Having worked in an educational environment before (community college), my guess is that the reason why they sat unused is because they didn't have the computers to put them in.
It is typical to do some sort of political purchase like this as to "spend money to look good" but then the tech types get involved and realize they just ordered 74k wireless cards for 200 386's.
I've always had the same "problem" with passwords and phone numbers. I can't remember my mother's phone number, but sit me down at a phone and I'll dial her up without thinking about it.
But that Hitachi is Highly-Availably disk array. We use Hitachi as part of our SAN solution. They are a "storage" system, not a backup solution. I suppose you could back up to one, but you still have other pieces that make up the solution that could break.
That means the hardware, software, and/or tape media will function correctly, except for scheduled downtime and up to 2 hours a month (2 is.1% of the total time in the average month) due to unforeseen circumstances. Rarely do the type of media used in high end backup systems fail during restores. When they do, it is usually a handling issue (tape dropped, left in a cold/hot delivery van, whatever). The tape usually will have a problem during writing, in which case the backup immediately stops and restarts on a new tape. In our case, we take that tape and either destroy it immediately, or wait until the images on it expire then destroy it.
Do backups miss files? You bet. Open files, databases, etc, all create havoc for backup software of any brand. Most of your backup solution software packages get around the problems by implementing open file caching or specialty agents that can talk to and lock applications (like SQL, Oracle, Exchange) from making changes while the backup is in progress. Still, there are files that never get unlocked during a backup, and those files will be missed or written to tape in a corrupted state. Usually those are OS level files though, which you usually don't restore from when doing a normal restore. (That would be recovery, not restore. Recovery is a whole other ballgame that requires more hands on and preplanning.)
I'm in the professional backup/storage management field and can tell you this... NOBODY will give you better than 99.9% reliability guarentee. There are far too many things to break that no matter what, you are likely to either miss something due to a general outage or have a tape/disk go bad.
My company just announced they are going to roll out just such a system. I use Vonage at home already, so I am more than comfortable using an IPphone. For us "remotes" we get a USB soft-phone that is said to be pretty good. Our corporate users have the traditional hardwired ip/phones as of a couple weeks ago, and they are loving it.
A previous employer also moved over to IP phone based PBX and so now the IT managers are also the telecom managers. It was a learning curve, but they are loving it now as they are saving thousands of dollars on inter-branch calling and lack of vendor fee's for moving extensions with all of the frequent office shifts that occur. (It is a huge 7 location community college, so people and classrooms tend to shift on a regular basis)
If all you want is dialtone, go with Packet8. They offer a barebones phone service for about $20 a month that compares to your basic POTS line from Ma Bell. No bells or whistles except unlimited calling anywhere in the US. I have several coworkers that swear by it.
I personally use Vonage, and have relied on it as my primary home phone for about a year and a half now. They recently dropped their price to about $30 a month, but you get a full featured service that compares to an advanced PBX system you'd find in an office.
CNN Headline News is reporting that my neighbors portable phone caused a brief 5 second outage on my home Wireless Access Point.
several possibly related outages over the weekend?
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At work we lost connectivity to a handful of remote sites located in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast. Other sites in the same region but different cities were not affected. I was told it was a fiber cut on AT&T's backbone.. wonder if it has anything to do with this.
How can you claim that this fat overpaid hypocrite who is profitting from all this to be a mouthpiece of America? He's a piece alright.. but not the mouth.
I don't consider myself an "environmentalist" but I certainly care and worry about the impact we have as humans.
I totally agree with you on this. We are so egotistical to think that we can study something for a little while and making sweeping changes. I think the old addage "A little bit goes a long ways" applies here. Do your part locally. Don't go overboard trying to make drastic changes, and we can slow down the additional impact humans have on the earth.
And for a further rant, so many people say it is "western culture" that is the biggest environmental impact. May I remind everyone of the species that have been wiped out due to earlier, less advanced cultures?
I don't advocate going out of your way to eradicate a species, but going out of your way to keep a species that can't cope with change does not help either!!
Those Airport Management Tools are exactly what I have been bitching about wanting ever since I bought my Airport Extreme Base Station. Less expensive WAP's allow you to see whats going on, so you'd think a nice high end piece from Apple would too.
I actually had the old HR guy at my current employer tell me to check out Salary.com when I was transferring to a new area. It was very helpful in figuring out what I should be making with my position.
And what if those techs can't get it the sound to work either? I've been involved with linux for nearly a decade, and I still have problems with sound cards. Hell, that's what I bought a Mac for!
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Having worked in an educational environment before (community college), my guess is that the reason why they sat unused is because they didn't have the computers to put them in.
It is typical to do some sort of political purchase like this as to "spend money to look good" but then the tech types get involved and realize they just ordered 74k wireless cards for 200 386's.
Most the newspapers online I've seen CHARGE you to view non-current articles. It is considered "archival research".
Ohhhhh, you meant Windows the OS, not the window that you can see that girl get undressed from.
"exceedingly liberal" !=Communist
communist principles=="exceedingly liberal"
I've always had the same "problem" with passwords and phone numbers. I can't remember my mother's phone number, but sit me down at a phone and I'll dial her up without thinking about it.
But that Hitachi is Highly-Availably disk array. We use Hitachi as part of our SAN solution. They are a "storage" system, not a backup solution. I suppose you could back up to one, but you still have other pieces that make up the solution that could break.
Nice, simple yet effective design. Sorry to hear about your "self employment".
That means the hardware, software, and/or tape media will function correctly, except for scheduled downtime and up to 2 hours a month (2 is .1% of the total time in the average month) due to unforeseen circumstances. Rarely do the type of media used in high end backup systems fail during restores. When they do, it is usually a handling issue (tape dropped, left in a cold/hot delivery van, whatever). The tape usually will have a problem during writing, in which case the backup immediately stops and restarts on a new tape. In our case, we take that tape and either destroy it immediately, or wait until the images on it expire then destroy it.
Do backups miss files? You bet. Open files, databases, etc, all create havoc for backup software of any brand. Most of your backup solution software packages get around the problems by implementing open file caching or specialty agents that can talk to and lock applications (like SQL, Oracle, Exchange) from making changes while the backup is in progress. Still, there are files that never get unlocked during a backup, and those files will be missed or written to tape in a corrupted state. Usually those are OS level files though, which you usually don't restore from when doing a normal restore. (That would be recovery, not restore. Recovery is a whole other ballgame that requires more hands on and preplanning.)
That's funny, check our partner page.
Yikes.. lots of horror stories like that though, and that is exactly why companies outsource to folks like my employer.
I'm in the professional backup/storage management field and can tell you this... NOBODY will give you better than 99.9% reliability guarentee. There are far too many things to break that no matter what, you are likely to either miss something due to a general outage or have a tape/disk go bad.
My company just announced they are going to roll out just such a system. I use Vonage at home already, so I am more than comfortable using an IPphone. For us "remotes" we get a USB soft-phone that is said to be pretty good. Our corporate users have the traditional hardwired ip/phones as of a couple weeks ago, and they are loving it.
A previous employer also moved over to IP phone based PBX and so now the IT managers are also the telecom managers. It was a learning curve, but they are loving it now as they are saving thousands of dollars on inter-branch calling and lack of vendor fee's for moving extensions with all of the frequent office shifts that occur. (It is a huge 7 location community college, so people and classrooms tend to shift on a regular basis)
If all you want is dialtone, go with Packet8. They offer a barebones phone service for about $20 a month that compares to your basic POTS line from Ma Bell. No bells or whistles except unlimited calling anywhere in the US. I have several coworkers that swear by it.
I personally use Vonage, and have relied on it as my primary home phone for about a year and a half now. They recently dropped their price to about $30 a month, but you get a full featured service that compares to an advanced PBX system you'd find in an office.
Minor nitpick, but you know what I meant at least.
Lowers the cost of technology in China.
Reduces revenue to American and Japanese technology firms.
Allows for a new technical-design boom for Chinese workers, increasing knowledge and affluence.
Creates a cheaper alternative for worldwide consumers, including Americans. (Can you say WAL-MART?)
Increases the brain drain already in full swing from the major outsourcing of programmers and other tech positions to India.
CNN Headline News is reporting that my neighbors portable phone caused a brief 5 second outage on my home Wireless Access Point.
At work we lost connectivity to a handful of remote sites located in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast. Other sites in the same region but different cities were not affected. I was told it was a fiber cut on AT&T's backbone.. wonder if it has anything to do with this.
Slashdot who continues to propogate the "revenge of the nerd" stereotype.
Mouthpiece? MOUTHPIECE?
How can you claim that this fat overpaid hypocrite who is profitting from all this to be a mouthpiece of America? He's a piece alright.. but not the mouth.
I don't consider myself an "environmentalist" but I certainly care and worry about the impact we have as humans.
I totally agree with you on this. We are so egotistical to think that we can study something for a little while and making sweeping changes. I think the old addage "A little bit goes a long ways" applies here. Do your part locally. Don't go overboard trying to make drastic changes, and we can slow down the additional impact humans have on the earth.
And for a further rant, so many people say it is "western culture" that is the biggest environmental impact. May I remind everyone of the species that have been wiped out due to earlier, less advanced cultures?
I don't advocate going out of your way to eradicate a species, but going out of your way to keep a species that can't cope with change does not help either!!
Those are for Airport, not Airport Extreme, and not compatible.
Are there any laws you DO agree with?
Do you call police detectives Murder Enforcement Militia too?
Give the enforcers a break. The warez people *are* breaking the law.
Those Airport Management Tools are exactly what I have been bitching about wanting ever since I bought my Airport Extreme Base Station. Less expensive WAP's allow you to see whats going on, so you'd think a nice high end piece from Apple would too.
I actually had the old HR guy at my current employer tell me to check out Salary.com when I was transferring to a new area. It was very helpful in figuring out what I should be making with my position.
And what if those techs can't get it the sound to work either? I've been involved with linux for nearly a decade, and I still have problems with sound cards. Hell, that's what I bought a Mac for!