Journal Journal: From Cloud back to the CLI
It is hard to remember the early days of Linux. A time when the greatest struggle was finding applications that did what we could do in Windows, applications like Office, AutoCAD, Outlook, etc...
It is hard to remember the early days of Linux. A time when the greatest struggle was finding applications that did what we could do in Windows, applications like Office, AutoCAD, Outlook, etc...
When I wrote my journal entry on "Klingons vs the Federation", I had no idea the topic of morality was so charged. The journal entry right after it was seemingly unrelated and received no comment, which surprised me since the subject matter of a very rational male being a
I noticed early on that my special-ed boys often sat at their desks with their heads down or casually staring off into space, as if tracking motes in their eyes, while I proceeded with my lesson. A special-ed caseworker would arrive, take their assignments, and disappear with the boys into the resource room. The students would return the next day with completed assignments.
“Did you do this yourself?” I’d ask, dubious.
Stephen Hawking has come out with a strong caution against trying to contact space aliens. In Stephen Hawking's universe the likely put us on the wrong end of the same scenario where the white man who ultimately over-ran the Native American population. The reasoning is simple, those with the technology to achieve such transit (like the Europeans across the Atlantic), would also have the capacity to soundly defeat us, the backwards people still dependent and living off of the earth's bounty.
It seems I'm a bit late to the party.
The only potential's I've seen in linux for this (aside from ZFS fuse already mentioned) is...
If you want to do this in hardware, you can use MaxIQ from Adaptec which, IIRC, uses linux drivers to get this function from their storage controllers. There is also a few others, one of which only mirrors the first part of the hard drive.
I'll agree, but ultimately the problems arisen with cache consistency and the latency of the network in inhibiting that consistency makes such caching unfeasible.
And by new paradigm, you mean the emperor's new clothes?
The author clearly offered no new paradigm, only a slap on the back and a hardy "take charge and tell them what you really think". That is not discouraged by the "old" paradigm, nor is it a "new" paradigm.
We might be saying the same things, but the author of the article said little that helps, and nothing that promotes anything but hubris.
The article highlights the flaws of poor communication skills, attributes these flaws to "IT as a business", and then suggests a new method...which is just as susceptible to communication flaws.
I don't think you understood what you read else you couldn't have come to the conclusion you have. Right now, "IT as a business", creates a multitude of barriers which by their very nature inhibit communication.
So he says, but the parent comment is right, any paradigm could suffer from the same barriers.
In many places this is actually by design and intent.
Not in my experience, which actually sees IT organizations dramatically misunderstanding the business paradigm they trying to adopt with the customer model. Many of the policies that many IT folks adopt in that paradigm would not make for a successful business or customer service experience.
There have been way to many
I'm convinced that the IT-as-a-business paradigm is not bad at all. But that those that adopt it forget the business sense at the center of it. I believe that might be the contradiction the parent comment is alluding to also.
The IT shop you mentioned is likely a very successful IT shop in maximizing the money they get, and minimizing the investment they have to make to get it. In fact it looks more like a way to be successful without really understanding business (which is what most techies want anyway).
But there are better ways of doing things. But it involves better understanding business, and when you better understand business they will in turn understand IT much better (because you are much better at communicating it to them).
I'll agree to the gist. I think the parent poster lightly tiptoed up to the real flaw in the article. As you mentioned it is vague, but why?
When I read it, I was impressed with the incisive commentary against some current IT practices. But, when it came to solutions it seemed very vague and referenced the fact that his consulting company teaches people to be (but not divulging how to be) in charge.
To be honest, putting two and two together here and I see a technical hit piece soft-selling consulting services. Perhaps I'm too churlish.
Without being churlish, he's written a piece where I can only say, I appreciate that he is smart but I didn't learn anything. Perhaps that was the goal, after all if I feel smarter for thinking what I already do, I'm half won.
In truth, being a peer and suggesting the right solution with confidence to sell is what a business really needs to do. The IT as a business paradigm, if it were understood with better business prowess by the IT staff, would lead to better dialog with business.
If he says anything (though he never came out and said it) is that if IT had real business sense to act as a business peer, they wouldn't act like peers -- they would be peers. They would be given more respect, they would be seen as the most integral part of their company, and they would know better what to sell and how to their internal customers.
Thus, the real message is simply to be smarter about business. Short of that, learn better business by acting more like a friend to business.
The author of the article was big on criticism, low on practical advice. For practical advice for what 99% of what techies get wrong in dealing with business, I suggest "The Personal Credibility Factor" by Sandy Allgeier. Read that and you'll understand better the cat that the article's author is keeping in the bag.
So, when I got married I decided I would tell my kids the truth about Santa. He was a good person who lived a thousand years ago and is dead. Now we like him so much we all act like him.
But as they've grown they seem to have convinced me he does exist. I don't correct them when they make assumptions based on their belief, I find myself going along with it rather then tell the truth.
What a softie.
Back when my wife and I were first married, we enjoyed music made from sampled sections of other music. Two of our favorite artists at that time were Thievery Corporation and Avalanche. For old time's sake we looked up one of our favorite songs in YouTube just to listen to it again.
A while ago I asked for opinions about building a Linux laptop for my son. This is a follow up to that, some notes for my future reference.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth