The article is nothing more than a snippy gripe list. Yes, it's fun to think sysadmins should be revered because they wield great power over business internals at a very low level but whining about not getting enough kudos, or being snippy with people, or explaining to someone why their request is a "waste of time" is just being an ass. If someone is being unreasonable and demanding something you know is wrong, talk to your manager and let him/her decide what to do. Nice thing about being an admin is you don't need to make decisions which are outside the policies. You can dump the accountability in the lap of people who are paid to do that job.
Pretty much the norm these days, and not just in the US but everywhere. People in places of unbalanced power breaching the law. He will not do the kind of "time", as you or I, if found guilty.
The *last* entity I'm going to give any credibility to is the one with the worst track record with civil liberties, money laundering, bank bailouts, misuse of power, outstanding privacy issues (Hello AT&T from room 641A), corruption, bribery, cronyism, etc.
The question is really going to be what kind of shape the drives will be in a year or so
Thing is, you don't need SSD on every partition of a server. Just putting/var on a 10G of a 60G SSD RAID1 will get you some really awesome performance (Apache+mysql) with a fair amount of over-provisioning so you don't have to worry* about TRIM (which is panning out to be nothing more than benchmark magic anyhow) or killing the disks early. You get lots of IOPS to spare, especially on reads, so running mysqldump every hour or whatever may be within reason now without seeing a huge I/O bottleneck. Replace the SSDs every year. The performance gains will be worth the cost. smartctl will tell you the operating hours on the drive to make it easy to remember.
And it seems odd that there would be so much data. Source code doesn't take that much space
Um, it's really not that uncommon for source code to occupy much more space than it's compiled form. Perhaps you need to stop writing so much stuff in debug..
The fly ash is usually dumped into a man-made holding pond. I think some of these are on-site but that's just reckoning from personal experience. Also, fly ash is mixed in with concrete*.
So a link in a malicious email can compromise my Windows box and cause my web browser to navigate to addresses in a local hosts file. Welcome back to 1997.
"Should" does not exist in situations where the law feels they are above the law. If you are foolish enough to trust unregulated authority with limitless power how about going to live under Taliban rule for a year? You will be told how to live, how to dress, how to think and what your religion is. It's an awesome system for those with all the power, guns, money and drugs.
Stop giving up your civil liberties so readily everytime the news starts churning out the Terrorism drama with every "think of the children" campaign. Life is always going to have it's dangers and none of the DHS/TSA stuff to date has saved us from any of it*. The only reason TFA has happened is because people let it happen.
It's obvious. Pollen from "real" Monsanto plants was cross contaminated with native/non-monsanto plants. This is a natural occurrence in nature when spread via bees, wind, etc. Monsanto is set to pretty much regulate the food supply through the courts once everything has been contaminated with GMO pollen.
content producers are publishing content through app stores
That's fine, let them bloat up the DRM in every app they publish then. The foundation of the Internet, or whatever you want to call it, needs to be based on open standards which are unencumbered by corporate interest. If it is not then you end up with something like the network provided by mobile carriers.
Nobody innovates, nobody breaks new ground, nothing new happens unless it generates revenue for the carrier. This closed system allows for monopolies to flourish while the user experience does not. Who can honestly say they are satisfied with the performance of their mobile device? Nobody. Nobody gets the performance they expected when they signed up and the contract keeps you chained-in for it's duration. Nobody is free to innovate a new solution to fix the current system because they are not able to implement it freely.
The reason this hasn't happened on the Internet yet is because of all the open standards and information available about how the technology is implemented. Yes, there are layers of proprietary software built on top of those open standards that limit who can use the service, with what browser, and with what operating system (eg: Amazon+Firefox+Flash does not work on Linux but will work with Silverlight on Windows). This is the direction the entire internet will go if you decide that you could care less about the technology running it.
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The article is nothing more than a snippy gripe list. Yes, it's fun to think sysadmins should be revered because they wield great power over business internals at a very low level but whining about not getting enough kudos, or being snippy with people, or explaining to someone why their request is a "waste of time" is just being an ass. If someone is being unreasonable and demanding something you know is wrong, talk to your manager and let him/her decide what to do. Nice thing about being an admin is you don't need to make decisions which are outside the policies. You can dump the accountability in the lap of people who are paid to do that job.
Pretty much the norm these days, and not just in the US but everywhere. People in places of unbalanced power breaching the law. He will not do the kind of "time", as you or I, if found guilty.
Dinopass does a better job of picking good passwords than Apple
Nice! I finally have an awesome root pass!
+otalDingle48
Would you cry if someone fully automated coal mining?
If the US keeps going down the path it's currently on, mining coal will be considered a privileged job in another 20 years.
25% less fuel is sure to be passed on as a cost savings to the customer, amiright?
The *last* entity I'm going to give any credibility to is the one with the worst track record with civil liberties, money laundering, bank bailouts, misuse of power, outstanding privacy issues (Hello AT&T from room 641A), corruption, bribery, cronyism, etc.
The question is really going to be what kind of shape the drives will be in a year or so
Thing is, you don't need SSD on every partition of a server. Just putting /var on a 10G of a 60G SSD RAID1 will get you some really awesome performance (Apache+mysql) with a fair amount of over-provisioning so you don't have to worry* about TRIM (which is panning out to be nothing more than benchmark magic anyhow) or killing the disks early. You get lots of IOPS to spare, especially on reads, so running mysqldump every hour or whatever may be within reason now without seeing a huge I/O bottleneck. Replace the SSDs every year. The performance gains will be worth the cost. smartctl will tell you the operating hours on the drive to make it easy to remember.
[*] - http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg40866.html
Officer A: "Hey Lou, you see that cell phone?"
Needless to say if the phone isn't in plain sight initially, it will appear. Almost as if someone took it out of your pocket and threw it there.
Also, Genesis 1:26.
Don't forget Democracy 2:42
"And heretofore the Pentagon sayeth, 'Thy Dammit! Awesomeness this would be to have on thy field of battle.'"
You can also bet the Book of DHS will have something to say about how these devices could be used to combat Terrorism and make air travel safer.
And it seems odd that there would be so much data. Source code doesn't take that much space
Um, it's really not that uncommon for source code to occupy much more space than it's compiled form. Perhaps you need to stop writing so much stuff in debug..
I'm imagining a roomful of Google Glass testers who look like they have Tourrets.
Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank
Give a banker an algorithm, he can rob the world.
He can stuff his pizza, and I don't mean the crust.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/14/pizza-papa-john-schnatter/1566364/
The fly ash is usually dumped into a man-made holding pond. I think some of these are on-site but that's just reckoning from personal experience. Also, fly ash is mixed in with concrete*.
[*] http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/fly-ash-from-toxic-by-product-to-nearly-free-metal-replacement/5902
The imbalance of power does. Giving the cops a headcam should be enough reason not to have to confiscate everyone's phone now.
Yahoo buys Tumblr,
IBM buys Softlayer,
Microsoft buys InCycle,
CBS buys TVGuide...
With all these liquid assets flowing around, it won't be long before everyone is back to work!
So a link in a malicious email can compromise my Windows box and cause my web browser to navigate to addresses in a local hosts file. Welcome back to 1997.
that stuff should all be tossed out.
"Should" does not exist in situations where the law feels they are above the law. If you are foolish enough to trust unregulated authority with limitless power how about going to live under Taliban rule for a year? You will be told how to live, how to dress, how to think and what your religion is. It's an awesome system for those with all the power, guns, money and drugs.
[*] - http://gizmodo.com/5900680/7-rules-for-recording-police
How do you imagine it? Sitting next to the kid and watching over her/his shoulder?
That's the whole point. That task of monitoring what your kid surfs around on is left to the people complaining about the porn in the first place.
How about parents doing more to restrict their kids from getting into age-inappropriate things on the internet.
I can just see the coming flurry of bills on the Senate floor to obfuscate parts of Google maps "in the name of national security"
Stop giving up your civil liberties so readily everytime the news starts churning out the Terrorism drama with every "think of the children" campaign. Life is always going to have it's dangers and none of the DHS/TSA stuff to date has saved us from any of it*. The only reason TFA has happened is because people let it happen.
[*] - http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/abolish_the_dep.html
It's obvious. Pollen from "real" Monsanto plants was cross contaminated with native/non-monsanto plants. This is a natural occurrence in nature when spread via bees, wind, etc. Monsanto is set to pretty much regulate the food supply through the courts once everything has been contaminated with GMO pollen.
content producers are publishing content through app stores
That's fine, let them bloat up the DRM in every app they publish then. The foundation of the Internet, or whatever you want to call it, needs to be based on open standards which are unencumbered by corporate interest. If it is not then you end up with something like the network provided by mobile carriers.
Nobody innovates, nobody breaks new ground, nothing new happens unless it generates revenue for the carrier. This closed system allows for monopolies to flourish while the user experience does not. Who can honestly say they are satisfied with the performance of their mobile device? Nobody. Nobody gets the performance they expected when they signed up and the contract keeps you chained-in for it's duration. Nobody is free to innovate a new solution to fix the current system because they are not able to implement it freely.
The reason this hasn't happened on the Internet yet is because of all the open standards and information available about how the technology is implemented. Yes, there are layers of proprietary software built on top of those open standards that limit who can use the service, with what browser, and with what operating system (eg: Amazon+Firefox+Flash does not work on Linux but will work with Silverlight on Windows). This is the direction the entire internet will go if you decide that you could care less about the technology running it.
So what's the best alternative to gmail thse days?
Dovecot+SSL+postfix