I can easily type with one hand on a 4" screen (even 4.3"). Have you tried a 4" phone? Did you consider that 3.5" might not be the right size for every person?
As for certain simple programs, and it takes them weeks to install those programs, costing me hundreds of hours in productivity a year.
Well considering the process most IT departments have to follow to install new software, this isn't entirely surprising. First there is procurement, which can require vendor setup in AP, which can require things like W9 and proof of liability insurance from the vendor. After that's all initialed and contracts are reviewed by legal you can purchase the software. Now we have to set it up in a lab on a duplicate of the image on your machine and make sure it installs ok without any conflicts. We also write up a procedure based on the vendor update policy to make sure we can keep it up to date and we update any other relevant procedures to reflect this new software (like our "Approved Software" list, etc).
Now, we write up the whole procedure and save it out on whatever document-management/ECM we use so if we need to do this again next year we don't reinvent the wheel. Now we fill out the appropriate change management forms and install it on your system. Since change management board only meets usually once a week that alone could take several days.
NONE OF THIS IS YOUR IT DEPARTMENTS FAULT! Do you think we like operating in this endless morass of bullshit? No of course not! We just want to help you do your job. Also consider that your IT department has hundreds or thousands of users, and if they did everything that would save you some time but increase theirs, and then multiply it by the number of users they have, you have a solution that does not scale.
WiFi driver issues are a thing of the past, and hasn't really been an issue for me in the last 5+ years. And now that we do everything in a browser application availability is less of an issue than it ever was. If anything Linux has a MUCH better chance now than it did in 2001. Not that I think Linux will displace Windows on the desktop anytime soon.
You think this required four $150/hour developers working for four weeks? I could have 1 indian guy write it in an afternoon for $500 and he'd be so happy I'd probably be on his christmas card list.
People are serving out many many orders of magnitude more throughput than you via NFS every day. 12Gb/s is absolutely nothing. You need to be looking into 10GbE and possibly Infiniband.
If you want a decent 10GbE switch, I'd highly recommend checking out Arista. Co-Founded by Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun Co-Founder and co-founded Granite Systems which was later acquired by Cisco and became their gigabit catalyst line, which Cisco brought Andy in to run), incredibly inexpensive, runs Linux kernel and a Fedora userland, insanely low latency, and very inexpensive. And the density is insane - 52 line-rate 10GbE (SFP+) ports in a single rack unit. That's under $400/port, and another $500 or so for 10GbE short-range SFP+ transceivers (if I remember right).
While I understand your point, your post just shows a lack of experience and qualification to be an IT administrator of any sort.
Actually, your response shows your lack of experience. In the real world, sometimes, no amount of testing survives production deployment. Not everyone can afford completely identical staging infrastructure.
I'm almost afraid to ask - what does it cost and what does it run on (PowerVM) ? I'm embarrassed to say I've never heard of it before. A quick google shows that it's an IBM product. Does it support Windows guests?
Can you describe your configuration in detail? I'm curious to see examples where people have been negative affected by the new vRAM entitlements. On our infrastructure (mostly windows, some linux on a couple dozen physical hosts) we have several times more vRAM than we needed. How much RAM is in each dual+6c machine and how many guests per host, what OS and what type of workload? Is it VDI by any chance?
I saw a lot of knee jerk panic about the vRAM entitlements, and I admit I was very scared when I first heard the announcement. Then we ran the numbers on our infrastructure (a few dozen physical hosts) and realized that we had something like 3-4x the vRAM entitlement we needed. Before I ask this - please, don't flame me, I' m not doubting you - but can you describe your infrastructure and how the vRAM entitlement negatively affects you? I honestly only know our case and I'm curious to see examples of people who have issues.
VMWare Virtual Infrastructure Client is hands down the best Windows-based GUI administration tool I've ever used. If you think it's complicated, I recommend you consider RingTFM. If you know of better Windows system administration tools, I'd love to hear about them, because everything else is a steaming pile compared to the VIC.
Cloud doesn't necessarily mean closed source[1][2]. We should be working towards open source and standards based "cloud" platforms. Fighting against the concept of "cloud computing" is a misguided, losing battle.
Good riddance. Web browsers and web based applications provided something compiled languages only ever really promised - real world portability between platforms. I'm tired of maintaining software locally, can you imagine the collective hours we've all spent updating applications on millions of desktop computers?
Not to mention the fact that I don't want to be locked into a set of *nix applications anymore than I want to be locked into a set of M$ or Apple applications. I should be able to move seamlessly between platforms at my convenience. This is a GOOD THING not a BAD THING. Web based applications means there's no more "I can't use Linux because it doesn't have application Y" - as long as you have a web browser you can access any application. If anything the new paradigm should increase Linux adoption.
While they're definitely not perfect, they seem perfectly adequate. They essentially just make what you would do manually on the device (like configuring ActiveSync) a lot easier. I'd be interested to hear about some of the issues you're aware of, since we're in the process of putting one in place.
This seems like the "why are you wasting time giving me a speeding ticket when there are murderers out there" argument. How about we knock out some simple low-hanging fruit while we work on the big stuff?
But as for your question, I'd answer it with another question - why not? Why not remove some unnecessary and archaic complexity?
I work in IT and I agree with you 100%. IT works to support the organization, not the other way around. The tough part is juggling a million different projects and requests. Most of the time we can barely keep our heads above water.
well considering we have about, oh, 20,000 TIMES more computer users now than 20 years ago, arent you glad you dont need a PhD to get a computer fixed?
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I can easily type with one hand on a 4" screen (even 4.3"). Have you tried a 4" phone? Did you consider that 3.5" might not be the right size for every person?
Why do you think the iPad is so popular? It made computing simple enough for non-technical people.
And, should I get attitude from the IT guy when I (very reasonably) ask how long a certain procedure will take, then I get really pissed off.
And how do you feel when someone who isn't your boss comes along and asks you how long your job takes?
As for certain simple programs, and it takes them weeks to install those programs, costing me hundreds of hours in productivity a year.
Well considering the process most IT departments have to follow to install new software, this isn't entirely surprising. First there is procurement, which can require vendor setup in AP, which can require things like W9 and proof of liability insurance from the vendor. After that's all initialed and contracts are reviewed by legal you can purchase the software. Now we have to set it up in a lab on a duplicate of the image on your machine and make sure it installs ok without any conflicts. We also write up a procedure based on the vendor update policy to make sure we can keep it up to date and we update any other relevant procedures to reflect this new software (like our "Approved Software" list, etc).
Now, we write up the whole procedure and save it out on whatever document-management/ECM we use so if we need to do this again next year we don't reinvent the wheel. Now we fill out the appropriate change management forms and install it on your system. Since change management board only meets usually once a week that alone could take several days.
NONE OF THIS IS YOUR IT DEPARTMENTS FAULT! Do you think we like operating in this endless morass of bullshit? No of course not! We just want to help you do your job. Also consider that your IT department has hundreds or thousands of users, and if they did everything that would save you some time but increase theirs, and then multiply it by the number of users they have, you have a solution that does not scale.
WiFi driver issues are a thing of the past, and hasn't really been an issue for me in the last 5+ years. And now that we do everything in a browser application availability is less of an issue than it ever was. If anything Linux has a MUCH better chance now than it did in 2001. Not that I think Linux will displace Windows on the desktop anytime soon.
You think this required four $150/hour developers working for four weeks? I could have 1 indian guy write it in an afternoon for $500 and he'd be so happy I'd probably be on his christmas card list.
You think this cost $200k? Let me guess, you work for the government?
The question isn't if it "wins", the question is how much better does it perform? Enough to justify the cost difference? Sometimes the answer is no.
For a SecureCRT replacement, have you tried iTerm or gnome-terminal?
People are serving out many many orders of magnitude more throughput than you via NFS every day. 12Gb/s is absolutely nothing . You need to be looking into 10GbE and possibly Infiniband.
If you want a decent 10GbE switch, I'd highly recommend checking out Arista. Co-Founded by Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun Co-Founder and co-founded Granite Systems which was later acquired by Cisco and became their gigabit catalyst line, which Cisco brought Andy in to run), incredibly inexpensive, runs Linux kernel and a Fedora userland, insanely low latency, and very inexpensive. And the density is insane - 52 line-rate 10GbE (SFP+) ports in a single rack unit . That's under $400/port, and another $500 or so for 10GbE short-range SFP+ transceivers (if I remember right).
While I understand your point, your post just shows a lack of experience and qualification to be an IT administrator of any sort.
Actually, your response shows your lack of experience. In the real world, sometimes, no amount of testing survives production deployment. Not everyone can afford completely identical staging infrastructure.
I'm almost afraid to ask - what does it cost and what does it run on (PowerVM) ? I'm embarrassed to say I've never heard of it before. A quick google shows that it's an IBM product. Does it support Windows guests?
Can you describe your configuration in detail? I'm curious to see examples where people have been negative affected by the new vRAM entitlements. On our infrastructure (mostly windows, some linux on a couple dozen physical hosts) we have several times more vRAM than we needed. How much RAM is in each dual+6c machine and how many guests per host, what OS and what type of workload? Is it VDI by any chance?
I saw a lot of knee jerk panic about the vRAM entitlements, and I admit I was very scared when I first heard the announcement. Then we ran the numbers on our infrastructure (a few dozen physical hosts) and realized that we had something like 3-4x the vRAM entitlement we needed. Before I ask this - please, don't flame me, I' m not doubting you - but can you describe your infrastructure and how the vRAM entitlement negatively affects you? I honestly only know our case and I'm curious to see examples of people who have issues.
VMWare Virtual Infrastructure Client is hands down the best Windows-based GUI administration tool I've ever used. If you think it's complicated, I recommend you consider RingTFM. If you know of better Windows system administration tools, I'd love to hear about them, because everything else is a steaming pile compared to the VIC.
Cloud doesn't necessarily mean closed source[1][2]. We should be working towards open source and standards based "cloud" platforms. Fighting against the concept of "cloud computing" is a misguided, losing battle.
[1] http://www.cloud.com/
[2] http://www.openstack.org/
Good riddance. Web browsers and web based applications provided something compiled languages only ever really promised - real world portability between platforms. I'm tired of maintaining software locally, can you imagine the collective hours we've all spent updating applications on millions of desktop computers?
Not to mention the fact that I don't want to be locked into a set of *nix applications anymore than I want to be locked into a set of M$ or Apple applications. I should be able to move seamlessly between platforms at my convenience. This is a GOOD THING not a BAD THING. Web based applications means there's no more "I can't use Linux because it doesn't have application Y" - as long as you have a web browser you can access any application. If anything the new paradigm should increase Linux adoption.
NO! Sometimes I need to search for things with + signs in them. For example try searching for "+p+" or "+p" ammunition sometime.
While they're definitely not perfect, they seem perfectly adequate. They essentially just make what you would do manually on the device (like configuring ActiveSync) a lot easier. I'd be interested to hear about some of the issues you're aware of, since we're in the process of putting one in place.
If you didn't like upstart I've got some bad news. Fedora went to systemd as of version 15.
Well with that logic let's divide the root filesystem up into 10,000 directories then it'll be WAY better than windows!
This seems like the "why are you wasting time giving me a speeding ticket when there are murderers out there" argument. How about we knock out some simple low-hanging fruit while we work on the big stuff?
But as for your question, I'd answer it with another question - why not? Why not remove some unnecessary and archaic complexity?
I work in IT and I agree with you 100%. IT works to support the organization, not the other way around. The tough part is juggling a million different projects and requests. Most of the time we can barely keep our heads above water.
well considering we have about, oh, 20,000 TIMES more computer users now than 20 years ago, arent you glad you dont need a PhD to get a computer fixed?