This sounds more like a server refresh problem than a capacity shrinkage problem. I believe that if you have a modern server capable of PCIe and your capacity needs are limited you can migrate your Clariion array to something like this and net more performance.
And if you ain't got the wherewithal to do that, how important is your data anyway?
Is Linux (especially distros like Ubuntu) making the same kind of mistakes that Microsoft did?
Some yes, some no. The Mono/Moonlight default is a dangerous game. It's going to burn them in the end.
As for removing the controls we're used to, I'm afraid that's what goes with dishing Linux to grandma. My grandma doesn't edit her fstab, and that's a good thing. She browses the Internet, plays her online games and posts her digital images to Facebook after she edits them with Picasa. She's happy and that's what counts. Her son (God help me) can still browse his anime porn all night without corrupting her computer so bad it doesn't work which was a serious problem when she had Windows (1 day per wipe and reinstall once she got broadband).
You can still get up in your Ubuntu and muck around, but if you're that sort of person you're better off with Debian - as am I. Right now I only use the Ubuntu Server Alternate version because it does a passable job of providing an LTSP platform I can add boot images to for things like imaging (clonezilla), disk wiping (DBAN), and provides thin client access to user accounts on the main server for guest environments (when we have the cousins over they like to download stuff and edit their MySpace, but I don't dare let them have local machine access).
I'll probably try out the new Ubuntu on several platforms to see if it works, but unless it's woohoo good I'm not likely to go back to it myself. Not that it matters - there are now so many great Linux platforms that it's become an embarassment of riches.
Something bothers me about this "rare Linux" claim. Whether I go to slashdot, The Register, CNet or CNN, or any other website that deals with tech and offers user generated content any subject that touches on operating systems, software or viruses has Mac fans in equal number to Linux fans and Windows fans. Are the Mac and Linux fans just more vocal in inverse proportion to their market share, or is there something else going on here? Frankly for Windows this is an improvement - a few years ago Windows fans were nearly limited to authors of published content, but these days a number of prolific bloggers have stepped up to express the same shared talking points in every thread as if they were involved in coordinated messaging.
Upgrades are tempting. Sometimes they go well. Sometimes they don't. No matter how well they go, an upgraded OS is not as good as a clean install. Avoid the temptation and clean install when you update your OS. But first, and frequently otherwise, BACK UP!
Use clonezilla. I've had good results. It has partimage but it's automated and can back up to a USB drive or a share. Also, it's pen-bootable which is handy. It also makes good images of the odd Windows box. I liked it so much I installed it in my LTSP as a network boot image option along with Darik's Boot And Nuke, the standard Linux VDI and the other usual suspects.
This APK guy goes away if you ignore him for a while. He needs meds.
I wanted to take an opportunity to point out that I'm batting 1000 against your other sources of information: Blu-ray is still dead, you didn't go far enough with autorun, security issues are still killing you in the press. W7 is out, and it works. We'll see if it also has compelling features. A lot of folks got roped into the Redmond software lifecycle and forgot that running your services as their mission critical applications meant they were stuck without a migration path away from IE6. It will take them some time to migrate to SharePoint and IE8, at which point you've got them for another 6 years unless they have the hindsight to realize "hey, didn't we make this mistake before?"
It's time for a Security Enhanced Windows. The federal government has a batch of policies and registry settings people can adopt as templates for locking down workstations and servers. Now might be a good time to roll out a similar offering. ZFS has dedupe now, so it's time to give whoever's working on that a kick in the ass. Tell somebody that we all know about Roz. It's time for her to leave the shire to go slay a dragon and bring back its corpse to prove her loyalty and ability, as is the practice up there.
Yes, I did force myself to wade through this particular literary abomination, and I have a spoiler: You're looking through a large building for an explosive device made with antimatter which contains no metal, has no electronic emission signature to detect. You have an arsenal of bug tracking devices, and 12 hours to find it. Your only clue is that you can observe it because the terrorist who planted it stole your own wireless webcam, transmitting on your own frequency and planted it with the bomb so you would watch the timer count down.
The obvious thing to do would be to unplug your receivers off one by one until the signal was lost, go to that receiver and sweep for the transmitter. The whole thing is over in ten minutes.
I grew ever more disgusted with myself as I drudged through the obvious tripe in this novel, but once commited I have this OCD problem of continuing to the end in case there was some redeeming virtue at the last moment. There wasn't.
I'm curious about these storage needs that shrink. Is this a hypothetical case, or can you provide a real world citation of an example? In a broad world many strange things are found but I always considered this one mythical.
So I got him Postal 2. The times when he's setting characters on fire and putting them out by peeing on them is by far the happiest he's ever been. It's fun to see him find fulfillment, but I've taken to locking the bedroom door at night.
I'd like to propose an alternate point of view: Dan Brown. We might all be better off if he met his untimely demise so that his heirs could nominate someone else to write the remainder of his novels.
It's bad enough that the man's offspring will be exploiting his written work from now until copyrights expire in 9320 CE. That his heirs should corrupt his legacy with spinoffs is despicable. It's equivalent to mounting his corpse on an animatronic frame to lead tours at EPCOT center. Strike that - it's worse - he probably would approve of the latter. Make that "The Creationist History Museum".
Ordinarily I would agree with the sentiment that money plowed into R&D is seldom wasted. But this is Microsoft we're talking about. The last fifty billion dollars they spent on R&D brought us to where we are, and that's an amazing amount of lost potential.
Yeah, and that Danger thing wasn't Microsoft's fault either, right? Let's pin that one on a flaky Oracle on Linux solution that was working fine but needed expansion and a SAN subcontractor who, when told to proceed without a backup, wasn't smart enough to say "no".
To be honest I'd take.NET over the piece of slow shit that Java is over any day. And.NET supports a lot more languages than just Java, which I'm not really a fan either.
DotNet and Java. Hm. I suppose we should have drawn parallels from Microsoft's embrace and extend with Java and the ultimate disaster that was the deprecation of MS Java when they were sued to knock it off. You can extend that line to early versions of.NET and ASP that of course require contemporary versions of IE. Nobody thought twice about engineering their enterprise applications on these robust standards, right? And then overnight they've got to drop line of business applications and critical applications because the software is deprecated and no migration is possible. And then when it's time to migrate to Vista we find that we're locked in - not just to the Microsoft platform, but to a specific deprecated version of it. We can't move to Vista because our enterprise apps require IE6.
Of course being the wise adaptable beings that we are, we solve this problem by reorganizing everything we do, de-emphasizing the applications that were essential last week, and building all-new critical applications on the current version of Microsoft's platform - because this time with the new DotNet and SharePoint it will be different. They promised. When it's time to migrate to Windows 9 everything will have a migration path.
Why hire someone with knowledge of a nearly obsolete ISA and no experience in multithreading, when you can just get someone with experience in threading and use an optimizing compiler? Or hire someone with relevant experience with modern CPUs?
Because the current versions of multithreading are in flux, and presetskills are great, but may be worthless in tomorrow's environment. Because 'modern' processors and their features come and go, but algorithms and proper methods don't. Because a programmer who knows why O(1) is better than O(log(n)) is better than O(n) is worth the effort to find.
We're in an odd age where people are proud of the fact that they've never heard of Communications of the ACM. It's a shame.
You don't hire people for their short term worth, implying that you intend to discard them like wet tissues when they prove inadequate to adapt, do you? That would be rude and counterproductive. It's a reliable way to produce crappy products, late and buggy.
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... and the thread goes over a thousand comments. I don't think even Windows 7 got that much attention around here.
http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General#Mono_and_GNOME
Much critical development for Gnome appears to be happening in Mono. If you don't want Mono, stick with KDE.
This sounds more like a server refresh problem than a capacity shrinkage problem. I believe that if you have a modern server capable of PCIe and your capacity needs are limited you can migrate your Clariion array to something like this and net more performance.
And if you ain't got the wherewithal to do that, how important is your data anyway?
Is Linux (especially distros like Ubuntu) making the same kind of mistakes that Microsoft did?
Some yes, some no. The Mono/Moonlight default is a dangerous game. It's going to burn them in the end.
As for removing the controls we're used to, I'm afraid that's what goes with dishing Linux to grandma. My grandma doesn't edit her fstab, and that's a good thing. She browses the Internet, plays her online games and posts her digital images to Facebook after she edits them with Picasa. She's happy and that's what counts. Her son (God help me) can still browse his anime porn all night without corrupting her computer so bad it doesn't work which was a serious problem when she had Windows (1 day per wipe and reinstall once she got broadband).
You can still get up in your Ubuntu and muck around, but if you're that sort of person you're better off with Debian - as am I. Right now I only use the Ubuntu Server Alternate version because it does a passable job of providing an LTSP platform I can add boot images to for things like imaging (clonezilla), disk wiping (DBAN), and provides thin client access to user accounts on the main server for guest environments (when we have the cousins over they like to download stuff and edit their MySpace, but I don't dare let them have local machine access).
I'll probably try out the new Ubuntu on several platforms to see if it works, but unless it's woohoo good I'm not likely to go back to it myself. Not that it matters - there are now so many great Linux platforms that it's become an embarassment of riches.
Something bothers me about this "rare Linux" claim. Whether I go to slashdot, The Register, CNet or CNN, or any other website that deals with tech and offers user generated content any subject that touches on operating systems, software or viruses has Mac fans in equal number to Linux fans and Windows fans. Are the Mac and Linux fans just more vocal in inverse proportion to their market share, or is there something else going on here? Frankly for Windows this is an improvement - a few years ago Windows fans were nearly limited to authors of published content, but these days a number of prolific bloggers have stepped up to express the same shared talking points in every thread as if they were involved in coordinated messaging.
Upgrades are tempting. Sometimes they go well. Sometimes they don't. No matter how well they go, an upgraded OS is not as good as a clean install. Avoid the temptation and clean install when you update your OS. But first, and frequently otherwise, BACK UP!
Use clonezilla. I've had good results. It has partimage but it's automated and can back up to a USB drive or a share. Also, it's pen-bootable which is handy. It also makes good images of the odd Windows box. I liked it so much I installed it in my LTSP as a network boot image option along with Darik's Boot And Nuke, the standard Linux VDI and the other usual suspects.
Why do people insist on trotting out their own experiences of success on a limited subset of hardware
With Vista these anecdotes added up to a Windows that never beat 20% share.
This APK guy goes away if you ignore him for a while. He needs meds.
I wanted to take an opportunity to point out that I'm batting 1000 against your other sources of information: Blu-ray is still dead, you didn't go far enough with autorun, security issues are still killing you in the press. W7 is out, and it works. We'll see if it also has compelling features. A lot of folks got roped into the Redmond software lifecycle and forgot that running your services as their mission critical applications meant they were stuck without a migration path away from IE6. It will take them some time to migrate to SharePoint and IE8, at which point you've got them for another 6 years unless they have the hindsight to realize "hey, didn't we make this mistake before?"
It's time for a Security Enhanced Windows. The federal government has a batch of policies and registry settings people can adopt as templates for locking down workstations and servers. Now might be a good time to roll out a similar offering. ZFS has dedupe now, so it's time to give whoever's working on that a kick in the ass. Tell somebody that we all know about Roz. It's time for her to leave the shire to go slay a dragon and bring back its corpse to prove her loyalty and ability, as is the practice up there.
Yes, I did force myself to wade through this particular literary abomination, and I have a spoiler: You're looking through a large building for an explosive device made with antimatter which contains no metal, has no electronic emission signature to detect. You have an arsenal of bug tracking devices, and 12 hours to find it. Your only clue is that you can observe it because the terrorist who planted it stole your own wireless webcam, transmitting on your own frequency and planted it with the bomb so you would watch the timer count down.
The obvious thing to do would be to unplug your receivers off one by one until the signal was lost, go to that receiver and sweep for the transmitter. The whole thing is over in ten minutes.
I grew ever more disgusted with myself as I drudged through the obvious tripe in this novel, but once commited I have this OCD problem of continuing to the end in case there was some redeeming virtue at the last moment. There wasn't.
I'm curious about these storage needs that shrink. Is this a hypothetical case, or can you provide a real world citation of an example? In a broad world many strange things are found but I always considered this one mythical.
So I got him Postal 2. The times when he's setting characters on fire and putting them out by peeing on them is by far the happiest he's ever been. It's fun to see him find fulfillment, but I've taken to locking the bedroom door at night.
I'd like to propose an alternate point of view: Dan Brown. We might all be better off if he met his untimely demise so that his heirs could nominate someone else to write the remainder of his novels.
It's bad enough that the man's offspring will be exploiting his written work from now until copyrights expire in 9320 CE. That his heirs should corrupt his legacy with spinoffs is despicable. It's equivalent to mounting his corpse on an animatronic frame to lead tours at EPCOT center. Strike that - it's worse - he probably would approve of the latter. Make that "The Creationist History Museum".
Stuff that matters.
Ordinarily I would agree with the sentiment that money plowed into R&D is seldom wasted. But this is Microsoft we're talking about. The last fifty billion dollars they spent on R&D brought us to where we are, and that's an amazing amount of lost potential.
Excellent. Now adjust for nine years of inflation to get constant dollars.
Yeah, and that Danger thing wasn't Microsoft's fault either, right? Let's pin that one on a flaky Oracle on Linux solution that was working fine but needed expansion and a SAN subcontractor who, when told to proceed without a backup, wasn't smart enough to say "no".
To be honest I'd take .NET over the piece of slow shit that Java is over any day. And .NET supports a lot more languages than just Java, which I'm not really a fan either.
DotNet and Java. Hm. I suppose we should have drawn parallels from Microsoft's embrace and extend with Java and the ultimate disaster that was the deprecation of MS Java when they were sued to knock it off. You can extend that line to early versions of .NET and ASP that of course require contemporary versions of IE. Nobody thought twice about engineering their enterprise applications on these robust standards, right? And then overnight they've got to drop line of business applications and critical applications because the software is deprecated and no migration is possible. And then when it's time to migrate to Vista we find that we're locked in - not just to the Microsoft platform, but to a specific deprecated version of it. We can't move to Vista because our enterprise apps require IE6.
Of course being the wise adaptable beings that we are, we solve this problem by reorganizing everything we do, de-emphasizing the applications that were essential last week, and building all-new critical applications on the current version of Microsoft's platform - because this time with the new DotNet and SharePoint it will be different. They promised. When it's time to migrate to Windows 9 everything will have a migration path.
This is scary.
A proper document management system would have prevent an information leak, even if the document itself had leaked.
A proper documet management system with confidential information would have never been connected to the Internet.
Paging Valentine Michael Smith. Valentine Michael Smith please report to thread 0510212.
The ACM and its magazine are not as relevant today.
I guess we're just not going to agree. That's ok I think. Divergent perspectives are what make life intresting. Happy Halloween.
Why hire someone with knowledge of a nearly obsolete ISA and no experience in multithreading, when you can just get someone with experience in threading and use an optimizing compiler? Or hire someone with relevant experience with modern CPUs?
Because the current versions of multithreading are in flux, and preset skills are great, but may be worthless in tomorrow's environment. Because 'modern' processors and their features come and go, but algorithms and proper methods don't. Because a programmer who knows why O(1) is better than O(log(n)) is better than O(n) is worth the effort to find.
We're in an odd age where people are proud of the fact that they've never heard of Communications of the ACM. It's a shame.
You don't hire people for their short term worth, implying that you intend to discard them like wet tissues when they prove inadequate to adapt, do you? That would be rude and counterproductive. It's a reliable way to produce crappy products, late and buggy.