Yeah, I looked at the graphic.. I also tried to put in some 2GB sticks we ordered for another system and they wouldn't work. So, until Apple's verified it will work, I'm sticking with their official line.
I have Apple RAIDs too and I wouldn't waste them on Windows;)
I have 8 Xserve G5's each with 8GB. I asked Apple for 16GB and the enterprise rep I use said it's not supported. I don't know what that graphic is that you have but the real story is try to order it like that. You can't.
In eight rack units I could fit what, 16 of these critters. So I get 16 1.4GHz G4 processors for about US$9,600
My cluster of eight xserve g5s (16 cpu) cost me about $35,000 and takes up 8 rack units.
Now my question is this... what is the real world performance difference between 16 1.4 GHz G4 processors versus 16 2GHz G5 processors and does the $25,000 difference make up that gap? Then, if you figure the cost of double the power cords, ethernet cabling and administration does it still?
I use PHP more than Perl but less than shell... I find that I can only remember and remain competent in a few languages at any one time so I necessarily limit myself to PHP and shell for almost everything.
PHP is nice because it works in both web and CLI settings and it's no where near as obscure as perl can be... never really cared for perl. I prefer shell and to be honest over the last 10 years, I've never really encountered any traditional administrative problem that couldn't be done with a shell script more quickly and more portably (is that a word?).
I actually wrote a tool that parcels off image processing between multiple systems using php where I work, sort of a poor man's parallel tasking, and then I rewrote it in shell.... much more portable that way and much more readable too.
I'm using a mix of Apple gear, Xserves and XRAID, and so I guess you know where those come from. I also use Netapp gear for storage and Dell servers, mostly 2650 and 1750 models.
I had a few whitebox systems left last year but I have got them all decommissioned and replaced with Dell gear. The reason? reliability AND support.
I believe the responses of these people only serve to prove that it is possible to be over educated, and that crack should be legal and mandatory for some people.
We use Vintela's VAS authentication product for active directory integration, and although it isn't free, it is by far the easiest thing to configure. You can completely manage user accounts from within the Users and Computers administrative tool with it and installation of the software can be as easy as an rpm command.
I know there are lots of free software bigots on this site and you can find lots of sites purporting to have easy configuration instructions for kerberos/AD set up, but I don't care. This product works, period. And it does it in an easy manner and it does it flawlessly, at least in our environment, which is a true 24x7 environment where uptime and accessibility matters -- a hospital.
If we weren't an edu and got special pricing on RHEL3, even though I have my RHCE for both 9 and EL, I would have recommended moving to another distribution.
I have the 659 Harmony and I love it. I have programmed it to control literally every device in our home that uses IR. It works flawlessly with our three televisions, my 5 year old Technics stereo gear, the different DVD players, and blah, blah, blah.
Neato stuff is that I also have it programmed to control my ceiling fans.
Something that is nice is that it is activity based so I press the Watch Tv button to turn the TV, Stereo, HDTV receiver on and set the Tv input to DVI. For a movie, press the Watch Movie button and it turns the right components on plus changes the Tv input to Component 2. You can still control devices by themselves if you want to.
The thing is programmed from a web interface and a small program gets downloaded and installed into the remote. This can take some getting used to.
I looked at the pronto and the sony remotes and ultimately, I chose the harmony because i didn't want to have to work hard at it. I'd make the same choice today. Only thing I would recommend is to buy two good sets of rechargable batteries because it will use them.
I work at a hospital, not for profit though, and more specifically, I provide I.T. support for the research labs at the hospital. We are affiliated with two large state institutions as well. Previously I worked at a LARGE telco named Sprint.
My experience has been that:
Pay cut was 20k per year but I'm still well within national average for what I do
Politics didn't go up in level but the quality of the politics changed. Definitely see Ph.Ds and postdoc students being on or near the top of the food chain here, but medical doctors, especially those with doctorates too, are next in line to god.
Flexibility kicks butt. Work hour boundaries are fuzzy at best and barring the occassional week I am on call, work stays at work.
Purchasing stuff is very budget cycle dependent but with proper justification I can usually get what I need. A bonus is that researchers are always writing grants and most of the work they do tpyically requires some hardware investment or augmentation.
I have an office with a lockable door. No windows but I have an office. I never had one at Sprint so my work quarters are cool.
My parking is free, although offsite. The hospital has regular shuttle bus service that runs every 10 or 15 minutes. I can occassionally park in the onsight garage as well.
Benefits are better than most. I earn a month of PTO and about the same in sick days; both can carry over. No holidays though - the downside of a hospital, but the upside is that say I don't celebrate normal christian holidays, then I can use PTO for the ones I do want off. A wash either way.
Education/tuition reimbursment, while not as good as a university, is still pretty good and even required somewhat.
Okay, that's my experience. I wouldn't go back to profit driven america unless I had to. And in that case, I'd seriously consider changing careers.
Now my wife on the other hand, she teaches at a college. Her experience, in summary is, enjoys what she does, is totally underappreciated by tenured staff, and you have to take the good students with the relatively abundant bad students. FWIW, she's heading back to grad school so she's leaving that job because the negatives outweighed the positives.
If 'climate is the "average" of weather', and you cannot accurately predict the weather and therefore determine an accurate average, how can you hope to accurately predict climate change?
Everyone can remeber watching the weather forecast right? How often are they correct more than a two or three days out? Now how often are they correct more than 10 days out?
I bet if you were to ask 10,000 people whether they believe their local weather forecast, you'd get a majority of people that say not past two or three days out.
So, I ask.... why should I believe any forecast that attempts to predict what will happen years in the future on a global scale? I shouldn't and no one should.
Ignore the roll your own crap.
Your job and your employer's lifeblood depends upon this information. If it didn't then there'd be no reason to back it up or consider disaster recovery or business continuance.
My suggesting is to go buy two Netapp filers, cheap R200 or similar SATA devices. If you really are a non-profit then you can probably get two 8TB filers for 300k or so. If that's too much look at smaller units. Then mirror them across WAN links. Configure them as RAID5 volumes with a couple of hot spares and turn on autosupport. NetApp will know of any problems before you do.
You get all the marbles that way: incredible reliability, easy management, single-file user recovery of files through read-only snapshots, total data redundancy both on site and off site, and the BEST service and support of any vendor in the market for any device.
I suggest you go read up on the Data OnTap operating system and the filers themselves. Then talk to more people that administer these things. You WILL be impressed.
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Yeah, I looked at the graphic.. I also tried to put in some 2GB sticks we ordered for another system and they wouldn't work. So, until Apple's verified it will work, I'm sticking with their official line. I have Apple RAIDs too and I wouldn't waste them on Windows ;)
Uhh, no they don't. 8GB max..
I have 8 Xserve G5's each with 8GB. I asked Apple for 16GB and the enterprise rep I use said it's not supported. I don't know what that graphic is that you have but the real story is try to order it like that. You can't.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/specs.html
In eight rack units I could fit what, 16 of these critters. So I get 16 1.4GHz G4 processors for about US$9,600 My cluster of eight xserve g5s (16 cpu) cost me about $35,000 and takes up 8 rack units. Now my question is this... what is the real world performance difference between 16 1.4 GHz G4 processors versus 16 2GHz G5 processors and does the $25,000 difference make up that gap? Then, if you figure the cost of double the power cords, ethernet cabling and administration does it still?
PHP is nice because it works in both web and CLI settings and it's no where near as obscure as perl can be... never really cared for perl. I prefer shell and to be honest over the last 10 years, I've never really encountered any traditional administrative problem that couldn't be done with a shell script more quickly and more portably (is that a word?).
I actually wrote a tool that parcels off image processing between multiple systems using php where I work, sort of a poor man's parallel tasking, and then I rewrote it in shell.... much more portable that way and much more readable too.
I'm using a mix of Apple gear, Xserves and XRAID, and so I guess you know where those come from. I also use Netapp gear for storage and Dell servers, mostly 2650 and 1750 models. I had a few whitebox systems left last year but I have got them all decommissioned and replaced with Dell gear. The reason? reliability AND support.
Yeah, because Europe is much more "free". Go be a troll somewhere else.
I believe the responses of these people only serve to prove that it is possible to be over educated, and that crack should be legal and mandatory for some people.
I know there are lots of free software bigots on this site and you can find lots of sites purporting to have easy configuration instructions for kerberos/AD set up, but I don't care. This product works, period. And it does it in an easy manner and it does it flawlessly, at least in our environment, which is a true 24x7 environment where uptime and accessibility matters -- a hospital.
100% agree. I only wish that I, as a US citizen, could get a work visa and move to Europe as easily as Europeans can come here!
If we weren't an edu and got special pricing on RHEL3, even though I have my RHCE for both 9 and EL, I would have recommended moving to another distribution.
I have the 659 Harmony and I love it. I have programmed it to control literally every device in our home that uses IR. It works flawlessly with our three televisions, my 5 year old Technics stereo gear, the different DVD players, and blah, blah, blah.
Neato stuff is that I also have it programmed to control my ceiling fans.
Something that is nice is that it is activity based so I press the Watch Tv button to turn the TV, Stereo, HDTV receiver on and set the Tv input to DVI. For a movie, press the Watch Movie button and it turns the right components on plus changes the Tv input to Component 2. You can still control devices by themselves if you want to.
The thing is programmed from a web interface and a small program gets downloaded and installed into the remote. This can take some getting used to.
I looked at the pronto and the sony remotes and ultimately, I chose the harmony because i didn't want to have to work hard at it. I'd make the same choice today. Only thing I would recommend is to buy two good sets of rechargable batteries because it will use them.
I work at a hospital, not for profit though, and more specifically, I provide I.T. support for the research labs at the hospital. We are affiliated with two large state institutions as well. Previously I worked at a LARGE telco named Sprint. My experience has been that: Pay cut was 20k per year but I'm still well within national average for what I do Politics didn't go up in level but the quality of the politics changed. Definitely see Ph.Ds and postdoc students being on or near the top of the food chain here, but medical doctors, especially those with doctorates too, are next in line to god. Flexibility kicks butt. Work hour boundaries are fuzzy at best and barring the occassional week I am on call, work stays at work. Purchasing stuff is very budget cycle dependent but with proper justification I can usually get what I need. A bonus is that researchers are always writing grants and most of the work they do tpyically requires some hardware investment or augmentation. I have an office with a lockable door. No windows but I have an office. I never had one at Sprint so my work quarters are cool. My parking is free, although offsite. The hospital has regular shuttle bus service that runs every 10 or 15 minutes. I can occassionally park in the onsight garage as well. Benefits are better than most. I earn a month of PTO and about the same in sick days; both can carry over. No holidays though - the downside of a hospital, but the upside is that say I don't celebrate normal christian holidays, then I can use PTO for the ones I do want off. A wash either way. Education/tuition reimbursment, while not as good as a university, is still pretty good and even required somewhat. Okay, that's my experience. I wouldn't go back to profit driven america unless I had to. And in that case, I'd seriously consider changing careers. Now my wife on the other hand, she teaches at a college. Her experience, in summary is, enjoys what she does, is totally underappreciated by tenured staff, and you have to take the good students with the relatively abundant bad students. FWIW, she's heading back to grad school so she's leaving that job because the negatives outweighed the positives.
Since your the one who seems to think there are logical fallacies in the question, why don't you start?
If 'climate is the "average" of weather', and you cannot accurately predict the weather and therefore determine an accurate average, how can you hope to accurately predict climate change?
Everyone can remeber watching the weather forecast right? How often are they correct more than a two or three days out? Now how often are they correct more than 10 days out? I bet if you were to ask 10,000 people whether they believe their local weather forecast, you'd get a majority of people that say not past two or three days out. So, I ask.... why should I believe any forecast that attempts to predict what will happen years in the future on a global scale? I shouldn't and no one should.
Ignore the roll your own crap. Your job and your employer's lifeblood depends upon this information. If it didn't then there'd be no reason to back it up or consider disaster recovery or business continuance. My suggesting is to go buy two Netapp filers, cheap R200 or similar SATA devices. If you really are a non-profit then you can probably get two 8TB filers for 300k or so. If that's too much look at smaller units. Then mirror them across WAN links. Configure them as RAID5 volumes with a couple of hot spares and turn on autosupport. NetApp will know of any problems before you do. You get all the marbles that way: incredible reliability, easy management, single-file user recovery of files through read-only snapshots, total data redundancy both on site and off site, and the BEST service and support of any vendor in the market for any device. I suggest you go read up on the Data OnTap operating system and the filers themselves. Then talk to more people that administer these things. You WILL be impressed.