Doh, that's what I get for barely reading the summary! I was thinking about satellites in GEO.

Correction, I was wrong. Latency at it's least will be 242ms. At it's greatest it should be 50% more. Sound right?

Showing my work...

speed = 299,792,458 m/s
distance = 36,560,000 meters (approx)

Time in seconds for for round trip at ideal position = 242ms.

Are you sure the latency would be so bad? If light travels approx 300,000km per second, and GEO is approx 35,768km(at it's lowest) - isn't that about 80-90ms of latency?

I could be *way* off, and admittedly don't know enough in this discipline to be certain...but it seems like very acceptable latency, even for something like VOIP.

Unless you want all your students to have the 100% same experience - in which case it is your only choice.

Or you can use Xen or KVM, and pay $0 for faster benchmarks and a larger set of features. This reads like a VMWare "certified" something justifying his job or ideal job.

You get atrocious IO if you don't read the docs. Otherwise you would have read the HUGE WARNING that says using anything other than the `virtio` drivers will provide poor(their word not mine) IO performance.

It's almost like the docs of something you administer are worth reading, eh?

If your production assets are directly tied to revenue, is there a sane reason you don't employ one or more administrators that exceed the level of expertise available from RHEL support? EG: Hire an RHCSA, RHCE, or ideally an RHCSS or RHCSA

Those individuals will dwarf the usefulness of support since (a) They encompass 100% of the knowledge any "support engineer" will possess, and (b) they are familiar with the production assets and workflows that need support.

Just my 2 cents.

Due diligence would mean vetting the seller you intend to transmit money to.

There isn't any reversal for a moneygram or western union to a John Doe either.

Why don't you go code a bitcoin knockoff (feathercoin and litecoin come to mind) that embodies what you feel is important? Otherwise all you do is harm bitcoin with this type of sentiment.

Bitcoin's intrinsic anonymity forces the buyer to do DUE DILIGENCE. If you cannot or do not perform this, you don't have to leg to stand on when you get ripped off.

Darn those interns...they go to make big bucks at your competition with their silly naive ideas.....

You make a great point... but it just doesn't work that way. At least not where I work now, or the previous places.

Pointy haired bosses get comfortable when things "just work", even if they "just work" inefficiently and create additional maintenance/bugs/breaches. Even when it comes time to "true up" and pay the ludicrous MS taxes, they justify it and you end up supporting it. Each time I found out my superiors have picked "just one more product, we promise" that runs on windows, I die a little inside and fantasize about a new job.

It's sad, wasteful, and altogether ignorant - yet it continues. I think I'm burnt out.

Seems like a product you'd expect from the Serius Cybernetics Corporation - maybe they'll ship them with Genuine People Personalities?

spoiler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

You realize there is a embedded web GUI in CUPS, and has been for quite some time? (I was using it 6 years ago, and it wasn't 'new' then). Try checking http://localhost:631/ - that is the URL if you have it enabled.

Don't listen to the naysayers - you are correct. Everyone needs to work, and a world where everyone is working and being rewarded is very desirable at this stage.

The user is the 'safety', an untrained user is a self correcting problem.

Don't know how to use one? Take a class. Can't afford a class? Sell your gun, you have other more pressing problems.

Note: you can always enlist as well, besides a job you also get *decent* firearm training.