I think you have another step in your development as a sysadmin my friend. You sound like you're still in a bit of the I have a hammer, so these problems must be nails. Sometimes a mix of some carefully crafted scripts as well as hardware is the most elegant solution (especially when cost becomes an issue).
Honestly I never thought perl was that bad, but I actually have a pretty good grasp on regular expressions and otherwise I like the shortcuts that perl includes. It lacks the clarity of, say, a nice and well assembled shell script, but if you're making something that tips the balance between trying to make a shell script do something it's not really meant for and just using a normal language, perl is a great choice. Granted you can end up with some cryptic to look at stuff, but that's what documentation is for.
I'm a systems engineer for a fortune 500, and I spend a significant amount of time developing. Now, am I making fancy OOP code using an IDE? Nope, not really. I am however making python/perl/awk/expect/tcl/shell scripts with a heck of a lot of frequency. I don't think I could do my job effectively if I didn't.
Agreed. Several companies I have worked for have had coders who couldn't care less about the fineries of system administration. All they care about is having a nice development environment and a working svn/git where they can store their code. They couldn't care less how the infrastructure behind it works.
Why would they have to manufacture in a 3.5" format? Enterprise disks are very often 2.5" now because of the density you can get. You only use larger drives in cases where you need a larger amount of storage (>1Tb/disk). 2.5" drives have been in use for servers for at least 5 years now (I know HP started using them in the DL series during generation 5, and they're up to G8 now - can't speak for other vendors).
Even in the devices world they've missed the boat. The one device they started working on which actually got people excited was the Courier, and they canned it. THAT would have been revolutionary - I would have one right now instead of this ipad if they'd actually made it since my sole purpose for having the IPad is it's the only device I've found which can properly display complex PDF's (cisco PDF's, etc) with no issues. The courier would have expanded on the reading abilities with the ability to take notes, etc. Perfect for when you find errata to a reference book, or want to take personal notes.
No, not really. You're someone who breaks things down? That's great, I do it too for a fortune 500 company serving 40 million customers. And I sound a hell of a lot like those folks when I'm breaking open new kits we get in. I also know people like you who know everything, but are boring as hell to watch as they use spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes and multimeters to trace out circuits and see how crap works. I'd rather have someone who may know a little less, but at least is entertaining to watch.
No, not really. As someone who used to play and had well over 100 days logged, that used to be the case. These days, it's a very casual friendly game. As mentioned earlier, you can hit level 85 in a fairly low amount of time (75-100 hours) which is comparatively low considering the amount of time one can sink into other RPG's.
No one. They're most likely A) using prepaid SIMs, B) not set up on the provider's side to be allowed service from international origins. The SIM just acts as an identifier, it doesn't actually provide service. When the device registers on the provider's network, the SIM is used as an identifier to the Home Subscriber Service (HSS), which stores all of the feature information. In most cases this information will get cached in a call application server which actually provides telephony service. If a call comes in for the phone number, the subscriber's profile will show the device either not registered or as registered from international places, and drop the call. Same would happen if the device is trying to initiate a call from an international origin.
I think a bigger use for these guys would be as a source for spammers to generate legitimate phone verified email accounts, facebook accounts, twitter accounts, etc. There's been a bit of a drop off in that lately as SIM's get harder to purchase cheaply in bulk.
Agreed. The lens on the CCD most likely would be a significant expense. I'm honestly surprised they included a LI-ION battery (looks to be ~1000-1500mAh) when they could have used a few 1.5v batteries watch batteries for cheaper. Second highest expense for the unit was probably the LCD display.
You've obviously never broken down mystery technology before. It's very easy to armchair QB when you have a headline in front of you saying "TELEVISION NETWORK EMBEDS ANDROID DEVICE..." These folks didn't have that benefit. You're suffering from a commonly experienced psychological phenomenon called "hindsight bias." The fact is, in 10 minutes they took the device and were able to largely ID it. That's pretty good.
If you think you can do better, by all means open a tech website, have a better product to appeal to the masses, and steal all of their viewers away with your amazing tech savvy (since you can do it better than them). Until you prove your prowess, though, kindly STFU.
I agree. It got me to run downstairs and check the shelves of our news stand. The woman had an adorable smirk and playfully started in with, "Hmm, lookin for the fancy one! Sorry!" Ultimately it led to a fun couple minutes of conversation, a little bit of exercise, and me flipping through a magazine I've never looked at before. For a "scam" I really don't feel very scammed. In fact, I think my day is better for it.
Correct. The SIM card just identifies the profile, all of the features that the card is/isn't allowed to use are stored on the provider's side in the HSS/database server.
Correct. Since most of our vuatomers had, at most, 4 workstations (they run arounf 100-200k) that's not a huge limited. Though it does sound like they changed their structure, as I said while I still worked there (~3 years ago) the license was that it was free so long as you had a valid Windows seat.
I'd have to disagree. We used to use it on mammography workstations dealing with sets of 8 80+MB files per study with no problem. The files were regularly compiled into standard ISO's, and again, no issues. The same workstations could also be used to load JPG2000 Animation files (MR and CT scans) which sometimes contained 3-4000 images, and again, no issues (these were not lots of small images, rather several thousand full resolution images in a single file). We honestly had more issues with Nod32, plus it cost more. We ended up moving everyone off of Eset NOD32 over to MSSE because it was free with the windows license and worked just as well. Outside of work, I've regularly had several multi-gb files with no problems (including 10+GB virtual hard disk files).
With one exception - it's stubborn as a pit bull when it thinks it's found something. Several times now I've had hacktools such as revelation get flagged for being just that, hacktools. I select "ignore" and poof, the file is deleted anyway. It seems like the only way I could get it to actually ignore the file was to just X out of the pop-up. Mostly I agree with you though. PLUS the one-license per client seat policy is fantastic. It lets workstation resellers bundle it with their systems for free. Buyers get a working AV out of the box.
Because they're stifling innovation and right now that's about the only way they can be stopped. I find it funny the people expect anything other than the company with the highest worth in world history to win these cases.
Don't use md5, with a huge base of hashes you run into the possibility of a conflicting hash getting generated (it's an astranomically low chance, but it is there), sha-1 is safer.
Seriously, can't we just ship a few pallets of tonic water over? It's an effective treatment, and as a bonus healthcare workers can take some beefeater and have a lovely after-work nightcap.
Funny enough I've never actually used a GUI in red hat, namely because nearly all of the GUI tools have CLI versions (except cluster manager, which is the one I'd genuinely like to have), for example system-config-network has system-config-network-cli. And since I've only used the CLI for close to 5 years now I honestly don't know what I'd do with one other than b!tch about X taking up too much ram/cpu.
Strange, our company's environment is different. If you don't have a MS or PHD, the only way you're getting hired is if you have technical certifications since HR contractors are specifically instructed to look for them (specifically high level cisco certifications, and right now, a MCA in exchange). It may just be a climate thing then?
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I think you have another step in your development as a sysadmin my friend. You sound like you're still in a bit of the I have a hammer, so these problems must be nails. Sometimes a mix of some carefully crafted scripts as well as hardware is the most elegant solution (especially when cost becomes an issue).
Honestly I never thought perl was that bad, but I actually have a pretty good grasp on regular expressions and otherwise I like the shortcuts that perl includes. It lacks the clarity of, say, a nice and well assembled shell script, but if you're making something that tips the balance between trying to make a shell script do something it's not really meant for and just using a normal language, perl is a great choice. Granted you can end up with some cryptic to look at stuff, but that's what documentation is for.
I'm a systems engineer for a fortune 500, and I spend a significant amount of time developing. Now, am I making fancy OOP code using an IDE? Nope, not really. I am however making python/perl/awk/expect/tcl/shell scripts with a heck of a lot of frequency. I don't think I could do my job effectively if I didn't.
Agreed. Several companies I have worked for have had coders who couldn't care less about the fineries of system administration. All they care about is having a nice development environment and a working svn/git where they can store their code. They couldn't care less how the infrastructure behind it works.
Why would they have to manufacture in a 3.5" format? Enterprise disks are very often 2.5" now because of the density you can get. You only use larger drives in cases where you need a larger amount of storage (>1Tb/disk). 2.5" drives have been in use for servers for at least 5 years now (I know HP started using them in the DL series during generation 5, and they're up to G8 now - can't speak for other vendors).
Even in the devices world they've missed the boat. The one device they started working on which actually got people excited was the Courier, and they canned it. THAT would have been revolutionary - I would have one right now instead of this ipad if they'd actually made it since my sole purpose for having the IPad is it's the only device I've found which can properly display complex PDF's (cisco PDF's, etc) with no issues. The courier would have expanded on the reading abilities with the ability to take notes, etc. Perfect for when you find errata to a reference book, or want to take personal notes.
No, not really. You're someone who breaks things down? That's great, I do it too for a fortune 500 company serving 40 million customers. And I sound a hell of a lot like those folks when I'm breaking open new kits we get in. I also know people like you who know everything, but are boring as hell to watch as they use spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes and multimeters to trace out circuits and see how crap works. I'd rather have someone who may know a little less, but at least is entertaining to watch.
No, not really. As someone who used to play and had well over 100 days logged, that used to be the case. These days, it's a very casual friendly game. As mentioned earlier, you can hit level 85 in a fairly low amount of time (75-100 hours) which is comparatively low considering the amount of time one can sink into other RPG's.
Exactly - "He wasn't aware" but "the PAC supporting him was aware"... so delightfully similar, yet different.
You end up with lithium paper!
I think a bigger use for these guys would be as a source for spammers to generate legitimate phone verified email accounts, facebook accounts, twitter accounts, etc. There's been a bit of a drop off in that lately as SIM's get harder to purchase cheaply in bulk.
Agreed. The lens on the CCD most likely would be a significant expense. I'm honestly surprised they included a LI-ION battery (looks to be ~1000-1500mAh) when they could have used a few 1.5v batteries watch batteries for cheaper. Second highest expense for the unit was probably the LCD display.
If you think you can do better, by all means open a tech website, have a better product to appeal to the masses, and steal all of their viewers away with your amazing tech savvy (since you can do it better than them). Until you prove your prowess, though, kindly STFU.
I agree. It got me to run downstairs and check the shelves of our news stand. The woman had an adorable smirk and playfully started in with, "Hmm, lookin for the fancy one! Sorry!" Ultimately it led to a fun couple minutes of conversation, a little bit of exercise, and me flipping through a magazine I've never looked at before. For a "scam" I really don't feel very scammed. In fact, I think my day is better for it.
Correct. The SIM card just identifies the profile, all of the features that the card is/isn't allowed to use are stored on the provider's side in the HSS/database server.
Correct. Since most of our vuatomers had, at most, 4 workstations (they run arounf 100-200k) that's not a huge limited. Though it does sound like they changed their structure, as I said while I still worked there (~3 years ago) the license was that it was free so long as you had a valid Windows seat.
I'd have to disagree. We used to use it on mammography workstations dealing with sets of 8 80+MB files per study with no problem. The files were regularly compiled into standard ISO's, and again, no issues. The same workstations could also be used to load JPG2000 Animation files (MR and CT scans) which sometimes contained 3-4000 images, and again, no issues (these were not lots of small images, rather several thousand full resolution images in a single file). We honestly had more issues with Nod32, plus it cost more. We ended up moving everyone off of Eset NOD32 over to MSSE because it was free with the windows license and worked just as well. Outside of work, I've regularly had several multi-gb files with no problems (including 10+GB virtual hard disk files).
With one exception - it's stubborn as a pit bull when it thinks it's found something. Several times now I've had hacktools such as revelation get flagged for being just that, hacktools. I select "ignore" and poof, the file is deleted anyway. It seems like the only way I could get it to actually ignore the file was to just X out of the pop-up. Mostly I agree with you though. PLUS the one-license per client seat policy is fantastic. It lets workstation resellers bundle it with their systems for free. Buyers get a working AV out of the box.
Because they're stifling innovation and right now that's about the only way they can be stopped. I find it funny the people expect anything other than the company with the highest worth in world history to win these cases.
Don't use md5, with a huge base of hashes you run into the possibility of a conflicting hash getting generated (it's an astranomically low chance, but it is there), sha-1 is safer.
It is the reason they taste like Christmas!
Wow, I got modded down for mentioning tonic water? Apparently one of the mods has never heard of quanine.
Seriously, can't we just ship a few pallets of tonic water over? It's an effective treatment, and as a bonus healthcare workers can take some beefeater and have a lovely after-work nightcap.
Funny enough I've never actually used a GUI in red hat, namely because nearly all of the GUI tools have CLI versions (except cluster manager, which is the one I'd genuinely like to have), for example system-config-network has system-config-network-cli. And since I've only used the CLI for close to 5 years now I honestly don't know what I'd do with one other than b!tch about X taking up too much ram/cpu.
Strange, our company's environment is different. If you don't have a MS or PHD, the only way you're getting hired is if you have technical certifications since HR contractors are specifically instructed to look for them (specifically high level cisco certifications, and right now, a MCA in exchange). It may just be a climate thing then?