I'm not talking about bureaucracy. I hate the ever increasing rubber stamping and form filling too.
But do you really want to drill holes, change lightbulbs, buy equipment, configure computers and network and clean your offices yourselfs ? We free you up from that so you can try those new things !
As someone working as support staff in a European university I have the exact opposite experience. It's the professors that cut up their portion of the budget and they have been starving anything they could before even thinking of touching their own, their research or their assistants. As a result we have more tenured professors now than we had 7 years ago but a lot less support personnel. At the same time government (who provides the majority of our funds) is pushing us to provide more "flexible education" and do more international collaboration with less resources overall.
So a few are teachers and researchers, but MOST are useless administration and "overhead".
Could be a lot worse. Could be a little better, but it's almost the opposite of your claim that most of those being cut are the people actually serving the direct function of the university.
As a member of a different university's "other staff" let me tell you what these jobs usually are:
Secretaries, Logistics, IT, Equipment operators, Cleaning, Security. You know the jobs with the lower wages. They are cutting where there isn't much to cut nowadays (post 2008/2011), but where it's still easy to cut (tenure is a bitch).
The alternative would be to (a) increase the capacity of the link between the Belgium grid and the grids of their neighbors, and (b) plan fully invest in windpower and storage solutions.
I'm not sure our shore line is big enough for the amount of wind turbines we might need. (a) might happen since it's been championned by a broadly respected economist, even though his socialist party (SPA) is part of the opposition now.
And if your claims were correct, then nuke uptimes don't seem to reflect this "reality".
Most of those incidents don't really impact availability much and the "uptime" of a nuclear plant isn't nearly as high as people think (it's about ~80%). They are super careful now with the unexpected extra ruptures in the containment vessels of Doel 3 and Tihange 2 and every incident related or not gets hyped up. For those interested here is a list of the real (according to FANC - the control agency) nuclear incidents in Belgium of 2015: http://fanc.fgov.be/nl/page/in.... Personally I would like to see Doel 3 and Tihange 2 closed but that's not gonna happen this legislature.
This is also true for the different provinces. As a consequence the borders get ignored because nobody wants the extra work and the exact jurisdiction is unclear. Police and justice have been fucked up in Belgium for a long time. Most lawyers decline government work because they "forget" to pay their bills repeatedly. Having said all that, I don't think splitting up the country is easy. We've gotten more autonomy in the recent "sixth state reform" and the increase in bureaucracy and confusion this has lead to is staggering. Divorcing is expensive !
Take those "accidents" with a grain of salt. Most of those malfunctions (transformers ?) happen all the time, even 30 years ago.
They just weren't reported back then like they are now. The one thing I do fear though is that they could've cycled through experts to find one
who was willing to say it was safe to put the one with ruptures in the vessel back online. Because yes, we haven't build any new plants in a long time because the politicians can't make up their mind.
I did find it odd that the use case he kept going back to was someone buying some crazy expensive RAM storage array, and then sticking a single commodity server on the thing and being shocked that the server was CPU bound. The point about the Linux IO subsystem not being up to the task is interesting, but having not looked into it myself I can't help but to wonder if there isn't some kernel tuning or optional module support he could have enabled to improve the situation.
Well there is new kernel tech for it (https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Linux_Multi-Queue_Block_IO_Queueing_Mechanism_%28blk-mq%29).
He's trying to tell you that CRT's don't have a "native resolution" like TFT's. This meant you could switch to a different resolution without the image becoming blurry. Thus not necessitating that high end PC upgrade.
Slackware is close to a new release ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slack.... It just has taken longer than usual because upstream is in great turmoil and some hard decisions needed to be made regarding: ConsoleKit/systemd (consolekit2), udev/systemd (eudev) and KDE (probably still KDE4).
There's quite a double standard when it comes to education -- take someone in an urban environment who can't name their state capital or point to the United States on a map, and it's the fault of the school system and their environment. Take a similarly ignorant person for a rural environment and suddenly they become a willfully hick and fully at fault for not seeking out and drinking deep of the cup of knowledge.
That's because the people writing these stories are parents of urban children. And they will never admit their own fault (stop letting TV and the Internet raise your Children).
As an interesting aside; Not long ago, I watched a documentary and then went on a reading binge. There are some who believe we're dumber now than we've ever been. What? Well, we used to have to know how to hunt, kill, skin, preserve, carry, grow, trade, prepare, and provide food while knowing what will or will not kill us. Now, we're specialized where one person grows, one person prepares, etc... They also used farming as a good example to make their point.
I don't think we're really dumber, we're just a lot more reliant on the services of our current environment.
In any Enterprise that isn't in IT itself (web hosting, software dev,...) it's usually a heterogeneous Windows Server AD environment. Most departments of our university are also considering switching because it's cheap to find or even build a local Windows IaaS provider.
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I'm not talking about bureaucracy. I hate the ever increasing rubber stamping and form filling too.
But do you really want to drill holes, change lightbulbs, buy equipment, configure computers and network and clean your offices yourselfs ?
We free you up from that so you can try those new things !
As someone working as support staff in a European university I have the exact opposite experience.
It's the professors that cut up their portion of the budget and they have been starving anything they could before even thinking of touching their own, their research or their assistants.
As a result we have more tenured professors now than we had 7 years ago but a lot less support personnel.
At the same time government (who provides the majority of our funds) is pushing us to provide more "flexible education" and do more international collaboration with less resources overall.
As a member of a different university's "other staff" let me tell you what these jobs usually are:
Secretaries, Logistics, IT, Equipment operators, Cleaning, Security. You know the jobs with the lower wages.
They are cutting where there isn't much to cut nowadays (post 2008/2011), but where it's still easy to cut (tenure is a bitch).
I'm not sure our shore line is big enough for the amount of wind turbines we might need.
(a) might happen since it's been championned by a broadly respected economist, even though his socialist party (SPA) is part of the opposition now.
Most of those incidents don't really impact availability much and the "uptime" of a nuclear plant isn't nearly as high as people think (it's about ~80%).
They are super careful now with the unexpected extra ruptures in the containment vessels of Doel 3 and Tihange 2 and every incident related or not gets hyped up.
For those interested here is a list of the real (according to FANC - the control agency) nuclear incidents in Belgium of 2015: http://fanc.fgov.be/nl/page/in....
Personally I would like to see Doel 3 and Tihange 2 closed but that's not gonna happen this legislature.
This is also true for the different provinces. As a consequence the borders get ignored because nobody wants the extra work and the exact jurisdiction is unclear.
Police and justice have been fucked up in Belgium for a long time. Most lawyers decline government work because they "forget" to pay their bills repeatedly.
Having said all that, I don't think splitting up the country is easy. We've gotten more autonomy in the recent "sixth state reform" and the increase in bureaucracy and confusion this has lead to is staggering.
Divorcing is expensive !
Take those "accidents" with a grain of salt. Most of those malfunctions (transformers ?) happen all the time, even 30 years ago.
They just weren't reported back then like they are now. The one thing I do fear though is that they could've cycled through experts to find one
who was willing to say it was safe to put the one with ruptures in the vessel back online.
Because yes, we haven't build any new plants in a long time because the politicians can't make up their mind.
I still have bleeding visual buffers when using MPlayer, mpv, firefox or any opengl application on Linux.
Well there is new kernel tech for it (https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Linux_Multi-Queue_Block_IO_Queueing_Mechanism_%28blk-mq%29).
When do you decide to have a system managed service (for example apache) or a /etc/init.d initscript ?
Do you work for Geert Wilders ?
I don't think SMR drives uses different platters, they only use them "differently".
He's trying to tell you that CRT's don't have a "native resolution" like TFT's.
This meant you could switch to a different resolution without the image becoming blurry.
Thus not necessitating that high end PC upgrade.
Isn't 10 years a small exaggeration ? I think the first real mainstream SSD was in 2009 (intel X25 80GB).
We keep seeing a repeat of old security mistakes because even in the opensource world we're also trying to push
more features for a smaller cost.
Slackware is close to a new release ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slack....
It just has taken longer than usual because upstream is in great turmoil and some hard decisions needed to be made regarding:
ConsoleKit/systemd (consolekit2), udev/systemd (eudev) and KDE (probably still KDE4).
Well, It's better than my laser and small mirror configuration.
That's because the people writing these stories are parents of urban children. And they will never admit their own fault (stop letting TV and the Internet raise your Children).
I don't think we're really dumber, we're just a lot more reliant on the services of our current environment.
In any Enterprise that isn't in IT itself (web hosting, software dev, ...) it's usually a heterogeneous Windows Server AD environment.
Most departments of our university are also considering switching because it's cheap to find or even build a local Windows IaaS provider.
I have the feeling that it also sometimes wakes the machines from sleep to resume the download.
Microsoft has "compatibility mode" but it's not perfect and neither was Rosetta.
Ah so the SMR drives have bigger NVRAM chips.
Sure it isn't the other way around. Let me quote wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
I wonder if there are actual "host based" hard drives out there. To me it just looks like an academic distinction without a real world application.