Aside from obviously keeping your cable management channels neat, PatchSee cables have been great.
No more tracing a cable from the patch panel to the switch... just inject light on one end and clearly see where the other end terminates.
http://www.patchsee.com/
They are a bit more expensive than regular patch cables but totally worth it
However, I have seen plenty of example where that is not true.
Enterprise databases are a great example. While the DBA can often do alot to compensate for dev's bad db code... sometimes that just is not enough. A fulltime employee can work on optimizing code for an entire year before it pays to add another node to the cluster. (server hardware, hba's, fiber switch ports and most importantly oracle licenses). Interestingly enough PHB's often times choose expanding the infrastructure eventhough the ROI is not there citing opportunity cost, etc.
Another favorite are processes running on new hardware... the dev just simply did not consider parallelizing the tasks and opted for a monolithic single process approach.
From my experience most of these issues dont go away by horizontally scaling and eventually they come back to haunt you one way or another.
Surprisingly, the added cost of administrating added infrastructure is never part of the calculation... the only consideration is the cost of hardware.
all jvms except for the 32 bit win32 version default to -server for this type of hardware. server class hardware for the jvm is defined as min. 2 cpu's and 2GB memory both of which are present in the test machine.
I saw no mention in the article whether the vista install was 32 or 64 bit.
If it was running with default vm options it could make quite a difference on vista.
On the other hand it is a huge validation for the remaining private firms and money will keep pouring (probably even more than before this acquisition) into the sector.
It's stupid to blame someone for seeking protection from abuse.
I don't think anyone is blaming for seeking protection. You, however, using the word "abuse", seem to already have determined that he did nothing wrong.
Whether he personally profited from their accounting practices is completley irrelevant. He is the highest ranking corporate officer at Apple and as such has responsibilities and obligations to the shareholders and the board.
If he violated those by backdating options for other executives and employees he is still on the hook eventhough he did not make a single dollar.
I think herein lies the core of the issue. In europe most people build a house and stay in that house until they die or pass it on to their children (at least from my experience living there 20+ years)
In the states houses are an investment or temporary situation until you move into a bigger house, the US as a whole is a much more mobile society as well.
Of course the intital cost is higher to build a passive home, however, at least in austria you qualify for tax credits, subsidies (up to 35% iirc, on solar heating, geothermal pump, etc.) and very low interest loans (20 year term iirc) that mitigate some of the upfront investment.
The other factor that is pretty significant is that by reducing your monthly energy cost you can take out a higher mortgage (without impacting your budget). The example the guys there mentioned was that a same size traditional built house needs roughly 3000L of oil to heat water and rooms throughout the year (heating oil i think runs about 90 euro cents per litre).
In summary, if you plan on building such a house and staying in it for 15+ years the savings can be very real. If you move on before that it probably is not such a smart investment.
That put aside i think it would be incrdibly satisfying to live in a house like that knowing that you did your part to have as little negative impact on the environment as possible. On the geeky side, these houses are fairly tricked out as well:)
On a recent trip to austria i went to seminar about passive houses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house) They claimed that you can reduce the cost of heating (rooms, water, etc.)for a ~1000sqft house to rougly 300 Euro per year (using solar and geothermal heating, heat pumps and of course superior insulation).
If anyone has any good resources on passive housing in the states please let me know.
This type of stuff typically happens when you buy into overzealous DBA's that want to transform your DB into an app server instead of just treating it as a place to store your data properly.
I am sure back in the day a fair amount of overselling was going on as well which can break your wallet with Oracle.
The other part of the issue is that alot of the "senior" level candidates you see these days are exactly the ones that joined IT at the tail end of the dotcom bust. That crowd consists of mostly people that did not join the IT workforce because they love of technology but the lure of high salaries and becoming overnight millionaires.
I think we all remember the utter imcompetence that got promoted through the ranks during that time.
Most capable engineers/techies sit in pretty cushy jobs (DBA's... hello $140k+ if you know what you are doing), have left full-time for consulting or have given up the grunt for middle management.
Also don't underestimate the ever so tempting carrot of, "We are 12 months away from an exit event!", this statement gets renewed every 9 months. Giving up on potentially a few multiples of you annual is a strong motivation for many to continue to serve their overlords.
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On RedHat you have to install a special version of binutils for the linking to complete successfully.
Other than that its straight forward, some limits changes, some sysctl changes and thats pretty much it.
Settle in order to legitmize the patent, share the toll booth.
A settlement does not legitimize anything. All it means is that both companies agreed that $100m plus whatever other terms are in the agreement is an acceptable outcome for both companies.
Considering the huge success Apple has had with the ipod one can assume that the jury award would have been higher than $100m or that Apple was afraid of possible enchanced damages in the final ruling.
AFAIK, the court is not able to decide whether a patent is legitimate or not, it can only rule on the issue of infringement.
The only instrument of invalidating a patent is to challenge the patent with the patent office.
Using Skype over the cell network would be kinda pointless, even if it were possible, wouldn't it?
Not pointless at all!
I live in the states my family lives in Europe (most skype enabled).
It would save me a pretty penny and untether my and their calling habits from the laptop/pc.
Why does sun hate hardware raid solutions ?
I guess they dont want it to compete with their SAN'ish products.
I just can't see using this thing for anything other than workgroup file servers and disk-disk backups.
It will probably do fine on linear reads, can't imagine the random access and write performance to be all too hot.
Good people are very hard to come by these days in the Valley.
My main theory is that the influx of mediocre talent during the dot bomb days is now considered senior level (7-10 years experience). Most individuals that are talented and know their stuff are either in super cushy jobs, or they are available as contractors north of $150 per hour.
Same goes for management... remember the bumbling idiot that made director in 1999... he is probably a VP somewhere now... still a bumbling idiot.
The common misnomer these days is that people call databases containing a decent amount of data a warehouse. Mixing OLTP and warehouse environments on the same infrastructure never works out too well.
OLTP and warehousing really live at the opposite end of the optimization spectrum. Thats true for hardware sizing, schema design and database configuration.
Queries get too complex. Confused optimizers reports run too long while the reports run OLTP performance suffers
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The offer colored tags for the ends. All black isn't ideal but in practice it was never and issue for us.
Aside from obviously keeping your cable management channels neat, PatchSee cables have been great. No more tracing a cable from the patch panel to the switch ... just inject light on one end and clearly see where the other end terminates.
http://www.patchsee.com/
They are a bit more expensive than regular patch cables but totally worth it
as previously pointed out the public launch is on May 5th, which will not require a MSDN subscription to access the RC.
the blink tag can be deprecated /sigh
However, I have seen plenty of example where that is not true.
Enterprise databases are a great example. While the DBA can often do alot to compensate for dev's bad db code ... sometimes that just is not enough.
A fulltime employee can work on optimizing code for an entire year before it pays to add another node to the cluster. (server hardware, hba's, fiber switch ports and most importantly oracle licenses). Interestingly enough PHB's often times choose expanding the infrastructure eventhough the ROI is not there citing opportunity cost, etc.
Another favorite are processes running on new hardware ... the dev just simply did not consider parallelizing the tasks and opted for a monolithic single process approach.
From my experience most of these issues dont go away by horizontally scaling and eventually they come back to haunt you one way or another.
Surprisingly, the added cost of administrating added infrastructure is never part of the calculation ... the only consideration is the cost of hardware.
all jvms except for the 32 bit win32 version default to -server for this type of hardware.
server class hardware for the jvm is defined as min. 2 cpu's and 2GB memory both of which are present in the test machine.
I saw no mention in the article whether the vista install was 32 or 64 bit.
If it was running with default vm options it could make quite a difference on vista.
On the other hand it is a huge validation for the remaining private firms and money will keep pouring (probably even more than before this acquisition) into the sector.
- mediocre developers that think they are architects/computer scientists
- design by commitee
- vague accountability structures
I don't think anyone is blaming for seeking protection. You, however, using the word "abuse", seem to already have determined that he did nothing wrong.
Whether he personally profited from their accounting practices is completley irrelevant.
He is the highest ranking corporate officer at Apple and as such has responsibilities and obligations to the shareholders and the board.
If he violated those by backdating options for other executives and employees he is still on the hook eventhough he did not make a single dollar.
I think herein lies the core of the issue.
:)
In europe most people build a house and stay in that house until they die or pass it on to their children (at least from my experience living there 20+ years)
In the states houses are an investment or temporary situation until you move into a bigger house, the US as a whole is a much more mobile society as well.
Of course the intital cost is higher to build a passive home, however, at least in austria you qualify for tax credits, subsidies (up to 35% iirc, on solar heating, geothermal pump, etc.) and very low interest loans (20 year term iirc) that mitigate some of the upfront investment.
The other factor that is pretty significant is that by reducing your monthly energy cost you can take out a higher mortgage (without impacting your budget).
The example the guys there mentioned was that a same size traditional built house needs roughly 3000L of oil to heat water and rooms throughout the year (heating oil i think runs about 90 euro cents per litre).
In summary, if you plan on building such a house and staying in it for 15+ years the savings can be very real.
If you move on before that it probably is not such a smart investment.
That put aside i think it would be incrdibly satisfying to live in a house like that knowing that you did your part to have as little negative impact on the environment as possible. On the geeky side, these houses are fairly tricked out as well
On a recent trip to austria i went to seminar about passive houses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house)
They claimed that you can reduce the cost of heating (rooms, water, etc.)for a ~1000sqft house to rougly 300 Euro per year (using solar and geothermal heating, heat pumps and of course superior insulation).
If anyone has any good resources on passive housing in the states please let me know.
I am an occasional mac user (bought one for my better half).
I have found that iTerm is superb. tabbed terms, etc.
http://iterm.sourceforge.net/
-T
mstsc /v:SERVERNAME /console
had the same problem (unix/db guy), took 1 google search to figure out.
This type of stuff typically happens when you buy into overzealous DBA's that want to transform your DB into an app server instead of just treating it as a place to store your data properly.
I am sure back in the day a fair amount of overselling was going on as well which can break your wallet with Oracle.
The other part of the issue is that alot of the "senior" level candidates you see these days are exactly the ones that joined IT at the tail end of the dotcom bust. That crowd consists of mostly people that did not join the IT workforce because they love of technology but the lure of high salaries and becoming overnight millionaires. I think we all remember the utter imcompetence that got promoted through the ranks during that time. Most capable engineers/techies sit in pretty cushy jobs (DBA's ... hello $140k+ if you know what you are doing), have left full-time for consulting or have given up the grunt for middle management.
Also don't underestimate the ever so tempting carrot of, "We are 12 months away from an exit event!", this statement gets renewed every 9 months. Giving up on potentially a few multiples of you annual is a strong motivation for many to continue to serve their overlords.
On RedHat you have to install a special version of binutils for the linking to complete successfully. Other than that its straight forward, some limits changes, some sysctl changes and thats pretty much it.
AFAIK, the court is not able to decide whether a patent is legitimate or not, it can only rule on the issue of infringement. The only instrument of invalidating a patent is to challenge the patent with the patent office.
Why does sun hate hardware raid solutions ? I guess they dont want it to compete with their SAN'ish products. I just can't see using this thing for anything other than workgroup file servers and disk-disk backups. It will probably do fine on linear reads, can't imagine the random access and write performance to be all too hot.
Sun = Dell for AMD systems
Good people are very hard to come by these days in the Valley.
... remember the bumbling idiot that made director in 1999 ... he is probably a VP somewhere now ... still a bumbling idiot.
My main theory is that the influx of mediocre talent during the dot bomb days is now considered senior level (7-10 years experience). Most individuals that are talented and know their stuff are either in super cushy jobs, or they are available as contractors north of $150 per hour.
Same goes for management
The common misnomer these days is that people call databases containing a decent amount of data a warehouse.
Mixing OLTP and warehouse environments on the same infrastructure never works out too well.
OLTP and warehousing really live at the opposite end of the optimization spectrum. Thats true for hardware sizing, schema design and database configuration.
Queries get too complex.
Confused optimizers
reports run too long
while the reports run OLTP performance suffers