Because goddamn sudoers doesn't work with LDAP since 6.1, when it used to work just fine in 6.0 and now nslcd pukes on the config you need?

Yeah....this is FINALLY patched in 6.3 (a week ago or so). Be aware that you need to change some things and add an additional conf file to make it work. What a pain in the ass, but it's finally over (or will be for me once CentOS gets it downstream).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760843

Diverse utility paths are pretty much required for any datacenter. And even that may not be enough, which I will respond to in the next point.

Two things: that whole concept is not a "cloud environment" thing, it's the way things have been done for a long time. Also, if you have to "press a button" (or perform any action) you are doing it pretty much wrong and have nothing to be smug about. None of this is magic, not unique to "cloud computing". Stop letting your brain fall out of your ear when you hear the latest buzz words. "Cloud computing" is code for "we figured out how to lease you a fractional part of several servers and call it something else". The only part about it that is new is the marketing. It's carries all the same risks as it did before, but now has some more tools, platform support and vendors due to its trendiness and the increased needs for the types of service in the general market area it covers.

No, I'm not working my first or second job in the industry. That's why I know "THE CLOUD! THE CLOUD!" is not the answer to all problems. It's just another tool that can be used appropriately or inappropriately. Much of what I've seen lately has been inappropriate, but wholly in keeping with what the marcom firms the providers have hired are messaging. Sounds like you've bought into that too. I'd suggest you get some perspective on the industry you are presumably a part of.

Yeah....Netflix is totally one of those places. Oh...wait....no they aren't and they were down anyway.

Obviously they do. But at least you have some control over the recovery, rather than sitting around watching for carefully-worded email and Twitter updates from Amazon about when you just might get access to the shit you are paying for again. That makes communicating real information to your customers a bit easier.

Of course, you can always use the excuse that it's not your fault and blame Amazon ("see...look at all the other people who are down"). But that's largely a marketing decision I suppose.

Because it really depends on the business and the application. It also depends on how much bandwidth you use and if you have geographical limitations which would make accessing that bandwidth more costly in one or more locations.

If you are in it for the long haul, why not have control over your own cheap commodity machines and "scale into the cloud" for overages until you acquire more hardware? Then you can actually hav control of those little things that let you switch between datacenters easily like.....you know, your BGP and other trivial things like that.

There's definitely no one sized fits all for this, but the bulk of the statrups I see that are cloud based appear to be 1.) a bunch of developers first and foremost, so not data center or network engineers at all and 2.) not capitalized well enough in the beginning to be able to afford leasing and equipping space in multiple data centers. And there's nothing at all wrong with that. It's a valid choice if you recognize the reality of what you are buying rather than believing the marketing hype hook line and sinker.

As much as I try, I can only get mod_php to load in a web server. My browsers don't seem to know quite what to do with it.

Also correct. Your point? Other than that specific tools were made for specific jobs.

Absolutely correct. NDB Cluster. It's quite fast, even on older hardware providing you have enough RAM to hold your database.

This right here proves you are 100% clueless and talking out of your ass. Post law school employment is absolutely PATHETIC right now. It's at something like 55%.

Spoken like someone else who lived through it. What a horrible time to be hiring high end network engineers or anything else computer related......the amount of crap resumes was simply astounding. Everyone was a 6-month-old CNE.

You need to do a lot more research before spewing things like this. And I'm only quoting the juiciest part.

And you were asked if you were an idiot because even as far north as New York (and further) every summer hear wave comes with reports on the news of how many people died in their homes form the heat. Yes, these are predominantly the old and/or infirm and always the poor. I'm in no way OK with that. Are you?

Fortunately evs still have tires, which are what make most of the noise in most any car at residential street or parking lot speeds.

Yet the metaphor is accurate, as you still may not use a completely passwordless computer system you find online without at least implied consent (public web servers, etc). This is not up for debate, as it's easy to research case law.