I'm sorry, did you actually say "not even good ones like a paper weight"? I'm 36 and have never once used or needed a paper weight in my life, but I do find capes are terrific for making grand entrances and exits!
Thin client running against a vm desktop, thats where stuff is going, running a bunch of vm desktops on blades. Let the vm software automatically balance the load. Citrix and vmware are activly working on this. Check out vmwares site for some whitepapers on what you want to do, I personally think its a bit early to move a whole company to it, but its something to play around with.
Very smart for Dell, they have been trying to break into the high end(high profit) gaming system market for a while. They will run it under alien's name because dell is synomimis(sp!) with cheap computers. They will try to make some changes(under the guise of efficiency)
But Dell is a smart company, they didnt get where they are for no reason. Dell will help them develop new stuff with their much bigger r&d resources and make sure that it remains the cutting edge without affecting dells cheap/stable image. We'll probably see some sort of dell tagline in the ads/computers. But thats about it.
The only question I see is is the AMD processor, we all know dell is intels bitch...
MS IIS servers can handle very high loads very well,.net and asp, when done correctly are very efficient(precompiling files and whatnot) IIS does not have the end user control panels (cpanel and the like)or multiuserness(is that a word) down well at all, but for parked domains it makes a lot of sense. Microsoft has done a hell of a job making sure there stuff runs fast on their servers when programmed with their stuff(thats why I always bet on them, they make devloping for their platforms too easy/efficent(pretty much the only reason anyone uses iis)). Precompiled code will always run faster then interpeted(or whatever you want to call perl/any non compiled code) Very few people commenting on this have ever run websites under the load we are talking about, believe me code that fine with 100k/day hits does not usually scale to millions of hits well. And cost is not an object really in business, you need support and linux support contracts costs just as much as ms licenses. When you have multimillion dollar companies with investors they don't care that the IT guy is a genious with the os, they need a tangible contract with a SLA regardless if you'll ever use it.
So parked domains make sense, but they will not switch over their other servers/services.
And besides no matter what OS, web, app, or db server you run, they always fail to scale at the backend(DB) due to poor shortsighted design. So at the end of the day it comes down to your developers/DBA's: GIGO
Your exactly right. If apple could write an operating system that would work with 99% of the hardware out there right now, they would sell it to anybody with a credit card. The thing is they have always had control of the hardware and its a lot easier to write an operating system on known hardware. Microsoft products have to work with every combination of everything. Linux has had it easy until recently, people didn't expect it to work with every no name part, thats been changing with linux on the desktop(hardware support is now lightyears ahead of a few years ago)
But there is no way apple is going to switch to intel based computers and let some hardware incompatibilites ruin the transition. They are risking there entire existance on this intel transition, and I'm sure they want to have absolute control. Down the road there is too much money to be made licensing the os to not do it, they will do the intel switch, then they will bring on someone like dell to sell mac certified systems(with their specs) then after a few years they might let anyone buy the os off the street(with a very strict HCL), and with a couple years of beta testing(exactly why ms releases beta os's to the public...theres just too much crap out there for them to test themselves)
Don't forget government contracts goto the lowest qualified bidder...They have no idea about this stuff, or this could well have been done in access or something by a town IS employee who just took a course at a local college.
The other thing is, if 8m is big deal to them, then that is a fairly signifigant portion of their budget, and an increase of that amount should have been noticed. In new york city it would be easy to miss, in EBF not so easy.
conspiracy theory:
maybe there was an election and someone used the mistake to their advantage..fund everything, get reelected, ooops clerical error, sorry seniors you lose your center, etc...
Your right, the actual life support type systems aren't, but hospitals run on electronic medical records now, if the pc's go down in icu, then they can't schedule tests or see results(including x-rays) in a timely manner. Also medicine is sometimes prescribed through the computer system, which checks for interactions and mistakes(human error, a lot are made doing it by hand.) Its a tight wire to walk, you need to run the hospitals software, and doctors/nurses do need internet access, and budgets are tight.
Yes they screwed up. But I bet(hope?) the IS guys wanted software to prevent something like this but couldnt get it budgeted or scheduled(until now) I'm sure most of us have been there before
Yes your 100% correct, we are in the process of cutting over. This just kinda speeded it up. Also goes to show that internap is worth the extra money for just such issues like this. We haven't even finished cutting over and the extra cost has already been justieifed many times over as would have lost a weeks worth of testing with one of customers who use level3.
All this crap about it showing weakness in the internet is uninformed bs. They didn't just stop peering, but they are actively blocking traffic from cogent. If Level3 had just stopped peering the traffic would reroute around the problem. The only time you will see problems is if your a cogent customer trying to get a single homed computer on level3's network. We are a cogent customer and an internap customer, and to get around the problem I just reouted traffic destined for level 3 networks over one of our internap t's. This solved the issue for us.
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I'm sorry, did you actually say "not even good ones like a paper weight"? I'm 36 and have never once used or needed a paper weight in my life, but I do find capes are terrific for making grand entrances and exits!
Thin client running against a vm desktop, thats where stuff is going, running a bunch of vm desktops on blades. Let the vm software automatically balance the load. Citrix and vmware are activly working on this. Check out vmwares site for some whitepapers on what you want to do, I personally think its a bit early to move a whole company to it, but its something to play around with.
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Very smart for Dell, they have been trying to break into the high end(high profit) gaming system market for a while. They will run it under alien's name because dell is synomimis(sp!) with cheap computers. They will try to make some changes(under the guise of efficiency)
But Dell is a smart company, they didnt get where they are for no reason. Dell will help them develop new stuff with their much bigger r&d resources and make sure that it remains the cutting edge without affecting dells cheap/stable image. We'll probably see some sort of dell tagline in the ads/computers. But thats about it.
The only question I see is is the AMD processor, we all know dell is intels bitch...
MS IIS servers can handle very high loads very well, .net and asp, when done correctly are very efficient(precompiling files and whatnot) IIS does not have the end user control panels (cpanel and the like)or multiuserness(is that a word) down well at all, but for parked domains it makes a lot of sense. Microsoft has done a hell of a job making sure there stuff runs fast on their servers when programmed with their stuff(thats why I always bet on them, they make devloping for their platforms too easy/efficent(pretty much the only reason anyone uses iis)). Precompiled code will always run faster then interpeted(or whatever you want to call perl/any non compiled code) Very few people commenting on this have ever run websites under the load we are talking about, believe me code that fine with 100k/day hits does not usually scale to millions of hits well. And cost is not an object really in business, you need support and linux support contracts costs just as much as ms licenses. When you have multimillion dollar companies with investors they don't care that the IT guy is a genious with the os, they need a tangible contract with a SLA regardless if you'll ever use it.
So parked domains make sense, but they will not switch over their other servers/services.
And besides no matter what OS, web, app, or db server you run, they always fail to scale at the backend(DB) due to poor shortsighted design.
So at the end of the day it comes down to your developers/DBA's: GIGO
Your exactly right. If apple could write an operating system that would work with 99% of the hardware out there right now, they would sell it to anybody with a credit card. The thing is they have always had control of the hardware and its a lot easier to write an operating system on known hardware. Microsoft products have to work with every combination of everything. Linux has had it easy until recently, people didn't expect it to work with every no name part, thats been changing with linux on the desktop(hardware support is now lightyears ahead of a few years ago)
But there is no way apple is going to switch to intel based computers and let some hardware incompatibilites ruin the transition. They are risking there entire existance on this intel transition, and I'm sure they want to have absolute control. Down the road there is too much money to be made licensing the os to not do it, they will do the intel switch, then they will bring on someone like dell to sell mac certified systems(with their specs) then after a few years they might let anyone buy the os off the street(with a very strict HCL), and with a couple years of beta testing(exactly why ms releases beta os's to the public...theres just too much crap out there for them to test themselves)
Garbage in garbage out
Don't forget government contracts goto the lowest qualified bidder...They have no idea about this stuff, or this could well have been done in access or something by a town IS employee who just took a course at a local college.
The other thing is, if 8m is big deal to them, then that is a fairly signifigant portion of their budget, and an increase of that amount should have been noticed. In new york city it would be easy to miss, in EBF not so easy.
conspiracy theory:
maybe there was an election and someone used the mistake to their advantage..fund everything, get reelected, ooops clerical error, sorry seniors you lose your center, etc...
Your right, the actual life support type systems aren't, but hospitals run on electronic medical records now, if the pc's go down in icu, then they can't schedule tests or see results(including x-rays) in a timely manner. Also medicine is sometimes prescribed through the computer system, which checks for interactions and mistakes(human error, a lot are made doing it by hand.) Its a tight wire to walk, you need to run the hospitals software, and doctors/nurses do need internet access, and budgets are tight.
Yes they screwed up. But I bet(hope?) the IS guys wanted software to prevent something like this but couldnt get it budgeted or scheduled(until now) I'm sure most of us have been there before
Yes your 100% correct, we are in the process of cutting over. This just kinda speeded it up. Also goes to show that internap is worth the extra money for just such issues like this. We haven't even finished cutting over and the extra cost has already been justieifed many times over as would have lost a weeks worth of testing with one of customers who use level3.
All this crap about it showing weakness in the internet is uninformed bs. They didn't just stop peering, but they are actively blocking traffic from cogent. If Level3 had just stopped peering the traffic would reroute around the problem. The only time you will see problems is if your a cogent customer trying to get a single homed computer on level3's network. We are a cogent customer and an internap customer, and to get around the problem I just reouted traffic destined for level 3 networks over one of our internap t's. This solved the issue for us.