Actually, I am a bigger fan of the president who leans heavily on his cabinet. No one person can be an expert in everything. It is the person who is most willing to let the experts be experts, and the man in the seat discern between the less of evils. That is what I want. Not some dictator who puts a bunch of puppet yes men for a cabinet.
Second, This being Slashdot you are going to get a lot of libertarian views, mostly siding with democratic policies.
Third, The presidential seat is merely a face that the world gets to see and blame. The real direction of the country come from the cabinet, the house, and unfortunately, the bench as of late.
for instance, the current economic crisis effecting you wasnt due to a president, (that didnt help the situation), it was a whole slew of issues from Democrats handing out freebees to lower class, and Republicans being irresponsible with Financial institutions.
Besides, if you take a good hard look at the US electoral process, we as citizens really don't get much say in the matter. It is much more important to vote for your local representatives and pay attention to voting matters that you can control.
Yes I vote, yes I am independent, and yes I am disappointed with the state we are in. Economically you had better hope for something around here, or start studying chinese.
What is with Slashdot going into political overdrive? I know the elections are coming up but jeesh, 3 on the main page right now and we still have weeks until the election.
Yes but with Allsmell you have to have a data plan to cover all those text messages, they just call it something else now rather than a data plan. Otherwise you get charged out the wazoo as you said for txts.
Ya T-Mobile is not an option in my area, I think my plan is running around $120 a month for my blackberry unlimited plan, GPS, and one extra line for the wife, not to mention it would be $160 a month if I wanted to tether it to my laptop. I asked the Alltel guy why the prices went from $10 to $40 a month for the tether and he said it was raised to match the competitors. Alltel was bought by verizon so you see where they are coming from now. There just isnt enough competition in my area.
Precicely, computers are very aware of the action they are preforming, there is nothing wrong with dumping that action to the user just as you suggested. But I see I was already modded troll for stating something obvious about MS logic.
Ya but dont forget that that e-mail to txt is MORE expensive as you need a data plan. oh and data plans for alltel went up to about $44 a month to match their competitors. Either way the cell companies are gouging us on a service that we already pay for. Check it out:
You pay a service contract fee for a data line.
You pay an extra fee for using that data line to send SMS messages
You pay and extra fee to use that data line to send http, pop, smtp, https traffic
You pay an extra fee on top of that if you want to use that data line to connect a computer
All at fees that are going up exponentially while cost per bit goes down for the company, I would love to see those margins. This is what is going to happen to your internet service soon people.
Security vs Ease of use, wow what a new concept, sure glad MS is around to show us these concepts. Seriously the MS design team is waaaaay behind the curve if they are just figuring this out.
I always thought MS was vague because they really didn't have a clue what their other dev teams were doing.
Precisely it is guys like this that keep people laughing at Christianity, they use and abuse the people to make a buck. What is to say he just wont go pass the Bar in another state like Utah....
Well the problem comes in the idea that the societal fallout from gambling in the US is that we have a welfare system. In areas where gambling is allowed, there are higher instances of welfare usage and higher crime rates. This results in more taxpayer money going to programs and law enforcement to support the idiots who cannot control themselves. In my state there is a big debate over this. I wish I could find the pages with reliable stats for both sides but I am feeling lazy today. But last I heard for every $1 generated from taxes in a given state it costs the state $1.25-$1.50 to cover the fallout.
I am really indifferent to the issue, there is a casino just over an hour drive from my house out of state so we get the fallout and none of the taxes here anyway.
Second, I will reiterate, there is a certain point in which your "work hours" become unproductive. The body and mind need relaxation. This is something most people learn in programming 101. You code more efficiently when you pace yourself. Most of my "Oh Shit" moments happen when I am into my 11th+ hour in a day. But when it comes down to it, I mostly feel sorry for you poor SOBs who need 10 hours to do what I do in 6-8. It is really sad. I used to push myself past 7:00, and have had my fair share of 100+ hour workweeks. But then I realized something, my work was sloppy, I spent most of my time fixing dumb mistakes I made earlier, and was missing out on life. I stopped the game and started playing smart. I now work 6-9 hour days, depending on when the work is done to my satisfaction go home and relax then come back in refreshed and enjoying my job. I started climbing the latter at light speed and learning much much faster. Moral of the story, know your limits and accept them. Oh and never forget the 3 laws of a programmer: (Yes I am a sysadmin and no longer a programmer but they still apply)
Laziness The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
Impatience The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
Hubris Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.
I beg to differ sir. If you think that you have to work more than 40 hours a day to get anywhere you are dead wrong. It isnt the hours in a day, it is the quality of the hours. I pride myself in the fact that I have gotten good enough at my job to where I can get quality work done in half the time of IT workers in the same field. I am not in the practice of putting in hours just to put in hours. I actually HAVE a life outside work, so if I want to work a 6 hour day, I go home. This is IT, I will pull a 10 hour day here and there and the administration knows it. I am compensated well, get fantastic reviews, and did I mention that I have improved my salary by 26% in the last 18 months not counting bonuses? Oh and I am working on cooler technology, at a much higher level, and work about 15% less than other jobs.
Getting ahead has nothing to do with pulling consistent 10 hour days. It has to do with putting out quality work.
I know it is average, what I was getting at was is this an average for all businesses or what?
When I worked in enterprise environments, my cost went up for backups but cost per GB went down. In general that is the rule I have found, in larger environments my cost per MB goes down significantly not up.
My point boils down to this, general stats like they have above are useless because we have environments like yours where you do medical imaging, and environments like mine where we do a mixture of marketing and data processing. Even with that your price per MB varies extraordinarily based on what you are doing with that Data and where it is going. On a Texas Memory San your price per MB is through the roof. If you are backing up to a magneto Optical solution it goes up more, and if you are paying for a dedicated pipe to a DR location even more.
But it seems to reason, that in similar environments you will get a consistent reduction per MB as data gets larger.
What I want to know is how these numbers are broken down. $5 per gigabyte to back up? Maybe if you factor in the cost of a robotic library. Considering that tapes currently run about $30 a pop for for 800GB and that I am on a 12 month rotation, I still don't come NEAR that price. 1.25 million for a 5000 person company? What kind of company? 10GB average is about 9GB over my average user here. Even when I worked at a larger company, we still weren't even breaching 700MB average INCLUDING e-mail.
Lovely scaremongering, but what did they mean by legal e-discovery? The time it takes to sort through the data or what?
That is the beauty in these games, hindsight is 20/20. Knowing that you completed the objectives without a guide is its own reward. Screw re-playability. That's not what makes these kind of games great.
Your example is precisely correct. There is no real way to tell someone how to optimize a server. You HAVE to know your own environment and your apps well enough to tweak them. The only way to do that is to get in a office where you can learn from someone. Never even think about optimization until you can tell me exactly what load your server has, your expected load in the coming months, and what services are open to be used.
I think what this comes down to is there are too many IT people who have leaned too hard on the google crutch. Ya I use google religiously too, however I use it to understand an app, not get a 1,2,3 to set up something. After I understand my app, and I see a need, I optimize for my company and security. Ive been in the IT industry for about 8 years now and have yet to have a server hacked (fingers crossed). I have been there when servers have been hacked and found the 30,000 ssl connections to korea...you just cant unplug fast enough in those situations;)
I am always looking for good numbers like this. Personally I have been leaning towards Obama. However it is good to know that people are taking such an interest in this election. With recent events in the market, it is becoming ever more important for us to drop our party biases and really look at taking care of our economy as a whole.
Are there any other stat sites like this out there? When my wife was in High School her poly-sci teacher handed out papers describing the different platforms and the candidates. Then took the students down to get registered. Does anyone do this anymore?
Ahh, the most insightful comment I have seen on this topic in a while.
I think people forget that with any new industry there is a lot of stuff going on in the beginning but as the industry irons itself out it becomes more and more efficient.
As we move to virtual environments, and back to terminal services we will have less need for the large IT staff. PC environments require large staff because there are so many moving parts in so many physical locations. One guy/girl can only support so many PCs at once. But a terminal session....they are all served up right next to you, no matter the size of the network. So as you said all the emphasis is going to be on security (and development) in the future. Which I have aimed my career to take advantage of this foresight.
No I love people asking for assistance. I have no problem with someone asking a question as bad as the one I gave as an example. What I have a problem with is egotistical IT guys fluffing their resume and taking jobs waaaaaay over their current technical skill. I have gone way out of my way for guys/girls who got put into a scenario out of their control.
This guy is asking for help not because someone put him in an awkward position. He was so proud of being able to edit a registry and set up a home website he thought he could skip the whole process of learning before doing. Look at the question, title Server optimization? Then asking how to set up, secure, and optimize a LAMP server? That is 4 different questions right there. About 2K pages worth of reading if you trim it down, and a good couple months of application to really know what you are doing from nothing.
If the guy was a current tech wanting to learn how to do the above so he could get a admin position, no problem. I have mentored more than one person and was mentored by many people myself. But here we have the nasty scenario of someone who doesn't even know how to start in a Job that he was hired for, probably fluffed the crap out of his resume, was hired by a developer needing a sysadmin. At an IT company nonetheless, which means this self admitted noob, is going to be affecting many people's companies.
Ask yourself, how many home techs do you know that think they can run your corporate network better than you? How many networks have you cleaned up because of this egotistical nonsense?
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LOL, you poor naive bastard. Watch, "who killed the electric car" or read "the E myth" for some insight.
Actually, I am a bigger fan of the president who leans heavily on his cabinet. No one person can be an expert in everything. It is the person who is most willing to let the experts be experts, and the man in the seat discern between the less of evils. That is what I want. Not some dictator who puts a bunch of puppet yes men for a cabinet.
Second, This being Slashdot you are going to get a lot of libertarian views, mostly siding with democratic policies.
Third, The presidential seat is merely a face that the world gets to see and blame. The real direction of the country come from the cabinet, the house, and unfortunately, the bench as of late.
for instance, the current economic crisis effecting you wasnt due to a president, (that didnt help the situation), it was a whole slew of issues from Democrats handing out freebees to lower class, and Republicans being irresponsible with Financial institutions.
Besides, if you take a good hard look at the US electoral process, we as citizens really don't get much say in the matter. It is much more important to vote for your local representatives and pay attention to voting matters that you can control.
Yes I vote, yes I am independent, and yes I am disappointed with the state we are in. Economically you had better hope for something around here, or start studying chinese.
What is with Slashdot going into political overdrive? I know the elections are coming up but jeesh, 3 on the main page right now and we still have weeks until the election.
Im just hoping that with this merger maybe alltel will get some of the nicer verizon phones to choose from.
Yes but with Allsmell you have to have a data plan to cover all those text messages, they just call it something else now rather than a data plan. Otherwise you get charged out the wazoo as you said for txts.
Ya T-Mobile is not an option in my area, I think my plan is running around $120 a month for my blackberry unlimited plan, GPS, and one extra line for the wife, not to mention it would be $160 a month if I wanted to tether it to my laptop. I asked the Alltel guy why the prices went from $10 to $40 a month for the tether and he said it was raised to match the competitors. Alltel was bought by verizon so you see where they are coming from now. There just isnt enough competition in my area.
Precicely, computers are very aware of the action they are preforming, there is nothing wrong with dumping that action to the user just as you suggested. But I see I was already modded troll for stating something obvious about MS logic.
You pay a service contract fee for a data line.
You pay an extra fee for using that data line to send SMS messages
You pay and extra fee to use that data line to send http, pop, smtp, https traffic
You pay an extra fee on top of that if you want to use that data line to connect a computer
All at fees that are going up exponentially while cost per bit goes down for the company, I would love to see those margins. This is what is going to happen to your internet service soon people.
I always thought MS was vague because they really didn't have a clue what their other dev teams were doing.
I'm BATMAN!
Precisely it is guys like this that keep people laughing at Christianity, they use and abuse the people to make a buck. What is to say he just wont go pass the Bar in another state like Utah....
I am really indifferent to the issue, there is a casino just over an hour drive from my house out of state so we get the fallout and none of the taxes here anyway.
Second, I will reiterate, there is a certain point in which your "work hours" become unproductive. The body and mind need relaxation. This is something most people learn in programming 101. You code more efficiently when you pace yourself. Most of my "Oh Shit" moments happen when I am into my 11th+ hour in a day. But when it comes down to it, I mostly feel sorry for you poor SOBs who need 10 hours to do what I do in 6-8. It is really sad. I used to push myself past 7:00, and have had my fair share of 100+ hour workweeks. But then I realized something, my work was sloppy, I spent most of my time fixing dumb mistakes I made earlier, and was missing out on life. I stopped the game and started playing smart. I now work 6-9 hour days, depending on when the work is done to my satisfaction go home and relax then come back in refreshed and enjoying my job. I started climbing the latter at light speed and learning much much faster. Moral of the story, know your limits and accept them. Oh and never forget the 3 laws of a programmer: (Yes I am a sysadmin and no longer a programmer but they still apply)
Laziness The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
Impatience The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
Hubris Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.
Getting ahead has nothing to do with pulling consistent 10 hour days. It has to do with putting out quality work.
I am trying to remember the same thing, around 97-98 there being a virtual marketplace style app....
When I worked in enterprise environments, my cost went up for backups but cost per GB went down. In general that is the rule I have found, in larger environments my cost per MB goes down significantly not up.
My point boils down to this, general stats like they have above are useless because we have environments like yours where you do medical imaging, and environments like mine where we do a mixture of marketing and data processing. Even with that your price per MB varies extraordinarily based on what you are doing with that Data and where it is going. On a Texas Memory San your price per MB is through the roof. If you are backing up to a magneto Optical solution it goes up more, and if you are paying for a dedicated pipe to a DR location even more.
But it seems to reason, that in similar environments you will get a consistent reduction per MB as data gets larger.
Lovely scaremongering, but what did they mean by legal e-discovery? The time it takes to sort through the data or what?
That is the beauty in these games, hindsight is 20/20. Knowing that you completed the objectives without a guide is its own reward. Screw re-playability. That's not what makes these kind of games great.
Try the myst series if you havent. Yo ucan pick up the box set for dirt cheap. They will drive you nutz.
Your example is precisely correct. There is no real way to tell someone how to optimize a server. You HAVE to know your own environment and your apps well enough to tweak them. The only way to do that is to get in a office where you can learn from someone. Never even think about optimization until you can tell me exactly what load your server has, your expected load in the coming months, and what services are open to be used.
I think what this comes down to is there are too many IT people who have leaned too hard on the google crutch. Ya I use google religiously too, however I use it to understand an app, not get a 1,2,3 to set up something. After I understand my app, and I see a need, I optimize for my company and security. Ive been in the IT industry for about 8 years now and have yet to have a server hacked (fingers crossed). I have been there when servers have been hacked and found the 30,000 ssl connections to korea...you just cant unplug fast enough in those situations ;)
Thank you for not just saying this was a bush administration problem, these issue goes a ways back.
Are there any other stat sites like this out there? When my wife was in High School her poly-sci teacher handed out papers describing the different platforms and the candidates. Then took the students down to get registered. Does anyone do this anymore?
I think people forget that with any new industry there is a lot of stuff going on in the beginning but as the industry irons itself out it becomes more and more efficient.
As we move to virtual environments, and back to terminal services we will have less need for the large IT staff. PC environments require large staff because there are so many moving parts in so many physical locations. One guy/girl can only support so many PCs at once. But a terminal session....they are all served up right next to you, no matter the size of the network. So as you said all the emphasis is going to be on security (and development) in the future. Which I have aimed my career to take advantage of this foresight.
This guy is asking for help not because someone put him in an awkward position. He was so proud of being able to edit a registry and set up a home website he thought he could skip the whole process of learning before doing. Look at the question, title Server optimization? Then asking how to set up, secure, and optimize a LAMP server? That is 4 different questions right there. About 2K pages worth of reading if you trim it down, and a good couple months of application to really know what you are doing from nothing.
If the guy was a current tech wanting to learn how to do the above so he could get a admin position, no problem. I have mentored more than one person and was mentored by many people myself. But here we have the nasty scenario of someone who doesn't even know how to start in a Job that he was hired for, probably fluffed the crap out of his resume, was hired by a developer needing a sysadmin. At an IT company nonetheless, which means this self admitted noob, is going to be affecting many people's companies.
Ask yourself, how many home techs do you know that think they can run your corporate network better than you? How many networks have you cleaned up because of this egotistical nonsense?