People are looking forward to ext4 because ext3 has performed so poorly compared to ReiserFS. No one wants to touch ReiserFS, regardless of its performance advantages over anything out today, because Hans was a psycho.
In a previous job, we tried everything we could to use ext3 for one of our server-based products, but the performance was never good enough compared to ReiserFS v3.
Hopefully the ext4 folks have learned how to implement all the excellent ideas Hans Reiser came up with between ReiserFS v3 and ReiserFS v4.
Automation of the entire process only goes so far. You have to manually verify each step of the backup process anyways, so just dedicate a bit of your time each month (or quarter) to verify backups are in fact working.
Fun stuff, but worth the time and effort if disaster ever strikes.
Absolutely correct on the incompetent part. Wow, that's just ignorant.
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Good guess, but *bzzzt* wrong. Most of my friends are IT professionals and they don't buy Dell. We're talking people with 10 years corporate windos administration experience here, who know what they need to do to avoid at least the worst nightmares.
Dell IS crap hardware. I've been around the corporate IT block for over 10 years too, so I have my own experiences with thousands of workstations to pull from, like call center installations, corporate office desktops, and server farms of every "enterprise" OS on the market.
Or any non-crap PC hardware. The last non-Apple notebook a close friend bought before switching to a MacBook Pro was actually more expensive than the MBP. Quality costs money, Apple or not Apple.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
Funny. I used to administer a couple windos systems running on the best hardware available back then. Ok, that was NT 3.5 so you'll claim things have changed. But it's the best I can offer in anecdotal evidence because after that I decided that the whole windos crap is hopeless and went for Unix. Anyways, we had an exchange server that was so prone to falling over, we finally decided that one of us had to be the first one in each morning and reboot the damn thing. After being rebooted daily, it had a 99% chance of staying up until the next reboot.
Exchange is beast of an application. I've actually had it running on my own, but never had any issues with stability. That said, I'd never recommend it to anyone either. This has nothing to do with the OS, though.
Funny how my private Linux systems on average hardware tend to have uptimes in the hundred of days.
So do my Linux systems. I've also had Solaris, BSD, and Windows systems with years of uptime as well. I know that means the Windows systems didn't get patched, but they were not publicly accessible, and heavily firewalled from the rest of the network as well.
Don't tell me it's never the OS. It isn't always the OS, I'll grant you that. But I've seen everything from AIX to windos first-hand myself and unless close your eyes, there are visible differences.
I never said "It's never the OS". I said "Crap hardware will make any OS piss all over itself", and that in my experience, crap hardware is everywhere in the Windows world. It's all commodity, so it goes to the lowest bidder.
As someone who used to drive around and gas up generators for a privately owned WISP, thank you.
Some of the tower sites I had to maintain were also next to or on the same tower as cellular providers, and I'd be there the same time their technicians were there during bad weather or extended outages. Even gave a couple gallons of gas from my reserves to one of the cell providers when they ran out one time last summer.
People who work infrastructure deserve a lot of credit for your daily comforts.
I think you're right on with the FPS thoughts. I was never into the FPS wars, and as long as I could get 20-40FPS, I was fine.
Why people think 100FPS is better is beyond me, especially since most people don't even have monitors that will sync that high, or LCD panels that can refresh fast enough.
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Crap hardware will make any OS piss all over itself. Most of the Windows people who have problems tend to have the absolute cheapest, underpowered, or simply malfunctioning hardware.
This is why Apple is stable, and your typical $400 Vista system is not. Yes, you pay out a lot more money for your Apple laptop or desktop system, but it tends to be higher quality hardware. This isn't much different than buying Sun or SGI hardware, FWIW.
I currently administer an office building with 100% Mac workstations and Open Directory. I used to administer a very large installation of Windows workstations and Active Directory. Before that I administered a building full of research scientists that had AIX, Irix, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows tied together with NIS ans Samba. In every case, no one skimped on hardware, and as a result, I've never really had an issue keeping everything running smoothly, regardless of what OS was being used.
The OS is supposed to work, but that won't happen without decent hardware. Stop buying shit hardware for your Windows systems, and you'll find that Windows can be a very stable OS.
I'd gladly take the 1890's all over again. At least then people who wanted to work and make something of themselves could do so, without being brought down by the lazy bastards who were just there to receive a paycheck.
No thanks. I'd rather be fired for lack of merit or to balance payroll than be employed and reduced to the lowest common denominator. At least if I was fired, I knew where I stood with the company.
As for legal protection, I know how to call a private attorney.
Sorry, but I've already been in a situation where a previous employer could have prevented me from ever getting another job in that town ever again (political ties to competing organizations). I recognized the situation early, and left the job and the area permanently.
I don't think you have to have a strong outward personality as much as you have to recognize your self-worth. I'm actually a very quiet individual, but I won't lay down and be trampled on by anyone.
Find a job or career that you will be happy with, and I think you'd find that you would work or fight harder to keep that job or career.
If you could care less about tomorrow in your current job, you need to look inward and figure out what would make you WANT to keep that job.
Where does it say that when the union says jump, you must jump ? Do you always do what you're told ? Support the things you believe in and don't support the things you don't. But bear in mind that if you don't participate at all then the mechanism won't be there when you do need it. Why do you have to work at that particular company anyway ? Perhaps because they pay the best wages (probably due to the union), they have the best conditions (again, probably due to the union) or there is nowhere else to work (if it hadn't been for the union, the company would have shut down and moved elsewhere).
Considering there haven't been unions in IT, none of the good things in the industry have come from unions.
Yes, jobs going overseas WOULD be happening with or without unions in tech. I am of the opinion that the reason we still have tech in the US is because there are no unions in tech.
I live in Illinois, where you have to have union everything in order to do anything. Unions have a bad rap because they only serve to keep warm bodies on a payroll.
You sound like someone who wouldn't survive in your field without union protection.
Or maybe those of us who are anti-union already don't get abused where we work because we stand up for ourselves? Maybe not all of us in IT put up with employers who expect unreasonable hours?
I create the environment in which I work. I don't have to put in crazy hours (40 a week is the norm for me), I get excellent benefits, catered lunches, a free gym at work, no questions asked family leave for sick kids/school functions, top of the line equipment to work with, my own office, etc. No, I'm not self-employed either.
The only reason people have a sucky job in IT is because they let it be sucky. Grow a spine, and stand up for yourself. Don't wimp out and run to the unions for "protection".
Honestly, if you can't be proactive towards your happiness at work, then you won't be proactive in your job either. Go find a new career if IT doesn't suit you.
If you need protection to keep your job, you need to either find a new career, or find a new job.
When companies start to go under because they can't hire people fast enough to replace the people who leave, you'll see some changes in the tech industry. No unions needed.
And this is exactly why no one in tech wants to deal with unions or guilds. Because it WILL get to some ignorant level like UAW is today because of the amount of money in tech.
The unions are just branching out. The auto industry is dying, so they need a new teat to suck.
If your husband isn't on that list, you can STFU. I've performed one of the jobs on that list for the better part of 10 years, and there were no unions for me to cry to.
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People are looking forward to ext4 because ext3 has performed so poorly compared to ReiserFS. No one wants to touch ReiserFS, regardless of its performance advantages over anything out today, because Hans was a psycho.
In a previous job, we tried everything we could to use ext3 for one of our server-based products, but the performance was never good enough compared to ReiserFS v3.
Hopefully the ext4 folks have learned how to implement all the excellent ideas Hans Reiser came up with between ReiserFS v3 and ReiserFS v4.
Maybe because it's cost effective, fast, and low power enough to get the job done and still have some battery life?
Sorry, but the VIA Nano processor is much better than the Atom, and way faster than an ARM processor. Do some reading.
Bingo.
It's IT. It's not supposed to be easy. ;-)
Automation of the entire process only goes so far. You have to manually verify each step of the backup process anyways, so just dedicate a bit of your time each month (or quarter) to verify backups are in fact working.
Fun stuff, but worth the time and effort if disaster ever strikes.
Not if the NAS is off-site from your main data storage.
I'm a huge fan of tapes, but I've done some backup implementations that were better suited for a couple of hard drives in an off-site rotation.
Lots of ways to skin this cat, and apparently all were too difficult for the admin in question in the article.
Absolutely correct on the incompetent part. Wow, that's just ignorant.
Dell IS crap hardware. I've been around the corporate IT block for over 10 years too, so I have my own experiences with thousands of workstations to pull from, like call center installations, corporate office desktops, and server farms of every "enterprise" OS on the market.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
Exchange is beast of an application. I've actually had it running on my own, but never had any issues with stability. That said, I'd never recommend it to anyone either. This has nothing to do with the OS, though.
So do my Linux systems. I've also had Solaris, BSD, and Windows systems with years of uptime as well. I know that means the Windows systems didn't get patched, but they were not publicly accessible, and heavily firewalled from the rest of the network as well.
I never said "It's never the OS". I said "Crap hardware will make any OS piss all over itself", and that in my experience, crap hardware is everywhere in the Windows world. It's all commodity, so it goes to the lowest bidder.
DC to AC inverter and two cars. I can go days without any power at home, and keep my cell phones charged up, get online, etc.
As someone who used to drive around and gas up generators for a privately owned WISP, thank you.
Some of the tower sites I had to maintain were also next to or on the same tower as cellular providers, and I'd be there the same time their technicians were there during bad weather or extended outages. Even gave a couple gallons of gas from my reserves to one of the cell providers when they ran out one time last summer.
People who work infrastructure deserve a lot of credit for your daily comforts.
I think you're right on with the FPS thoughts. I was never into the FPS wars, and as long as I could get 20-40FPS, I was fine.
Why people think 100FPS is better is beyond me, especially since most people don't even have monitors that will sync that high, or LCD panels that can refresh fast enough.
Crap hardware will make any OS piss all over itself. Most of the Windows people who have problems tend to have the absolute cheapest, underpowered, or simply malfunctioning hardware.
This is why Apple is stable, and your typical $400 Vista system is not. Yes, you pay out a lot more money for your Apple laptop or desktop system, but it tends to be higher quality hardware. This isn't much different than buying Sun or SGI hardware, FWIW.
I currently administer an office building with 100% Mac workstations and Open Directory. I used to administer a very large installation of Windows workstations and Active Directory. Before that I administered a building full of research scientists that had AIX, Irix, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows tied together with NIS ans Samba. In every case, no one skimped on hardware, and as a result, I've never really had an issue keeping everything running smoothly, regardless of what OS was being used.
The OS is supposed to work, but that won't happen without decent hardware. Stop buying shit hardware for your Windows systems, and you'll find that Windows can be a very stable OS.
I'd gladly take the 1890's all over again. At least then people who wanted to work and make something of themselves could do so, without being brought down by the lazy bastards who were just there to receive a paycheck.
I could have sworn I replied to this earlier. Anyways...
I've already been in that situation, and managed to find a new job and a new home just fine.
You don't have to be assertive, just don't be a sponge that takes all the beatings management would love to dish out.
No thanks. I'd rather be fired for lack of merit or to balance payroll than be employed and reduced to the lowest common denominator. At least if I was fired, I knew where I stood with the company.
As for legal protection, I know how to call a private attorney.
Sorry, but I've already been in a situation where a previous employer could have prevented me from ever getting another job in that town ever again (political ties to competing organizations). I recognized the situation early, and left the job and the area permanently.
I don't think you have to have a strong outward personality as much as you have to recognize your self-worth. I'm actually a very quiet individual, but I won't lay down and be trampled on by anyone.
Find a job or career that you will be happy with, and I think you'd find that you would work or fight harder to keep that job or career.
If you could care less about tomorrow in your current job, you need to look inward and figure out what would make you WANT to keep that job.
Considering there haven't been unions in IT, none of the good things in the industry have come from unions.
Go troll for unions in some car forums.
Yes, jobs going overseas WOULD be happening with or without unions in tech. I am of the opinion that the reason we still have tech in the US is because there are no unions in tech.
I live in Illinois, where you have to have union everything in order to do anything. Unions have a bad rap because they only serve to keep warm bodies on a payroll.
You sound like someone who wouldn't survive in your field without union protection.
Sounds like incompetence all the way around in that accident.
Or maybe those of us who are anti-union already don't get abused where we work because we stand up for ourselves? Maybe not all of us in IT put up with employers who expect unreasonable hours?
I create the environment in which I work. I don't have to put in crazy hours (40 a week is the norm for me), I get excellent benefits, catered lunches, a free gym at work, no questions asked family leave for sick kids/school functions, top of the line equipment to work with, my own office, etc. No, I'm not self-employed either.
The only reason people have a sucky job in IT is because they let it be sucky. Grow a spine, and stand up for yourself. Don't wimp out and run to the unions for "protection".
Honestly, if you can't be proactive towards your happiness at work, then you won't be proactive in your job either. Go find a new career if IT doesn't suit you.
If you need protection to keep your job, you need to either find a new career, or find a new job.
When companies start to go under because they can't hire people fast enough to replace the people who leave, you'll see some changes in the tech industry. No unions needed.
That sounds about the same as the US, actually.
And this is exactly why no one in tech wants to deal with unions or guilds. Because it WILL get to some ignorant level like UAW is today because of the amount of money in tech.
The unions are just branching out. The auto industry is dying, so they need a new teat to suck.
A hospital bed that shocks me is less of a concern than staff who are too scared to do anything about it without the help of a union.
Here's your list of the most dangerous jobs in the USA for 2007:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/Careers/01/08/cb.danger/index.html
If your husband isn't on that list, you can STFU. I've performed one of the jobs on that list for the better part of 10 years, and there were no unions for me to cry to.
In the US, absolutely. Witness the auto industry imploding, and UAW not willing to do anything to save its workforce.
Unions are very corrupt in the US, almost as much as politicians (and that says a lot, considering I'm from Illinois).