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Comment Re:My suggestion to Oracle: SPARC everywhere... (Score 1) 190

Hard to believe as I have 3500+ AIX servers with 5000+ lpars on them. As always the market changes, I personally hope IBM's massive price reductions and performance on the hardware spur some new interest. The only servers in my centers that never fall down are the AIX servers and zOS. I have Suse, redhat, MS.., z, servers, vmware, dedicated, just a lot of stuff. Z never goes down and AIX has about 99.99999 uptime here. I can't say that for any of the other hardware servers, dell, hp, etc. Its not cheap but not a disappointment either.
We are trying to put more on linux but the vmware costs keep jumping in there.

Comment Re:Unfortunately... (Score 1) 190

I've never been happy with any database running in vmware. But people keep putting them there. Just more work for me I guess.
Vmware has its positives but its nowhere near say running oracle R11 on an AIX lpar with dedicated fc/nics, which can also be migrated with npiv live. Lpars lack snapshots unless you count the mksysb/storage snapshots, which work just fine.
ATM we are trying to rationalize Snapshots of windows desktop and security. Nothing there, just headaches with vmware desktop. Might be banned soon. Anyone have a solution thats usable for that?

Comment Re:Oops! (Score 1) 255

I don't know. If you read any of the forums for media/news, you find 2 things. Putin Trolls attacking america and the president. And Republican trolls attacking america and the president. Wander over to yahoo news or cnn. Take a look.
We know who is paying the Putin trolls, but who is paying the republican trolls?

Comment Re:Oops! (Score 1) 255

Right, walker is such a saint, that is why he is anti union. Unless your union like Republicans, such as fire or police unions. Buddy, there is 0 difference, other than he is a bully.
If walker wanted to really reform he would have pulled up the magic carpet covering Farm subsidies or tackled the Fire and Police departments.
I expect Wisconsin in 10 years will be fighting Nevada and Missisippi for bottom of the education list. Have to give it a few years for the current kids to get out of that system.
Walker is the same party line, same motivations. Nothing changed.
As always I'll be forced to vote for the least likely to screw up the country.
Did it occur to you if Republicans get their abortion fix, remove all those liberals, those religious things into government, or any of the other base issues. Nobody would ever vote for them again?
Neither party wants to actually win on a party point, I'm absolutely floored that the Dems got a health reform through. They are screwed now, because they have lost a huge chunk of their platform, and the last elections might be a leading indicator.
I'm actually hoping John Steward will run with Warren as a VP. That would make for way more change than another nazi's grand kid or a liberal that wants to hug the world while stealing their wallet.

Comment Re:Downtime [Offtopic] (Score 1) 85

I've seen it work many a time on my older IBM AIX raid controllers. Usually when there is a problem, the controller is throwing an error on a disk being bad. Had already rebuilt it to the spare, and is telling you it needs replaced?
When it didn't work correctly, almost every time the logs were not being monitored and the second disk fail took the server down. Then the blame went on the crappy raid array. Lets get a SAN, cough. There was once a time when the firmware of the controller wasn't upgraded from a buggy version. For reference I work in a place with 15k servers with 5 different operating systems/architectures.
Perhaps you should review your old logs, it might give you a clue as to the issue. But then again do you want to find that clue, or show anyone.
Generally approaching the deep dive to find the issue, resolving the processes gaps, and fixing them to keep it from happening again, determines if your shop is good or just another job.

Comment Re:Unsettling science (Score 4, Interesting) 180

Omega 3 is generally picked up when creatures are browsing different seeds. Our current farms feed them, corn and antibiotics. Go with Flax seeds, Walnuts, and oddly Chia.
Farm raised fish sadly doesn't have it, as it requires Krill to be fed to them. Which farms do not feed the fish.
Hydrogenated oil and High fructose crap and aspartame, these 3 products combined pretty much are going to shut down every important system in your body over time. GMO'ing your food so it can absorb more roundup pesticides which in the end you eat, is also a winner. Hexane also gets a big thumbs down.

Try walking 30 minutes a day at lunch. Does it really take an hour to eat? It takes me 5 minutes to eat lunch. Eat more plain nuts unroasted or glazed if your feeling like a snack.
Another sad fact is, most of those fresh vegetables/fruits are not fresh. They were picked green and completely lacking most of those trace elements a mature fruit/vegetable has when picked. Notice all the studies say, we tested a mature fruit or vegetable. Perhaps try frozen fresh vegetables and fruits, those are packed and frozen after ripening vs before. Salads without those saturated/hydrogenated dressings vs that pizza slice(I love pizza. Which also has hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup. I guess because its whipped up in a lab to trigger all my love for food sensors.).
Avoid Hydrogenated oil and High fructose crap and aspartame.

I wish I had listened to those old grey beards that told me to question more, before I became one. I'd be great deal healthier now.

Comment Re:So who's going to buy them? (Score 1) 294

Odd it this pdf doesn't also have, the state covered cost of expanding roads/streetlights/lanes/watershed run off into rivers, or the crazy tax breaks states like Michigan gave, even though it was in direct competition with local companies like Meijer to build a new store, which Meijer never got. All though some of this is being addressed its spotty, non consistant, and generally doesn't cover the cost of most of the employees not making enough so the local schools and cities get the added burden of low tax residents. Loss of local revenue from businesses that dried up that also paid taxes on buildings and sales.
We should also figure in the lack of tarrifs and crazy expanding middle class, who manufacture so many goods in the US now.
Follow the money, its like footprints in the snow, and it leads right up to the Mercedes door of your elected officials.

Comment Re:let's not beat around the bush (Score 1) 331

Not really, because robots do not attend meetings, or take crazy and poorly worded ideas and make servers/systems/requests happen.
Cloud is great, but you just asked the developer to become the defacto expert in a whole slew of other things. I hope he is a superstar with extra time to burn because in less than 2 years, he will have to relearn it all again.
I agree it takes less people to manage more servers, but 0 people is so expensive that its cheaper to just keep the 2 people or 4 from before.
Perhaps in 20 years it will be simpler but in the last 30 the tech has changes every 2 years, right now if you count mobile its every 6-12 months. Its moving so fast, the leading trait I look for in new employee's during interviews is how fast can you learn something new and hit the ground running and keep the older stuff running till the tax depreciation is done.
At some point management will wake up and realize how much it cost to move to the cloud. Cloud is great for startups, its a tougher sale as the business gets bigger.

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