The Floyd Tribute that I play with, The Pink Floyd Appreciation Society, performed Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety for a crowd of about 5k folks in McMinnville, TN. We let the heart beat at the end run through totality then picked up with Set The Controls For The Hear Of The Sun as good ol' Sol peaked around the other side. Great times were had by all.
Are you kidding me?!?! Did they really just ask "Do you use any Linux-based operating system?" It seems that our fairly new corporate overlords have no understanding of the/. community back-story. Granted there are more Microsoftians around these days and, sure, WinBlows doesn't blow like it used to but I think the Dice newbs should be forced to go back and re-read the entire site archive, Ludovico style, starting with Chips&Dips.
The part I find particularly offensive is "[b]eyond ten or so servers, there simply isn't a choice. You can't manage an infrastructure like this by hand."
My machine count is well in excess of 100 and I still have time to read slashdot.
I usually don't post but I too have had a similar mid-career crisis so here's my $0.02 Canadian (it's worth more).
After 17 years I got bored. Not just dis-interested mind you, mind-numbingly bored. Everywhere I looked it was more of the same. Windows? Click-click what-ever. Unix? IBM and Sun certified. Linux? Since kernel 0.99.7. Coding? Pick your language, tell me what you want and go away.
After a few months of this, I figured out that, for me, it was a two-fold answer.
1. Quit making sysadm my hobby AND my job. Most of us do this to "keep up the chops" but it just got to be too much. I was quite the musician in college and picked that back up as a hobby. The computer career brought me to Nashville and I REALLY wanted to go back to music full-time but there's no way that I can make this kind of money in that industry. But, I found that this allowed me to use the machines that I had built and my system skills in a whole new way. Most importantly, it was no longer all about the machine.
2. Find what it is about IT that I liked and focus my attention there. I saw that the guys that were coming out of school hadn't been properly trained in the low-level functioning of the machine. Interrupt handling was defined by one applicant as dealing with rude people (he didn't get the job). So, I saw a niche in performance tuning and started digging in. Now, I oversee installation and tuning for all architectures and databases for the various coding projects that we have going on. Keeping on top of the various OS's and languages keeps me fresh and being brought up in IT instead of Development, I have a skillset and understanding that lends itself well to making their code run fast.
I do still manage apache, sendmail, bind etc. but they are such a small subset of what I do now that I don't get bogged down by what has become mundane.
In short, find a new way to do what you do and don't do so much of it. Also realize that you have probably forgotten to take your medication and it will soon pass.
One good way of avoiding the/. effect is to round robin 2 web servers. A simple addition to the zone file is all that is necessary. We host a several purely dynamic sites, often with loads of 200,000+ hits daily. We had this running with a P133 64M SCSI and a 486/66 128M SCSI and completely saturated a T1.
The P133 handled Postgres, DNS, NFS, HTTP, SMTP, DHCP for 900+ users... and the 486 handled strictly HTTP. We also pull live remote images from an ftp server every 10 seconds.
This is also a good idea as if one falls over you still have the other. If moneys no object, offload DB services and NFS to a 3rd machine.
I didn't see anything disputing the use it at home but not in the office policy which Star Division has been $O proud of. I am assuming that this restriction is to be lifted as the article states "to everyone". All I can say is NO MORE.DOC->.HTML with no reverse path (without bouncing it to the house, but I never did that). Yea!!!
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The Floyd Tribute that I play with, The Pink Floyd Appreciation Society, performed Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety for a crowd of about 5k folks in McMinnville, TN. We let the heart beat at the end run through totality then picked up with Set The Controls For The Hear Of The Sun as good ol' Sol peaked around the other side. Great times were had by all.
Are you kidding me?!?! Did they really just ask "Do you use any Linux-based operating system?" It seems that our fairly new corporate overlords have no understanding of the /. community back-story.
Granted there are more Microsoftians around these days and, sure, WinBlows doesn't blow like it used to but I think the Dice newbs should be forced to go back and re-read the entire site archive, Ludovico style, starting with Chips&Dips.
Probably not the first to point this out but I got tire of scrolling so...
This was first discussed right here on /. in 2006 and was implemented with varying levels of success.
https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
The part I find particularly offensive is "[b]eyond ten or so servers, there simply isn't a choice. You can't manage an infrastructure like this by hand."
My machine count is well in excess of 100 and I still have time to read slashdot.
I usually don't post but I too have had a similar mid-career crisis so here's my $0.02 Canadian (it's worth more).
After 17 years I got bored. Not just dis-interested mind you, mind-numbingly bored. Everywhere I looked it was more of the same. Windows? Click-click what-ever. Unix? IBM and Sun certified. Linux? Since kernel 0.99.7. Coding? Pick your language, tell me what you want and go away.
After a few months of this, I figured out that, for me, it was a two-fold answer.
1. Quit making sysadm my hobby AND my job. Most of us do this to "keep up the chops" but it just got to be too much. I was quite the musician in college and picked that back up as a hobby. The computer career brought me to Nashville and I REALLY wanted to go back to music full-time but there's no way that I can make this kind of money in that industry. But, I found that this allowed me to use the machines that I had built and my system skills in a whole new way. Most importantly, it was no longer all about the machine.
2. Find what it is about IT that I liked and focus my attention there. I saw that the guys that were coming out of school hadn't been properly trained in the low-level functioning of the machine. Interrupt handling was defined by one applicant as dealing with rude people (he didn't get the job). So, I saw a niche in performance tuning and started digging in. Now, I oversee installation and tuning for all architectures and databases for the various coding projects that we have going on. Keeping on top of the various OS's and languages keeps me fresh and being brought up in IT instead of Development, I have a skillset and understanding that lends itself well to making their code run fast.
I do still manage apache, sendmail, bind etc. but they are such a small subset of what I do now that I don't get bogged down by what has become mundane.
In short, find a new way to do what you do and don't do so much of it. Also realize that you have probably forgotten to take your medication and it will soon pass.
One good way of avoiding the /. effect is to round robin 2 web servers. A simple addition to the zone file is all that is necessary.
We host a several purely dynamic sites, often with loads of 200,000+ hits daily. We had this running with a P133 64M SCSI
and a 486/66 128M SCSI and completely saturated a T1.
The P133 handled Postgres, DNS, NFS, HTTP, SMTP, DHCP for 900+ users... and the 486 handled strictly HTTP. We also pull live
remote images from an ftp server every 10 seconds.
This is also a good idea as if one falls over you still have the other. If moneys no object, offload DB services and NFS to a 3rd machine.
All hail the power of the penguin!!!
One mans opinion...
FYI... /.
I sent email to Peter Mattis asking him to drop
a note regarding The GIMP and LZW licensing. We'll see...
I didn't see anything disputing the use it at home but not in the office policy which Star Division has been $O proud of. I am assuming that this restriction is to be lifted as the article states "to everyone". All I can say is NO MORE .DOC->.HTML with no reverse path (without bouncing it to the house, but I never did that). Yea!!!