But Intel does something awful when you reach the wear leveling limit. After a power cycle it closes your drive !

Their first fix came out as a windows program and later as a live cd. The Windows program used free ntfs space to shuffle data around.
The live cd did not need a NTFS system and it did not eat my data. (ext4 + LVM2 + md-raid)
I suspect this fix will get a corresponding live cd as well, so we'll just have to wait a little bit longer.

But motherboard Raid is usually fakeRAID.

This whole EVO performance problem is a crock of shit. People only noticed the problem running synthetic benchmarks. For normal usage, there'll be no perceptible performance issue with these drives. And yes, I have a couple of EVO drives, and yes, they are also hit with the performance issue. I just don't notice because it's such a non-issue outside of synthetic benchmarks.

Bullshit I have 2 EVO's and I did notice. Some regions were very very slow (50-60 MB/s).
When your VM copy suddenly takes 5-10 times as long as expected, you do notice.

What do you actually monitor with icanga and munin ?

My guess is that every argument you just said will be met with a shrug and "It seems to work just fine for us, don't know what you're talking about. So how do we push a group policy to all clients in Linux?" and if your best answer is to write a script to ssh into each box and patch a configuration file they'll just roll their eyes and say "Linux does not have the necessary management features we need" and you've got one more group added to the list of migration opponents.

You use a configuration management system (puppet,chef,cfengine,ansible). But yes AD is a very comprehensive suite of pre-selected tools known to work together.

Huh http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/s....

So apt-get is container aware ?

So what is the most cost effective way of building up expertise and becoming good at something ?
If it's not hard work, then what is it ?

(Posting anon because I just modded him 'Underrated' to correct this travesty.)

What about the travesty of abusing the moderation system like that to put weight on your own opinion ?

"And I know there's a lot of MS hate from IT people, and sure, I hear you, they could do a lot more to make it better for all you tech wizards that know networking like the back of your hand. It's probably that which is clouding your judgment of their system

We don't like the office stack because it's a huge opaque application suite that is horrible to troubleshoot and fix when it breaks.

Most companies just shrug the security risks away when they see what it'll cost them to do it right.
Businesses don't want to hire more people, especially not for the perceived money-eating departments like IT infrastructure.

There is Palin, but Fiorina is new and more experienced.

Too early.

but I could see the plaintext of your ssh connection to a CISCO switch.

Is Cisco's ssh weak (known private keys?) or does your inline IDS somehow man in the middles it ?