I have to agree. I just put 6 2524's in a big ass warehouse and the total setup time was about 5 minutes each. They are extremely simple to configure with a couple of vlans and a trunk back to a central switch.
As a person who's been admining Solaris in small to very large environments for 10 years now, and who has grown to really dislike the "commercial" linux offerings from SuSE and RedHat in the last couple of years all I can say is a real x86 version of Solaris is going to get the hard push into my data center.
I really hope they can pull the rabbit out of the hat with this one and reinvigorate the company. Being a UNIX admin just isn't the same without Sun providing the OS.
for the domains I own, but the ISP I use has postini setup and available. It's nice to be able to give each "registration required" web site a unique email address to see who is betraying their privacy statement. On the other hand my postini quarantined list grows by about 1000 per day making it almost impossible to search through it for real emails.:(
If it's anything like the BBE Sonic Maximizer built into the Pioneer Premier head units that it will do a good job of making those lousy 128 bit encodings sound better.
Of course almost nothing can stop a guy with a backhoe from killing it when the fibre from two different companies runs down the same path under the street...:(
Although they might not be the best measure of what I know, they have always helped me greatly when negotiating wages, promotions, and raises. So I wouldn't label them as worthless.
Nothing get's debuged on a production system. If it doesn't work it gets pulled off and fixed in the development environment.
Take root away from everybody and never give it out. Everyone has to learn this the hard way. Maybe you won't have to.
Standardize your OS installations and push back on mass customization. The users complain, but in the end they're more appreciative of a consistent working environment, then anything else.
Following these guidelines can help you sleep at night. When the pager goes off it's because a piece of hardware failed, not because some jackasses custom compiled perl installation that they didn't tell you about is chewing CPU and allowing hackers to use your systems as a pr0n site.
The fault? A bug in Dell's RAID card firmware that would cause the card to eventually destroy the data beyond repair... A bug of the type that would NEVER get out the door in a HP or IBM product... Then there was the server that had the power supply defect that smoked and died... Dell does not do anywhere NEAR the quality control HP or IBM does.
Oh yes it would. I've seen HP Hardware in Unix systems eat themselves alive many, many times.
We have a little over 450 systems The eight of us can login to all of them via ssh to our regular unix accounts and su to root as needed. We all know the root passwords for all of the machines for use during emergency situations where direct console or single user mode access is needed. We also have a rather complex centralized sudoers file that doles out access to functional application groups to specific commands as needed.
We've often discussed going to a model where we all have to use sudo to run commands as root, but in truth, it's never been a problem over the past 5 years. Sure people make mistakes, but that will happen no matter what. Anything that makes our job more difficult without adding any real value is a waste of time.
Once you get into situations where you have hundreds or thousands of production systems, you'll be trying to do everything you can to weed out complexity, not add to it.
If you have someone in your group running around like a cowboy and trying to cover their tracks, you've got more serious problems. These kind of things are better dealt with with peer pressure and the occasional beat down in the parking lot...;-)
Good idea. You could charge for the cards. People who want them help support the system and people who just want to "get lost in the woods" can continue to do so.
Perhaps they wouldn't have such a shortage of enlisted and non-commissioned technical workers if it wasn't so freakin' hard to figure out how to find and apply for the jobs! Have you ever tried to decipher a federal job posting? Ack. They never list specific skills they are looking for. I wonder if there are any recruiters that specialize in placing technical workers in federal positions? I would love the chance to work for my country using the skills that I've developed over the past 12 years, and I hear that the pension and benefits are pretty good too!
Writing Senator Coleman once a week with my opinion about the RIAA's Gestapo tactics must have bore some fruit! Or else he got sick of me filling up his inbox:)
Maybe we can finally kill off csh now! I couldn't believe that the system controllers for the SF-15K's made heavy use of csh! Then I found out Mr. Joy wrote csh.
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I have to agree. I just put 6 2524's in a big ass warehouse and the total setup time was about 5 minutes each. They are extremely simple to configure with a couple of vlans and a trunk back to a central switch.
Here's my answer to requests for tech support: "I work with these:
(http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire15k/i ndex.xml r s/superdome/index.html)
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/scalableserve
at work
and (http://www.apple.com/powerbook/) at home.
I don't know crap of about that cheap piece of plastic junk you're using."
Oh man the testimonials are hilarious! http://www.colonblow.com/testimonials.htm
As a person who's been admining Solaris in small to very large environments for 10 years now, and who has grown to really dislike the "commercial" linux offerings from SuSE and RedHat in the last couple of years all I can say is a real x86 version of Solaris is going to get the hard push into my data center. I really hope they can pull the rabbit out of the hat with this one and reinvigorate the company. Being a UNIX admin just isn't the same without Sun providing the OS.
why The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende? why To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?
for the domains I own, but the ISP I use has postini setup and available. It's nice to be able to give each "registration required" web site a unique email address to see who is betraying their privacy statement. On the other hand my postini quarantined list grows by about 1000 per day making it almost impossible to search through it for real emails. :(
If it's anything like the BBE Sonic Maximizer built into the Pioneer Premier head units that it will do a good job of making those lousy 128 bit encodings sound better.
Of course almost nothing can stop a guy with a backhoe from killing it when the fibre from two different companies runs down the same path under the street... :(
Maybe they should get one of those signs like McDonalds used to have: "over 1 billion served!"
Al Gore invented, er, wrote Linux cuz he needed something to run on the internet after he invented that.
Although they might not be the best measure of what I know, they have always helped me greatly when negotiating wages, promotions, and raises. So I wouldn't label them as worthless.
Nothing get's debuged on a production system. If it doesn't work it gets pulled off and fixed in the development environment.
Take root away from everybody and never give it out. Everyone has to learn this the hard way. Maybe you won't have to.
Standardize your OS installations and push back on mass customization. The users complain, but in the end they're more appreciative of a consistent working environment, then anything else.
Following these guidelines can help you sleep at night. When the pager goes off it's because a piece of hardware failed, not because some jackasses custom compiled perl installation that they didn't tell you about is chewing CPU and allowing hackers to use your systems as a pr0n site.
Here's a link to it http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
Oh yes it would. I've seen HP Hardware in Unix systems eat themselves alive many, many times.
We have a little over 450 systems The eight of us can login to all of them via ssh to our regular unix accounts and su to root as needed. We all know the root passwords for all of the machines for use during emergency situations where direct console or single user mode access is needed. We also have a rather complex centralized sudoers file that doles out access to functional application groups to specific commands as needed. We've often discussed going to a model where we all have to use sudo to run commands as root, but in truth, it's never been a problem over the past 5 years. Sure people make mistakes, but that will happen no matter what. Anything that makes our job more difficult without adding any real value is a waste of time. Once you get into situations where you have hundreds or thousands of production systems, you'll be trying to do everything you can to weed out complexity, not add to it. If you have someone in your group running around like a cowboy and trying to cover their tracks, you've got more serious problems. These kind of things are better dealt with with peer pressure and the occasional beat down in the parking lot ... ;-)
Good idea. You could charge for the cards. People who want them help support the system and people who just want to "get lost in the woods" can continue to do so.
Advise: #emerge logrotate
Perhaps they wouldn't have such a shortage of enlisted and non-commissioned technical workers if it wasn't so freakin' hard to figure out how to find and apply for the jobs! Have you ever tried to decipher a federal job posting? Ack. They never list specific skills they are looking for. I wonder if there are any recruiters that specialize in placing technical workers in federal positions? I would love the chance to work for my country using the skills that I've developed over the past 12 years, and I hear that the pension and benefits are pretty good too!
The PAGER is a thousand times worse then a cell phone.
Writing Senator Coleman once a week with my opinion about the RIAA's Gestapo tactics must have bore some fruit! Or else he got sick of me filling up his inbox :)
Er, it was the Bananna Junior 9000
Maybe we can finally kill off csh now! I couldn't believe that the system controllers for the SF-15K's made heavy use of csh! Then I found out Mr. Joy wrote csh.
Check out the fangtooth on the wild creatures page. I'm glad those things aren't swimming around in any of the lakes around here.
I love the "Harold Arlene Songbook" sung by Ella Fitzgerald. I've had a copy of it for over 15 years and I still listen to it all of the tim.