As one other commented noted: there was someone who did this and the report was classified.
I attempted to do something similar about 2003: I was essentially told piss off. (Clarification: I was a grad student, looking into seeing how much fibre had been laid around the city, and figure out how much of it was dark.) Initially, I was told that I could pay $10,000 to get a GIS map of the data within my city - but that it would not include some federal lines, just private ones. I seriously considered paying, and went down to discuss it further with the city to see if it would contain what I needed. I was informed that the policy had been changed, and that data was no longer publicly available. (USA)
I looked at the specs of this tablet yesterday: It appears to be a generic $85 tablet (perhaps less:No CPU specified, HDMI out, does not state if it has a resistive or capacitive screen, no camera, 802.11b/g, does not specify what version of Android.) with some "family friendly" browser blocking; 27 versions of the bible.
If I had to guess, I would say that this is a cheapo tablet (you can get a 1GHz Allwinner tablet with the same specs, android 4.x; a capacitive screen for under $90) with some Jesus-left software in it. Much like some of the Church based versions of Linux.
It appears that you pay an extra $60 for the Churchbuntu software integrated with it. Perhaps I should buy one for my girlfriends mother;p
I think it's interesting that the Android device he cited is one that widely comes rooted. (eg: I have the Onda version of this device; it comes pre-rooted. In addition many "manufacturers" sell similar A10 tablets with Mali GPUs & there are a number of firmwares on ICS at XDA for them.)
Outside the enterprise, it appears that most (cheap) android tablets come pre-rooted & getting an alternate firmware is relatively trivial.
It does not include an external storage device as far as I can tell. Yes I, and some others, do travel to places without cloud access. OK: I want to buy hours of video to keep my kids quiet on a road trip. My cell phone service is lacking where I'm going. 16GB is not going to cut it. I need removable media...
The Linux desktop profileration is exactly because they are all "bad". If one of them was arguably wonderful, it would take the cake home. Since none really are much better than the others, the developers keep trying to improve - with the occasional fork. Some remain popular, some die.
Does anyone see CDE, or IceWM as recommendations in the comments? No: because they are arguably "worse" than the others. KDE, Gnome, and Unity are recommended along with xfce because they are relatively "better" than most of the rest. Expectations change. Devs try to keep up.
You see comments about the Windows 7 interface sucking, and whining about the osX interface as well. From the view of the people who don't like them, it's because there are bad things there. (God forbid a 'nix user open up a terminal interface on a mac, or powershell in winblows...) Hell, if you want, you can run the interface you want via cygwin on windows (if you build from source probably).
Perhaps Linux as a desktop will take off if webmail takes off in the enterprise. But probably not. Outlook-Exchange has always been driving Windows sales in the US, and that lockin will probably be kept via SharePoint if hosted email takes off. If SharePoint does not keep lock-in, I would not be suprised if some sort of tablet took over. Why hasn't Open Office taken over? Because of Outlook-Exchange (in large part). If you get a good word processor, and a decent spreadsheet with a hosted email client - then why not a tablet with a dock (to use a keyboard, mouse, and large display)? It won't work for heavy lifting, but we have servers for that.
If you are in the marked for a TV right now:
1) You probably want a larger TV than you think. (It should be like a move it theater...)
2) Smart TV is not really worth an additional cost, as ROKU (or similar) are trivial to add.
3) You probably want to get a 3D TV, because a TV lasts 5-10 years & in two there will be content.
3a) There are 3 types of 3D: Funky battery powered glasses, Passive glasses (like in the movie theatre); no glasses (but you have to be sitting in a specific space, or it won't look right).
You probably do not want the equipment from the closed Data Centers: It is End of Live & does not have manufacturer support.
We have virtualized something like ~200 physical servers in our Data Center. Most were End Of Life (HP DL G4 360's and 380's) and were virtualized instead of replaced.
Our main DataCenter (Class 2?) has functionally freed more than 1/2 of it's space, and had departmental servers from "other Server Rooms" (aka: 10'x25' rooms with two racks) moved down there.
Do you really want an old HP G4 server that takes only SCSI drives, and runs a single core processor? I don't. OTOH, next time a cooling unit goes down, the room should still be cooled now;)
ooh, he said breasts...
Is it really a suprise that breast cancer receives disproportionate "Newstime"?
Almost 100% of the population have one (~50% of the population have 2, therefor 100% of the population have one: I learnt if from Faux News.), and well.. Breasts.
ESXi (what version?) Opteron6275 uses ~25% more power
WindowsR2 Opteron 6275 uses ~3-7% more power. (note, at lower load levels, Opteron uses less power
??
Personal note: If you are using vSphere with DPM (Dynamic Power Management), unused cluster nodes will be powered off untill their resources are needed.
I don't have the time to spend a few days making a adm/admx file to modify the registry keys to make security configuration changes for widgets run from 0: My computer, 1: the local Intranet, 2: The Intranet, 3: untrusted Sites, etc...
I have five pages of settings on how to configure IE on my network. Almost every one of those security settings is applicable to Firefox, or any other browser. I have personally posted this to bugzilla, slashdot, etc... and the answer is: "Do it yourself (TM)" or use an obselete adm template for an old version of (Mozilla, Seamonkey, Firefox 2.x) - they should work.
I want to use a non IE browser at work. Yes, I will also have to use IE due to IE only applications we have - but at least not 100% of the time. The developers want to use Firefox outside of the sandbox. SECURE says: You have to implement the same security settings on every browser.
If I had to guess, I would say that Google will implement adm/admx files for security settings for Chrome on XP/7 before Firefox will. At that point, Chrome will get a large % gain in browser share because it will be implentable on corporate networks.
Hello, I am more of a "drank the vm juce" than the next guy. (Who by the way is kicking me under the table when I keep saying to put everything in my vmWare clusters.) I think a lot of what you are saying is undercut by the statement "many.. changes can only be done by going to each machine individually."
Except for the hardware bits, this is a non issue: See Shavlik, Zen (does it still exist?), SCCM, etc.. Hell, my crappy little office (4K users) does patches & updates using a combination of WSUS & SMS. If we really needed to, we could deploy.msi packages via AD (Please no.), or logon scripts.
As far as the hardware goes, In ten years I have very rarely seen shops that actually update hardware. (exceptions to the rule: Computer savy users (eg: (un)helpful admin proxys); admins) Usually the top dogs have their oldish stuff pushed down the line, and stuff gets thrown out when it depriciates: Too much trouble to buy new memory to upgrade. We want everything the same. Like eMnim.
Anyway, that's my $2
The issue that usually kills VDI is licensing. It's an expletive.
Out of curiosity, has anyone used any of the application virtualization products? Symantec (slogan: Where good products go to die;) has one where you can roll out apps in a para-virtual manner with delta updates & rollback capabilities. I saw another one recently where a VM with the OS+application stack was pushed to client machines & managed from a central template. (At least that's what the marketing drones said.)
You need features xyzpdq: Company 1 has features zyzpa, Company2 has features zyxpdb: Company2 also happens to be free software.
Yeah Me.
However, I suggest that you want the software that will help you do your job better. Crappy Helpdesk software won't help you retain knowledge. If employees who resolved a tricky problem leave, that knowledge is gone.
In a virtual world it lies: I suspect that most Operating Systems lie about what physical hardware:
VMware allows for over-commitment of most hardware. (CPU, Memory, and Hard Disk). Windows allows for over-commitment of Memory
Since this is making assumptions about memory management: (Flash: Various algorithms may be tuned for optimized use in your specific use-case).
In your case of grabbing 80% of memory: This works if you really need the memory - in which case you have to have it: If this forces Windows (linux, whatever) to swap some "system" memory it make slow down system processes (disk write, responding to network requests, running tomcat...) and cause your system to slow down. Perhaps it works for you.
If your "system" resides in VMware, your memory may be a swap file depending on over-commitment. Say some Joe-Rent-a-Network has connected you a server in a "secure" location. In a Co-Lo. On VMware. Now if each system has an application (or two) that grabs 80% of available memory...
Lets say Your 80% memory grab meets the swap file, across a network link to the cheapo SAN...
If I'm Joe Rent-a-Network and you make me have to go figure out why performance sucks for everyone I'm gonna kick your ass. Now get off my lawn
I even got a semi-decent salary: All I had to do was write a coherent letter de-constructing the duties described to job-roles... If the company is sticks to their guns on cheaping out - stay away.
Dear Sirs, I am responding to your advertisement seeking a technical expert. Your ad lists 24 required and desired skills. These skills imply that the person you are seeking is an expert in Cisco Routers, Windows System administration, database administration, and AIX. These positions pay X,Y;Z respectively (link to last years pay report).
If you are still reading at this point, your skill list looks like *numbered list of skills from advertisement
I am able to do *whatver skills you are expert in* at an expert level, medium skills at a medium level, and the rest of that crap at a remote monkey level.
As I would love to work for your shitty ass company, & I can do the job of X - may I suggest it may make more sense for your company to hire several people to fill these responsibilities? An individual who can do all the positions listed will cost (sum of average salaries linked above x2) and will both cost your company more & create a larger single point of resource failure.
If you are interested in my services as an excellent (Whatever you think you would want to do at the company.)as part of an effecient IT team, please contact me at X
I'm glad you are not impressed, as this car works less well than your homebrew electric car, but it's impressive enough.
FTA, the engineering was getting a 90% efficiency on the power transfer from battery to wheel on the highway. That it gets almost the range of a commercial effort with cash...
Does anyone know if BP, or anyone else, is paying the government for the oil that they have extracted from the ground?
I'm sure the lease for the rig includes a $.0x/barrel-extracted. I don't see that the fact it's not going to BP's use should matter. "they" have caused oil to be extracted: it's lost to future extractors... pay up. (in addition to the cleanup costs.)
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As one other commented noted: there was someone who did this and the report was classified. I attempted to do something similar about 2003: I was essentially told piss off. (Clarification: I was a grad student, looking into seeing how much fibre had been laid around the city, and figure out how much of it was dark.) Initially, I was told that I could pay $10,000 to get a GIS map of the data within my city - but that it would not include some federal lines, just private ones. I seriously considered paying, and went down to discuss it further with the city to see if it would contain what I needed. I was informed that the policy had been changed, and that data was no longer publicly available. (USA)
If I had to guess, I would say that this is a cheapo tablet (you can get a 1GHz Allwinner tablet with the same specs, android 4.x; a capacitive screen for under $90) with some Jesus-left software in it. Much like some of the Church based versions of Linux.
It appears that you pay an extra $60 for the Churchbuntu software integrated with it. Perhaps I should buy one for my girlfriends mother;p
Outside the enterprise, it appears that most (cheap) android tablets come pre-rooted & getting an alternate firmware is relatively trivial.
It does not include an external storage device as far as I can tell. Yes I, and some others, do travel to places without cloud access. OK: I want to buy hours of video to keep my kids quiet on a road trip. My cell phone service is lacking where I'm going. 16GB is not going to cut it. I need removable media...
Does anyone see CDE, or IceWM as recommendations in the comments? No: because they are arguably "worse" than the others. KDE, Gnome, and Unity are recommended along with xfce because they are relatively "better" than most of the rest. Expectations change. Devs try to keep up.
You see comments about the Windows 7 interface sucking, and whining about the osX interface as well. From the view of the people who don't like them, it's because there are bad things there. (God forbid a 'nix user open up a terminal interface on a mac, or powershell in winblows...) Hell, if you want, you can run the interface you want via cygwin on windows (if you build from source probably).
Perhaps Linux as a desktop will take off if webmail takes off in the enterprise. But probably not. Outlook-Exchange has always been driving Windows sales in the US, and that lockin will probably be kept via SharePoint if hosted email takes off. If SharePoint does not keep lock-in, I would not be suprised if some sort of tablet took over. Why hasn't Open Office taken over? Because of Outlook-Exchange (in large part). If you get a good word processor, and a decent spreadsheet with a hosted email client - then why not a tablet with a dock (to use a keyboard, mouse, and large display)? It won't work for heavy lifting, but we have servers for that.
Is tow truck after piledriver?
No. The Tow Truck architecture is not slated until 2017. there are five versions between Pile Driver, and Tow Truck.
The AMD road map reads: PileDriver, Qbertitecture (Q2, 2013), RadStep (Q2, 2015), then Tow Truck (Q1, 2017).
On that note: What are good, inexpensive, headphones with active noise cancellation?
Non-Nation-State controlled electronic money transfer will Greece the rails of the track to destruction.
Is this licensed? I just looked & first impressions are that it's remixes of popular songs...
If you are in the marked for a TV right now: 1) You probably want a larger TV than you think. (It should be like a move it theater...) 2) Smart TV is not really worth an additional cost, as ROKU (or similar) are trivial to add. 3) You probably want to get a 3D TV, because a TV lasts 5-10 years & in two there will be content. 3a) There are 3 types of 3D: Funky battery powered glasses, Passive glasses (like in the movie theatre); no glasses (but you have to be sitting in a specific space, or it won't look right).
I was checking the Site to Zone Assignment feature of group policy. I found this posting ( http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/03/how-to-use-group-policy-to-configure-internet-explorer-security-zone-sites/ ) where the example was to put google.com (and everything in it) to be the "restricted sites zone."
We have virtualized something like ~200 physical servers in our Data Center. Most were End Of Life (HP DL G4 360's and 380's) and were virtualized instead of replaced.
Our main DataCenter (Class 2?) has functionally freed more than 1/2 of it's space, and had departmental servers from "other Server Rooms" (aka: 10'x25' rooms with two racks) moved down there.
Do you really want an old HP G4 server that takes only SCSI drives, and runs a single core processor? I don't. OTOH, next time a cooling unit goes down, the room should still be cooled now ;)
Almost 100% of the population have one (~50% of the population have 2, therefor 100% of the population have one: I learnt if from Faux News.), and well .. Breasts.
ESXi Windows Load: 3% faster
ESXi Linux Load: 2% slower
Power delta:
ESXi (what version?) Opteron6275 uses ~25% more power
WindowsR2 Opteron 6275 uses ~3-7% more power. (note, at lower load levels, Opteron uses less power
?? Personal note: If you are using vSphere with DPM (Dynamic Power Management), unused cluster nodes will be powered off untill their resources are needed.
Every large business, and most medium sized ones, are going to try to (at least) match that target.
(athough memory seems to be a bigger constraint.)
I don't have the time to spend a few days making a adm/admx file to modify the registry keys to make security configuration changes for widgets run from 0: My computer, 1: the local Intranet, 2: The Intranet, 3: untrusted Sites, etc...
I have five pages of settings on how to configure IE on my network. Almost every one of those security settings is applicable to Firefox, or any other browser. I have personally posted this to bugzilla, slashdot, etc... and the answer is: "Do it yourself (TM)" or use an obselete adm template for an old version of (Mozilla, Seamonkey, Firefox 2.x) - they should work.
I want to use a non IE browser at work. Yes, I will also have to use IE due to IE only applications we have - but at least not 100% of the time. The developers want to use Firefox outside of the sandbox. SECURE says: You have to implement the same security settings on every browser.
If I had to guess, I would say that Google will implement adm/admx files for security settings for Chrome on XP/7 before Firefox will. At that point, Chrome will get a large % gain in browser share because it will be implentable on corporate networks.
oops: http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates they allready did it. Guess that's why Chrome has surpassed Firefox share.
Dev's requesting Chrome for their department in 3,2,1....
Except for the hardware bits, this is a non issue: See Shavlik, Zen (does it still exist?), SCCM, etc.. Hell, my crappy little office (4K users) does patches & updates using a combination of WSUS & SMS. If we really needed to, we could deploy .msi packages via AD (Please no.), or logon scripts.
As far as the hardware goes, In ten years I have very rarely seen shops that actually update hardware. (exceptions to the rule: Computer savy users (eg: (un)helpful admin proxys); admins) Usually the top dogs have their oldish stuff pushed down the line, and stuff gets thrown out when it depriciates: Too much trouble to buy new memory to upgrade. We want everything the same. Like eMnim.
Anyway, that's my $2 The issue that usually kills VDI is licensing. It's an expletive. Out of curiosity, has anyone used any of the application virtualization products? Symantec (slogan: Where good products go to die;) has one where you can roll out apps in a para-virtual manner with delta updates & rollback capabilities. I saw another one recently where a VM with the OS+application stack was pushed to client machines & managed from a central template. (At least that's what the marketing drones said.)
You need features xyzpdq: Company 1 has features zyzpa, Company2 has features zyxpdb: Company2 also happens to be free software.
Yeah Me.
However, I suggest that you want the software that will help you do your job better. Crappy Helpdesk software won't help you retain knowledge. If employees who resolved a tricky problem leave, that knowledge is gone.
Stuxnet for sinking their battleship!
I beleive you mean: "Right now they are working on USB4-ever."
Thanks
In a virtual world it lies: I suspect that most Operating Systems lie about what physical hardware:
VMware allows for over-commitment of most hardware. (CPU, Memory, and Hard Disk). Windows allows for over-commitment of Memory
Since this is making assumptions about memory management: (Flash: Various algorithms may be tuned for optimized use in your specific use-case).
In your case of grabbing 80% of memory: This works if you really need the memory - in which case you have to have it: If this forces Windows (linux, whatever) to swap some "system" memory it make slow down system processes (disk write, responding to network requests, running tomcat...) and cause your system to slow down. Perhaps it works for you.
If your "system" resides in VMware, your memory may be a swap file depending on over-commitment. Say some Joe-Rent-a-Network has connected you a server in a "secure" location. In a Co-Lo. On VMware. Now if each system has an application (or two) that grabs 80% of available memory...
Lets say Your 80% memory grab meets the swap file, across a network link to the cheapo SAN...
If I'm Joe Rent-a-Network and you make me have to go figure out why performance sucks for everyone I'm gonna kick your ass.
Now get off my lawn
I even got a semi-decent salary: All I had to do was write a coherent letter de-constructing the duties described to job-roles... If the company is sticks to their guns on cheaping out - stay away.
Dear Sirs, I am responding to your advertisement seeking a technical expert. Your ad lists 24 required and desired skills. These skills imply that the person you are seeking is an expert in Cisco Routers, Windows System administration, database administration, and AIX. These positions pay X,Y;Z respectively (link to last years pay report).
If you are still reading at this point, your skill list looks like
*numbered list of skills from advertisement
I am able to do *whatver skills you are expert in* at an expert level, medium skills at a medium level, and the rest of that crap at a remote monkey level.
As I would love to work for your shitty ass company, & I can do the job of X - may I suggest it may make more sense for your company to hire several people to fill these responsibilities? An individual who can do all the positions listed will cost (sum of average salaries linked above x2) and will both cost your company more & create a larger single point of resource failure.
If you are interested in my services as an excellent (Whatever you think you would want to do at the company.)as part of an effecient IT team, please contact me at X
I'm glad you are not impressed, as this car works less well than your homebrew electric car, but it's impressive enough.
FTA, the engineering was getting a 90% efficiency on the power transfer from battery to wheel on the highway. That it gets almost the range of a commercial effort with cash...
Does anyone know if BP, or anyone else, is paying the government for the oil that they have extracted from the ground?
I'm sure the lease for the rig includes a $.0x/barrel-extracted. I don't see that the fact it's not going to BP's use should matter. "they" have caused oil to be extracted: it's lost to future extractors... pay up. (in addition to the cleanup costs.)
I am of two minds about this:
Mind 1: Several of the benchmarks essentially state that virtualization is the only place where the AMD 6 core clearly out-benches the Intel 4 core.
Mind 2: Making a whitebox for ESX is such a pain in the ass that it's almost worth more to buy a frigging expensive server to do the job.
-> anyone know a good motherboard to stick a 6 core amd chip in and run with ESX. No: Virtualization on top of a full OS is not the same.