The poster misquotes Heinlein. The correct quote is: "A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain." -Lazarus Long, from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long.
While I might agree with the statement "The IT work force is not skilled enough and almost never can be skilled enough" if taken to mean we should ever be striving to improve the quality and skills of our workforce. However, that "more H-1B's is the solution" seems to so glibly roll off his lips, makes me think he is a stooge of big money corporate America. Corporate America wants to follow the suit of the restaurant/construction/agriculture industries and hire cheap foreign workers, instead of paying Americans a livable wage. (By livable I mean a wage that would provide the lifestyle that said corporate America has sold as the standard all Americans should strive for.)
Unfortunately our education system and our parents are to blame. We waste too much time at university repeating the same courses we should have learned by the end of high school. In my experience one spends fully 50% of ones university career jumping through general education hoops that repeat what should have been learned by the end of high school. This leaves insufficient room in a four-year program to provide the knowledge and skills, let alone any real experience that a recipient of a bachelor's degree should have when they enter the workforce. COOP education/training/internships should be the norm, rather than the exception. This helps weed out those who are only in the career field for the money, as opposed to having a genuine interest or calling for IT.
Additionally, there is little or no nod given to business skills in engineering and computer science degree requirements. Yes, there is always the MIS major, but in my experience this is shifted too far towards business, providing a very poor technical fundament, making graduates with this degree even less desirable. Hell, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) doesn't appear to have made it into the curriculum for MIS majors in the U.S., which is where I would expect it to first appear (as opposed to engineering and computer science majors).
No, I did the same. Maybe I'm a brainwashed consumer. Guess it's a context thing - Slashdot usually means web/technology, so of course I add a.com to everything. Or maybe I just need sleep.
The anonymous moron is repeating the same mistake that the xyz computing article did. Namely, paying too much attention to the interface speed. Current interface technology is capable of pumping data far faster than any single drive is able to achieve. Thus, with SATA being a single device point to point protocol, you need to pay more attention to the drive to buffer speed, not the buffer to host speed. Thus, the theoretical maximum throughput of this drive is limited to it's 93.5 MB/s disk to buffer speed.
An obvious solution for Apple to help protect their bottom line, and perhaps increase market penetration, is to sell a special version of Mac OS X x86 that will run on any x86 hardware. Said version would be priced higher than the version which only runs on Apple hardware, so as to attempt to make up the lost profit from the loss of the hardware sale. I realize that it probably couldn't be marked up sufficiently to make up the profit difference from a workstation-class hardware sale (meaning non-iMac/eMac). Perhaps increased market penetration could make up for this?
Whoever made this decision doesn't appear to have sound reasoning skills to me. This is evidenced by their choice of Itanium over Opteron. Even two years ago it was a bad choice.
I work for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is a sister lab to Los Alamos National Laboratory. I can tell you that our system for tracking classified removable electronic media (or CREM in our PHB vernacular) is atrocious! We are FORCED to use a EXTREMELY POORLY designed and implemented database for tracking CREM. This database was designed to track PAPER DOCUMENTS, as are most of our procedures. There is no enforcement of unique records or entries. i.e. we don't track media (and media serial numbers or other unique identifier), we track labels printed on Dymo thermal printers that can be made by ANYONE.
Our group of system administrators have been pointing out the flaws in the handling and tracking of CREM, and proposing solutions for over five years. Middle management doesn't have the will or desire to expend the effort it would take to overcome the inertia of our bureaucracy. When the shit hit the fan (and press) last summer we thought management would finally listen to us and implement some of the changes. Not. Our culture does not include the idea of management being responsible for the actions of those they manage. Period. Nor do they have any worries of being fired for the actions of those they are nominally responsible for. There was a bunch of meetings, etc., but NO REAL CHANGE. They finally listened to our proposal of moving to diskless desktops. This pleased the users: they didn't have to put up with the hassle of dealing with CREM and being responsible for it. Of course, the data has to go somewhere, which meant that now single system administrators were responsible for hundreds of more pieces of CREM than before, and are primed for becoming the scapegoat when some secretary screws up an entry in our nominal database and DOE goes looking for some non-existant piece of CREM (similarly to what happened at Los Alamos).
Argh, I could go on, and on, and probably get myself into trouble. I am just so damn frustrated with Lab culture, and how this shit has landed on those who warned of this YEARS ago and were ignored.....
I've been involved with negotiations with M$ for a site with 16000 desktops. We didn't pay anywhere NEAR $200/desktop for Office, M$ desktop OS's, CAL's, and TSCAL's. If the article actually has based the savings on a figure of $200, they need to go back and do some fact checking. Else, it's more FUD and sensational journalism.
I don't want to sound like a M$ shill. However, if we fight them with the same BS FUD tactics we are no better than they.
SonicAir, a subsidiary of UPS, warehouses parts for several computer manufacturers, most notably Dell. When you have a 2-4hr on-site contract with Dell, SonicAir fulfills the parts the tech requested for the repair.
My personal trainer couldn't resist asking for help with his girlfriend's computer. I gave him the standard "I HATE doing user support, etc." He persisted. I ended up installing putting together a new system for them in exchange for personal training.....I got about twice in personal training time value as I put into the new machine....Worked for me....
On 9 Apr the samba.org promised that "The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the Samba web site by April 14th under the documentation page." As of my writing this it is 21 Apr (PST), a week later than promised, and it still isn't available. It would be nice if they would update their web site with a new date....
Sad to see Red Hat changing their support policy. It is also sad that one can now honestly say that in at least one area Microsoft is doing a better job of responding to customer needs. It's ironic that M$ has yielded to customer demand and changed their support policy for 98/SE/ME at the same time that Red Hat is changing their policy for the worse...
I'm in the Bay Area, and it was showing people in Finlind, Sweden, and L.A. (of all places) as being near me....L.A. is about as far away from the Bay Area as one can get....Politically....
Seriously, for a '2.0' this definately needs some work on the location algorithim....
I've paid (well, ok, I've had my organization pay) for RHN for two years (on 3 May). I think this will be our last. I have always had better luck (quickly) getting new releases from mirrors than from RHN. Today is a good case in point. I went to get RH9, and was getting 1.5KB/sec! I was being quoted 180+ hours to get each disc. This wasn't a bandwidth limitation on my end (we've got an under-used OC-3 connection). I tried BitTorrent, and had my.iso's in a couple of hours. I even ponied up $5 to the author.
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The poster misquotes Heinlein. The correct quote is: "A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain." -Lazarus Long, from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long.
While I might agree with the statement "The IT work force is not skilled enough and almost never can be skilled enough" if taken to mean we should ever be striving to improve the quality and skills of our workforce. However, that "more H-1B's is the solution" seems to so glibly roll off his lips, makes me think he is a stooge of big money corporate America. Corporate America wants to follow the suit of the restaurant/construction/agriculture industries and hire cheap foreign workers, instead of paying Americans a livable wage. (By livable I mean a wage that would provide the lifestyle that said corporate America has sold as the standard all Americans should strive for.)
Unfortunately our education system and our parents are to blame. We waste too much time at university repeating the same courses we should have learned by the end of high school. In my experience one spends fully 50% of ones university career jumping through general education hoops that repeat what should have been learned by the end of high school. This leaves insufficient room in a four-year program to provide the knowledge and skills, let alone any real experience that a recipient of a bachelor's degree should have when they enter the workforce. COOP education/training/internships should be the norm, rather than the exception. This helps weed out those who are only in the career field for the money, as opposed to having a genuine interest or calling for IT.
Additionally, there is little or no nod given to business skills in engineering and computer science degree requirements. Yes, there is always the MIS major, but in my experience this is shifted too far towards business, providing a very poor technical fundament, making graduates with this degree even less desirable. Hell, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) doesn't appear to have made it into the curriculum for MIS majors in the U.S., which is where I would expect it to first appear (as opposed to engineering and computer science majors).
No, I did the same. Maybe I'm a brainwashed consumer. Guess it's a context thing - Slashdot usually means web/technology, so of course I add a .com to everything. Or maybe I just need sleep.
Oh yeah....I'm, like, TOTALLY new here....That's why my 'nick is #757....
Oh yeah....I'm, like, TOTALLY new here....That's why my 'nick is #757....
Not new, just in a ridiculous mood....
This was covered earlier!
2 3/2011251
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/
The anonymous moron is repeating the same mistake that the xyz computing article did. Namely, paying too much attention to the interface speed. Current interface technology is capable of pumping data far faster than any single drive is able to achieve. Thus, with SATA being a single device point to point protocol, you need to pay more attention to the drive to buffer speed, not the buffer to host speed. Thus, the theoretical maximum throughput of this drive is limited to it's 93.5 MB/s disk to buffer speed.
An obvious solution for Apple to help protect their bottom line, and perhaps increase market penetration, is to sell a special version of Mac OS X x86 that will run on any x86 hardware. Said version would be priced higher than the version which only runs on Apple hardware, so as to attempt to make up the lost profit from the loss of the hardware sale. I realize that it probably couldn't be marked up sufficiently to make up the profit difference from a workstation-class hardware sale (meaning non-iMac/eMac). Perhaps increased market penetration could make up for this?
Whoever made this decision doesn't appear to have sound reasoning skills to me. This is evidenced by their choice of Itanium over Opteron. Even two years ago it was a bad choice.
Did you actually read the post? I don't know what size jacket pockets you have, but mine won't fit an object that is 11.8" x 8.5" x 2".
;-)
In any case, EVERYONE knows the Model 102 is superior in every way, this is definitely the way to go....
I have several co-workers who operate their entire bodies with monkey thoughts....
I work for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is a sister lab to Los Alamos National Laboratory. I can tell you that our system for tracking classified removable electronic media (or CREM in our PHB vernacular) is atrocious! We are FORCED to use a EXTREMELY POORLY designed and implemented database for tracking CREM. This database was designed to track PAPER DOCUMENTS, as are most of our procedures. There is no enforcement of unique records or entries. i.e. we don't track media (and media serial numbers or other unique identifier), we track labels printed on Dymo thermal printers that can be made by ANYONE.
Our group of system administrators have been pointing out the flaws in the handling and tracking of CREM, and proposing solutions for over five years. Middle management doesn't have the will or desire to expend the effort it would take to overcome the inertia of our bureaucracy. When the shit hit the fan (and press) last summer we thought management would finally listen to us and implement some of the changes. Not. Our culture does not include the idea of management being responsible for the actions of those they manage. Period. Nor do they have any worries of being fired for the actions of those they are nominally responsible for. There was a bunch of meetings, etc., but NO REAL CHANGE. They finally listened to our proposal of moving to diskless desktops. This pleased the users: they didn't have to put up with the hassle of dealing with CREM and being responsible for it. Of course, the data has to go somewhere, which meant that now single system administrators were responsible for hundreds of more pieces of CREM than before, and are primed for becoming the scapegoat when some secretary screws up an entry in our nominal database and DOE goes looking for some non-existant piece of CREM (similarly to what happened at Los Alamos).
Argh, I could go on, and on, and probably get myself into trouble. I am just so damn frustrated with Lab culture, and how this shit has landed on those who warned of this YEARS ago and were ignored.....
I've been involved with negotiations with M$ for a site with 16000 desktops. We didn't pay anywhere NEAR $200/desktop for Office, M$ desktop OS's, CAL's, and TSCAL's. If the article actually has based the savings on a figure of $200, they need to go back and do some fact checking. Else, it's more FUD and sensational journalism.
I don't want to sound like a M$ shill. However, if we fight them with the same BS FUD tactics we are no better than they.
It's been this way FOREVER at Dell.
You can even find different prices for the same item, but with differing part numbers. Is this news?
The question is about IP MULTICAST cloning options! NetRestore, CCC, and asr are all UNICAST solutions.
Why do I even waste me time reading Slashdot comments....
SonicAir, a subsidiary of UPS, warehouses parts for several computer manufacturers, most notably Dell. When you have a 2-4hr on-site contract with Dell, SonicAir fulfills the parts the tech requested for the repair.
So, they have some experience in this area....
My personal trainer couldn't resist asking for help with his girlfriend's computer. I gave him the standard "I HATE doing user support, etc." He persisted. I ended up installing putting together a new system for them in exchange for personal training.....I got about twice in personal training time value as I put into the new machine....Worked for me....
I can't get the fucking torrent to start! Mod this message up so my karma is better....Then maybe it'll start....
Thank you for the update!
On 9 Apr the samba.org promised that "The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the Samba web site by April 14th under the documentation page." As of my writing this it is 21 Apr (PST), a week later than promised, and it still isn't available. It would be nice if they would update their web site with a new date....
Sad to see Red Hat changing their support policy. It is also sad that one can now honestly say that in at least one area Microsoft is doing a better job of responding to customer needs. It's ironic that M$ has yielded to customer demand and changed their support policy for 98/SE/ME at the same time that Red Hat is changing their policy for the worse...
They don't call it Crapular for nothing....
I'm in the Bay Area, and it was showing people in Finlind, Sweden, and L.A. (of all places) as being near me....L.A. is about as far away from the Bay Area as one can get....Politically....
Seriously, for a '2.0' this definately needs some work on the location algorithim....
I've paid (well, ok, I've had my organization pay) for RHN for two years (on 3 May). I think this will be our last. I have always had better luck (quickly) getting new releases from mirrors than from RHN. Today is a good case in point. I went to get RH9, and was getting 1.5KB/sec! I was being quoted 180+ hours to get each disc. This wasn't a bandwidth limitation on my end (we've got an under-used OC-3 connection). I tried BitTorrent, and had my .iso's in a couple of hours. I even ponied up $5 to the author.
Especially since I've been buying IDE-FC RAID boxes for two years w/o paying the Apple Tax(tm).
But I will admit, their price isn't bad. I don't care for their lack of support for other OS's. But that would be too much to ask, now wouldn't it?