>>> There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do any
They fool themselves into thinking the only person losing out on this is some executive. Stealing effects all the behind the scenes people work on the films and music that they steal. Including the truck drivers and people who sell the products. It just forces the industries to raise prices to makeup for the loses and everyone loses. This goes on in every industry, the more people steal the higher prices go.
In my college days I worked for a large grocery store chain. They had different prices same products depending on the store. Why in high theft area prices were higher to compensate. In low theft areas prices were lower. Trouble is the high theft were usually in the poorer neighborhoods. It's a viscous cycle.
It's an awards show on TV, not a GameCon somewhere. If the show was the game developers and designer it would be a bore to the masses that watch TV. The audence would be too small to attract advertisers. Having a show full of hot babes and bad music is a draw to the typical gamer. The typical gamer for the most part is not a computer geek who tweaks their OS and writes code. They are the young kids with too much energy, hormones, and rage.
Were just now getting the generation that grew up playing lots of video games. They are now making money and the game and audio/visual industry wants the money they are going to spend for ultimate game systems and rooms for the total game experience. As I said before they aren't computer geeks who respect what went into the games. They want plasma TV and surround sound systems that will scare the neighbors three blocks away. So TV offers up an award show so the companies who want to sell them the product for a ultimate gamers life can be seen.
So as an official old fart I think the show needed more babe, send Motley Crue to the retirement home, and Snoop Dogg is cool.
These types of reports come out all the time on this topic and others. Whoever pays or commissions them always wins. People take the same set of facts and spin them to fit their agenda. It's like a really good debater can take any side of an argument and do well.
I read these things then check the background of the of the author and the source of the article. After that decide how much of the report is credible.
I have been contracting for the last couple years and can't stand it. It was the same contractor to hire, but nobody has been moved from contractor to full time. Contractng hourly pay, no benefits, no vacation, no nothing. Also the first year the company hiring us decided they wanted to save money and told contracting firm they were going to pay less, so contractiong firm cut our pay. You say you had a contract. You do, but they say don't like it, quit we have others who want the job.
Many companies are starting to use the contract to hire model. Mainly to basically addition people for a job. As a contractor they can let you go on a moments notice. If they hire immediately it is a lot of money to get you into the system for benefits and etc. If you don't work out more work canceling those benefits and etc.
As for job security full time does have a little bit more, but not much these days. A company numbers hicups and contractors get the boot. The number hicup again and full timers start to go. The days of companies standing by their employee in rough times are over and visa versa.
It will make it easier to get management to switch from Windows to Solaris than Linux. You bring up Linux to managers in an enterprise and they instantly start pointing out lack support contracts. Management wants someone whose feet they can hold to the fire when something goes wrong. Sun is a well known name so it will be an easy sell.
Also Solaris is more of a real enterprise class operating system. Linux is working on it, but not there yet. Solaris has decades of use and refinement, it is a solid OS that scales great as the load increases.
From my viewpoint jobs are few and salaries are dropping. Where I'm at now is trying to centralize SysAdmin work to Ohio to save on salaries, and layoff SA's in the data centers around the country. The positions they are replacing SA's with is a combo desktop/server support tech. In other words just eyes and hands to do reboots if necessary. Even server builds are being centralized and a traveling install teams to do the racking and cabling. My company isn't the only one I hear trying to work this way. The last place I worked did a similar move, they left SA's in the data centers and let go all SA in remote sites. Desktop support were the eyes and hands in remote sites.
So if your job doesn't end up going overseas, they may just centrallize it to a city with a low cost of living and just have generic techs in all other sites.
So they want to charge you not only for the miles you will drive, but some roads and highways they will charge more for than others. They claim all this is because of people buy more fuel efficient cars. Huh since when is reducing gas consumption and reducing emissions a bad thing??? But I guess I could take the GPS off and put in on my grandmother cars. That will keep my mileage low.
How stupid are these people??? If you leave the current gas tax it has it only way of adjusting it self. People who drive more, buy more gas. People with SUV's and other gas guzzlers by more gas. Even illegal aliens with no license and unregistered cars, still pay gas tax.
Then we shall we get into the invasion of privacy with the GPS tracking everywhere we drive.
I'll second that. WordPerfect for DOS was a great program one of the most intutive around. Then they did WordPerfect Mac, constant delays and it was a total piece of crap. Took a couple releases to come close to being usable. Then WordPerfect Windows you think Novell would of learned their lesson. Moving from one platform to different one isn't a port job, it has to be treated like a new product with new code base. They took a great product and killed it. MS didn't kill WordPerfect, WordPerfect committed sucide.
Then factor in Ray Norda running Novell at the time trying to take on the world. He screwed 3Com and Banyan out of business worse than anything Bill Gate has ever done. Norda thought he could take on MS and started acquiring everything in sight hardware, applications, and Unix. All he succeeded in doing was draining Novell and almost kill them. Maybe if Norda had kept Novell a server company Windows NT might not of become a major product for MS.
Novell still has a brain dead marketing department. They are a rock solid file and print server, but their market share sucks. They are way to expensive for small business to use, and dirt cheap for enterprises. Find a compromise in your pricing and build some market share.
This is one of those areas that is there is no set answer. There are lots of articles on the topic, but usually on systems larger than you plan to do. Go to user groups, but many in user groups are doing smaller site, but some might be doing what you are.
Main thing is define what you call a lot of traffic. A lot to one person isn't a lot to another.
Then nail down your budget that will be your most defining factor.
Then when designing use a design that is easy to scale. That way if you are off you can scale with little pain.
Personally I would put money into the database server, they can be real pain to scale. The web side design as a farm even if only two web servers to start with. Decide how you plan to load balance. A couple web boxes DNS round robin will do, but bigger you have to look to real load balancing options. Also what is your SLA that will determine how big your farm needs to be or if to keep hot or cold spare boxes around. IF a farm how are you going to keep content in sync? Then power, cooling, Security, and on and on. Its a lot of work, but when done and everyone is happy you can't wait for a even bigger project.
After selling your soul to get the CIO to buy into Linux you can only use RedHat because you can get a support contact. If we can't sue someone when things go wrong, we can't use their product.
Then in businesses without the mind numbing CIO/CTO suits you will find Debian. Debian has more of a server focus than the other Linux's and is easy to keep patched so security suits are happy.
Then in the background you have the BSD SA's running around setting up firewalls, routers, and other network monitoring boxes feeding packets to all the servers in the data center.
Okay, okay everyone has a Knoppix CD in their bag of tricks to fix things. But the whiny Knoppix chahuahua dude in desktop support has got to go.
MS got the deal with IBM. But MP/M the multiuser version of CP/M was reversed engineered and became the "secret" filesystem of early Novell. That was why Novell brought DR to avoid a lawsuit, it wasn't just to get DR-DOS. So Kildall lost out there too.
I wouldn't switch totally over to OS X until more Windows app's necessary to do business get OX X versions. My one gripe about OS X is it isn't Unix enough. Sure it's FreeBSD, Darwin, Mach, but Apple limits what you can tweak. I know they are trying to protect the typical computer user from themselves. A Mac is like a bicycle with training wheels welded on. They should have a config' switch to open thing up for people who want do things their own way.
NetBSD does it again: after the original Internet2 Land Speed Record set by NetBSD in 2004 May 3 was broken, NetBSD shines again: Once more researchers at the Swedish University Network (SUNET) have broken the Internet2 Land Speed Record, using the upcoming version of NetBSD 2.0.
The new records are 124.935 Pbmps in a single stream (was 69.073 Pbmps), and 122.367 Pbmps in multiple streams. NetBSD was used once more due to the ``scalability of it's TCP code''.
More information about this record including the NetBSD configuration can be found at: http://proj.sunet.se/LSR3-s/ for single stream and http://proj.sunet.se/LSR3-m/ for multiple streams. And the website of the Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition is located at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/.
I had the regretful experince of using a SparcStation a few years ago in a Unix class I took. It is the slowest computer I think I have ever used. In fact the school dumped them the next year for while box Intel clones with Solaris x86. These boxes were lighting in comparison.
As for the orignal post check out: http://www.logicsupply.com/default.php/cPath/21
They specialize in SFF computers and DIY parts. You can build I nice little box to handle you needs.
Sky Dayton is long gone from EarthLink and the Scientology crowd that was there. After MindSpring took over control of Earthlink the Atlanta Christian Right took over. If you weren' t part of their in-crowd your days as at Earthlink were limited. That is unless you're in India and work for two dollars a day. Then you're okay.
If you can get RedHat classroom training do it. I have had lots of training through the years and RedHat was one of the best I have attended. Lots of hands on and very practical info. I also have done the O'Reilly elearning when out of work and wanting more resume fodder. It is a very basic course that covers a lot of topics, but only enough to that you know what something is and if it interests you.
The classes will give you a kickstart, but they aren't going to teach you to be an SysAdmin only experience in a production enviornment can do that. The classes will give you a leg up over some in a interview. The key is besides taking a class setup a small network at home with a couple machine and experiment. When you screw youself up, don't just reinstall, try to work out of the problem. Get a notebook and keep good notes they can come in handy on the job later. The key to being a good SysAdmin is solving problems that you have never seen before. To do that you need to have worked your way out of lots of problems, to use that insight to troubleshoot new problems. A home network is a good place to start building up that troubleshoot skill without a PHB continually asking what the ETR is.
Only the exec's at the companies and the share holders are seeing any of the money, so how is that good for the economy. That is the whole problem with outsourcing and Bush administration policies. They only benefit the high end of the economic spectrum. They are so blinded by greed they don't see that the larger market of middle class Americans is shrinking. Some say that is the plan to break the country down to rich and worker class. Once they break the middle class and reduce salaries the jobs won't be outsourced.
Look how Bush talks about fighting the war on terrorism, while out of the other side of him mouth he and his party are talking open borders. They want the cheap labor of the immigrants coming in.
Bush has put a for sale sign in front of the White House. Selling off America as long as his CEO buddies are making a profit doing it.
Want to get the economy truly going, stopped the outsourcing, close the holes in the border, get the middle class working at decent wages. That will increase the tax base to pay for the deficits, it will increase sales of products within our country. When the middle class is doing well the whole country is doing well.
Recording companies and contracts are more like insurance companies. They are taking the risks on the artist. They pay for the recording, marketing, manufacturing, and distribution. IF the artist is a flop the recording company has lost the money not the artist. SO the recording companies pray out of all the groups they sign a one or two will make it big. That will help the recording company recoop losses from the failed artist. So while they do make lots of money off off a couple artist they are loseing on others.
Yes, the artist if they sell have to pay back recording costs before they make money themselve and some only break even. That is why songwriter royalities are so important to artists. The artists may not make money off records themselve, but make money from their song writing.
When a record is played on the radio, or a CD sold part of the money goes to the record company in the past called mechanical royalites. Then another part of the money go to song writer royalities. Plus we aren't talking about much money a few cents per play. That what many artist have to pay the bills with.
>>> but we still can't all go back to "borrowing" music from our friends Borrowing from friends sound innocent, trouble is it's long term borrowing, and not alway friends, but strangers on the internet. Theft is theif. In the past the recordind companies accepted so much of this "borrowing" between friends. But when people started sharing with anyone and everyone you blew it for everyone. So don't blame the record companies and artist who want to get paid. You abused the system and now EVERYONE is paying for your greed.
They should of used a wireless kb and mouse. I think it will look bad once you get a bunch of cables hangin' off the side. Plus how well will it balance with a bunch of outboard gear hang from one side.
It seems the conservative idea of freedom is to legislate, dictate, control what we think. Conservatives are afraid of free thinking and freedom of choice. I will say some of these books should be in and adults only section of a library, but people should still be able to choose to read them.
John Dvorak is a legend in his own mind. He hasn't said anything worth listening to since his old days at PC Magazine. Since then he just writes like a movie critic and hate everything that wasn't his idea.
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>>> There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do any
They fool themselves into thinking the only person losing out on this is some executive. Stealing effects all the behind the scenes people work on the films and music that they steal. Including the truck drivers and people who sell the products. It just forces the industries to raise prices to makeup for the loses and everyone loses. This goes on in every industry, the more people steal the higher prices go.
In my college days I worked for a large grocery store chain. They had different prices same products depending on the store. Why in high theft area prices were higher to compensate. In low theft areas prices were lower. Trouble is the high theft were usually in the poorer neighborhoods. It's a viscous cycle.
Well with that much money guess they don't need us writing free code anymore. They can afford to pay and spread the wealth.
It's an awards show on TV, not a GameCon somewhere. If the show was the game developers and designer it would be a bore to the masses that watch TV. The audence would be too small to attract advertisers. Having a show full of hot babes and bad music is a draw to the typical gamer. The typical gamer for the most part is not a computer geek who tweaks their OS and writes code. They are the young kids with too much energy, hormones, and rage.
Were just now getting the generation that grew up playing lots of video games. They are now making money and the game and audio/visual industry wants the money they are going to spend for ultimate game systems and rooms for the total game experience. As I said before they aren't computer geeks who respect what went into the games. They want plasma TV and surround sound systems that will scare the neighbors three blocks away. So TV offers up an award show so the companies who want to sell them the product for a ultimate gamers life can be seen.
So as an official old fart I think the show needed more babe, send Motley Crue to the retirement home, and Snoop Dogg is cool.
NetCraft who you love to refer to just did and interview on WHY THEY USE FreeBSD and CONTINUE TO USE FreeBSD.
Kind of makes all your cut and paste assults on FreeBSD a big waste of time.
These types of reports come out all the time on this topic and others. Whoever pays or commissions them always wins. People take the same set of facts and spin them to fit their agenda. It's like a really good debater can take any side of an argument and do well.
I read these things then check the background of the of the author and the source of the article. After that decide how much of the report is credible.
I'm not done testing yet, giveme a week or ten...
I have been contracting for the last couple years and can't stand it. It was the same contractor to hire, but nobody has been moved from contractor to full time. Contractng hourly pay, no benefits, no vacation, no nothing. Also the first year the company hiring us decided they wanted to save money and told contracting firm they were going to pay less, so contractiong firm cut our pay. You say you had a contract. You do, but they say don't like it, quit we have others who want the job.
Many companies are starting to use the contract to hire model. Mainly to basically addition people for a job. As a contractor they can let you go on a moments notice. If they hire immediately it is a lot of money to get you into the system for benefits and etc. If you don't work out more work canceling those benefits and etc.
As for job security full time does have a little bit more, but not much these days. A company numbers hicups and contractors get the boot. The number hicup again and full timers start to go. The days of companies standing by their employee in rough times are over and visa versa.
It will make it easier to get management to switch from Windows to Solaris than Linux. You bring up Linux to managers in an enterprise and they instantly start pointing out lack support contracts. Management wants someone whose feet they can hold to the fire when something goes wrong. Sun is a well known name so it will be an easy sell.
Also Solaris is more of a real enterprise class operating system. Linux is working on it, but not there yet. Solaris has decades of use and refinement, it is a solid OS that scales great as the load increases.
From my viewpoint jobs are few and salaries are dropping. Where I'm at now is trying to centralize SysAdmin work to Ohio to save on salaries, and layoff SA's in the data centers around the country. The positions they are replacing SA's with is a combo desktop/server support tech. In other words just eyes and hands to do reboots if necessary. Even server builds are being centralized and a traveling install teams to do the racking and cabling. My company isn't the only one I hear trying to work this way. The last place I worked did a similar move, they left SA's in the data centers and let go all SA in remote sites. Desktop support were the eyes and hands in remote sites.
So if your job doesn't end up going overseas, they may just centrallize it to a city with a low cost of living and just have generic techs in all other sites.
So they want to charge you not only for the miles you will drive, but some roads and highways they will charge more for than others. They claim all this is because of people buy more fuel efficient cars. Huh since when is reducing gas consumption and reducing emissions a bad thing??? But I guess I could take the GPS off and put in on my grandmother cars. That will keep my mileage low.
How stupid are these people??? If you leave the current gas tax it has it only way of adjusting it self. People who drive more, buy more gas. People with SUV's and other gas guzzlers by more gas. Even illegal aliens with no license and unregistered cars, still pay gas tax.
Then we shall we get into the invasion of privacy with the GPS tracking everywhere we drive.
I'll second that. WordPerfect for DOS was a great program one of the most intutive around. Then they did WordPerfect Mac, constant delays and it was a total piece of crap. Took a couple releases to come close to being usable. Then WordPerfect Windows you think Novell would of learned their lesson. Moving from one platform to different one isn't a port job, it has to be treated like a new product with new code base. They took a great product and killed it. MS didn't kill WordPerfect, WordPerfect committed sucide.
Then factor in Ray Norda running Novell at the time trying to take on the world. He screwed 3Com and Banyan out of business worse than anything Bill Gate has ever done. Norda thought he could take on MS and started acquiring everything in sight hardware, applications, and Unix. All he succeeded in doing was draining Novell and almost kill them. Maybe if Norda had kept Novell a server company Windows NT might not of become a major product for MS.
Novell still has a brain dead marketing department. They are a rock solid file and print server, but their market share sucks. They are way to expensive for small business to use, and dirt cheap for enterprises. Find a compromise in your pricing and build some market share.
This is one of those areas that is there is no set answer. There are lots of articles on the topic, but usually on systems larger than you plan to do. Go to user groups, but many in user groups are doing smaller site, but some might be doing what you are.
Main thing is define what you call a lot of traffic. A lot to one person isn't a lot to another.
Then nail down your budget that will be your most defining factor.
Then when designing use a design that is easy to scale. That way if you are off you can scale with little pain.
Personally I would put money into the database server, they can be real pain to scale. The web side design as a farm even if only two web servers to start with. Decide how you plan to load balance. A couple web boxes DNS round robin will do, but bigger you have to look to real load balancing options. Also what is your SLA that will determine how big your farm needs to be or if to keep hot or cold spare boxes around. IF a farm how are you going to keep content in sync? Then power, cooling, Security, and on and on. Its a lot of work, but when done and everyone is happy you can't wait for a even bigger project.
After selling your soul to get the CIO to buy into Linux you can only use RedHat because you can get a support contact. If we can't sue someone when things go wrong, we can't use their product.
Then in businesses without the mind numbing CIO/CTO suits you will find Debian. Debian has more of a server focus than the other Linux's and is easy to keep patched so security suits are happy.
Then in the background you have the BSD SA's running around setting up firewalls, routers, and other network monitoring boxes feeding packets to all the servers in the data center.
Okay, okay everyone has a Knoppix CD in their bag of tricks to fix things. But the whiny Knoppix chahuahua dude in desktop support has got to go.
MS got the deal with IBM. But MP/M the multiuser version of CP/M was reversed engineered and became the "secret" filesystem of early Novell. That was why Novell brought DR to avoid a lawsuit, it wasn't just to get DR-DOS. So Kildall lost out there too.
Many thanks and best of birthday wishes to Theo and crew. They have given us a great OS and development model.
The world can sleep better tonight knowing Puff the Barbarian is on guard.
I wouldn't switch totally over to OS X until more Windows app's necessary to do business get OX X versions. My one gripe about OS X is it isn't Unix enough. Sure it's FreeBSD, Darwin, Mach, but Apple limits what you can tweak. I know they are trying to protect the typical computer user from themselves. A Mac is like a bicycle with training wheels welded on. They should have a config' switch to open thing up for people who want do things their own way.
NetBSD does it again: after the original Internet2 Land Speed Record set by NetBSD in 2004 May 3 was broken, NetBSD shines again: Once more researchers at the Swedish University Network (SUNET) have broken the Internet2 Land Speed Record, using the upcoming version of NetBSD 2.0. The new records are 124.935 Pbmps in a single stream (was 69.073 Pbmps), and 122.367 Pbmps in multiple streams. NetBSD was used once more due to the ``scalability of it's TCP code''. More information about this record including the NetBSD configuration can be found at: http://proj.sunet.se/LSR3-s/ for single stream and http://proj.sunet.se/LSR3-m/ for multiple streams. And the website of the Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition is located at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/.
I had the regretful experince of using a SparcStation a few years ago in a Unix class I took. It is the slowest computer I think I have ever used. In fact the school dumped them the next year for while box Intel clones with Solaris x86. These boxes were lighting in comparison.
As for the orignal post check out: http://www.logicsupply.com/default.php/cPath/21
They specialize in SFF computers and DIY parts. You can build I nice little box to handle you needs.
Sky Dayton is long gone from EarthLink and the Scientology crowd that was there. After MindSpring took over control of Earthlink the Atlanta Christian Right took over. If you weren'
t part of their in-crowd your days as at Earthlink were limited. That is unless you're in India and work for two dollars a day. Then you're okay.
If you can get RedHat classroom training do it. I have had lots of training through the years and RedHat was one of the best I have attended. Lots of hands on and very practical info. I also have done the O'Reilly elearning when out of work and wanting more resume fodder. It is a very basic course that covers a lot of topics, but only enough to that you know what something is and if it interests you.
The classes will give you a kickstart, but they aren't going to teach you to be an SysAdmin only experience in a production enviornment can do that. The classes will give you a leg up over some in a interview. The key is besides taking a class setup a small network at home with a couple machine and experiment. When you screw youself up, don't just reinstall, try to work out of the problem. Get a notebook and keep good notes they can come in handy on the job later. The key to being a good SysAdmin is solving problems that you have never seen before. To do that you need to have worked your way out of lots of problems, to use that insight to troubleshoot new problems. A home network is a good place to start building up that troubleshoot skill without a PHB continually asking what the ETR is.
Good luck
Only the exec's at the companies and the share holders are seeing any of the money, so how is that good for the economy. That is the whole problem with outsourcing and Bush administration policies. They only benefit the high end of the economic spectrum. They are so blinded by greed they don't see that the larger market of middle class Americans is shrinking. Some say that is the plan to break the country down to rich and worker class. Once they break the middle class and reduce salaries the jobs won't be outsourced.
Look how Bush talks about fighting the war on terrorism, while out of the other side of him mouth he and his party are talking open borders. They want the cheap labor of the immigrants coming in.
Bush has put a for sale sign in front of the White House. Selling off America as long as his CEO buddies are making a profit doing it.
Want to get the economy truly going, stopped the outsourcing, close the holes in the border, get the middle class working at decent wages. That will increase the tax base to pay for the deficits, it will increase sales of products within our country. When the middle class is doing well the whole country is doing well.
Recording companies and contracts are more like insurance companies. They are taking the risks on the artist. They pay for the recording, marketing, manufacturing, and distribution. IF the artist is a flop the recording company has lost the money not the artist. SO the recording companies pray out of all the groups they sign a one or two will make it big. That will help the recording company recoop losses from the failed artist. So while they do make lots of money off off a couple artist they are loseing on others.
Yes, the artist if they sell have to pay back recording costs before they make money themselve and some only break even. That is why songwriter royalities are so important to artists. The artists may not make money off records themselve, but make money from their song writing.
When a record is played on the radio, or a CD sold part of the money goes to the record company in the past called mechanical royalites. Then another part of the money go to song writer royalities. Plus we aren't talking about much money a few cents per play. That what many artist have to pay the bills with.
>>> but we still can't all go back to "borrowing" music from our friends Borrowing from friends sound innocent, trouble is it's long term borrowing, and not alway friends, but strangers on the internet. Theft is theif. In the past the recordind companies accepted so much of this "borrowing" between friends. But when people started sharing with anyone and everyone you blew it for everyone. So don't blame the record companies and artist who want to get paid. You abused the system and now EVERYONE is paying for your greed.
They should of used a wireless kb and mouse. I think it will look bad once you get a bunch of cables hangin' off the side. Plus how well will it balance with a bunch of outboard gear hang from one side.
It seems the conservative idea of freedom is to legislate, dictate, control what we think. Conservatives are afraid of free thinking and freedom of choice. I will say some of these books should be in and adults only section of a library, but people should still be able to choose to read them.
Choice is what Freedom is all about.
John Dvorak is a legend in his own mind. He hasn't said anything worth listening to since his old days at PC Magazine. Since then he just writes like a movie critic and hate everything that wasn't his idea.