This is your company CEO, presenting to you our latest business plan. As of today the following policies are in effect.
1. We will be outsourcing our daycare facilities to the local public daycare facility, to cut costs.
2. The cafeteria will be converted into a McDonald's. This will provide for you, the employee, a delicious meal at a price that we, the corporate staff, do not have to pay for.
3. We have decided to revert to a PPO, for standard health benefits are not cost efficient.
4. The continuing education program will cease to exist, due to lack of our interest.
5. All IT employees who are over the age of 35 are to be transfered to the marketing department. Your salaries are getting too high, and in order to cut costs, we must hire inexperienced, slave-waged, wet-behind-the-ears, college grads.
This should raise some excitement in our company. Due to these policies, we can continue to provide less than adequate software at an exponential price, while saving money by cutting corners..err...costs.
......#begin seriousness#.......
We are humans. We are not overhead. We are indiviuals with hopes, dreams, and loved ones. We are not liabilities.
Ask your company CEO if you can borrow his Porsche when your Corrolla breaks down. Surely he will oblige.
Why not? This sounds like just another one of those things to migrate back to the thin-client era.
Choose life. Choose some sort of groupware. Choose a low spam diet with a daily assortment of e/n junk food. Choose drkoop.com to find out what that horrible thing is growing under your arse. Choose a job. Choose another job because you were fired for too many hideous things to do on the internet, while you weren't getting any work done. Choose a family content filter. Choose e-circles, and e-room, x-drive, or some sort of ASP technology. Why would I want to choose all of that, when I have the latest 600 GB Ultra 160 SCSI drive?
Take for instance, a new idea....Yahoo Radio (pardons if it exists already).
When you visit Yahoo Radio, you have a long list of music genres, bands, albums, individual songs, suggested playlists, etc. You choose what you want to listen to, and Yahoo streams it to you. Log into "Your Yahoo", read the type of news that you have chosen to be delivered to you. Chat with your preselected Yahoo Messenger buddy list. Read your nifty Yahoo mail. Check your Yahoo auctions. Look for updates on your Yahoo club. Hell, you can even use Yahoo for a search engine.
This just seems like another one of those cute little "internet conveniences" that people will waste time with. This is why we have 30GB drives...so we can download mp3's, make our own playlists based on the content that we want.
Is there a Multics app that does this? Probably not.
It is absurd for you to criticize "us kids" for preferring GNU/Linux as an Operating System over most commercial *nixes. aamof, most of us do indeed use commercial *nixes in our workplace, and are frustrated with the licensing fees associated with said releases. We prefer Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, blah-UX, blah, etc. Please do not criticize us. As it appears, you prefer Multics...ok, that's fine.
We don't know Open Source? I believe that Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond are avid Slashdot readers. They seem to be figureheads in the Open Source community, and are probably insulted with you comments.
I believe that your post was offtopic. This person wants cost-effective medical software. Not a lesson on health care standards.
Can this e-mail be considered spam? I would assume that e-mail could not be a proper means of communication in regards to legal notices. If that were the case, can courts issue subpoenas to your e-mail. Judge to court clerk: "Oh yeah, fire off an e-mail to that unabomber guy. What's his address again? Oh yeah! unabomber@hotmail.com, that's it" If I were to be notified of copyright infringement via e-mail, I would respectfully request that I receive a written, notorized statement from the apple legal dept. Then I would ignore it.
Why shouldn't a letter sent via electronic means not enjoy the same protections as a letter sent by the post office? The USPS is a branch of the US government. AOL, Earthlink, Mindspring, and Joe Q. Hometown ISP are not. It is a federal offense for the average person to tamper with USPS items, but the USPS has the right to open packages if they contain items that the USPS prohibits (explosives, poisonous reptiles, and something else I am forgetting) if they can establish probable cause.
I started on x86 assembler, everything made sense to me then. I hear that Pascal is good for beginners. There are many questions that I have for this situation.
How long can you hold their attention?
If not for a long time, IDE's are not good. I am sure that it would be frustrating to teach a *nix IDE to a child, nevermind learning how to use a Windows IDE (not gonna happen), then teach it to the child.
What do they want to do?
How about Html? They can make their own webpage. When they start to get the hang of it, teach them some sort of cgi. You are a *nix guy, teach them bash.
Do they really want to learn how to program, or do they want to find some way to identify with daddy?
Please don't take offense to this. Perhaps they see that you code often, and think that it is a good way to bond with you. Perhaps you should try to delve into their activities.
It is now a documented fact that Lars has communication problems. Chastising the interviewer for not cleaning up the dialogue is completely trivial. Had Barbara Walters done this interview on TV, no one would question her integrity whilst Lars is swinging his heaad around and cursing. I wouldn't give Matt Lauer hell if Lars forgot to shower. It is Lars responsibility to not make an ass of himself.
I have applied for a few patents to prevent others from smelling like me. I find it very offensive and criminal. I should be the only person to produce my own body odor. It is my intellectual property.
I wonder if these people are going to replace the world's grass with astroturf. No more lawn mowing. Woo Hoo!
Honestly, it is quite pointless to attempt to stop the distribution of mp3's. We traded mp3's before napster. Why doesn't Metallica/Dr. Dre/et. al. go after the *thousands* of ftp sites. If they are so committed to ending mp3 distribution, perhaps they should camp out on the countless irc networks and watch all DCC transfers.
This is a feeble attempt to try kill a small (but significant) facet of the digital music community. My magic eight ball tells me that they will eventually fail.
This is completely internal. Its not for speed so much as for data protection, and distribution.
The database server connects to a Cisco 5509 switch via Gb ethernet. The NAS server also connects to the same switch via Gb ethernet. The Gb backbone is strictly for Database to NAS connectivity.
If you open your curtains, you are entering a legally binding contract with the sun stating that to compensate for the free illumination, you must allow people the access to see into your living space.
Perhaps you should open the living room curtain whilst being intimate with your significant other. Would it be too difficult for you to leave your opened mail on your front porch? Maybe you would like to use the restroom with the door open while at work.
Privacy is privacy no matter what the medium. I do not want a third party to know what I am downloading, any more than I want people staring into my window while I shower.
This post is protected under Copyright, DMCA, ASPCA, and has a patent pending.
Master of Napster
End of m-p-3, crumbling away I'm your source of implication Banks that pump with fear, sucking money clear Leading to corporate destruction
Find them, Net-PD More is all we need We're dedicated to How I'm suing you
Come download faster Away with Napster Our cash burns faster Away with Napster Napster
Napster of Puppets I'm pulling your strings Warping your mind and trashing your dreams Blinded by greed, just buy the CD Just call my lawyer, `cause I'll hear you scream Napster Napster Just call my lawyer `cause I'll hear you scream Napster Napster
Free music, no way. Were R-I-A-A Loss of cash becoming clearer Sound monopoly, financial misery Chop our breakfast on a mirror
Download you will see More is all we need We're dedicated to How we're suing you
Napster of Puppets I'm pulling your strings Warping your mind and trashing your dreams Blinded by greed, just buy the CD Just call my lawyer, `cause I'll hear you scream Napster Napster Just call my lawyer `cause I'll hear you scream Napster Napster
Napster, Napster, Where's the song that I've been after? Napster, Napster, You promised mp3's Laughter, Laughter, All I hear is corporate laughter Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries
It's not worth all that, stupid little spat Just a rhyme without a reason Neverending ways, drift on jury days We don't even know the reason Download you will see More is all we need We're dedicated to How we're suing you
Come download faster Away with Napster Our cash burns faster Away with Napster Napster
Napster of Puppets I'm pulling your strings Warping your mind and trashing your dreams Blinded by greed, just buy the CD Just call my lawyer, `cause I'll hear you scream Napster Napster
Slashdot is the 2779th most visited website on the internet, according to pcdataonline Check it out. Only 2736 places to go before they tie with porncity.com.
I would assume that the database itself rests on the database server, and the data files are NFS mounted from some sort of NAS server.
I do this. It works very well. The database connects to the NAS server (a Network Appliance F760) via NFS over 1000baseSX ethernet. CPU usage is offloaded to the NIC processor for accessing all of the data files. It frees up *a lot* of CPU usage. NAS servers have great hot-swap backplanes, tough as nails drives, and remarkable stability. Most vendors throw in nifty little features such as drive mirroring, integrated backup, etc.
MySQL cannot handle such features as datbase replication, and parallel server tasking. This will probably change when the linux kernel supports raw devices (2.4 from what I have heard).
I suffer from the same issue with an Oracle database.
It doesn't matter to me. Use all of my posts. I want to get sued. I download and ditribute Metallica mp3's on a daily basis. I released Microsoft trade secrets. I coded DeCSS. I threw the pie in Bill Gate's face.
What phase is your company in? Is it in its infancy, building, or production phase.
In my previous life, I stepped in as a sysadmin at an ISP that served 16,000+ customers. We had 10 technical support reps, 6 CSR's, and 4 Sysadmins. The hardware infrastructure that we had was great, but we were totally unaware that the amount of customers would almost double in a years time.
We were frantically ordering new lines, new servers, and various other new technologies (we had to learn on the fly). It was an overall frustrating experience. Four people to maintain the service for 30,000+ customers, are definitely not enough.
Currently, I am building the infrastructure for a startup e-commerce site. Starting from infancy is much easier. There are less things that can break now, so less people are needed.
Slashdot Mirror
This is your company CEO, presenting to you our latest business plan. As of today the following policies are in effect.
1. We will be outsourcing our daycare facilities to the local public daycare facility, to cut costs.
2. The cafeteria will be converted into a McDonald's. This will provide for you, the employee, a delicious meal at a price that we, the corporate staff, do not have to pay for.
3. We have decided to revert to a PPO, for standard health benefits are not cost efficient. 4. The continuing education program will cease to exist, due to lack of our interest. 5. All IT employees who are over the age of 35 are to be transfered to the marketing department. Your salaries are getting too high, and in order to cut costs, we must hire inexperienced, slave-waged, wet-behind-the-ears, college grads.
This should raise some excitement in our company. Due to these policies, we can continue to provide less than adequate software at an exponential price, while saving money by cutting corners..err...costs.
We are humans. We are not overhead. We are indiviuals with hopes, dreams, and loved ones. We are not liabilities.
Ask your company CEO if you can borrow his Porsche when your Corrolla breaks down. Surely he will oblige.
Choose life. Choose some sort of groupware. Choose a low spam diet with a daily assortment of e/n junk food. Choose drkoop.com to find out what that horrible thing is growing under your arse. Choose a job. Choose another job because you were fired for too many hideous things to do on the internet, while you weren't getting any work done. Choose a family content filter. Choose e-circles, and e-room, x-drive, or some sort of ASP technology. Why would I want to choose all of that, when I have the latest 600 GB Ultra 160 SCSI drive?
Take for instance, a new idea....Yahoo Radio (pardons if it exists already).
When you visit Yahoo Radio, you have a long list of music genres, bands, albums, individual songs, suggested playlists, etc. You choose what you want to listen to, and Yahoo streams it to you. Log into "Your Yahoo", read the type of news that you have chosen to be delivered to you. Chat with your preselected Yahoo Messenger buddy list. Read your nifty Yahoo mail. Check your Yahoo auctions. Look for updates on your Yahoo club. Hell, you can even use Yahoo for a search engine.
This just seems like another one of those cute little "internet conveniences" that people will waste time with. This is why we have 30GB drives...so we can download mp3's, make our own playlists based on the content that we want.
Doesn't anyone specialize in a specialty anymore?
It is absurd for you to criticize "us kids" for preferring GNU/Linux as an Operating System over most commercial *nixes. aamof, most of us do indeed use commercial *nixes in our workplace, and are frustrated with the licensing fees associated with said releases. We prefer Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, blah-UX, blah, etc. Please do not criticize us. As it appears, you prefer Multics...ok, that's fine.
We don't know Open Source? I believe that Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond are avid Slashdot readers. They seem to be figureheads in the Open Source community, and are probably insulted with you comments.
I believe that your post was offtopic. This person wants cost-effective medical software. Not a lesson on health care standards.
Can this e-mail be considered spam? I would assume that e-mail could not be a proper means of communication in regards to legal notices. If that were the case, can courts issue subpoenas to your e-mail. Judge to court clerk: "Oh yeah, fire off an e-mail to that unabomber guy. What's his address again? Oh yeah! unabomber@hotmail.com, that's it" If I were to be notified of copyright infringement via e-mail, I would respectfully request that I receive a written, notorized statement from the apple legal dept. Then I would ignore it.
Why shouldn't a letter sent via electronic means not enjoy the same protections as a letter sent by the post office? The USPS is a branch of the US government. AOL, Earthlink, Mindspring, and Joe Q. Hometown ISP are not. It is a federal offense for the average person to tamper with USPS items, but the USPS has the right to open packages if they contain items that the USPS prohibits (explosives, poisonous reptiles, and something else I am forgetting) if they can establish probable cause.
Heavy Metal. And now Heavy Metal 2000.
Hardcore.
I started on x86 assembler, everything made sense to me then. I hear that Pascal is good for beginners. There are many questions that I have for this situation.
How long can you hold their attention?
If not for a long time, IDE's are not good. I am sure that it would be frustrating to teach a *nix IDE to a child, nevermind learning how to use a Windows IDE (not gonna happen), then teach it to the child.
What do they want to do?
How about Html? They can make their own webpage. When they start to get the hang of it, teach them some sort of cgi. You are a *nix guy, teach them bash.
Do they really want to learn how to program, or do they want to find some way to identify with daddy?
Please don't take offense to this. Perhaps they see that you code often, and think that it is a good way to bond with you. Perhaps you should try to delve into their activities.
It is now a documented fact that Lars has communication problems. Chastising the interviewer for not cleaning up the dialogue is completely trivial. Had Barbara Walters done this interview on TV, no one would question her integrity whilst Lars is swinging his heaad around and cursing. I wouldn't give Matt Lauer hell if Lars forgot to shower. It is Lars responsibility to not make an ass of himself.
I have applied for a few patents to prevent others from smelling like me. I find it very offensive and criminal. I should be the only person to produce my own body odor. It is my intellectual property.
I wonder if these people are going to replace the world's grass with astroturf. No more lawn mowing. Woo Hoo!
Company officials also announced their intent to deliver a version of Linux optimized for NUMA servers.
This is a tad scary. If I read this correctly, IBM is going to come out with their own distro? The question is, which existing distro will they steal.
My guess is Debian, but Red Hat knows how to market. Hmmmm
I don't believe that the BigIp supports a failover nic. I know that failover is done over a DB-9 cable that connects two BigIp controllers.
They run on BSDi, with proprietary hardware drivers, but (major but) they are soon to be converting all software to RedHat.
Honestly, it is quite pointless to attempt to stop the distribution of mp3's. We traded mp3's before napster. Why doesn't Metallica/Dr. Dre/et. al. go after the *thousands* of ftp sites. If they are so committed to ending mp3 distribution, perhaps they should camp out on the countless irc networks and watch all DCC transfers.
This is a feeble attempt to try kill a small (but significant) facet of the digital music community. My magic eight ball tells me that they will eventually fail.
Looks like I will stay with Linux and Digital Unix
This is completely internal. Its not for speed so much as for data protection, and distribution.
The database server connects to a Cisco 5509 switch via Gb ethernet. The NAS server also connects to the same switch via Gb ethernet. The Gb backbone is strictly for Database to NAS connectivity.
What about virtual desktops? I need a *lot* of workspace. And don't tell me about dual headed video cards.
If you open your curtains, you are entering a legally binding contract with the sun stating that to compensate for the free illumination, you must allow people the access to see into your living space.
Perhaps you should open the living room curtain whilst being intimate with your significant other. Would it be too difficult for you to leave your opened mail on your front porch? Maybe you would like to use the restroom with the door open while at work.
Privacy is privacy no matter what the medium. I do not want a third party to know what I am downloading, any more than I want people staring into my window while I shower.
Gigabit Ethernet to fibre channel RAID...damn fast.
This post is protected under Copyright, DMCA, ASPCA, and has a patent pending.
Master of Napster
End of m-p-3, crumbling away
I'm your source of implication
Banks that pump with fear, sucking money clear
Leading to corporate destruction
Find them, Net-PD
More is all we need
We're dedicated to
How I'm suing you
Come download faster
Away with Napster
Our cash burns faster
Away with Napster
Napster
Napster of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Warping your mind and trashing your dreams
Blinded by greed, just buy the CD
Just call my lawyer, `cause I'll hear you scream
Napster
Napster
Just call my lawyer `cause I'll hear you scream
Napster
Napster
Free music, no way. Were R-I-A-A
Loss of cash becoming clearer
Sound monopoly, financial misery
Chop our breakfast on a mirror
Download you will see
More is all we need
We're dedicated to
How we're suing you
Napster of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Warping your mind and trashing your dreams
Blinded by greed, just buy the CD
Just call my lawyer, `cause I'll hear you scream
Napster
Napster
Just call my lawyer `cause I'll hear you scream
Napster
Napster
Napster, Napster, Where's the song that I've been after?
Napster, Napster, You promised mp3's
Laughter, Laughter, All I hear is corporate laughter
Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries
It's not worth all that, stupid little spat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending ways, drift on jury days
We don't even know the reason
Download you will see
More is all we need
We're dedicated to
How we're suing you
Come download faster
Away with Napster
Our cash burns faster
Away with Napster
Napster
Napster of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Warping your mind and trashing your dreams
Blinded by greed, just buy the CD
Just call my lawyer, `cause I'll hear you scream
Napster
Napster
Ha ha ha ha
Gigabit ethernet for network attached storage, which is most likely how the database server is set up. See my explanation above
Slashdot is the 2779th most visited website on the internet, according to pcdataonline
Check it out. Only 2736 places to go before they tie with porncity.com.
Of course yahoo is #1. Google is better though
I would assume that the database itself rests on the database server, and the data files are NFS mounted from some sort of NAS server.
I do this. It works very well. The database connects to the NAS server (a Network Appliance F760) via NFS over 1000baseSX ethernet. CPU usage is offloaded to the NIC processor for accessing all of the data files. It frees up *a lot* of CPU usage. NAS servers have great hot-swap backplanes, tough as nails drives, and remarkable stability. Most vendors throw in nifty little features such as drive mirroring, integrated backup, etc.
MySQL cannot handle such features as datbase replication, and parallel server tasking. This will probably change when the linux kernel supports raw devices (2.4 from what I have heard).
I suffer from the same issue with an Oracle database.
It doesn't matter to me. Use all of my posts. I want to get sued. I download and ditribute Metallica mp3's on a daily basis. I released Microsoft trade secrets. I coded DeCSS. I threw the pie in Bill Gate's face.
What phase is your company in? Is it in its infancy, building, or production phase.
In my previous life, I stepped in as a sysadmin at an ISP that served 16,000+ customers. We had 10 technical support reps, 6 CSR's, and 4 Sysadmins. The hardware infrastructure that we had was great, but we were totally unaware that the amount of customers would almost double in a years time.
We were frantically ordering new lines, new servers, and various other new technologies (we had to learn on the fly). It was an overall frustrating experience. Four people to maintain the service for 30,000+ customers, are definitely not enough.
Currently, I am building the infrastructure for a startup e-commerce site. Starting from infancy is much easier. There are less things that can break now, so less people are needed.