First of all, don't run RAID at home for data storage. RAID systems are for corporate high availability. They are inherently dangerous the moment you have to touch the config and only worth it if you need a drive system available 24/7 with hot spare. Truly stable RAID systems are also huge power hogs and heat sources. You can build highly redundant file systems for a fraction of the cost, with a small fraction of the power.
This is easily the 15th time I've heard of someone loosing huge amount of personal data to RAID. The last one I heard was everything for the poor fool, wedding pictures, kids pictures, etc...
Beyond that, I have about 20TB myself. I use DFSR to keep it highly available, then a one way rsync job with no purge. That way if I mess up one of my replicas, it won't get purged from the rsync target. I take an encrypted version of the rsync target to a friends house regularly so there's no chance of massive loss. I also back up limited encrypted data to the cloud, but only documents, code, and pictures.
What's required to be on modern TV
- Be as cheap as possible and thus totally suck
- Continue previous statement, but add shocking situations or violence
- Tell a story that induces anger about everything that's wrong with the world
- Have a panel of judges review the performance of yet another reality star
- Cook something you will never eat, or see, or see before you eat
- Watch fat people get skinny
What's banned from modern TV
- Good Science Fiction or Fantasy (you know what I mean)
- Truly deep and telling story lines that make you think about the wonderous possbilities
- Show all the good things that are happening 100 feet outside your door 5,000 times more often than the bad
I'll program any language on any platform, they all suck in one way or another. I must say that.NET is outstanding and easy when working with enterprise Microsoft platforms. Also, unlike what is noted in this little opus, you can call whatever API you need from.NET... pinvoke...duh
Anyway, it's clear the person who wrote this slash never had to write enterprise automation using ATL COM.
I'm afraid you are vendor or author locked no matter what you do. In the event you want to go a straight C++ route then you'll have to be everything to everyone, and you'll be compiling like it's Gentoo95.
I think this is universal to all admins. We have to regularly clean up both our windows and *nix systems due to bad administration. It's not the tech, it's the unexperienced associate running it.
I agree totally here. Essentially, SyFy has become the masters of killing a good show.
Here's their board room meetings: Let's cut down the number of shows so there's less advertiser revenue overall. Let's not advertise the shows to save on costs, people will just come and watch. Let's break the seasons apart so that people only get a small glimpse at one time and there's no room for depth. Let's cluster all the shows together twice a year and show them all at once so for the other 60% of the year we can show nothing but crap shows and B movies. Let's drive all our investments based on who watched the show live and on cable, because in the modern world, we all have cable and the internet is only for web pages. Most importantly, if the show is doing well, we should move it to a time after everyone has gone to bed, or show our 1.7 million viewer show at the same time as other networks are showing their 25 million viewer show.
Listen, I'm not saying Caprica was the greatest show ever, it actually wasn't that great. But I like it, it was mildly interesting how they delved into the virtual world, the back story, and the moral dilemmas. They had a chance but it's clear that SyFy just wants to kill their good shows because they're ignorant of the coming trends.
I was a DirecTV customer for nine years. I've been running home network with a PC on each TV for about the last four years, however, the PCs were just for watching movies, listening to music, and looking at pictures off the network.
Then I found the jewel that is the Hulu desktop. I don't watch a lot of TV, but everything I do watch is on there. The Hulu quality isn't very good on an HDTV but the interface is generally ok. So, in the end we dropped DirectTV and now the media PCs run the Hulu desktop, BeyondTV to get HDef over the air, and Boxee for everything else. It's pretty slick.
As a side note the guy at DirecTV would not let me go because I'd been a customer for so long. I think he must have made five different offers to me, each getting progressively better. In the end he offered me an upgraded package and nine months of free service. It was crazy.
It's a real shame there are only 10 here and the focus seems to be on a game feature rather than possible depth. Games like Gothic and Birth of the Federation also hold distinction in my mind. In their time their technology was nothing special, but they had the pinnacle skill of the greatest games, re-playability..
We use both heavily in our enterprise. I tend to lean toward Java because of the wide spread use across platforms. But I agree that the underlying framework of Java is ridiculously complex. We spend a huge amount of time dealing with the JRE rather than writing and supporting actual code.
On the other hand,.net, visual studio, MSSQL, AD, and IIS are a seriously tight integrated platform. I've seen even our most junior devs author amazing sites using the pure Microsoft tools.
Overall, I'd say I'm on the fence. I wish Sun would remove head from ass and get the JRE to a better versioning system that allows old apps to keep running along with new apps, similar to the.net framework methodology. If they could pull that off Java would really start to storm our environments.
I agree Centrify has it's short sides. However, with our issues related to different kinds of AD trusts it was the only product we've found that works correctly. We used it integrate about 8K unix servers, 3K linux servers, and these 300 or so macs. The GPO granularity has a long way to go. I must say the authentication, authorization, and encryption system turned out much better than I thought it would. Though, we're having to run a beta version of Centrify to get the disk encryption running the way our legal group requires.
Good luck with the permissioning. I completely agree that the granularity there also leaves a lot to be desired.
@Sandbags, this is good info and I appreciate it. However, we range in the hundreds of thousands of systems and you can rest assured that I don't need anyone to "sit me down and explain" that our PCs cost a few hundred dollars and no matter what Apple says they can't even come close. While I strongly believe that OS X is a superior platform, they just don't have even a fraction of the infrastructure integration potential on a wide scale that Windows does.
We're in the process of a POC with Macintosh computers right now as well. Our execs noted, "that we should test it as a competitive platform." A week later they were asking why they hadn't received their MacBooks and iPhones yet.
The I'm cooler than you exec mindset aside, the MacBook does have upsides. It's very stable, very powerful... and it looks nice. Our main goal was to integrate it with our Active Directory (multi-forest, multi-trust) infrastructure and get it loaded with all the applications a typical user might want. We used Centrify for the integration and it worked REALLY well for authorization and GPO control. Otherwise, we just loaded them up with Office and a chat client.
In the end this is all ridiculous because Macs are so expensive, but we already have several hundred so this excercise will help better integrate them.
DFSR was really just meant to replace FRS, which was a horrifying. Overall they did a pretty good job. MS says you can use it for redundant file sharing, however, this doesn't take into account more than one user on different replicas changing the file. In the end, the last saving user wins out. Their statement is really only true when only leave one replica in referral at a time. Then you shuffle users around without them knowing. For a home user you can weight everyone to a main instance, then if it's down for any reason they will automatically go to the other replicas until it's back.
It is pretty good for load balancing or just namespace virtualization. It's also great for login script virtualization, gets them out of SysVol. I'm really sorry to hear it was problematic for you, we've had no issues with it on R2.
When it comes to backing up databases, though, it depends on what you are doing. I totally agree you are better off shadowing databases in the enterprise with DPM, that's what it's meant for!
That's great information @cyberdrop. Especially for an Enterprise level solution. However, I think the original post was about the "Best Home Backup Strategy."
Also, I'm assuming by DMP you mean DPM, Data Protection Manager as a part their System Center solution. As for DFS(R) not being built for this "kind" of use, please elaborate? We use it in an enterprise of over 100K machines. I also know several people who use it at home for the exact purpose the original article was asking about. They all rave about how well it works, especially with Shadowcopy.
That is why I noted Shadowcopy in the first sentence. Also, the extra replica with a replication delay assures even more coverage of the issue you noted.
The only true redundant solution is DFS and DFS Replication with the addition of Shadowcopy. If anyone knows of a linux option that rivals these please speak up, I've been looking for one for years. RAID is just a really large single point of failure.
DFSR gives you the option to replicate live data and it works REALLY well. Plus you can add extra replicas on a replication lag. You could even have an extra replica on a replication lag across a VPN link to someone else's house. There are other off-site options like Mozy which work well.
Of course, this is all pretty complex. When it's working, though, your data is pretty safe.
If I grew bananas, I would warn everyone that free bananas could be detrimental to their health. After all, consumers have no idea how hard it is to grow good bananas. Free bananas could leave them lacking in any number of impossible to define vitamins and minerals.
Her "non-diagnosis" issue is probably two fold. First, almost every doctor out there just wants you in and out and quick as possible. In their mind the negotiated rates with insurance companies is making it difficult to afford their lifestyle compared to other doctors. This is usually further worsened by bad data models. They usually don't remember you and the computer or paper files they have access to are not built for their ease of use. It's not uncommon for me to go into a doctors office and after a few minutes of talking to them, realize they have the wrong patient's information loaded on the computer.
The other issue is the ego. Some doctors tend to think that if you don't "fit the pattern" of something they know then you are either faking it or crazy. I've gone between two doctors before. While one was familar with my issue and wanted to help, the other pretty much looked me like I was crazy and started babbling non-sense just to get me out of the room.
So, in the end you do have to trust your doctors, they have the background, but at the same time you have to stay alert to when they are being ego fools, or being shortchanged by a bad data model. Don't be afraid to stick in their face that you don't feel like they are listening or understanding your issue.
This is even more dangerous for kids for don't have the life experience to tell when a doctor is in uncharted territory. So, it's important for parents to stay involved.
The GPLv3 is mainly what's kept us from going to Novell on our thin-client desktops (10K+). We aren't able to fully integrate it with our existing infrastructure legally.
Also, we had some technical issues that Novell couldn't give us a workaround for and exactly zero promise that it would be fixed because they don't always control the source.
Sadly, I have exactly no issues from Microsoft with the above items.
Since the Federation is ok with the Romlulans hearing their encrypted subspace signals then it should be fine to broadcast sensitive information to the entire planet.
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First of all, don't run RAID at home for data storage. RAID systems are for corporate high availability. They are inherently dangerous the moment you have to touch the config and only worth it if you need a drive system available 24/7 with hot spare. Truly stable RAID systems are also huge power hogs and heat sources. You can build highly redundant file systems for a fraction of the cost, with a small fraction of the power.
This is easily the 15th time I've heard of someone loosing huge amount of personal data to RAID. The last one I heard was everything for the poor fool, wedding pictures, kids pictures, etc...
Beyond that, I have about 20TB myself. I use DFSR to keep it highly available, then a one way rsync job with no purge. That way if I mess up one of my replicas, it won't get purged from the rsync target. I take an encrypted version of the rsync target to a friends house regularly so there's no chance of massive loss. I also back up limited encrypted data to the cloud, but only documents, code, and pictures.
Don't add complication where you don't need it.
Ha, yes, agreed.
What's required to be on modern TV
... I can't imagine why people don't have a TV.
- Be as cheap as possible and thus totally suck
- Continue previous statement, but add shocking situations or violence
- Tell a story that induces anger about everything that's wrong with the world
- Have a panel of judges review the performance of yet another reality star
- Cook something you will never eat, or see, or see before you eat
- Watch fat people get skinny
What's banned from modern TV
- Good Science Fiction or Fantasy (you know what I mean)
- Truly deep and telling story lines that make you think about the wonderous possbilities
- Show all the good things that are happening 100 feet outside your door 5,000 times more often than the bad
This is the greatest post I've seen on /.
I'll program any language on any platform, they all suck in one way or another. I must say that .NET is outstanding and easy when working with enterprise Microsoft platforms. Also, unlike what is noted in this little opus, you can call whatever API you need from .NET... pinvoke...duh
Anyway, it's clear the person who wrote this slash never had to write enterprise automation using ATL COM.
I'm afraid you are vendor or author locked no matter what you do. In the event you want to go a straight C++ route then you'll have to be everything to everyone, and you'll be compiling like it's Gentoo95.
I think this is universal to all admins. We have to regularly clean up both our windows and *nix systems due to bad administration. It's not the tech, it's the unexperienced associate running it.
I was in the same boat until I discovered DOSBox. I have no networking on it but it does everything else I need and someday it might even emulate 3dfx
I agree totally here. Essentially, SyFy has become the masters of killing a good show.
Here's their board room meetings:
Let's cut down the number of shows so there's less advertiser revenue overall.
Let's not advertise the shows to save on costs, people will just come and watch.
Let's break the seasons apart so that people only get a small glimpse at one time and there's no room for depth.
Let's cluster all the shows together twice a year and show them all at once so for the other 60% of the year we can show nothing but crap shows and B movies.
Let's drive all our investments based on who watched the show live and on cable, because in the modern world, we all have cable and the internet is only for web pages.
Most importantly, if the show is doing well, we should move it to a time after everyone has gone to bed, or show our 1.7 million viewer show at the same time as other networks are showing their 25 million viewer show.
Listen, I'm not saying Caprica was the greatest show ever, it actually wasn't that great. But I like it, it was mildly interesting how they delved into the virtual world, the back story, and the moral dilemmas. They had a chance but it's clear that SyFy just wants to kill their good shows because they're ignorant of the coming trends.
I was a DirecTV customer for nine years. I've been running home network with a PC on each TV for about the last four years, however, the PCs were just for watching movies, listening to music, and looking at pictures off the network.
Then I found the jewel that is the Hulu desktop. I don't watch a lot of TV, but everything I do watch is on there. The Hulu quality isn't very good on an HDTV but the interface is generally ok. So, in the end we dropped DirectTV and now the media PCs run the Hulu desktop, BeyondTV to get HDef over the air, and Boxee for everything else. It's pretty slick.
As a side note the guy at DirecTV would not let me go because I'd been a customer for so long. I think he must have made five different offers to me, each getting progressively better. In the end he offered me an upgraded package and nine months of free service. It was crazy.
It's a real shame there are only 10 here and the focus seems to be on a game feature rather than possible depth. Games like Gothic and Birth of the Federation also hold distinction in my mind. In their time their technology was nothing special, but they had the pinnacle skill of the greatest games, re-playability..
We use both heavily in our enterprise. I tend to lean toward Java because of the wide spread use across platforms. But I agree that the underlying framework of Java is ridiculously complex. We spend a huge amount of time dealing with the JRE rather than writing and supporting actual code.
.net, visual studio, MSSQL, AD, and IIS are a seriously tight integrated platform. I've seen even our most junior devs author amazing sites using the pure Microsoft tools.
.net framework methodology. If they could pull that off Java would really start to storm our environments.
On the other hand,
Overall, I'd say I'm on the fence. I wish Sun would remove head from ass and get the JRE to a better versioning system that allows old apps to keep running along with new apps, similar to the
I agree Centrify has it's short sides. However, with our issues related to different kinds of AD trusts it was the only product we've found that works correctly. We used it integrate about 8K unix servers, 3K linux servers, and these 300 or so macs. The GPO granularity has a long way to go. I must say the authentication, authorization, and encryption system turned out much better than I thought it would. Though, we're having to run a beta version of Centrify to get the disk encryption running the way our legal group requires.
Good luck with the permissioning. I completely agree that the granularity there also leaves a lot to be desired.
@Sandbags, this is good info and I appreciate it. However, we range in the hundreds of thousands of systems and you can rest assured that I don't need anyone to "sit me down and explain" that our PCs cost a few hundred dollars and no matter what Apple says they can't even come close. While I strongly believe that OS X is a superior platform, they just don't have even a fraction of the infrastructure integration potential on a wide scale that Windows does.
We're in the process of a POC with Macintosh computers right now as well. Our execs noted, "that we should test it as a competitive platform." A week later they were asking why they hadn't received their MacBooks and iPhones yet.
The I'm cooler than you exec mindset aside, the MacBook does have upsides. It's very stable, very powerful... and it looks nice. Our main goal was to integrate it with our Active Directory (multi-forest, multi-trust) infrastructure and get it loaded with all the applications a typical user might want. We used Centrify for the integration and it worked REALLY well for authorization and GPO control. Otherwise, we just loaded them up with Office and a chat client.
In the end this is all ridiculous because Macs are so expensive, but we already have several hundred so this excercise will help better integrate them.
DFSR was really just meant to replace FRS, which was a horrifying. Overall they did a pretty good job. MS says you can use it for redundant file sharing, however, this doesn't take into account more than one user on different replicas changing the file. In the end, the last saving user wins out. Their statement is really only true when only leave one replica in referral at a time. Then you shuffle users around without them knowing. For a home user you can weight everyone to a main instance, then if it's down for any reason they will automatically go to the other replicas until it's back.
It is pretty good for load balancing or just namespace virtualization. It's also great for login script virtualization, gets them out of SysVol. I'm really sorry to hear it was problematic for you, we've had no issues with it on R2.
When it comes to backing up databases, though, it depends on what you are doing. I totally agree you are better off shadowing databases in the enterprise with DPM, that's what it's meant for!
That's great information @cyberdrop. Especially for an Enterprise level solution. However, I think the original post was about the "Best Home Backup Strategy."
Also, I'm assuming by DMP you mean DPM, Data Protection Manager as a part their System Center solution. As for DFS(R) not being built for this "kind" of use, please elaborate? We use it in an enterprise of over 100K machines. I also know several people who use it at home for the exact purpose the original article was asking about. They all rave about how well it works, especially with Shadowcopy.
That is why I noted Shadowcopy in the first sentence. Also, the extra replica with a replication delay assures even more coverage of the issue you noted.
The only true redundant solution is DFS and DFS Replication with the addition of Shadowcopy. If anyone knows of a linux option that rivals these please speak up, I've been looking for one for years. RAID is just a really large single point of failure.
DFSR gives you the option to replicate live data and it works REALLY well. Plus you can add extra replicas on a replication lag. You could even have an extra replica on a replication lag across a VPN link to someone else's house. There are other off-site options like Mozy which work well.
Of course, this is all pretty complex. When it's working, though, your data is pretty safe.
If I grew bananas, I would warn everyone that free bananas could be detrimental to their health. After all, consumers have no idea how hard it is to grow good bananas. Free bananas could leave them lacking in any number of impossible to define vitamins and minerals.
Her "non-diagnosis" issue is probably two fold. First, almost every doctor out there just wants you in and out and quick as possible. In their mind the negotiated rates with insurance companies is making it difficult to afford their lifestyle compared to other doctors. This is usually further worsened by bad data models. They usually don't remember you and the computer or paper files they have access to are not built for their ease of use. It's not uncommon for me to go into a doctors office and after a few minutes of talking to them, realize they have the wrong patient's information loaded on the computer.
The other issue is the ego. Some doctors tend to think that if you don't "fit the pattern" of something they know then you are either faking it or crazy. I've gone between two doctors before. While one was familar with my issue and wanted to help, the other pretty much looked me like I was crazy and started babbling non-sense just to get me out of the room.
So, in the end you do have to trust your doctors, they have the background, but at the same time you have to stay alert to when they are being ego fools, or being shortchanged by a bad data model. Don't be afraid to stick in their face that you don't feel like they are listening or understanding your issue.
This is even more dangerous for kids for don't have the life experience to tell when a doctor is in uncharted territory. So, it's important for parents to stay involved.
The GPLv3 is mainly what's kept us from going to Novell on our thin-client desktops (10K+). We aren't able to fully integrate it with our existing infrastructure legally.
Also, we had some technical issues that Novell couldn't give us a workaround for and exactly zero promise that it would be fixed because they don't always control the source.
Sadly, I have exactly no issues from Microsoft with the above items.
There was also a Windows 1.x, 2.x, Windows 286, Windows 386, etc... I think this is more like Windows 14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0
Since the Federation is ok with the Romlulans hearing their encrypted subspace signals then it should be fine to broadcast sensitive information to the entire planet.
what's OS/2 ?
heehe