At some of the locations I've worked at Iomega Quicksync is on the base loads of all the machines. It works great, and the user never sees anything other than a "Quick sync completed" message when they go to their machine in the morning. All transparent. They can even specify the directories you want to back up and the location you want them sent to (network drives in this case).
The main thing I have encountered when using Linux on SPARC is not finding a distro that supports it but INSTALLING software. A substantial number of the applications that I have tried to install have not been ported to sparc linux, which defeats the purpose. To few developers too little time to port applications to every single platform. What is the point of running an OS that you can't find applications that will compile on it? I'd much rather use solaris on sparc for this single reason.
I work for a small midwestern ISP. Where each of the system administrators are required to carry a pager on a rotating schedule (provided they live within 15 minutes of the office. The largest problem we faced is how to compensate people correctly, some are salaried, some are hourly, each at a different rate. What we worked out is we each carry the pager for a week at a time, and get compensated for a days pay for each week. This works out for both us and the company, if we come in every night for an hour, same pay. If we get no pages, same pay. Salaried employees get their salary converted to hourly pay (yearly salary/2000) * 8, hourly just get 8 hours on their timesheet. A rather nice scheme.
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At some of the locations I've worked at Iomega Quicksync is on the base loads of all the machines. It works great, and the user never sees anything other than a "Quick sync completed" message when they go to their machine in the morning. All transparent. They can even specify the directories you want to back up and the location you want them sent to (network drives in this case).
The main thing I have encountered when using Linux on SPARC is not finding a distro that supports it but INSTALLING software. A substantial number of the applications that I have tried to install have not been ported to sparc linux, which defeats the purpose. To few developers too little time to port applications to every single platform. What is the point of running an OS that you can't find applications that will compile on it? I'd much rather use solaris on sparc for this single reason.
I work for a small midwestern ISP. Where each of the system administrators are required to carry a pager on a rotating schedule (provided they live within 15 minutes of the office. The largest problem we faced is how to compensate people correctly, some are salaried, some are hourly, each at a different rate. What we worked out is we each carry the pager for a week at a time, and get compensated for a days pay for each week. This works out for both us and the company, if we come in every night for an hour, same pay. If we get no pages, same pay. Salaried employees get their salary converted to hourly pay (yearly salary/2000) * 8, hourly just get 8 hours on their timesheet. A rather nice scheme.
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Experiances with several domain registrars have shown me what pitfalls can be encountered when choosing a domain. The most important that I have found is the interface to the domain management, whether it be through email, phone or online this can result in alot of headaches. The best experiance I have had is with names4ever.com (http://www.names4ever.com). An easy to use interface and online maintenence make domain ownership a breeze. Not to mention free hosting until you have a site/dns server set up.