Bank robbers endanger the general public. Also, banks hire private security. The cops are only needed if the situation escalates.
Murder needs to be prosicuted so that the general public can feel safe and do their jobs.
$5M may be a small ammount, but it's still five fucking million dolars! Let's use it to train 2 more cops and have them patrol streets.
The movie industry probably pays less tax than you think. I read an analasys of how these things work. Basicly, a company is formed to produce the film. The company leases all the equipment and sets from MGM or Mirimax or Disney. Then the film is made. After the profits start rolling in, the company has to pay MGM for the rentals. The rental prices are set to absorb any real profits. Then the company declares bankruptcy. MGM ends up with all the money by basicly renting the equipment to itself.
I'm sure these companies pay tax. But if you and I are taxed at 20% to 30% of our income, big production companies probably pay closer to 5%. Think about that. You lose 1 of every 3 dolars you make so that police can enforce the rights of a company that pays 2 out of every 50 dollars it makes.
When someone robs a McDonalds, the general public is endangered. If you record a movie, the only ones endangered are the investors.
I don't like the idea of diverting funds from, let's say, prosicuting carjackers, to prosecuting cammers. Even if they both get convicted, there are only so many jail cells. Why lock up someone for something stupid like this? Just assign a stiff fine and be done with it.
On a side note, there will probably be at least one stupid conviction. I forsee a grandmother or tourist with a camera in their bag being arested under this law. I cary my digital camera everywhere. It can shoot brief movies also. Will they arrest me? Who knows where this will lead.
At less than $1/GB for IDE and maybe $2/GB for SCSI, price rarely comes into play. Just about every datacenter you go into will be using RAID10, like the grandparent said.
In fact, my NOC has just purchaced 2 new Storage Area Networks (SAN)s. Each one is about 5 full racks. The first rack is RedHat servers for controlling the SAN. The next 3 racks are hard drives. The final rack is a tape backup. Total storage is about 5 Terrabytes. Ours is configured as 2.5TB RAID10 arrays.
"hdparm -Tt" on the SAN gives crazy, nonsensical numbers. Actual users connected to the SAN have successfully saturated several Gig-E pipes with the servers barely sweating.
Anyway, cost is not really a factor. RAID10 is the only way to go.
Recently my local computer user group's blog was spammed with user registration. The same user registered about 200 times with slightly different user names and all his home pages linked to the same website. The user never needed to post a single comment in our forums, just the registration page alone gave him 200 links to his home page.
If you wanna read a more detailed account of how this works, read here.
Look at the peak transfer rate of your device and decide if it can keep up with a 16x drive.
I have a single SATA 10k Raptor. It sustains between 40MB/s and 55MB/s depending on which tool I'm using to check. The slowest part of the drive still sustains 35MB/s.
Most ATA100/133 hard drives sustain 25MB/s to 40MB/s. Even my external enclosure can sustain 20MB/s.
I have used SATA and ATA RAID0 in the past. I'm not really impressed with it. The benchmarks show a doubling of transfer, but load times (esp in BF1942) only drop by about 10%.
There may or may not be parity, start/stop bits, CRC, or other overhead added to that number. It could mean that it does 92Tbps before the overhead, or after.
Yes, one byte is 8 bits, but there is usually a lot of variance in that number when you talk line speed.
Looks like someone has a problem with the First Amendment. Free Speech means that it is free for whoever for whatever. They do their thing, you do yours, I'll do mine. We can all be happy.
I suppose that the next story will be someone quit because an abortion doctor uses linux.
Or maybe a Democrat?
How about a child porn website hosted on Linux?
You don't have to like free speech, but you do have to live with it...
Why not just keep a Windows 2k install on a spare box or removable hard drive?
When COX Cable installed my modem, the tech asked me to login to my computer. When he saw the console, he freaked. I could have made a big deal out of it and demanded that he learn Linux. Instead, I just typed 'reboot' and waited for the look of calm that all techs display upon seeing the Win2k desktop.
I know you have standards. Just download/borrow a copy and dare them to finger-point.
> "The Internet is powered by open source." Like Cisco or Nortel?
>"The Internet is the carrier for open source." It's also the carrier of porn and illegal copies of propritary software.
>"The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed." It is also the platform through which propritary software is developed.
>"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software." Not nescessarily. Most insecurities are due to looming release dates. There is also a tradeoff between usability and security. Which is better? Depends on your mission.
>"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments." Not sure about this. I just got back from Kuait and there are literally hundreds of street vendors there selling propritary software.
>"Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers." Like the respect between the Reiser group and Linus? Why did it take so long to get that patch added? Those two crews showed as much respect as a couple of kids yelling "Did not! Did too!"
>"Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants." Uuh, not sure what he means by this. I'm assuming he means IBM. What about Sun, MS, Adobe, and other closed source "Giants"?
>"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel." So does Windows. And when you are buying a $10k server, $200 for Windows doesn't even figure into it.
>"Embedded devices are making greater use of open source." You have a winner here. But imbeded Windows and QNX are also players. This marker is not usually concerned with backwards compatibility and is very volitale in regards to the underlying kernel they choose. If x86 chips become prevalant, expect Windows to dominate.
>"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies." This has always been the case. Lots of companies need some app that custom-built. They don't really care where the source comes from. Since the app is rarely redistributed, they have no requirements to release their modifications.
>"Companies are increasingly supporting Linux." Not really. There is a percived lean to newer technologies in non-critical areas. Expect MS to respond to their concerns with newer server technologies that are hardened for special applications.
>"It's free." But it can cost a ton while you have an outage and the one guy that knows about it is in Jamaca with his family on holiday. Most big projects are not like that, but you never know... MS shares the love. There is rarely one person who holds all the keys to a project.
And remember, if Linux truly takes over, MS will just use the kernel and bolt on a propritary installer (YAST) and a propritary desktop (Java Desktop) and then crush the competition like they always have.
I prefer thermite. Also, directing a poision-tipped dart to where a likely unwanted case-opener would likely be standing during his case opening gives a peace-of-mind equal to none...
I moved out of the US just before widespread usage of cell phones. In Italy, you could buy a phone in s gas station and have the number (which was attached to a removable card) activated within the hour. You could purchace a monthly plan or just buy "minutes". You could also carry your SIM card from phone to phone. They even had phones with multiple SIM card slots.
The best part: Pay only for outgoing calls.
Meanwhile, the Land of the Free is banging rocks together and picking bugs from each other's bodies. USians are really fucking savages in a lot of respects. But hey, you guys have cheap buffets and Big-Macs and SUVs.
The reason we spend so much is BECAUSE the rest of the world spends so little. This might be considered a good thing. Do we really want another Germany or Japan giving us a run for our money?
IMHO, it's better to spend lots of money on a big army than to have tens-of-thousands die trying to take out the next dictator.
BTW, I think we should choose WHERE to spend the money a little better, but I'm fairly happy with the size of our military.
Windows no longer gives BSOD. It will reboot if it encounters a critical error. While I haven't seen a BSOD in forever, I have "clicked my way into the bios" a few times. Albeit, mostly when playing a game.
You are confusing 3a0 with 3c0. It's true that we do hire secretaries to do some low-level admin stuff, but they are suposed to be in contact with the REAL admins at every step. For simple stuff like resetting a password, secretaries do fine.
There are a LOT of competent 3c0s. Just walk around your NCC and look at config managment or network operations. The true talent will be behind the SAN or programming routers in a remote office. The crappy people will go to the Help-Desk or some other front-office job. Let the idiot 3c0s deal with the stupid problems while the smart people deal with EIGRP and SAN issues.
BTW, I'm a 3c2, not a 3c0. I went from high-school dropout to managing ATM switches with many OC-3s. It took me 8 years to get where I am. I'm good at what I do and so are most of my peers.
The ammount of talent to be found in a comm building is phenominal. Some of that talent is pissed at the latest LOR or BTZ passover, but it will shine when called upon.
This is from an Air-Force perspective, so think what you will:
The military is based around taking people who know very little and teaching via tech schools. We do quite well. We can take someone with virtually no computer knowledge and turn them into a basic sysadmin in about 6 months. Within 2 years, the cream will rise and those are quite impressive. Of the rest, some will transfer to administrative (paperwork) jobs and be promoted. Others will get out and become a burden to AT&T or WorldCom. But the system DOES work.
The main difference between the military and the commercial world is that we actually care about our people. Where your company provides very little in the way of mentorship, I will nurture my people till they find their sweet spot. Some will learn from books I reccomend, others from college I allow them to attend during working hours. More still will need me to hold their hands and walk them through tasks until they catch on.
Most civilians see coworkers (you call them cow-orkers) as competition. That's why a lot of good sysadmins will never develop after their civilian tech schools.
You and your company may see on-the-job training as a waste. Well, you are missing out on a lot of good people. Instead of a college grad demanding $50k+, you could look to the sub-$20k market of tech-school grads. Give them some training. Promote those who deserve it, fire those who screw up.
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Bank robbers endanger the general public. Also, banks hire private security. The cops are only needed if the situation escalates.
Murder needs to be prosicuted so that the general public can feel safe and do their jobs.
$5M may be a small ammount, but it's still five fucking million dolars! Let's use it to train 2 more cops and have them patrol streets.
The movie industry probably pays less tax than you think. I read an analasys of how these things work. Basicly, a company is formed to produce the film. The company leases all the equipment and sets from MGM or Mirimax or Disney. Then the film is made. After the profits start rolling in, the company has to pay MGM for the rentals. The rental prices are set to absorb any real profits. Then the company declares bankruptcy. MGM ends up with all the money by basicly renting the equipment to itself.
I'm sure these companies pay tax. But if you and I are taxed at 20% to 30% of our income, big production companies probably pay closer to 5%. Think about that. You lose 1 of every 3 dolars you make so that police can enforce the rights of a company that pays 2 out of every 50 dollars it makes.
When someone robs a McDonalds, the general public is endangered. If you record a movie, the only ones endangered are the investors.
I don't like the idea of diverting funds from, let's say, prosicuting carjackers, to prosecuting cammers. Even if they both get convicted, there are only so many jail cells. Why lock up someone for something stupid like this? Just assign a stiff fine and be done with it.
On a side note, there will probably be at least one stupid conviction. I forsee a grandmother or tourist with a camera in their bag being arested under this law. I cary my digital camera everywhere. It can shoot brief movies also. Will they arrest me? Who knows where this will lead.
At less than $1/GB for IDE and maybe $2/GB for SCSI, price rarely comes into play. Just about every datacenter you go into will be using RAID10, like the grandparent said.
In fact, my NOC has just purchaced 2 new Storage Area Networks (SAN)s. Each one is about 5 full racks. The first rack is RedHat servers for controlling the SAN. The next 3 racks are hard drives. The final rack is a tape backup. Total storage is about 5 Terrabytes. Ours is configured as 2.5TB RAID10 arrays.
"hdparm -Tt" on the SAN gives crazy, nonsensical numbers. Actual users connected to the SAN have successfully saturated several Gig-E pipes with the servers barely sweating.
Anyway, cost is not really a factor. RAID10 is the only way to go.
Recently my local computer user group's blog was spammed with user registration. The same user registered about 200 times with slightly different user names and all his home pages linked to the same website. The user never needed to post a single comment in our forums, just the registration page alone gave him 200 links to his home page.
If you wanna read a more detailed account of how this works, read here.
Look at the peak transfer rate of your device and decide if it can keep up with a 16x drive.
I have a single SATA 10k Raptor. It sustains between 40MB/s and 55MB/s depending on which tool I'm using to check. The slowest part of the drive still sustains 35MB/s.
Most ATA100/133 hard drives sustain 25MB/s to 40MB/s. Even my external enclosure can sustain 20MB/s.
I have used SATA and ATA RAID0 in the past. I'm not really impressed with it. The benchmarks show a doubling of transfer, but load times (esp in BF1942) only drop by about 10%.
Remember Kent State? Remember Ruby Ridge or the Branch Dividians?
Everything upsets the US Government anyway.
There may or may not be parity, start/stop bits, CRC, or other overhead added to that number. It could mean that it does 92Tbps before the overhead, or after.
Yes, one byte is 8 bits, but there is usually a lot of variance in that number when you talk line speed.
US Marines and US Army both get hand-to-hand combat training. For the Marines, the training is extensive and continues well into their career.
Oh, and before you ask, the guns still have bayonette attachments for the big fricking knife the infantry carry.
The books are not about the Ring, they are about Hobbits.
Looks like someone has a problem with the First Amendment. Free Speech means that it is free for whoever for whatever. They do their thing, you do yours, I'll do mine. We can all be happy.
I suppose that the next story will be someone quit because an abortion doctor uses linux.
Or maybe a Democrat?
How about a child porn website hosted on Linux?
You don't have to like free speech, but you do have to live with it...
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Speaking of finger pointing:
Why not just keep a Windows 2k install on a spare box or removable hard drive?
When COX Cable installed my modem, the tech asked me to login to my computer. When he saw the console, he freaked. I could have made a big deal out of it and demanded that he learn Linux. Instead, I just typed 'reboot' and waited for the look of calm that all techs display upon seeing the Win2k desktop.
I know you have standards. Just download/borrow a copy and dare them to finger-point.
> "The Internet is powered by open source."
Like Cisco or Nortel?
>"The Internet is the carrier for open source."
It's also the carrier of porn and illegal copies of propritary software.
>"The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
It is also the platform through which propritary software is developed.
>"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Not nescessarily. Most insecurities are due to looming release dates. There is also a tradeoff between usability and security. Which is better? Depends on your mission.
>"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
Not sure about this. I just got back from Kuait and there are literally hundreds of street vendors there selling propritary software.
>"Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
Like the respect between the Reiser group and Linus? Why did it take so long to get that patch added? Those two crews showed as much respect as a couple of kids yelling "Did not! Did too!"
>"Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
Uuh, not sure what he means by this. I'm assuming he means IBM. What about Sun, MS, Adobe, and other closed source "Giants"?
>"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
So does Windows. And when you are buying a $10k server, $200 for Windows doesn't even figure into it.
>"Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
You have a winner here. But imbeded Windows and QNX are also players. This marker is not usually concerned with backwards compatibility and is very volitale in regards to the underlying kernel they choose. If x86 chips become prevalant, expect Windows to dominate.
>"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
This has always been the case. Lots of companies need some app that custom-built. They don't really care where the source comes from. Since the app is rarely redistributed, they have no requirements to release their modifications.
>"Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
Not really. There is a percived lean to newer technologies in non-critical areas. Expect MS to respond to their concerns with newer server technologies that are hardened for special applications.
>"It's free."
But it can cost a ton while you have an outage and the one guy that knows about it is in Jamaca with his family on holiday. Most big projects are not like that, but you never know... MS shares the love. There is rarely one person who holds all the keys to a project.
And remember, if Linux truly takes over, MS will just use the kernel and bolt on a propritary installer (YAST) and a propritary desktop (Java Desktop) and then crush the competition like they always have.
I prefer thermite. Also, directing a poision-tipped dart to where a likely unwanted case-opener would likely be standing during his case opening gives a peace-of-mind equal to none...
Damn straight!
I moved out of the US just before widespread usage of cell phones. In Italy, you could buy a phone in s gas station and have the number (which was attached to a removable card) activated within the hour. You could purchace a monthly plan or just buy "minutes". You could also carry your SIM card from phone to phone. They even had phones with multiple SIM card slots.
The best part: Pay only for outgoing calls.
Meanwhile, the Land of the Free is banging rocks together and picking bugs from each other's bodies. USians are really fucking savages in a lot of respects. But hey, you guys have cheap buffets and Big-Macs and SUVs.
Uuh, HP OpenView?
There you could also use Nagios, which is more server-centric.
Either /. lameness filter or maybe a cookie thing.
/. inserts and remove them.
In any event, google for "BSA raids" and read some of the stuff. Or try hunting down the spaces
Virtually every raid has the BSA accompanied by agents of the government.
Except they normally show up accompanied by armed federal marshals.
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The reason we spend so much is BECAUSE the rest of the world spends so little. This might be considered a good thing. Do we really want another Germany or Japan giving us a run for our money?
IMHO, it's better to spend lots of money on a big army than to have tens-of-thousands die trying to take out the next dictator.
BTW, I think we should choose WHERE to spend the money a little better, but I'm fairly happy with the size of our military.
Windows no longer gives BSOD. It will reboot if it encounters a critical error. While I haven't seen a BSOD in forever, I have "clicked my way into the bios" a few times. Albeit, mostly when playing a game.
That's part of the problem:
These people make a product that only pirates would buy. But pirates don't buy anything...
Now the company has put a lot of money into R&D/Programming/Distribution and then they get sued.
Meanwhile, people continue to pirate their software so they can copy borrowed DVDs.
321 Studios probably couldn't even afford a good lawyer.
Any judge can say a law is not enforcable. Then the plantifs(ones doing the suing) can appeal to a higher court.
You are confusing 3a0 with 3c0. It's true that we do hire secretaries to do some low-level admin stuff, but they are suposed to be in contact with the REAL admins at every step. For simple stuff like resetting a password, secretaries do fine.
There are a LOT of competent 3c0s. Just walk around your NCC and look at config managment or network operations. The true talent will be behind the SAN or programming routers in a remote office. The crappy people will go to the Help-Desk or some other front-office job. Let the idiot 3c0s deal with the stupid problems while the smart people deal with EIGRP and SAN issues.
BTW, I'm a 3c2, not a 3c0. I went from high-school dropout to managing ATM switches with many OC-3s. It took me 8 years to get where I am. I'm good at what I do and so are most of my peers.
The ammount of talent to be found in a comm building is phenominal. Some of that talent is pissed at the latest LOR or BTZ passover, but it will shine when called upon.
This is from an Air-Force perspective, so think what you will:
The military is based around taking people who know very little and teaching via tech schools. We do quite well. We can take someone with virtually no computer knowledge and turn them into a basic sysadmin in about 6 months. Within 2 years, the cream will rise and those are quite impressive. Of the rest, some will transfer to administrative (paperwork) jobs and be promoted. Others will get out and become a burden to AT&T or WorldCom. But the system DOES work.
The main difference between the military and the commercial world is that we actually care about our people. Where your company provides very little in the way of mentorship, I will nurture my people till they find their sweet spot. Some will learn from books I reccomend, others from college I allow them to attend during working hours. More still will need me to hold their hands and walk them through tasks until they catch on.
Most civilians see coworkers (you call them cow-orkers) as competition. That's why a lot of good sysadmins will never develop after their civilian tech schools.
You and your company may see on-the-job training as a waste. Well, you are missing out on a lot of good people. Instead of a college grad demanding $50k+, you could look to the sub-$20k market of tech-school grads. Give them some training. Promote those who deserve it, fire those who screw up.