Ummm... maybe you don't have a choice. In REALLY large companies, you use what you're told after the Six Sigma process that determined a better product is ignored and the one that we have a deal with is choosen over all competent IT protest.
The current state of dev reminds me sort of the issues that Nintendo had with the N64.... a beautiful piece of hardware with (at the time) a God-like amount of raw power, but *REALLY* hard to code for. Hence the really interesting titles for it either came from Rare who developed on SGI machines (a R10000 drive that beast) or Nintendo, who built the thing.
/yeah yeah, I know the PS1 and Sega Saturn had optical media and that the media's storage capacity which lead to better and more complex were truly what killed the N64.
Thanks for the information! A question I have is what are you guys using for your backend transport? Ethernet, iSCSI, Infiniband? I'm just wondering how your handling of interserver traffic made any difference as I can see that having a major impact on performance.
That's great... but when something blows up, often to stay employed it's VERY nice to be able to say it's a 3rd party's fault.
In larger shops, like mine, the way to give IT a headache (and practically ensure us putting your request to bottom of the pile to rot) is to do your own thing. It's not that we hate competition, it's more along the lines of when patching 3,000 systems we don't like to have surprises like custom drivers that we didn't test against with our work-gen systems.
Another thing, let's say this custom app has a nice trojan that your AV totally missed. Let's say even further that it phones home and instead of reading your GAL it decides to start sending out CAD drawings to China. Don't be skeptical... this has actually happened.
Think of the children!
Ok, there now that that's out of the way...
I think he should appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. This is a constitutional matter given that the bill rights was violated.
I don't mind crossing the border as my notebook uses whole disk encryption (I back the thing up constantly because a LOT of code lives on it.) and I use two factor auth, (a LOT of VERY valuable code) I don't care if they try to search it.
If I trash the mini-SD (have an excrypted backup at home) disk that holds the second key (besides I don't know that code anyway), doesn't matter if I tell them the first one. Besides you can't be made to bear witness against yourself, hence you can't be ordered to produce a code anyway.
They could waterboard me... but I'm not that important but in the end I know I'll end up in MinLove so why bother...
So.... let's see. Oh all the people to humiliate... a senior public official who sets policy for something you directly care about. This couldn't possibly turn out badly.
The scary thing is, is that this is very likely to pass. As many personal freedoms that the DMCA stepped all over it was passed with a 100% vote. Since no one wants to be seen as soft on crime, I predict this one will too. Quite sad actually as some parts of the current contradict the Home Recording Act of 1984(I think that's when it was passed). I hope the ISPs fight this tooth and nail and get it killed on the universal filtering provision and someone points out that the phrasing of what he wants is similar to China's Great Firewall.
I'd say look at Solarwinds. Or Nagios with proper plugins. A common thing I've seen with bad NICs is flapping on a given interface and I know at least Cisco will raise bloody hell about it. Sometimes it's something that's not auto-negotiating properly, but if you see that all of a sudden and then you see a bunch of systems go dead, you've got an idea of where to start looking/routing around.
I'd go to say they went and got his familiy too. I just forwarded that to my staff. I might have used to work for a data center for that green card. We had a guy get fired and manage to sholder surf his way in... all the way to the networking room. He then produced a pair of sheers and cut EVERY FIBER AND CAT5 in the room and then stab and break everything he could. There was no failover.... there was no time. Just as far as the billions of packets were concerned.... just a bright flash of light and then there was no more.
The global (yes, global) LB took over but we lost an estimated 100,000 credit card transactions in the 10 seconds it took for it to kick in. They literally had to hold restrain the manager.
Another one I had was at a telemaketing company. We had just run new wires for some T1s and my boss had these periods of "neatfreakness" he proceeded to cut the wires he THOUGHT were the old ones...
So as the call center manager is bragging to a potential client about our uptime all the TSRs are yelling into their headsets "Hello?". My boss comes out of the network closet with wirecutters in one hand and a bundle of cable in the other right as the manager and COULD HAVE BEEN client were walking up the aisle. Priceless....
I played with Vista in a production capacity and I'll only move at gunpoint. Here's why:
I must use a server for administrative work. (yes, I know I can use registry tricks to make ADUC work but I shouldn't have to)
I can't run multiple monitors on my existing hardware that's certified for Vista, using the recommended drivers, configed the way MS said to.
I can't easily change the NIC binding order.
The sidebar thingy moves on it's own.
Eats my notebook's battery like Pez.
Decides my network is a new one that it's never seen before at random... hence network number 12!
This is just what I could think of in 10 seconds.
It's not a bad try but I see this as the ME of XP. I'll move when I have no choice... but at this point we're simply buying machines without OS and imaging or wiping them. We don't HAVE to upgrade and I'm not planning to for a REALLY REALLY REAAAAAALLLLY long time.
I'm terrified of this as it's not a small change. This is a fundamental change in American society and I have to say it this actually comes to pass I can see things going downhill in a bad and FAST way. The worst part is that there is ample proof of this in our society right now. I can get a letter, this letter says I must do what they ask of me and can't tell anyone that I've got the letter or what I've been told to do. Merely the remote possibility of being labeled a terrorist despite not having the expertise, resources, funding, or simple smarts is enough to have you "removed" from the system and shuttled to illegal prisons where you WISH it was Jack Bauer interrogating you. I'm an American and at one point served in uniform. Loved it... would do it again if I could...
The scary thing is about this that anyone in Congress who speaks out against it is SOOOOO unlikely to be re-elected. None seem to have the testicualar or ovarian fortitude to say, "Damn the torpedos! Let's make this right!"
In 1984 (yes you knew it was coming) MiniLove was truely scary since they had watched Winston for seven years... before the book even started. I worry when I see things like this as I know it means that the State is taking rights away... I've yet to see taken rights given back. I'm not preaching the overthrow of the government, merely a reminder of it's purpose. I think that's been forgotten since they've learned the best mind control methods.
Watch a spoiled brat become famous for no real reason at all.
Watch same spoiled brat get banged in grainy green NV.
Watch her cry like the little spoiled cow she is in the back of a police car.
The people were so focused on this crap, that we missed multiple bombing and atrocities worldwide. We missed the chance to fight this sort of thing.
Before anyone says I'm too high and mighty... I was in the mass I just wrote about. I cheered when she cried. Does that make me bad? No. Just part of the flock as we all are.
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The service is ok... as long as I don't have to eat Big Bob's meat sandwich!
I wish there was a schooled tag....
Oh well someone has to say it. Windows has this already and so does MOSS...
(Ow my karma....)
Hello Brian,
Thanks for the information!
A question I have is what are you guys using for your backend transport? Ethernet, iSCSI, Infiniband? I'm just wondering how your handling of interserver traffic made any difference as I can see that having a major impact on performance.
No you couldn't as VMWare doesn't "see" your TV card.
Preach brother preach... I hate when the uninformed try to drop knowledge on VMWare....
That's great... but when something blows up, often to stay employed it's VERY nice to be able to say it's a 3rd party's fault.
In larger shops, like mine, the way to give IT a headache (and practically ensure us putting your request to bottom of the pile to rot) is to do your own thing. It's not that we hate competition, it's more along the lines of when patching 3,000 systems we don't like to have surprises like custom drivers that we didn't test against with our work-gen systems.
Another thing, let's say this custom app has a nice trojan that your AV totally missed. Let's say even further that it phones home and instead of reading your GAL it decides to start sending out CAD drawings to China. Don't be skeptical... this has actually happened.
Think of the children! Ok, there now that that's out of the way... I think he should appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. This is a constitutional matter given that the bill rights was violated. I don't mind crossing the border as my notebook uses whole disk encryption (I back the thing up constantly because a LOT of code lives on it.) and I use two factor auth, (a LOT of VERY valuable code) I don't care if they try to search it. If I trash the mini-SD (have an excrypted backup at home) disk that holds the second key (besides I don't know that code anyway), doesn't matter if I tell them the first one. Besides you can't be made to bear witness against yourself, hence you can't be ordered to produce a code anyway. They could waterboard me... but I'm not that important but in the end I know I'll end up in MinLove so why bother...
You sir, have made me want to play this game.....
Since we read teh book too, we sorta, kinda, maybe understand how to capture your traffic and identify you....
So.... let's see.
Oh all the people to humiliate... a senior public official who sets policy for something you directly care about.
This couldn't possibly turn out badly.
Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on.
The scary thing is, is that this is very likely to pass. As many personal freedoms that the DMCA stepped all over it was passed with a 100% vote. Since no one wants to be seen as soft on crime, I predict this one will too. Quite sad actually as some parts of the current contradict the Home Recording Act of 1984(I think that's when it was passed). I hope the ISPs fight this tooth and nail and get it killed on the universal filtering provision and someone points out that the phrasing of what he wants is similar to China's Great Firewall.
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BTW my catchpa for this was spastic!
Oh.... sounds kinky.... lulz!!!
Taser. Hell, where I am we've got shipyard justice. Plasma cutters do wonders....
The global (yes, global) LB took over but we lost an estimated 100,000 credit card transactions in the 10 seconds it took for it to kick in. They literally had to hold restrain the manager.
Another one I had was at a telemaketing company. We had just run new wires for some T1s and my boss had these periods of "neatfreakness" he proceeded to cut the wires he THOUGHT were the old ones...
So as the call center manager is bragging to a potential client about our uptime all the TSRs are yelling into their headsets "Hello?". My boss comes out of the network closet with wirecutters in one hand and a bundle of cable in the other right as the manager and COULD HAVE BEEN client were walking up the aisle. Priceless....
Thanks! It's funny about these moderation systems.... opinions tend to be killed and any thinking less than the n-boi norm tends to get you killed.
I must use a server for administrative work. (yes, I know I can use registry tricks to make ADUC work but I shouldn't have to)
I can't run multiple monitors on my existing hardware that's certified for Vista, using the recommended drivers, configed the way MS said to.
I can't easily change the NIC binding order.
The sidebar thingy moves on it's own.
Eats my notebook's battery like Pez.
Decides my network is a new one that it's never seen before at random... hence network number 12!
This is just what I could think of in 10 seconds.
It's not a bad try but I see this as the ME of XP. I'll move when I have no choice... but at this point we're simply buying machines without OS and imaging or wiping them. We don't HAVE to upgrade and I'm not planning to for a REALLY REALLY REAAAAAALLLLY long time.
Finally! I was wondering when someone would make a GiTS reference, and I'll tell you that I'M first in line!!!
Guess I was... [drags body to Soylent Green Machine]
I'm terrified of this as it's not a small change. This is a fundamental change in American society and I have to say it this actually comes to pass I can see things going downhill in a bad and FAST way. The worst part is that there is ample proof of this in our society right now. I can get a letter, this letter says I must do what they ask of me and can't tell anyone that I've got the letter or what I've been told to do. Merely the remote possibility of being labeled a terrorist despite not having the expertise, resources, funding, or simple smarts is enough to have you "removed" from the system and shuttled to illegal prisons where you WISH it was Jack Bauer interrogating you.
I'm an American and at one point served in uniform. Loved it... would do it again if I could...
The scary thing is about this that anyone in Congress who speaks out against it is SOOOOO unlikely to be re-elected. None seem to have the testicualar or ovarian fortitude to say, "Damn the torpedos! Let's make this right!"
In 1984 (yes you knew it was coming) MiniLove was truely scary since they had watched Winston for seven years... before the book even started. I worry when I see things like this as I know it means that the State is taking rights away... I've yet to see taken rights given back. I'm not preaching the overthrow of the government, merely a reminder of it's purpose. I think that's been forgotten since they've learned the best mind control methods.
Watch a spoiled brat become famous for no real reason at all. Watch same spoiled brat get banged in grainy green NV. Watch her cry like the little spoiled cow she is in the back of a police car. The people were so focused on this crap, that we missed multiple bombing and atrocities worldwide. We missed the chance to fight this sort of thing.
Before anyone says I'm too high and mighty... I was in the mass I just wrote about. I cheered when she cried. Does that make me bad? No. Just part of the flock as we all are.