Tech workers are misused and abused and then laid off. I have had it. I have lived and worked my entire life in NYC (in Unix) and my wife and I have enough friends who have started new lives in New Mexico, Colorado and other far less stressful states to show us that this is completely unecessary. Time to go into teaching (which I have done before in NYC and even that's less stressful) somewhere in Northern NM. Salaries are weak there, but so is the cost of living. Our friend's house has a living room the size of our entire apartment and their place cost $250K in Santa Fe. I have a high salary now, so time to save and start a 5 year plan to move.
Everyone is concerned about redundancy and increased probability of one drive failing the more drives you have. Yes. If you are comparing it to RAID 1, RAID 1+0 or RAID 5. But we are talking desktop systems. You, know, the ones with single drives. So you already have no redundancy to begin with and now you are adding speed. And a somewhat increased risk of drive failure. However, I already have 3 separate drives on my system, so I am only going to get the speed benefits.
"Gee we don't see anything so far, so I guess we are alone"
What kind of crap is this? We have stone-age technology to look at this crap. Large number statistics support life on other planets. Just that they may be 10 galaxies away.
I doubt they will be giving away hardware independent of the software. It's the equivalent of saying "free water" and charging $5 for the cup with a "no cup without water" policy.
See the movie "Mostly Martha" which is not only a fantastic movie, but shows what passionless cooking is like when someone views their job as a technical issue and does not feel for what they do.
1. No UN means you have to put together a patchwork of nations to support you. Our list of supporting countries was not impressive (look at the list intead of your RNC talking points of x nations belonging to the Coalition of the Willing)
2. The other reasons was supporting terrorism, invading nations and torturing his citizens. Saddam had no link to 9/11. I am sure he supported terrorism. Why have we not invaded Syria and Iran if this is all that is needed to justify an invasion? Saddam was never capable of invading his neighbors after Gulf I. The torture of citizens is done by many nations to whom we give aid, have generous trade agreements and other perks; why don't we invade them?
3. How, exactly, has terrorism decreased by invading Iraq? Americans not in the military are being kidnapped, bombed and beheaded. Just because it's in Iraq it means it's not terrorism?
4. NOW they are in Iraq. Duh. Why would Al Qaeda support a completely secular regime like Saddams? They wanted his ass gone and nothing could make them happier than being able to establish a theocracy AND kill Americans at the same time. Where is the link between Saddam and the Jordanian bomb plot? You people come up with evidence after the fact. It used to be "saddam and alqaeda" but now it's just "iraq and alqaeda" and you mean currently instead of just under Saddam.
5. Saying "no" to things you don't believe in is how the American Revolution started. I don't agree that there is a "patriotic duty" not to fight, but I do think that it is one's choice and we cannot question one's patriotism based on whether one supports fighting or not.
6. Clever historical quote goes here.
Seriously, how are those Lindo(w)s desktop sales going after, what's it been, over a year? Have sales gone up significantly? Is there traction? Market share numbers? Does the world outside of/. readers care about or even know about Lindo(w)s? Does anyone have any information? I would love to know.
Yes. And another point of failure. And another potential power drain if it stuck. I defer to the NASA engineers on this one. I just hope they weren't from the Space Shuttle project.
The FBI wanted a backdoor to all encryption technology in the US. I guess since the US Govt couldn't get that, they went global and targeted EU GPS. WTF?!?!?!?!?!??
We have Sun Platinum support. We also use Redhat support. So did my last 2 jobs. I have been the only guy that knows how to administer a *nix box on 3 separate jobs. I also convinced them to buy more of them. I would have gotten fired for buying Microsoft since it would have required major rearchitecting. Martha Stewart Omnimedia moved from Windows to Solaris despite Martha being personal friends with Gates and Allen. Sometimes it's just the right thing to do. On the other hand my last company was heavily Sun-entrenched, but that didn't stop us from rolling out ATG on Windows to some clients. It was the right solution for that client.
Free/3rd party solutions usually develop out of financial need. We would love to get a NetApp for our windows and unix home directories. Finance said no to $90K, so we built our own with Linux and Samba.
Exchange sucks. But you are 100% correct about nothing being as good as it.
Why are you building a custom built solution if "they" won't support the effort required. Or did the folks who built it not know how to scope the project properly and set expectations? The only reason my last job decided to build their own app server out of JBoss is because our clients wouldn't pay tens of thousands for BEA/ATG/IBM app servers.
Everything has it's proper solution. Sometimes it's freeware, sometimes it's payware, sometimes it's Microsoft payware. Scope out the problem, match it with the proper solution.
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Tech workers are misused and abused and then laid off. I have had it. I have lived and worked my entire life in NYC (in Unix) and my wife and I have enough friends who have started new lives in New Mexico, Colorado and other far less stressful states to show us that this is completely unecessary. Time to go into teaching (which I have done before in NYC and even that's less stressful) somewhere in Northern NM. Salaries are weak there, but so is the cost of living. Our friend's house has a living room the size of our entire apartment and their place cost $250K in Santa Fe. I have a high salary now, so time to save and start a 5 year plan to move.
I have an EMC Symmetrix with 90-something drives in it at my work. 2 have failed in the past year. Those are odds I am willing to live with.
Everyone is concerned about redundancy and increased probability of one drive failing the more drives you have. Yes. If you are comparing it to RAID 1, RAID 1+0 or RAID 5. But we are talking desktop systems. You, know, the ones with single drives. So you already have no redundancy to begin with and now you are adding speed. And a somewhat increased risk of drive failure. However, I already have 3 separate drives on my system, so I am only going to get the speed benefits.
"Gee we don't see anything so far, so I guess we are alone" What kind of crap is this? We have stone-age technology to look at this crap. Large number statistics support life on other planets. Just that they may be 10 galaxies away.
Well, the comments will be the same on all terraforming articles. Like this
Now I can weld a new proc onto my sparc 5 firewall!
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I doubt they will be giving away hardware independent of the software. It's the equivalent of saying "free water" and charging $5 for the cup with a "no cup without water" policy.
See the movie "Mostly Martha" which is not only a fantastic movie, but shows what passionless cooking is like when someone views their job as a technical issue and does not feel for what they do.
Fusion power will fix this.
Wrongo... Yoda can't WALK. He uses a cane for that. He can jump and do jedi shit. He never takes a step in that whole battle.
1. No UN means you have to put together a patchwork of nations to support you. Our list of supporting countries was not impressive (look at the list intead of your RNC talking points of x nations belonging to the Coalition of the Willing) 2. The other reasons was supporting terrorism, invading nations and torturing his citizens. Saddam had no link to 9/11. I am sure he supported terrorism. Why have we not invaded Syria and Iran if this is all that is needed to justify an invasion? Saddam was never capable of invading his neighbors after Gulf I. The torture of citizens is done by many nations to whom we give aid, have generous trade agreements and other perks; why don't we invade them? 3. How, exactly, has terrorism decreased by invading Iraq? Americans not in the military are being kidnapped, bombed and beheaded. Just because it's in Iraq it means it's not terrorism? 4. NOW they are in Iraq. Duh. Why would Al Qaeda support a completely secular regime like Saddams? They wanted his ass gone and nothing could make them happier than being able to establish a theocracy AND kill Americans at the same time. Where is the link between Saddam and the Jordanian bomb plot? You people come up with evidence after the fact. It used to be "saddam and alqaeda" but now it's just "iraq and alqaeda" and you mean currently instead of just under Saddam. 5. Saying "no" to things you don't believe in is how the American Revolution started. I don't agree that there is a "patriotic duty" not to fight, but I do think that it is one's choice and we cannot question one's patriotism based on whether one supports fighting or not. 6. Clever historical quote goes here.
After 9/11 I thought to myself "Hmm, now we know they don't have nukes"
RSI has never been more enjoyable.
Seriously, how are those Lindo(w)s desktop sales going after, what's it been, over a year? Have sales gone up significantly? Is there traction? Market share numbers? Does the world outside of /. readers care about or even know about Lindo(w)s? Does anyone have any information? I would love to know.
Yes. And another point of failure. And another potential power drain if it stuck. I defer to the NASA engineers on this one. I just hope they weren't from the Space Shuttle project.
Nice "Heartbreak Ridge" reference.
The FBI wanted a backdoor to all encryption technology in the US. I guess since the US Govt couldn't get that, they went global and targeted EU GPS. WTF?!?!?!?!?!??
Site is /.ed already.
the fact that we are all reading this on plastic computers (unless you are using an old metal AT) makes us all guilty.
We have Sun Platinum support. We also use Redhat support. So did my last 2 jobs. I have been the only guy that knows how to administer a *nix box on 3 separate jobs. I also convinced them to buy more of them. I would have gotten fired for buying Microsoft since it would have required major rearchitecting. Martha Stewart Omnimedia moved from Windows to Solaris despite Martha being personal friends with Gates and Allen. Sometimes it's just the right thing to do. On the other hand my last company was heavily Sun-entrenched, but that didn't stop us from rolling out ATG on Windows to some clients. It was the right solution for that client.
Free/3rd party solutions usually develop out of financial need. We would love to get a NetApp for our windows and unix home directories. Finance said no to $90K, so we built our own with Linux and Samba.
Exchange sucks. But you are 100% correct about nothing being as good as it.
Why are you building a custom built solution if "they" won't support the effort required. Or did the folks who built it not know how to scope the project properly and set expectations? The only reason my last job decided to build their own app server out of JBoss is because our clients wouldn't pay tens of thousands for BEA/ATG/IBM app servers.
Everything has it's proper solution. Sometimes it's freeware, sometimes it's payware, sometimes it's Microsoft payware. Scope out the problem, match it with the proper solution.
True indeed. I forget that my experience with it is Solaris+Oracle. That's just sad if that's their idea of "linux support"
And my .sig is from Bloom County. I hope this will be good.