Posts by Alistair 3023 publicly visible posts • joined 18 May 2007
@sorry:
For some of us this is a biannual thing. Taking care of what eyesight we retain is for some of us worth the expense. My SO has a degenerative eye condition that is accelerated by overly bright lights. It may be a few years yet before we get grands, and she really does want to see them.
vast majority of our hardware is 1Gb/s (dual path) -
Big Data does a *crapton* of stuff over the wire - it and our exadata infra are on 10Gb/s
10Gb default connectivity is coming but oddly the backup infra is getting it first -- we really don't see the load on payload yet to make it worth it.
Now, in the big data territory - I could happily use 100Gb/s or 400Gb/s -- just to remove the tendency of the horrifically conflicted HP/Cisco switch connections to go into throttle down. (although we've managed to get that mostly under control)
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get to the hospital to have this spare eye growing out of my left ear looked into
I hope your health benefits package is all paid up this month. That could end up costin ya!
Reading through this thread and realizing how many folks on here read only one side of any story.
That said:
WMD treaties are there to provide a structure for getting around to removing the real nasties from the 'war' equation. And don't get me wrong here, the folks that go out and organize those are doing so mostly from good intentions. The issue is that if one reads through the WMD treaties and the articles of war relevant to these things the signatories and non signatories for some of them make for exceptionally ironic news articles at times. (The US, China, and Israel come to mind as having ironic media, at least on several fronts the Russians of late have been brutally forthright)
The really really interesting question here is why is war always meant to be fought by soldiers on the battlefield, in the air or on the waves. Why do governments pay corporations ridiculous amounts of money for the hardware to equip those soldiers. Why has there been an active war *somewhere* on the planet for the last 70 plus years?
(playing quietly in the background, Edwin Starr track)
(why yes, I DO think that if countries end up going to war we should have the leaders that make that decision battle to the death in unarmed, naked, mineral oil coated hand to hand combat)
and for all the 'why not use the weight on wheels' -> not flat and not level, and wings + ambient breezes.
Oddly, whilst eldest was in air cadets, this entire calculation is discussed in minute detail for everything from gliders on up to massive air freight haulers. With a *very* interesting discussion about in flight refuelling tanker craft. (and yes, load weight on a glider is indeed relevant. To the pilot of the powered craft that will be towing it off the ground).... somewhere buried under a ton of paper I have a book....
@Shaolin 12:
I'll warrant you are perhaps *not* a native english speaker, and allow the syntactic errors. I agree with much of what you put down in your comment, but I suspect that you may not realize that the small errors in your commentary make you sound tinfoil hattish, even in my context. Perhaps we should fire up the BBQ, have a beer or two and clear up some minor issues in your diatribe.
Well, we'll discuss the tariffs on dairy products when you folks down south restrict the use of broad spectrum antibiotics and steroids in dairy cattle, and possibly reduce the 120% tariffs on raw paper pulp. Lets not get into the 25 to 30% export duties on processed gasoline, made from Canadian crude oil....
@Gerhard:
the CRTC had to take bell.ca to court to get the "r" removed from that word in their ads. I still had twats from bell showing up on the street insisting that if I switched from my current DSL provider to Bell I would get "fiber" service. I keep pointing out that it is in no way fibre when I have UTP cable coming in the house. (and at the time the local "cabinet" wasn't even on a fibre pipe).
They get even more pissed off when I point out frequency capability of UTP vs cable.
I'll let you off on the *shill* tag, but from post history, you seem about 13 or 15 and decidedly trollish.
I have, since I've looked over the evidence, seen nothing that proves that they *do* have internal builds of the system. So, you can live with the original shill tag.
There is something to be said for NDA's. They make a *GREAT* excuse, "I'm sorry, that question falls inside an NDA, and I can't respond."
Persons who are expected to be executive material typically are expected to be prepared to answer all sorts of wild off the map questions, not act like a 15 year old accused of drinking daddy's gin and watering it down.
Kieren:
Is it possible that the gentleman is blind, perhaps, or simply unaware of the object sitting on the table in front of him was an audio recording device? Could he perhaps have a very large blind spot? Has he resigned and run off to Bora Bora, or some other small, remote, isolated pacific island?
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There might be those that quibble about the editing of the clips as posted vs the full length interview, but, come *on*, you don't invite a well known journal with the subhead Biting the hand that feeds IT to an interview and gladhanding exercise without being prepared with appropriate bullshit answers. And I don't know sweet FA about this new toy they're launching, but even so, I'd have appropriate toilet blocker quotes for (what are in my view) bog standard techie questions in that situation. It is abundantly clear to me that the executive was utterly unprepared to answer anything remotely like a technical question, and if it were me in the CEO seat, that poor bastard would be on the street, rather than the shit that they've posted on their side....
As if that’s not enough, President Duncan is also facing impeachment proceedings Thats, easy, just needs to pardon himself, its perfectly legal, all the big presidents do it while coping with a long term health condition Viagra can help that, Bill and fending off a pregnant would-be assassin and her cohorts. Just insist you didn't sleep with the assassin and the whole thing will go away, that is not the ninja costume you're looking for.......
I actually install the *game binaries* in /opt/windows/Games and add this as a drive in winecfg. Cleaned out prefixes can sometimes need reruns at registry setup, but in general (WOW, Wolfensteins, SimCity and a few others) it's not been an issue for me. It also allows multiple users on the box to access the games (group account), although updates to WOW and Sims3 will choke on ownership on occasion, it takes only a moment to resolve.
linux base, KVM , guests running clustering software.
Test deployment and update/upgrade processes before they go anywhere near a live cluster.
Yeesh. why do I have a 6 year old HP "worktop" --
32G ram , I7, 1Tb spinning rust 500Gb SSD.
I'll take two please, with the Nvidia cards since that means I can play WOW on wine on my laptop.
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