Switzerland (i also stated this in my original post).
Iam from the german speaking part of switzerland, and the german term for rape is "Vergewaltigung".
While women can be charged for "Sexuelle Nötigung" (sexual coercion, i hope this is the correct translation, see http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&search=n% F6tigung), which has the same upper limit for a punishment (but not the same lower limit ) as rape, they can't be charged for rape itself.
Now, as i researched this some more, i seen that i made a small, but important mistake.
Vergewaltigung
Wer eine Person weiblichen Geschlechts zur Duldung des Beischlafs nötigt, namentlich indem er sie bedroht, Gewalt anwendet, sie unter psychischen Druck setzt oder zum Widerstand unfähig macht, wird mit Zuchthaus bis zu zehn Jahren bestraft.
My very rought translation, since it's "law german": Whoever makes a female person to have vaginal intercourse with them, by forcing them through either physical or psychological measures, are makes them unable to resist (through drugs, methinks), will be put into jail for up to then years.
The important difference is the following. A woman CAN rape another woman according to law, but according to law, men can't be raped.
I have absolutely no idea where you're trying to go with this.
Calling someone to be "on crack" isn't a point at all, even if you disagree with everything he said. Tell me what you don't like, or perceive different than i already stated. Iam willing to tell you why i have come to my position.
My anticipation is (which might be completely wrong, as you aren't willing to tell me what you find so "cracky" about my opinion), that you don't think that men can be raped by women. While iam quite sure that this doesn't happen as often as the vice-versa, there are several documented cases (Try searching http://www.google.com/search?q=woman+rapes+man).
I have no idea why you call " " "scare quotes", but i just used them to emphasize that i meant the definition as by law, and not as by urban slang.
Iam in a similar situation you once were. Iam 22 now, and about 180kg.
And i don't think it was my parents fault. They were on a vegetarian trip when i was around 12, and i rebelled against that. Things went on a downward spiral from that on.
However, i don't blame my parents for what iam now. I blame myself. Not the state. Not the school. Not my parents. Nobody but myself. When you're 12 years old, you KNOW what can happen to you if you don't pay attention. Especially as time progresses, you're even more aware of what can happen.
You were able to fix the situation you got yourself in. More power to you.
I think of this is part of natural selection. If someone can't contain their own unhealthy urges, and it kills them, it just the way it's supposed to be. Nothing wrong with that, i think.
(Hmm, this posting still sounds quite angsty. But i've written worse.)
I work for a rather small company (25 employees), and do Small Business sysadmin stuff for other companies. Normal business pc's (Lenovo, HP) usually ship with 80GB Disks. I rarely see machines that use over 8GB, and if they do, there are two explainations:
a) CAD, Video Editing, etc. pp. b) Filesharing, movie trading, etc. pp.
Usually, all data is stored on the server (profiles are roaming, with folder redirection enabled for "My Files" and the Desktop).
I use Shadow Copies on all shared folders (profiles, home directories, folder redirections, primitive DMS shares). We made very good experiences with this, customers can now recover their own mistakes very fast.
Bringing this to the desktop os doesn't matter for businesses (i think), but is great for the home user.
Apropos disk cost: a 300GB 10kRPM U320 SCA SCSI Disk still costs 1500 CHF (about 1200 US$), and you usually need two of them.
Your assertion that females are free to choose their best-suited field is simply wrong. We are not free to choose such things, and those girls who do choose to go into computer science are either mocked and thought less of
This wasn't my assertion at all. Iam not a native english speaker, so might've not written clearly what i meant to say.
You said: So long as our culture expects women to be submissive, we will never be able to assert our true desires.
I said: If you don't like the results of our system, don't try to change the results. Try to change the system.
Isn't that basically the same point? Of course, changing the system in your own lifetime won't ever happen. Were stuck with what we have now.
One thing iam sure of:
Trying to fix the symptoms of our society (e.g. no equal distribution of gender in technology jobs), won't help.
But in most societies, women and men aren't even the same on paper. Two interesting examples from swiss law:
Military Service: Men have to do military service. Women don't have to.
Rape: Men can "rape" a woman (according to law). A woman however, can't "rape" a man (according to law).
Divorce: Only under special circumstances, the man is allowed to keep the children. (Woman agrees, woman has severe problems which would limit that, etc. pp.)
As long as our societies have these problems, it's next to impossible to achieve equal gender rights. And that's also why iam opposed against all programs which try to fix the symptoms instead of the underlying cause.
I still think that such programs, be they for OSS, or for a school, or for an apprenticeship are wrong by design.
Why?
Both women and men have the ability to choose what they want to do (restricted, of course, by their social class). Encouraging women (or men, for that matter) to do something which they aren't really interested in, brings the wrong people into such programs.
People that have no natural interest into a topic. That doesn't mean that people attracted by such programs will always be inferior to naturally interested people - but it's more often than not the case.
IT never is a 9-5 job. Doing more than 9-5 requires a real interest in whatever you're doing (and a work environment which appreciates your efforts). OSS specifically is *never* a 9-5 *just-in-for-the-money* kind of thing.
Of course, we all know that there isn't a 50:50 split in technology jobs.
Why?
Because our society and our systems instills several values into our children. This is what makes nerds unpopular losers, and the quarterback a popular, well, uhm, quarterback. The same doctrine also applies to our interests.
Of course, a valid follow-up question would be if this system is broken. I don't think so. Even if you're a "loser", you're not going to die because of lack of food or housing. Heck, you might even have better house or car than the "quarterback".
So, this is my conclusion:
If you don't like the results of our system, don't try to change the results. Try to change the system.
Most "real" (read: expensive) routers and switches have an AC input, and a DC input. The latter can be used together with the AC input to provide redundant power.
For servers, come on. Everything non-budget class has two power supplies (or, at least the space for a second one for you to buy). You can even get 1U servers with two power supplies.
I download a linux distribution in multiple rar files. In order to burn it to a cd, i need to unrar it. This needs twice the space. Now, if i want to keep the iso around for a friend, i will keep it in ISO format, shut down the torrent, und delete the rar files, because hard disk space is always nearly full anyway.
I don't have as much experience as you do, and iam not a software developer either.
But i would like to offer an alternative point of view to the one you have.
I certainly don't understand everything my computer does. The main reason for this is because computers today are more complex then ever.
Several years ago, a system administrator might have known how a file is written to a hard disk, and how the hard disk calculates the appropiate checksum for the data it writes.
This is no longer the case, because these problems have been completely abstracted from us. The hard disk gets an amber light, and if that amber light is lit, the disk is broken.
This is so, because we can afford to have redundancy in our hard disks, and we no longer need to understand how they work exactly.
Why would this be any different for software developers? Many things can be abstracted, if you can afford the abstraction (which always comes at a cost). I don't think that this is wrong, because it helps us to create even better systems.
Take a look at todays cars. A few decades ago, you had a "trained" driver, which usually could dismantle the entire car, and then build it up again. This is no longer the case. Many things in cars have been abstracted, you just need to turn a key in order to start your engine, or just press the gas, the gears get shifted automatically, and when breaking the ABS handles distribution automatically.
This is the same as newer environments like Java and.NET. Of course, an Idiot might write nonsense code in.NET, but that doesn't mean.NET is a bad thing. An idiot can also crash his ESP controlled car into the next tree, if he goes into a curve with 150km/h.
From the article: The reason was that there were severe problems when Woodcrest was paired with a 1E RAID field when using IBM ServeRAID controllers. The problems didn't occur just in benchmarking, it was the every-day usage model that produced unexpected errors.
I don't see anything mentioned about a dedicated card...
The second article even specifically mentioned fakeraid
It seems to us that Intel's Core 2 is suffering from a specific overhead when on-board RAID controllers are used. If you're unfamiliar with current on-board RAID5 controllers, let's just say that they really look like soft-modems and soft-sound cards, utilising power of the CPU for everyday work.
I'd say RAID 5 is the best solution for home backups, you have redundancy for disk failure and with monthly or even quarterly backups you should be fine. (who wants to spend 12 hours a week backing up to tape?).
We create snapshot based online backups from our system nightly. Takes about 6 hours to backup our systems to an ultrium 3 library with multiple drives. Data is about 1.5TB now. You can access the system at that time without problems, performance is a bit limited though.
1) I agree. That's why you standardize hardware in an environment. We use HP CCISS for our linux boxes, and the "real" variants of IBMs Serveraid. For the first, we have a Nagios Plugin, and for the second we have a MoM Plugin. Everything goes through our centralized notification and network managment system.
I agree that software raid isn't bad. We usually use it in "cheaper" machines like ALGs, Firewalls, VPN Concentrators, Domain Controllers (i.E. anywhere where disk speed doesn't matter).
However, not all data deserves to be stored in an Hitachi 9980V. And not everyone can afford them. Some organizations can only afford FAKERAID.
I disagree. Usuable RAID-Controllers don't cost that much. They are in the price range from 750 to 1000CHF.
That's not free, but it isn't expensive either. Think about it this way: An Ultrium 3 Tape Library costs about 20'000CHF. Does it really matter if you spend 1k CHF more on your server, when your Backup costs 20kCHF anyway?
hope you're happy with the way your life is going;-)
This isn't about life. It's about a professional decision as someone working for a company. Before deploying half-assed solutions, it's usually better to deploy nothing at all.
which is usually hard when the company that created your raid card went out of business a few years ago
Professional IT doesn't work like that. You have a maintenance contract on your machine, usually from the machine manefacturer itself (like IBM, HP, DELL, whatever floats your boat). You buy this maintenance contract depending on the time you will need the machine (they're usually available from 3-5 years).
You renew the machine before the contract runs out. IBM, HP, DELL running out of Business seems very unlikely to me.
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So i can get rid of my crack pipe now?
Switzerland (i also stated this in my original post).
% F6tigung), which has the same upper limit for a punishment (but not the same lower limit ) as rape, they can't be charged for rape itself.
Iam from the german speaking part of switzerland, and the german term for rape is "Vergewaltigung".
While women can be charged for "Sexuelle Nötigung" (sexual coercion, i hope this is the correct translation, see http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&search=n
Here's the original text, right from the law:
Vergewaltigung:
http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/311_0/a190.html
Now, as i researched this some more, i seen that i made a small, but important mistake.
Vergewaltigung
Wer eine Person weiblichen Geschlechts zur Duldung des Beischlafs nötigt, namentlich indem er sie bedroht, Gewalt anwendet, sie unter psychischen Druck setzt oder zum Widerstand unfähig macht, wird mit Zuchthaus bis zu zehn Jahren bestraft.
My very rought translation, since it's "law german":
Whoever makes a female person to have vaginal intercourse with them, by forcing them through either physical or psychological measures, are makes them unable to resist (through drugs, methinks), will be put into jail for up to then years.
The important difference is the following. A woman CAN rape another woman according to law, but according to law, men can't be raped.
Sexuelle Nötigung:
http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/311_0/a189.html
So.. Hope this clears things up.
I have absolutely no idea where you're trying to go with this.
Calling someone to be "on crack" isn't a point at all, even if you disagree with everything he said.
Tell me what you don't like, or perceive different than i already stated. Iam willing to tell you why i have come to my position.
My anticipation is (which might be completely wrong, as you aren't willing to tell me what you find so "cracky" about my opinion), that you don't think that men can be raped by women. While iam quite sure that this doesn't happen as often as the vice-versa, there are several documented cases (Try searching http://www.google.com/search?q=woman+rapes+man).
I have no idea why you call " " "scare quotes", but i just used them to emphasize that i meant the definition as by law, and not as by urban slang.
Iam in a similar situation you once were. Iam 22 now, and about 180kg.
And i don't think it was my parents fault. They were on a vegetarian trip when i was around 12, and i rebelled against that. Things went on a downward spiral from that on.
However, i don't blame my parents for what iam now. I blame myself. Not the state. Not the school. Not my parents. Nobody but myself. When you're 12 years old, you KNOW what can happen to you if you don't pay attention. Especially as time progresses, you're even more aware of what can happen.
You were able to fix the situation you got yourself in. More power to you.
I think of this is part of natural selection. If someone can't contain their own unhealthy urges, and it kills them, it just the way it's supposed to be. Nothing wrong with that, i think.
(Hmm, this posting still sounds quite angsty. But i've written worse.)
I agree mostly.
I work for a rather small company (25 employees), and do Small Business sysadmin stuff for other companies.
Normal business pc's (Lenovo, HP) usually ship with 80GB Disks. I rarely see machines that use over 8GB, and if they do, there are two explainations:
a) CAD, Video Editing, etc. pp.
b) Filesharing, movie trading, etc. pp.
Usually, all data is stored on the server (profiles are roaming, with folder redirection enabled for "My Files" and the Desktop).
I use Shadow Copies on all shared folders (profiles, home directories, folder redirections, primitive DMS shares). We made very good experiences with this, customers can now recover their own mistakes very fast.
Bringing this to the desktop os doesn't matter for businesses (i think), but is great for the home user.
Apropos disk cost: a 300GB 10kRPM U320 SCA SCSI Disk still costs 1500 CHF (about 1200 US$), and you usually need two of them.
Thanks for your solid, and thoughtful argument.
It really helps to understand your point of view.
Your assertion that females are free to choose their best-suited field is simply wrong. We are not free to choose such things, and those girls who do choose to go into computer science are either mocked and thought less of
This wasn't my assertion at all. Iam not a native english speaker, so might've not written clearly what i meant to say.
You said:
So long as our culture expects women to be submissive, we will never be able to assert our true desires.
I said:
If you don't like the results of our system, don't try to change the results. Try to change the system.
Isn't that basically the same point? Of course, changing the system in your own lifetime won't ever happen. Were stuck with what we have now.
One thing iam sure of:
Trying to fix the symptoms of our society (e.g. no equal distribution of gender in technology jobs), won't help.
But in most societies, women and men aren't even the same on paper. Two interesting examples from swiss law:
Military Service:
Men have to do military service. Women don't have to.
Rape:
Men can "rape" a woman (according to law).
A woman however, can't "rape" a man (according to law).
Divorce:
Only under special circumstances, the man is allowed to keep the children.
(Woman agrees, woman has severe problems which would limit that, etc. pp.)
As long as our societies have these problems, it's next to impossible to achieve equal gender rights. And that's also why iam opposed against all programs which try to fix the symptoms instead of the underlying cause.
I still think that such programs, be they for OSS, or for a school, or for an apprenticeship are wrong by design.
Why?
Both women and men have the ability to choose what they want to do (restricted, of course, by their social class). Encouraging women (or men, for that matter) to do something which they aren't really interested in, brings the wrong people into such programs.
People that have no natural interest into a topic. That doesn't mean that people attracted by such programs will always be inferior to naturally interested people - but it's more often than not the case.
IT never is a 9-5 job. Doing more than 9-5 requires a real interest in whatever you're doing (and a work environment which appreciates your efforts). OSS specifically is *never* a 9-5 *just-in-for-the-money* kind of thing.
Of course, we all know that there isn't a 50:50 split in technology jobs.
Why?
Because our society and our systems instills several values into our children. This is what makes nerds unpopular losers, and the quarterback a popular, well, uhm, quarterback. The same doctrine also applies to our interests.
Of course, a valid follow-up question would be if this system is broken. I don't think so. Even if you're a "loser", you're not going to die because of lack of food or housing. Heck, you might even have better house or car than the "quarterback".
So, this is my conclusion:
If you don't like the results of our system, don't try to change the results. Try to change the system.
But that would require actual effort.
Lenovo Thinkpads and Lenovo ThinkCentres. (Select Models).
My R51 has one.
Most "real" (read: expensive) routers and switches have an AC input, and a DC input. The latter can be used together with the AC input to provide redundant power.
For servers, come on. Everything non-budget class has two power supplies (or, at least the space for a second one for you to buy). You can even get 1U servers with two power supplies.
Well, i jumped to conclusions (which were wrong).
I've never seen PIMs/PDAs in much private use (except for some techno geeks).
Most (self employed) consultants i know use their own Exchange server, or use "Hosted Exchange".
Sorry, i thought we're talking about professional environments here, not your private laptop.
ActiveSync doesn't require Outlook.
You can sync your device directly to the Exchange server, effectively skipping the need for the installation of any software on the desktop machine.
You can also use ActiveSync across an GPRS link, and get BlackBerry like functionality (including E-Mail Push).
Simple.
I download a linux distribution in multiple rar files. In order to burn it to a cd, i need to unrar it. This needs twice the space. Now, if i want to keep the iso around for a friend, i will keep it in ISO format, shut down the torrent, und delete the rar files, because hard disk space is always nearly full anyway.
I don't have as much experience as you do, and iam not a software developer either.
.NET. Of course, an Idiot might write nonsense code in .NET, but that doesn't mean .NET is a bad thing. An idiot can also crash his ESP controlled car into the next tree, if he goes into a curve with 150km/h.
But i would like to offer an alternative point of view to the one you have.
I certainly don't understand everything my computer does. The main reason for this is because computers today are more complex then ever.
Several years ago, a system administrator might have known how a file is written to a hard disk, and how the hard disk calculates the appropiate checksum for the data it writes.
This is no longer the case, because these problems have been completely abstracted from us. The hard disk gets an amber light, and if that amber light is lit, the disk is broken.
This is so, because we can afford to have redundancy in our hard disks, and we no longer need to understand how they work exactly.
Why would this be any different for software developers? Many things can be abstracted, if you can afford the abstraction (which always comes at a cost). I don't think that this is wrong, because it helps us to create even better systems.
Take a look at todays cars. A few decades ago, you had a "trained" driver, which usually could dismantle the entire car, and then build it up again. This is no longer the case. Many things in cars have been abstracted, you just need to turn a key in order to start your engine, or just press the gas, the gears get shifted automatically, and when breaking the ABS handles distribution automatically.
This is the same as newer environments like Java and
IIRC, if you've licensed windows server 2003 enterprise, you can run up to 4 instances in Virtual Server 2005.
sysprep isn't a third party tool.
From the article:
The reason was that there were severe problems when Woodcrest was paired with a 1E RAID field when using IBM ServeRAID controllers. The problems didn't occur just in benchmarking, it was the every-day usage model that produced unexpected errors.
I don't see anything mentioned about a dedicated card...
The second article even specifically mentioned fakeraid
It seems to us that Intel's Core 2 is suffering from a specific overhead when on-board RAID controllers are used. If you're unfamiliar with current on-board RAID5 controllers, let's just say that they really look like soft-modems and soft-sound cards, utilising power of the CPU for everyday work.
Unfortunately, you're wrong.
There's the 7e and similar lines of ServeRAID Controllers, which are Fakeraid.
The 6i and 7k are "real" raid controllers, the 7e is not. Its even labelled as "Adapted HostRAID" in the BIOS.
We create snapshot based online backups from our system nightly. Takes about 6 hours to backup our systems to an ultrium 3 library with multiple drives. Data is about 1.5TB now. You can access the system at that time without problems, performance is a bit limited though.
1) I agree. That's why you standardize hardware in an environment. We use HP CCISS for our linux boxes, and the "real" variants of IBMs Serveraid. For the first, we have a Nagios Plugin, and for the second we have a MoM Plugin. Everything goes through our centralized notification and network managment system.
I agree that software raid isn't bad. We usually use it in "cheaper" machines like ALGs, Firewalls, VPN Concentrators, Domain Controllers (i.E. anywhere where disk speed doesn't matter).
I disagree. Usuable RAID-Controllers don't cost that much. They are in the price range from 750 to 1000CHF.
That's not free, but it isn't expensive either. Think about it this way: An Ultrium 3 Tape Library costs about 20'000CHF. Does it really matter if you spend 1k CHF more on your server, when your Backup costs 20kCHF anyway?
This isn't about life. It's about a professional decision as someone working for a company. Before deploying half-assed solutions, it's usually better to deploy nothing at all.
Professional IT doesn't work like that. You have a maintenance contract on your machine, usually from the machine manefacturer itself (like IBM, HP, DELL, whatever floats your boat). You buy this maintenance contract depending on the time you will need the machine (they're usually available from 3-5 years).
You renew the machine before the contract runs out. IBM, HP, DELL running out of Business seems very unlikely to me.
If you can't afford to do something right, don't do it.