Just to put in my $0.02, my company has passed over resumes from people who's only experience was in-garage linux installations.
As a low level cable monkey, the possibility exists to get hired from it, and cable monkey isn't a bad place to start. Actually, it's probably better than tech support like I did
There are a lot of problems with Google Apps, as they stand presently.
While excellent web applications, they pale in comparison to the features that lots and lots of people require in MS Office. In addition, they have issues with security, namely people's documents ending up in other people's accounts. This is a Bad Thing(tm) for businesses.
On top of that, they provide no kind of regulatory compliance that I've seen.
I really like the apps. I use them almost exclusively for my personal work, but they're not ready for prime time.
If they'd just offer them on the Google Appliance, a lot of issues would be solved, but I imagine they're waiting for them to come out of beta before that happens
If the drive were the only variable, then you're right, it would make sense. Instead, there are power supplies, capacitors, miscellaneous electronic bits (MEBs). Thermal expansion can wreck havoc on things, too. Solder joints can go lose, intermittent errors crop up.
It's just easier to run your equipment cooler. Your failure rates go down, and your uptime stays high.
But you didn't have the expectation of providing enterprise class services, either. At least, I hope your clients didn't expect that of those machines.
I'm pretty sure my SAN's redundancy has nothing to do with servers attached to it dying.
With the July heat, it's not just the baked electronics in the servers, either. Your hard drives become less and less reliable, and their expected lifetime is far shorter after they've operated for any length of time in conditions like you're experiencing.
You also completely ignore the cost of the downtime itself. Doesn't matter how much it costs to restore the data if you're down long enough that your clients lose faith in you and leave.
Yea, I've got to agree with the other posters, "media error warnings" on a disk is severe enough that you can play the game in the bloody hallway instead of the server room.
This is ridiculous. There is no situation that comes to mind, even after some consideration, that would compel me to operate anything remotely critical in this manner.
Honestly, servers under a tent. I guess if the ferris wheel ever goes really high tech, the carnies will have something to play solitaire on
Then complain that the clone doesn't function according to his definition of the word, and that anyone who cloned it like that was just/asking/ for trouble anyway
I'm kind of surprised. It doesn't look like NZ has any major bandwidth, compared to the rest of the world. Maybe they can get Google to hook them up to the pan-Asian cable going in soon.;-)
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Just to put in my $0.02, my company has passed over resumes from people who's only experience was in-garage linux installations.
As a low level cable monkey, the possibility exists to get hired from it, and cable monkey isn't a bad place to start. Actually, it's probably better than tech support like I did
no no no, the resume gets you the interview. The interview gets you the job.
I put my common email on my resume.
My current employer googled it, found my livejournal, and hired me in part, because of it.
Can we have the Firefly MMO yet please?
In the vi editor in Unixes, that command string would substitute the string "xerox" everywhere the string "apple" was previously.
It's another way of saying "Everything you just said about apple is equally applicable to Xerox".
http://www.saki.com.au/mirror/vi/subst.php3
s/apple/xerox/g
You could close the tab ;-)
There are a lot of problems with Google Apps, as they stand presently.
While excellent web applications, they pale in comparison to the features that lots and lots of people require in MS Office. In addition, they have issues with security, namely people's documents ending up in other people's accounts. This is a Bad Thing(tm) for businesses.
On top of that, they provide no kind of regulatory compliance that I've seen.
I really like the apps. I use them almost exclusively for my personal work, but they're not ready for prime time.
If they'd just offer them on the Google Appliance, a lot of issues would be solved, but I imagine they're waiting for them to come out of beta before that happens
Does ^H work?
ugh, all these replies and not one mentioning that the guy wants to CHECK mail, not send it.
Anybody speak text-mode-Exchange?
Maybe this would show it who's boss
$ cat /dev/random | nc mail.mydomain.com 135
I think there have to be more terrorists for it to practice on, first.
Exactly. Pair this up with the red light cameras, and you've got enough income to drive any city out of recession.
"I didn't run that red light"
"No, but you wanted to"
The phrase "I know we can, but I don't know if we should" comes to mind
Fair warning, you should go trademark the phrase "magical terrorist detector" before I do.
If the drive were the only variable, then you're right, it would make sense. Instead, there are power supplies, capacitors, miscellaneous electronic bits (MEBs). Thermal expansion can wreck havoc on things, too. Solder joints can go lose, intermittent errors crop up.
It's just easier to run your equipment cooler. Your failure rates go down, and your uptime stays high.
But you didn't have the expectation of providing enterprise class services, either. At least, I hope your clients didn't expect that of those machines.
I'm pretty sure my SAN's redundancy has nothing to do with servers attached to it dying.
With the July heat, it's not just the baked electronics in the servers, either. Your hard drives become less and less reliable, and their expected lifetime is far shorter after they've operated for any length of time in conditions like you're experiencing.
You also completely ignore the cost of the downtime itself. Doesn't matter how much it costs to restore the data if you're down long enough that your clients lose faith in you and leave.
"Good will" is on an account sheet for a reason.
You could fertilize them with this article
Yea, I've got to agree with the other posters, "media error warnings" on a disk is severe enough that you can play the game in the bloody hallway instead of the server room.
This is ridiculous. There is no situation that comes to mind, even after some consideration, that would compel me to operate anything remotely critical in this manner.
Honestly, servers under a tent. I guess if the ferris wheel ever goes really high tech, the carnies will have something to play solitaire on
Nice, thanks. I've heard of the Southern Cross network, but never researched it. Good link.
Then complain that the clone doesn't function according to his definition of the word, and that anyone who cloned it like that was just /asking/ for trouble anyway
I'm kind of surprised. It doesn't look like NZ has any major bandwidth, compared to the rest of the world. Maybe they can get Google to hook them up to the pan-Asian cable going in soon. ;-)
Those are cool links, thanks. I hadn't seen them before.
Leased OC192 lines are probably available there. I'm willing to bet they're not on "broadband" too.