One of our customers decided that they wanted to import in a relatively large database. (basically an address book with around a million records) They decided that FTP'ing the file would take too long, so they decided to FedEx a tape instead. Problem is, it had to go through several steps to go from original file, to tape, and back again.
They'd cut an EBCDIC 36 track tape. That tape would be shipped to an outside vendor to be converted to standard Unix tar format on DLT media. That DLT tape would be then shipped to us. I'd have to read that tape using a Sun workstation that was solely dedicated to this process. Once the file was on the local filesystem, I'd back it up using our tape silo onto LTO media. Then I'd run a restore of the file to a Windows server that the customer owned. From there they'd import the file into a SQL database.
So basically... Midrange->36track tape->convert EBCDIC to ASCII->DLT tape->Unix workstation->LTO tape->Windows server.
The process took around 30 days to complete from export on the midrange to import on the Windows server. Last I heard they decided to just FTP the file, which takes about 8 hours for the entire process.
VMware is still a relatively unproven technology firm. Since they are pushing the virtualized desktop environment that you're interested in they should be able to provide some references. VM technology has been around for a long time but desktop side VM's are something I'd be cautious of without the vendor being able to demonstrate that it actually works in a real world environment.
That being said, I think that the business case could be made. People have been trying to come up with the same result using different methods for a while, but none have been overly successful. Using Citrix has come the closest but in my experience Citrix is only good for certain tasks, not the entire desktop environment. There are other thinclient solutions out there and other less costly alternatives though that vmware desktops may not be as practical a solution as the coolness factor would make it seem.
Remember the hype about "my Tivo thinks I'm gay"? Tivo would come up with some weird programming based on what was watched, not taking into account there might be multiple people watching it. They've gotten much better about that now, though its still not perfect. I can tell they are tracking between units if you own multiple Tivo's too because when I setup my second box I set it up to record completely different types of shows but it started recording all sorts of home improvement shows that I had previously watched about 6 months prior on the main unit. Not that I'm complaining too much. I took it as a sign to get off my duff and buy a condo..lol
It will be interesting to see the evolution of Amazon's recommendations as they refine the system.
I usually hate recommending HP because they have become more and more overrated in recent years, but I have an HP 1022n and definitely would recommend it. Its on the higher end of your $300 range but worth it. I also have a 1012 model and it works great as well, but thats not a networked model.
If they are truly bad cops then they don't even need you to be armed to shoot to kill. Owning a gun doesn't automatically give a bad cop an "excuse" to shoot somebody. All they'd need to do is plant a gun on you before they call for backup.... or simply run off if they don't think there was any witnesses.
False yet again. Simply owning guns or carrying a gun is not grounds for lethal force. The only situation that would warrant lethal force from an officer is if you are threatening an individual or the officer. There are gray areas depending on exact situations but lethal force is only acceptable as a last resort.
I am a libertarian, and I don't agree with your assessment of many of the libertarian membership. I don't agree with all of the Libertarian Party's official position on issues, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't vote for them.
Instead of insisting everyone vote Democrat, why not vote for the party that stands for the closest ideal to your own? Neither the Democrats or the Republicans are truly interested in helping their constituents. Their goal is to give us small tokens in exchange for power. The Libertarian philosophy may not be perfect, but they are the only party that is interested in allowing people to have true freedom. The LP is not a bunch of anarchists. We're people who want to let you do or say whatever you want as long as its not harmful to someone else. Regulating corporations into the ground doesn't help the economic situation, but at the same time they must be held accountable just as we require of any other person.
People really need yet another nanny. I'm not saying people shouldn't be mindful of their wireless connections, but this mandate? We don't need any more thought control liberals ruining America.
The person writing the article is clearly seeing this from a managerial point of view, and not as someone who actually understands the technical side of IT. What I read between the lines was that the expectation is that FTE's will be more business and vendor/project management oriented while the pure IT skills will be contractors or PS engagements with vendors.
As someone who's seen this first hand, I don't think the author has hit the mark at all. Instead of shifting high level responsibility on day to day IT folk, they would be better to invest in key architects and engineers who can bring all of the existing reponsibilities together. These positions require leadership and long term planning/project management. These types of folks will replace the VP of IT types that write these articles, not the specialized IT skillsets that we have today.
I work at a place that is in the process of migrating from a Windows platform to a Linux platform for their Lotus Notes 6.5.5 environment. The problem with Notes on Windows is that Windows is unstable. The problem with Notes on Linux is Notes becomes unstable. There are also all sorts of Gotcha's... like the way backups work. Administrative rights are funky too.
This makes a lot of sense. I could see them using a stripped down version of Linux as a DBMS application server. It wouldn't be the first time it has been done. Think of the AS/400, and how widely it is still used to this day.
I'm no fan of government spending... but those stats could be taken either way. That still accounts for 1.8 million net-new private sector jobs. To the average American, having net new jobs is an important detail. They don't think about the fact that jobs through government spending is coming out of the rest of America's pocket.
Oracle is the last company that should be complaining about patches. Not only are they slow to address specific security holes, but they are constantly releasing patches! My biggest customer that I consult at spends at least a week every quarter on just the patching of Oracle.
I hate to break it to these punks with Microsoft business cards, but they really aren't in the position to call for heads to roll. Either the market will go elsewhere or the board of directors will make a decision if things come to that. Programmers live in a vacuum and think they know it all.. but guess what folks, you don't know everything. Management in whatever company you work for will make what you think to be bad decisions. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. They face decisions that have many factors that the workerbees don't know or have to worry about. If you are as good as you think you are and move up the food chain, then you can bitch.
That does not imply that *I* as a consumer have to worry about enforcement. That only applies to commercial interests that are selling equipment or service.
There is an episode of King of the Hill where Bobby fails English. I love when Hank tells him "You failed English? Bobby, you SPEAK english! How do you fail a class on a language you already speak?!"
The problem isn't that technology is eroding our language. The problem is that schools are not hiring good teachers and only teaching to a standardized test. Teachers unions who protect the crappy teachers and hold back the really good ones from making a name for themselves are part of the blame. Federal and state mandated "minimums" force schools to teach to those minimums, and nothing else are the other big part of the blame.
I don't claim to be a spectacular writer or speller, but I was taught a much more in depth curriculum than kids are these days. They don't get the history and full understanding of what they are being taught. They aren't taught to have pride in getting things right. And when they get something wrong, they are told it is ok. I thought it was the end of the world the first time I got a C. But parents and teachers today seem to be telling their kids "hey, it isn't failing, so everything is ok".
Another huge gap in education today (and not just at school) is a lack of responsibility. People need to be held responsible when they do something wrong or screw up. You don't have to beat your kids into submission, but if their grades drop because they are goofing off or get caught drinking, punish them. The sooner they learn there are consequences to bad decisions the better they will be in life.
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Hate to tell the original poster, but goldfish are freshwater fish and would die in the ocean.
One of our customers decided that they wanted to import in a relatively large database. (basically an address book with around a million records) They decided that FTP'ing the file would take too long, so they decided to FedEx a tape instead. Problem is, it had to go through several steps to go from original file, to tape, and back again.
They'd cut an EBCDIC 36 track tape. That tape would be shipped to an outside vendor to be converted to standard Unix tar format on DLT media. That DLT tape would be then shipped to us. I'd have to read that tape using a Sun workstation that was solely dedicated to this process. Once the file was on the local filesystem, I'd back it up using our tape silo onto LTO media. Then I'd run a restore of the file to a Windows server that the customer owned. From there they'd import the file into a SQL database.
So basically... Midrange->36track tape->convert EBCDIC to ASCII->DLT tape->Unix workstation->LTO tape->Windows server.
The process took around 30 days to complete from export on the midrange to import on the Windows server. Last I heard they decided to just FTP the file, which takes about 8 hours for the entire process.
VMware is still a relatively unproven technology firm. Since they are pushing the virtualized desktop environment that you're interested in they should be able to provide some references. VM technology has been around for a long time but desktop side VM's are something I'd be cautious of without the vendor being able to demonstrate that it actually works in a real world environment.
That being said, I think that the business case could be made. People have been trying to come up with the same result using different methods for a while, but none have been overly successful. Using Citrix has come the closest but in my experience Citrix is only good for certain tasks, not the entire desktop environment. There are other thinclient solutions out there and other less costly alternatives though that vmware desktops may not be as practical a solution as the coolness factor would make it seem.
Remember the hype about "my Tivo thinks I'm gay"? Tivo would come up with some weird programming based on what was watched, not taking into account there might be multiple people watching it. They've gotten much better about that now, though its still not perfect. I can tell they are tracking between units if you own multiple Tivo's too because when I setup my second box I set it up to record completely different types of shows but it started recording all sorts of home improvement shows that I had previously watched about 6 months prior on the main unit. Not that I'm complaining too much. I took it as a sign to get off my duff and buy a condo..lol
It will be interesting to see the evolution of Amazon's recommendations as they refine the system.
I usually hate recommending HP because they have become more and more overrated in recent years, but I have an HP 1022n and definitely would recommend it. Its on the higher end of your $300 range but worth it. I also have a 1012 model and it works great as well, but thats not a networked model.
So if the fridge doesn't respond to ping, does that mean the light is off?
This kind of system could be used as a mobile unit in case of hurricanes or wars.
Good thing we have plenty of both to field test the units!
They always say that God is all knowing! Obviously Norton is just trying to keep God from spying on you!
If they are truly bad cops then they don't even need you to be armed to shoot to kill. Owning a gun doesn't automatically give a bad cop an "excuse" to shoot somebody. All they'd need to do is plant a gun on you before they call for backup.... or simply run off if they don't think there was any witnesses.
False yet again. Simply owning guns or carrying a gun is not grounds for lethal force. The only situation that would warrant lethal force from an officer is if you are threatening an individual or the officer. There are gray areas depending on exact situations but lethal force is only acceptable as a last resort.
I am a libertarian, and I don't agree with your assessment of many of the libertarian membership. I don't agree with all of the Libertarian Party's official position on issues, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't vote for them.
Instead of insisting everyone vote Democrat, why not vote for the party that stands for the closest ideal to your own? Neither the Democrats or the Republicans are truly interested in helping their constituents. Their goal is to give us small tokens in exchange for power. The Libertarian philosophy may not be perfect, but they are the only party that is interested in allowing people to have true freedom. The LP is not a bunch of anarchists. We're people who want to let you do or say whatever you want as long as its not harmful to someone else. Regulating corporations into the ground doesn't help the economic situation, but at the same time they must be held accountable just as we require of any other person.
People really need yet another nanny. I'm not saying people shouldn't be mindful of their wireless connections, but this mandate? We don't need any more thought control liberals ruining America.
The person writing the article is clearly seeing this from a managerial point of view, and not as someone who actually understands the technical side of IT. What I read between the lines was that the expectation is that FTE's will be more business and vendor/project management oriented while the pure IT skills will be contractors or PS engagements with vendors.
As someone who's seen this first hand, I don't think the author has hit the mark at all. Instead of shifting high level responsibility on day to day IT folk, they would be better to invest in key architects and engineers who can bring all of the existing reponsibilities together. These positions require leadership and long term planning/project management. These types of folks will replace the VP of IT types that write these articles, not the specialized IT skillsets that we have today.
I work at a place that is in the process of migrating from a Windows platform to a Linux platform for their Lotus Notes 6.5.5 environment. The problem with Notes on Windows is that Windows is unstable. The problem with Notes on Linux is Notes becomes unstable. There are also all sorts of Gotcha's... like the way backups work. Administrative rights are funky too.
This makes a lot of sense. I could see them using a stripped down version of Linux as a DBMS application server. It wouldn't be the first time it has been done. Think of the AS/400, and how widely it is still used to this day.
Am I the only one that read that as `Swimsuit Competition uses Supercomputer`?
I'm no fan of government spending... but those stats could be taken either way. That still accounts for 1.8 million net-new private sector jobs. To the average American, having net new jobs is an important detail. They don't think about the fact that jobs through government spending is coming out of the rest of America's pocket.
But really...it might show something about the Google boys' characters, but it doesn't show them as criminals.
BOYS being the keyword here. They are behaving like spoiled little children.
Oracle is the last company that should be complaining about patches. Not only are they slow to address specific security holes, but they are constantly releasing patches! My biggest customer that I consult at spends at least a week every quarter on just the patching of Oracle.
I hate to break it to these punks with Microsoft business cards, but they really aren't in the position to call for heads to roll. Either the market will go elsewhere or the board of directors will make a decision if things come to that. Programmers live in a vacuum and think they know it all.. but guess what folks, you don't know everything. Management in whatever company you work for will make what you think to be bad decisions. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. They face decisions that have many factors that the workerbees don't know or have to worry about. If you are as good as you think you are and move up the food chain, then you can bitch.
That does not imply that *I* as a consumer have to worry about enforcement. That only applies to commercial interests that are selling equipment or service.
How is encrypting a private conversation illegal? I don't give a rats ass if the FBI can't listen in so they can spy on everybody.
There is an episode of King of the Hill where Bobby fails English. I love when Hank tells him "You failed English? Bobby, you SPEAK english! How do you fail a class on a language you already speak?!"
The problem isn't that technology is eroding our language. The problem is that schools are not hiring good teachers and only teaching to a standardized test. Teachers unions who protect the crappy teachers and hold back the really good ones from making a name for themselves are part of the blame. Federal and state mandated "minimums" force schools to teach to those minimums, and nothing else are the other big part of the blame.
I don't claim to be a spectacular writer or speller, but I was taught a much more in depth curriculum than kids are these days. They don't get the history and full understanding of what they are being taught. They aren't taught to have pride in getting things right. And when they get something wrong, they are told it is ok. I thought it was the end of the world the first time I got a C. But parents and teachers today seem to be telling their kids "hey, it isn't failing, so everything is ok".
Another huge gap in education today (and not just at school) is a lack of responsibility. People need to be held responsible when they do something wrong or screw up. You don't have to beat your kids into submission, but if their grades drop because they are goofing off or get caught drinking, punish them. The sooner they learn there are consequences to bad decisions the better they will be in life.
A lot of cable/dsl modems have regular RX/TX lights, so that's pretty much a moot point.