As the buzzwords further proliferate within this industry, I have a subtle recommendation for you.
1. Implement a good role based administration system, say Kerberos with a Mysql Back end then use Samba to serve the windows boxes on your network, cheaper than Windows Server 2003 / 2008 and highly scaleable, you'll just have to figure somthing out for enforcing security policies from the directory side or use e-Dir from Novell.
2. Get said roles into a good documentation management solution
(Document management solutions are available from everyone, Microsoft; Novell (Suse), Xerox)
Find out which methods and processes work best for what type of media you are storing, a good example for projects and documents may be Wiki's with editing and administrative domains over trees run by the appropriate responsible parties.
Most of all do your Resarch, keep your management in the loop and use their input to guide you.
Apparently you take the web, in particular this site too seriously.
400 posts, id say your a poor miserable fuck with no life wasting other peoples time. Why don't you make the world a better place and die?
It's called Satire, perhaps the humor and bullshit bingo games passed you by:D
This post is useless just like your post and every other post next to it.
I guess it's a slow day for slashdot.
I have family there, a salary of 65K will get you a nice 30 year Morgtage, and yes it's very expensive because you are competing with a FLOOD of immigrants from Asia, China, Japan and all the others in between, it's still far cheaper then Bejing, Hong-Kong and Tokyo; hence the colloquial name "Hong-Couver".
Vancouver is not without it's ill's either, simply walk down east hastings and tell me if you feel safe around that many addicts? However our addicts are polite and say please when they ask for change:D
It's also a very clean city with lots to do like any world class city, most Canadians are moving west due to the booming economy out there, other side effects of this include a 5% inflation rate in Alberta (the province right next to British Columbia with all the Oil otherwise refered to as Canada's Texas where after incarceration you may still ask for a horse and a gun).
Public Health Care is touted up here but you are still paying for it (huge income taxes) And we will see the implementation of a Two tier system here due to necessity since most of our Doctors end up down south because of Higher wages, less working hours and better over all quality of life.
Let's not forget to mention that roughtly 80% of the Canadian Economy is a result of trading with the U.S. Even though they violate Nafa every now and again (*ahem softwood dispute ahem*). In truth the only reason we are anti-american is because we hate being dictated too and watching our politicians bend over backwards every chance they get.
Keep in mind that most good Canadian businesses are getting purchased by American private equity firms, they figure "Hey if you can be profitable where your paying 45% just imagine what you could do where your only paying 20%. That and GM spent more last year on Healthcare for american workers than steel for cars. I just thought I'd share those points with you.
Oh and we don't deport people unless Homland security / CIA / NSA askes us to so unless you are of Arabic, Pakistani or Afghani decent and have ties to a number of organizations you'd have a hard time getting kicked out, you pretty much have to become a carrer criminal to get deported from this country. The one aspect of Canada that fares far better then the U.S. is our immigration laws "Give us your Poor your unwanted" may have been coined in the south but it's only practiced up here these days since we realize that native Canadians enjoy their quality of life and don't want to have children so we import our citizens, a perfect example of this is that in downtown Vancouver there are over a hundred spoken languages, Toronto tops the list with over 116 spoken languages within the downtown core. You cannot engineer that kind of culture.
As one of my favorite preforming artists once said "Canada, Warm people, COLD country!".
Eye Queue is an application that teaches you how to speed read. What ever happened to the idea of trying to learn something instead of being so lazy that we have the computer re-render information for us. I understand that we are silly monkeys but last time I checked we were pretty good at adapting to our surroundings, hence the reason we are at the top of the food chain.
Instead of re-formatting your text, why not reformat your brain? it does change over time and you can learn to read entire paragraphs at a time, just ask anyone in the publishing industry.
As a consultant I routinely receive requests for Disaster Recovery work for organizations ranging in size from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand. Depending on the alloted budget we work our way down the hardware.
1. Redundant Network Connections
2. Highly available Services (Applicaiton Clusters)
3. Fail over - Off site if needed (Local, Metro, then off-site)
4. Power backup & Isolation (Generators good for 48 hours at least if not more, plus filtration systems that will withstand a localized EMP)
5. Testing - Smoking hole scenarios. (ie: where did NY, Chicogo, Washington, just go?)
I am not at liberty to divulge my client list but I can say for certain that they are very interested in maintaining service availability even if their primary sites were hit directly by nuclear weapons. Services include all communications not just the internet. Arpanet was founded by the boys in green, they worry about these sorts of things.
It becomes a matter of balanceing function with cost, the old engineering addage does ring true here more than anywhere else:
Cheap, Fast, Reliable; pick any two!
Companies like Hugues, Teleglobe, and various governments of the G8 do what their budgets allow to facilitate redundancy, however since terrorism is a good political tool to motivate sales (along with natural disasters) then people in the consulting industry will be well met to help the organizations that make the internet redundant.
As for the power grid, Telcordia standards dictate that a carrier grade data center (if it's essential services) has to have some method of running even at a reduced capacity for extended periods of time. Thus there is a buffer provided for the local power company to get their systems working, that and most datacentres are close to large power supplies. This is the result of the original POTS standards. It's also the reason VOIP providers don't guarantee 911 service. The regulation and maintence costs on these datacenters is very high, which is how AT&T and Verizon justify charging an arm and a leg for your land line.
Then again, I've seen Tier 1 data-centerers undone by a fire-systems worker (plumber) dropping a wrench on the -48V bus-bar and having instantaneously weld to the A-Frame causing millions in damage and making an entire city core go quiet. Who needs terrorists when we have difficulty hitting 100% availability on our own, normally?
2. PC Magazine does not hold any status for me, hence the kilo of salt is still burning in my belly.
Now, let's take a look at the general populace, and wifi as a whole. Cellular cards have to be bought and paid for over and above the laptop. Pretty much any laptop out today has an 802.11a/b/g chipset built into it and all versions of microsoft windows, be it XP or Vista will ask you if you want to "connect" to a public wireless network. so much so that it's considered a security risk by most companies.
Enter 3.5G and 4G. I'm no pundit but i've been in this industry long enough to see a failing standard a mile out, yes cell networks are liscenced, expensive and slow when compared with 802.11. Bell in Canada is rolling out 802.11 AP's on thier public phones. The cost of licensing the bands for 3.5G and 4G from the FCC and the CRTC in put the implementation of these networks into the billions. Where as a good metropolitan wifi implemenation will cost you back a few million.
It's called pervasive availability, and John needs to understand that people may be "STUPD" on a whole but he really should take his head out of his behind. if you have 3000+ laptops at any given moment and somones standing in a public area using it and they do not have a cellular card because they are "STUPID" they will proabaly notice the whole "Wifi" notice in XP when they sit in a coffee shop and start writeing, or when they are in a park outside.
EV-DO, EDGE and all those other toys require pre-requisite knoledge, ie: the client has to go out and become aware of these technologies before they can use them, they only compete where you have somone that flys a LOT.
My opinion shouldn't count as I am known to play with all the wireless networks I can find, and given the opportunity I'll use the 802.11. I guess i'm not stupid.
Don't knock pottery, or carpentry for that matter they both lead to pot addictions.
And trades will make a huge comeback when the net goes dark after that whole net neutrality is lost....
Then it will be the pot smoking carpenters that rule the world with the geeks a close second....
So tell me, how many fully XEN datacenters have you deployed? 100? 1000?
EMC, VMWare's parent just IPO'd 10% of thier shares to double thier market value since EMC really isin't going to move much in the way of market penetration in the next while.
That 10% of VMWare will DOUBLE the value of EMC, from 11 Billion to 22 ~ 24 Billion. Now that bieng said, how many datacenters do you design for a living?
I have for over 10 different clients all with long and short green designed VMWare centralized solutions, don't get me wrong xen is nice but it lacks Virtual Centre or the marketing propaganda to convince the PHB's that they should use it over say Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 or VMWare server.
Not to mention that most of the big reinsurance companies that I've worked with will use a 36 node infiniband connected cluster with 8 CPU's / node all running VMWare Infrastructre as a hosting pool for various mathematically intensive applications, like CAS.
So tout Zen all you want, Moshe Bar is an excellent programmer with many accolyades to his name but I'm not going to be putting it in any of my data center designs anytime soon, my clients deserve better, VMWare just happens to be the oldest kid on the block.
Intellectual Property and software agreements aren't the same in Russia! For starters the GPL does not apply, secondly you have to remember Russia is a "Poor" per capita country. Some Principal is not going to jail for giving his students the best most "Western" oriented education he can.
Secondly; why is it Americans always think their laws are global? Your not rulers of the planet yet, so take a step back and realize that if it's IP in your country it may or may not be IP anywhere else.
Business drives commerce, commerce pays tax. Your consumption feeds the business whom in turn feeds your government. If you have Cable, cancel your account and ONLY utilize media online thereby forcing change on the form of media distribution.
It's high time T.V. Got an overhaul, it's what 50 years old now. NTSC and PAL are poor standards for content and quality when compared with 720P, 1080i. So start by not consuming cable or any other syndicated T.V. for that matter, order all of your content online.
Eventually, there's going to be a lot more then YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, and those that are slow to make the transition will be bankrupt (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, BBC, Chanel+) Remember those syndicates hold a vast amount of political weight.
No, it's actually supposed to be that way. We have to keep the french happy otherwise they will separate and take all the wood and electircal power with them. Which we don't mind, however we do like the french ladies.;)
Mr. Smith was found dead at his cubicle this morning, apparently the years of IT work, poor tech net design and bad eating habits have cought up to him. The corner and police arrive on the scene.
Corner "looks like a class a1 coronary, hell i can even see the hemorrhaging in his eyes."
Detective "Well I wouldn't rule out foul play!", "Why is that?" asks the corner.
Well for starters there's no wii controller embedded anywhere, and this is the first time I've seen a logitech in that many pieces next to his right hand!
Corner turns to the Detective, "And the copious amounts of Coffee, Red-bull and cheezies had nothing to do with it?" (pointing to the clutter in the cube)
"Well known occupational hazards for a man in his line of work, no I for one am blameing the recent redsign of slash dot!" the detective states, "Actually wait let's check his browser cache?", "Right just as i though, it was the default vista page that killed him"....
Corner turns to the detective "So then, you got a copy of vista yet?", "Why?" he replies. "Well we could get in on the next class action against Microsoft, remember Sony?"....
We'll be returning to pen and paper inside of three years!
Since the only "Safe" computer is one that turned off.
I could spend hours going into the various espionage methods like "Van Eck Phreaking" or it's parent "EW, ECM, ECCM, EWM" but hey how many corporations value their data so much that they will build Faraday cages and all optical infrastructure? Risk is a reality, now living with risk is a CIO's job.
Ok so you need the "hinternet" at your desk, and you being a good bee think to save your company money by using "Skype", hell why not talk to the people in your IT department about Wireless security? Or those pesky "Proxy Logs" of someone violating the "Acceptable use Agreement" but not being reprimanded because they are on the board? Or installing "Asterisk, instead of Skype", or getting rid of that pesky "Exchange" server for an Enterprise level Red-hat based one that requires one quarter the power and less than half the licensing costs...(or why they went with an X400 based system in the first place)??
People inherently fear change, change is the only constant in this industry. Thus people inherently fear this industry regardless of any of the excuses they choose to use, in short ignorance reigns and no one wants to hire someone extra to make more stuff "work". By limiting the available application pool you mitigate risk and reduce support costs. When it boils down to it, yes employees will all use the tools at hand in a different method or even get better tools; however, any good CIO will limit the set of tools on the basis of costs of administration, configuration management, Life Cycle Control and potential risk. No one company will ever be secure, nor will the infrastructure ever function at 100% however it still costs money to run it all.
At $79.99 for a disc that costs less than $0.25/copy I'd figure they'd simply pump massive marketing funds into their games. Remember it's games that sell a console not the consoles power.
Anyone in denial of the above statement need only remember the Turbographics 16, Phillips CDi, Sega 32x, Sega Dream Cast and all those other consoles that didn't have the games or popularity to succeed (but plenty of computational power).
The Cell has been hyped so much, the PS3 is "The next big thing" but I was burned by the PS2 and all it's hype, hell I still have no hard drive in my PS2, my Xbox on the other hand has a 300GB hard drive filled with movies, music and other goodies.
That and I can't wait for halo 3, what does the PS3 have that will kill halo 3? umm, Grand Tourismo, er no. So I'll have to buy both, but will the PS3 use all that computational power, and If I buy a Sony Wega, will it have a cell in it to? (Remember he said grid computing via consumer devices!
So that being said, I say get your xbox and Halo 3 you know it's worth the investment. So the PS3 has more power and bells but if no games are using that power what's the point in investing $500?
Where as you know the guys at bungee will be making druelworthy eye-candy with an excellent post-apcolyptic plot line. what more could we want?
Ok,
Myself, well I was "Perscribed" the use of a computer for my deslexiya at 7 years of age. Since I'm almost 30 now that was a long time ago.
Bieng Deslexic (IE: a visual thinker??) and completely unable to spell, despite the horrid use of speak and spells. I stumbled into boolen logic via a video game.
From there I found out about Basic, C/C++ and Delphi.
Now the adivce above is excellent however if you are new to the field it's always a good idea to study the classics:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/loginataka.html
Now I know it's a bit dated at this time, hopefully your school prepared you to think, it's not a university's job to give you "Job Skills" the education of the Computer Science graduates is basically to teach them how to Learn and Re-learn everything very quickly since the field you are going into has a habbit of reinventing itself every 18 months (thank you gordon).
As to what or how you should learn, I highly suggest you start with the Unified Modeling language. It's a good place to start, then drill down.
Good programmers always tackle large problems as a series of smaller ones.
And if your using C/C++ remember to focus on security and creating a portable API!!!
Happy Hunting
Tesla did utilize this, at Wardentclyfe he developed a huge model.
His dreams of electrically powered war planes never did come to fruition, however he did make massive amounts of lightning.
The only issue I can forsee is Grounding, how do you take an electriaclly isolated device (say a laptop) and make it safe by offering up an electrical sink hole when there are no wires?
Possibly setup a secondary antenna at 20Khz or 16Khz? or whatever the earth resonates at again?
Tesla saw the world as one big resonant chamber, unfortunately none of us agreed with him, as a side note he also developed a power supply for a car that required no external power.
Mabye that's why his funding got pulled? then again if you blow up enough generators your funding will go bye bye too.
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." ~Tesla
Once upon a time there was a man with a red hat, and he fixed computers, lots of computers. And lo and behold he found another operating system to play with.
And he did play, and the play resulted in a package management system.
And then the binaries were free to be played with by all.
And then the germans decided that they would modify this package management system, and lo it was good.
I bet the only reason for all of this is so that Microsoft can get in edge wise on the exchange killer setup of Suse + OpenLDAP + Mysql + Imap mail (take your pick as to the MTA).
The truth is simple, microsoft shops can setup Exchange installations inside of three days. I distinctly remember three weeks fo pain when I tried to replace all that functionality with one linux box.
Mind you it was pretty cool, thanks to people like andrew tridgell I had the joy of saying "Well we don't really need that copy of windows 2000, and we are on a very tight budget right?" however the problems went deeper than that.
Active Directory and E-directory are competetiors, Novell ensures that one works seamlessly with the other. Now microsoft is going to ensure that AD can support E-Dir. Homogeny is your friend and ally, that and mabye we can get visio ported to Linux? Hell I'd pay for it.
In Canada it's Illeagle to spy on Candianians if you are a Canadian, american's do it all the time. In the U.S. it used to be Illeagle to Spy on americans if they were americans.
The Candians and Americans have a very good mutual understanding, we spy on them and they in turn spy on us.
Now we both have internal orgainizations that do this for us:
The U.S. has: The FBI The NSA The DOE (They have thier own private army)
Canada Has: CESIS (They used to be part of the RCMP however they split with thier own respective mandate after the FLQ crisis)
Now, last I checked the starting salary for an officer of CESIS was 47,000 / year canadian and no gurantee's about housing or food allowance. after five years it goes up to 60K.
Our privacy is guranteed due to our inability to support three very LARGE and COSTLY orginizations that may have overlap. We have a branch of Military intellegence too, but it's NOTHING like the Americans.
However due to the intermingleing of infrastructre these two countries share (IE: the internet)
Spying on your neibour is pretty easy, all be it quite illeagle if you are not one of those organizations.
and what about echelon? or carnivore? I haven't heard anything of them for a while, I wonder how carnivore is doing with all this extra spam?
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As the buzzwords further proliferate within this industry, I have a subtle recommendation for you.
1. Implement a good role based administration system, say Kerberos with a Mysql Back end then use Samba to serve the windows boxes on your network, cheaper than Windows Server 2003 / 2008 and highly scaleable, you'll just have to figure somthing out for enforcing security policies from the directory side or use e-Dir from Novell.
2. Get said roles into a good documentation management solution
(Document management solutions are available from everyone, Microsoft; Novell (Suse), Xerox)
Find out which methods and processes work best for what type of media you are storing, a good example for projects and documents may be Wiki's with editing and administrative domains over trees run by the appropriate responsible parties.
Most of all do your Resarch, keep your management in the loop and use their input to guide you.
Oh making puns, you must be some unix beardy, I'm sorry your life sucks.
Apparently you take the web, in particular this site too seriously. 400 posts, id say your a poor miserable fuck with no life wasting other peoples time. Why don't you make the world a better place and die?
It's called Satire, perhaps the humor and bullshit bingo games passed you by :D
This post is useless just like your post and every other post next to it.
I guess it's a slow day for slashdot.
To live comfortably in Vancouver;
:D
I have family there, a salary of 65K will get you a nice 30 year Morgtage, and yes it's very expensive because you are competing with a FLOOD of immigrants from Asia, China, Japan and all the others in between, it's still far cheaper then Bejing, Hong-Kong and Tokyo; hence the colloquial name "Hong-Couver".
Vancouver is not without it's ill's either, simply walk down east hastings and tell me if you feel safe around that many addicts? However our addicts are polite and say please when they ask for change
It's also a very clean city with lots to do like any world class city, most Canadians are moving west due to the booming economy out there, other side effects of this include a 5% inflation rate in Alberta (the province right next to British Columbia with all the Oil otherwise refered to as Canada's Texas where after incarceration you may still ask for a horse and a gun).
Public Health Care is touted up here but you are still paying for it (huge income taxes) And we will see the implementation of a Two tier system here due to necessity since most of our Doctors end up down south because of Higher wages, less working hours and better over all quality of life.
Let's not forget to mention that roughtly 80% of the Canadian Economy is a result of trading with the U.S. Even though they violate Nafa every now and again (*ahem softwood dispute ahem*). In truth the only reason we are anti-american is because we hate being dictated too and watching our politicians bend over backwards every chance they get.
Keep in mind that most good Canadian businesses are getting purchased by American private equity firms, they figure "Hey if you can be profitable where your paying 45% just imagine what you could do where your only paying 20%. That and GM spent more last year on Healthcare for american workers than steel for cars. I just thought I'd share those points with you.
Oh and we don't deport people unless Homland security / CIA / NSA askes us to so unless you are of Arabic, Pakistani or Afghani decent and have ties to a number of organizations you'd have a hard time getting kicked out, you pretty much have to become a carrer criminal to get deported from this country. The one aspect of Canada that fares far better then the U.S. is our immigration laws "Give us your Poor your unwanted" may have been coined in the south but it's only practiced up here these days since we realize that native Canadians enjoy their quality of life and don't want to have children so we import our citizens, a perfect example of this is that in downtown Vancouver there are over a hundred spoken languages, Toronto tops the list with over 116 spoken languages within the downtown core. You cannot engineer that kind of culture.
As one of my favorite preforming artists once said "Canada, Warm people, COLD country!".
Well, As long as the movie producers agree to pay for the officers time, however for the inconvienence I will no longer be going to the movies.
I wonder if they will stop releaseing telesynched DVD's to Russia and China as well?
Eye Queue is an application that teaches you how to speed read. What ever happened to the idea of trying to learn something instead of being so lazy that we have the computer re-render information for us. I understand that we are silly monkeys but last time I checked we were pretty good at adapting to our surroundings, hence the reason we are at the top of the food chain. Instead of re-formatting your text, why not reformat your brain? it does change over time and you can learn to read entire paragraphs at a time, just ask anyone in the publishing industry.
As a consultant I routinely receive requests for Disaster Recovery work for organizations ranging in size from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand. Depending on the alloted budget we work our way down the hardware.
1. Redundant Network Connections
2. Highly available Services (Applicaiton Clusters)
3. Fail over - Off site if needed (Local, Metro, then off-site)
4. Power backup & Isolation (Generators good for 48 hours at least if not more, plus filtration systems that will withstand a localized EMP)
5. Testing - Smoking hole scenarios. (ie: where did NY, Chicogo, Washington, just go?)
I am not at liberty to divulge my client list but I can say for certain that they are very interested in maintaining service availability even if their primary sites were hit directly by nuclear weapons. Services include all communications not just the internet. Arpanet was founded by the boys in green, they worry about these sorts of things.
It becomes a matter of balanceing function with cost, the old engineering addage does ring true here more than anywhere else:
Cheap, Fast, Reliable; pick any two!
Companies like Hugues, Teleglobe, and various governments of the G8 do what their budgets allow to facilitate redundancy, however since terrorism is a good political tool to motivate sales (along with natural disasters) then people in the consulting industry will be well met to help the organizations that make the internet redundant.
As for the power grid, Telcordia standards dictate that a carrier grade data center (if it's essential services) has to have some method of running even at a reduced capacity for extended periods of time. Thus there is a buffer provided for the local power company to get their systems working, that and most datacentres are close to large power supplies. This is the result of the original POTS standards. It's also the reason VOIP providers don't guarantee 911 service. The regulation and maintence costs on these datacenters is very high, which is how AT&T and Verizon justify charging an arm and a leg for your land line.
Then again, I've seen Tier 1 data-centerers undone by a fire-systems worker (plumber) dropping a wrench on the -48V bus-bar and having instantaneously weld to the A-Frame causing millions in damage and making an entire city core go quiet. Who needs terrorists when we have difficulty hitting 100% availability on our own, normally?
Well, print media has been doing the same thing for decades, it's called propaganda.
Well;
1. It's poorly written
2. PC Magazine does not hold any status for me, hence the kilo of salt is still burning in my belly.
Now, let's take a look at the general populace, and wifi as a whole. Cellular cards have to be bought and paid for over and above the laptop. Pretty much any laptop out today has an 802.11a/b/g chipset built into it and all versions of microsoft windows, be it XP or Vista will ask you if you want to "connect" to a public wireless network. so much so that it's considered a security risk by most companies.
Enter 3.5G and 4G. I'm no pundit but i've been in this industry long enough to see a failing standard a mile out, yes cell networks are liscenced, expensive and slow when compared with 802.11. Bell in Canada is rolling out 802.11 AP's on thier public phones. The cost of licensing the bands for 3.5G and 4G from the FCC and the CRTC in put the implementation of these networks into the billions. Where as a good metropolitan wifi implemenation will cost you back a few million.
It's called pervasive availability, and John needs to understand that people may be "STUPD" on a whole but he really should take his head out of his behind. if you have 3000+ laptops at any given moment and somones standing in a public area using it and they do not have a cellular card because they are "STUPID" they will proabaly notice the whole "Wifi" notice in XP when they sit in a coffee shop and start writeing, or when they are in a park outside.
EV-DO, EDGE and all those other toys require pre-requisite knoledge, ie: the client has to go out and become aware of these technologies before they can use them, they only compete where you have somone that flys a LOT.
My opinion shouldn't count as I am known to play with all the wireless networks I can find, and given the opportunity I'll use the 802.11. I guess i'm not stupid.
Don't knock pottery, or carpentry for that matter they both lead to pot addictions. And trades will make a huge comeback when the net goes dark after that whole net neutrality is lost.... Then it will be the pot smoking carpenters that rule the world with the geeks a close second....
So tell me, how many fully XEN datacenters have you deployed? 100? 1000?
EMC, VMWare's parent just IPO'd 10% of thier shares to double thier market value since EMC really isin't going to move much in the way of market penetration in the next while.
That 10% of VMWare will DOUBLE the value of EMC, from 11 Billion to 22 ~ 24 Billion. Now that bieng said, how many datacenters do you design for a living?
I have for over 10 different clients all with long and short green designed VMWare centralized solutions, don't get me wrong xen is nice but it lacks Virtual Centre or the marketing propaganda to convince the PHB's that they should use it over say Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 or VMWare server.
Not to mention that most of the big reinsurance companies that I've worked with will use a 36 node infiniband connected cluster with 8 CPU's / node all running VMWare Infrastructre as a hosting pool for various mathematically intensive applications, like CAS.
So tout Zen all you want, Moshe Bar is an excellent programmer with many accolyades to his name but I'm not going to be putting it in any of my data center designs anytime soon, my clients deserve better, VMWare just happens to be the oldest kid on the block.
IT's called having sane copyright laws, the U.S. should look into this "New form" of thought.
Intellectual Property and software agreements aren't the same in Russia! For starters the GPL does not apply, secondly you have to remember Russia is a "Poor" per capita country. Some Principal is not going to jail for giving his students the best most "Western" oriented education he can.
Secondly; why is it Americans always think their laws are global? Your not rulers of the planet yet, so take a step back and realize that if it's IP in your country it may or may not be IP anywhere else.
Business drives commerce, commerce pays tax. Your consumption feeds the business whom in turn feeds your government. If you have Cable, cancel your account and ONLY utilize media online thereby forcing change on the form of media distribution.
It's high time T.V. Got an overhaul, it's what 50 years old now. NTSC and PAL are poor standards for content and quality when compared with 720P, 1080i. So start by not consuming cable or any other syndicated T.V. for that matter, order all of your content online.
Eventually, there's going to be a lot more then YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, and those that are slow to make the transition will be bankrupt (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, BBC, Chanel+) Remember those syndicates hold a vast amount of political weight.
No, it's actually supposed to be that way. We have to keep the french happy otherwise they will separate and take all the wood and electircal power with them. Which we don't mind, however we do like the french ladies. ;)
Mr. Smith was found dead at his cubicle this morning, apparently the years of IT work, poor tech net design and bad eating habits have cought up to him. The corner and police arrive on the scene.
Corner "looks like a class a1 coronary, hell i can even see the hemorrhaging in his eyes."
Detective "Well I wouldn't rule out foul play!", "Why is that?" asks the corner.
Well for starters there's no wii controller embedded anywhere, and this is the first time I've seen a logitech in that many pieces next to his right hand!
Corner turns to the Detective, "And the copious amounts of Coffee, Red-bull and cheezies had nothing to do with it?" (pointing to the clutter in the cube)
"Well known occupational hazards for a man in his line of work, no I for one am blameing the recent redsign of slash dot!" the detective states, "Actually wait let's check his browser cache?", "Right just as i though, it was the default vista page that killed him"....
Corner turns to the detective "So then, you got a copy of vista yet?", "Why?" he replies. "Well we could get in on the next class action against Microsoft, remember Sony?"....
This whole internet is a fad!
We'll be returning to pen and paper inside of three years!
Since the only "Safe" computer is one that turned off.
I could spend hours going into the various espionage methods like "Van Eck Phreaking" or it's parent "EW, ECM, ECCM, EWM" but hey how many corporations value their data so much that they will build Faraday cages and all optical infrastructure? Risk is a reality, now living with risk is a CIO's job.
Ok so you need the "hinternet" at your desk, and you being a good bee think to save your company money by using "Skype", hell why not talk to the people in your IT department about Wireless security? Or those pesky "Proxy Logs" of someone violating the "Acceptable use Agreement" but not being reprimanded because they are on the board? Or installing "Asterisk, instead of Skype", or getting rid of that pesky "Exchange" server for an Enterprise level Red-hat based one that requires one quarter the power and less than half the licensing costs...(or why they went with an X400 based system in the first place)??
People inherently fear change, change is the only constant in this industry. Thus people inherently fear this industry regardless of any of the excuses they choose to use, in short ignorance reigns and no one wants to hire someone extra to make more stuff "work". By limiting the available application pool you mitigate risk and reduce support costs. When it boils down to it, yes employees will all use the tools at hand in a different method or even get better tools; however, any good CIO will limit the set of tools on the basis of costs of administration, configuration management, Life Cycle Control and potential risk. No one company will ever be secure, nor will the infrastructure ever function at 100% however it still costs money to run it all.
I thought ram should be fee by now!
At $79.99 for a disc that costs less than $0.25/copy I'd figure they'd simply pump massive marketing funds into their games. Remember it's games that sell a console not the consoles power.
Anyone in denial of the above statement need only remember the Turbographics 16, Phillips CDi, Sega 32x, Sega Dream Cast and all those other consoles that didn't have the games or popularity to succeed (but plenty of computational power).
The Cell has been hyped so much, the PS3 is "The next big thing" but I was burned by the PS2 and all it's hype, hell I still have no hard drive in my PS2, my Xbox on the other hand has a 300GB hard drive filled with movies, music and other goodies.
That and I can't wait for halo 3, what does the PS3 have that will kill halo 3? umm, Grand Tourismo, er no. So I'll have to buy both, but will the PS3 use all that computational power, and If I buy a Sony Wega, will it have a cell in it to? (Remember he said grid computing via consumer devices!
So that being said, I say get your xbox and Halo 3 you know it's worth the investment. So the PS3 has more power and bells but if no games are using that power what's the point in investing $500?
Where as you know the guys at bungee will be making druelworthy eye-candy with an excellent post-apcolyptic plot line. what more could we want?
In soviet China, Phone charge you!
What ever happened to Constellation 3D? Didn't they have FMD Drives that were supposed to be out by now?
~~sniff ~~sniff
Smell that, a stock anaylist, a resarch scientist and and a broker were at a bar....
Ok, Myself, well I was "Perscribed" the use of a computer for my deslexiya at 7 years of age. Since I'm almost 30 now that was a long time ago. Bieng Deslexic (IE: a visual thinker??) and completely unable to spell, despite the horrid use of speak and spells. I stumbled into boolen logic via a video game. From there I found out about Basic, C/C++ and Delphi. Now the adivce above is excellent however if you are new to the field it's always a good idea to study the classics: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/loginataka.html Now I know it's a bit dated at this time, hopefully your school prepared you to think, it's not a university's job to give you "Job Skills" the education of the Computer Science graduates is basically to teach them how to Learn and Re-learn everything very quickly since the field you are going into has a habbit of reinventing itself every 18 months (thank you gordon). As to what or how you should learn, I highly suggest you start with the Unified Modeling language. It's a good place to start, then drill down. Good programmers always tackle large problems as a series of smaller ones. And if your using C/C++ remember to focus on security and creating a portable API!!! Happy Hunting
Tesla did utilize this, at Wardentclyfe he developed a huge model. His dreams of electrically powered war planes never did come to fruition, however he did make massive amounts of lightning. The only issue I can forsee is Grounding, how do you take an electriaclly isolated device (say a laptop) and make it safe by offering up an electrical sink hole when there are no wires? Possibly setup a secondary antenna at 20Khz or 16Khz? or whatever the earth resonates at again? Tesla saw the world as one big resonant chamber, unfortunately none of us agreed with him, as a side note he also developed a power supply for a car that required no external power. Mabye that's why his funding got pulled? then again if you blow up enough generators your funding will go bye bye too. "Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." ~Tesla
Once upon a time there was a man with a red hat, and he fixed computers, lots of computers. And lo and behold he found another operating system to play with. And he did play, and the play resulted in a package management system. And then the binaries were free to be played with by all. And then the germans decided that they would modify this package management system, and lo it was good. I bet the only reason for all of this is so that Microsoft can get in edge wise on the exchange killer setup of Suse + OpenLDAP + Mysql + Imap mail (take your pick as to the MTA). The truth is simple, microsoft shops can setup Exchange installations inside of three days. I distinctly remember three weeks fo pain when I tried to replace all that functionality with one linux box. Mind you it was pretty cool, thanks to people like andrew tridgell I had the joy of saying "Well we don't really need that copy of windows 2000, and we are on a very tight budget right?" however the problems went deeper than that. Active Directory and E-directory are competetiors, Novell ensures that one works seamlessly with the other. Now microsoft is going to ensure that AD can support E-Dir. Homogeny is your friend and ally, that and mabye we can get visio ported to Linux? Hell I'd pay for it.
In Canada it's Illeagle to spy on Candianians if you are a Canadian, american's do it all the time. In the U.S. it used to be Illeagle to Spy on americans if they were americans.
The Candians and Americans have a very good mutual understanding, we spy on them and they in turn spy on us.
Now we both have internal orgainizations that do this for us:
The U.S. has:
The FBI
The NSA
The DOE (They have thier own private army)
Canada Has:
CESIS (They used to be part of the RCMP however they split with thier own respective mandate after the FLQ crisis)
Now, last I checked the starting salary for an officer of CESIS was 47,000 / year canadian and no gurantee's about housing or food allowance. after five years it goes up to 60K.
Our privacy is guranteed due to our inability to support three very LARGE and COSTLY orginizations that may have overlap. We have a branch of Military intellegence too, but it's NOTHING like the Americans.
However due to the intermingleing of infrastructre these two countries share (IE: the internet)
Spying on your neibour is pretty easy, all be it quite illeagle if you are not one of those organizations.
and what about echelon? or carnivore? I haven't heard anything of them for a while, I wonder how carnivore is doing with all this extra spam?