IF I keep up the attitude of working as a partner, assuming that 'we' are managing to build against unseen forces. I am able to maintain a much more positive take away from my job.
IF however I instead find my self saying things like 'My god can't those idiots do anything right." I'll manage to kill not only my job performance, but my self and the things I value (Wife, kid etc.)
See yourself as a builder and you won't tear yourself apart. See yourself as a destroyer and you will be one at every level of your life.
Sorry but if you are serious your steps should be.
1. Call a recycler and dump the drives. smaller than 200GB (keep the largest ones to give out to other employees for their home systems)
2. Buy 2 or 3 1TB HDD's
3. Install them in a box.
4. Done.
Start with the shear cost the additional equipment, then add in the cost of the electricity to run the drives and their controller. then add in the cost of HVAC to keep the room they are in cool. Will by far exceed the cost of 2 or 3 1TB drives. Not to mention the cost of your time to build, deploy and maintain.
In short. Nothing you can do with these drives will save your employer money. However proper recycling might bring in a buck or two. Not to mention the good will when you hand the largest drives to fellow employees to use at home.
During the 80's and early 90's I was good for 100.oo bucks a week (US) in music. Had a huge library before the fire. Then the RIAA came along and said I was a crook for buying all that music from them. Now if it isn't on the radio I don't hear it. Sorry RIAA. (OK I've bought 2 albums one from NIN and one from RadioHead. Online Legit and yes I did pay for both of them.)
You have seemingly missed a basic tenet of business for the last 2 millennium. Give away the infinite and sell the scarce. Ideas are infinite. The wherewithal to apply them is scarce. You can't sell an idea only it's application.
No idea you have is unique. How many times have you said. "Hey I thought of that too. Why did they get rich and not me." The answer is simple. They sold the scarce (work and drive) and gave away the idea. You held on to the idea and let someone else do the work.
( old laptops + Linux ) * Youth Organization = Tax deduction + warm fuzzy.
In other words. Get the ones you can working with Linux. Donate them to a Boys/Girls club rec center etc, and collect the deduction.
The rest go to your local e-waste center.
having gnome as the only wm is a lot like having george.... no wait he is president. oh well you get my point. stop being so freaking naive that the look of the desktop is how you determine quality of os.
Speed for what? CPU.. honestly I could suffer a 50% cut in CPU on my servers and never know it. Disk I/O. Already optimized for that, Ram preload saves me there. Network I/O I run my network at about 60% capacity peak, 20% point median. So what would I be sacrificing by turning down all the systems not needed to handle the current load? If one of my systems is handling 100 users without fail or lag, why in heavens name would I believe that 10 systems running 10 users each would make the user experience any better?
That's (the 100 users) at 2am... then comes 8am when my load peeks (and holds) and I'm suddenly handling 20k users and have 10 systems running. If I could cycle down 9 of them at 2am and have them come online automatically by 8am... I'd love it.
Course this also begs me to ask. Which one is my minimum, the 2am need, or the 8am need?
1. Get a lock for your front door... and then use it.
2. Don't leave your laptops out in the open so people see them.
3. Don't walk more than an arms length away from your laptop.
4. Don't forget to buy insurance (not a lojack real insurance.) for theft, that includes your laptop.
5. When renting an apartment/buying a house. Do some research on types of crimes in the area.
6. Don't leave your laptop on the seat of your car.
7. get a kensington lock and use it.
8. get your head out of your rear, repository and think about what is going on around you.
Don't think this works? I've never had a laptop stolen and I've owned a number of them. Even on that one occasion where my car got broken into (laptop in the trunk). Bastard got my change in the cupholder though... god knows I miss that 50 cents in pennies.:)
Well if you take the M$ viewpoint of "Mainframe on your desk" then yes it is relatively underpowered. You don't have a single system that can do everything you ever, maybe, might, possibly, want to do. BUT! if you look at it from the viewpoint of Unix where you have many systems doing what they do well. It's a great box. Note: This is not an OS issue but rather a design viewpoint.
One of the things I've noticed. On my n800 from Nokia (ARM 400mhz) and my laptop (2.xghz Pentium duo)... I read my e-mail at about the same speed. Granted it dowloads faster on the laptop. (seconds of difference) but it reads at the same speed.
Depsite that fact that Doom has been ported to the n800 I wouldn't even for a moment consider it for gaming, photo editing, large number crunching etc. The lightweight boxes are only underpowered if they can't do what they are designed to do. If they can, then they aren't underpowered.
Basically the companies have been creating "Everything Everyone might need" boxes and the consumer is opting for "Everthing I need" boxes instead or, in addition, to to all in ones.
I worked with John during this event and can attest to the milestone in real time video this event was. While watching the simulcast from Korea (where I was working for our companies partner), one of the gentlemen in the room with me made a statement about seeing Sir Arthur Clarke on the large movie screen overlooking the panel. He said "Wow he's as large as life".
Somehow in making the mistake in English, this gentleman was extremely accurate.
Decades of young engineers and scientist learned to ask "what if" Now at last you can debate with Asimov and Heinlein, face to face, as to who influenced science the most.
They think in abstracts rather than think by reacting to stimuli. D&D is more enjoyable to most Linux Geeks I know because it requires the same type of thought. Sokoban is another game a lot of Linux geeks I know enjoy. The way you think affects not only what you do but what you enjoy.
The damn thing runs as root. With a Unix heart and privilege separation part and parcel, they ignored it and pulled a Lindows. Running everything as root. The fact that it only got, so called jail broken phones is a ruse. Once something real goes live... all bets are off.
Why does it always have to be my an idiot, Why can't it for once be someone else's an idiot. I keep my an idiot clean, it doesn't talk out of turn or make rude noises. But everyone just likes to pick on my an idiot.
Submitter says a D/L of Batman Forever would take 4 minutes. Wrong. Comcast blocks peer to peer if you want the movie you'll have to get it at the library at 56.6.
But as a Sr. Admin Iget a little tired of the assumption by so many that "If you don't write the code you are talentless" Has any one cosidered the idea that there comes a time when adding code no longer improves the product much. Some of these products really are about as big as they can get without imploding, there may only be 25 contribs, but how many does something as mature as Tomcat need?
A lot of the new talent will be of a different kind. In the 70's Computer Engineering was 80% theory/math and 10% language and protocols. Now it's exactly the opposite. Are they less talented, no just differently enabled.
The talent shortage, or rather the knowledge shortage is in HR It's time to learn what is really needed and stop boiler plating your job adverts. You're losing a lot of talent because of inaccurate or often inane job adds (Wanted: entry level linux admin to manage 30 windows desktops.)
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My only diff is that first I like to try to motivate from within. 99.99% of the time simple education does work. Some may not think that advocation of adherence to law is a trollable offense. I disagree. But yes. Pushing them back from the edge works best as an encouraging thing.
Well I guess with a poorly configured Windows system where everything has to be locally installed and stored yes, 32G might be small. 32 might be too small to store a blue ton of stuff like every movie since 1940 or 30000 mp3's. In a full network enabled OS/setup where you can access and manipulate remote programs and data 32G is more than enough. What is needed is a look at networked data as apposed to pack ratted crap storage.
Likeing something doesn't justify violation of the law. A lot of people are fans of dog fighting and football. Didn't keep one the games best out of a ton of trouble did it? IE was the #1 browser when the were taken to the mat for patent violations. Popularity wasn't even a factor in that decision.
The GPL is clear, case law supports it. Asus isn't exempt by virtue of country of origin either, as the GPL has been upheld in courts around the world. Xandros has always treaded the edge of the rules, occasionally needing a reminder of who owns the code.
Unfortunately this is normal. As much as I love my n800/770 I do remember that early on Nokia needed a very firm reminder (more so than they may admit) that they had to release kernel source of the actual kernel not just the source they started from.
Once they (Asus) fall in line, the community can then get behind them and make that rock really roll!
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IF I keep up the attitude of working as a partner, assuming that 'we' are managing to build against unseen forces. I am able to maintain a much more positive take away from my job.
IF however I instead find my self saying things like 'My god can't those idiots do anything right." I'll manage to kill not only my job performance, but my self and the things I value (Wife, kid etc.)
See yourself as a builder and you won't tear yourself apart. See yourself as a destroyer and you will be one at every level of your life.
Sorry but if you are serious your steps should be.
1. Call a recycler and dump the drives. smaller than 200GB (keep the largest ones to give out to other employees for their home systems)
2. Buy 2 or 3 1TB HDD's
3. Install them in a box.
4. Done.
Start with the shear cost the additional equipment, then add in the cost of the electricity to run the drives and their controller. then add in the cost of HVAC to keep the room they are in cool. Will by far exceed the cost of 2 or 3 1TB drives. Not to mention the cost of your time to build, deploy and maintain.
In short. Nothing you can do with these drives will save your employer money. However proper recycling might bring in a buck or two. Not to mention the good will when you hand the largest drives to fellow employees to use at home.
Fiat Currency, Is that what you use to buy a small Italian car?
During the 80's and early 90's I was good for 100.oo bucks a week (US) in music. Had a huge library before the fire. Then the RIAA came along and said I was a crook for buying all that music from them. Now if it isn't on the radio I don't hear it. Sorry RIAA. (OK I've bought 2 albums one from NIN and one from RadioHead. Online Legit and yes I did pay for both of them.)
You have seemingly missed a basic tenet of business for the last 2 millennium. Give away the infinite and sell the scarce. Ideas are infinite. The wherewithal to apply them is scarce. You can't sell an idea only it's application. No idea you have is unique. How many times have you said. "Hey I thought of that too. Why did they get rich and not me." The answer is simple. They sold the scarce (work and drive) and gave away the idea. You held on to the idea and let someone else do the work.
( old laptops + Linux ) * Youth Organization = Tax deduction + warm fuzzy. In other words. Get the ones you can working with Linux. Donate them to a Boys/Girls club rec center etc, and collect the deduction. The rest go to your local e-waste center.
having gnome as the only wm is a lot like having george.... no wait he is president. oh well you get my point. stop being so freaking naive that the look of the desktop is how you determine quality of os.
Speed for what? CPU .. honestly I could suffer a 50% cut in CPU on my servers and never know it. Disk I/O. Already optimized for that, Ram preload saves me there. Network I/O I run my network at about 60% capacity peak, 20% point median. So what would I be sacrificing by turning down all the systems not needed to handle the current load? If one of my systems is handling 100 users without fail or lag, why in heavens name would I believe that 10 systems running 10 users each would make the user experience any better?
That's (the 100 users) at 2am... then comes 8am when my load peeks (and holds) and I'm suddenly handling 20k users and have 10 systems running. If I could cycle down 9 of them at 2am and have them come online automatically by 8am ... I'd love it.
Course this also begs me to ask. Which one is my minimum, the 2am need, or the 8am need?
Will it make it out before the proposed "EOL" for XP in June?
1. Get a lock for your front door... and then use it.
:)
2. Don't leave your laptops out in the open so people see them.
3. Don't walk more than an arms length away from your laptop.
4. Don't forget to buy insurance (not a lojack real insurance.) for theft, that includes your laptop.
5. When renting an apartment/buying a house. Do some research on types of crimes in the area.
6. Don't leave your laptop on the seat of your car.
7. get a kensington lock and use it.
8. get your head out of your rear, repository and think about what is going on around you.
Don't think this works? I've never had a laptop stolen and I've owned a number of them. Even on that one occasion where my car got broken into (laptop in the trunk). Bastard got my change in the cupholder though... god knows I miss that 50 cents in pennies.
Well if you take the M$ viewpoint of "Mainframe on your desk" then yes it is relatively underpowered. You don't have a single system that can do everything you ever, maybe, might, possibly, want to do. BUT! if you look at it from the viewpoint of Unix where you have many systems doing what they do well. It's a great box. Note: This is not an OS issue but rather a design viewpoint.
... I read my e-mail at about the same speed. Granted it dowloads faster on the laptop. (seconds of difference) but it reads at the same speed.
One of the things I've noticed. On my n800 from Nokia (ARM 400mhz) and my laptop (2.xghz Pentium duo)
Depsite that fact that Doom has been ported to the n800 I wouldn't even for a moment consider it for gaming, photo editing, large number crunching etc. The lightweight boxes are only underpowered if they can't do what they are designed to do. If they can, then they aren't underpowered.
Basically the companies have been creating "Everything Everyone might need" boxes and the consumer is opting for "Everthing I need" boxes instead or, in addition, to to all in ones.
I worked with John during this event and can attest to the milestone in real time video this event was. While watching the simulcast from Korea (where I was working for our companies partner), one of the gentlemen in the room with me made a statement about seeing Sir Arthur Clarke on the large movie screen overlooking the panel. He said "Wow he's as large as life".
Somehow in making the mistake in English, this gentleman was extremely accurate.
Decades of young engineers and scientist learned to ask "what if" Now at last you can debate with Asimov and Heinlein, face to face, as to who influenced science the most.
They think in abstracts rather than think by reacting to stimuli. D&D is more enjoyable to most Linux Geeks I know because it requires the same type of thought. Sokoban is another game a lot of Linux geeks I know enjoy. The way you think affects not only what you do but what you enjoy.
I'm 51 years old and I first saw this story in the Weekly Reader in 1st grade..... ( *grin* )
Oops sorry wrong game system ;)
The damn thing runs as root. With a Unix heart and privilege separation part and parcel, they ignored it and pulled a Lindows. Running everything as root. The fact that it only got, so called jail broken phones is a ruse. Once something real goes live... all bets are off.
Why does it always have to be my an idiot, Why can't it for once be someone else's an idiot. I keep my an idiot clean, it doesn't talk out of turn or make rude noises. But everyone just likes to pick on my an idiot.
Submitter says a D/L of Batman Forever would take 4 minutes. Wrong. Comcast blocks peer to peer if you want the movie you'll have to get it at the library at 56.6.
No not less crowded just harder to find a working monitor, or an end user with a question/problem.
Here's hoping he can do for Red Hat what he did for Delta. No, wait, that didn't come out right
But as a Sr. Admin Iget a little tired of the assumption by so many that "If you don't write the code you are talentless" Has any one cosidered the idea that there comes a time when adding code no longer improves the product much. Some of these products really are about as big as they can get without imploding, there may only be 25 contribs, but how many does something as mature as Tomcat need?
A lot of the new talent will be of a different kind. In the 70's Computer Engineering was 80% theory/math and 10% language and protocols. Now it's exactly the opposite. Are they less talented, no just differently enabled.
The talent shortage, or rather the knowledge shortage is in HR It's time to learn what is really needed and stop boiler plating your job adverts. You're losing a lot of talent because of inaccurate or often inane job adds (Wanted: entry level linux admin to manage 30 windows desktops.) .
My only diff is that first I like to try to motivate from within. 99.99% of the time simple education does work. Some may not think that advocation of adherence to law is a trollable offense. I disagree. But yes. Pushing them back from the edge works best as an encouraging thing.
Well I guess with a poorly configured Windows system where everything has to be locally installed and stored yes, 32G might be small. 32 might be too small to store a blue ton of stuff like every movie since 1940 or 30000 mp3's. In a full network enabled OS/setup where you can access and manipulate remote programs and data 32G is more than enough. What is needed is a look at networked data as apposed to pack ratted crap storage.
Likeing something doesn't justify violation of the law. A lot of people are fans of dog fighting and football. Didn't keep one the games best out of a ton of trouble did it? IE was the #1 browser when the were taken to the mat for patent violations. Popularity wasn't even a factor in that decision.
The GPL is clear, case law supports it. Asus isn't exempt by virtue of country of origin either, as the GPL has been upheld in courts around the world. Xandros has always treaded the edge of the rules, occasionally needing a reminder of who owns the code.
Unfortunately this is normal. As much as I love my n800/770 I do remember that early on Nokia needed a very firm reminder (more so than they may admit) that they had to release kernel source of the actual kernel not just the source they started from.
Once they (Asus) fall in line, the community can then get behind them and make that rock really roll!