You are absolutely right that the fine is some life-ruining bullshit. If I was hit with a fine like that for an act that impacted society less than something that's actually dangerous, like reckless driving, then I think I'd be inclined to do everything in my power to deliver an equal amount of disruption to those who imposed the fine on me.
I have no doubts that individuals have chosen to disappear for far less than $2 million. Once someone is out of sight, there's a lot of nasty things they could attempt to do with little risk of being caught. That means that this decision not only damages the guilty individual, but could also potentially create a whole new set of problems for the RIAA, the government, and the general public.
I recently moved to Spiceworks too. For the past year I've used OCS-ng, but it didn't run well on 64-bit machines. The documentation also seemed to be lacking. While I'd definitely prefer an open source solution, Spiceworks has been extremely easy so far. There is a good plugin for tracking Microsoft licenses, although I do wish they'd add the ability to track other vendors as well. If I stick with it then I might consider moving the ticketing system to Spiceworks too.
After seeing this post, I think I'll investigate OpenNMS. The main worry I have with Spiceworks is that it's not open source and may eventually become a subscription-based service.
I've been waiting for someone to explain this ever since the video codec wars started making the front page on a daily basis. This is the most logical and informative post I've seen yet. It also seems like the only reasonable outcome.
You raise a valid point. We can only try to minimize the harmful effects of our politicians, and let's hope more good than bad comes from the new administration.
You can indeed make a RAID of RAIDs. It's called using nested levels.
Really RAID should be used for high availability and performance though, and not as part of a disaster recovery policy.
I run a music community site and my user base is >50% firefox. A lot of the visitors are friends, but basically none of them would be considered computer people. I think the market share of IE is falling as the better informed younger crowd grows older.
Zip file support has been built in since XP, but that really sucks that you lost so many applications. I haven't tried Minefield, and I have no reason to, so I wonder: did it prompt you for the installation target, like most installers do?
So the Mac Pro now accepts up to 8 blades that can be computer, storage, or visualization nodes? It supports up to 8x 64GB of RAM and 16x quad core Xeon CPUs?
Why would they sink the ships? Pirates don't just terrorize, they plunder. I can think of many ways that it might be worth taking over one of these, given the proper resources.
I learned early on that Backups are ever so important. Our shop doesn't do tape backups, but we do Disk-to-Disk backups of our virtual machines, and the backups are off-site. We also do a traditional file backup as well, with versioning.
Creating a disaster recover plan is an excellent activity to start learning how to be an effective sysadmin. Not only is it important to make backups--it's also important to know how to use them properly when needed. This is easily practiced with virtual machines. If you already have systems in place, then create VM images using P2V and practice on those.
I agree with you that a wiki is very useful, particularly for sharing information within a team.
But is this an example of recursive advice ?
It would actually be a good start to set up a minimal web server for hosting the wiki. That would provide experience with Apache and MySQL, which are trivial to install in RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu. Then set up more virtual machines and document the process, which should be a lot more straightforward the second time around.
I typically document on the second or third time around, because the first time I do something is often spent figuring out how the system works. My situation is similar to the OP's in that I'm a lone sysadmin with very little prior professional experience. All of my learning prior to my current job, and most of my learning at the present, is self-motivated.
I recommend CentOS for a few reasons. It's a free (as in beer) version of RHEL, which has a reputation for being very stable. The yum package management system is fairly intuitive and offers an excellent selection of applications. With the CentOS Plus repository enabled, the versions of many popular package are updated recently enough to take advantage of modern features.
I'm in the market for a new phone and, although I prefer simplicity, it would be nice to have an easier way to write text messages. My coworker recently showed me a video demonstrating this new technology that was developed by a guy who helped invent T9. It's unique because it doesn't require you to lift your stylus or finger to type.
I'm not a fan of the on-screen keyboard, especially if it covers the entire screen, but I could definitely deal with this slick input method.
In complete seriousness, what reason is there to ever have hundreds of tabs open?
I use typically have 2 browser windows per workspace, and up to 4 workspaces, but even with 20 tabs per window that's still only 160 tabs distributed across the equivalent of 8 monitors!
How could anyone possibly remember where to find the site he is looking for in 400 tabs? Maybe I'm missing something...
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Tell that to the millions of people addicted to the simple Flash games on Facebook. Or do you not count those because you don't play them?
You are absolutely right that the fine is some life-ruining bullshit. If I was hit with a fine like that for an act that impacted society less than something that's actually dangerous, like reckless driving, then I think I'd be inclined to do everything in my power to deliver an equal amount of disruption to those who imposed the fine on me.
I have no doubts that individuals have chosen to disappear for far less than $2 million. Once someone is out of sight, there's a lot of nasty things they could attempt to do with little risk of being caught. That means that this decision not only damages the guilty individual, but could also potentially create a whole new set of problems for the RIAA, the government, and the general public.
I recently moved to Spiceworks too. For the past year I've used OCS-ng, but it didn't run well on 64-bit machines. The documentation also seemed to be lacking. While I'd definitely prefer an open source solution, Spiceworks has been extremely easy so far. There is a good plugin for tracking Microsoft licenses, although I do wish they'd add the ability to track other vendors as well. If I stick with it then I might consider moving the ticketing system to Spiceworks too.
After seeing this post, I think I'll investigate OpenNMS. The main worry I have with Spiceworks is that it's not open source and may eventually become a subscription-based service.
I've been waiting for someone to explain this ever since the video codec wars started making the front page on a daily basis. This is the most logical and informative post I've seen yet. It also seems like the only reasonable outcome.
apparently now we can consider anything with a wifi adapter a "cell phone"
except Sealand
You raise a valid point. We can only try to minimize the harmful effects of our politicians, and let's hope more good than bad comes from the new administration.
hey, that's where I got the name I still use on slashdot so many years ago!
You can indeed make a RAID of RAIDs. It's called using nested levels. Really RAID should be used for high availability and performance though, and not as part of a disaster recovery policy.
save a few $$ and send them to a site intended for that age group
I run a music community site and my user base is >50% firefox. A lot of the visitors are friends, but basically none of them would be considered computer people. I think the market share of IE is falling as the better informed younger crowd grows older.
Could you please rephrase that using a car analogy?
Zip file support has been built in since XP, but that really sucks that you lost so many applications. I haven't tried Minefield, and I have no reason to, so I wonder: did it prompt you for the installation target, like most installers do?
...and, suddenly, that Offspring track makes complete sense. I must have been too young at the time.
Did your 1.44" floppy hold 3.5 MB of data?
Would you be able to decrease rip/encoding time by installing two or more of these cards?
...or just scroll all the way down, as many people have already mentioned above
So the Mac Pro now accepts up to 8 blades that can be computer, storage, or visualization nodes? It supports up to 8x 64GB of RAM and 16x quad core Xeon CPUs?
Where do you come up with this stuff?
+5 AD&D
Why would they sink the ships? Pirates don't just terrorize, they plunder. I can think of many ways that it might be worth taking over one of these, given the proper resources.
I learned early on that Backups are ever so important. Our shop doesn't do tape backups, but we do Disk-to-Disk backups of our virtual machines, and the backups are off-site. We also do a traditional file backup as well, with versioning.
Creating a disaster recover plan is an excellent activity to start learning how to be an effective sysadmin. Not only is it important to make backups--it's also important to know how to use them properly when needed. This is easily practiced with virtual machines. If you already have systems in place, then create VM images using P2V and practice on those.
Very often, you will find that, actually, everything is fast enough, which means you don't need to optimize anything at all.
...at which point it's time to start optimizing your documentation! There's always room for improvement.
I agree with you that a wiki is very useful, particularly for sharing information within a team. But is this an example of recursive advice ?
It would actually be a good start to set up a minimal web server for hosting the wiki. That would provide experience with Apache and MySQL, which are trivial to install in RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu. Then set up more virtual machines and document the process, which should be a lot more straightforward the second time around.
I typically document on the second or third time around, because the first time I do something is often spent figuring out how the system works. My situation is similar to the OP's in that I'm a lone sysadmin with very little prior professional experience. All of my learning prior to my current job, and most of my learning at the present, is self-motivated.
I recommend CentOS for a few reasons. It's a free (as in beer) version of RHEL, which has a reputation for being very stable. The yum package management system is fairly intuitive and offers an excellent selection of applications. With the CentOS Plus repository enabled, the versions of many popular package are updated recently enough to take advantage of modern features.
The Practice of System and Network Administration, by Tom Limoncelli, is an excellent book for someone getting started as a lone sysadmin. I can't recommend it enough.
I'm in the market for a new phone and, although I prefer simplicity, it would be nice to have an easier way to write text messages. My coworker recently showed me a video demonstrating this new technology that was developed by a guy who helped invent T9. It's unique because it doesn't require you to lift your stylus or finger to type.
I'm not a fan of the on-screen keyboard, especially if it covers the entire screen, but I could definitely deal with this slick input method.
In complete seriousness, what reason is there to ever have hundreds of tabs open? I use typically have 2 browser windows per workspace, and up to 4 workspaces, but even with 20 tabs per window that's still only 160 tabs distributed across the equivalent of 8 monitors! How could anyone possibly remember where to find the site he is looking for in 400 tabs? Maybe I'm missing something...