AD isn't just LDAP, it's a central store for everything management.
Hence people calling it bloated. That's not a problem when you do want more than just LDAP but it is a valid description if you just want one little bit of what AD does. Same with MS Exchange, it's a huge suite and not just a mail transfer agent. If you want the suite, fine, it doesn't matter that it's huge.
I didn't mean for you to take it personally I was just pointing a finger at a general attitude that includes many people who are way out of their depth as well as those who actually know what they are doing.
I try to do all mundane work on systems that are as close to "stock" as possible so that they resemble a typical environment. That's possibly why Windows7 still pisses me off at times (reboot in the middle of a game on my home system again - yes I could turn off updates, but then I don't get to see how much of a POS it is so can't empathise with the users whom have no other choice) and why I feel dirty and frustrated every time I've been in contact with Win8. There are fixes for the broken halves of the control panel and the bipolar interface but they are a crutch I can't depend on if a user has a problem that gets sent up the tree.
But we have to keep our teeth and gums healthy or face other systemic risks
The link between gum problems and heart problems is especially weird, and having an infected tooth in the upper jaw is uncomfortably close to bits that keep us alive.
I'd say they understand all right and this is just PR. Remember the big fuss about needing a launch code, and then the launch code was all zeros so that it was just the same as if there was no launch code.
Breaking a key apart just means they have to get together and they they have everybody's secrets
Yes. I give it fifteen minutes, only because somebody will be making coffee before sharing the key in the first morning.
Easy, they give the key parts to other agencies and then the NSA seconds people from those other agencies so that they've got the full key fifteen minutes after the parts are sent out. There's so much pissing in each others pockets and "retiring to private enterprise" but getting millions of dollars in government work that there's no clear line between agencies and between government and private companies (eg. those Booz losers Snowden worked for). If the Chinese, Iranians, Russians etc don't have top level access into that shambolic mess then they are not trying.
That doesn't tell us anything about any sort of "ism", it just tells us the obvious that even when a monoculture, like selling oil, looks like the way to make everyone rich you can still get fucked over when the global market undercuts the cost you are spending to get it out of the ground.
In the Boyer lecture Rupert Murdoch delivered something like two years ago he was calling for increased state funding of education - this from a man who even changed nationality to avoid tax. However it's a good idea even if the people who do not want to pay for it are pushing it.
I wasn't saying it's not fine for you, but for a newbie developer (or a developer than makes newbie mistakes) it's a headache for others.
As I already pointed out, there was an article right here on/. just a week or so ago that pointed to a study that security popups are basically ineffective on people who don't understand. So what's the point? They bother me and the people they were intended for ignore them.
That's a very good point, but they do at least mark some sort of attempt at separation and the sign of a good program in the MS environment is not triggering the popups unless to operate it has is do something the OS thinks it should not (such as openvpn making major changes to the network layer).
My point is that I suspect these samsung guys run everything as admin and at the last minute found that some of their customers do not, hence an ugly hack to force it to run as admin. It's 2015 and so many developers just do not get this multiuser thing that I had my head around as an ordinary fourteen year old before MS Windows was even written. Samsung guys, you are not on a fucking Apple ][, learn how to fucking program on a late 20th century system.
Maybe it was just a crap drive or people using it were handling it poorly, but I ended up with a lot of tape breakages and sending the thing off for repair frequently. The person who chose it did it solely on the basis of price so it was the cheapest DDS available while everything else in the company was exabyte 8mm and IBM 3490 (including a Fuji clone). The DDS saw very little volume in comparison but always seemed to be failing. So yes, anecdote not statistic, whether DDS was crap or not in general it certainly was for me.
I've had some tapes from the early 1970s transcribed, and they hadn't been stored very well for at least part of that time (hot and humid conditions). I believe some preparation was involved before they went into a drive but they were all readable. I expect that if I'd had a few more there would have been a few failures showing up. I should point out that the file format on the tapes could tolerate missing bits here and there so long as they were not in the headers, so there may have been a full digit percentage of data missing. The cheap 4mm stuff of the 1990s on the other hand had a reputation for breaking and the drives themselves had reliability problems.
While it's stupid to not format shift tape from the 1970s a few times between then and now, and while it's stupid to store it in a cardboard box in hot and humid environment for 40 years I've still been lucky with about twenty reels of tape like that.
I know of several good-sized companies that have kept tape archives
The usual mode of failure seems to be people cleaning out storerooms. Hence me those tapes I mentioned above that were only made to transport data from the client to my workplace and the clients lost their originals over the years.
They were also CRAP. A 4mm tape is just too delicate for what they were trying to do with them so they had a very high failure rate. That's why we use wide stuff like LTO that is strong enough to be wound and unwound.
Funny how a discussion on tape has devolved into one about types of RAID. The most "enterprisy" array can still be toast due to an electrical event, deliberate corruption, accidental corruption, fire or theft. That's when you want the option to restore to new hardware from tape. Also if you have many TB of data that you never want to lose but nobody is likely to look at this year.
If the antivaxxers are to be taken as an example then some random anonymous guy on the Internet with an anecdote that is emotive enough wins far more often than expected.
That attitude in people who don't know better is part of the problem. Yes, you are a "power user", but so are the developers that wrote this stuff in their mind even if they did seriously fuck up. IMHO no developer should have seamless admin/root access on the machine they are testing their software out on and for new developers preferably not on their "daily driver" either.
Not that I wrote seamless and bolded it - they may need full admin/root access but they should know when they are a normal user and when they are not so that when the software is released it has been shown to run in an environment where it can be used as a normal user. I've had this problem for YEARS where some people who still have the single user MSDOS mindset keep on writing software for internal company use that needs admin rights for utterly braindead reasons, simply because the developers were writing for their own "power user" environment and everyone else can go fuck themselves. One gem required admin access for the sole reason that it was putting a temporary file on the root of the "C" drive (it would also not work for people who had a different drive letter for their system drive). That was fixed, but of course the developer now thinks I'm an utter prick for insisting that his trivial VB app that should be replaced by a simple webpage has to be able to run as a normal user.
So while you may be fine, others that copy what you do without understanding the implications are not.
AMD still win by a mile on cores per dollar and performance per dollar. I can get four AMD 64 core machines for less than an Intel 128 core machine with the same speed in GHz, many more AMD machines if I'm comparing them with the cutting edge Intel offering. The vast difference in capital cost is at the point where it makes the energy consumption over the life of the equipment not especially relevant. Consumption is always going to vary a lot with workload anyway. Unless you are tragically short of computing power the gear is not going to be doing 100% on all cpus 365/24/7.
No problem then, buy it from Israel. The horse has bolted and all this thing can do is annoy. Oh wait, you think the government in Israel is going to stop the sale? Want to buy a bridge?
A couple of things that still suck with GPUs is low memory and not a vast amount of bandwidth to get data in and out of them. That limits their use in some massively parallel operations where at first glance they look ideal. So if they have big datasets a smaller number of cores and a large amount of shared memory could get the job done days less then swapping stuff in and out of a larger number of cores and less memory.
If I gave SGI a shitload of money I'd still have something that's only double that speed per core if I wanted something that's going to scale up into the thousands or cores. That's with Intel chips. With supercomputing all that intercommunication between the cores comes with a speed hit.
Any business which doesn't obey that is in violation of federal law and gets in big trouble
It depends - SuperMicro got in deep shit for selling motherboards to an oil company in Iran but Haliburton (and others) are all over the place in the Iranian oil industry, even using the sort of hardware that SuperMicro was selling. It appears having a few layers of abstraction avoids trouble while direct selling lands you in trouble.
IBM could probably quite legally build the sort of supercomputers in question in China and then lease it to the four supercomputing institutions in question, or perhaps they may need the extra abstraction of selling time on the machines.
you don't appear to be as knowledgeable about the field of sino-taiwanese politics
There are pro-mainland-china parties active in taiwanese politics. Whether the core is a plant or whatever is not really relevant when the numbers are large enough to make a difference. So it appears that your criticism is based on a very simplistic view that is not matched by the more messy reality.
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Hence people calling it bloated. That's not a problem when you do want more than just LDAP but it is a valid description if you just want one little bit of what AD does.
Same with MS Exchange, it's a huge suite and not just a mail transfer agent. If you want the suite, fine, it doesn't matter that it's huge.
I didn't mean for you to take it personally I was just pointing a finger at a general attitude that includes many people who are way out of their depth as well as those who actually know what they are doing.
I try to do all mundane work on systems that are as close to "stock" as possible so that they resemble a typical environment. That's possibly why Windows7 still pisses me off at times (reboot in the middle of a game on my home system again - yes I could turn off updates, but then I don't get to see how much of a POS it is so can't empathise with the users whom have no other choice) and why I feel dirty and frustrated every time I've been in contact with Win8. There are fixes for the broken halves of the control panel and the bipolar interface but they are a crutch I can't depend on if a user has a problem that gets sent up the tree.
The link between gum problems and heart problems is especially weird, and having an infected tooth in the upper jaw is uncomfortably close to bits that keep us alive.
Yes. I give it fifteen minutes, only because somebody will be making coffee before sharing the key in the first morning.
Easy, they give the key parts to other agencies and then the NSA seconds people from those other agencies so that they've got the full key fifteen minutes after the parts are sent out.
There's so much pissing in each others pockets and "retiring to private enterprise" but getting millions of dollars in government work that there's no clear line between agencies and between government and private companies (eg. those Booz losers Snowden worked for). If the Chinese, Iranians, Russians etc don't have top level access into that shambolic mess then they are not trying.
They don't just threaten. Have you seen how much of IBM is run out of mainland China these days?
That doesn't tell us anything about any sort of "ism", it just tells us the obvious that even when a monoculture, like selling oil, looks like the way to make everyone rich you can still get fucked over when the global market undercuts the cost you are spending to get it out of the ground.
In the Boyer lecture Rupert Murdoch delivered something like two years ago he was calling for increased state funding of education - this from a man who even changed nationality to avoid tax.
However it's a good idea even if the people who do not want to pay for it are pushing it.
That's a very good point, but they do at least mark some sort of attempt at separation and the sign of a good program in the MS environment is not triggering the popups unless to operate it has is do something the OS thinks it should not (such as openvpn making major changes to the network layer).
My point is that I suspect these samsung guys run everything as admin and at the last minute found that some of their customers do not, hence an ugly hack to force it to run as admin. It's 2015 and so many developers just do not get this multiuser thing that I had my head around as an ordinary fourteen year old before MS Windows was even written. Samsung guys, you are not on a fucking Apple ][, learn how to fucking program on a late 20th century system.
Maybe it was just a crap drive or people using it were handling it poorly, but I ended up with a lot of tape breakages and sending the thing off for repair frequently. The person who chose it did it solely on the basis of price so it was the cheapest DDS available while everything else in the company was exabyte 8mm and IBM 3490 (including a Fuji clone). The DDS saw very little volume in comparison but always seemed to be failing.
So yes, anecdote not statistic, whether DDS was crap or not in general it certainly was for me.
I've had some tapes from the early 1970s transcribed, and they hadn't been stored very well for at least part of that time (hot and humid conditions). I believe some preparation was involved before they went into a drive but they were all readable. I expect that if I'd had a few more there would have been a few failures showing up. I should point out that the file format on the tapes could tolerate missing bits here and there so long as they were not in the headers, so there may have been a full digit percentage of data missing.
The cheap 4mm stuff of the 1990s on the other hand had a reputation for breaking and the drives themselves had reliability problems.
While it's stupid to not format shift tape from the 1970s a few times between then and now, and while it's stupid to store it in a cardboard box in hot and humid environment for 40 years I've still been lucky with about twenty reels of tape like that.
The usual mode of failure seems to be people cleaning out storerooms. Hence me those tapes I mentioned above that were only made to transport data from the client to my workplace and the clients lost their originals over the years.
They were also CRAP. A 4mm tape is just too delicate for what they were trying to do with them so they had a very high failure rate. That's why we use wide stuff like LTO that is strong enough to be wound and unwound.
Funny how a discussion on tape has devolved into one about types of RAID.
The most "enterprisy" array can still be toast due to an electrical event, deliberate corruption, accidental corruption, fire or theft. That's when you want the option to restore to new hardware from tape.
Also if you have many TB of data that you never want to lose but nobody is likely to look at this year.
If the antivaxxers are to be taken as an example then some random anonymous guy on the Internet with an anecdote that is emotive enough wins far more often than expected.
I had some reels of tape from the 1970s transcibed last year and it worked with zero problems. I've had others done previously, same result.
How arbitrary. Tape is for offline storage and hard drives have known problems with spinning up after a few years idle.
That attitude in people who don't know better is part of the problem.
Yes, you are a "power user", but so are the developers that wrote this stuff in their mind even if they did seriously fuck up. IMHO no developer should have seamless admin/root access on the machine they are testing their software out on and for new developers preferably not on their "daily driver" either.
Not that I wrote seamless and bolded it - they may need full admin/root access but they should know when they are a normal user and when they are not so that when the software is released it has been shown to run in an environment where it can be used as a normal user.
I've had this problem for YEARS where some people who still have the single user MSDOS mindset keep on writing software for internal company use that needs admin rights for utterly braindead reasons, simply because the developers were writing for their own "power user" environment and everyone else can go fuck themselves. One gem required admin access for the sole reason that it was putting a temporary file on the root of the "C" drive (it would also not work for people who had a different drive letter for their system drive). That was fixed, but of course the developer now thinks I'm an utter prick for insisting that his trivial VB app that should be replaced by a simple webpage has to be able to run as a normal user.
So while you may be fine, others that copy what you do without understanding the implications are not.
AMD still win by a mile on cores per dollar and performance per dollar. I can get four AMD 64 core machines for less than an Intel 128 core machine with the same speed in GHz, many more AMD machines if I'm comparing them with the cutting edge Intel offering. The vast difference in capital cost is at the point where it makes the energy consumption over the life of the equipment not especially relevant. Consumption is always going to vary a lot with workload anyway. Unless you are tragically short of computing power the gear is not going to be doing 100% on all cpus 365/24/7.
No problem then, buy it from Israel. The horse has bolted and all this thing can do is annoy.
Oh wait, you think the government in Israel is going to stop the sale? Want to buy a bridge?
A couple of things that still suck with GPUs is low memory and not a vast amount of bandwidth to get data in and out of them. That limits their use in some massively parallel operations where at first glance they look ideal.
So if they have big datasets a smaller number of cores and a large amount of shared memory could get the job done days less then swapping stuff in and out of a larger number of cores and less memory.
If I gave SGI a shitload of money I'd still have something that's only double that speed per core if I wanted something that's going to scale up into the thousands or cores. That's with Intel chips. With supercomputing all that intercommunication between the cores comes with a speed hit.
They didn't work. They just pushed RSA offshore.
It depends - SuperMicro got in deep shit for selling motherboards to an oil company in Iran but Haliburton (and others) are all over the place in the Iranian oil industry, even using the sort of hardware that SuperMicro was selling. It appears having a few layers of abstraction avoids trouble while direct selling lands you in trouble.
IBM could probably quite legally build the sort of supercomputers in question in China and then lease it to the four supercomputing institutions in question, or perhaps they may need the extra abstraction of selling time on the machines.
So what model Xeon is using 14nm?
There are pro-mainland-china parties active in taiwanese politics. Whether the core is a plant or whatever is not really relevant when the numbers are large enough to make a difference.
So it appears that your criticism is based on a very simplistic view that is not matched by the more messy reality.