Clear Case is pretty cool... It is just SOOOOO expensive. I have yet to work in a ClearCase environment that didn't have a fulltime "ClearCase" administrator. This is a 60-120K (pick your geographic location) per year cost ABOVE the licencing and server requirements.
That said, it is pretty cool in that its representation is a filesystem that you mount so that files are automatically kept current. That said, the whole thing is complicated enough that I always used the "administrator" when I needed to do something, vs. just a get/put in a normal VCS system
It is broken, and worthless (and you seem to be having issues with it anyway).
Anyone who is using wireless seriously doesn't rely on WEP for more than keeping the lowest of the script kiddies out (See AirSnort - so even the lowest of the script kiddies can get in never mind)
Put your WAP on its own link to your router, from there require a layer 3 VPN solution to tunnel into your router (See FreeSWAN) if you want to get into your network, or onto the internet. If people use your 802.11 they get nothing, so aren't likely to stay...
Now it doesn't matter if you have WEP/802.1x or what ever. I wonder how many of these war driven "open access" 802.11 ports that people find are set up this way
I like a big thick laptop that does everything... a real brick with two batteries... I know others that like their smaller machines, it is a trade off. I will say get her at least one extra battery for the flights
Nice liberal rant here... Why is it the "peoples" (i.e. the Government's) job to feed/cloth/shelter anyone. First of all, why doesn't the guy on 5th and whatever go and get a job, oh - he doesn't have an education... Well who's fault is that - The government all ready provided him with an oportunity to educate himself that he wasted.
Some people just don't want to be fed/chothed/sheltered, and so they aren't... There is nothing the government can, or should do about it.
By the way, if you want the guy on Main and 5th clothed/fed/sheltered... why don't you bring him to your house, put him up in your spare bedroom, feed him from your fridge and let him borrow a shirt or two... Frankly I have enough trouble taking care of my own family, but you are free to do what you want with your money, just keep mine out of the pool
Compost is your friend. You get to get rid of all of your vegitable waste (grass clippings, left over food etc.) and get back a great soil amendment.
Try to grow everything, tomatoes work well, corn if you have room for enough of it, herbs, vegitables.
You will get interesting friends at work trying to pawn off the vegitables you can't eat... bring those extra tomatoes in, let your non-enlightened friends share
It is a great life balancer, I love to sit on my ass all day at work and just think hard, go home and work my body all weekend long with my mind off.
Ok, first off OpenBSD is shipped under the truely FREE BSD licence, not the GPL. Second off, why should we trust the OS to people that are doing the work for Free, large chunks of Linux are paid for by corperations, SGI, IBM, Intel, etc. paying their staff to get work put into the Linux kernel (or other OSS applications)
I don't know about you, but when you have a wife and kids it helps to be able to afford things such as food and shelter for your family... For that it takes someone to pay me for my work, if Linus wants me to do work on Linux, he can damned well find someone to pay me the 100 bucks an hour that it takes to pay my bills. If not, I'll just work on interesting code for people that will pay that.
First - Talk w/ your manager - especially if they have kids of their own and express concern.
Second - Make sure you have the ability to work from home. I found that I was going home at the crack of 5 PM, spending the evening w/ my daughter, then working from home for a couple of hours after she went to bed. This got me my 10 hour day, play with my daughter, and reduced stress
Third - Make sure you are at work when you are at work, and at home when you are at home. In other words, spend time with your child when she is young, it will never happen again (ok, you could have another baby, but that is child #2)
Fourth - I wish I had bought my digital camera before she was born, so get one, setup a website, get the grandparents on the web/e-mail - Use your geek talents to make this better for everyone
Fifth - Save your vacation, make sure and take PLENTY of vacation around the birth of your child, as much as you can, borrow from next year if your boss will let you. Fortunately my wife didn't have to have a C-section, but if it happens your wife can be out of commission for a month or more recovering from abdominal surgury.
Sixth - Ignore all of us, we aren't you... Everyone has different ways of raising kids, most of us turned out Ok, most of our kids will too
That banks take such measures as installing safes that I have to work to crack open, and use the government to enforce laws on the books that don't allow me to grant myself interest free lifetime loans of the money in their banks. After all I am just borrowing it from them and will be willing to return it to them at some day in the future.
oh wait, this is about music... it isn't important
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Works for government funding, or VC funding as well...
Find out what the hot topic of the day is... Storage Area Networks, Killing Anthrax...
Find a way of writting those things into your proposal regardless of whether it makes sense
???
Profit
Interestingly enough Anthrax doesn't do much damage to skin contact, you have to BREATH it into your lungs, a fancy set of clothes won't stop that unless you are wearing it as a mask, and if you are doing that I'd just assume wear a NBC suit that will protect me from the really dangerous stuff on the battlefield
Hmmm... I took Sci-Fi when I was in High School in 198(mumble mumble mumble insert low number here). Was actually not a bad class, of course one of the interesting points the teacher was trying to make in the reading of 2001 was that A Clark thought machines controlling human activities was bad... Of course I read 2001 in a day or two, then polished off the just released 2010 (ok, I did date myself here) where it fully explained why H.A.L. had problems...
Now you try and explain that to a teacher that she is wrong, oh well...
I remember reading the first book in the Foundation Trillogy, Anthem, and many other short stories for this class... Was one of the only english classes that I got an A in, oh well
Many large companies go through "Approved" vendors to "hire" contractors. Basically if you want to contract to one of these companies you have to go through a limited number of body shops. The disadvantage is these companies take a HUGE cut, sometimes as high as 40%. Now realize that there are some overheads, 6.5% social security, 1.? % medicare... But somehow adding it up to 40%.
Now if you are able to 1099 to the company directly (so you get the WHOLE check) you are well off, companies that are used to paying $90 an hour so you can make 40/hr... if you get the whole check yourself, that can be good money
Funny "Mr Anonymous Coward" that last time I looked there wasn't a SINGLE 4 stroke lawn mower... Now maybe the riding mowers are, but why the hell would I want one of those... I'll take my electric anyday
Yes, two stroke gas emissions are extremely BAD for the environment. Your typical lawn mower produces more pollution mowing your lawn for an hour on Saturday than your car does driving for 5 hours to and from work all week...
That said, I use an electric lawnmower and drive a Prius, so my milage may vary
Again, you use simple Unix hacks to determine what M$ might be doing. It is a little more complicated than that. There are dynamic priorities, they also allow dynamic time slice scheduling, based on if you want good interactive application performance (smaller time slices so there is less time to wait) or better system throughput (larger timeslices so context switching happens less frequently, but it is a pain when you have to wait for 20 threads to execute before it gets to you 2 seconds later)
Actually you can scale what M$ has done in their server environments to multiuser systems... Terminal Server is a multi user system, all though I agree with you Windows only works well when there is one user on a system.
Hmmm... lets see, I know M$oft had interactive process priority boost in NT 3.1, and Win 95, I am pretty certain it was in 3.1, but I don't even have those install disks anymore.
So much for Linux being ahead of Microsoft, that said.. I would MUCH rather have a multiproc linux box than Windows server
Well you have listed some trivial hardware requirements, what you haven't said are things like:
1) Does your application that the designers use to do their daily work exist on Linux, does it run as well, is as fully featured, cost the same amount of money... if the answer is NO then this is a non-starter
2) How are you going to handle signon, login, desktop managment, etc.
3) Backup is a big issue
4) Frankly 2 72 GB hard drives isn't enterprise or scalable. Look into RAID, LVM, and other options to make the hard drive system more reliable
5) The Linux solution isn't 4X cheaper, frankly it is significantly more expensive... you have all ready purchased the current solution correct, so the cost to maintain it is 0 (well not really but still) vs. having to buy this list of hardware and very possibly new software licenses (you have the solaris licenses right now correct, probably not Linux ones.. if they exist, see point 1) So the cost of this system going forward is significantly higher than the current solution
Other than that, go for it... just remember it is much easier to tell you to spec it out and then say "We can't spend that kind of money" rather than tell you No up front
Didn't the US put virus code into Printers and Printer drivers that they sold to Iraq in the late 80's to shut down their air defense capabilities during the first Gulf War ?
Oh wait, that came out of the april 1st issue of a tech magazine and was then picked up by the mainstreet press...
Lets say I wanted to backdoor the login process for your Unix box... quite doable, but you would notice that... So I backdoor your compiler, so when login is compiled it "inserts" my backdoor, then so you don't don't notice the backdoor in your compiler, I install a backdoor into your compiler that when it notices that it recompiles itself, it inserts the code that looks for compiling login. Now you have a clean source code (no backdoors) and no way of taking the backdoor out of your toolchain without starting on a COMPLETELY clean environment (anyone know how to bootstrap a system to compile the compiler without using the compiler ???)
anyone think I am just paranoid ? Want me to show you the links to it ?
Ok, silly question... Why is this system even accessable to outsiders. Of course the other thing is that somewhere around 80% of attacks are from insiders
So the question is, if it is an insider, do they have the sophistication to detect where it came from an prosecute the guilty parties to the full extent of the law
Can someone show me a single example of the government regulating a service and the cost going DOWN. I know quite a few that the government has STOPPED regulating and the cost has gone down (see airlines, power - except for california's Dumbassed approach, banking, phones) contrast that with my cable service that seems to have a rate increase 3-4 times a year, or local phone service
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That said, it is pretty cool in that its representation is a filesystem that you mount so that files are automatically kept current. That said, the whole thing is complicated enough that I always used the "administrator" when I needed to do something, vs. just a get/put in a normal VCS system
Anyone who is using wireless seriously doesn't rely on WEP for more than keeping the lowest of the script kiddies out (See AirSnort - so even the lowest of the script kiddies can get in never mind)
Put your WAP on its own link to your router, from there require a layer 3 VPN solution to tunnel into your router (See FreeSWAN) if you want to get into your network, or onto the internet. If people use your 802.11 they get nothing, so aren't likely to stay...
Now it doesn't matter if you have WEP/802.1x or what ever. I wonder how many of these war driven "open access" 802.11 ports that people find are set up this way
I like a big thick laptop that does everything... a real brick with two batteries... I know others that like their smaller machines, it is a trade off. I will say get her at least one extra battery for the flights
Some people just don't want to be fed/chothed/sheltered, and so they aren't... There is nothing the government can, or should do about it.
By the way, if you want the guy on Main and 5th clothed/fed/sheltered... why don't you bring him to your house, put him up in your spare bedroom, feed him from your fridge and let him borrow a shirt or two... Frankly I have enough trouble taking care of my own family, but you are free to do what you want with your money, just keep mine out of the pool
Try to grow everything, tomatoes work well, corn if you have room for enough of it, herbs, vegitables.
You will get interesting friends at work trying to pawn off the vegitables you can't eat... bring those extra tomatoes in, let your non-enlightened friends share
It is a great life balancer, I love to sit on my ass all day at work and just think hard, go home and work my body all weekend long with my mind off.
I don't know about you, but when you have a wife and kids it helps to be able to afford things such as food and shelter for your family... For that it takes someone to pay me for my work, if Linus wants me to do work on Linux, he can damned well find someone to pay me the 100 bucks an hour that it takes to pay my bills. If not, I'll just work on interesting code for people that will pay that.
Second - Make sure you have the ability to work from home. I found that I was going home at the crack of 5 PM, spending the evening w/ my daughter, then working from home for a couple of hours after she went to bed. This got me my 10 hour day, play with my daughter, and reduced stress
Third - Make sure you are at work when you are at work, and at home when you are at home. In other words, spend time with your child when she is young, it will never happen again (ok, you could have another baby, but that is child #2)
Fourth - I wish I had bought my digital camera before she was born, so get one, setup a website, get the grandparents on the web/e-mail - Use your geek talents to make this better for everyone
Fifth - Save your vacation, make sure and take PLENTY of vacation around the birth of your child, as much as you can, borrow from next year if your boss will let you. Fortunately my wife didn't have to have a C-section, but if it happens your wife can be out of commission for a month or more recovering from abdominal surgury.
Sixth - Ignore all of us, we aren't you... Everyone has different ways of raising kids, most of us turned out Ok, most of our kids will too
Congratulation
oh wait, this is about music... it isn't important
Works for government funding, or VC funding as well... Find out what the hot topic of the day is... Storage Area Networks, Killing Anthrax... Find a way of writting those things into your proposal regardless of whether it makes sense ??? Profit Interestingly enough Anthrax doesn't do much damage to skin contact, you have to BREATH it into your lungs, a fancy set of clothes won't stop that unless you are wearing it as a mask, and if you are doing that I'd just assume wear a NBC suit that will protect me from the really dangerous stuff on the battlefield
Now you try and explain that to a teacher that she is wrong, oh well...
I remember reading the first book in the Foundation Trillogy, Anthem, and many other short stories for this class... Was one of the only english classes that I got an A in, oh well
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Developer
You just have to get a better title, Engineer is over rated
Now if you are able to 1099 to the company directly (so you get the WHOLE check) you are well off, companies that are used to paying $90 an hour so you can make 40/hr... if you get the whole check yourself, that can be good money
I guess the IEEE does not count ? Yes, you too can go ieee.org and get your UNIQUE address space
Funny "Mr Anonymous Coward" that last time I looked there wasn't a SINGLE 4 stroke lawn mower... Now maybe the riding mowers are, but why the hell would I want one of those... I'll take my electric anyday
That said, I use an electric lawnmower and drive a Prius, so my milage may vary
Who knows, the gift that keeps on giving... Honey can you open my beer for me after you get it ?
That said I know of people that have responsibilities for 1000's of workstations and compute farms with multiple hundered extra computers.
Guess what WETA has sounds good, but it is hardly large when you are talking about enterprise computing
Actually you can scale what M$ has done in their server environments to multiuser systems... Terminal Server is a multi user system, all though I agree with you Windows only works well when there is one user on a system.
So much for Linux being ahead of Microsoft, that said.. I would MUCH rather have a multiproc linux box than Windows server
Well you have listed some trivial hardware requirements, what you haven't said are things like: 1) Does your application that the designers use to do their daily work exist on Linux, does it run as well, is as fully featured, cost the same amount of money... if the answer is NO then this is a non-starter 2) How are you going to handle signon, login, desktop managment, etc. 3) Backup is a big issue 4) Frankly 2 72 GB hard drives isn't enterprise or scalable. Look into RAID, LVM, and other options to make the hard drive system more reliable 5) The Linux solution isn't 4X cheaper, frankly it is significantly more expensive... you have all ready purchased the current solution correct, so the cost to maintain it is 0 (well not really but still) vs. having to buy this list of hardware and very possibly new software licenses (you have the solaris licenses right now correct, probably not Linux ones.. if they exist, see point 1) So the cost of this system going forward is significantly higher than the current solution Other than that, go for it... just remember it is much easier to tell you to spec it out and then say "We can't spend that kind of money" rather than tell you No up front
Oh wait, that came out of the april 1st issue of a tech magazine and was then picked up by the mainstreet press...
another good backdoor shot down
anyone think I am just paranoid ? Want me to show you the links to it ?
So the question is, if it is an insider, do they have the sophistication to detect where it came from an prosecute the guilty parties to the full extent of the law
Oh well
after all can't you use emacs for EVERYTHING ?