Breakfast from the Wa... love when I see a local reference! I'm out of Wawa territory now, so every morning is a cup of tea and over-easy egg and cheese on an english muffin. mmmmm.... liquid chicken.
Not correct. I work for a manufacturing co implementing oracle on linux. We are moving from AIX to RH 6.2EE. We were sick of the horrible lease of AIX equipment we had and the trap of IBM Support (It seems that everything we wanted to do violated our service contract. Don't even think of TOUCHING the machine without IBM there to bill you.)
Oracle supports both RedHat and Suse in various combinations. We are taking live 11.5.2 w/RH6.2EE. Oracle 11.5.2 runs fine on it. We have fully tested it and are only having problems with one module. The problems have more to do with our tester (non-tech employee) than anything else. Oracle 11.5.3+ runs fine on 7.1. I haven't tried anything else, as my time is somewhat crunched.
This wasn't done strictly to save money. This was done to give our company the flexability to get everything done the way we wanted to and to be able to support ourselves. We have four highly qualified people on staff who can all troubleshoot the system.
The only downside (though it is a major one) is the lack of linux knowledge held by oracle. This is not always a problem, and there are some knowledgeable support people there. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the analysts there don't even know how to pronounce linux, let alone use it. This means educating support before they can help you fix your issue.
In NYC, WNEW afternoon jocks Opie and Anthony were discussing this yesterday. I understand that people can be cruel sometimes, but I don't see what these songs have to do with anything. There is nothing horrible about Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" or Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky". This is just overly-PC corporate america at it's best. They are so concerned with not offending anyone. Yes, the whole debacle of 9/11/01 is awful, but banning pop songs that had nothing to do with it? Please! If people want to joke and be cruel in the wake of these events, they will. I heard a joke last night when I stopped for gas. I was tempted to hit the jerk who told it, but I figured it was just his way of dealing with everything.
Actually, if they play on the fact that they have a ridiculously long name, it could work. There is a law firm in NJ with the name "Levinson, Axelrod, Wheaton, Grayselle, Caulfield, Marcaulus and Dunn" that advertised themselves as 'the lawfirm with the long name that gets results'. I remembered it, because there advertising played it up. Sometimes short and simple isn't as effective...
I JUST took a Global Knowledge course (RedHat 133 course) and was less that happy with their setup they provided for the students. The pre-req's were not met by half of the students, which dragged the class to a screeching halt, and the depth of the coverage of more "advance" topics was mediocre at best. The instructor was just plain afraid to talk above anyone's heads. I got more out of the class by bringing in my own laptop (since I guess I don't really want to share one when I'm paying $2600 for a 4-day course)and playing with it. I went through all of the chapters myself after 3 days, hung around for the fourth hoping for some in depth information, which was never to come.
There were people in my class who had never really played with Linux before, and they are taking the test next week. Knowing what I know (I work w/2 RHCE's), I can't imagine that any will do very well on the test. There is just too much to cover (ie, what to do if you only get 'LI' after booting. simple, yes, but these folks didn't have a clue). When I returned to work, I informed my boss to never send ANYONE to Global Knowledge again if possible. For the money, conditions should have been better. My instructor answered questions wrong sometimes. I jumped in and corrected him. He didn't have anyone to refer to if he had a stumper, unlike an instructor at RedHat. At least at RedHat, if they didn't know an answer, they were in the right place to get it. Global Knowledge may do well with other courses, but they handle the RHCE classes poorly at best. Next class (Level 300 this time) will be in North Carolina for me.
Oh, and I did fill out the student survey with this information, so the proper people will hopefully get my rant. I just don't expect anything to be done about it.
I attended New Jersey Institute of Technology. All incoming freshmen were issued a computer at the beginning of their school career there. Upon either leaving or graduating, you were given the option to purchase it. I bought my by then seriously outdated 386sx for $50. Not bad for four years of use. Oh, there was also a PC-lab fee that everyone, regardless of whether or not you got a computer from them, paid. I think that was $50 a year. Not a bad deal, and it introduced me to computers. I guess there are schools out there who do "give" computers away.:)
While I always find these types of advances amazing, isn't anybody else concerned about the possible implications? They mentioned, ever so briefly, in the article the hope that someday something like this could be used in the human body to do things such as clean out our veins, etc. This may be unrealistic right now, but is it impossible? I'm not sure I want to imagine a world where tiny motors can run through my body, doing what somebody else wants them to do. Frightening.
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Breakfast from the Wa... love when I see a local reference! I'm out of Wawa territory now, so every morning is a cup of tea and over-easy egg and cheese on an english muffin. mmmmm.... liquid chicken.
Not correct. I work for a manufacturing co implementing oracle on linux. We are moving from AIX to RH 6.2EE. We were sick of the horrible lease of AIX equipment we had and the trap of IBM Support (It seems that everything we wanted to do violated our service contract. Don't even think of TOUCHING the machine without IBM there to bill you.)
Oracle supports both RedHat and Suse in various combinations. We are taking live 11.5.2 w/RH6.2EE. Oracle 11.5.2 runs fine on it. We have fully tested it and are only having problems with one module. The problems have more to do with our tester (non-tech employee) than anything else. Oracle 11.5.3+ runs fine on 7.1. I haven't tried anything else, as my time is somewhat crunched.
This wasn't done strictly to save money. This was done to give our company the flexability to get everything done the way we wanted to and to be able to support ourselves. We have four highly qualified people on staff who can all troubleshoot the system.
The only downside (though it is a major one) is the lack of linux knowledge held by oracle. This is not always a problem, and there are some knowledgeable support people there. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the analysts there don't even know how to pronounce linux, let alone use it. This means educating support before they can help you fix your issue.
In NYC, WNEW afternoon jocks Opie and Anthony were discussing this yesterday. I understand that people can be cruel sometimes, but I don't see what these songs have to do with anything. There is nothing horrible about Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" or Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky". This is just overly-PC corporate america at it's best. They are so concerned with not offending anyone. Yes, the whole debacle of 9/11/01 is awful, but banning pop songs that had nothing to do with it? Please! If people want to joke and be cruel in the wake of these events, they will. I heard a joke last night when I stopped for gas. I was tempted to hit the jerk who told it, but I figured it was just his way of dealing with everything.
Actually, if they play on the fact that they have a ridiculously long name, it could work. There is a law firm in NJ with the name "Levinson, Axelrod, Wheaton, Grayselle, Caulfield, Marcaulus and Dunn" that advertised themselves as 'the lawfirm with the long name that gets results'. I remembered it, because there advertising played it up. Sometimes short and simple isn't as effective...
I JUST took a Global Knowledge course (RedHat 133 course) and was less that happy with their setup they provided for the students. The pre-req's were not met by half of the students, which dragged the class to a screeching halt, and the depth of the coverage of more "advance" topics was mediocre at best. The instructor was just plain afraid to talk above anyone's heads. I got more out of the class by bringing in my own laptop (since I guess I don't really want to share one when I'm paying $2600 for a 4-day course)and playing with it. I went through all of the chapters myself after 3 days, hung around for the fourth hoping for some in depth information, which was never to come.
There were people in my class who had never really played with Linux before, and they are taking the test next week. Knowing what I know (I work w/2 RHCE's), I can't imagine that any will do very well on the test. There is just too much to cover (ie, what to do if you only get 'LI' after booting. simple, yes, but these folks didn't have a clue). When I returned to work, I informed my boss to never send ANYONE to Global Knowledge again if possible. For the money, conditions should have been better. My instructor answered questions wrong sometimes. I jumped in and corrected him. He didn't have anyone to refer to if he had a stumper, unlike an instructor at RedHat. At least at RedHat, if they didn't know an answer, they were in the right place to get it. Global Knowledge may do well with other courses, but they handle the RHCE classes poorly at best. Next class (Level 300 this time) will be in North Carolina for me.
Oh, and I did fill out the student survey with this information, so the proper people will hopefully get my rant. I just don't expect anything to be done about it.
I attended New Jersey Institute of Technology. All incoming freshmen were issued a computer at the beginning of their school career there. Upon either leaving or graduating, you were given the option to purchase it. I bought my by then seriously outdated 386sx for $50. Not bad for four years of use. Oh, there was also a PC-lab fee that everyone, regardless of whether or not you got a computer from them, paid. I think that was $50 a year. Not a bad deal, and it introduced me to computers. I guess there are schools out there who do "give" computers away. :)
While I always find these types of advances amazing, isn't anybody else concerned about the possible implications? They mentioned, ever so briefly, in the article the hope that someday something like this could be used in the human body to do things such as clean out our veins, etc. This may be unrealistic right now, but is it impossible? I'm not sure I want to imagine a world where tiny motors can run through my body, doing what somebody else wants them to do. Frightening.