I'll admit, I haven't followed MySQL that much but i'm confused as to the state its in now. With the original founders going off and doing related stuff it seems pretty fragmented.
But the question is, how many VM's do you plan on running at once?
I installed a 2 Node RAC environment on Vmware using my laptop which was a 2Gz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of ram. (Instructions here )
So you don't need something super powerful if you don't plan on leaving them all running 24x7 and just startup the ones you are playing with at the time. A Quad core system with at least 4GB of ram should and lots of disk should be plenty.
I would stay away from running any of your environments on external USB drives. I have a 1 TB USB 2.0 drive and its too slow for anything heavy such as installing Oracle E-Business Suite.. However databases and RAC worked fine.
I've played around a fair bit with Oracle and VMware so if you have any questions feel free to ask.
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I was looking forward to playing Halo Wars, especially since I started playing Red Alert 3 at Xmas. The game is fun to play and the control scheme in some ways is better than RA3 but in others its worse. The best part about RA3 is that you have access to everything from anywhere on the map. With HW you have to go back to your base, which is easy to do with the dial pad but then you lose your place.
I'm sure there are little tricks that could make the game move faster but thats just my personal experience.
AC1 still brings back more favorable memories than any other MMORPG I have played since then. I think its because it actually took some skill to play. You could put yourself in impossible situations and if you played it right, you'd escape within a hair of your life. I dunno how many times I was down to my last hit point or two.;)
Another part of it was the story, which was well written. In todays MMORPG each quest is available to everyone.. but in AC, the main quest story was mainly only accomplished by one person. Seeing a headline broadcast with your name in it, was pretty cool.
And no other game has been able to reproduce corpse recovery on the Obsidian Plains.;)
I work for a medium sized company with hundreds of servers in our main server room. (I'm not including the 100's of others in smaller labs, etc.)
Its a huge undertaking to power down servers. There are some pretty complex relationships between applications and servers, so just powering them off isn't a simple task.
Every few years we have to do a complete shutdown for electrical work. Guaranteed a few servers will have problems and not power up. So, given the man hours + cost of failure I can't see how in the end we would be saving any money.
I'm sure there are a few servers that could be shutdown but at the end of the day I don't think we'd be saving much on power.
A few years ago we consolidated environments on newer hardware and got rid of the old. We could support more environments on less hardware, so we saved power costs but more importantly licensing costs. Just by consolidating a few Oracle servers saved us a boat load. I would say that approach would save more money than shutting down servers when idle. So if you have idle servers, consolidate.
Have you ever worked for a medium to large company? This is the norm in such companies. Management doesn't care how much productivity was lost and of course, they still expect you to get your work done on time.
As well, just to correct you, its management enforcing recommendations from a security analyst. The network admin couldn't give a rat's ass, they just implement some of the policies. You forgot to mention unix/windows administrators, dba's, etc.. Share the hate. (BTW, i'm a DBA.)
Its the security analysts job to try and to prevent breaches, IT to implement and managements job to weight the cost of security with productivity. The problem is that management is too scared to set realistic security policies. All they care about is CYA.
Yes, installing Oracle is simple.. You could even install Oracle's E-Business Suite easily. The hard part is configuring it and its even harder to configure it for performance.
Behind an environment built for performance is network, SAN and OS. If the admins for theses services aren't familiar with your application or databases then chances are its not configured optimally. You wouldn't believe how many arguments I have had with OS and SAN admins who believe that they can use the same generic configuration that they use for any other server.
I hate to tell you but any CS person worth a grain of salt can program in any language by just providing them with a book. That doesn't make you special.
I'm not disagreeing that anyone can be replaced.. I'm just saying, there isn't one person that can replace anyone in any role. I've been in IT for the past 12 years, worked with hundreds of people, some brilliant but I haven't met one that could step into any role tomorrow and operate at 100% capacity. If you think you can, your pretty full of yourself.
Tests are prefectly ok in siutations where you are on the fence about a particular job applicant. In most cases you can weed out the duds in the interview. Its very easy, if you ask the right questions, to determine if a person knows as much as their resume says. But in some cases, the job interview doesn't match the resume. It could be that they are no good at interviews... I had a friend in university who would defrost the CS club room fridge every time there was an exam... Brillant guy but couldn't take tests.
So in those cases, instead of playing it safe and looking at other applicants I would rather give them a test. Unfortunately HR won't let me.. So, in summary, I don't believe an exam should be required in all cases but in some it should.
My idea of an exam is hands on, provide them with a computer and a network connection leave them alone for 30 minutes.
I don't believe you have enough knowledge in all areas of IT to step in and replace anyone, as well as train their replacement..... You must run some small narrowly focused projects...
The projects I have been involved with have involved SAN, Unix and network admins, DBA's, developers, BA's, etc, etc. There's no way that a PM could step in to any one of those roles, fill in at 100% capacity, train the replacement and still manage the project.
The only time I ever need to reboot my router is after a power spike/outage. Actually, reboot doesn't even work.. I have to reset it to factory defaults and re-set it up. Most of the features still work, ie basic networking, but if you redirect ports to certain computers on your network (ie, hosting a website) then that no longer works.
Next time a UPS goes on sale i'm going to pick up one for the router.
I have 36GB of digital photos and countless VHS-C and miniDV tapes lying around. I still can't decide on how to organize it.. I can't imagine having to figure out how to organize clips from my entire life....
My only Vista complaint is that it 'forgets' about my printer. Every now and then, usually when I need to print something asap, I sent a document to my printer and nada. I take a look and it thinks my printer is offline. The only solution I have found so far is to delete the printer and re-add it. I have a dual core system and at times i'll notice 1 core 100% busy with spoolv.exe (or some such).
Other than that, there are a few things that annoy me but nothing that royally ticks me off like the printer issue. I should say, i'm a casual user. I use the system to read email, browse the web, play around with a few vmware images and burn home videos. Since I got my xbox 360 at xmas, I rarely play games, so even tho vista is a resource hog, I haven't noticed much.
You have to laugh at these analysts... Now they are saying in a year the Wii will just be a toy. I believe they were saying similar things last year and yet it is still the must have item of the xmas season. I think the Wii proves that graphics aren't everything and fun gameplay trumps impressive graphics.
I have a Wii and I barely play it.. My kids play it every now and then but days (weeks?) go by without it being turned on. My son continues to play his gamecube more.
Why don't I play it more? I can't stand playing against AI.. I want to play real people and 1 year later where are the network games?!? Are there any?? I think there are a couple like the Pokemon one and I heard Call of Duty or some such is coming out in a few months with game play up to 16 people.
The Wii has alot of potential but if they keep focusing on party games and things like Wii Fit, then people are going to get tired of it.
When I was growing up back in the early 80's we used to meet in the church basement once a week for a youth group. The only reason we went was for the games. We were willing to sit through a bit of "church" stuff to play dodge ball, ringette/floor hockey. Its sad to see how much youth activities have changed but its nice to see the church keeping up with the times.
I wonder if they'll let a 34yr old drop by....
and it is nice software but I find that after you get thousands of images it gets rather difficult to manage. I would love to have an application that lets me tag pictures on my home computer like in an explorer window and keep it in sync with the server.
I think that would be so much easier to manage. Its a project on my to do list and really all you need to do is write a client to talk to a gallery server.
Like you, I have my own server and i'd rather host it... Especially since I already have 12GB of images uploaded.
I call your bluff. If you work with Oracle, Metalink is irreplacable. I would say 90% of the time I get an answer from their knowledge base. 5% from google searches and the last 5% from Oracle Support.
I'm on Oracle's Metalink many times a day.. I also do google searches pretty frequently for Oracle topics... I have never google cache Oracle support content.
I would be very surprised if its DST related. The type of error they have described seems to be the way they are processing the returns. We've applied a fair number of the DST patches on many different configurations and we haven't seen a problem. That includes different flavours of unix, windows, sql server, oracle , db2, etc. etc. In most cases the patches are pretty simple.
There is one thing that my 10 years in the High Tech field has taught me... And that is, company loyalty doesn't exist anymore. I've seen from entire departments, people with 25yrs experience to just people managers don't like get laid off.
So the only loyalty you should have, its loyalty to yourself. For myself, once I get to the point in my job where everyday is the same and i'm not learning anything new, I start to look around. Luckily tho, i've been in the same position for the past 4 years and they continue to keep me on my toes.
For the OP, money isn't everything. Sure raises are nice but you get used to that money very quickly and your potential job pool will shrink. You also don't want to price yourself out of a position. Saying that, i'm a senior person, so at this stage of my career there is more to work than money.
I loved AC2 until they nerfed tacticians... Maybe they were overpowered, but they were fun as hell to play. Sure turret farms were bad but if you didn't use it properly and it was destroyed, you had wait another hour of in game time to use it again. Without your turret you were basically useless.
I'd love to have a couple of dumb terminals around the house hooked into my main computer. What options are out there for home users? I know there are some diskless linux options but I really don't almost full systems around the house... Just something compact with most of the room only needed for monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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I'll admit, I haven't followed MySQL that much but i'm confused as to the state its in now. With the original founders going off and doing related stuff it seems pretty fragmented.
Can someone piece it all together?
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Kinda goes against their response..
But the question is, how many VM's do you plan on running at once?
I installed a 2 Node RAC environment on Vmware using my laptop which was a 2Gz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of ram. (Instructions here )
So you don't need something super powerful if you don't plan on leaving them all running 24x7 and just startup the ones you are playing with at the time. A Quad core system with at least 4GB of ram should and lots of disk should be plenty.
I would stay away from running any of your environments on external USB drives. I have a 1 TB USB 2.0 drive and its too slow for anything heavy such as installing Oracle E-Business Suite.. However databases and RAC worked fine.
I've played around a fair bit with Oracle and VMware so if you have any questions feel free to ask.
I was looking forward to playing Halo Wars, especially since I started playing Red Alert 3 at Xmas. The game is fun to play and the control scheme in some ways is better than RA3 but in others its worse. The best part about RA3 is that you have access to everything from anywhere on the map. With HW you have to go back to your base, which is easy to do with the dial pad but then you lose your place.
I'm sure there are little tricks that could make the game move faster but thats just my personal experience.
AC1 still brings back more favorable memories than any other MMORPG I have played since then. I think its because it actually took some skill to play. You could put yourself in impossible situations and if you played it right, you'd escape within a hair of your life. I dunno how many times I was down to my last hit point or two. ;)
Another part of it was the story, which was well written. In todays MMORPG each quest is available to everyone.. but in AC, the main quest story was mainly only accomplished by one person. Seeing a headline broadcast with your name in it, was pretty cool.
And no other game has been able to reproduce corpse recovery on the Obsidian Plains. ;)
I work for a medium sized company with hundreds of servers in our main server room. (I'm not including the 100's of others in smaller labs, etc.)
Its a huge undertaking to power down servers. There are some pretty complex relationships between applications and servers, so just powering them off isn't a simple task.
Every few years we have to do a complete shutdown for electrical work. Guaranteed a few servers will have problems and not power up. So, given the man hours + cost of failure I can't see how in the end we would be saving any money.
I'm sure there are a few servers that could be shutdown but at the end of the day I don't think we'd be saving much on power.
A few years ago we consolidated environments on newer hardware and got rid of the old. We could support more environments on less hardware, so we saved power costs but more importantly licensing costs. Just by consolidating a few Oracle servers saved us a boat load. I would say that approach would save more money than shutting down servers when idle. So if you have idle servers, consolidate.
Have you ever worked for a medium to large company? This is the norm in such companies. Management doesn't care how much productivity was lost and of course, they still expect you to get your work done on time.
As well, just to correct you, its management enforcing recommendations from a security analyst. The network admin couldn't give a rat's ass, they just implement some of the policies. You forgot to mention unix/windows administrators, dba's, etc.. Share the hate. (BTW, i'm a DBA.)
Its the security analysts job to try and to prevent breaches, IT to implement and managements job to weight the cost of security with productivity. The problem is that management is too scared to set realistic security policies. All they care about is CYA.
Yes, installing Oracle is simple.. You could even install Oracle's E-Business Suite easily. The hard part is configuring it and its even harder to configure it for performance.
Behind an environment built for performance is network, SAN and OS. If the admins for theses services aren't familiar with your application or databases then chances are its not configured optimally. You wouldn't believe how many arguments I have had with OS and SAN admins who believe that they can use the same generic configuration that they use for any other server.
I hate to tell you but any CS person worth a grain of salt can program in any language by just providing them with a book. That doesn't make you special.
I'm not disagreeing that anyone can be replaced.. I'm just saying, there isn't one person that can replace anyone in any role. I've been in IT for the past 12 years, worked with hundreds of people, some brilliant but I haven't met one that could step into any role tomorrow and operate at 100% capacity. If you think you can, your pretty full of yourself.
Tests are prefectly ok in siutations where you are on the fence about a particular job applicant. In most cases you can weed out the duds in the interview. Its very easy, if you ask the right questions, to determine if a person knows as much as their resume says. But in some cases, the job interview doesn't match the resume. It could be that they are no good at interviews... I had a friend in university who would defrost the CS club room fridge every time there was an exam... Brillant guy but couldn't take tests.
So in those cases, instead of playing it safe and looking at other applicants I would rather give them a test. Unfortunately HR won't let me.. So, in summary, I don't believe an exam should be required in all cases but in some it should.
My idea of an exam is hands on, provide them with a computer and a network connection leave them alone for 30 minutes.
I don't believe you have enough knowledge in all areas of IT to step in and replace anyone, as well as train their replacement..... You must run some small narrowly focused projects... The projects I have been involved with have involved SAN, Unix and network admins, DBA's, developers, BA's, etc, etc. There's no way that a PM could step in to any one of those roles, fill in at 100% capacity, train the replacement and still manage the project.
The only time I ever need to reboot my router is after a power spike/outage. Actually, reboot doesn't even work.. I have to reset it to factory defaults and re-set it up. Most of the features still work, ie basic networking, but if you redirect ports to certain computers on your network (ie, hosting a website) then that no longer works.
Next time a UPS goes on sale i'm going to pick up one for the router.
I have 36GB of digital photos and countless VHS-C and miniDV tapes lying around. I still can't decide on how to organize it.. I can't imagine having to figure out how to organize clips from my entire life....
Other than that, there are a few things that annoy me but nothing that royally ticks me off like the printer issue. I should say, i'm a casual user. I use the system to read email, browse the web, play around with a few vmware images and burn home videos. Since I got my xbox 360 at xmas, I rarely play games, so even tho vista is a resource hog, I haven't noticed much.
He's most likely married......
You have to laugh at these analysts... Now they are saying in a year the Wii will just be a toy. I believe they were saying similar things last year and yet it is still the must have item of the xmas season. I think the Wii proves that graphics aren't everything and fun gameplay trumps impressive graphics.
I have a Wii and I barely play it.. My kids play it every now and then but days (weeks?) go by without it being turned on. My son continues to play his gamecube more. Why don't I play it more? I can't stand playing against AI.. I want to play real people and 1 year later where are the network games?!? Are there any?? I think there are a couple like the Pokemon one and I heard Call of Duty or some such is coming out in a few months with game play up to 16 people. The Wii has alot of potential but if they keep focusing on party games and things like Wii Fit, then people are going to get tired of it.
When I was growing up back in the early 80's we used to meet in the church basement once a week for a youth group. The only reason we went was for the games. We were willing to sit through a bit of "church" stuff to play dodge ball, ringette/floor hockey. Its sad to see how much youth activities have changed but its nice to see the church keeping up with the times. I wonder if they'll let a 34yr old drop by....
and it is nice software but I find that after you get thousands of images it gets rather difficult to manage. I would love to have an application that lets me tag pictures on my home computer like in an explorer window and keep it in sync with the server.
I think that would be so much easier to manage. Its a project on my to do list and really all you need to do is write a client to talk to a gallery server.
Like you, I have my own server and i'd rather host it... Especially since I already have 12GB of images uploaded.
I call your bluff. If you work with Oracle, Metalink is irreplacable. I would say 90% of the time I get an answer from their knowledge base. 5% from google searches and the last 5% from Oracle Support.
I'm on Oracle's Metalink many times a day.. I also do google searches pretty frequently for Oracle topics... I have never google cache Oracle support content.
I would be very surprised if its DST related. The type of error they have described seems to be the way they are processing the returns. We've applied a fair number of the DST patches on many different configurations and we haven't seen a problem. That includes different flavours of unix, windows, sql server, oracle , db2, etc. etc. In most cases the patches are pretty simple.
There is one thing that my 10 years in the High Tech field has taught me... And that is, company loyalty doesn't exist anymore. I've seen from entire departments, people with 25yrs experience to just people managers don't like get laid off.
So the only loyalty you should have, its loyalty to yourself. For myself, once I get to the point in my job where everyday is the same and i'm not learning anything new, I start to look around. Luckily tho, i've been in the same position for the past 4 years and they continue to keep me on my toes.
For the OP, money isn't everything. Sure raises are nice but you get used to that money very quickly and your potential job pool will shrink. You also don't want to price yourself out of a position. Saying that, i'm a senior person, so at this stage of my career there is more to work than money.
I loved AC2 until they nerfed tacticians... Maybe they were overpowered, but they were fun as hell to play. Sure turret farms were bad but if you didn't use it properly and it was destroyed, you had wait another hour of in game time to use it again. Without your turret you were basically useless.
I'd love to have a couple of dumb terminals around the house hooked into my main computer. What options are out there for home users? I know there are some diskless linux options but I really don't almost full systems around the house... Just something compact with most of the room only needed for monitor, keyboard and mouse.