Since the OP says that their second choice is sysadmin, they've got a possibility: ask his employer about being kicked upstairs to Tier 2 tech support, or Tier 3.
Or are they moving everything across the border, Timotht?
Really? Why? You don't think there's a good supply of programmers who know Linux out there from, oh, all the telecoms*? Or most of the stock trading companies? How 'about Fortune 500 companies that use some other version of Unix, like, say, Lowe's?* Or how about Android programmers? Or.... shall I go on?
You's is a statement based on no facts, or ignorance thereof.
mark
* Why, yes, I have worked at two major telecoms, and a short contract at Lowe's, so yes, I do actually know what I'm talking about.
Which is, of course, more vulnerable, and therefore the schools systems are more vulnerable, esp. since they're far short of funds to hire enough qualified help to secure all the schools.
Now, LibreOffice goes head to head - ok, some VM scripting, macros, and other bizaree things that Office does may not work... but are you going to look me in the face and tell me that anyone under college is going to use that crap to write papers and homework? For that matter, who in college (except maybe business majors) will use it?
mark "and linux is a *lot* easier to manage than the arcanity of M$, and there's zero annual license fees"
Several years ago, here in DC, I went to a forum about security and the Internet. On the panel were staffers from then-Sen. Kerry, and from a House committee. After it was over, I went up and spoke to each, individually, and neither had ever *heard* of the concept of an air gap between controls and the 'Net... and we were speaking of nuclear power plants, etc.
Ignorance and "cost savings" make *great* insecurity vectors.
As I think I've posted here before, the last three or four years, google results have been getting worse and worse - I regularly see things I've excluded with a -"search term" that have that term, explicitly, in the semi-para that's displayed, And the ads are *much* worse. I was looking for mens boots -ladies -women -womens (and yes, if you give or do not give a plural, the other will show up), and saw a sponsored ad for women's boots
ROI has definitely cut into usefullness. And why hide the advanced search?
That was the one that got away from me as a kid, herding them, and I was punished for loosing her. They belonged to us, and so any offspring are *mine*.
And you kids these days, think spring is bad when the dogs and cats start shedding, we needed *rakes* when out mammoths started shedding....
mark "and my folks still had the bones of the dinosaurs they helped get rid of...."
First, I'd like to know the domain registrars for the sites - are there a few, or many? If a few, that's a bigger problem.
Second, remember that you can always manually add another nameserver, like one of google's, to your resolv.conf, and fix it so that it's not rewritten (or automatically replace it every time you log into your computer).
Third, thanks for another reason, among many, to not ever want to switch to Comcast.
"Asking around among our tech-savvy friends though, no one has a good answer to the question, 'how would you backup 20TB of data?'. It's not like you could just plug in an external drive, " tells me that you have NO "tech-savvy friends". None. Zip.
Right now, I'm on my biweekly offline backup - that's where we rsync from the online backups to offline backups. This is the 10 3TB drive, if you're interested, out of 13.
Now, if you actually had any "tech-savvy friends", as opposed to people who think they're "power users", they'd have pointed out, first, that what your tech-savvy-friendless friend had was *not* a 20TB file, but many, many files. It's certiainly not any kind of problem to partition them - y'know, divvy up the RAID and have movies and music subdirectories, and break that up by moving all the movies whose title starts with "A" under/movies/A.... and then rsync (or however you prefer) copy enough to close to fill one drive, then swap drives....
Oh, and why can't you do it in an external drive? Certainly, that's what I'm doing *right* *now* as I type with those 13 3TB drives.
Let's start with the NIH main campus, in Bethesda, MD, where somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 people work every day. That include maintenance, cafeteria and hospital staff. If between 500 and 1000 left, that's 2.5%-5% reduction.
Then consider the fact that it's probably the largest pure medical research institution in the world. Note that I said "pure research" - we're not talking about billions used to find a drug that's equivalent to, or only marginally better than an existing drug... because your patent on that one's about to run out.
And I suppose most of you are twentysomethings who never get sick, and will live forever (aka willfully ignorant children).
And the US, biggest economy in the world (for the moment) can't keep the budget up, since we have to have 15% or lower taxes on the people whose annual income is larger than most countries, because, heaven forfend, they might have to scrimpt and save, and maybe would be unable to buy that next Hawaiian island....
For one, she will NOT want to install all the constant flow of updates, while CentOS (like upstream, as we say), is *stable*, and she doesn't need the GoshAWoWeeK3wl eyecandy crap so popular with teenagers.
Besides, you've been using CentOS for years. Who do you think is going to get called for tech support... and wouldn't you rather work on something you're *very* familiar with?
mark "read a zillion horror stories of folks doing tech support for their folks over the phone, esp, WinDoze tech support....:"
Will Comcast sign a legally-binding agreement that, in the event that someone uses your hotspot to plot with Al Queda, or d/l kiddie porn, or whatever, that they'd defend you to prevent you from being charged in connection with it? Which of them will go in your place to Gitmo, or San Quentin, or whatever....?
1. How were the questionees chosen? 2. How much of the utterly ignorant answers were from the same people?
And, for extra credit, what was the political affiliation of the people giving those responses? Note that people with high incomes don't tend to answer surveys....
mark "there are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires, and suckers"
Haven't seen you since Philcon. Yep, back to heckle you....
So, in the light of a) the dot.com bubble, massively under- or non-regulated, and the as close to free market as they could make it economic collapse of '07-08, in what way Libertarianism's goals have prevented the collapse, or moderated its affects on all the folks hit hard by it, as opposed to government intervention, as weak and cut back as early as it was?
And directly related, how can I sue, say, either Lehman Bros or the credit rating agencies, who I learned only a year or two after the crash were *paid* by the companies they rated to rate them? And what would my options on getting a judge to hear the case, with, say, Bank of America on the other side, and their choice of judge?
"Jet fighter", well, no, it's a propellor fighter. "Computer-directed flight controls" - no computer existed in 1939, except for the people whose job title was "computer" (and who probably used adding machines).
Then there's the question of how it would perform in heavy cloud cover, or rain.
Oh, yeah, and finally, the journalist's enTHUsiasm makes it seems as though they would have wanted the Nazis to win WWII, which I take some exception with.
The whole concept of smuggling enough *high-purity* H2O2 onto a plane is vastly silly. My late ex, a materials scientist who worked with hypergols at KSC, used tell me just how hard it was to deal with. Close to 100% purity, and the slightest impurity - even a dust mote - would set the damn stuff off. Think of it as slightly less explosive, but just as sensitive, as pure nitroglycerin.
Um, er... have you read *anything* other than that coming out of the Weekly Standard and Fox News?
The Monetarist and Austrian schools were 100% wrong about the bubble, the 2008, and everything they propose has been hurting any recovery, both here and in Europe.
I mean, why can't *we* use the same arguments in the US, that use of the H1-B visa is, in effect, dumping cheap labor on us, and demand more taxes on all employers who use them...?
My late ex-wife was an engineer at KSC for 17 years, and worked on Station and on Shuttle. She hadn't been working for NASA for several years when Columbia happened, and her analysis from outside was that it was *not* the insulation. She repeated, many times, that Shuttles had lost that much insulation before and come down fine.
She believed that the problem was more insidious, and partly due to management. What she, as a materials scientist, said was to point out first, that the Cape is on the Atlantic Ocean, and there's a constant salt water content in the air, which happily causes a *lot* of corrosion. (Those of you old folks here might remember what crrome bumpers on cars looked like that lived near the ocean.) In metals, it causes stress corrosion cracking - microcracks that need close inspection by experienced people to find... and which need replacement when observed. Further, the hydraulic lines inside the wings were in that environment, and this was a danger to those lines. If they were to rupture in the stress of a mach 25 maneuver, well, the Shuttle suddently has the controal and aerodynamcs of a mach 25 set of car keys.
She also said that those hydraulic lines were rarely checked, and that she was one of the few who *could* check them, partly because they needed looking at by experienced, knowledgeable people, and partly because she was five foot tall (on a good day) and 105lbs soaking wet... and the space that the hydraulic lines ran through were *very* small and tight, and most folks would have trouble getting their heads in. On top of which, management was getting lazy, letting experienced people (not just her) go, and not hiring replacements, nor demanding all the inspections that the rules demanded.
She figured that's what happened, and in an instant, the hot, flammible hydraulic fluid is all over inside the wings, and it was all over.
The free market did handle it. And, in the case of Mt. Gox, was run on a hack version of sshd written in three days in php, and it looks like 750k or so bitcoins are gone, transferred to someone else without Evil Gov't And Company Interference.
And I suppose, if you have your ultra-free way, then I could hold you up at gunpoint, empty your wallet, force you to empty your bank account from the nearest ATM, and it would be up to you to round up a posse to find me.
Um, er, I don't know how to tell you this, but you might want to google selinux. It's the addition to Linux written, openly, by the NSA.
I know someone there, and yes, they do use Linux and other open source tools. You might also look at some of the library of nastytools that came from Snowden's papers - there are some for *Nix (and Cisco switches, can't forget that).
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Since the OP says that their second choice is sysadmin, they've got a possibility: ask his employer about being kicked upstairs to Tier 2 tech support, or Tier 3.
Or are they moving everything across the border, Timotht?
mark
Sorry. RHEL (and thus CentOS, and I presume Scientific Linux) have 10 year support.
mark
Let's see, the head of Mt. Gox unloaded all his bitcoins, and then told his users. Prosecutors are looking into this.
Goshawowie, where did they find this "old", "lost" file, in the head honcho's smartphone?
mark
Really? Why? You don't think there's a good supply of programmers who know Linux out there from, oh, all the telecoms*? Or most of the stock trading companies? How 'about Fortune 500 companies that use some other version of Unix, like, say, Lowe's?* Or how about Android programmers? Or.... shall I go on?
You's is a statement based on no facts, or ignorance thereof.
mark
* Why, yes, I have worked at two major telecoms, and a short contract at Lowe's, so yes, I do actually know what I'm talking about.
Which is, of course, more vulnerable, and therefore the schools systems are more vulnerable, esp. since they're far short of funds to hire enough qualified help to secure all the schools.
Now, LibreOffice goes head to head - ok, some VM scripting, macros, and other bizaree things that Office does may not work... but are you going to look me in the face and tell me that anyone under college is going to use that crap to write papers and homework? For that matter, who in college (except maybe business majors) will use it?
mark "and linux is a *lot* easier to manage than the arcanity of M$, and there's zero annual license fees"
Several years ago, here in DC, I went to a forum about security and the Internet. On the panel were staffers from then-Sen. Kerry, and from a House committee. After it was over, I went up and spoke to each, individually, and neither had ever *heard* of the concept of an air gap between controls and the 'Net... and we were speaking of nuclear power plants, etc.
Ignorance and "cost savings" make *great* insecurity vectors.
mark
As I think I've posted here before, the last three or four years, google results have been getting worse and worse - I regularly see things I've excluded with a -"search term" that have that term, explicitly, in the semi-para that's displayed, And the ads are *much* worse. I was looking for mens boots -ladies -women -womens (and yes, if you give or do not give a plural, the other will show up), and saw a sponsored ad for women's boots
ROI has definitely cut into usefullness. And why hide the advanced search?
mark
That was the one that got away from me as a kid, herding them, and I was punished for loosing her. They belonged to us, and so any offspring are *mine*.
And you kids these days, think spring is bad when the dogs and cats start shedding, we needed *rakes* when out mammoths started shedding....
mark "and my folks still had the bones of the dinosaurs they helped get rid of...."
First, I'd like to know the domain registrars for the sites - are there a few, or many? If a few, that's a bigger problem.
Second, remember that you can always manually add another nameserver, like one of google's, to your resolv.conf, and fix it so that it's not rewritten (or automatically replace it every time you log into your computer).
Third, thanks for another reason, among many, to not ever want to switch to Comcast.
mark
"Asking around among our tech-savvy friends though, no one has a good answer to the question, 'how would you backup 20TB of data?'. It's not like you could just plug in an external drive, " tells me that you have NO "tech-savvy friends". None. Zip.
Right now, I'm on my biweekly offline backup - that's where we rsync from the online backups to offline backups. This is the 10 3TB drive, if you're interested, out of 13.
Now, if you actually had any "tech-savvy friends", as opposed to people who think they're "power users", they'd have pointed out, first, that what your tech-savvy-friendless friend had was *not* a 20TB file, but many, many files. It's certiainly not any kind of problem to partition them - y'know, divvy up the RAID and have movies and music subdirectories, and break that up by moving all the movies whose title starts with "A" under /movies/A.... and then rsync (or however you prefer) copy enough to close to fill one drive, then swap drives....
Oh, and why can't you do it in an external drive? Certainly, that's what I'm doing *right* *now* as I type with those 13 3TB drives.
mark
Let's start with the NIH main campus, in Bethesda, MD, where somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 people work every day. That include maintenance, cafeteria and hospital staff. If between 500 and 1000 left, that's 2.5%-5% reduction.
Then consider the fact that it's probably the largest pure medical research institution in the world. Note that I said "pure research" - we're not talking about billions used to find a drug that's equivalent to, or only marginally better than an existing drug... because your patent on that one's about to run out.
And I suppose most of you are twentysomethings who never get sick, and will live forever (aka willfully ignorant children).
And the US, biggest economy in the world (for the moment) can't keep the budget up, since we have to have 15% or lower taxes on the people whose annual income is larger than most countries, because, heaven forfend, they might have to scrimpt and save, and maybe would be unable to buy that next Hawaiian island....
This sucks.
mark
For one, she will NOT want to install all the constant flow of updates, while CentOS (like upstream, as we say), is *stable*, and she doesn't need the GoshAWoWeeK3wl eyecandy crap so popular with teenagers.
Besides, you've been using CentOS for years. Who do you think is going to get called for tech support... and wouldn't you rather work on something you're *very* familiar with?
mark "read a zillion horror stories of folks doing tech support for their folks over the phone, esp, WinDoze tech support....:"
Will Comcast sign a legally-binding agreement that, in the event that someone uses your hotspot to plot with Al Queda, or d/l kiddie porn, or whatever, that they'd defend you to prevent you from being charged in connection with it? Which of them will go in your place to Gitmo, or San Quentin, or whatever....?
mark "not a chance in hell I'd agree"
1. How were the questionees chosen?
2. How much of the utterly ignorant answers were from the same people?
And, for extra credit, what was the political affiliation of the people giving those responses? Note that people with high incomes don't tend to answer surveys....
mark "there are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires, and suckers"
How many of those careers where there is allegedly no pay gap are civil service, or on contracts where the pay is equalized with civil service?
mark, working for a federal contractor, and yes, my salary *is* dead even with civil service salaries"
Hi, Eric,
Haven't seen you since Philcon. Yep, back to heckle you....
So, in the light of a) the dot.com bubble, massively under- or non-regulated, and the as close to free market as they could make it economic collapse of '07-08, in what way Libertarianism's goals have prevented the collapse, or moderated its affects on all the folks hit hard by it, as opposed to government intervention, as weak and cut back as early as it was?
And directly related, how can I sue, say, either Lehman Bros or the credit rating agencies, who I learned only a year or two after the crash were *paid* by the companies they rated to rate them? And what would my options on getting a judge to hear the case, with, say, Bank of America on the other side, and their choice of judge?
Say 'hi' to Cathy, btw.
mark
"Jet fighter", well, no, it's a propellor fighter.
"Computer-directed flight controls" - no computer existed in 1939, except for the people whose job title was "computer" (and who probably used adding machines).
Then there's the question of how it would perform in heavy cloud cover, or rain.
Oh, yeah, and finally, the journalist's enTHUsiasm makes it seems as though they would have wanted the Nazis to win WWII, which I take some exception with.
mark
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doo...
The whole concept of smuggling enough *high-purity* H2O2 onto a plane is vastly silly. My late ex, a materials scientist who worked with hypergols at KSC, used tell me just how hard it was to deal with. Close to 100% purity, and the slightest impurity - even a dust mote - would set the damn stuff off. Think of it as slightly less explosive, but just as sensitive, as pure nitroglycerin.
mark
Um, er... have you read *anything* other than that coming out of the Weekly Standard and Fox News?
The Monetarist and Austrian schools were 100% wrong about the bubble, the 2008, and everything they propose has been hurting any recovery, both here and in Europe.
mark
I mean, why can't *we* use the same arguments in the US, that use of the H1-B visa is, in effect, dumping cheap labor on us, and demand more taxes on all employers who use them...?
mark
My late ex-wife was an engineer at KSC for 17 years, and worked on Station and on Shuttle. She hadn't been working for NASA for several years when Columbia happened, and her analysis from outside was that it was *not* the insulation. She repeated, many times, that Shuttles had lost that much insulation before and come down fine.
She believed that the problem was more insidious, and partly due to management. What she, as a materials scientist, said was to point out first, that the Cape is on the Atlantic Ocean, and there's a constant salt water content in the air, which happily causes a *lot* of corrosion. (Those of you old folks here might remember what crrome bumpers on cars looked like that lived near the ocean.) In metals, it causes stress corrosion cracking - microcracks that need close inspection by experienced people to find... and which need replacement when observed. Further, the hydraulic lines inside the wings were in that environment, and this was a danger to those lines. If they were to rupture in the stress of a mach 25 maneuver, well, the Shuttle suddently has the controal and aerodynamcs of a mach 25 set of car keys.
She also said that those hydraulic lines were rarely checked, and that she was one of the few who *could* check them, partly because they needed looking at by experienced, knowledgeable people, and partly because she was five foot tall (on a good day) and 105lbs soaking wet... and the space that the hydraulic lines ran through were *very* small and tight, and most folks would have trouble getting their heads in. On top of which, management was getting lazy, letting experienced people (not just her) go, and not hiring replacements, nor demanding all the inspections that the rules demanded.
She figured that's what happened, and in an instant, the hot, flammible hydraulic fluid is all over inside the wings, and it was all over.
mark
The free market did handle it. And, in the case of Mt. Gox, was run on a hack version of sshd written in three days in php, and it looks like 750k or so bitcoins are gone, transferred to someone else without Evil Gov't And Company Interference.
And I suppose, if you have your ultra-free way, then I could hold you up at gunpoint, empty your wallet, force you to empty your bank account from the nearest ATM, and it would be up to you to round up a posse to find me.
Ideological Sucker.
mark
Notepad, though? Seriously? At least you might be able to run Brief, if you can find an old copy, the best programmer's editor ever.
Meanwhile, excuse me, I need to go vi that file here at work.
mark
Um, er, I don't know how to tell you this, but you might want to google selinux. It's the addition to Linux written, openly, by the NSA.
I know someone there, and yes, they do use Linux and other open source tools. You might also look at some of the library of nastytools that came from Snowden's papers - there are some for *Nix (and Cisco switches, can't forget that).
mark