If you read carefully, I didn't *BLAME* Windows. I just said, Linux handled the error condition better.
If you want to know the details: It was basically the "only" major downtime my company had in the last ~20 years. It happened during a weekend, while we where in the process of moving some stuff around in the server room.
The NAS was super-redundant setup, four 19' racks full of spinning discs, plugged into the new UPS. The servers were a super-redundant setup, a Bladecenter (with no storage of it's own) in two 19' racks, plugged into the old UPS.
Now "Someone", let's call him "Colleague A" re-wired the super-redundant connections between them on Friday. And did plug the super-redundant fibrechannel switches into a socked that wasn't protected by a UPS, since it "only had to last for a few days". Then we had a power outage on Saturday. The NAS kept working perfectly, the Bladecenter kept working perfectly, the just couldn't talk to each other, so all the pagers went of.
Me (The Linux admin) and the Windows admins arrived a few minutes later, when power had already been restored. It took me 15 Minutes to check that my stuff was working fine, and I went back home. The windows admins spent the rest of the weekend at work, trying to get stuff working again.
I don't really care who's "fault" it was, I just made an observation that some things cause less headaches for an admin than others.
But we had something similar that, when our NAS crashed a few years ago. After it was fixed, 90% of the Windows VMs were broken and didn't boot anymore, and had to be restored from backup.
100% of the Linux VMs just hat a "whoops, something looks wonky, I better replay my file system journal" boot message buried somewhere in the logs before starting up normally.
I'm sure there is a way to fix that.. Perhaps put tubes underground for the drones? Perhaps the droned could then even be propelled by compressed air? I'm sure that will be the NextBigThing(TM)
I have designed quite a few database schemas in the last twenty years or so. Deleting a "logical unit" (which might be spread out between different tables with different relations between them technically) has never been a *technical* problem for me.
The only problem is that the people who actually wind up using the system (and in the end pay you through one scheme or another) allays whine and groan at you: "yes, yes, yes, I know, I deleted it. Yes, yes, I now, I even confirmed the dozens of security confirmations asking me that I really wanted it deleted. But now I want it back, and when I can't get it back it's YOUR SOFTWARES FAULT!!!!"
And the sad part is, the extended Universe was *Good* in these things.
I remember when I started reading the "Han Solo Triology", and it was a really interesting how they connected the to the "Han Solo Adventures" books published about 25 years earlier in a plausible way.
And they pulled it off with multiple series of books running in parallel. I still marvel how Timothy Zahn managed to bring multiple minor open plot ends together in Visions of the Past / Spectres of the Future.
But the Start Wars Franchise now is the same as that Battlestar Galactica Reboot. Every time you wonder what happens to an interesting plot twist, don't bother. It will most likely never ever be mentioned again.
Really depends. Especially in Tokyo. (Although my experience is mostly from some time spent in Yokohama).
There you have basically three different situations during the day: - "Off Hours": Not much people around. Trotting up the escalator is fastest. - "Medium" Rush-Hour: Slight queues in front of the escalator, both on the standing and walking side. You are faster most of the time when you take the (usually wider) stairs where there is no queue. - "Packed" Rush-Hour: Walking on the escalator becomes quite impossible anyway, and the throngs of people move up the escalator and the stairs at about the same speed.
... the ICE in that time frame. I'm not so sure about batteries being able to store the needed energy.
My bet at the moment is electric vehicles with fuel cells for people who have long range requirements, and batteries only for people in a urban setting that usually don't drive much and have a charging infrastructure in place.
On one hand I have never seen a "good consultant", on the other hand, how could you expect a single person to fix the complete and utter mess that the Windows 10 update system is?
I have encountered some quite good freelance "support providers", though. They don't have a website, they don't advertise, they seem to be keeping as quiet as they can, because they get more than enough work just by word of mouth. So the only way to find them is to talk to other comparable businesses in your area.
I'm in the same situation ( Adjustable desk because of back problems ), and we just lined up our monitors accordingly, so that my colleague doesn't have to see my junk when i'm standing, and I don't have to see his stupid face when I'm sitting.
Finally some much needed feature. I hear Elon on the other hand is still dragging his feet concerning the new Flagship Tesla with six wheels everybody is waiting for.
... the search feature on Openstreetmap is finally becoming usable.
Die DISPLAY of the maps has been dozen times better than Goggle maps for quite some time now, but sometimes you had to search for a place on Google Maps, to figure out where it was, and then switch top Openstreetmap to get some Idea of what is actually there....
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If you read carefully, I didn't *BLAME* Windows. I just said, Linux handled the error condition better.
If you want to know the details: It was basically the "only" major downtime my company had in the last ~20 years. It happened during a weekend, while we where in the process of moving some stuff around in the server room.
The NAS was super-redundant setup, four 19' racks full of spinning discs, plugged into the new UPS. The servers were a super-redundant setup, a Bladecenter (with no storage of it's own) in two 19' racks, plugged into the old UPS.
Now "Someone", let's call him "Colleague A" re-wired the super-redundant connections between them on Friday. And did plug the super-redundant fibrechannel switches into a socked that wasn't protected by a UPS, since it "only had to last for a few days". Then we had a power outage on Saturday. The NAS kept working perfectly, the Bladecenter kept working perfectly, the just couldn't talk to each other, so all the pagers went of.
Me (The Linux admin) and the Windows admins arrived a few minutes later, when power had already been restored. It took me 15 Minutes to check that my stuff was working fine, and I went back home. The windows admins spent the rest of the weekend at work, trying to get stuff working again.
I don't really care who's "fault" it was, I just made an observation that some things cause less headaches for an admin than others.
That's what RAIDs are for. ;-)
But we had something similar that, when our NAS crashed a few years ago. After it was fixed, 90% of the Windows VMs were broken and didn't boot anymore, and had to be restored from backup.
100% of the Linux VMs just hat a "whoops, something looks wonky, I better replay my file system journal" boot message buried somewhere in the logs before starting up normally.
I guess their agreements with movie studios forbid that. ;-P
I'm sure there is a way to fix that.. Perhaps put tubes underground for the drones? Perhaps the droned could then even be propelled by compressed air? I'm sure that will be the NextBigThing(TM)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
MS is *way* ahead of you.
They already had it, discontinued it in 2011, and now re-inventing it. (Unfortunately still without Blackjack and Hookers.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And don't forget to reverse the polarity!
They probably found out, that their new Nag-Popup needs DirectX 12 to work.
Same her. Actually it has gotten somewhat worse. It used to be "Start project, write software, done...".
Now it's "Start project, decide framework, get framework set up install all libraries, write software, done" most of the time.
Unless you are holding it wrong....
Clippy suggested it to the editors...
I have designed quite a few database schemas in the last twenty years or so. Deleting a "logical unit" (which might be spread out between different tables with different relations between them technically) has never been a *technical* problem for me.
The only problem is that the people who actually wind up using the system (and in the end pay you through one scheme or another) allays whine and groan at you: "yes, yes, yes, I know, I deleted it. Yes, yes, I now, I even confirmed the dozens of security confirmations asking me that I really wanted it deleted. But now I want it back, and when I can't get it back it's YOUR SOFTWARES FAULT!!!!"
I see it coming now...
1) Open source OpenColorIO
2) Wait for Poettering to pick it up and integrate into SystemD
3) ?????
4) Profit!
And the sad part is, the extended Universe was *Good* in these things.
I remember when I started reading the "Han Solo Triology", and it was a really interesting how they connected the to the "Han Solo Adventures" books published about 25 years earlier in a plausible way.
And they pulled it off with multiple series of books running in parallel. I still marvel how Timothy Zahn managed to bring multiple minor open plot ends together in Visions of the Past / Spectres of the Future.
But the Start Wars Franchise now is the same as that Battlestar Galactica Reboot. Every time you wonder what happens to an interesting plot twist, don't bother. It will most likely never ever be mentioned again.
That's kinda like saying "Maybe one or two of those Three-card Monte players could be fraudulent, but all of them?"
Finally something that will put a new meaning to "Wardrobe Malfunction"
Really depends. Especially in Tokyo. (Although my experience is mostly from some time spent in Yokohama).
There you have basically three different situations during the day:
- "Off Hours": Not much people around. Trotting up the escalator is fastest.
- "Medium" Rush-Hour: Slight queues in front of the escalator, both on the standing and walking side. You are faster most of the time when you take the (usually wider) stairs where there is no queue.
- "Packed" Rush-Hour: Walking on the escalator becomes quite impossible anyway, and the throngs of people move up the escalator and the stairs at about the same speed.
WTF?? Then why did they spend the last years or ripping everything I liked out? (From the status bar to XUL extensions)
Every problem noticed is an opportunity for somebody, maybe an opportunity for somebody else.
Of course, every problem you are in is *the* opportunity for colleagues to laugh behind your back. ;-P
... the ICE in that time frame. I'm not so sure about batteries being able to store the needed energy.
My bet at the moment is electric vehicles with fuel cells for people who have long range requirements, and batteries only for people in a urban setting that usually don't drive much and have a charging infrastructure in place.
Of course we will have to switch organic peat as quickly as possible to get all the electricity we will need...
On one hand I have never seen a "good consultant", on the other hand, how could you expect a single person to fix the complete and utter mess that the Windows 10 update system is?
I have encountered some quite good freelance "support providers", though. They don't have a website, they don't advertise, they seem to be keeping as quiet as they can, because they get more than enough work just by word of mouth. So the only way to find them is to talk to other comparable businesses in your area.
I'm in the same situation ( Adjustable desk because of back problems ), and we just lined up our monitors accordingly, so that my colleague doesn't have to see my junk when i'm standing, and I don't have to see his stupid face when I'm sitting.
Which could be a plus, because then you can also offer Cable TV to your passengers....
Finally some much needed feature. I hear Elon on the other hand is still dragging his feet concerning the new Flagship Tesla with six wheels everybody is waiting for.
... the search feature on Openstreetmap is finally becoming usable.
Die DISPLAY of the maps has been dozen times better than Goggle maps for quite some time now, but sometimes you had to search for a place on Google Maps, to figure out where it was, and then switch top Openstreetmap to get some Idea of what is actually there....