A Day late and a Dollar short question of the year
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Disaster Recovery?
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I was wondering how other Slashdot readers were able to
recuperate from unforeseen damage to their work (and learning) environments.
Uhh, you would have a DR plan BEFORE the place burns down based on your DR plan that was developed with the business or school needs. Tape backups and another site to restore to. Perhaps even the information was mirrored to it via a SAN. Everyone keeps their tapes offsite right?
That's all I've been doing since the 9/11 incident and I think it has something to do with that since I work in the Boston WTC everyone is a bit paranoid about dataloss since we had offices that got toasted in NYC.
It all depends on how much legwork and business maintenance you mind doing...
Do you mind being responsible for a corp entity, taxes, getting your own insurances, and etc? If you don't mind doing legwork like that in your evenings then go for it, it's easy enough to dissolve the company when your done with it.
I dunno about the not so good cash 2 years ago comment, if anything your gonna find that now is more of a slump then 2 years ago at this particular point in time with everyone bitching about rates in this little recession and all. Anyway you look at it though, you'll make a bigger slice of the pie not having the bloodsucking recruiters doing your W2 for you and taking 30%+.
I am seriously thinking of doing it again after a year away from contracting and being an employee recently. Best part is if you are done with your contract you can go on vacation for the summer.
Is it just me or does it seem that scientists have lost sight of what they are trying to accomplish. I can see the conversations now:
"Lets splice grow a dog with cat genes in it and see what happens... yeah, that would be cool. Then after lets put a turtle and a rabbit genes together..."
Bunch of kids playin around with gene splicing, wtf...
I could go on for days about this. Sorry. But don't forget to do some intelligent zoning on the switches so that NT doesn't just grab the device off of the SAN. I had NT grabbing devices out from underneath Solaris when I first tried getting it going. And if you use EMC stuff check out the product called Access Logix which does something similar to zoning on switches.
oh, and I use a StorageTek L180. We affectionitely nicknamed it Barney cuz of it's pretty purple color (which looks nice next to all the purple Clarrion storage arrays next to it). Works great for me backup up several hundred Solaris and NT servers.
Exactly. We are being forced to move from Veritas NetBackup to Legato. I remember using Legato like 7 years ago or so and still have nightmares. But Veritas NetBackup with a Brocade switch setup is the most ideal. Veritas uses flat files for indexes (which does have an option for compression, but slows things down when doing reads). And stay away from JNI fibre channel cards, nothing but problems with them too, use Emulex cards for both SBUS and PCI.
And someone mentioned Amanda, not in a SAN. It just doesn't cut the mustard. There is no way of importing and exporting a device over a SAN to each host. And if your gonna spend a TON of money on a SAN, get a freakin real backup product that has a support contract so you can get som assistance when things go bad. And does multiplexing and whatnot so you can fit your backups into the alloted window of time (which is why you got a SAN right).
What about that all hyped video card from Bit Boys. Now THAT was vaporware and
hype... I remember endless articles on how it was the next best thing to sliced bread...
I'm an addict so I gotta say it. Everquest! Luclin comes out tomorrow and has some steep min req for playing. Like 512Meg memory and a GeForce 2... The screenshots are amazing. And the playability of the game will go on and on and on. But if you got a gaming machine get the Everquest Trilogy + Luclin + 3 months of prepaid online card...
I seem to get certified every couple years for Solaris Admin and Network from Sun. Not once has anyone ever asked me about it on an interview. I started leaving it out of my resume intentionally for a while just to see if it made a difference. And when I've brought it up at an interview I always get this look of "oh, thats nice" then a shift in topic to practical questions of how you would do something. So to answer the question , nope, years of on the job real world experience is always more important. 9 times out of ten they aren't going to teach you the real important stuff anyway. They are gonna teach you how to do the generic day to day of using the software and equipment when things are running smoothly for an out of the box environment. I guess it might be nice place to start after reading a book on how to do something or a little extra clought. But from what I've seen certification = desperate. Just prove yourself in the interview as being intelligent and a fast learner and then shadow the local guru in the group when you get there. And if you are already an expert, then no ones gonna care if you got it or not.
The thing that really scares me about globalization is the homogenization that follows.
I gotta disagree. It's not homogenization... It's integration. It works the other way also, it's a sharing of ideas and cultures. We (as a planet) are to big and intergrated not to. Right next to those Gaps and McDonalds will be a some famous Japanese chain, Dutch wooden shoes store, etc... If we're going to be scared of something, let's not have it be change. Let's be scared of what the world will look like in another 100 years if we don't have some simillance of a common set of values worldwide. In that world where it will be ok to blow up a building to get our sense of values across to another culture.
Re:It means the US has taken over the world
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Defining Globalism
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At least thats what it means to me when I hear it. We are basically talking about US-centric ideology and economy. It means that things like this invasion of Afghanistan should be accepted by the rest of the world, because sooner or
later it may happen to them. Forget that nations have their own sovereign right to determine their own internal affairs. They only have that right insofar as the US does not feel the need to interfere. And this does not apply equally across
the board. Would we allow France to bomb our cities because we are harboring a political fugitive they are seeking? Would we allow Russia to arm and finance groups in America that advocate overthrowing the US government? Yet that
seems perfectly acceptable for the US to do in other countries. Of course when the US does it, its not called "state sponsored terrorism".
I think personally it would mean the exact opposite. If we were under one umbrella of rules of a sense... Then nobody would want to be bombing ourselves. I guess it could lead to civil wars and infighting in a global scale but thats a different matter. I don't agree 100% with the bombing myself. But instead of thinking of it as USA as being the primary player, idealistically they would be just another state in the global community with just as much say as the smallest 3rd world nation.
I am not aware of any internal FC implementations on standard server hardware, but as a rule, its an external JBOD application.
And there are systems with internal FCAL such as the Sun Fire V880 but then again it's not a PC, but getting damn closer each year (Don't get me started ever since they moved to a PCI bus in their lower end systems).
But my point is is that it's great for fault tolerance also, not just distance.
I started out as a datacenter operator for a VAX/OpenVMS and UNIX shop doing the graveyeard shift. After several years of laaate night reading , hackin around, and fixing broken crap it was discovered that I was worth my salt. Made Junior Admin for UNIX.. Then moved on to Senior UNIX Admin. The rest history...
Why is it that people dislike change (read: progress) so much ?
Because Perl5 can do the same stuff as Perl6. But now my old code won't be compatiable, again. I'd just as soon still be coding Fortan or C on VAX/OpenVMS.
Except EverQuest. That is one hobby that sucks... Love/Hate relationship for sure. But yet, I find myself strangely drawn to it nightly... Like a calling of the sirens... Plaaaayyyy thhhiiiis gaaaame unnnttilll 4am... Strange.
From what I heard, not that I have any clue what I'm talking about other then what I've seen on the news and water cooler talk. But, they don't even use computers for the most part. Not only are they low-tech, they are no-tech. I don't see what the fear is other then some goverment officials taking advantage of the mass hysteria.
Now these are the kinds of articles and comments that I enjoy. It's on the techy side and not fluff pop culture material or the latest craze or fad in overclocking. It also seems to bring out the more intelligent people in the group for real comment. Not just some zealots praising an OS over another or just personal opinions. Keep these kinds of articles up!
Ok, what exactly are the odds of NASA getting something right on their first try within recent years? I dunno if I want one of these launching and exploding in the atmosphere and raining nuclear holocaust down on me. Suuuure, they'll get it right. Just somwhere between their 2nd to 7th try... Hence why they want to do things cheaper so they have better odds of doing it again after learning from their mistake(s). This one is just a little to big for them to mess with in my opinion. I wonder who'd get the cheapest contract for it... Is the tempature in F or C? Doah!
It's not it exploding in space that scares me personally though that does sound horrid. Is it exploding within the atmosphere high up and raining nuclear holocaust on me.
No, they were the first to hear the announcement. PC people still get it first since they have been a devout following of nVidia much longer then Mac and their ATI co-branding. And it's not even available yet for Mac silly.
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Uhh, you would have a DR plan BEFORE the place burns down based on your DR plan that was developed with the business or school needs. Tape backups and another site to restore to. Perhaps even the information was mirrored to it via a SAN. Everyone keeps their tapes offsite right?
That's all I've been doing since the 9/11 incident and I think it has something to do with that since I work in the Boston WTC everyone is a bit paranoid about dataloss since we had offices that got toasted in NYC.
Do you mind being responsible for a corp entity, taxes, getting your own insurances, and etc? If you don't mind doing legwork like that in your evenings then go for it, it's easy enough to dissolve the company when your done with it.
I dunno about the not so good cash 2 years ago comment, if anything your gonna find that now is more of a slump then 2 years ago at this particular point in time with everyone bitching about rates in this little recession and all. Anyway you look at it though, you'll make a bigger slice of the pie not having the bloodsucking recruiters doing your W2 for you and taking 30%+.
I am seriously thinking of doing it again after a year away from contracting and being an employee recently. Best part is if you are done with your contract you can go on vacation for the summer.
"Lets splice grow a dog with cat genes in it and see what happens... yeah, that would be cool. Then after lets put a turtle and a rabbit genes together..."
Bunch of kids playin around with gene splicing, wtf...
I could go on for days about this. Sorry. But don't forget to do some intelligent zoning on the switches so that NT doesn't just grab the device off of the SAN. I had NT grabbing devices out from underneath Solaris when I first tried getting it going. And if you use EMC stuff check out the product called Access Logix which does something similar to zoning on switches.
oh, and I use a StorageTek L180. We affectionitely nicknamed it Barney cuz of it's pretty purple color (which looks nice next to all the purple Clarrion storage arrays next to it). Works great for me backup up several hundred Solaris and NT servers.
And someone mentioned Amanda, not in a SAN. It just doesn't cut the mustard. There is no way of importing and exporting a device over a SAN to each host. And if your gonna spend a TON of money on a SAN, get a freakin real backup product that has a support contract so you can get som assistance when things go bad. And does multiplexing and whatnot so you can fit your backups into the alloted window of time (which is why you got a SAN right).
What about that all hyped video card from Bit Boys. Now THAT was vaporware and hype... I remember endless articles on how it was the next best thing to sliced bread...
Girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice!
I saw that on my way into work this morning and flashed back to when they did the dome up as r2d2 years ago...
I'm an addict so I gotta say it. Everquest! Luclin comes out tomorrow and has some steep min req for playing. Like 512Meg memory and a GeForce 2... The screenshots are amazing. And the playability of the game will go on and on and on. But if you got a gaming machine get the Everquest Trilogy + Luclin + 3 months of prepaid online card...
I seem to get certified every couple years for Solaris Admin and Network from Sun. Not once has anyone ever asked me about it on an interview. I started leaving it out of my resume intentionally for a while just to see if it made a difference. And when I've brought it up at an interview I always get this look of "oh, thats nice" then a shift in topic to practical questions of how you would do something. So to answer the question , nope, years of on the job real world experience is always more important. 9 times out of ten they aren't going to teach you the real important stuff anyway. They are gonna teach you how to do the generic day to day of using the software and equipment when things are running smoothly for an out of the box environment. I guess it might be nice place to start after reading a book on how to do something or a little extra clought. But from what I've seen certification = desperate. Just prove yourself in the interview as being intelligent and a fast learner and then shadow the local guru in the group when you get there. And if you are already an expert, then no ones gonna care if you got it or not.
Good cuz I've been in need of some dilithium crystals and I can't find em anywhere...
There can be only one!
j/k
But my point is is that it's great for fault tolerance also, not just distance.
I started out as a datacenter operator for a VAX/OpenVMS and UNIX shop doing the graveyeard shift. After several years of laaate night reading , hackin around, and fixing broken crap it was discovered that I was worth my salt. Made Junior Admin for UNIX.. Then moved on to Senior UNIX Admin. The rest history...
Because Perl5 can do the same stuff as Perl6. But now my old code won't be compatiable, again. I'd just as soon still be coding Fortan or C on VAX/OpenVMS.
Except EverQuest. That is one hobby that sucks... Love/Hate relationship for sure. But yet, I find myself strangely drawn to it nightly... Like a calling of the sirens... Plaaaayyyy thhhiiiis gaaaame unnnttilll 4am... Strange.
From what I heard, not that I have any clue what I'm talking about other then what I've seen on the news and water cooler talk. But, they don't even use computers for the most part. Not only are they low-tech, they are no-tech. I don't see what the fear is other then some goverment officials taking advantage of the mass hysteria.
Stop making fun of my editor!!!
Now these are the kinds of articles and comments that I enjoy. It's on the techy side and not fluff pop culture material or the latest craze or fad in overclocking. It also seems to bring out the more intelligent people in the group for real comment. Not just some zealots praising an OS over another or just personal opinions. Keep these kinds of articles up!
Ok, what exactly are the odds of NASA getting something right on their first try within recent years? I dunno if I want one of these launching and exploding in the atmosphere and raining nuclear holocaust down on me. Suuuure, they'll get it right. Just somwhere between their 2nd to 7th try... Hence why they want to do things cheaper so they have better odds of doing it again after learning from their mistake(s). This one is just a little to big for them to mess with in my opinion. I wonder who'd get the cheapest contract for it... Is the tempature in F or C? Doah!
It's not it exploding in space that scares me personally though that does sound horrid. Is it exploding within the atmosphere high up and raining nuclear holocaust on me.
No, they were the first to hear the announcement. PC people still get it first since they have been a devout following of nVidia much longer then Mac and their ATI co-branding. And it's not even available yet for Mac silly.