They are hardly early adopters. NetApp has had SSD trays for a few years now and they have units that easily bust through 250k IOPS. I have a middle-tier NetApp storage implementation and I've got almost that much bandwidth available to me at a third of the cost. NetApp also has solid state modules for 10k that are used as cache to facilitate the early morning rush. This is nothing new and not really that impressive. For me it just reenforces all the AOL stereotypes about inefficiency. I will never come close to bandwidth limitations of my storage, I will however run out of storage at some point but block level dedupe has dramatically extended the life of existing storage.
I dunno, for 300k from NetApp you can get 100k IOPS over 60TB and that was three years ago, my new unit will do that with 100TB and costs even less, takes up half the space, and uses half the power, oh, and it'll do 200k IOPS, at least projected. Of course if you're database is jacked by that back-end storage then you're database storage is poorly defined especially since Oracle OCFS can utilize multiple storage back-ends simultaneously. MS SQL server can achieve this as well through other means but most situations I've encountered involve analytics slowing down production which is easily solved with an OLAP database server.
Sprint rolled out Wimax here in Arizona so I say 4G is here right now, I have a tower not 500 yards away from me. I do wish all the carriers would go with a single technical standard but then they would have to compete with their networks and all of their networks have problems. I give Sprint the edge right now with voice coverage as I can always make a call while ATT I would rank last in voice coverage. Verizon seems to be the spot in the middle with coverage.
A lot of people feel the need to resort to absolutes and they find it easier than defending their position. Many people fail to grasp history and it really is a shame. Violence be-gets violence, once an aggressor chooses to use violence it is exceedingly difficult to not respond with violence and this is true at the individual level and true at the federal level. The problem is the fuzzy area where force is the only option and where diplomacy can prevail. I was put into what sounds like a similar situation as you and similarly the attacker did not fare well. Was their more I could have done to avoid the situation? In retrospect I still see no way and the attacker was heavily intoxicated. Some people just shouldn't drink.
Course when you start talking about the political level things are never as simple as one on one encounters which is why wars should face thorough debate unlike the lead-up to the Iraq war.
Parent was arguing about diversity, Slashdot has always been a haven for debate, some are civil and both sides benefit, but lately it's less debate and more shouting with both sides saying leave when both have an equal right to be here provided we're not violating terms of service which I don't believe is happening here.
The issue most people have with Libertarians is simply that their position is presented like it's based on fact when most proposals ignore human nature and are thus doomed to fail. Of course the same can be said for non-libertarians with the whole MMS regulation debacle but the knee-jerk all regulation is bad is simply shortsighted and ignores three hundred years of history. Ever notice how socialization of American in the 50s led to the country's greatest period of prosperity? Naturally correlation is not causation but it makes logical sense that when infrastructure is provided innovative ways to utilize said infrastructure. This is the reason India and China are investing so heavily infrastructure and making up ground in the case of China they have advanced faster than we did. Of course they are making many of the same mistakes with the killing of their environment and employee exploitation.
Of course none of this has anything to do with the article at hand.
That would be great if the fire department actually had the ability to do that. They don't and I think it's a waste of money to keep track of all that. A fire department should not need much in the way of accounting. It could be done fairly efficiently though again assuming they were given the ability to do it.
Of course their shortsightedness is now up front, loud and clear as they complain the fire department did nothing to help them. Democracy, especially representative democracy is supposed to be ruled by reason. A blind hatred of taxes comes at a price and no one wants to hear them complaining when they refused to pay into a system most people gladly pay into.
If you don't want to pay for government services then you get what you deserve. I feel sympathy for the family in losing their home as that is a big deal but they refused to pay and got what they paid for. Maybe now they will pay the fee and help improve their community through a better funded fire department. They clearly didn't understand the situation as they tried to pay the original fee on site which wouldn't have paid for the roll out. The $75 only works when a whole community is contributing, it costs several hundred to deploy the fire department which is why people have to pay for false alarms. It's the whole ounce of prevention mantra and it's clearly lost on this household as the neighbors did pay the fee and thus the fire department kept them safe from the spreading fire.
I'm curious, so you also don't believe in public roads? How about the utilities? Electric? Water? Sewer? You don't want the government to provide any of these things? Tax payer funds paid for much of the lines that utilities use today with hundreds of billions just going in for phone lines let alone cable and other Internet options. I find it amazing that in this day and age people can be so cavalier in saying no government intervention into the economy when it has many proven benefits. I've yet to find a self-made person that thinks this is a good idea. Most realize that without basic necessities we waste our lives establishing the basics instead of moving on and doing bigger and better things.
I understand the need for limits and better management of existing assets but I don't think the approach is either fundamentally flawed or against the constitution. The pursuit of happiness for all is deeply engrained in American history and providing the basics for all greatly moves everyone in that direction. Without government intervention there wouldn't even be an Internet as it took much military funding to achieve the basic underpinnings when combined with private and publicly funded university efforts.
Keep in mind there is much history to support government intervention as the United States didn't originally collect taxes but ultimately had to for funding the military. Most all laws in existence today are the result of private parties behaving badly such as expensive toll roads and exploitive employment practices. Unless you have another way to address those concerns its going to be hard to argue that the government should keep out of economic affairs as the two are fundamentally linked.
If city taxes actually paid for fire service this family would still have their home and the fire department wouldn't have to waste funds keeping track of who's paid for service which is a waste of time at the most critical of moments.
Or my favorite, unknown error! Or Oracle's approach of reusing codes with different applications, thank you Oracle! In both the GUI and CLI sides here it depends on the development philosophy and target demographic. If you're making tools that display in public then presenting errors on screen is probably not a good idea. If you're a sysadmin configuring a mail server then probably the more output the better. Of course in all cases there should be a way for an experienced user to get detailed diagnostic information but logging is a pain in the ass.
huh? News flash, Flash is everywhere, everywhere except IOS... Apple wants the whole world to change just because they have a grudge against Flash which is odd given the close relationship Apple and Adobe have had over the years.
Rarely is it useful on the same local storage. Keeping live copies offsite or in separate hardware is a good strategy but on the same hardware is just wasteful.
I don't know any people that think physical discipline is immoral as long as it's not done at the drop of a hat. When it is done excessively all it is is negative reenforcement. Few people would call it abusive, using a belt is certainly overkill. All the parents I've met view it as a last resort form of discipline and as the kids get older the kids behave better. My parents viewed it the same way. There are times when it is absolutely necessary but most of the time there are better choices.
Many parents are just lazy and don't want to go through the hassle of enforcement since it can interrupt so many plans and activities. They are absolutely the responsible party. If the parents are aware of the games their child plays then they aren't doing their jobs. I'm actually reminded of the Simpsons when Homer discovers that he is a bad father and doesn't know anything about Bart's life. It's pretty reflective of this view.
Of course I grew up playing violent video games and I don't feel I was harmed in the process so I'll naturally have a little bias. Kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore, they don't need to be protected from everything, it's crazy.
Oracle can run on Ubuntu... Oracle's installer likes to get in it's own way wherever it can though. Even on RH or Oracle Enterprise Linux which is RH, it's amazing difficult to install correctly and coming from the world's largest software corporation you'd think that they could scrounge up a half decent installer for their flagship product. Oracle's scripts make you have to create a lot of symlinks but rest assure, it can be done!
Would I wanna do it for production? Meh... prolly not so I guess you're right even if technically it can.
My father was with IBM for 33 years until about 3 years ago. He would beg to differ as a Vermont congress critter had to step in and prevent IBM from taking benefits away, a move that saved benefits for IBM employees all over the country. Externally I find that build quality with their server gear is decent but there is little to no support after the fact. For instance, AMD didn't change Opteron sockets when they went dual core but IBM never offered a bios upgrade for the server. Not that HP, or even Dell would be any different about it. Why would they want to give you new functionality for free when they can just force you to buy a whole new server!
The lawsuit isn't about Oracle competing with HP, it's about disclosing HP trade secrets. At this stage I doubt HP has any real secrets left though as their development seems quite stale.
Of course going back to the Windows 98 days you can indeed configure your system for multiple keyboards and multiple mice. I usually did it in pairs as hotel reservation systems didn't take much in the way of resources so you could easily hook to up two to four consoles to a single computer streamlining the frontdesk. These days I imagine it would be even easier albeit I haven't really had a need for it since then.
My evidence is from the fact that I don't just use Oracle, I also use MS SQL and MySQL. PostGresql from what I've read is quite stable but lacks in performance.
Also, in my experience people don't necessarily buy Oracle for the functionality as MS SQL usually wins on useful and accessible feature-sets. They buy Oracle because they can get it up and running and it has a habit of staying that way. No transaction logs ballooning for no apparent reason, I'm looking at you MSSQL. I'm the only DBA for the organization which is albeit a small business with only about 70-150 employees depending on the time of year. The reality is that we had and have storage issues with our other tiers while NetApp has remained rock solid.
I've never been a believer in putting all your eggs in one basket and while I won't begrudge people for not going the Oracle route they should realize their are trade-offs.
Also, as for uptime, Postgres has weak replication support which has been maturing nicely but it still a few generations behind both MSSQL and Oracle. Most HA solutions I've seen for it involve middleware managing the workload which is pretty sloppy. I don't disparage Postres as much as I do the rest of the choices out there. For a long time it was poor management tools holding it back. Recently it became competitive but has a long history to fight against for adoption.
While your right that the majority of applications won't use the majority of functionality Oracle is positioned as a core app and so as the company grows so too does the demand for more functionality.
Most people I've encountered aren't interested in throwing more hardware at a problem if they don't have to. The more servers you run the more you have to maintain. The VM world has made this much much better but it's still an issue.
Additionally Oracle licensing isn't quite as bad as you make it out to be. Oracle cost us less to deploy and maintain than Navision which is our general ledger application. Additionally we are going to deploy OpenText on Oracle as it will easily handle the millions of assets we're going to throw at it all without having to buy any new hardware.
Your DBMS, like your core storage is very important as everything is built up around it. Buying NetApp for Tier 1 storage often makes sense much like Oracle and in both cases they are not always the best option for the money. Four straight years of zero downtime with Oracle and NetApp has recouped the costs involved at least where I work.
Cheers to that man, my last three server buys were custom builds because of the decline in HP quality. Doesn't help that when I actually do break down and call HP carepack I have to explain it to some guy that barely speaks English who then sends a tech who has no idea what he's doing. I always get the same tech which once had the audacity to just shut off power distro in a rack rather than just unplug the power to the server he was doing warranty work on. Ever since then I have to babysit him. I wish they would just send me the parts.
Then of course there's this whole cost cutting measure of including non-ECC ram in server bundles so when you upgrade you have to replace the memory that came with it or buy more non-ECC ram and suffer stability. It doesn't help when they release a product too soon as well such as the Proliant DL 165 G7 which apparently had motherboard issues resulting in a recall. I had to go way up the supply chain to find out why a product that was in-stock when I ordered it took three months for it to get delivered. Dell hasn't improved at all either as I got desperate to find another server supplier. With the poor quality in most of the big dealers from IBM, HP, and Dell that pretty much leaves you with just building your own which works for small projects but isn't too practical for larger projects.
Seems these days the big guys are doing everything in their power to stop me from buying from them. I can accept that as I have a line of guys now that assemble servers pretty quickly. Supermicro quality has remained pretty consistent.
Actually Oracle DBAs advocate because few environments are as robust as the one Oracle provides. Basically Oracle sets the bar for what people think should be included in a RDBMS. SQL server has improved performance dramatically to where it is beginning to be competitive. MySQL is non-starter as it doesn't compete with Oracle. Postgresql is probably the best free alternative option containing a lot of the features that modern applications require although it still lags in performance when compared with Oracle.
When it comes to Oracle, the DBMS is a solid product that you can rely on for mission critical applications. All their other stuff is crap which is why the DB is Oracle's bread and butter. Of course Oracle shot themselves in the foot with the 11g platform as it is resource intensive to deploy any applications for it. Oracle reports is now pretty much useless as it requires the Oracle Internet directory which almost no one wants to deploy on top of AD or OpenLDAP. Of course as always the management tools they provide are utter crap too. Even the report builder is crap and it's the only way to develop reports for Oracle reporting. For some projects we've even taken to using MS SQL to replicate data from the Oracle DB and using SQL Reporting services as they are much more friendly and actually work.
From my perspective Evolution is pretty pointless unless their storage mechanism can not properly support greater than 2gig mailbox sizes. When you have users with thousands of mails organizing every which way it's not particularly practical to have multiple personal folders. Microsoft has spent the last decade trying to reduce the need for psts and here you have a new solution which brings the problem back to the foreground.
Since the original question was the best way to store email for later searching I'd suggest Commvault as it's a server based solution and integrates nicely with proper backup procedures. It'll cost ya but it's a hell of a lot faster to setup and use than any other solution I've seen. It'll backup and archive email from almost any server so you can archive multiple environments and give yourself a consolidated search as opposed to pushing it onto the users.
In my experience most companies only care about archiving old email for litigation purposes so you need something that can be audited easily and readily. Even Exchange 2010 mailbox archiving isn't sufficient for this purpose. The closest Linux based solution I've encountered was MailArchiva which looks pretty decent but is still no where near as complete as a Commvault solution.
802.11n works just fine on all my Ubuntu setups... I find that you really need 10.04 if you want it reliable though. Of course all versions seems to limit me to 65mbit when I connect. Still plenty fast enough to stream even native bluray though.
I just installed XBMCLive on a en Eeebox, the eb1501 handled bluray level playback without an issue. It's an Atom 330 so it's already kinda dated as the 510s with Ion2 will actually handle flash in full screen without the benefit of the crappy 3d acceleration now offered in Flash 10.1. It's based on Ubuntu 9.04 so there are some issues with certain wireless controllers but it took me all of an hour start to finish to get the thing setup how I want it. That even includes being able to launch Firefox with the Launder app, coincidentally this method will work with Pandora too although sadly Netflix natively is a no go but a lot of people have Bluray players already with netflix so you just use XBMC as a uPNP client at that point and you can enjoy all the benefits. My whole setup complete with SSD so there is zero noise after the sound of pressing the button.
Sorry, but the Australian spill didn't make them pick up their game and neither will the BP spill. Until they are forced to change costing them large amounts of money you can't possibly think they would change on their own? The reality is that they really aren't concerned about spills because there is no political will anywhere to really change the oil industry. Shell spills the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill every year in Nigeria and most people have no idea about it.
Inspectors should start paying attention instead of doing cocaine with oil industry funded hookers. Do I think that's going to happen though? Hell no, of course not, what could be better than hookers and blow?
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They are hardly early adopters. NetApp has had SSD trays for a few years now and they have units that easily bust through 250k IOPS. I have a middle-tier NetApp storage implementation and I've got almost that much bandwidth available to me at a third of the cost. NetApp also has solid state modules for 10k that are used as cache to facilitate the early morning rush. This is nothing new and not really that impressive. For me it just reenforces all the AOL stereotypes about inefficiency. I will never come close to bandwidth limitations of my storage, I will however run out of storage at some point but block level dedupe has dramatically extended the life of existing storage.
I dunno, for 300k from NetApp you can get 100k IOPS over 60TB and that was three years ago, my new unit will do that with 100TB and costs even less, takes up half the space, and uses half the power, oh, and it'll do 200k IOPS, at least projected. Of course if you're database is jacked by that back-end storage then you're database storage is poorly defined especially since Oracle OCFS can utilize multiple storage back-ends simultaneously. MS SQL server can achieve this as well through other means but most situations I've encountered involve analytics slowing down production which is easily solved with an OLAP database server.
Sprint rolled out Wimax here in Arizona so I say 4G is here right now, I have a tower not 500 yards away from me. I do wish all the carriers would go with a single technical standard but then they would have to compete with their networks and all of their networks have problems. I give Sprint the edge right now with voice coverage as I can always make a call while ATT I would rank last in voice coverage. Verizon seems to be the spot in the middle with coverage.
A lot of people feel the need to resort to absolutes and they find it easier than defending their position. Many people fail to grasp history and it really is a shame. Violence be-gets violence, once an aggressor chooses to use violence it is exceedingly difficult to not respond with violence and this is true at the individual level and true at the federal level. The problem is the fuzzy area where force is the only option and where diplomacy can prevail. I was put into what sounds like a similar situation as you and similarly the attacker did not fare well. Was their more I could have done to avoid the situation? In retrospect I still see no way and the attacker was heavily intoxicated. Some people just shouldn't drink.
Course when you start talking about the political level things are never as simple as one on one encounters which is why wars should face thorough debate unlike the lead-up to the Iraq war.
Parent was arguing about diversity, Slashdot has always been a haven for debate, some are civil and both sides benefit, but lately it's less debate and more shouting with both sides saying leave when both have an equal right to be here provided we're not violating terms of service which I don't believe is happening here.
The issue most people have with Libertarians is simply that their position is presented like it's based on fact when most proposals ignore human nature and are thus doomed to fail. Of course the same can be said for non-libertarians with the whole MMS regulation debacle but the knee-jerk all regulation is bad is simply shortsighted and ignores three hundred years of history. Ever notice how socialization of American in the 50s led to the country's greatest period of prosperity? Naturally correlation is not causation but it makes logical sense that when infrastructure is provided innovative ways to utilize said infrastructure. This is the reason India and China are investing so heavily infrastructure and making up ground in the case of China they have advanced faster than we did. Of course they are making many of the same mistakes with the killing of their environment and employee exploitation.
Of course none of this has anything to do with the article at hand.
That would be great if the fire department actually had the ability to do that. They don't and I think it's a waste of money to keep track of all that. A fire department should not need much in the way of accounting. It could be done fairly efficiently though again assuming they were given the ability to do it.
Of course their shortsightedness is now up front, loud and clear as they complain the fire department did nothing to help them. Democracy, especially representative democracy is supposed to be ruled by reason. A blind hatred of taxes comes at a price and no one wants to hear them complaining when they refused to pay into a system most people gladly pay into.
If you don't want to pay for government services then you get what you deserve. I feel sympathy for the family in losing their home as that is a big deal but they refused to pay and got what they paid for. Maybe now they will pay the fee and help improve their community through a better funded fire department. They clearly didn't understand the situation as they tried to pay the original fee on site which wouldn't have paid for the roll out. The $75 only works when a whole community is contributing, it costs several hundred to deploy the fire department which is why people have to pay for false alarms. It's the whole ounce of prevention mantra and it's clearly lost on this household as the neighbors did pay the fee and thus the fire department kept them safe from the spreading fire.
Principles are a pain in the ass sometimes.
I'm curious, so you also don't believe in public roads? How about the utilities? Electric? Water? Sewer? You don't want the government to provide any of these things? Tax payer funds paid for much of the lines that utilities use today with hundreds of billions just going in for phone lines let alone cable and other Internet options. I find it amazing that in this day and age people can be so cavalier in saying no government intervention into the economy when it has many proven benefits. I've yet to find a self-made person that thinks this is a good idea. Most realize that without basic necessities we waste our lives establishing the basics instead of moving on and doing bigger and better things.
I understand the need for limits and better management of existing assets but I don't think the approach is either fundamentally flawed or against the constitution. The pursuit of happiness for all is deeply engrained in American history and providing the basics for all greatly moves everyone in that direction. Without government intervention there wouldn't even be an Internet as it took much military funding to achieve the basic underpinnings when combined with private and publicly funded university efforts.
Keep in mind there is much history to support government intervention as the United States didn't originally collect taxes but ultimately had to for funding the military. Most all laws in existence today are the result of private parties behaving badly such as expensive toll roads and exploitive employment practices. Unless you have another way to address those concerns its going to be hard to argue that the government should keep out of economic affairs as the two are fundamentally linked.
If city taxes actually paid for fire service this family would still have their home and the fire department wouldn't have to waste funds keeping track of who's paid for service which is a waste of time at the most critical of moments.
Or my favorite, unknown error! Or Oracle's approach of reusing codes with different applications, thank you Oracle! In both the GUI and CLI sides here it depends on the development philosophy and target demographic. If you're making tools that display in public then presenting errors on screen is probably not a good idea. If you're a sysadmin configuring a mail server then probably the more output the better. Of course in all cases there should be a way for an experienced user to get detailed diagnostic information but logging is a pain in the ass.
huh? News flash, Flash is everywhere, everywhere except IOS... Apple wants the whole world to change just because they have a grudge against Flash which is odd given the close relationship Apple and Adobe have had over the years.
Rarely is it useful on the same local storage. Keeping live copies offsite or in separate hardware is a good strategy but on the same hardware is just wasteful.
I don't know any people that think physical discipline is immoral as long as it's not done at the drop of a hat. When it is done excessively all it is is negative reenforcement. Few people would call it abusive, using a belt is certainly overkill. All the parents I've met view it as a last resort form of discipline and as the kids get older the kids behave better. My parents viewed it the same way. There are times when it is absolutely necessary but most of the time there are better choices.
Many parents are just lazy and don't want to go through the hassle of enforcement since it can interrupt so many plans and activities. They are absolutely the responsible party. If the parents are aware of the games their child plays then they aren't doing their jobs. I'm actually reminded of the Simpsons when Homer discovers that he is a bad father and doesn't know anything about Bart's life. It's pretty reflective of this view.
Of course I grew up playing violent video games and I don't feel I was harmed in the process so I'll naturally have a little bias. Kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore, they don't need to be protected from everything, it's crazy.
Oracle can run on Ubuntu... Oracle's installer likes to get in it's own way wherever it can though. Even on RH or Oracle Enterprise Linux which is RH, it's amazing difficult to install correctly and coming from the world's largest software corporation you'd think that they could scrounge up a half decent installer for their flagship product. Oracle's scripts make you have to create a lot of symlinks but rest assure, it can be done!
Would I wanna do it for production? Meh... prolly not so I guess you're right even if technically it can.
My father was with IBM for 33 years until about 3 years ago. He would beg to differ as a Vermont congress critter had to step in and prevent IBM from taking benefits away, a move that saved benefits for IBM employees all over the country. Externally I find that build quality with their server gear is decent but there is little to no support after the fact. For instance, AMD didn't change Opteron sockets when they went dual core but IBM never offered a bios upgrade for the server. Not that HP, or even Dell would be any different about it. Why would they want to give you new functionality for free when they can just force you to buy a whole new server!
haha, sounds like the HP I've gotten know
The lawsuit isn't about Oracle competing with HP, it's about disclosing HP trade secrets. At this stage I doubt HP has any real secrets left though as their development seems quite stale.
Of course going back to the Windows 98 days you can indeed configure your system for multiple keyboards and multiple mice. I usually did it in pairs as hotel reservation systems didn't take much in the way of resources so you could easily hook to up two to four consoles to a single computer streamlining the frontdesk. These days I imagine it would be even easier albeit I haven't really had a need for it since then.
My evidence is from the fact that I don't just use Oracle, I also use MS SQL and MySQL. PostGresql from what I've read is quite stable but lacks in performance.
Also, in my experience people don't necessarily buy Oracle for the functionality as MS SQL usually wins on useful and accessible feature-sets. They buy Oracle because they can get it up and running and it has a habit of staying that way. No transaction logs ballooning for no apparent reason, I'm looking at you MSSQL. I'm the only DBA for the organization which is albeit a small business with only about 70-150 employees depending on the time of year. The reality is that we had and have storage issues with our other tiers while NetApp has remained rock solid.
I've never been a believer in putting all your eggs in one basket and while I won't begrudge people for not going the Oracle route they should realize their are trade-offs.
Also, as for uptime, Postgres has weak replication support which has been maturing nicely but it still a few generations behind both MSSQL and Oracle. Most HA solutions I've seen for it involve middleware managing the workload which is pretty sloppy. I don't disparage Postres as much as I do the rest of the choices out there. For a long time it was poor management tools holding it back. Recently it became competitive but has a long history to fight against for adoption.
While your right that the majority of applications won't use the majority of functionality Oracle is positioned as a core app and so as the company grows so too does the demand for more functionality.
Most people I've encountered aren't interested in throwing more hardware at a problem if they don't have to. The more servers you run the more you have to maintain. The VM world has made this much much better but it's still an issue.
Additionally Oracle licensing isn't quite as bad as you make it out to be. Oracle cost us less to deploy and maintain than Navision which is our general ledger application. Additionally we are going to deploy OpenText on Oracle as it will easily handle the millions of assets we're going to throw at it all without having to buy any new hardware.
Your DBMS, like your core storage is very important as everything is built up around it. Buying NetApp for Tier 1 storage often makes sense much like Oracle and in both cases they are not always the best option for the money. Four straight years of zero downtime with Oracle and NetApp has recouped the costs involved at least where I work.
Cheers to that man, my last three server buys were custom builds because of the decline in HP quality. Doesn't help that when I actually do break down and call HP carepack I have to explain it to some guy that barely speaks English who then sends a tech who has no idea what he's doing. I always get the same tech which once had the audacity to just shut off power distro in a rack rather than just unplug the power to the server he was doing warranty work on. Ever since then I have to babysit him. I wish they would just send me the parts.
Then of course there's this whole cost cutting measure of including non-ECC ram in server bundles so when you upgrade you have to replace the memory that came with it or buy more non-ECC ram and suffer stability. It doesn't help when they release a product too soon as well such as the Proliant DL 165 G7 which apparently had motherboard issues resulting in a recall. I had to go way up the supply chain to find out why a product that was in-stock when I ordered it took three months for it to get delivered. Dell hasn't improved at all either as I got desperate to find another server supplier. With the poor quality in most of the big dealers from IBM, HP, and Dell that pretty much leaves you with just building your own which works for small projects but isn't too practical for larger projects.
Seems these days the big guys are doing everything in their power to stop me from buying from them. I can accept that as I have a line of guys now that assemble servers pretty quickly. Supermicro quality has remained pretty consistent.
Actually Oracle DBAs advocate because few environments are as robust as the one Oracle provides. Basically Oracle sets the bar for what people think should be included in a RDBMS. SQL server has improved performance dramatically to where it is beginning to be competitive. MySQL is non-starter as it doesn't compete with Oracle. Postgresql is probably the best free alternative option containing a lot of the features that modern applications require although it still lags in performance when compared with Oracle.
When it comes to Oracle, the DBMS is a solid product that you can rely on for mission critical applications. All their other stuff is crap which is why the DB is Oracle's bread and butter. Of course Oracle shot themselves in the foot with the 11g platform as it is resource intensive to deploy any applications for it. Oracle reports is now pretty much useless as it requires the Oracle Internet directory which almost no one wants to deploy on top of AD or OpenLDAP. Of course as always the management tools they provide are utter crap too. Even the report builder is crap and it's the only way to develop reports for Oracle reporting. For some projects we've even taken to using MS SQL to replicate data from the Oracle DB and using SQL Reporting services as they are much more friendly and actually work.
From my perspective Evolution is pretty pointless unless their storage mechanism can not properly support greater than 2gig mailbox sizes. When you have users with thousands of mails organizing every which way it's not particularly practical to have multiple personal folders. Microsoft has spent the last decade trying to reduce the need for psts and here you have a new solution which brings the problem back to the foreground.
Since the original question was the best way to store email for later searching I'd suggest Commvault as it's a server based solution and integrates nicely with proper backup procedures. It'll cost ya but it's a hell of a lot faster to setup and use than any other solution I've seen. It'll backup and archive email from almost any server so you can archive multiple environments and give yourself a consolidated search as opposed to pushing it onto the users.
In my experience most companies only care about archiving old email for litigation purposes so you need something that can be audited easily and readily. Even Exchange 2010 mailbox archiving isn't sufficient for this purpose. The closest Linux based solution I've encountered was MailArchiva which looks pretty decent but is still no where near as complete as a Commvault solution.
802.11n works just fine on all my Ubuntu setups... I find that you really need 10.04 if you want it reliable though. Of course all versions seems to limit me to 65mbit when I connect. Still plenty fast enough to stream even native bluray though.
I just installed XBMCLive on a en Eeebox, the eb1501 handled bluray level playback without an issue. It's an Atom 330 so it's already kinda dated as the 510s with Ion2 will actually handle flash in full screen without the benefit of the crappy 3d acceleration now offered in Flash 10.1. It's based on Ubuntu 9.04 so there are some issues with certain wireless controllers but it took me all of an hour start to finish to get the thing setup how I want it. That even includes being able to launch Firefox with the Launder app, coincidentally this method will work with Pandora too although sadly Netflix natively is a no go but a lot of people have Bluray players already with netflix so you just use XBMC as a uPNP client at that point and you can enjoy all the benefits. My whole setup complete with SSD so there is zero noise after the sound of pressing the button.
It happened last year.
Sorry, but the Australian spill didn't make them pick up their game and neither will the BP spill. Until they are forced to change costing them large amounts of money you can't possibly think they would change on their own? The reality is that they really aren't concerned about spills because there is no political will anywhere to really change the oil industry. Shell spills the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill every year in Nigeria and most people have no idea about it.
Inspectors should start paying attention instead of doing cocaine with oil industry funded hookers. Do I think that's going to happen though? Hell no, of course not, what could be better than hookers and blow?