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Comment Re: please keep closed! (Score 1) 50

This is cool for a project I am working on. I plan to see if I can create a .com that will do business transactions. I need no latency but at the same time require ACID to ensure each transaction will be written to disk :-(

My Idea is to have no sql and sql databases where something like this will do the transactions to ACID.

Comment Re:How about a straight answer? (Score 1) 329

You are asking a group of people who believe the world is no more than 5,000 years old and there is no evidence (in their eyes a serious intellectual way) that humans evolved from primates for a straight answer why they do not believe? Especially since those that due are liberal which are obviously wrong all the time in their opinion just look at obamacare etc so there is zero credibility.

It is an embarrassment such a solid group even exists in my country! I just can not fathom this in the 21st century people who are afraid of change but they exist and are very gullible. The same political party also supports big business and oil and the other half who votes believe whatever they hear on Fox, Rush, and their church pastor who also gets his information from the same sources who are funded by the energy industry. In other words they perfect combo.

My point of this post is not to go offtopic but to point out it is political. Not scientific. You can't argue with gullable people who think facts are not fact. Only gut feelings.

FYI I am not bashing libertarians who may want to mod me down. I am bashing those in the same wing politically who are social conservatives.

Comment Re: yes, it does have systemd (Score 1) 106

SystemD was cool and innovative back then. It is now cool to hate and bash it 3 months ago from an article posted here.

Now you're a troll if you talk about benefits and insightful for stiring misgivings. It is political as no one gave a crap until recently

Comment Re: Counterpoint (Score 1) 415

They are. They paid frys and best buy to destroy copies of win 7 and office 2010 to force users to run an OS for tablets.

Like firefox developers will stop focusing on writing for a single browser or os version. Everyone will constantly upgrade.

If they don't Android and I OS will win. SC will probably be tied to updates more to make the transition easier. Look at win 8? Update every 6 months and new version every year.

Agile software development is here to stay and no more 10 year old operating systems

Comment Re:There is a reason for this! (Score 3, Insightful) 317

Understanding netmasks and broadcast addresses is worthy of a certification? Really? Are there really people who work in IT who don't understand the basic concepts of networking? Isn't this taught in the first year of college? I mean we're not in 1980 anymore!

Yes, Yes, Yes, Maybe - but the first year of college is about booze and women - P's get Degrees!

It is worth certification because it is such a fundamental component of the job of an IT person now that the Internet is ubiquitous, and because such a horrifying number of IT people don't have any understanding of switching, routing and subnetting is.

There is a reason CCNA qualifications are so widely sought - it teaches the fundamentals of networking that every IT professional should know.

The CCNA in its current iteration is ridiculous. It is the hardest now of all the tests and requires 5 months and buying your own switches and routers as the training material and simulators do not cover everything. It is says associate but it is like requiring a WAn engineer to take the MCSE so he can troubleshoot login issues. Yes I know the tests progress supposedly but the CCNA you need to know not just subnetting, but span trees, tons and tons of theory, CIDS, and a dozen other topologies and requires like 1500 page books to master the material.

I would think more entry level certifications would be better for a non network engineer to take. If you can pass the CCNA you can setup a network of any size with ease. Not just tell me what a subnet mask is which is the intention of taking it.

Comment Re:There is a reason for this! (Score 1) 317

Which is why IT departments are now requiring CCNA in addition to the MCSE. Wan engineers are tired of sys admins opening tickets.

The CCNA is way overkill just like requiring network admins to be mcse certified in case they use a shared drive. But to run viritual machines you need to setup viritual networks and subnet and and diagnose connection problems

Comment Re:practical-based certs hold their value (Score 1) 317

I know employers who want talk to you if you do not have both the ccna and mcsa as much as we bash paper mcses here.

HR uses them as a filtering mechanism and colleagues respect you more. I had perspective employer make the MS certification requirement being current a condition of employment. Goes outdated? You're fired.

Comment Re: HDD endurance? (Score 1) 125

I read maximum pc and Google a few others. Samsung and sansdisk are proprietary controllers. Toshiba uses Ocz which supposedly fixed their modded crappy sandforce.

Intel back in 2010 had a few buggy firmwares. New are fine. I do not trust ocz, anything sandforce, or crucial. The newer ones use maxwell too which is ok. But OCZ truly does suck. I still have a mechanical drive for backup files and one drive too.

I have 4 ssds for almost 2 years in 2 raids. Survived probably 10 reimages and full disk writes :-) One volume Sansdisk ultra plus. Other sansdisk pro 840. Have tons of vm s on them with lots of reinstalls. Both proprietary controllers.

Check on the failed ones in your shop? I bet most are ocz or sandforce. Ocz is sandforce with redundancy removed. XP causes them to fail quicker too due to lack of Trim

Oh AND TRIM is essential. This is because when you delete it doesn't erase. Sectors are virtual and the controller keeps looking for data to save. It is strange. I use parted magic to do an internal erase whenever I reinstall an os. Go Google it?

Try a good oNE for 1 week. You won't want to go back. Especially if you have a mechanical disk and cloud backup

Comment Re: HDD endurance? (Score 1) 125

Hairy difference is you can pick the controller. Sandforce and OCX RUN.

Crucial buggy and will die without update.

I run sansdisk and Samsung pros in raid 0 for years. Their controllers are good and asked microcenter which gave lowest RMA? You should switch Hairy it's not 2010 anymore and they improved. Yes I owned 2 2011 Seagates that died :-)

No way will I go back. Swtor and battlefield 4 are unusable on a mechanical.

Also Intel has trim in raid 0 that AMD doesn't which blows for AMD fans but with that combo you can do raid

Comment Yes (Score 4, Insightful) 409

A popular website now gone showed the readings to the exclusion zone 10 years ago.

While I got modded down for saying it is dangerous here as this is a pro nuclear site there are areas near the plant where the radiation is 100x as high as other parts of the zone. Trees to this day show genetic aberrations in areas near the plant regardless of the thriving ecosystem developing in the nearbye Ukrainian city.

Safe to visit the abandoned city of Prypiat but I would not want to live there and drink the water, get near the plant, or risk having dust on a windy day get near my face or food.

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