And of course "IT" is a nebulous job classification in the first place. It's almost like measuring the average pay of "health care workers" (which range from orderlies to brain surgeons).
This is very accurate, the number of specializations, sub-specializations and disparity between low/entry-level to upper-end architect varies drastically.
Also remember VMWare isn't the only game in town, it just happens to be the most expensive. Red Hats RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) is a contender along with XEN, KVM, Hyper-V etc. (I've only used the first three, can't speak for Hyper-V).
The world doesn't want or need another arrogant IT worker with a "I'm smarter than you because I admin this network" chip on their shoulders. And people wonder why we outsource to India.
While I think outsourcing is generally a byproduct from the papermill MBA doctrine of the 90's, I wholeheartedly agree with you on the arrogance bit. The days of the BOFH-all-users-are-stupid mentality has no place today. If you don't communicate early and often to your users and generally act like an arrogant ass someone else will do your job for you. Granted, technically they could be inferior but at that point does it really matter? I'm sick of the arrogant fiefdoms some IT pros and SA's think is cool to promote. I can't stand the negativity that mentality creates. I'm a Sr. SA in a small, global team of Linux sysadmins supporting a fortune 50 - negativity and 90's-esque god-complex BOFH has no place in an environment where things just need to get done and things have to stay up and running (and improving).
The military justice system is a whole different world than that of civilians, it will be interesting to see if any of the circumstantial evidence will even matter.
I can't help to think this is why more emphasis on QA and staging changes appropriately and testing thoroughly and less focus on agile, devops type methodology would have helped. It's a well known fact that Facebook developers work on live production data.
Reboot a webserver nightly?
You must be doing something wrong I'd that's required.
Well in 2011, Oracle is the new boogeyman. They love to embrace, extend and extinguish open source projects - far more so than Microsoft.
Um, I don't think so, unless I'm missing something. Oracle still supports several open-source projects, such as OpenOffice. They haven't "extinguished" them, they haven't made them closed-source, they're still there. The problem is that they do a half-ass job of supporting their open-source projects. That's still better than MS, who hasn't stopped trying to extinguish OSS and certainly doesn't produce its own significant open-source projects. The only reason that MS isn't the boogeyman they used to be is because they just don't wield the power they once did; they're slowly fading into irrelevancy.
Looks Like Oracle is no longer supporting OpenOffice as of Friday the 15th
This is great news, Redhat will keep it open source. I'm glad Oracle didn't get their hands on it and commercialize it like they did MySQL (The commercial plugins in 5.5.16 is what I'm referencing).
I much prefer Redhat's approach.
I couldn't agree more, they have a track record for doing the right thing.
Have to agree.
And the support fees are mandatory- no way to download a copy of RHEL from them without signing up to pay.
You can download a 60-day trial of RHEL here, just make a free RHN account first.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/eval/index.html?evaluation_id=1008
It doesn't time out and you can use it forever you just won't receive updates after 60 days. You can also compile your own updates from the freely available SRC rpms like all the other RHEL clones do should you choose.
> I never liked(/got?) the Desktop metaphor: I run everything I can at Full Screen, and Alt-Tab between my apps, whether on Windows XP or FVWM2 on Linux.
That seems to be the way GNOME3 forces workflow, folks I know that prefer to work this way are fans of it and everyone else is not.
Personally, I prefer XFCE + Compiz + Emerald theme manager on Fedora - I find it's simplistic enough to stay out of my way but provides the expose-like window management features for multi-tasking lots of different things. To each his/her own I suppose, choice is a good thing.
PURGE COMPLETE.