Although seriously, everyone still living on earth makes for a giant single point of failure. But my ping time is going to suck if I start gaming from the moon.
The fact that I can install a linux kernel and still boot the old one, install a new apache and leave the old one, replace pretty much everything and still have the old one working makes things a lot easier.
Also, the fact that I can grab the testing branch of my distro and try it weeks or even months in advance makes things a lot easier.
The fact that I don't have to buy $5000 worth of licenses coupled with the $5000 worth of hardware makes things a lot easier.
I've successfully done patches on a test system and had it fail on the production server. The fact that everyone tells me what boils down to "Run two parallel networks, with the same load and same traffic types" does not bode well for Microsoft's lower TCO argument, nor does it make you look any smarter. In the real world, the SME's don't buy racks and racks of identical servers. They buy one server to do what they need.
Patching for the SME resembles this: Read everything about the patch, what it is fixing, and how to mitigate the damage or exploit. Image the server. Wait 1-3 weeks for ISV's to verify that the patch won't affect anything critically. Image the server again, install patch. Cross fingers, then reboot.
You don't go to a car dealership, find the car that you want, and then say "Great. I'll take two", and you shouldn't have to with servers.
I've noticed that the more blatant you are about porn, the less likely you are to run into trouble. I know of one manager who loves porn, and is so blatant about it that he doesn't worry about going to the big names (playboy, penthouse, hustler, etc.). The other ones at that office are always so worried about it that they end up going to the out of the way corners of the Internet, and get infected.
I got farked. I've managed to get a much faster PC, but it's going to be a bit before I get it up and running.
The killer was that Mysql would run out of memory and not fail gracefully. I've managed to pick up a P3-500 with 384 MB ECC ram and an ATA Raid card. I just need 4 drives, and I can do a nice and fast raid 10, and have the whole box CPU bound, like they should be!
I definitely need more memory, and a faster bus wouldn't hurt. That was at the height of a farking, so the little bastard held up really well, considering I didn't tune apache or MySQL for low memory. I did reboot the machine, as I didn't want to wait for the low mem errors to fix themselves.
Yes, I can do plumbing. No, I don't keep up with the latest building codes, etc. No, I am not a plumber. No, I did not mean to slight the profession in any way. Yes, I realize that there are highly skilled plumbers.
I just merely meant that for the most part, the industry is removing the abstract thought and leading towards vendor training for specific products, in much the same way that the trades have gone. I am no longer expected to support computer systems, I am expected to support vendor implementations of a computer system. I do not have much say in the topography of my network. Sure, there's a little bit of wiggle room, but the way it is working more and more, there is a business need, a consultant or a salesman suggests a product to fill the business need, and these things dictate platforms, settings, equipment, and manpower. A lot of techs are there just to plug in the wires, and keep the traffic flowing.
I hope I have allayed everyone as to my perceived slight against plumbers, and respectfully request that the International Brotherhood of Pipefitters rescind the contract on my life.
Oh well, enough people think that I'm gay anyways, no need to advertise.
It would be nice to have more power strapped to my hip though. The blackberry is a neat toy, but nowhere near the tricorder that they made it out to be.
The commoditization of IT and its related fields allow companies to throw money at the problems instead of manpower. This leads to fewer skill-based jobs, which means that when you get out of school, you aren't the whiz-bang solution. You begin at the hell-desk, and maybe work your way up to a living wage. Someone who has spent $30 thousand on a diploma is working right next to a high-school graduate, reading off of the same script.
I am in no way putting down the plumbing or pipefitting trade. I was merely alluding to the fact that we are no longer extremely skilled, and we don't have a plumbers union to help us out.
No, I didn't purchase the PCs. I had a P4 1.7ghz dropped in my lap because it was too slow to run XP. 128 megs of rambus, and a shitload of spyware didn't help matters, but it did need a memory upgrade.
'We want DDR to explode in the marketplace so have actually been requesting Infineon, Samsung, and Hynix to lower their DDR pricing to help it become a standard (and drive Rambus away completely).'
So, the reason I had to shell out the high prices was because you wanted to not sell me the chips. Me and my wallet thank you.
I love when I get solicitations where that's the first thing that they say.
"Hello, this is Bill from Blahcorp. We're doing a tech survey. Please be informed that this call may be recorded for training and quality assurance purposes"
Really O/T, but are there any open source adventure game build engines a la the old Sierra games? I would love to see what people could come up with, if only to prove your point.
I think that Dink Smallwood had a pretty good scripting engine, but google is not my friend today, and I've given up on Freshmeat.
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We're running out of it here.
Although seriously, everyone still living on earth makes for a giant single point of failure. But my ping time is going to suck if I start gaming from the moon.
The fact that I can install a linux kernel and still boot the old one, install a new apache and leave the old one, replace pretty much everything and still have the old one working makes things a lot easier.
Also, the fact that I can grab the testing branch of my distro and try it weeks or even months in advance makes things a lot easier.
The fact that I don't have to buy $5000 worth of licenses coupled with the $5000 worth of hardware makes things a lot easier.
Go troll elsewhere.
I've successfully done patches on a test system and had it fail on the production server. The fact that everyone tells me what boils down to "Run two parallel networks, with the same load and same traffic types" does not bode well for Microsoft's lower TCO argument, nor does it make you look any smarter. In the real world, the SME's don't buy racks and racks of identical servers. They buy one server to do what they need.
Patching for the SME resembles this: Read everything about the patch, what it is fixing, and how to mitigate the damage or exploit. Image the server. Wait 1-3 weeks for ISV's to verify that the patch won't affect anything critically. Image the server again, install patch. Cross fingers, then reboot.
You don't go to a car dealership, find the car that you want, and then say "Great. I'll take two", and you shouldn't have to with servers.
Ever patch a system and have some core services not work after?
The patches cause downtime as well.
I've noticed that the more blatant you are about porn, the less likely you are to run into trouble. I know of one manager who loves porn, and is so blatant about it that he doesn't worry about going to the big names (playboy, penthouse, hustler, etc.). The other ones at that office are always so worried about it that they end up going to the out of the way corners of the Internet, and get infected.
Where can I check the maps?
This brings a whole new meaning to those "find available women in your area" banner ads.
Button mashing is button mashing. Doesn't matter where.
At least he's not playing a First Person Shooter.
I got farked. I've managed to get a much faster PC, but it's going to be a bit before I get it up and running.
The killer was that Mysql would run out of memory and not fail gracefully. I've managed to pick up a P3-500 with 384 MB ECC ram and an ATA Raid card. I just need 4 drives, and I can do a nice and fast raid 10, and have the whole box CPU bound, like they should be!
On a P3 500.
top - 16:16:56 up 99 days, 19:06, 2 users, load average: 89.64, 83.76, 57.53
Tasks: 127 total, 2 running, 123 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 1.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 96.0% wa, 0.8% hi,0.0% si
Mem: 125380k total, 123116k used, 2264k free, 212k buffers
Swap: 262576k total, 257072k used, 5504k free, 4848k cached
I definitely need more memory, and a faster bus wouldn't hurt. That was at the height of a farking, so the little bastard held up really well, considering I didn't tune apache or MySQL for low memory. I did reboot the machine, as I didn't want to wait for the low mem errors to fix themselves.
Hopefully they drop them far enough that I can afford a decent server for home.
So, the sense of satisfaction of completing the game is increased by the eyecandy at the end of it?
Yes, I can do plumbing.
No, I don't keep up with the latest building codes, etc.
No, I am not a plumber.
No, I did not mean to slight the profession in any way.
Yes, I realize that there are highly skilled plumbers.
I just merely meant that for the most part, the industry is removing the abstract thought and leading towards vendor training for specific products, in much the same way that the trades have gone. I am no longer expected to support computer systems, I am expected to support vendor implementations of a computer system. I do not have much say in the topography of my network. Sure, there's a little bit of wiggle room, but the way it is working more and more, there is a business need, a consultant or a salesman suggests a product to fill the business need, and these things dictate platforms, settings, equipment, and manpower. A lot of techs are there just to plug in the wires, and keep the traffic flowing.
I hope I have allayed everyone as to my perceived slight against plumbers, and respectfully request that the International Brotherhood of Pipefitters rescind the contract on my life.
And I just bought my blackberry!
Oh well, enough people think that I'm gay anyways, no need to advertise.
It would be nice to have more power strapped to my hip though. The blackberry is a neat toy, but nowhere near the tricorder that they made it out to be.
The commoditization of IT and its related fields allow companies to throw money at the problems instead of manpower. This leads to fewer skill-based jobs, which means that when you get out of school, you aren't the whiz-bang solution. You begin at the hell-desk, and maybe work your way up to a living wage. Someone who has spent $30 thousand on a diploma is working right next to a high-school graduate, reading off of the same script.
I am in no way putting down the plumbing or pipefitting trade. I was merely alluding to the fact that we are no longer extremely skilled, and we don't have a plumbers union to help us out.
We've seen that tech is being more and more commoditized. Pretty soon, tech jobs will be no more than plugging in parts. We will become plumbers.
I didn't notice the changeover until work this morning.
Looks nice!
No, I didn't purchase the PCs. I had a P4 1.7ghz dropped in my lap because it was too slow to run XP. 128 megs of rambus, and a shitload of spyware didn't help matters, but it did need a memory upgrade.
'We want DDR to explode in the marketplace so have actually been requesting Infineon, Samsung, and Hynix to lower their DDR pricing to help it become a standard (and drive Rambus away completely).'
So, the reason I had to shell out the high prices was because you wanted to not sell me the chips. Me and my wallet thank you.
I love when I get solicitations where that's the first thing that they say.
"Hello, this is Bill from Blahcorp. We're doing a tech survey. Please be informed that this call may be recorded for training and quality assurance purposes"
"Really, Bill? In that case, PENIS!"
"Ummm, ok...."
Sir, if you slant Mr. Moore again, I am calling Golden Guns at dawn!
Really O/T, but are there any open source adventure game build engines a la the old Sierra games?
I would love to see what people could come up with, if only to prove your point.
I think that Dink Smallwood had a pretty good scripting engine, but google is not my friend today, and I've given up on Freshmeat.
And named it postfix.
Another reason to spend an entire day in the park.
It's only unethical behaviour if you lose.