No matter whatever you say they are going down. If they don't go I will put my effort to see that Sun is out of business.
That being said--why I am so pissed ?
There is one thing you can never do and get away in Enterprise computing--lie to your customer.
This is back in 1997/1998 when MSFT was not considered a enterprise level system. So we were happy running the latest E3500 and 4500 systems. Then one day the Memory problem started taking place. If there is any Sun hardware admins there they will probly remember the "J3200" error in the syslog just before the system crash.
Sun did not tell us that was a memory problem and took us through painful route of upgrading/patching/replacing components etc. . We trusted Sun and went with that.
Then I have found out they were going to major customers and signing out some kind of NDA where they will fix their server only at a condition the customer can not tell that to anyone.
So, I guess the 1.5M budget we had for Sun gear was not enough for Sun. After we found out ( BTW the sales guy's name was "Steve Introcaso" -- normally works in North East Division--one smooth talker, just hope that he is not in your account ) what was going on we called Sun and they again denied about it.
My job was on the line since I was the architect of the Stock Market Data Processing System. I have finally convinced our management with proper value proposition to start the migration from Sun to Linux since it was not possible for me to "trust" Sun anymore and IBM/HP was too much effor to port the systems.
It took over 5 years to get rid of Sun--but I am glad I did it.
Whatever you do--don't lie when you are dealing with a company's lifeline systems and who buys >1M worth of gears from you every year.
And not to mention about the Java BS they did... but that's for another day.
I wish you work for me and write my program documentations....
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If you work on a financial Market data company all data feed related projects will end on-time. This is an interesting field where the deadline is set by the Stock Exchanges all over the world, so programmers tend to be very sharp and practical.
However, in my experience, writing code is about 20-30% of a project, 30% or more on RFP/Contracts/legal/Capital allocation stuff, 40% installation, hardware, comms lines etc. etc.
But end of the day, we in the financial market data business, have to deliver things on time--not before, not after.
And, yes we have been using programmers from all differnet places on the same project to take advantage of the local language/environment and the time difference.
I admit that most of my programmers don't last long...
Whether you agree or not but from my experience with Minivans are not good.
They are driven by people who are very distracted with kids in the back and cellphone talking. This is very common in NY/CT/NJ area.
I am collecting data points about this and will share.
My criteria for bad driving is just a simple one.
"Turn on your blinker before changing lanes or turns"
I am truely sorry and mad at the same time about this.
*** my other data collection project is to find if there is truth to the general observation that most of the road construction work happnes within walking distance ( 1 mile) of the food/rest area.
I was thinking what would it take to have an office application which is nasty "statically linked C program". Yes there will be a huge load but I am ready to purchase more ram to load it in the memory.
I can't take this DLL hell anymore. This one will not have any installation. just copy the binary on your desktop double click and it runs.
Better if I can boot with it and my PC runs office. I can tell you lot of people would love that. We need no "operating system"... we need no "device driver" just give us an office thingee which runs straight on the PC hardware.
I guess this is just an outburst of living in DLL hell and infinite world of updtes.
I managed to pull 970 MBits with this switch. I am still trying to get more speed but I guess I am getting trouble with PCI bus/INTR at this level.
SMC switch and SMC cards are up to the mark. One thing I could not do is get windows machine go any faster than 180MBits on File copy from a Samba machine.
Did anyone have a Samba benchmark of copying a 2GB file where you are copying from samba server to the windows machine?
First time I actually miss a Sci-Fi series. I am pretty sure that SciFi channel now-a-days all care about the ghosts and reality show ( I HATE them). I don't whether JMS went out due to too much liberal view point of expressed in the news group.
Anyway, this moves me to other things, like spending more time outside--I guess I should thank SciFi for that for turning me away from the TV for an hour a week
One thing I did not understand is how come the 3MB cache is helping with big database query ? I thought that will thrash the cache and there will be not much performance gain if you are working with bigger code/data set. Also, for the four CPU opteron, do they have hyper transport going from every cpu to every cpu ? Is it like a mesh or like a ring where every cpu has only two connections to it's next ones.
Another thing I did not get is how linux is handling ( not handling ) the local memory to the CPU. This thing looks like a mini-numa type system. Does linux actually try to keep the data in the RAM and process it with the cpu it is connected to ? how does this really work ?
So, now that we have introduced the idea of bugs in the electrical power system, soon, this industry will do better
We, electrical engineers, screwed ourselves by making system run well for years, unlike, the computer science and electronics cousins who still sell bunch of wires connected to a PCB version of circuitboard with SMPS sitting one inch from the CPU and call it state of the art computer. Things go down, gets fixed and people get lot of respect for screwing it up in the first place.
One outage in a decade--and you are bitching ! shame on you !
Why don't you lead the executives into talking about how they want to re-shape the company. If you can pull this right one-to-one-kiss-your-as-style, you might see some major benefits. Don't talk--listen more. Look for body languages when you get physicall too close to the Exec. And DRESS WELL. No kidding--go business casual even if you were told to come in jeans.
a) when someone talks company information comes out--specially after some drinks. We are all human after all.
b) their ego will be satisfied since they can tell what the "vision" is
c) you will avoid the real quesions like who and what is fucking up the workplace
But anyway, consider this to be a good time for resume update.
He and his cabinet need something to divert people's attention.
So, mars / moon is in the menu, since catching Laden and fixing the economy is not the first priority...
Well... whatever works! Personally I believe it would been better for economy ( not eco friendly ) to say take a "Super Highway" project where hundreds of people will get job thru Cheny's company and we can drive on those highway at 200 miles / hour.
Yes, car design will have to be re-thought and so is the whole thing associated with it, like we will see "super gas", "super oil" etc. etc. and "super highwaay capable" cars... man that will be a dream.
Look, I know speed kills but I would rather die at driving 200 miles/hr than driving at 40 miles/hour. You die anyway... just go with a better bang!
I guess I am crazy geek in here with no life posting at slashdot at midnight! Sure there are people in the right places are doing the right thing to make my life better...
Yes,
Don'y deny it. We, in our life time will see US economic power diminished and treated as a country with "great ideas and smart people" but no capability to do anything -- oops I thought that's what was said about India about 10 year's back.
All the harrasement Indian IT professionals faced from US Govt ( NOT from US people - US Govt. and US People come from two different planet it seems ) during legit business visit with endless things like H1, B1, L1 all the crap where terrorist country like Pakistan were sending all the talibans in visitor visa indicates the US Govt have started loosing focus on what's good for the common people.
... Whatever, Point is US is going down slowly but surely and the common people got the wrong end of the stick !
Like why fix Iraq when you can't fix roads in NY ?? Charity begins at home - I thought !
We humans like to talk--not read or write but just talk ( not like to listen either...).
Cellphones are much much better better than PDAs since they are already in peoples pocket and PDAs are not ! So, who do you think is going to win. Phones will add more and more features and drive the PDA out.
My prediction is voice SMS type services will replace the traditional SMS a lot. Picture SMS is just gizmo. Soon that will be a nice to have feature.
But, must haves are
1. clear sound
2. quick response of the buttons
3. speaker phone with echo cancellation etc.
4. some kind of voice commands to set calender entries
5. voice reminder about meetings
6. small calculator
7. auto button lock
8. No java--please don't crash my phone...
9. GPS
10. Proximity applications, like you know how far your friend is from you by sending your GPS co-ordinates, and how to reach there
I am very happy with the phone I have. It does not have all these features but close.
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I know this is offtopic but probably this is the best one I saw in recen times.
No matter whatever you say they are going down. If they don't go I will put my effort to see that Sun is out of business.
That being said--why I am so pissed ?
There is one thing you can never do and get away in Enterprise computing--lie to your customer.
This is back in 1997/1998 when MSFT was not considered a enterprise level system. So we were happy running the latest E3500 and 4500 systems. Then one day the Memory problem started taking place. If there is any Sun hardware admins there they will probly remember the "J3200" error in the syslog just before the system crash.
Sun did not tell us that was a memory problem and took us through painful route of upgrading/patching/replacing components etc. . We trusted Sun and went with that.
Then I have found out they were going to major customers and signing out some kind of NDA where they will fix their server only at a condition the customer can not tell that to anyone.
So, I guess the 1.5M budget we had for Sun gear was not enough for Sun. After we found out ( BTW the sales guy's name was "Steve Introcaso" -- normally works in North East Division--one smooth talker, just hope that he is not in your account ) what was going on we called Sun and they again denied about it.
My job was on the line since I was the architect of the Stock Market Data Processing System. I have finally convinced our management with proper value proposition to start the migration from Sun to Linux since it was not possible for me to "trust" Sun anymore and IBM/HP was too much effor to port the systems.
It took over 5 years to get rid of Sun--but I am glad I did it.
Whatever you do--don't lie when you are dealing with a company's lifeline systems and who buys >1M worth of gears from you every year.
And not to mention about the Java BS they did ... but that's for another day.
Then re-read it and all the IEEEEEEEE things just made me tired. I need some air ...
I wish you work for me and write my program documentations ....
However, in my experience, writing code is about 20-30% of a project, 30% or more on RFP/Contracts/legal/Capital allocation stuff, 40% installation, hardware, comms lines etc. etc.
But end of the day, we in the financial market data business, have to deliver things on time--not before, not after.
And, yes we have been using programmers from all differnet places on the same project to take advantage of the local language/environment and the time difference.
I admit that most of my programmers don't last long ...
They are driven by people who are very distracted with kids in the back and cellphone talking. This is very common in NY/CT/NJ area.
I am collecting data points about this and will share.
My criteria for bad driving is just a simple one.
"Turn on your blinker before changing lanes or turns"
I am truely sorry and mad at the same time about this.
*** my other data collection project is to find if there is truth to the general observation that most of the road construction work happnes within walking distance ( 1 mile) of the food/rest area.
This is great ! If DELL is putting their weight behind that will be a major policy shift for *many* corporations.
Performance: Naked drive with linux raid #1 Megaraid/3ware - both slower
I don't know why but how come linux with naked drives using software raid *always* comes in the top with performance. May be you guys can tell me.
Am i the only one who got this joke ? mod this guy up.
I was thinking what would it take to have an office application which is nasty "statically linked C program". Yes there will be a huge load but I am ready to purchase more ram to load it in the memory.
I can't take this DLL hell anymore. This one will not have any installation. just copy the binary on your desktop double click and it runs.
Better if I can boot with it and my PC runs office. I can tell you lot of people would love that. We need no "operating system" ... we need no "device driver" just give us an office thingee which runs straight on the PC hardware.
I guess this is just an outburst of living in DLL hell and infinite world of updtes.
SMC switch and SMC cards are up to the mark. One thing I could not do is get windows machine go any faster than 180MBits on File copy from a Samba machine.
Did anyone have a Samba benchmark of copying a 2GB file where you are copying from samba server to the windows machine?
First time I actually miss a Sci-Fi series. I am pretty sure that SciFi channel now-a-days all care about the ghosts and reality show ( I HATE them). I don't whether JMS went out due to too much liberal view point of expressed in the news group. Anyway, this moves me to other things, like spending more time outside--I guess I should thank SciFi for that for turning me away from the TV for an hour a week
Let me share some thoughts
1. PHBs dont' give a damm about linux/windows/apple.
2. PHBs tend to have little more going through their head like getting the payroll running for the next month which pays for your cool toys
3. PHBs understand very well how to play with your psychology and depress you or make you happy like a little puppet.
So, think twice.
One thing I did not understand is how come the 3MB cache is helping with big database query ? I thought that will thrash the cache and there will be not much performance gain if you are working with bigger code/data set. Also, for the four CPU opteron, do they have hyper transport going from every cpu to every cpu ? Is it like a mesh or like a ring where every cpu has only two connections to it's next ones.
Another thing I did not get is how linux is handling ( not handling ) the local memory to the CPU. This thing looks like a mini-numa type system. Does linux actually try to keep the data in the RAM and process it with the cpu it is connected to ? how does this really work ?
May be you guys can help clear my ideas .
We, electrical engineers, screwed ourselves by making system run well for years, unlike, the computer science and electronics cousins who still sell bunch of wires connected to a PCB version of circuitboard with SMPS sitting one inch from the CPU and call it state of the art computer. Things go down, gets fixed and people get lot of respect for screwing it up in the first place.
One outage in a decade--and you are bitching ! shame on you !
a)Indian's most of the time well respect the people with very white skins/black skins.
b)Going to USA was a great deal but not anymore since everybody's brother or sister visited US by now.
c)In general, technically they think Indian's are better at math and science but worse at smartness and games etc.
d) Baseball and football are two stupid games - don't come close the Cricket and Soccer
e) mighty pissed at US backing Pakistan in war-on-terror
g) Religion conversion is an evil thing done by people from the west
g)This is most important--if money to be made by doing business with US, then, you are god and the best friend.
I guess this is just one opinion out of 10000 etc. but this is a start.
So, in you lifetime you will be seeing your PHB looking for job.
a) when someone talks company information comes out--specially after some drinks. We are all human after all.
b) their ego will be satisfied since they can tell what the "vision" is
c) you will avoid the real quesions like who and what is fucking up the workplace
But anyway, consider this to be a good time for resume update.
Have you seen the movie "office space" ? If not rent it and see it before going there.
Good one! well ... then I guess Bin Laden is sure NOT in mars since Bush wants to go there!
So, mars / moon is in the menu, since catching Laden and fixing the economy is not the first priority ...
Well ... whatever works! Personally I believe it would been better for economy ( not eco friendly ) to say take a "Super Highway" project where hundreds of people will get job thru Cheny's company and we can drive on those highway at 200 miles / hour.
Yes, car design will have to be re-thought and so is the whole thing associated with it, like we will see "super gas", "super oil" etc. etc. and "super highwaay capable" cars ... man that will be a dream.
Look, I know speed kills but I would rather die at driving 200 miles/hr than driving at 40 miles/hour. You die anyway ... just go with a better bang!
I guess I am crazy geek in here with no life posting at slashdot at midnight! Sure there are people in the right places are doing the right thing to make my life better...
or, they just don't give a $@##@!
All the harrasement Indian IT professionals faced from US Govt ( NOT from US people - US Govt. and US People come from two different planet it seems ) during legit business visit with endless things like H1, B1, L1 all the crap where terrorist country like Pakistan were sending all the talibans in visitor visa indicates the US Govt have started loosing focus on what's good for the common people.
Like why fix Iraq when you can't fix roads in NY ?? Charity begins at home - I thought !
Did you guys realize that India is happen to be surrounded by non-democratic or poor or terrorist countries
a) Burma (Non-elected Govt.)
b) Bangladesh (Non-elected Govt. sometimes)
c) China (Non-elected Govt.)
d) Pakistan (Non-elected Govt, Terrorist Country)
Other people are kind of ok but not a strong democracy. e) Shri Lanka (Unstable Govt.)
f) Nepal (Weak Govt.)
g) Bhutan (Weak Govt.)
So, quicker India gets better ammo and better security in it's borders it is probably the best thing for that region.
Self-defence can motivate you to do the impossible.
I know, I know I should come up with better jokes ...
2. quick response of the buttons
3. speaker phone with echo cancellation etc.
4. some kind of voice commands to set calender entries
5. voice reminder about meetings
6. small calculator
7. auto button lock
8. No java--please don't crash my phone ...
9. GPS
10. Proximity applications, like you know how far your friend is from you by sending your GPS co-ordinates, and how to reach there
I am very happy with the phone I have. It does not have all these features but close.