SATA, even 6 or 12GB SATA, will be going away for HPC application and it may go away for even more moderate performance systems. Direct PCI is even faster. Thats what the article is about. The speed of storage and memory are converging. That will change how we build systems.
Why would you assume you can only run pfsense on x86? Besides, if you have a successful FreeBSD hack you could make yourself famous by sharing it now. What processor you run has very little impact on security.
I'm in the same boat you are! H1B is not an option for small companies but I think our way is better anyway. The idea that you can find the "perfect fit" for your position while not paying a premium is ludicrous. If you want a great company you need to BUILD IT by building your people.
They are out there, you just don't want to pay for them. The are two answers to your problem that would be much better than hiring H1B:
1. Increase the offered pay until you get the qualified people you need. This is the best option when you don't have time for training and development. 2. Pick the best of those your now rejecting and train them. Many of them would be willing to work for below market rates while in training. Of course some of these will not work out but you will find some real gems as well.
After you have done this then H1B may be appropriate for the the really rare cases it was intended for.
I've had the same experience though there are a few other things I observed:
1. Many of their senior IT managers were Walmart lifers and had zero experience in other companies. This was not a good thing. 2. Though they paid well, they were not willing to pay what it would take to bring in fortune 10 talent and experience. They were not competitive with senior positions in organizations of comparable size/complexity. 3. Every incident turned into a massive CYA fest...I've worked in hundreds of companies and never seen it so bad.
A defense procurement program is managed by government employees but the military does not have factories etc. The current method is far from perfect but increasing the size of the government portion of this complex arrangement would not be an improvement.
The "gig" economy is not about replacing in-house workers or saving money. Organizations are doing this to bring in specific skills and domain knowledge they could never hope to hire as a normal employee. I'm brought in as an addition to the team, not a replacement. I also usually provide training to the normal employees as well.
I used to run multiple email domains. Some of them had few issues, others were constantly being blacklisted. It really depends on who you interact with. I found that often users never realized there was an issue as the messages were just silently dropped. In the end I got tired of fighting with it and moved them all to gmail. If your not having issues you are likely just very lucky or the services you interact with are the less zealous ones.
Nice idea but not enough in the real world. There are lots of thing that don't work with LDAP and there are other things that need manual provisioning.
Capitalism say nothing of the kind. First, the concept of "Shareholders" is not inherent to capitalism. Second, there are plenty of companies who provide shareholder value through dividends. Third, the vast majority of capitalism occurs through privately held companies. The stock market != capitalism.
Take a look around you organization...do you have anyone who has a firm understanding of the breadth of the technologies used in your systems? Does that same person have experience with performance testing and capacity analysis? Since your asking Slashdot the answer is very likely NO so go find a consultant who has that knowledge and hire him/her ASAP. Capacity analysis of distributed systems is not something to learn on the fly. Hire a pro.
You can set up FreeNas on a minimal box, ESXi is a free download. You can get a center trial in a couple of minutes. A few hours and some salvaged machines and you can confidently say that you you can do a lot with virtualization. Break it a few times and fix it and your way ahead of most people who have had formal training. You should certainly be able to get through an interview for an admin job. You might even be able to get a cert with a bit more effort. Why do you expect your employer to do this for you?
"but social spending by government does and benefits everyone"... You actually believe that? See, thats the part conservatives don't believe. We don't believe that the wisdom, or effectiveness, of the collective is better.
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I'm not sure why your being so apologetic. pfSense makes a BETTER firewall than many commercial options.
Mac Pros don't have display panels.
SATA, even 6 or 12GB SATA, will be going away for HPC application and it may go away for even more moderate performance systems. Direct PCI is even faster. Thats what the article is about. The speed of storage and memory are converging. That will change how we build systems.
15 years ago if all you wanted was file and print then the best choice was Netware.
It's called pfsense...
Why would you assume you can only run pfsense on x86? Besides, if you have a successful FreeBSD hack you could make yourself famous by sharing it now. What processor you run has very little impact on security.
https://www.freebsd.org/platfo...
If you want a secure router just use pfsense.
While your at it try iTerm2. It's much better than Terminal.
Terminal.app uses Monaco by default. There is a better font called "Source Code Pro" you should try. https://www.google.com/fonts/s...
I'm in the same boat you are! H1B is not an option for small companies but I think our way is better anyway. The idea that you can find the "perfect fit" for your position while not paying a premium is ludicrous. If you want a great company you need to BUILD IT by building your people.
They are out there, you just don't want to pay for them. The are two answers to your problem that would be much better than hiring H1B:
1. Increase the offered pay until you get the qualified people you need. This is the best option when you don't have time for training and development.
2. Pick the best of those your now rejecting and train them. Many of them would be willing to work for below market rates while in training. Of course some of these will not work out but you will find some real gems as well.
After you have done this then H1B may be appropriate for the the really rare cases it was intended for.
I've had the same experience though there are a few other things I observed:
1. Many of their senior IT managers were Walmart lifers and had zero experience in other companies. This was not a good thing.
2. Though they paid well, they were not willing to pay what it would take to bring in fortune 10 talent and experience. They were not competitive with senior positions in organizations of comparable size/complexity.
3. Every incident turned into a massive CYA fest...I've worked in hundreds of companies and never seen it so bad.
A defense procurement program is managed by government employees but the military does not have factories etc. The current method is far from perfect but increasing the size of the government portion of this complex arrangement would not be an improvement.
The "gig" economy is not about replacing in-house workers or saving money. Organizations are doing this to bring in specific skills and domain knowledge they could never hope to hire as a normal employee. I'm brought in as an addition to the team, not a replacement. I also usually provide training to the normal employees as well.
I used to run multiple email domains. Some of them had few issues, others were constantly being blacklisted. It really depends on who you interact with. I found that often users never realized there was an issue as the messages were just silently dropped. In the end I got tired of fighting with it and moved them all to gmail. If your not having issues you are likely just very lucky or the services you interact with are the less zealous ones.
"Set up like" is a horrible model. It leads to over provisioning of access and poor governance.
Nice idea but not enough in the real world. There are lots of thing that don't work with LDAP and there are other things that need manual provisioning.
NetIQ Identity Manager would have been much cheaper. I've done both and it's not even close.
It still is: https://dl.netiq.com/Download?...
I build multi-million user IAM systems on it for a living.
Capitalism say nothing of the kind. First, the concept of "Shareholders" is not inherent to capitalism. Second, there are plenty of companies who provide shareholder value through dividends. Third, the vast majority of capitalism occurs through privately held companies. The stock market != capitalism.
Your not coming remotely close to the limits of external hard drive enclosures. See http://www.promise.com/us/prod... and http://shop.promise.com/index....
Take a look around you organization...do you have anyone who has a firm understanding of the breadth of the technologies used in your systems? Does that same person have experience with performance testing and capacity analysis? Since your asking Slashdot the answer is very likely NO so go find a consultant who has that knowledge and hire him/her ASAP. Capacity analysis of distributed systems is not something to learn on the fly. Hire a pro.
You can set up FreeNas on a minimal box, ESXi is a free download. You can get a center trial in a couple of minutes. A few hours and some salvaged machines and you can confidently say that you you can do a lot with virtualization. Break it a few times and fix it and your way ahead of most people who have had formal training. You should certainly be able to get through an interview for an admin job. You might even be able to get a cert with a bit more effort. Why do you expect your employer to do this for you?
And if you look at the countries with the worst quality of life, most of them a socialist. Your premise is flawed.
"but social spending by government does and benefits everyone"... You actually believe that? See, thats the part conservatives don't believe. We don't believe that the wisdom, or effectiveness, of the collective is better.