Excellent points re parity RAID, ones that I make to people all the time.
The biggest problem with triplex mirroring is that LSI's cards, which dominate the market, refuse to support it. HP's cards do, and of course many software RAID schemes, but for ease of management and deployment not having to do it at the OS level has appeal
Back in 1992 when I lost my job I interviewed on Wall St. It was just plain surreal. I was told that my socks were too light in color. They were big on the ooohhhh NYC! Broadway plays! Buildings taller than 2 stories! Whoooooo!. I wasn't much impressed. They weren't looking to pay any more than places in more normal parts of the country were.
I haven't used XBMC strictly, but my Boxee Box works really well for this, despite it now being abandonware.
I really wanted to like Roku, but they have some bug up their ass about divx/avi support.
If I had to replace my BB today, I might look at a WDTV. They seem to have broad format support and their prices have come down.
> Inconveniencing [whale watchers] is apparently not considered evil.
I don't understand what anyone involved in this debacle wants google to do. Cease to exist? Develop transporter technology?
Ohhhhhhh, here are some ideas:
1) Get off the "gotta gotta be sited in the same overpriced square mile as everyone else" bandwagon. I once worked for a tech company in friggin' DALLAS that did just fine wrt attracting talent.
2) Stop insisting that employees congregate into the same building, where they'll just sit in front of their computers and type to their co-workers. In most cases they could do that just as well from home, or even some satellite location. Google admittedly does this to an extent with their [relatively small] remote locations. Many of the others don't.
No, IPMI is a protocol / interface specification. Part of that is BMC hardware that provides the probes/services and is tied into the host proper. The last time I touched a PA-RISC system (9000/750) was 1992 so I don't remember much about their interface, if those had a service processor yet, as distinct from something like Sun's OBP / SC / LOM / ALOM that provided simple chassis management using the host processor.
For some time Sun ILOM, IBM IMM, Dell's DRAC, HP iLO, and the generic stuff SuperMicro uses have provided IPMI and additional services. The Convex C1/C2 systems used a 68000-family SBC running V7 as a service processor. IBM mainframes before that time probably had something similar.
My first thought is that the failure rates and repair costs would be rather higher for instrumented items like this, a parallel to the inflated costs of electronics in cars.
I'm with AC on this -- I find both the smell and the taste revolting.
Curiously, the raw people I've encountered are roughly 50/50 on loving/hating the stuff.
There is much truth here. When I escaped my first wife at 38, I hadn't really ever dated (long, embarrassing story). I started out being a decent guy, and got little interest in the dating realm -- being 6' was a common reason for rejection. A friend at the time told me I was "too nice", which I initially dismissed. The turning point was when eHarmony matched me with a woman I was really into -- wicked smart, attractive, (and yes a bit overweight, as was I). After a couple of weeks she dumped me basically because I was treating her with respect. That hardened my heart and I started being a bit arrogant / a jerk, and the response rate from women skyrocketed.
At one point I was in a coffee shop and overheard a couple meeting for the first time. The woman (who was okay looking, with a few extra pounds) for some reason was going on about how the last guy she'd met had wasted her time: "He was *TINY*, like 5'7"!"
Here there are some 3100-4100's available, but the $10/unit city utility subsidy doesn't apply to them, so I'm stuck with the yellow-ass legacy of tungsten..
Some of us need a steady income, 401k matching, and medical coverage. The contracts I see around here seem to offer roughly my current salary divided by a 40 hour week, without those things. I occasionally get pestered by people for contracts, often ones that would mean 3 hours a day in a car to commute, and I've yet to hear a good answer for "what happens when the contract is over?"
Agreed. It has only been a handful of years since I had to make due with **ISDN**, so my heart does not bleed for this guy and his unspecified job.
Tasks that are synchronous, like SSH sessions, are more noticeably affected than things like IMAP where the user doesn't usually spent a lot of time staring and waiting.
Do they? My sense in the last ten years or so has been that modern laptops provide a much more integrated/complete experience than in the past, and I haven't seen docks used much.
For an interview in NYC I was given a voucher for a ride from the airport. Two companies, both of whom initially claimed to not know what the voucher was. I got one to come get me, eventually, then the driver claimed to not know where Wall Street / Amex was. Driver on the return trip wanted me to come up with exact change for each toll instead of adding to the bill.
Taxi drivers in San Diego threw a tantrum when I tried to pay with a credit card whose logo was displayed on their windows. The one tried to steal my card by claiming I hadn't given it to him.
Taxis can kiss my shiny metal ass.
The Linux/BSD folks up here can find a new job pretty much whenever they like.
I'm having a different experience. Most of the jobs seem to be on the east side of the lake, and are either junior or demand substantial swdev experience.
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Excellent points re parity RAID, ones that I make to people all the time. The biggest problem with triplex mirroring is that LSI's cards, which dominate the market, refuse to support it. HP's cards do, and of course many software RAID schemes, but for ease of management and deployment not having to do it at the OS level has appeal
You're confusing "vegetarian" with "vegan". Dairy products arguably correspond to even more cruelty than meat.
Back in 1992 when I lost my job I interviewed on Wall St. It was just plain surreal. I was told that my socks were too light in color. They were big on the ooohhhh NYC! Broadway plays! Buildings taller than 2 stories! Whoooooo!. I wasn't much impressed. They weren't looking to pay any more than places in more normal parts of the country were.
That's more of a punishment than compensation.
Wow, that'd be almost enough to buy a 2BR condo down there!
I haven't used XBMC strictly, but my Boxee Box works really well for this, despite it now being abandonware. I really wanted to like Roku, but they have some bug up their ass about divx/avi support. If I had to replace my BB today, I might look at a WDTV. They seem to have broad format support and their prices have come down.
How long's your GI tract, carnie-boy?
> Inconveniencing [whale watchers] is apparently not considered evil.
I don't understand what anyone involved in this debacle wants google to do. Cease to exist? Develop transporter technology?
Ohhhhhhh, here are some ideas: 1) Get off the "gotta gotta be sited in the same overpriced square mile as everyone else" bandwagon. I once worked for a tech company in friggin' DALLAS that did just fine wrt attracting talent. 2) Stop insisting that employees congregate into the same building, where they'll just sit in front of their computers and type to their co-workers. In most cases they could do that just as well from home, or even some satellite location. Google admittedly does this to an extent with their [relatively small] remote locations. Many of the others don't.
No, IPMI is a protocol / interface specification. Part of that is BMC hardware that provides the probes/services and is tied into the host proper. The last time I touched a PA-RISC system (9000/750) was 1992 so I don't remember much about their interface, if those had a service processor yet, as distinct from something like Sun's OBP / SC / LOM / ALOM that provided simple chassis management using the host processor. For some time Sun ILOM, IBM IMM, Dell's DRAC, HP iLO, and the generic stuff SuperMicro uses have provided IPMI and additional services. The Convex C1/C2 systems used a 68000-family SBC running V7 as a service processor. IBM mainframes before that time probably had something similar.
My first thought is that the failure rates and repair costs would be rather higher for instrumented items like this, a parallel to the inflated costs of electronics in cars.
I'm with AC on this -- I find both the smell and the taste revolting. Curiously, the raw people I've encountered are roughly 50/50 on loving/hating the stuff.
My first thought was that the accepted value for the Earth's mass would already include this stuff.
Same here. Were it not for the procedures I endure periodically I'd be dead right now.
Are there still states without the 4 foot rule?
This. It takes a bunch of $ to get past that. When I was dating I saw multiple women around 5'0" who wouldn't even talk to someone 6'.
There is much truth here. When I escaped my first wife at 38, I hadn't really ever dated (long, embarrassing story). I started out being a decent guy, and got little interest in the dating realm -- being 6' was a common reason for rejection. A friend at the time told me I was "too nice", which I initially dismissed. The turning point was when eHarmony matched me with a woman I was really into -- wicked smart, attractive, (and yes a bit overweight, as was I). After a couple of weeks she dumped me basically because I was treating her with respect. That hardened my heart and I started being a bit arrogant / a jerk, and the response rate from women skyrocketed. At one point I was in a coffee shop and overheard a couple meeting for the first time. The woman (who was okay looking, with a few extra pounds) for some reason was going on about how the last guy she'd met had wasted her time: "He was *TINY*, like 5'7"!"
Here there are some 3100-4100's available, but the $10/unit city utility subsidy doesn't apply to them, so I'm stuck with the yellow-ass legacy of tungsten..
Some of us need a steady income, 401k matching, and medical coverage. The contracts I see around here seem to offer roughly my current salary divided by a 40 hour week, without those things. I occasionally get pestered by people for contracts, often ones that would mean 3 hours a day in a car to commute, and I've yet to hear a good answer for "what happens when the contract is over?"
Thanks to the English, that's about all that's left.
Agreed. It has only been a handful of years since I had to make due with **ISDN**, so my heart does not bleed for this guy and his unspecified job. Tasks that are synchronous, like SSH sessions, are more noticeably affected than things like IMAP where the user doesn't usually spent a lot of time staring and waiting.
Do they? My sense in the last ten years or so has been that modern laptops provide a much more integrated/complete experience than in the past, and I haven't seen docks used much.
For an interview in NYC I was given a voucher for a ride from the airport. Two companies, both of whom initially claimed to not know what the voucher was. I got one to come get me, eventually, then the driver claimed to not know where Wall Street / Amex was. Driver on the return trip wanted me to come up with exact change for each toll instead of adding to the bill. Taxi drivers in San Diego threw a tantrum when I tried to pay with a credit card whose logo was displayed on their windows. The one tried to steal my card by claiming I hadn't given it to him. Taxis can kiss my shiny metal ass.
I thought what the purple pills did was sprout wood where before was only flaccidity.
Five sheep are, though, "five sheep" :p
"Maths" I think of as a British-y thing; the only person I recall having heard speak that was from Ireland.
The Linux/BSD folks up here can find a new job pretty much whenever they like.
I'm having a different experience. Most of the jobs seem to be on the east side of the lake, and are either junior or demand substantial swdev experience.