Absolutely that sort of support is amazingly expensive, beyond the budgets of even medium sized businesses. That said in the context of the article that's sort of commenting on the range and fuel requirements for an ICBM when they were talking about a slingshot and stones. Both are roughly related but are on massively different scales.
Fair point, which is why just about all the discovery stuff is filed under "Edutainment" on my media box. I'm with you on the supernatural/ghost stuff being on discovery. I don't understand what the hell thats doing on there. So I retract my original comment:-)
I get the feeling he probably doesn't think there is anything to learn from window cleaners, sewer workers, or other blue collar jobs. Too far down the totem pole, not enough blinky lights.
In 20yrs I cannot think of anyone who needed to ask a corporate customer for access to thier production servers to sort out a software problem
So, in 20 years you've never had to run fsck? By default redhat/centos ask for the root password. I doubt those are the only distros.
Oh and yes I know there are ways to get around the root password request but the end result of those is the same as if you'd been given the root password. So unless you've got horrible password practices and your admin uses the same password on the company server and his bank account there is no reason to protect the root password like its something etched in stone. Once your provider fixes the problem you asked them to fix you can change your password. Not giving them the tools to do the job you asked them to is just illogical paranoia masked as 'security'.
It's not up to the provider to figure out a 'secure' way to help you quickly, thats your job.
The word demanding is a bit harsh, they *asked* for the root password. He denied it to them. What they should have told him at that point was that he was on his own to figure out the problem then, instead they probably single usered his box. That was an idiotic move on their part. But then we don't know the history he has with them. Perhaps he's had X other issues with them where he demanded they single user his box because he refused to give them root and they unfortunately assumed he meant to do it this time as well. We don't know the full story, the user might be bright from a technical standard point but he could be quite dim when it comes to working with others.
I like your screen option, but there are legitimate reasons for a provider to have *some* access, unless you appreciate being down for additional time. Then possibly being charged for what would normally be included as part of the service due to making it difficult on the provider to assist you when something does go wrong.
Personally if your going to go that paranoid your better off coloing with a local provider that you can physically visit 24/7 unescorted and secure your server behind a locked cabinet door. Yes it wont prevent them from gaining access no matter what but generally a colo provider isn't going to enter your space without good cause, specially if you've got a webcam pointing at your servers.
Have you ever tried to organize any material worth a damn? I'm not talking about your pr0n collection listed by entry hole. I mean trying to categorize the entire spectrum of human knowledge? The Dewey Decimal system may be the most common one used but it is by far not the only type in existence. Try spending some time reading up on systems of organization/taxonomy... its quiet fascinating unless all you can find amusing in life is bouncing tits and the latest sports blooper.
Although to be fair bouncing tits and sports bloopers DO have a place, I believe they belong somewhere in the 790's.
Well that's just it, you say "currently known as The Netherlands". To quote wikipedia "The Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was a European republic between 1581 and 1795, in about the same location as the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is the successor state." Key words there is 'was'. The whole point the person is making is that the USA is the only one who is still the same *today*. That probably won't be true by the time we all hit retirement age but his point stands for the moment. If your pulling out the whole being a republic first, the Romans beat the Netherlands on that front. So like I said the key point is really about currently existing countries, with that qualification he's correct in his argument.
While you find it as odd that people would run a vm, I think it just as odd that you question it. Having instant access to your real desktop for a few fps hit is worth it. If your playing a game thats a few years old and you have anything close to a modern video card you've got enough hardware to make it not really matter. And even if you don't, ram is so cheap these days that 'double the memory' is meaningless. I don't have the luxury to devote the time I want to playing games anymore but they're the whole reason I learned to fix my computer in the first place. Since I already have multiple monitors for working on multiple tasks I can see the status of my shell windows and incoming emails while playing games. So yeah, VM gaming is awesome, have my fun and then be a professional 1/2 second later when a client needs something fixed.
That is totally illogical "You have to either accept them all or debunk them all". With that mindset even proven false or corrupt datasets would have to be accepted. Although perhaps you don't mean that, but then I see 'debunked' as 'corrupt' or 'proven false' so in my eyes that is exactly what your saying.
Read it. The guy had a brilliant past, truly put his mark in the computer world. Doesn't necessarily mean he'll *always* be on the forefront though. The link you give says that his coworkers found his ideas out dated and obsolete, that doesn't reflect his age but his views. As I see it his age wasn't an issue, the fact was that he couldn't adapt to googles culture which is not only on the edge of the latest tech but creating things that are yet to come. His inability to do that was the problem, the fact he is also past 40 just happened to be true as well. Is google perfect? Hell no, humans make up the company and humans aren't perfect. But are they ageist bastards who got rid of a brilliant cutting edge employee who shook the technological world because he was old? No, looks like he hasn't done anything ground breaking in the last 10 years, definitely not since he left google to prove them wrong. He lost his edge.
No, sequels authorized by the *creator* are canon. Perhaps one could even extend it to the chosen heir who wrote the first sequels to pass on the right to the next heir to create sequels, sort of an old school torch passing. But those authorized by money grubbing bastards who just happen to be spawned from the creators loins are not canon just because current legal theory says they have the right.
Hey I resemble that remark. If I wasn't the kid sitting alone reading a fantasy novel in PE class I'd never have met my two best friends. So yeah, don't knock the loner geek sitting in the corner:P
Now excuse me, I need to go grab some more diet mt. dew.
I'm sure those points were addressed. I can't imagine them going "Look we got the melting point low enough to print!!!..... but it melts into slag when you turn it on for more than 10 seconds."
Yup, HTC knows what the hell they're doing. I love mine, I saved my old ones and bought my friends old ones purely to keep them around as mobile book readers/gaming toys/streaming radio players/kickass pdas.
I use to work for them. FreePC, loved the job, no one bitched about getting a free computer. But you didn't have to click on ads, you just had your screen permanently filled with them on the bottom and right side. The remaining area was left for you. They eventually got bought out by emachines and then it became a horrible place to work.
Well a problem with slocate is that it doesn't track changes live. Its basically a prettier version of a find dump into txt file then grep it. Something that tracks files live on the server end which can be searched remotely. Heck even a web interface or ssh would fit my needs, it doesn't need a pretty popup window thing.
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Absolutely that sort of support is amazingly expensive, beyond the budgets of even medium sized businesses. That said in the context of the article that's sort of commenting on the range and fuel requirements for an ICBM when they were talking about a slingshot and stones. Both are roughly related but are on massively different scales.
Fair point, which is why just about all the discovery stuff is filed under "Edutainment" on my media box. I'm with you on the supernatural/ghost stuff being on discovery. I don't understand what the hell thats doing on there. So I retract my original comment :-)
I get the feeling he probably doesn't think there is anything to learn from window cleaners, sewer workers, or other blue collar jobs. Too far down the totem pole, not enough blinky lights.
In 20yrs I cannot think of anyone who needed to ask a corporate customer for access to thier production servers to sort out a software problem
So, in 20 years you've never had to run fsck? By default redhat/centos ask for the root password. I doubt those are the only distros.
Oh and yes I know there are ways to get around the root password request but the end result of those is the same as if you'd been given the root password. So unless you've got horrible password practices and your admin uses the same password on the company server and his bank account there is no reason to protect the root password like its something etched in stone. Once your provider fixes the problem you asked them to fix you can change your password. Not giving them the tools to do the job you asked them to is just illogical paranoia masked as 'security'.
It's not up to the provider to figure out a 'secure' way to help you quickly, thats your job.
Umm no, 1st analogy wins.
The word demanding is a bit harsh, they *asked* for the root password. He denied it to them. What they should have told him at that point was that he was on his own to figure out the problem then, instead they probably single usered his box. That was an idiotic move on their part. But then we don't know the history he has with them. Perhaps he's had X other issues with them where he demanded they single user his box because he refused to give them root and they unfortunately assumed he meant to do it this time as well. We don't know the full story, the user might be bright from a technical standard point but he could be quite dim when it comes to working with others.
Even the suggestion that they need root access to help you is enough that you ought to leave right away
You've not dealt with many *nix users fubaring their configuration settings and then moaning about the hardware being bad have you?
I like your screen option, but there are legitimate reasons for a provider to have *some* access, unless you appreciate being down for additional time. Then possibly being charged for what would normally be included as part of the service due to making it difficult on the provider to assist you when something does go wrong.
Personally if your going to go that paranoid your better off coloing with a local provider that you can physically visit 24/7 unescorted and secure your server behind a locked cabinet door. Yes it wont prevent them from gaining access no matter what but generally a colo provider isn't going to enter your space without good cause, specially if you've got a webcam pointing at your servers.
Have you ever tried to organize any material worth a damn? I'm not talking about your pr0n collection listed by entry hole. I mean trying to categorize the entire spectrum of human knowledge? The Dewey Decimal system may be the most common one used but it is by far not the only type in existence. Try spending some time reading up on systems of organization/taxonomy... its quiet fascinating unless all you can find amusing in life is bouncing tits and the latest sports blooper.
Although to be fair bouncing tits and sports bloopers DO have a place, I believe they belong somewhere in the 790's.
Well that's just it, you say "currently known as The Netherlands". To quote wikipedia "The Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was a European republic between 1581 and 1795, in about the same location as the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is the successor state." Key words there is 'was'. The whole point the person is making is that the USA is the only one who is still the same *today*. That probably won't be true by the time we all hit retirement age but his point stands for the moment. If your pulling out the whole being a republic first, the Romans beat the Netherlands on that front. So like I said the key point is really about currently existing countries, with that qualification he's correct in his argument.
Perhaps, but then this looks stupidly fun to drive.
Be a living example of why helpdocs have to be written as if your 80 year old grandmother was the target audience.
While you find it as odd that people would run a vm, I think it just as odd that you question it. Having instant access to your real desktop for a few fps hit is worth it. If your playing a game thats a few years old and you have anything close to a modern video card you've got enough hardware to make it not really matter. And even if you don't, ram is so cheap these days that 'double the memory' is meaningless. I don't have the luxury to devote the time I want to playing games anymore but they're the whole reason I learned to fix my computer in the first place. Since I already have multiple monitors for working on multiple tasks I can see the status of my shell windows and incoming emails while playing games. So yeah, VM gaming is awesome, have my fun and then be a professional 1/2 second later when a client needs something fixed.
Agreed, neither extreme is good.
That is totally illogical "You have to either accept them all or debunk them all". With that mindset even proven false or corrupt datasets would have to be accepted. Although perhaps you don't mean that, but then I see 'debunked' as 'corrupt' or 'proven false' so in my eyes that is exactly what your saying.
Read it. The guy had a brilliant past, truly put his mark in the computer world. Doesn't necessarily mean he'll *always* be on the forefront though. The link you give says that his coworkers found his ideas out dated and obsolete, that doesn't reflect his age but his views. As I see it his age wasn't an issue, the fact was that he couldn't adapt to googles culture which is not only on the edge of the latest tech but creating things that are yet to come. His inability to do that was the problem, the fact he is also past 40 just happened to be true as well. Is google perfect? Hell no, humans make up the company and humans aren't perfect. But are they ageist bastards who got rid of a brilliant cutting edge employee who shook the technological world because he was old? No, looks like he hasn't done anything ground breaking in the last 10 years, definitely not since he left google to prove them wrong. He lost his edge.
No, sequels authorized by the *creator* are canon. Perhaps one could even extend it to the chosen heir who wrote the first sequels to pass on the right to the next heir to create sequels, sort of an old school torch passing. But those authorized by money grubbing bastards who just happen to be spawned from the creators loins are not canon just because current legal theory says they have the right.
Hey I resemble that remark. If I wasn't the kid sitting alone reading a fantasy novel in PE class I'd never have met my two best friends. So yeah, don't knock the loner geek sitting in the corner :P
Now excuse me, I need to go grab some more diet mt. dew.
I'm sure those points were addressed. I can't imagine them going "Look we got the melting point low enough to print!!! ..... but it melts into slag when you turn it on for more than 10 seconds."
Yup, HTC knows what the hell they're doing. I love mine, I saved my old ones and bought my friends old ones purely to keep them around as mobile book readers/gaming toys/streaming radio players/kickass pdas.
I use to work for them. FreePC, loved the job, no one bitched about getting a free computer. But you didn't have to click on ads, you just had your screen permanently filled with them on the bottom and right side. The remaining area was left for you. They eventually got bought out by emachines and then it became a horrible place to work.
Bah, .EPUB rather use a format designed to conform to my device than force a device to conform to the format.
Bingo, I guess Palegray has a much larger budget than most of us when it comes to storage. Afterall why have a single copy when you can have fifty.
Well a problem with slocate is that it doesn't track changes live. Its basically a prettier version of a find dump into txt file then grep it. Something that tracks files live on the server end which can be searched remotely. Heck even a web interface or ssh would fit my needs, it doesn't need a pretty popup window thing.
So I should rsync my 20TB server to my 320gb drive? What was the point of the 20TB file server then?