Wasn't pretty much the entire US colder? I know here in Florida we got snow for the first time in probably 2 decades. How big of an area do we need to be talking about before it stops being local?
I know I'm going to get modded into oblivion but I'm really not well educated on global warming issues and I'm genuinely curious.
Or, people who actually know what they're talking about
How ironic, when you missed the point _entirely_
There were lots of things before Google Maps (remember mapquest?). Google deployed maps in a standard browser using DHTML and brought web based mapping to an entirely new level, which is now copied almost verbatim by every online mapping service (directions/info in left pane, draggable map, zooming, panning, streetview, etc etc etc).
UPS should only last long enough for your generator to fire up and your automatic transfer switch to cut over to generator power. Trying to power an ever increasing datacenter on batteries is an exercise in futility. You think it's a problem now wait until you have a few HUNDRED servers. Half of your square footage will be batteries, not very cost effective when you consider the cost per square foot to power and cool your datacenter.
But if your entire environment is virtualized, why not let someone else host it? Have you really considered whether or not you want to be in the business of running a datacenter? It can be far cheaper when you consider the total cost even including the transport you'd need to provision to access these systems. You even have the option of keeping a few systems on-site which you could power with your current UPS (DHCP, local domain controller for faster authentication, etc).
But everyone just seems to ignore the fact that their maps and streetview is a blatant rip off of Google. Of course so is their search - anyone remember search engine home pages before Google?
It's very cool, please don't think I'm just trolling, I just don't appreciate the total lack of attribution for the shoulders they're standing on.
If by kicking Google's ass you mean ripping off Google maps and then ripping off Streetview then adding Flickr images and only having a tech preview of 3 cities then yes, Microsoft is really blowing Google out of the water these days.
^ mod this up, that's almost universally true. Every VMWare installation I've seen is limited by RAM or I/O long before CPU. Why do you think Cisco found a way to get 384GB of RAM per socket in their new UCS line?
Who knows, we don't have enough information. We need to analyze individual streams in both directions with port numbers and ideally even packet payload. We also need to know the firewall action (drop, allow, etc).
Not even close to enough information. Anyone who claims to have any idea what this means is grasping at straws.
I had a tier1 carrier tell me their private IP MPLS network is using public addresses because of a software limitation of their label routers. This was after I asked why it wasn't privately addressed, then they said well some customers could have conflicting address space, which I then pointed out VRF and finally he got an engineer on the phone who said flat out it was a software limitation at the time of implementation. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of addresses here.
We have a few dozen internet T1s used for backup connectivity and every one of them came with a/24 of public address space. Did we ask for it? No. I tried to give it back, they don't want it.
The problem here is the RIRs aren't doing their job in policing the address space. They get all starry-eyed when some big telco shows up and asks for a massive block of address space and just hand it over. The amount of wasted address space is SICKENING.
Changing the culture in an organization isn't easy. I think the best thing to do is lead by example and try and get people excited about work again. Try and spark up discussions about projects and try and get people excited to do their work.
Being the new guy is rough, but remember, everyone was the new guy once and put in their 80 hour weeks, now it's your turn. Really you should take advantage of it and think of it as a crash course in the business. That being said, if you feel it is becoming excessive, you need to sit down and talk about it with your supervisor. And don't wait until you're ready to walk out the door. It's much harder to have a rational discussion after you've been bottling up resent for months.
Actually IT is a seperate operating group that bills make to the other organizations. We're not a large company by any stretch of the imagination (~6k employees) and I didn't mean to imply we were "large as you think you are" whatever that means.
Why is it so tough for people to treat other human beings with a little respect? I'm not arguing the business case. Did you even read my post?
I don't email the accounting department and say "uh where did you allocate those routers, we need this resolved now it's costing the business money. fix it" because I'm not an _asshole_.
And if I were your manager I'd sit you down and explain you how to talk to human beings, like your parents should have done when you were a child.
We block sites by content group, not individually. We didn't "fix" anything by blocking anything intentionally. Of course 99% of our users are very nice people and understand we're just trying to do our jobs too. They make very nice requests and we resolve their issues promptly.
But if you talk down to IT or treat them like shit I promise you IT will make your job as painful as they possibly can. It's called human nature.
The role of IT isn't to control information, and that's a ridiculous straw man argument. We're trying to make sure users (1) don't access any malicious content and (2) don't waste time on fark.com all day. Sometimes there's collateral damage. If you've got a better system I'm all ears.
And the entire concept that IT departments don't make money is very 1995 of you. If you don't think IT makes you money, try working without them and see how much lost revenue you have without a functioning IT system. This isn't 20 years ago. IT isn't a luxury. It is a core component of any healthy organization and is required by almost every vertical to function competitively in the modern world.
Good luck getting DNS out through the firewall when outbound udp/tcp is blocked from all hosts except for the DNS servers. I won't even get into packet inspection technology like Cisco's FPM.
Yes we love your little additional notes like "The block is costing us money". Also using the word "fix", as if something is broken scores you bonus points. If I got a request like that I'd jump right on it.
I don't understand why people always try to "get around" these restrictions.
To slack off? Shop online, etc.
If there is a legitimate business need, then get it approved.
There isn't one.
These preventions are put in place for a reason. The more open the network, the more risk. The more risk means more virus, trojans, botnets, data leakage, etc. IT then has to cleanup your mess.
They don't care. Your problem, not theirs.
We block all outbound traffic, except for specific allows (like 80 and 443 from the websense server). When netflow collector shows an excessive amount of http[s] traffic from an individual host, we investigate.
But as for you personally, just because you can get out doesn't mean someone hasn't noticed. Usually if you're crafty enough you can find a way, but doing so probably risks either losing your job or, at best, some very serious embarrassment.
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Wasn't pretty much the entire US colder? I know here in Florida we got snow for the first time in probably 2 decades. How big of an area do we need to be talking about before it stops being local?
I know I'm going to get modded into oblivion but I'm really not well educated on global warming issues and I'm genuinely curious.
"resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks"
Actually calls will probably sound better over LTE.
Or, people who actually know what they're talking about
How ironic, when you missed the point _entirely_
There were lots of things before Google Maps (remember mapquest?). Google deployed maps in a standard browser using DHTML and brought web based mapping to an entirely new level, which is now copied almost verbatim by every online mapping service (directions/info in left pane, draggable map, zooming, panning, streetview, etc etc etc).
UPS should only last long enough for your generator to fire up and your automatic transfer switch to cut over to generator power. Trying to power an ever increasing datacenter on batteries is an exercise in futility. You think it's a problem now wait until you have a few HUNDRED servers. Half of your square footage will be batteries, not very cost effective when you consider the cost per square foot to power and cool your datacenter.
But if your entire environment is virtualized, why not let someone else host it? Have you really considered whether or not you want to be in the business of running a datacenter? It can be far cheaper when you consider the total cost even including the transport you'd need to provision to access these systems. You even have the option of keeping a few systems on-site which you could power with your current UPS (DHCP, local domain controller for faster authentication, etc).
You mean like Google's Experimental Search ?
"Don't like it? This button (fig. 1b) will remove the result, and it will remain hidden when you search for the same keyword(s) in the future."
And let's not forget this is essentially just ripping off yet ANOTHER Google feature.
But everyone just seems to ignore the fact that their maps and streetview is a blatant rip off of Google. Of course so is their search - anyone remember search engine home pages before Google?
It's very cool, please don't think I'm just trolling, I just don't appreciate the total lack of attribution for the shoulders they're standing on.
If by kicking Google's ass you mean ripping off Google maps and then ripping off Streetview then adding Flickr images and only having a tech preview of 3 cities then yes, Microsoft is really blowing Google out of the water these days.
I think none of us actually knows what's going on behind the scenes between Google and the Chinese government.
^ mod this up, that's almost universally true. Every VMWare installation I've seen is limited by RAM or I/O long before CPU. Why do you think Cisco found a way to get 384GB of RAM per socket in their new UCS line?
popularity != quality
I prefer DWM. This is the ultimate in simplicity and usability.
Who knows, we don't have enough information. We need to analyze individual streams in both directions with port numbers and ideally even packet payload. We also need to know the firewall action (drop, allow, etc).
Not even close to enough information. Anyone who claims to have any idea what this means is grasping at straws.
I had a tier1 carrier tell me their private IP MPLS network is using public addresses because of a software limitation of their label routers. This was after I asked why it wasn't privately addressed, then they said well some customers could have conflicting address space, which I then pointed out VRF and finally he got an engineer on the phone who said flat out it was a software limitation at the time of implementation. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of addresses here.
/24 of public address space. Did we ask for it? No. I tried to give it back, they don't want it.
We have a few dozen internet T1s used for backup connectivity and every one of them came with a
The problem here is the RIRs aren't doing their job in policing the address space. They get all starry-eyed when some big telco shows up and asks for a massive block of address space and just hand it over. The amount of wasted address space is SICKENING.
Changing the culture in an organization isn't easy. I think the best thing to do is lead by example and try and get people excited about work again. Try and spark up discussions about projects and try and get people excited to do their work.
Being the new guy is rough, but remember, everyone was the new guy once and put in their 80 hour weeks, now it's your turn. Really you should take advantage of it and think of it as a crash course in the business. That being said, if you feel it is becoming excessive, you need to sit down and talk about it with your supervisor. And don't wait until you're ready to walk out the door. It's much harder to have a rational discussion after you've been bottling up resent for months.
Actually IT is a seperate operating group that bills make to the other organizations. We're not a large company by any stretch of the imagination (~6k employees) and I didn't mean to imply we were "large as you think you are" whatever that means.
Why is it so tough for people to treat other human beings with a little respect? I'm not arguing the business case. Did you even read my post?
I don't email the accounting department and say "uh where did you allocate those routers, we need this resolved now it's costing the business money. fix it" because I'm not an _asshole_.
And if I were your manager I'd sit you down and explain you how to talk to human beings, like your parents should have done when you were a child.
We block sites by content group, not individually. We didn't "fix" anything by blocking anything intentionally. Of course 99% of our users are very nice people and understand we're just trying to do our jobs too. They make very nice requests and we resolve their issues promptly.
But if you talk down to IT or treat them like shit I promise you IT will make your job as painful as they possibly can. It's called human nature.
The role of IT isn't to control information, and that's a ridiculous straw man argument. We're trying to make sure users (1) don't access any malicious content and (2) don't waste time on fark.com all day. Sometimes there's collateral damage. If you've got a better system I'm all ears.
And the entire concept that IT departments don't make money is very 1995 of you. If you don't think IT makes you money, try working without them and see how much lost revenue you have without a functioning IT system. This isn't 20 years ago. IT isn't a luxury. It is a core component of any healthy organization and is required by almost every vertical to function competitively in the modern world.
It's still an interesting discussion. And who needs to astroturf websense. It's the cadillac of web filtering. They don't need any more advertising.
Good luck getting DNS out through the firewall when outbound udp/tcp is blocked from all hosts except for the DNS servers. I won't even get into packet inspection technology like Cisco's FPM.
Yeah because disabling usb mass storage in windows with a group policy is real hard.
/sarcasm
Yes we love your little additional notes like "The block is costing us money". Also using the word "fix", as if something is broken scores you bonus points. If I got a request like that I'd jump right on it.
(jk bottom of the queue)
I don't understand why people always try to "get around" these restrictions.
To slack off? Shop online, etc.
If there is a legitimate business need, then get it approved.
There isn't one.
These preventions are put in place for a reason. The more open the network, the more risk. The more risk means more virus, trojans, botnets, data leakage, etc. IT then has to cleanup your mess.
They don't care. Your problem, not theirs.
How long have you worked in IT?
We block all outbound traffic, except for specific allows (like 80 and 443 from the websense server). When netflow collector shows an excessive amount of http[s] traffic from an individual host, we investigate.
But as for you personally, just because you can get out doesn't mean someone hasn't noticed. Usually if you're crafty enough you can find a way, but doing so probably risks either losing your job or, at best, some very serious embarrassment.