Posts by ryanp

Re: So microsoft exams can be passed by 6 year olds

Obviously the fact that a 6 year old passed the test is news worthy, means that it does not happen often, just like you will see occasional stories that a 12 year old (or something similar) just graduated from Harvard with an MBA. That does not mean that the test or Harvard are garbage, but rather is showing that the individual that passed/graduated is exceptional.

Maybe you shouldn't base your decisions off of the .00001% of the cases?

"So what does this say about the quality of professional IT certifcation?" First you should look up what spell check is, and secondly, it says absolutely nothing about the quality of IT certifications.

Re: Not adding up

Domain name registration does involve the Name Server records, so that could be it.

100 pounds a year seems very steep for domain name registration. Network Solutions is about $14 per year, so $160 per year is 1100% more expensive.

Like anything else, there is a difference between a well planned and implemented BYOD and one that is not. We have a BYOD policy that allows users to access their work from any location from any device.

We use MDM and VDI, so the environment is self contained. Users enjoy being able to use their own phone and not having to use two phones. In the office, users have thin clients. Outside of the office users can use any computer they please. Users enjoy being able to use the device that they already have and are comfortable with, as most already do, and not have a locked down second laptop. For user that have a need for a laptop and do not have one, we will provide it.

Our users enjoy our BYOD policy very much as it gives them a lot of flexibility. We save some money on devices. Our environment is as locked as it would be if we did not have a BYOD policy.

It is possible that your idea of a BYOD environment is not always mirrored by reality. It is possible that while you strongly believe in separating home from the workplace, that other people may have different beliefs.

Re: Head Case?

definitely seems like there are a few cogs loose in that head. Are you really going to start a black market lego's ring when you are most likely making good money as a VP at SAP if you are completely sane? This is beyond just taking the odd BIC pen, but actually creating black market bar codes wholesale. This sounds like something out of a Coen brothers movie.

Re: It's all in the details

This reminds me of something that I heard a banker say a few years ago "A dollar borrowed is a dollar earned"

except for all the businesses around the world who this is targeted at...

Re: Do a search

especially dont feed them after midnight, and for the love of all that is good, dont get them wet.

Re: World's cleverest company states the obvious

Well, I for one would like to be a one trick pony like Google...

Re: "he drove the car off the road when it ran out of petrol."

There would be an awful lot of things that would have to go wrong, but this is not the first time it has happened. There were several cases with Toyota's with the exact same problems, with several deaths.

Re: But are they right?

Not sure what you mean by most SSDs operate faster than through a RAID card. A RAID card through PCI can trounce a SSD drive connected through SAS. The PCI interface is just so much faster. Look at the throughput that a Fusion IO card can put out.

Re: And how much does 410TB of storage on S3 cost?

dont forget that you have a lot more in costs than just the drives. lets just say that you are going to wind up using 250 2TB drives by the time that you are done to have 410 TB, plus RAID and hotspare. Each one of these drives will run about 800 in my experience (of course it could be less in this kind of quantity, but humor me). So that is 200,000 right there. That doesn't include the trays and SAN headers. So that is probably about 21 trays for disks, at around 5,000 a piece, so a total of about another 100,000. For the SAN headers to handle this, I imagine that you are talking another 100-200K, lets go midway to 150,000. So far we are at 450,000. We will also be using at least 2 cabinets, very possibly 3 to store it. Lets go with 3 so that is a small amount of about 10,000. Then you have your UPSs, not sure on the total, but I am sure it is another 10,000 easy. dont forget the SAN switches and HBAs that you will need, so that will be another 50,000. Now you need support contract costs, space to lease for storing the racks, someone to be able to manage it, installation costs. Then you have to option if you want to have it replicated, and then you can double everything. dont forget that you need a system admin to manage this now, which will cost 100K annually.

Anyways, I see it being at least around 1/2 a million up front costs for this and quite easily much more, and that is not counting any of the recurring costs. I don't know what kind of performance Amazons storage offers, but if is higher performance I can see the numbers rapidly climbing. Anyways Enterprise storage and consumer storage are two different things so the cost is not as outrageous as it seems.

Re: Re: How do JPA do it?

I was thinking just along these lines, but instead of asking you can watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfJNNXTt85Q

Of course their rig looks a little more complicated.

It depends what kind of workloads you are talking about

What kind of servers are you running that you will be able to get 50-60 servers on 192 GB of Ram? It all depends on what the server workload. I know the average VM I have is requiring 8+ GB of ram and a lot are starting at 16 GB. Plus the CPUs can only handle so much too. But again it all depends on the load the vm puts on the machine. I usually find I can get maybe 10 VMs on a server before it gets to hairy. Of course it depends on the load, as some servers will also saturate the bandwidth of the HBAs

what percentage does it affect?

I personally have an Android and do not agree with Apple on a lot of their stances, but even I feel that this is not a big deal.

Lets compare this to the Blackberry outage. Every single Blackberry customer was affected for days, and working in IT saw many users affected by this. This affected all of their 70 million or so subscribers. This Apple battery issue on the other hand has 1200 posts right now. lets say that only 1% of people have posted something so the real number is 120K people. That means that roughly 58,000% more people were affected by the Blackberry outage (of course these are just guess numbers and maybe we should say you can be +-20,000%).

Basically Blackberry's issue affected their entire userbase, while right now this battery problem seems to be affecting a small percentage of the iPhone userbase. Battery issues like this are rampant throuhgout the smartphone community no matter who the manufacturer is. It seems something like this jumps out for Apple because they do such a good job in providing a good experience. They purposefully dont use cutting edge technology in a lot of areas, because they dont want to compromise in areas like battery.

What world wide outages has Apple experienced relating to their mobile business?

I will agree that I do not like Apple's policy to stick their head in the sand and pretending that nothing is happening. Even when their is an issue, it seems like it takes a nuclear bomb to get them to acknowledge something. I think that this is pretty poor.