Hovsipid is taking the blame. "The problem is that our products suck", he believes. "Microsoft's sales teams did their best, but they just couldn't move our Linux product even for free in the face of entrenched Windows product, especially since that solution doesn't suck" he estimates. Despite press protestations he insisted on going on: "When I don't work here I will prefer their stuff too. We will not, however, be returning the money. No returns. As some wise person said two years ago, maybe the certificates will make nice wallpaper for those new offices in Redmond".
On a completely unrelated note, Novell has announced that Mr. Hovsepian has decided to retire and spend more time with his family.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Any similarity between this post and actual persons or events is specifically denied. This is a work of fiction, and any similarity to persons or corporations living, dead or in receivership is categorically denied. Mr. Hovesepian didn't say any of this stuff. I don't work for any of these retards. He's not retiring. His family disowned him long ago. Don't sue me, k?
One of today's dollars is equivalent to 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars. No, wait. That was February. 120 Gen4 Zimbabwe newdollars. No, that was before lunch. 140 Gen4 Zimbabwe newdollars. Buy it now before they're all gone!
You know, I bought myself a trillion Zim Gen 2 dollars, back when that was still enough to buy a cup of coffee. I'm keeping it as a memento. These days it's harder to get rid of than a pallet of Franklins in Baghdad.
You're doing better than some. I've got some folks who want to mix RPM speeds and (heaven forfend) even SCSI generations on the same array. Yeah, technically it's supposed to work mostly. Don't do it.
Seriously, the "Array" part of RAID is not meant to indicate that some elements of your array can be a different type than other elements. Like arrays in most programming languages, an array is an ordered collection of objects of identical type.
Different brands of drives, even if they're the same interface generation and support an identical feature set, still have different performance characteristics which make their mixing and matching in arrays a bad idea even if you're just using software RAID and especially if you're using hardware RAID. A minor difference in latency or write speed makes a huge difference when you're doing an array of drives. It can completely eliminate the performance advantages of using an array, and then some.
An OEM that mixes and matches drives from different vendors in arrays has done considerable validation work to make sure that it works on install day. Even then, because degradation metrics vary across brands the failure rate and performance falloff over time is higher.
A max configuration Mac Pro with dual quad core processors and dual 30" displays is $22,400 before you add a printer.
If you want to step up to 24 cores and 256GB RAM you can get the HP DL580 G5 in a tower form factor with max config (dual P800 RAID controllers, 16 300GB 2.5" SAS drives) for $70k, and you have to add the graphic hardware yourself. And that's before you add a few Fusion-IO IODrives at $17K each. I'm not sure why a $16K PC is such a big deal.
We're going to have to try harder than that if we want to get the economy moving again.
To moderate this "insightful" would be to agree with the absurd statement that he's not responsible and convey approval of the bald statement. Because it's subtle sarcasm that skewers the point without being sophomoric, because the stakes are so high, and because the trauma is future tense, "funny" and its associated neutral karma isn't warranted. What's left is "interesting". There is no "sad" moderation option.
You're new here. Don't give up. Moderation works.
And if you carefully examine what I said, this post is not off topic.
Your experience is typical of people running crappy offbrand RAID solutions or motherboard RAID. Believe it or not RAID has become the standard in the server room for good reasons. With a good battery backed write cache, a decent controller, and reasonable attention to failed media RAID 5 or 6 arrays should never suffer catastrophic failure.
Of course if you are using RAID 5 with three 1.5TB drives from the same batch under common load you should be aware that at the drive End Of Warranty (3 years) it takes more time to rebuild the array after a drive swap than the Mean Time To Failure of the other two drives. You can predict how that story ends.
I just configured a DL580 G5 tower at HP.COM. With four 6-core processors and 256GB of RAM fully populated with 16 300GB SAS drives, Dual P800 SAS controllers and the usual goodies you're looking at $70,000. And that's before you buy a decent graphics card and a monitor.
No, it's not Vista compatible and it won't run Aero without additional hardware.
BTW, it would make a lousy media center PC too. Fans sound like a helicopter, the lights dim when you turn it on. On the upside if you put a couple decent graphics cards in it and install Linux, you can watch 100 videos at the same time.
Since when is expensive hardware a big deal for/.? It's much more difficult to make the hardware inexpensive.
Didn't they used to do networking or something? I remember seeing the red boxes, but the people who sat in the cubicles with the red boxes were unhappy as a rule.
Sure, one of his direct reports ran ghost employees and kickback schemes for five years. But there is no evidence Kundra knew about it. Surely nobody expects the a state CIO to get involved in every petty detail.
If some employees of their company go on to found a company that's not so foolish, they will have learned.
But the company that danced with the devil and doesn't want to pay? Why would you trust them now? Maybe tomorrow they'll decide the service contract you paid them for requires too much effort or cost to fulfill.
As we used to say back when I was in this game, a deal is a deal is a [expletive deleted] deal.
These problems were mostly solved long before there was a Windows. Expecting a recommendation of how to do it the Windows way instead of the right way is perhaps more of a venue choice error than anything else.
People make fun of Orwell's thoughtcrime, but the fact remains that there are things once seen that cannot be unseen. These things scar the viewer for life. It's best they are discussed only in general terms. Otherwise some thrillseeker might follow your obfuscated reference and be so harmed.
You know, that gives me an idea. Microsoft could claim that Server 2008 is more secure than BSD in order to attract people to more thoroughly and publicly test their security in order to aid in debugging. That's a wonderful idea! Matt Asay should write a column about this.
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How long will it take their phone partners to learn the Sendo lesson?
What we need to do is build a bridge between the two camps.
Hovsipid is taking the blame. "The problem is that our products suck", he believes. "Microsoft's sales teams did their best, but they just couldn't move our Linux product even for free in the face of entrenched Windows product, especially since that solution doesn't suck" he estimates. Despite press protestations he insisted on going on: "When I don't work here I will prefer their stuff too. We will not, however, be returning the money. No returns. As some wise person said two years ago, maybe the certificates will make nice wallpaper for those new offices in Redmond".
On a completely unrelated note, Novell has announced that Mr. Hovsepian has decided to retire and spend more time with his family.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Any similarity between this post and actual persons or events is specifically denied. This is a work of fiction, and any similarity to persons or corporations living, dead or in receivership is categorically denied. Mr. Hovesepian didn't say any of this stuff. I don't work for any of these retards. He's not retiring. His family disowned him long ago. Don't sue me, k?
I remember a country song about this. Oh yeah. here it is.
One of today's dollars is equivalent to 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars. No, wait. That was February. 120 Gen4 Zimbabwe newdollars. No, that was before lunch. 140 Gen4 Zimbabwe newdollars. Buy it now before they're all gone!
You know, I bought myself a trillion Zim Gen 2 dollars, back when that was still enough to buy a cup of coffee. I'm keeping it as a memento. These days it's harder to get rid of than a pallet of Franklins in Baghdad.
Back then we wore onions on our belt. And math coprocessors were optional equipment. Because who uses a computer for math ?
You're doing better than some. I've got some folks who want to mix RPM speeds and (heaven forfend) even SCSI generations on the same array. Yeah, technically it's supposed to work mostly. Don't do it.
Seriously, the "Array" part of RAID is not meant to indicate that some elements of your array can be a different type than other elements. Like arrays in most programming languages, an array is an ordered collection of objects of identical type.
Different brands of drives, even if they're the same interface generation and support an identical feature set, still have different performance characteristics which make their mixing and matching in arrays a bad idea even if you're just using software RAID and especially if you're using hardware RAID. A minor difference in latency or write speed makes a huge difference when you're doing an array of drives. It can completely eliminate the performance advantages of using an array, and then some.
An OEM that mixes and matches drives from different vendors in arrays has done considerable validation work to make sure that it works on install day. Even then, because degradation metrics vary across brands the failure rate and performance falloff over time is higher.
A max configuration Mac Pro with dual quad core processors and dual 30" displays is $22,400 before you add a printer.
If you want to step up to 24 cores and 256GB RAM you can get the HP DL580 G5 in a tower form factor with max config (dual P800 RAID controllers, 16 300GB 2.5" SAS drives) for $70k, and you have to add the graphic hardware yourself. And that's before you add a few Fusion-IO IODrives at $17K each. I'm not sure why a $16K PC is such a big deal.
We're going to have to try harder than that if we want to get the economy moving again.
To moderate this "insightful" would be to agree with the absurd statement that he's not responsible and convey approval of the bald statement. Because it's subtle sarcasm that skewers the point without being sophomoric, because the stakes are so high, and because the trauma is future tense, "funny" and its associated neutral karma isn't warranted. What's left is "interesting". There is no "sad" moderation option.
You're new here. Don't give up. Moderation works.
And if you carefully examine what I said, this post is not off topic.
Your experience is typical of people running crappy offbrand RAID solutions or motherboard RAID. Believe it or not RAID has become the standard in the server room for good reasons. With a good battery backed write cache, a decent controller, and reasonable attention to failed media RAID 5 or 6 arrays should never suffer catastrophic failure.
Of course if you are using RAID 5 with three 1.5TB drives from the same batch under common load you should be aware that at the drive End Of Warranty (3 years) it takes more time to rebuild the array after a drive swap than the Mean Time To Failure of the other two drives. You can predict how that story ends.
I just configured a DL580 G5 tower at HP.COM. With four 6-core processors and 256GB of RAM fully populated with 16 300GB SAS drives, Dual P800 SAS controllers and the usual goodies you're looking at $70,000. And that's before you buy a decent graphics card and a monitor.
No, it's not Vista compatible and it won't run Aero without additional hardware.
BTW, it would make a lousy media center PC too. Fans sound like a helicopter, the lights dim when you turn it on. On the upside if you put a couple decent graphics cards in it and install Linux, you can watch 100 videos at the same time.
Since when is expensive hardware a big deal for /.? It's much more difficult to make the hardware inexpensive.
Didn't they used to do networking or something? I remember seeing the red boxes, but the people who sat in the cubicles with the red boxes were unhappy as a rule.
I was going to go with "and nothing of value was lost".
Let me try again...
But these offenses were in the distant past! He hadn't worked there for weeks! How does this have anything to do with him?
Sure, one of his direct reports ran ghost employees and kickback schemes for five years. But there is no evidence Kundra knew about it. Surely nobody expects the a state CIO to get involved in every petty detail.
When the purpose of a store becomes to avoid the simple sale of the product at the marked price, management has failed and the store is doomed.
Right up until they want to play NickJr.com or some such. They require ie plugins to work.
Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
They'll lie in it.
If some employees of their company go on to found a company that's not so foolish, they will have learned.
But the company that danced with the devil and doesn't want to pay? Why would you trust them now? Maybe tomorrow they'll decide the service contract you paid them for requires too much effort or cost to fulfill.
As we used to say back when I was in this game, a deal is a deal is a [expletive deleted] deal.
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I'd stay out of the financial newsgroups for the next year or so.
These problems were mostly solved long before there was a Windows. Expecting a recommendation of how to do it the Windows way instead of the right way is perhaps more of a venue choice error than anything else.
I think maybe if I was pulling in their kind of money, I could afford to hire somebody who knew the answer to this question. Maybe even two guys.
People make fun of Orwell's thoughtcrime, but the fact remains that there are things once seen that cannot be unseen. These things scar the viewer for life. It's best they are discussed only in general terms. Otherwise some thrillseeker might follow your obfuscated reference and be so harmed.
You know, that gives me an idea. Microsoft could claim that Server 2008 is more secure than BSD in order to attract people to more thoroughly and publicly test their security in order to aid in debugging. That's a wonderful idea! Matt Asay should write a column about this.