No, I have a good idea of what an IT operations 'should' look like.
The fact that most upper management don't set it up properly, they don't field the cash to allow the IT department to set it up properly, or the knowledge of the IT department don't have the skills to set it up properly are common cases. It still doesn't reduce the fact that this is very possible, and with the right management, right dollar amount, and right IT team, it can be done right.
I'm just sorry your budget, management, or IT associate skillset(s) don't allow for the obvious solution.
Not to mention IEX/VMware allows virtual consoles and administration, and most are clustered environments so even on a physical failure of hardware, other servers in the same cluster farm take up the slack.
The only time you would ever (or should I say should ever) have an issue is if the entire power (on multiple grids) went out at the same time taking out the entire data center, and even then, most companies should (and if you don't, I will proceed to apply a baseball bat liberally to your IT Director's head) have a viable disaster recovery site where things can run when the primary data center goes belly up.
Some data-centers, like financial or trade companies, even have a tertiary site in the rare event they lose both the primary and disaster recovery site.
There's also usually a warm body at any data center that you can call to say 'hey, check hardware on server X'. Or you have gold/platinum support where you call Oracle, HP, Dell, etc and have them arrive on site, replace the part, and have the server back in no time. As you have logs sent to a central log server as well as the local server, being able to diagnose the issue shouldn't be the problem... wait... you do have logs going to a remote server, right?!?
Then finally, most data-centers have smart outlets that have their own IP address, so you can literally 'log in' to a power strip and individually power on or off systems connected to a given outlet on the strip bar. Very very handy for those random window server hangs that just piss you off.
In today's world, frankly, there never is a reason to go to the office. The only reason we are is so management can keep a warm head count.
Hell, I could run the entire datacenter from my android phone.
No, if it was Chuck Norris, he'd get all 18 holes in one without swinging, without the need for a ball, and without having to get out of bed to actually show up.
Not only was Han Solo frozen in carbonite, but apparently so was the dead horse that George Lucas keeps managing to pull out to beat again after thawing.
Jar Jar provided something very important to the movie. A plot device that the poor writing of Lucas allowed to be the central cause of the Empire being born.
'Why yes, miss Amelia, I'll represent you to the entire Republic!'.
Plenty of tools available for system distribution, and no need to 're-invent the wheel' or 'roll their own' to do so. So productivity generally includes installing these tools, configuring them, then globally distributing them based on preset configurations to all the other servers.
We use a lot of the tools above, and many others, to be able to rebuild a system, with a unique configuration, unique mount points, unique application and databases, and can generally go from bare-bone box to live server in under 20 minutes.
You are wrong in that you think her attitude is a symptom rather than part of the underlying cause.
You are wrong also in seeming to think teachers are justified in becoming cynical. You ask "the children could do no wrong?" with sarcasm, yet this is just the philosophy an educator must maintain. Children are not your equals. You are better than they in any measurable regard. It is like shooting fish in a barrel to point out moral, motivational, analytical, or any other deficiency in a child under your tutelage. Being a teacher is understanding this. It is recognizing that you are there to better them as people despite any challenge which lays before you.
I respectively disagree. If her environment is harsh, de-powering, violent, harassing, and cynical, why shouldn't she, a 'simple human', fall to the very same vulnerabilities that everyone else in every work force fall victim to? You seem to have pre-conceived notions that teachers are to be above the standard everyone else is placed on simply because children are part of the equation.
Funny enough, parents, which are far more visible and far more important to the children, are seldom, if ever, held to the same standards you are placing on this very teacher. So frankly sir, my cynical attitude is justified on that case alone, not to mention that these very parents, being hypocritical, turn around and blame the teacher for not having authority that they don't want her to have anyway. Then these same parents let TV, radio, and government raise their own child more times than not, so what do these children learn? That they can do anything. That -they- are the ones empowered, and they walk into these schools knowing fully that they have the power. And you dare to blame the teacher for having a weak moment?
Children, while not our equals, the parents and groups who back these children are ALSO not the teachers equals. They're above them. The teachers are, as was stated by someone else in this thread, watchers. They can't do anything but accept whatever happens in class and put on a bright smiley face. That's the recipe for suicide by any stretch of the imagination.
Also, I beg to differ but the sarcastic 'children can do no wrong' was intended the way I say it. You, like every other brainwashed individual out there believe their little child can do no wrong, can be anything they want, and should just be pampered until they achieve those unrealistic goals. Yes. Unrealistic. Some children should be swayed from directions they think they should be on (or should I say parents think their children should be on) because they don't have the skill sets. It doesn't mean they're not brilliant at something, just not what they have their mind set at. Teachers, more times than not, who dis-sway children from these goals become put on probation because they dare to say a child can't succeed. Well, news flash! They CAN'T! We are too much into the 'every child is the same, and every child can do anything' mentality. Smell reality. That has never been, and never will be, the case. Each child has their own gifts and abilities, we should nurture them on those skills, not on what they, or their parents, think is best for them.
So yes, children have issues. Children make mistakes. Children can be holy terrors. The problem is teachers can't do a damn thing about children because of parents, likely like you. So the children remain the same, and you blame the teacher. How about looking in a mirror and blaming yourself.
In the end we are human. Indeed, we feel frustration. This is quite different from holding the attitude "these kids are a lost cause " or "they don't meet my expectations so I'm done working to help them". This is the attitude we see in the teacher mentioned above. To teach is to adopt the philosophy I espouse. To do otherwise is to become a hindrance.
This I agree with, but what is a teacher to do? They have no power to change children
Actually, you made good points, let's break them down.
Teaching kids is about *helping the kids*.
How is the 'no kid left behind' doctrine helping kids? How is dumbing down the curriculum to help the under achiever helping the brilliant student?
If they are great at algebra, then teach them polynomials. If they can barely handle addition, teach them addition.
And here we have the crux of the problem with education in the United States. Teachers are unable to individually teach students, and thus, those that shine in their area of expertise suffer for those who are average. In fact, some school systems enforce average teaching because singling out students tend to get the teacher in question in trouble with the school boards.
If they can barely pay attention to addition, work on getting them to pay attention/have self confidence/etc.
And how does one enforce this? Spanking no longer is an option. Sending to the principles office? Most kids causing the problems really don't care if they're in trouble because they know the school system can't do -anything- to them if their parents don't care either, which is most always the case for troubled youth to begin with. Teachers can't do anything when the legal system and government and school boards take their power away to help them.
Someone with the attitude of this teacher (or yours) is certainly not doing this. She deserves a suspension.
Then you should suspend all teachers. I guarentee you that every single teacher out there, good or not, have felt this at least once. They vent to family, friends, and each other all the time. The only mistake this teacher did was to vent on a public forum where it was visible when she probably should have kept it private.
Her attitude betrays a point of view toxic to pedagogy.
Point your finger to the Government system that have ham-strung our education system. The teachers are as much a product of it as the piss-poor education our children are suffering through. She's a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
Hopefully she takes her suspension as a wake up call. I doubt it, but we can hope.
Why should she? She will likely do the exact same thing that students under her do who also cause problems. Not a damn thing. Why? Because it won't matter. Why care when no one else does. You've shown what the majority of people think already. You never once considered her view point. Why she felt the way she did. Why she felt she needed to vent. You automatically accused her because... why? The children could do no wrong?
Smell reality sometime. It's different than the fiction you're sniffing.
I'm simply pointing out that there are degrees of evil, and Hitler was quite a bit further up the scale than those darned expansionists.
I still have, from my great-great-grandfather's collection, his private diary stating of tobacco bags made from the testicles of American Indians.
So let's see...
Hitler gassed Jews....
Americans wiped out indian tribes through diseased blankets/clothing.
Hitler mutulated Jews for scientific expansion (and I'm sure pleasure)....
Americans mutulated indians -just- for pleasure.
Hitler tried to exterminate Jews....
Americans DID exterminate tribes of indians.
Hitler was out to take over the world and failed....
Americans were out to take over the richest nation of the world and succeeded.
Thus, I must disagree with your point above. Good ol' America, in how they treated the Americian Indians, were right up there with Hitler in the evil department, not degrees away as you said. The reason we aren't looked down upon in the same manner is frankly because unlike Hitler, we won.
Besides, I'm sure that Hitler didn't light up his pipe with his Jew testicle bag....
And as art has been 'uncomfortable' to our current ethical goals and guidelines, can someone chisel off Michelangelo's David's penis?
White-out the ceiling of churches as well. How dare they depict God when someone else won't believe in Him.
Maybe paint a white-tooth smile on Mona Lisa? The current smirk she has is offensive.
Please chisel off the names of all those who died from the war memorials. Knowing people died in a war is depressing.
Can we destroy all gravestones? Death is evil. No one should have to die. I don't want to know who died.
Ming dynasty vases are too colourful. Destroy them all and remake them in a common colour. Maybe mauve.
And that weird drug-induced Picassos, we should white-wash them and burn them, it obviously shows that drugs are good and we can't have that in our society.
And hey, why stop there. Let's petition the world government to have a standardized pigment colour straining of everyone's DNA so that all new births are the same eye colour, same skin colour, same hair colour, and same genetic make up? That way all that evil nasty racial hate can go away.
Then we can go for a one world economy, because obviously there's jealousy of who is richer than others. Thus, everyone should have the same amount of everything, making that evil nasty jealousy go away.
We should also dumb down the intelligent people, because 'stupid' is offensive, and no one should be better than anyone else, it shows faults and causes anger. We can't have that. So with the aforementioned genetic sequencing, all IQ should be a flat 100 across the board.
Wait, you made something unique? No you didn't, WE made something unique. That's right, the world automatically owns it, because it should be owned by everyone, thus no one is left out.
You may think this is sarcastic, but if you start to edit our history, you might as well go all the way and edit everything you don't approve.
I for one do not want a fahrenheit 451, Logan's Run, Equilibrium, Soylent Green, or similar society to live in.
Freedom is a wonderful thing, and something that is only missed when you no longer have it.
America is primarily targeted because of the innocent face we put forward.
Frankly, we're no better (or worse) than any other nation.
Maybe having the dirty laundry aired will help. Maybe it'll hurt. Who knows.
What will be interesting though, is the day that America tanks in the world economy, and we watch the rest of the world shelter together in a huddle trying to save the world's economy without America to hold up the rest.
Despite how America sucks in various ways, and admittedly, we do suck in various ways, the fact we drive a lot of the world economy can't be ignored, even when the direction we're heading I wish we could ignore it... it puts us as prime targets for the paintball blame of the world. Everyone else does it, we just get the press for it.
Many people with English degrees become teachers. I've had several such teachers, some quite talented. Are you saying teachers aren't valuable?
When I see teachers get paid 15,000-30,000 a year on ten-year contracts dealing with thousands of students, most of which are uncaring drones, and forbidden to punish or even help failing students who basically don't care, per government rules and guidelines, then yes, I can honestly say teachers, in our given environment, really aren't treated as a valuable commodity.
Only if the 'right thing' is Oracle looking back to find any and all possible copyright and intellectual property tags that could possibly be attached to the openoffice product, making a cease and desist, then releasing their new OracleOffice for profit.
That would be the 'right thing' in Oracle's eyes.
Oh wait, you were talking from the eyes of the consumer.
Funny, all I see from the eyes of the consumer is my own ankles as I bend over..
Or should all American Indians care, they could try to take ownership back from America, right?
Sorry, words and rightful indignation is wonderful and all, but to the worlds bias attitude and the money and power to bigots in all forms, those who care have been carefully herded away from being able to change anything worthwhile.
You think slavery ended for anyone? Work at a job sometime.
Think race is considered equal for everyone? If that was the case, why bring up Negros at all?
Nothing has really changed except the face presented to the world on how it's treated.
I've found that IDE controllers tend to get bogged with heavy I/O. Some of the better controllers like SATA or SCSI tend to totally release the overhead of the I/O.
I also found some CPU/motherboard issues with I/O. For example, one system had an ATA-66 harddrive, and a 64 bit AMD processor (Turon I belive?). When the ATA was pegged, the AMD processor was totally slapped in the face, total time skews and everything.
It wound up being a weird timing issue in the processor where the fair-que got smacked around because of the timing bugs.
So sometimes, the hardware as well as the exact kernel revision you're using can impact performance.
One of the things I find that helps performance is to disable hyperthreading in your bios. For bogged down I/O, that seemed to improve a lot of performance.
Secondly, make sure you have a swap partition specified. Even if you have enough memory to choke a horse, you still should have some swap specified as the kernel may decide to swap out memory that's not been accessed in a long while to disk.
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No, I have a good idea of what an IT operations 'should' look like.
The fact that most upper management don't set it up properly, they don't field the cash to allow the IT department to set it up properly, or the knowledge of the IT department don't have the skills to set it up properly are common cases. It still doesn't reduce the fact that this is very possible, and with the right management, right dollar amount, and right IT team, it can be done right.
I'm just sorry your budget, management, or IT associate skillset(s) don't allow for the obvious solution.
Not to mention IEX/VMware allows virtual consoles and administration, and most are clustered environments so even on a physical failure of hardware, other servers in the same cluster farm take up the slack.
The only time you would ever (or should I say should ever) have an issue is if the entire power (on multiple grids) went out at the same time taking out the entire data center, and even then, most companies should (and if you don't, I will proceed to apply a baseball bat liberally to your IT Director's head) have a viable disaster recovery site where things can run when the primary data center goes belly up.
Some data-centers, like financial or trade companies, even have a tertiary site in the rare event they lose both the primary and disaster recovery site.
There's also usually a warm body at any data center that you can call to say 'hey, check hardware on server X'. Or you have gold/platinum support where you call Oracle, HP, Dell, etc and have them arrive on site, replace the part, and have the server back in no time. As you have logs sent to a central log server as well as the local server, being able to diagnose the issue shouldn't be the problem... wait... you do have logs going to a remote server, right?!?
Then finally, most data-centers have smart outlets that have their own IP address, so you can literally 'log in' to a power strip and individually power on or off systems connected to a given outlet on the strip bar. Very very handy for those random window server hangs that just piss you off.
In today's world, frankly, there never is a reason to go to the office. The only reason we are is so management can keep a warm head count.
Hell, I could run the entire datacenter from my android phone.
No, if it was Chuck Norris, he'd get all 18 holes in one without swinging, without the need for a ball, and without having to get out of bed to actually show up.
Microsoft makes excellent keyboards and mice
Yea, just don't spill water on it and you're golden, otherwise, *poof*, instant doorstop.
Which goes to show you...
Not only was Han Solo frozen in carbonite, but apparently so was the dead horse that George Lucas keeps managing to pull out to beat again after thawing.
Any votes on how squishy that horse is now?
Jar Jar provided something very important to the movie. A plot device that the poor writing of Lucas allowed to be the central cause of the Empire being born.
'Why yes, miss Amelia, I'll represent you to the entire Republic!'.
It doesn't. There's some infrastructure in place, but nothing close to the out of box simplicity and functionality of AD and Group Policy.
While agreed, it's not out of the box, there are AD solutions for LInux. http://www.quest.com/identity-management/
There's also distribution tools and models for ease of distribution. http://www.puppetlabs.com/
And let's not forget a centralized intrusion detection system. http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/
Plenty of tools available for system distribution, and no need to 're-invent the wheel' or 'roll their own' to do so. So productivity generally includes installing these tools, configuring them, then globally distributing them based on preset configurations to all the other servers.
We use a lot of the tools above, and many others, to be able to rebuild a system, with a unique configuration, unique mount points, unique application and databases, and can generally go from bare-bone box to live server in under 20 minutes.
I would assume Linux has similar tools, or Google's estimated 200,000+ Linux server farm may be just a little unwieldy, eh?
You are wrong in that you think her attitude is a symptom rather than part of the underlying cause.
You are wrong also in seeming to think teachers are justified in becoming cynical. You ask "the children could do no wrong?" with sarcasm, yet this is just the philosophy an educator must maintain. Children are not your equals. You are better than they in any measurable regard. It is like shooting fish in a barrel to point out moral, motivational, analytical, or any other deficiency in a child under your tutelage. Being a teacher is understanding this. It is recognizing that you are there to better them as people despite any challenge which lays before you.
I respectively disagree. If her environment is harsh, de-powering, violent, harassing, and cynical, why shouldn't she, a 'simple human', fall to the very same vulnerabilities that everyone else in every work force fall victim to? You seem to have pre-conceived notions that teachers are to be above the standard everyone else is placed on simply because children are part of the equation.
Funny enough, parents, which are far more visible and far more important to the children, are seldom, if ever, held to the same standards you are placing on this very teacher. So frankly sir, my cynical attitude is justified on that case alone, not to mention that these very parents, being hypocritical, turn around and blame the teacher for not having authority that they don't want her to have anyway. Then these same parents let TV, radio, and government raise their own child more times than not, so what do these children learn? That they can do anything. That -they- are the ones empowered, and they walk into these schools knowing fully that they have the power. And you dare to blame the teacher for having a weak moment?
Children, while not our equals, the parents and groups who back these children are ALSO not the teachers equals. They're above them. The teachers are, as was stated by someone else in this thread, watchers. They can't do anything but accept whatever happens in class and put on a bright smiley face. That's the recipe for suicide by any stretch of the imagination.
Also, I beg to differ but the sarcastic 'children can do no wrong' was intended the way I say it. You, like every other brainwashed individual out there believe their little child can do no wrong, can be anything they want, and should just be pampered until they achieve those unrealistic goals. Yes. Unrealistic. Some children should be swayed from directions they think they should be on (or should I say parents think their children should be on) because they don't have the skill sets. It doesn't mean they're not brilliant at something, just not what they have their mind set at. Teachers, more times than not, who dis-sway children from these goals become put on probation because they dare to say a child can't succeed. Well, news flash! They CAN'T! We are too much into the 'every child is the same, and every child can do anything' mentality. Smell reality. That has never been, and never will be, the case. Each child has their own gifts and abilities, we should nurture them on those skills, not on what they, or their parents, think is best for them.
So yes, children have issues. Children make mistakes. Children can be holy terrors. The problem is teachers can't do a damn thing about children because of parents, likely like you. So the children remain the same, and you blame the teacher. How about looking in a mirror and blaming yourself.
In the end we are human. Indeed, we feel frustration. This is quite different from holding the attitude "these kids are a lost cause " or "they don't meet my expectations so I'm done working to help them". This is the attitude we see in the teacher mentioned above. To teach is to adopt the philosophy I espouse. To do otherwise is to become a hindrance.
This I agree with, but what is a teacher to do? They have no power to change children
Teaching kids is about *helping the kids*.
How is the 'no kid left behind' doctrine helping kids? How is dumbing down the curriculum to help the under achiever helping the brilliant student?
If they are great at algebra, then teach them polynomials. If they can barely handle addition, teach them addition.
And here we have the crux of the problem with education in the United States. Teachers are unable to individually teach students, and thus, those that shine in their area of expertise suffer for those who are average. In fact, some school systems enforce average teaching because singling out students tend to get the teacher in question in trouble with the school boards.
If they can barely pay attention to addition, work on getting them to pay attention/have self confidence/etc.
And how does one enforce this? Spanking no longer is an option. Sending to the principles office? Most kids causing the problems really don't care if they're in trouble because they know the school system can't do -anything- to them if their parents don't care either, which is most always the case for troubled youth to begin with. Teachers can't do anything when the legal system and government and school boards take their power away to help them.
Someone with the attitude of this teacher (or yours) is certainly not doing this. She deserves a suspension.
Then you should suspend all teachers. I guarentee you that every single teacher out there, good or not, have felt this at least once. They vent to family, friends, and each other all the time. The only mistake this teacher did was to vent on a public forum where it was visible when she probably should have kept it private.
Her attitude betrays a point of view toxic to pedagogy.
Point your finger to the Government system that have ham-strung our education system. The teachers are as much a product of it as the piss-poor education our children are suffering through. She's a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
Hopefully she takes her suspension as a wake up call. I doubt it, but we can hope.
Why should she? She will likely do the exact same thing that students under her do who also cause problems. Not a damn thing. Why? Because it won't matter. Why care when no one else does. You've shown what the majority of people think already. You never once considered her view point. Why she felt the way she did. Why she felt she needed to vent. You automatically accused her because... why? The children could do no wrong?
Smell reality sometime. It's different than the fiction you're sniffing.
This is what happens when parents let government raise their children.
Look around, and stop pointing the finger at others.
Somebody set up us the bomb.
I'm simply pointing out that there are degrees of evil, and Hitler was quite a bit further up the scale than those darned expansionists.
I still have, from my great-great-grandfather's collection, his private diary stating of tobacco bags made from the testicles of American Indians.
So let's see...
Hitler gassed Jews.... Americans wiped out indian tribes through diseased blankets/clothing.
Hitler mutulated Jews for scientific expansion (and I'm sure pleasure).... Americans mutulated indians -just- for pleasure.
Hitler tried to exterminate Jews.... Americans DID exterminate tribes of indians.
Hitler was out to take over the world and failed.... Americans were out to take over the richest nation of the world and succeeded.
Thus, I must disagree with your point above. Good ol' America, in how they treated the Americian Indians, were right up there with Hitler in the evil department, not degrees away as you said. The reason we aren't looked down upon in the same manner is frankly because unlike Hitler, we won.
Besides, I'm sure that Hitler didn't light up his pipe with his Jew testicle bag....
You're very right.
And as art has been 'uncomfortable' to our current ethical goals and guidelines, can someone chisel off Michelangelo's David's penis?
White-out the ceiling of churches as well. How dare they depict God when someone else won't believe in Him.
Maybe paint a white-tooth smile on Mona Lisa? The current smirk she has is offensive.
Please chisel off the names of all those who died from the war memorials. Knowing people died in a war is depressing.
Can we destroy all gravestones? Death is evil. No one should have to die. I don't want to know who died.
Ming dynasty vases are too colourful. Destroy them all and remake them in a common colour. Maybe mauve.
And that weird drug-induced Picassos, we should white-wash them and burn them, it obviously shows that drugs are good and we can't have that in our society.
And hey, why stop there. Let's petition the world government to have a standardized pigment colour straining of everyone's DNA so that all new births are the same eye colour, same skin colour, same hair colour, and same genetic make up? That way all that evil nasty racial hate can go away.
Then we can go for a one world economy, because obviously there's jealousy of who is richer than others. Thus, everyone should have the same amount of everything, making that evil nasty jealousy go away.
We should also dumb down the intelligent people, because 'stupid' is offensive, and no one should be better than anyone else, it shows faults and causes anger. We can't have that. So with the aforementioned genetic sequencing, all IQ should be a flat 100 across the board.
Wait, you made something unique? No you didn't, WE made something unique. That's right, the world automatically owns it, because it should be owned by everyone, thus no one is left out.
You may think this is sarcastic, but if you start to edit our history, you might as well go all the way and edit everything you don't approve.
I for one do not want a fahrenheit 451, Logan's Run, Equilibrium, Soylent Green, or similar society to live in.
Freedom is a wonderful thing, and something that is only missed when you no longer have it.
Damnit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a casanova... er...uh... huh.
How else do you expect the viruses to spread?
Guess we can figure how they get the software named... 'Avast ye! We're being boarded, arrrrrrr!'
America is not driving the world economy - you guys are broke and your dollars stink.
Yes, we stink so much we run 1/4th of the entire world's GDP.
The new economic superpower is China.
Yes yes, you're so right... China's 5 trillian GDP is so much higher than USA's 15 trillian GDP... *eyerolls*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
America is primarily targeted because of the innocent face we put forward.
Frankly, we're no better (or worse) than any other nation.
Maybe having the dirty laundry aired will help. Maybe it'll hurt. Who knows.
What will be interesting though, is the day that America tanks in the world economy, and we watch the rest of the world shelter together in a huddle trying to save the world's economy without America to hold up the rest.
Despite how America sucks in various ways, and admittedly, we do suck in various ways, the fact we drive a lot of the world economy can't be ignored, even when the direction we're heading I wish we could ignore it... it puts us as prime targets for the paintball blame of the world. Everyone else does it, we just get the press for it.
It was said best in Army of Darkness...
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Many people with English degrees become teachers. I've had several such teachers, some quite talented. Are you saying teachers aren't valuable?
When I see teachers get paid 15,000-30,000 a year on ten-year contracts dealing with thousands of students, most of which are uncaring drones, and forbidden to punish or even help failing students who basically don't care, per government rules and guidelines, then yes, I can honestly say teachers, in our given environment, really aren't treated as a valuable commodity.
Only if the 'right thing' is Oracle looking back to find any and all possible copyright and intellectual property tags that could possibly be attached to the openoffice product, making a cease and desist, then releasing their new OracleOffice for profit.
That would be the 'right thing' in Oracle's eyes.
Oh wait, you were talking from the eyes of the consumer.
Funny, all I see from the eyes of the consumer is my own ankles as I bend over..
Sadly, they aren't stopping there. They're slowly (ok, not so slowly) making Solaris unusable as well. As well as the hardware support.
Paying $160,000/year for 25K support why again?
Allow their genetic material to be used to the advancement of neuro-feedback computing and 'living hardware'.
Myyyyy, what a pretty brain you have....
Or should all American Indians care, they could try to take ownership back from America, right?
Sorry, words and rightful indignation is wonderful and all, but to the worlds bias attitude and the money and power to bigots in all forms, those who care have been carefully herded away from being able to change anything worthwhile.
You think slavery ended for anyone? Work at a job sometime.
Think race is considered equal for everyone? If that was the case, why bring up Negros at all?
Nothing has really changed except the face presented to the world on how it's treated.
I've found that IDE controllers tend to get bogged with heavy I/O. Some of the better controllers like SATA or SCSI tend to totally release the overhead of the I/O.
I also found some CPU/motherboard issues with I/O. For example, one system had an ATA-66 harddrive, and a 64 bit AMD processor (Turon I belive?). When the ATA was pegged, the AMD processor was totally slapped in the face, total time skews and everything.
It wound up being a weird timing issue in the processor where the fair-que got smacked around because of the timing bugs.
So sometimes, the hardware as well as the exact kernel revision you're using can impact performance.
One of the things I find that helps performance is to disable hyperthreading in your bios. For bogged down I/O, that seemed to improve a lot of performance.
Secondly, make sure you have a swap partition specified. Even if you have enough memory to choke a horse, you still should have some swap specified as the kernel may decide to swap out memory that's not been accessed in a long while to disk.
I hope this helps things.
Sadly, this isn't very impressive when cars nearly 20 years ago did the same.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/9765.shtml