Shooting up and away would leave the thing intact -- into who knows what new orbit that may just now squarely intersect the planet rather than grazing. That's an iffy gamble at best.
There are some cases also where this misalignment of skills and management expectations is more of a management deficiency. Many organizations have technical people who are quite willing and capable, but they have been pigeon-holed and beaten down by policies which incentivize apathy.
I've seen just this more than once.
Eg., I once interviewed with AMR / American Airlines in Tulsa for a sysadmin job. They had me sit for an hour filling out an anachronistic scantron-type application then did semi-normal interview stuff. I was told that there was a corporate policy against using free software -- which would make it kinda hard to edit files. At the end they offered me a job at the lower extreme of my indicated acceptable salary range while effusing how much they liked me -- "working with make and SCCS". SCCS? Seriously? I had to imagine that it was a place where souls and will-to-live both vanished quickly.
This requires, though, usable public transit and zipcars within walking distance.
Living near work is problematic when one changes jobs (voluntarily or otherwise). The collaborative extortion known as realtor commissions present a barrier to moving.
Telecommuting -- more people who currently do it *could* do it, if their management weren't too lazy/paranoid to let them. Still more could do so if they weren't hobbled by anachronistic network-hostile MS-OS.
The LSI "WebGUI" utility is a crock. It has nothing to do with the web, and requires a @#$@#@# video console.
Configuring a degenerate RAID volume around every disk to get the HBA to present it to the host can be done, we had to do just that with some Infortrend RAID chassis that my boss bought a while back. Correlating slot number vs logical drive number vs LUN number is a hassle, as is having to tear it all down and build it back any time a disk has to be replaced.
I haven't tried this approach with HP's SmartArray HBA's. So far I'm just doing on-HBA RAID anyway since RHEL has no mature software alternative (btrfs is hardly mature, and MD is a joke). This has mostly worked okay so far, and having the HBA reliably turn on an indicator light on failed disks has been *priceless*.
Country may well make a distinct difference. FWIW, my understanding is that Dell (like IBM) uses LSI HBA's.
Response time on contracts is generally just that -- time for the vendor to respond, not time to part delivery or resolution. Sun was always bad with responsiveness and arguing instead of just sending the obvious part -- once took me 5 days to get them to admit that an HBA (LSI as well) was bad. Oracle takes it to a whole new level.
Having had it with Oracle (We tired of having to write an essay for *every RFQ* for the VAR to send to Oracle to get permission to quote a system, Larry has stated that he doesn't want to be in the general-purpose market, etc) we switched to HP hardware, involuntarily at first. HP's frontline CSO is obviously offshored and clueless, but I fear that's true for everyone else these days too. Heck, it's probably all the same call center -- "Oracle support" once gave me instructions that were clearly specific to Dell hardware.
Kinda sorta. Updates for the Fusion MPT SAS HBA's from them long ago became limited to a latter-day stepping of their chip. The zillions of embedded and PCI HBA's with older steppings have been left out in the cold for years.
I have one called FileBrowser. I paid all of $4.99 for it and it works for what I need. Searching for a trustworthy freeware app to do the same thing would burn far more than $4.99 of my time.
I have MSWXP and MXW7 VM's on mine for dealing with iLO / ILOM tasks that require the MS stuff, as well as the occasional @$@!!###$@# albumwrap archive.
I like to think that there are always... possibilities
Really the reason so many people have [MS] Windows is because it comes free or close to free with computers.
It's also what most people know and assume they need. For many people it's what they use at work and it's natural to have the same thing elsewhere. There's also the widespread view that they need MS Windows for "the applications" -- I still encounter people who don't know that MS Office exists for OSX. Some people also still think that OSX is only for gay cowboys eating pudding.
If people ever had to pay full non-OEM prices then it would die quickly.
People routinely pay for MS Office yet it endures.
I had Verizon service in the past with a Motorola RZR. Lots of dropped calls and dead zones. Ongoing billing issues too and the CSO was distinctly not my friend.
My experience has been that the providers all suck. Switching providers means buying new phones and dealing with differing service anniversaries within a household. Given this, what reason do I have to leave AT&T and lose my unlimited data plan forever?
Years ago the system manufacturer I worked for had a special tape-drive door for machines sold into France (IIRC) because of a regulation that the unit had to be operable with the door closed. There was a hole in the door for the power switch, which IIRC had to be a different color as well.
Microsoft seems to think so, their stores -- or at least the one here -- are shameless copies of Apple stores. The one here is directly across the parking lot from the Apple store, wonder how much MS had to pay to displace whoever was there before.
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The crater (3/4 miles in diameter) could have killed at most several million people if it hit down town London or New York city.
Having been to both, I can only respond to the above idea as "We should be so lucky".
Shooting up and away would leave the thing intact -- into who knows what new orbit that may just now squarely intersect the planet rather than grazing. That's an iffy gamble at best.
There are some cases also where this misalignment of skills and management expectations is more of a management deficiency. Many organizations have technical people who are quite willing and capable, but they have been pigeon-holed and beaten down by policies which incentivize apathy.
I've seen just this more than once. Eg., I once interviewed with AMR / American Airlines in Tulsa for a sysadmin job. They had me sit for an hour filling out an anachronistic scantron-type application then did semi-normal interview stuff. I was told that there was a corporate policy against using free software -- which would make it kinda hard to edit files. At the end they offered me a job at the lower extreme of my indicated acceptable salary range while effusing how much they liked me -- "working with make and SCCS". SCCS? Seriously? I had to imagine that it was a place where souls and will-to-live both vanished quickly.
This requires, though, usable public transit and zipcars within walking distance. Living near work is problematic when one changes jobs (voluntarily or otherwise). The collaborative extortion known as realtor commissions present a barrier to moving. Telecommuting -- more people who currently do it *could* do it, if their management weren't too lazy/paranoid to let them. Still more could do so if they weren't hobbled by anachronistic network-hostile MS-OS.
And name their kids "Elon Musk"
... plus the time spent waiting in line when all the charging stations are full
You're mistaken about Erebus, the description is right, but my ex-wife's name is actually Claire.
Given typical shitty stadium food, it's safe to say this has already been done for years.
This is part of why I use OSX.
The LSI "WebGUI" utility is a crock. It has nothing to do with the web, and requires a @#$@#@# video console. Configuring a degenerate RAID volume around every disk to get the HBA to present it to the host can be done, we had to do just that with some Infortrend RAID chassis that my boss bought a while back. Correlating slot number vs logical drive number vs LUN number is a hassle, as is having to tear it all down and build it back any time a disk has to be replaced. I haven't tried this approach with HP's SmartArray HBA's. So far I'm just doing on-HBA RAID anyway since RHEL has no mature software alternative (btrfs is hardly mature, and MD is a joke). This has mostly worked okay so far, and having the HBA reliably turn on an indicator light on failed disks has been *priceless*.
Country may well make a distinct difference. FWIW, my understanding is that Dell (like IBM) uses LSI HBA's. Response time on contracts is generally just that -- time for the vendor to respond, not time to part delivery or resolution. Sun was always bad with responsiveness and arguing instead of just sending the obvious part -- once took me 5 days to get them to admit that an HBA (LSI as well) was bad. Oracle takes it to a whole new level. Having had it with Oracle (We tired of having to write an essay for *every RFQ* for the VAR to send to Oracle to get permission to quote a system, Larry has stated that he doesn't want to be in the general-purpose market, etc) we switched to HP hardware, involuntarily at first. HP's frontline CSO is obviously offshored and clueless, but I fear that's true for everyone else these days too. Heck, it's probably all the same call center -- "Oracle support" once gave me instructions that were clearly specific to Dell hardware.
LSI at least does keep updating things.
Kinda sorta. Updates for the Fusion MPT SAS HBA's from them long ago became limited to a latter-day stepping of their chip. The zillions of embedded and PCI HBA's with older steppings have been left out in the cold for years.
Here's a wacky idea -- why not *collect* the natural gas that comes out of petroleum wells, instead of flaring it off?
The FSF needs to take more baths and fewer psychoactive drugs.
You are also free to use wired ethernet. This is not a hardship, especially in a *school*.
I have one called FileBrowser. I paid all of $4.99 for it and it works for what I need. Searching for a trustworthy freeware app to do the same thing would burn far more than $4.99 of my time.
I have MSWXP and MXW7 VM's on mine for dealing with iLO / ILOM tasks that require the MS stuff, as well as the occasional @$@!!###$@# albumwrap archive.
Well, wipe and reinstall win7 is not cheap.
I like to think that there are always ... possibilities
Really the reason so many people have [MS] Windows is because it comes free or close to free with computers.
It's also what most people know and assume they need. For many people it's what they use at work and it's natural to have the same thing elsewhere. There's also the widespread view that they need MS Windows for "the applications" -- I still encounter people who don't know that MS Office exists for OSX. Some people also still think that OSX is only for gay cowboys eating pudding.
If people ever had to pay full non-OEM prices then it would die quickly.
People routinely pay for MS Office yet it endures.
I'm sure it also keeps girlfriends from disturbing ol' Curtis
That depends on how literally you take your religion. Much of the voices you hear in the press and in places like the Creation Museum
This is rather selective attention -- and the grammar ....
I had Verizon service in the past with a Motorola RZR. Lots of dropped calls and dead zones. Ongoing billing issues too and the CSO was distinctly not my friend. My experience has been that the providers all suck. Switching providers means buying new phones and dealing with differing service anniversaries within a household. Given this, what reason do I have to leave AT&T and lose my unlimited data plan forever?
Years ago the system manufacturer I worked for had a special tape-drive door for machines sold into France (IIRC) because of a regulation that the unit had to be operable with the door closed. There was a hole in the door for the power switch, which IIRC had to be a different color as well.
There effectively is no warranty. The carafe on mine is toast and they refuse to help me out. A replacement costs *a hundred friggin bucks*.
Somehow my "locked" phone makes and receives calls, runs various applications, plays music, and lets me show photos to people. I am soooo fettered.
Microsoft seems to think so, their stores -- or at least the one here -- are shameless copies of Apple stores. The one here is directly across the parking lot from the Apple store, wonder how much MS had to pay to displace whoever was there before.