Thanks for the Tuesday morning humor. I have hundreds of drives locked up in metal file cabinets in the server room. Only one time have I sent drives to re-cycle. Despite the holes drilled in the platters I am still nervous. I am sure that letting a live HD out the door would soon be followed by myself.
Keeping those old hard drives is going to pay off. Must have two file cabinets full of drives from my users. I am going to get them on Ebay and make a mint.
For security we had to drill holes in the things. Anyone know how to fill in the holes?
In January 2011, the National Education Policy Center (a think tank funded by the National Education Association (NEA)) published a paper by Jesse Rothstein, an economist at the University of California – Berkeley. In his paper, Mr. Rothstein stated that the MET project’s preliminary finding that teachers with high value-added on state tests also tend to help their students master cognitively challenging tasks is not supported by the data collected in the first year of the project. Are Mr. Rothstein’s criticisms accurate?
I've worked in the private sector. They expect results. - Dr Ray Stanz
The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution is a guarantee of States' rights. The Constitution designed the federal government to be a government of limited and enumerated, or listed, powers. This means that the federal government only has powers over the things that are specifically given to it in the Constitution. All other powers are reserved to the States. The 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads like this:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Read more: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/10th-amendment.html#ixzz1bhwsCXgA
The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution is a guarantee of States' rights. The Constitution designed the federal government to be a government of limited and enumerated, or listed, powers. This means that the federal government only has powers over the things that are specifically given to it in the Constitution. All other powers are reserved to the States. The 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads like this:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Read more: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/10th-amendment.html#ixzz1bhwsCXgA
The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution is a guarantee of States' rights. The Constitution designed the federal government to be a government of limited and enumerated, or listed, powers. This means that the federal government only has powers over the things that are specifically given to it in the Constitution. All other powers are reserved to the States. The 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads like this:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Read more: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/10th-amendment.html#ixzz1bhwsCXgA
It's not as bad as McAfee's "Oh hey, that important system file, you're not using it right? *delete*"
One of my friends was at work for nearly 2 weeks straight after that fiasco.
I would say Trend Micro Officescan is the Chrome of AV. In order Trend Micro, AVG, and that Russian doughnut thing. The others don't get a mention.
I come here for the nerdy, techy, geeky news items of the day. This story is none of those.
There are plenty of sites that I can go to that cover the activist social ranting scene. There is only one Slashdot. Please don't wreck the latter by trying to make it the former.
Dear BOFH,
My point was that this behavior is standard practice for NYC. Now that this system in place the next step is for a dictator to step up.
Signed,
KCBOFH
I will share this; The natural evolution to a police city-state is complete. The government has put up rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life. There are secret police units aka terrorist units. A lot of people like this type of society. Those coming from outside the city get a bit of a shock, no pun intended, when introduced to the lifestyle of a city-state.
No business benefit = no change. The hospitals are using XP because it is tested and certified. Also it is a good bet that the application software would not benefit from Windows 7.
I have been doing this (IT) for 29 years with critical and non-critical environments. For my 300 users I cannot find a single reason to 'upgrade' to Windows 7.
Most WiFi runs 2.45Ghz. This is the resonant frequency of water, same as a microwave heating food. Obviously it is the WIFI causing the global warming.
My 5km 4.9GHz microwave shots don't even notice a heavy rain storm. Don't know about snow no snow here, and that is just fine. I really doubt this is anything other than fear mongering for some budget effort; as is most scaremongering of this type.
I predict the budget for this defra department takes a big hit. They might want to read up on 'Preparing for un-employment.'
AIX server; in 11 years has only been down for planned outages. The UPS units have been replaced twice in this servers life.
xxxx # w
12:23AM up 410 days, 4:45, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.06
yep, Vyatta router has never been down, ever.
rJDxxxx:~# w
06:23:48 up 662 days, 12:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Disclaimer:
Minimizing the downtime is the driving force. The critical stuff like email, public access, routers, network devices get rebooted during a sane maintenance window. Sometimes it is a year, sometimes a month. Depends on the window(s) of opportunity. Of course the Windows servers are re-booted at least once a month to keep up with black Tuesday critical security patches. Linux I would say averages every six months. Most years the email and web servers have been up all year so I reboot them around new years.
Monday was a holiday here and the airport admin staff was supposed to be gone. So I rebooted the microwave stuff that had 170days of uptime at 1a.m.. Guess what; one of the SUs didn't have a gateway address. Two hours of network downtime later it was all back to normal. If that happened during a big event or just in the middle of the day...well it is just a municipal airport but they are important to us.
Bottom line: Proper maintenance makes 8a.m. on Monday a non-event. It stops the phone from ringing and the sound of boots approaching my door.
That' exactly right. Statistically, most drive failures occur during boot.
Depends. If you don't reboot that often the opposite. Most of my drive failures occur over night when the 'hard drive fairy' shows up. I have hundreds of spinning drives on lots of Unix, Linux, and Windows servers. The past six years all but one drive failure have been sans reboot. Our www box actually kept running and serving pages after it's RAID1 locked up due to one disk having a strange problem. It had uptime of around a year. Of course that is Slackware Linux for you. The windows boxes just choke and die at the first sign of a bad OS disk.
Now that brings us to the re-boot vs uptime issue. I have learned a lot over the past 28 years, and a lot of learning on Linux thanks to all the wonderful Slashdot community. So If I reboot on Sunday night before a Monday holiday and the box dies, now I have some breathing room on the non-24/7 services. For the 24/7 sites I might want to do some planning and schedule a maintenance window.
It kinda scares me to see a year of uptime on a email server or two years on a router. What will happen when the generator/ats/ups does not work and it does re-boot? That is 'when' not if and I don't care how big your 'n' number. So pick a holiday weekday when you can get vendor support, maybe even warn the vendor of the maintenance windows, and re-boot.
I will get right around to that real soon myself....
rAG:~# w
06:08:14 up 647 days, 9:17, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
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Thanks for the Tuesday morning humor. I have hundreds of drives locked up in metal file cabinets in the server room. Only one time have I sent drives to re-cycle. Despite the holes drilled in the platters I am still nervous. I am sure that letting a live HD out the door would soon be followed by myself.
Keeping those old hard drives is going to pay off. Must have two file cabinets full of drives from my users. I am going to get them on Ebay and make a mint. For security we had to drill holes in the things. Anyone know how to fill in the holes?
In January 2011, the National Education Policy Center (a think tank funded by the National Education Association (NEA)) published a paper by Jesse Rothstein, an economist at the University of California – Berkeley. In his paper, Mr. Rothstein stated that the MET project’s preliminary finding that teachers with high value-added on state tests also tend to help their students master cognitively challenging tasks is not supported by the data collected in the first year of the project. Are Mr. Rothstein’s criticisms accurate?
I've worked in the private sector. They expect results. - Dr Ray Stanz
Thank you Roman. You are a voice of reason in this crowd of free loaders.
The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution is a guarantee of States' rights. The Constitution designed the federal government to be a government of limited and enumerated, or listed, powers. This means that the federal government only has powers over the things that are specifically given to it in the Constitution. All other powers are reserved to the States. The 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads like this: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Read more: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/10th-amendment.html#ixzz1bhwsCXgA
The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution is a guarantee of States' rights. The Constitution designed the federal government to be a government of limited and enumerated, or listed, powers. This means that the federal government only has powers over the things that are specifically given to it in the Constitution. All other powers are reserved to the States. The 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads like this: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Read more: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/10th-amendment.html#ixzz1bhwsCXgA
The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution is a guarantee of States' rights. The Constitution designed the federal government to be a government of limited and enumerated, or listed, powers. This means that the federal government only has powers over the things that are specifically given to it in the Constitution. All other powers are reserved to the States. The 10th Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads like this: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Read more: http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/10th-amendment.html#ixzz1bhwsCXgA
That is nothing. Our punch cards went by bus up a mountain road to the MF 70 miles away. It took a week to get back that error report.
Where does it say that the Federal Government can give away my money to other people?
The terrorists have won.
It's not as bad as McAfee's "Oh hey, that important system file, you're not using it right? *delete*" One of my friends was at work for nearly 2 weeks straight after that fiasco.
I would say Trend Micro Officescan is the Chrome of AV. In order Trend Micro, AVG, and that Russian doughnut thing. The others don't get a mention.
It looks like they responded within 2 hours - not bad! Google support ticket with issue and resolution at the top: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=42d6ba02d7eed070&hl=en I wonder what Chrome did that smelled like Win32/Zbot.
Made IE look like a turd, I would say. I like Chrome, IE, and Mozilla in that order. Mozilla needs to hit the gym.
Really? This is what it's come to?
I come here for the nerdy, techy, geeky news items of the day. This story is none of those.
There are plenty of sites that I can go to that cover the activist social ranting scene. There is only one Slashdot. Please don't wreck the latter by trying to make it the former.
Dear Booger, I agree.
Signed,
KC BOFH
Dear BOFH, My point was that this behavior is standard practice for NYC. Now that this system in place the next step is for a dictator to step up. Signed, KCBOFH
I will share this; The natural evolution to a police city-state is complete. The government has put up rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life. There are secret police units aka terrorist units. A lot of people like this type of society. Those coming from outside the city get a bit of a shock, no pun intended, when introduced to the lifestyle of a city-state.
No business benefit = no change. The hospitals are using XP because it is tested and certified. Also it is a good bet that the application software would not benefit from Windows 7. I have been doing this (IT) for 29 years with critical and non-critical environments. For my 300 users I cannot find a single reason to 'upgrade' to Windows 7.
HTC Evo, works. Finally all that Flying Car and access anything in any library from anywhere futuristic stuff is coming true. This is just amazing.
Most WiFi runs 2.45Ghz. This is the resonant frequency of water, same as a microwave heating food. Obviously it is the WIFI causing the global warming.
My 5km 4.9GHz microwave shots don't even notice a heavy rain storm. Don't know about snow no snow here, and that is just fine. I really doubt this is anything other than fear mongering for some budget effort; as is most scaremongering of this type.
I predict the budget for this defra department takes a big hit. They might want to read up on 'Preparing for un-employment.'
Wow. The newspeak is strong in this one.
What a load of horse shit.
We appreciate that you 'took one for the team.' At least the discussion is good. Classic 90's slashdot!
For the record I did not RTFA. Having posted three comments and reading on -1, without RTFA, I have a smug satisfied feeling.
I did not RTFA but admit to enjoying the threads. The comments from the Unix sysadmins are pretty good.
Uptime numbers are just penis wagging.
AIX server; in 11 years has only been down for planned outages. The UPS units have been replaced twice in this servers life.
xxxx # w
12:23AM up 410 days, 4:45, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.06
yep, Vyatta router has never been down, ever.
rJDxxxx:~# w
06:23:48 up 662 days, 12:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Disclaimer:
Minimizing the downtime is the driving force. The critical stuff like email, public access, routers, network devices get rebooted during a sane maintenance window. Sometimes it is a year, sometimes a month. Depends on the window(s) of opportunity. Of course the Windows servers are re-booted at least once a month to keep up with black Tuesday critical security patches. Linux I would say averages every six months. Most years the email and web servers have been up all year so I reboot them around new years.
Monday was a holiday here and the airport admin staff was supposed to be gone. So I rebooted the microwave stuff that had 170days of uptime at 1a.m.. Guess what; one of the SUs didn't have a gateway address. Two hours of network downtime later it was all back to normal. If that happened during a big event or just in the middle of the day...well it is just a municipal airport but they are important to us.
Bottom line: Proper maintenance makes 8a.m. on Monday a non-event. It stops the phone from ringing and the sound of boots approaching my door.
That' exactly right. Statistically, most drive failures occur during boot.
Depends. If you don't reboot that often the opposite. Most of my drive failures occur over night when the 'hard drive fairy' shows up. I have hundreds of spinning drives on lots of Unix, Linux, and Windows servers. The past six years all but one drive failure have been sans reboot. Our www box actually kept running and serving pages after it's RAID1 locked up due to one disk having a strange problem. It had uptime of around a year. Of course that is Slackware Linux for you. The windows boxes just choke and die at the first sign of a bad OS disk.
Now that brings us to the re-boot vs uptime issue. I have learned a lot over the past 28 years, and a lot of learning on Linux thanks to all the wonderful Slashdot community. So If I reboot on Sunday night before a Monday holiday and the box dies, now I have some breathing room on the non-24/7 services. For the 24/7 sites I might want to do some planning and schedule a maintenance window.
It kinda scares me to see a year of uptime on a email server or two years on a router. What will happen when the generator/ats/ups does not work and it does re-boot? That is 'when' not if and I don't care how big your 'n' number. So pick a holiday weekday when you can get vendor support, maybe even warn the vendor of the maintenance windows, and re-boot.
I will get right around to that real soon myself.... rAG:~# w 06:08:14 up 647 days, 9:17, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
That is it. Business. If all the new porn sites were IPv6 only there would be an overnight mass migration to v6.