Why Linux? The organization may be a big LAMP shop, or mysql, or Oracle, or Web Logic or any of a multitude of software offerings that feel more at home on Linux/UNIX/MS than on Big Blue's Z OS.
We pay to get on public beaches so that the people who use them foot the bill instead of year-round residents supporting them with their taxes. New York and New Jersey have terribly cold, snowy winters. The number of people who live in beach towns year-round is small compared to the number of people who come to these towns in the summer.
The beach fees go towards hiring extra police and life guards and trash haulers in the summer and for maintaining the beaches year-round.
We also have a population of over 7 million in New Jersey and 8.3 million in NY City (17 million state-wide, but it mostly NYC residents, not upstate people that would want to go to the Jersey shore.)that utilize a relativly small number of miles of beaches. They get crowded.
Your point is right on the money. For years we have lived in a society where bank tellers give up the cash and do not resist, airline crews sumbit to hijacking and police departments try to negoitiate at all costs - even in the face of armed killers.
Well, the bank robbers, hijackers, terrorists and killers who want to be on TV before they go out in a blaze of glory read the news and watch the tube and know how their actions will be responded to.
I have seen video footage of anti-bank robbery systems in Europe that drop a steel wall down when a teller fears a robbery. I have been locked out of (or in) computer rooms I need to get into (or out of) - would a strong, locked, bullet resistent door on a plane make more sense than letting ANYONE unauthorized in the cabin? Would the VT killer have taken so many lives if the school had a one hour per semester "how to stay alive" seminar - as the previous writer indicated: If 32 students charged the gunman because they were taught that was the best way to stay alive the number of casulties would have been much lower. If that guy had attacked a room full of people convinced that a rush towards him was the best way to stay alive instead of just sitting there - or at least charging him when he had to reload - the results would have been different.
I am not in favor of turning everything into a fortress or everyone into a group of avengers but the old idea that we should wait for someone else is obsolete. The Fergueson shooting case on the Long Island railroad several years ago would have been much like the VT case except that the people on the train attacked before he could reload.
The wait for the professionals (esp. in light of Flight 93) mentality is still what the airlines and banks want to push because they are afraid of getting sued. Too F'ING bad. The police don't want people to "take the law into their own hands". Well FCUK that idea too, better to get arrested in order to stay alive than get dead to avoid getting arrested.
Even the police have a saying to cover when they use too much force: "Better judged by 12 (jurors) than carried by six (pallbearers).
I can't understand why someone who is willing to work hard and knows that in the real world their employeer is going to screw them at every chance should not try to identify which job/sector is at least going to pay them the most.
If you like math or science and are willing to work hard why not try to target a drug company because it pays well instead of a basic materials company that does not? You have to work as hard, get the same degree, do the same kind of work, put up with the same problems - why not pick the company that is at least going to give you more for the effort that you put in?
How on earth did the announcement of Power 6 turn into a debate about Apple and small consumer electronics? The Power 6 is designed to populate IBM's heavy-hitting AIX servers. They have large amounts of on-board cache and are designed to work in virtualized server environments - both hardware virtualization that IBM calls LPARs (logical partitions) and software virtualization (similar to Solaris zones/containers). A mid-sized server is capeable of running 50 or more AIX partitions and to copy one partition to another with a mere few seconds of interuption. The technology is very similar to the well known features of IBMs mainframes. IBM has strongly hinted that the P6 (and it's successors) will be the chip that will power future mainframes, AIX and I5 (as400) systems someday.
The new chips use way too much power and are too large to fit in portable consumer electronics and I doubt any consideration was given to hand-helds during design.
As for Apple - they have experts that can perform cost/benefit analysis on chip prices and this chip is going to cost a lot more that Intel (mobile).
Mirrored disks are great protection against hardware failure of the disk only. If the server crashed due to a software bug or human error it would not be hard to imagine both copies of the data being damaged. As an earlier poster pointed out - the data is critical but only for a short period of time and then becomes out-of-date. A disk to 2nd server or disk to tape backup is necessary is this type of environment, it is similar to a large development project. Constantly changing data needs to backed up. Anything that is backed up needs to be validated by testing the restore and recovery process. A good trick is to backup the data and restore it to a different partition / drive / LUN with a different name and see if the application recoginizes the data.
I agree. Some people forget how much work that even the most basic technology does. Just for laughs try setting up numerous columns of numbers and adding them all up and totaling them by hand or with a calculator. Then find out one number somewhere in the middle was wrong. Now, how about prsenting those numbers to someone? Are you going to type everything over on a typewriter? Print it on a dot-matix with carbons? Then jam it in an envelopes and go to the post office where you can buy (and lick) stamps?
How about a spreadsheet and e-mail?
Which is more productive?
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Why Linux? The organization may be a big LAMP shop, or mysql, or Oracle, or Web Logic or any of a multitude of software offerings that feel more at home on Linux/UNIX/MS than on Big Blue's Z OS.
We pay to get on public beaches so that the people who use them foot the bill instead of year-round residents supporting them with their taxes. New York and New Jersey have terribly cold, snowy winters. The number of people who live in beach towns year-round is small compared to the number of people who come to these towns in the summer. The beach fees go towards hiring extra police and life guards and trash haulers in the summer and for maintaining the beaches year-round. We also have a population of over 7 million in New Jersey and 8.3 million in NY City (17 million state-wide, but it mostly NYC residents, not upstate people that would want to go to the Jersey shore.)that utilize a relativly small number of miles of beaches. They get crowded.
Your point is right on the money. For years we have lived in a society where bank tellers give up the cash and do not resist, airline crews sumbit to hijacking and police departments try to negoitiate at all costs - even in the face of armed killers. Well, the bank robbers, hijackers, terrorists and killers who want to be on TV before they go out in a blaze of glory read the news and watch the tube and know how their actions will be responded to. I have seen video footage of anti-bank robbery systems in Europe that drop a steel wall down when a teller fears a robbery. I have been locked out of (or in) computer rooms I need to get into (or out of) - would a strong, locked, bullet resistent door on a plane make more sense than letting ANYONE unauthorized in the cabin? Would the VT killer have taken so many lives if the school had a one hour per semester "how to stay alive" seminar - as the previous writer indicated: If 32 students charged the gunman because they were taught that was the best way to stay alive the number of casulties would have been much lower. If that guy had attacked a room full of people convinced that a rush towards him was the best way to stay alive instead of just sitting there - or at least charging him when he had to reload - the results would have been different. I am not in favor of turning everything into a fortress or everyone into a group of avengers but the old idea that we should wait for someone else is obsolete. The Fergueson shooting case on the Long Island railroad several years ago would have been much like the VT case except that the people on the train attacked before he could reload. The wait for the professionals (esp. in light of Flight 93) mentality is still what the airlines and banks want to push because they are afraid of getting sued. Too F'ING bad. The police don't want people to "take the law into their own hands". Well FCUK that idea too, better to get arrested in order to stay alive than get dead to avoid getting arrested. Even the police have a saying to cover when they use too much force: "Better judged by 12 (jurors) than carried by six (pallbearers).
I can't understand why someone who is willing to work hard and knows that in the real world their employeer is going to screw them at every chance should not try to identify which job/sector is at least going to pay them the most. If you like math or science and are willing to work hard why not try to target a drug company because it pays well instead of a basic materials company that does not? You have to work as hard, get the same degree, do the same kind of work, put up with the same problems - why not pick the company that is at least going to give you more for the effort that you put in?
How on earth did the announcement of Power 6 turn into a debate about Apple and small consumer electronics? The Power 6 is designed to populate IBM's heavy-hitting AIX servers. They have large amounts of on-board cache and are designed to work in virtualized server environments - both hardware virtualization that IBM calls LPARs (logical partitions) and software virtualization (similar to Solaris zones/containers). A mid-sized server is capeable of running 50 or more AIX partitions and to copy one partition to another with a mere few seconds of interuption. The technology is very similar to the well known features of IBMs mainframes. IBM has strongly hinted that the P6 (and it's successors) will be the chip that will power future mainframes, AIX and I5 (as400) systems someday. The new chips use way too much power and are too large to fit in portable consumer electronics and I doubt any consideration was given to hand-helds during design. As for Apple - they have experts that can perform cost/benefit analysis on chip prices and this chip is going to cost a lot more that Intel (mobile).
Mirrored disks are great protection against hardware failure of the disk only. If the server crashed due to a software bug or human error it would not be hard to imagine both copies of the data being damaged. As an earlier poster pointed out - the data is critical but only for a short period of time and then becomes out-of-date. A disk to 2nd server or disk to tape backup is necessary is this type of environment, it is similar to a large development project. Constantly changing data needs to backed up. Anything that is backed up needs to be validated by testing the restore and recovery process. A good trick is to backup the data and restore it to a different partition / drive / LUN with a different name and see if the application recoginizes the data.
I agree. Some people forget how much work that even the most basic technology does. Just for laughs try setting up numerous columns of numbers and adding them all up and totaling them by hand or with a calculator. Then find out one number somewhere in the middle was wrong. Now, how about prsenting those numbers to someone? Are you going to type everything over on a typewriter? Print it on a dot-matix with carbons? Then jam it in an envelopes and go to the post office where you can buy (and lick) stamps? How about a spreadsheet and e-mail? Which is more productive?