USB" in that requiring a license to use firewire caused the open USB standard to be embraced by others.
There are two reasons in my mind for needing an optical interface: 1) long distance, and 2) Electromagnetic interference (EMI). The EMI is being handled by the twisted pair connectors. The distance too. I guess I wonder what distance they need to cover that they need optical?
I suppose there's a third reason: to have a data channel capable of being pushed WELL beyond the data rates of the copper. Does anyone else wonder about this?
How is it that government agencies think they can even compete with private enterprise? Governments don't compete: they simply ramrod things through via mandate, or fiat. Who needs to compete with Google? Just declare google illegal!
A committee is often defined as "an entity with 50 arms and 50 legs that goes nowhere." Quaero is being built by an association of governments: That's two or three orders of magnitude above that of a committee.
For that matter, how is Google bad? Perhaps there should be a "Google shortcomings" page...
If a hardware manufacture says it supports an OS, have it fully supported.
A certain manufacturer (name available upon request) said it supported RedHat enterprise linux. That's great. I installed the OS in accordance with the manufacturer instructions, using the manufacturer's installation cd. After redhat was installed and running, I removed a disk from the raid 5 array. The OS didn't do anything. I mean NOTHING.
If a fault occurs, I want the OS to go bananas. I want the OS to generate syslog messages at the minimum. I want console messages for a console server to see and respond to. I want outgoing emails. I want hell to break loose. Do something.
I called the manufacturer. They said their array manager does that. I pointed out to them their array manager is written in visual basic and only runs on windows. The guy on the phone was chagrined. For that matter, apparently there was never a thought to "making the OS go crazy with messages". I was the first guy to call and ask for that under linux.
I ended up writing a script that polled the hardware via a command line interface provided. This cli was only mentioned in a previous documentation revision. When my company purchased a different server from the same company, this cli didn't work as it used different hardware to manage its array. For this one, there is no cli!
That's just for the array managment. What happens if I have a bad fan, or power supply, or overtemp, or bad memory bank? Pick something and break it. How is it useful to have hardware redundancies without at least notifying the OS of a degraded condition?
I guess this has turned into a bit of a rant, but I can't be the only person to think of these things.
I try to keep my stress level at work in perspective. I am a lone unix/windows systems and network administrator for about 50 systems. It's stressful, but:
I am no longer sleeping above fuel tanks, below the waterline, behind a missile magazine, and forward of a sewage containment, holding and transfer (cht) facility.
I no longer sleep on a top bunk where if I sit up rapidly will break my nose against a light fixture.
My office is not located above a hot-tank (another person) in a chemical plant. I don't run the risk of running through a wash of methyl-ethyl-keytone to halt a chemical spill into lake michigan.
I no longer have to worry about being hosed down with JP5 (jet fuel) when I go to maintain my equipment.
I don't have to be cognizant of what damage control equipment is at hand at all times.
I no longer walk around a military facility with an unloaded pistol as "roving security".
I no longer live in a neighborhood where shootings happen every night even though new neighbors rave about what a nice neighborhood they bought their house in.
I no longer have to use static electricity protection to prevent ordinance from going off in my face. (I use it to handle circuit boards...)
And foremost:
No one is going to freakin'
die if the web server isn't back up again by this afternoon!
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I have to admit: this made my inner little b*****d laugh. a lot. with glee.
I have heard once or twice that Steve Jobs is called "The Father of USB" in that requiring a license to use firewire caused the open USB standard to be embraced by others.
--jason
Hello,
There are two reasons in my mind for needing an optical interface: 1) long distance, and 2) Electromagnetic interference (EMI). The EMI is being handled by the twisted pair connectors. The distance too. I guess I wonder what distance they need to cover that they need optical?
I suppose there's a third reason: to have a data channel capable of being pushed WELL beyond the data rates of the copper. Does anyone else wonder about this?
--jason
I just think it's awesome they got to observe it.
How is it that government agencies think they can even compete with private enterprise? Governments don't compete: they simply ramrod things through via mandate, or fiat. Who needs to compete with Google? Just declare google illegal! A committee is often defined as "an entity with 50 arms and 50 legs that goes nowhere." Quaero is being built by an association of governments: That's two or three orders of magnitude above that of a committee. For that matter, how is Google bad? Perhaps there should be a "Google shortcomings" page...
A certain manufacturer (name available upon request) said it supported RedHat enterprise linux. That's great. I installed the OS in accordance with the manufacturer instructions, using the manufacturer's installation cd. After redhat was installed and running, I removed a disk from the raid 5 array. The OS didn't do anything. I mean NOTHING.
If a fault occurs, I want the OS to go bananas. I want the OS to generate syslog messages at the minimum. I want console messages for a console server to see and respond to. I want outgoing emails. I want hell to break loose. Do something.
I called the manufacturer. They said their array manager does that. I pointed out to them their array manager is written in visual basic and only runs on windows. The guy on the phone was chagrined. For that matter, apparently there was never a thought to "making the OS go crazy with messages". I was the first guy to call and ask for that under linux.
I ended up writing a script that polled the hardware via a command line interface provided. This cli was only mentioned in a previous documentation revision. When my company purchased a different server from the same company, this cli didn't work as it used different hardware to manage its array. For this one, there is no cli!
That's just for the array managment. What happens if I have a bad fan, or power supply, or overtemp, or bad memory bank? Pick something and break it. How is it useful to have hardware redundancies without at least notifying the OS of a degraded condition?
I guess this has turned into a bit of a rant, but I can't be the only person to think of these things.
I am no longer sleeping above fuel tanks, below the waterline, behind a missile magazine, and forward of a sewage containment, holding and transfer (cht) facility.
I no longer sleep on a top bunk where if I sit up rapidly will break my nose against a light fixture.
My office is not located above a hot-tank (another person) in a chemical plant. I don't run the risk of running through a wash of methyl-ethyl-keytone to halt a chemical spill into lake michigan.
I no longer have to worry about being hosed down with JP5 (jet fuel) when I go to maintain my equipment.
I don't have to be cognizant of what damage control equipment is at hand at all times.
I no longer walk around a military facility with an unloaded pistol as "roving security".
I no longer live in a neighborhood where shootings happen every night even though new neighbors rave about what a nice neighborhood they bought their house in.
I no longer have to use static electricity protection to prevent ordinance from going off in my face. (I use it to handle circuit boards...)
And foremost: