One thing that a lot of people forget about is the door size. Make absolute sure that you have at least 1-2 sets of doors into the building and in the direct pathway to all your telecom/computer rooms that the doors are tall and wide enough to fit a full sized computer rack! This is a small detail that many, MANY, companies overlook. There is nothing more painful then trying to fit a full sized computer rack into a building when none of the doors are wide or tall enough, requiring that the rack be disassembled (if it even can be) and brought into the building in pieces, then re-assembled, wasting lots of extra labor hours that could have been saved if someone had made the doors 2 inches taller and/or 4-6 inches wider.

Also, you might want to make them tall/wide enough for the new Open Computing OpenRack sized equipment racks, which I believe are 600mm wide and 2100mm tall (with a depth that varies from 350mm to 1220mm). Again, not many places are using this yet, however Facebook, Ebay, and Google are all using it (and fabricating their own racks since no one is yet selling them). But it only seems to reason that if those big 3 internet companies are using them, they will probably become standard in a few more years time.

That said, Linux+ is a joke of a test, and anyone who has taken it knows how much of a joke it is, which means the IT departments of where ever will know it is worthless. That said, the HR departments do not always know that and it might be enough to get the interview.

To be fair, the Muslims did start it when they took control of Jerusalem in the 700's and then forbade any Christian from going there to pray.... A little religious respect back then and none of this crap would still be going on 1300 years later.....

I said it ever since they announced their quad pixel technology that it would simply create more problems than it fixed and/or was a marketing gimmick. The colors are either being properly represented by the panel, or they are not. Adding a fourth color pixel to the panel will not make things better unless the panel without that pixel can not display the correct color gamut in the first place. The additional image processing required to take signals that are written in a RGB format and convert them to RGBY format before displaying will add needless time-consuming steps which will add delay to the process (which may not be an issue in some use cases, but for things like video games, that added delay is a real problem).

It sounds like audio and video to me which is not very compressible at all if you need to maintain audio and video quality. And good luck booting a system with that many drives in "under 30 seconds" especially on a ZFS system which needs a lot of RAM (assuming you are following industry standards of 1GB RAM per 1TB of data you are hosting) as you will never make it through RAM integrity testing during POST in under 30 seconds.

Even though I believe I am being trolled, I will still feed it some.

You will never find enterprise grade hardware which will do this. You will be even harder pressed to do this on mechanical drives (for the OS) and even harder still with random new drives being attached which may need to have integrity scans performed. This requirement alone is asinine and against every rule for data center and system administration handbook for something that is serving data to other machines. If you need something that you need to halt and shutdown so you can load the drives, well, you do that on something else other than the box which is servicing the data requests to other computers, and you copy the data from that one system to the real server.

No you don't need to justify it, but you do need to explain it some. For the most part it sounds like most people where you work do not have much experience with *nix systems, because if you did, you would never have had requirement (1) in the first place (as you would know the whole point of *nix is to be able to separate everything so that you don't have to bring down the system just to update/replace/remove one particular service/application/hardware, everything is compartmentalized and isolated, which means the only time you should ever need to bring down the system is due to catastrophic hardware failure or you needed to update the actual kernel, otherwise everything else should be build such a way that is is hot-swappable, redundant, and/or interchangeable on the fly).

Well, SAMBA is the only thing out there that will share to Win/Mac clients from *nix, so that is the right solution.

They are focusing on the "under 30 seconds" part because they know that it is an absurd requirement for dealing with multiple hard drives which may or may not have a working filesystem as they have not only traveled/been shipped, but have also been out in the actual field. The probability of data corruption is so astronomically higher that they know that the "under 30 seconds" is idiotic at best.

For instance, I can't even get to the BIOS in 30 seconds on anything that I have at my work. Our data storage servers take about 15-20 minutes to boot. Our compute servers take about 5-8 minutes. They spend more that 30 seconds just performing simple memory tests at POST, let alone hard drive identification and filesystem integrity checks or actually booting. This is why people are hung up on the "under 30 seconds".

If you had a specialty build system, in which you disabled all memory checks (REALLY BAD IDEA on a server though since if your memory is bad you can corrupt your storage because writes to your storage are typically from memory), used SSDs for your OS drives, had no hardware raid controllers on the system, used SAS controllers which do not have firmware integrity checks, you might, just might be able to boot the system in 30 seconds. But I sure as hell would not trust it for any kind of important data because you had to disable all the hardware tests which means you have no idea if there are hardware problems which are corrupting your data.

Just wondering why this is news. Coelacanths were discovered to still be living in ~1938. Having photos isn't new, as they had live specimens (and dead ones). There were even 2 species found, not just one.

Why do you think we tossed the King's men out of our country in the first place, and wrote those words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as well?

That is the whole point of imperial units, 1 gallon = 4 quarts, 1 quart = 2 pints, 1 pint = 2 cups, 1 cup = 16 tablespoons, 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons.... You don't need to use fractions, you simply use the smaller unit. Yes, for some things it is easier to use a fraction (cups is the one that comes to mind most often, but that is taken care of with a "measuring cup" anyway which has lines for 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4). This way, people don't use have fractions or decimal places in their cooking receipts, because as said, too many people struggle with understanding them.

Typically not. The only place that uses tenths or hundredths of a degree in Fahrenheit is for measuring a person's temperature to find if they are above normal temperature (and have an infection/illness/etc.). Pretty much everything else is simply in whole digits of Fahrenheit because as said, the difference in 1 degree in Fahrenheit is about what a human can physically detect and tell the difference in. Any less than a full degree and you have a hard time distinguishing it, which makes it work perfectly well for just about any situation, cooking, outside temperature, and inside temperature settings for heating/cooling systems. But for Celsius, you must use increments of .5 degrees (and thus more fractions that are so difficult for so many people to comprehend), but in Fahrenheit, that is just a whole degree (as 1 degree change in Fahrenheit is approx. .5 degree change in Celsius).

Only if the competition is fair. Are they paying the same taxes? Are they living in the same area with the same cost index?

I could live like a king in many places on my wages, but not in the northeast USA, or on the Pacific coast, and then take a look at other places around the world, and the difference is even greater. Sure if my living costs were lower I could see dealing with the cut in pay.

So I iterate again, Competition is good only when competition is fair.

Pass the salt.

I am sorry, salt is bad for you, and thus it is illegal.

They want someone who has certifications in "Veritas Cluster Manager 6.03.5.3.1" but if you have a cert for "Veritas Cluster Manager 5.9.48.49" they put your resume in the "round" filing bin.

They don't want to train people, they want ones who already have work 5 years of work experience using the exact version of the software which they currently have. And woe to the applicant which knows a competitor's product which does 95% of the same thing using the same concepts which a little hands on experience would fix within a few weeks (less than the time it would take for that person to figure out the network and system layout).

But that is just my take, maybe others have had different experience. From my looking around most job postings essentially state to not bother applying if you don't have those exact things on your resume, which creates a whole new issue with resume padding, something even CEO's are guilty of doing because they too would have been files in the round bin.

I believe there was some comment about him needing to watch out for his own butt while sleeping....

Unless they did it to a federal agent, because lying to them is against the law.

The reason the current TSA agents do not need to do that is that they are technically federal law enforcement, which are exempt from state and local laws in pursuant to their work. As a private company, they would be subject to state and local laws, and if the local DA decides to prosecute them for sexual assault, he/she can do so. In fact, several DAs have already tried to do just that, but were dismissed...