Symantec Backup Exec was genuinely one of the worst pieces of software I have ever had to use. Later in life I got to use the IBM Storage Archive setup with much larger tape libraries which still sucked but my god the level of competency difference between the two applications was insane.
You don't need a $25,000 LTO-10 drive, $100,000 library, and $300 tapes. The drives are frequently backwards compatible multiple generations, so your archives are safe. You can get LTO-7, LTO-8, and LTO-9 libraries for cheap (right now there are lots of LTO-7 standalone drives for under $1000 on ebay), as they've aged out of enterprise leases.
You got me briefly excited, but the only LTO-7 drives on eBay under $1000 are listed as parts-only. The price jump from LTO-6 to LTO-7 has remained steep for years; either industry is holding on to them, or they're being resold or released successfully.
You're right, I didn't catch the (For Parts Only) labels when you click into the auctions. It looks like there are some working LTO-7 drive sleds that can be adapted into storage vaults for under $1000, though you're in for another $1000-$2500 for the vault.
That's got worse recently. LTO used to be guaranteed compatible two generations back; an LTO-7 drive can read LTO-6 and LTO-5 tape. With newer standards, they've cut that to one generation. Your point stands, but folks should be aware the treadmill has been sped up in the past few years.
Ouch, only one generation now? Back in the day, we started with a second-hand LTO-3 tape library, then upgraded to an LTO-5 when that died. I remember learning about this stuff (we were only an SME, not an enterprise, so didn't have any knowledge about these things), and realising we'd have to be careful with our upgrade plan.
On top of the price, I think most of the LTO drives have minimum speeds that need to be sustained in order to avoid drive starts and stops or shoeshining where the heads repeatedly go over the same section of tape waiting for data. That'll slow down the backup or prematurely wear out your data.
And the minimum speeds for something like LTO-7 is 100MB/s so you do need to work a bit to make sure your LTO drive will get fed properly (e.g. cache and consolidate small files so that you're doing sequential reads during the backup).
You should not attempt to write LTO tapes from HDDs.
You need to write them from NVMe SSDs, to ensure an adequate write throughput. The NVMe SSDs could be on a different computer, if you have an intermediate Ethernet connection that is fast enough, of at least 10 Gb/s where the line rate is really reached (but 25 Gb/s Ethernet may be needed for the latest LTO variants).
If you have enough memory on the computer where the tape drive is attached, you can use a RAM drive to store a file before writing it to the tape, and then it does not matter from where the file comes. This is actually what I do, the server with the tape drive has 128 GB of memory, so there is no problem to transfer there through the network 50 GB archive files into the RAM disk, from where the archive files are written to the tape.
Tech job bust (for Americans, anyway) is because of an ethnic cartel who refuses to hire anyone but their own people and is aggressively offshoring back to their home country.
Almost all of these jobs (onshore/offshore) are bullshit jobs. I've been asking people for ~25 years: what do people offshore do? Nobody knows. Jobs are created, people are hired, after that ...
Now, the new craze is GCCs (Global Capability Centers).
Source? In my personal experience what you’re describing has nothing to do with race. Managers / leaders I’ve encountered who want to save money are just as happy to hire in China, Poland, or anywhere else compared to the place you’re thinly veiling your allusion to if the price is right.
> In my personal experience what you’re describing has nothing to do with race.
I have no dog in this fight, but they didn't say "race", they said "ethnic cartel". Using race and ethnicity interchangeably seems as lossy in terms of information as the concept of race was invented to be
My company made the big mistake of hiring a Vietnamese into upper management. Now he's offshoring and laying off natives and hiring new teams in his home country. Only a handful of devs and software support are still here, hundreds of devs in east Asia.
Have you considered the alternative hypothesis that he was in fact hired into upper management specifically to lead a planned pivot to offshoring, so the company leadership can pretend their hands were clean without acknowledging the plan to rank and file.
Is there data supporting this: "ethnic cartel who refuses to hire anyone but their own people"? I've worked with plenty of folks from this "ethnic cartel" in my chain of leadership and my anecdotal experience is nothing of the sort.
Good luck, you'll just get sinister vagueposting like "If you know you know" because it's much easier to spread these claims without the burden of actual evidence that could undermine the unfalsifiable "common knowledge".
Definitely part of the issue (and the vast majority of people who ignore it because they're too PC to call it out are as well) however it's a small piece of the total pie. There are other bigger economic choices that are worse and causing more immediate harm
Sure, it's not the capitalist vore machine that needs to increase growth every quarter, so it does to tech industry what was done to automobile industry in the 60s.
You keep saying that but you're talking about it. Surely there are reports or something. Given the Republican trifecta and all the anti-DEI initiatives from the federal government who is the one not doing the allowing in the first place?
Conceivably this should also work on the BC250 cards, which are ex-cryptocurrency mining motherboard built around AMD's "Cyan Skillfish" APU which is a cut-down version of the PlayStation 5's custom silicon. You can still pick them up on ebay for $150-$200.
I paid $150 shipped a few months ago then maybe $40-50 for all the parts to run it. The RTX 3060 sells for $400+ in my market and still needs a computer to attach it to!
Flashing the bios takes ten minutes with a thumb drive.
It’s hard to get wrong but guess some people would be nervous enough about that to pay $20 extra.
Tesla does not have point to point autonomous driving. They state in their own marketing material, https://www.tesla.com/fsd, that "Currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous." I used to blame Elon Musk for this, but while he's made a number of over-optimistic predictions, as far as I can tell even he doesn't claim that FSD is currently autonomous. The idea that you can safely turn on FSD without being actively alert and engaged seems to be entirely a social media hallucination from Tesla fans.
It’s a parlor trick, having experienced “FSD” myself as a Tesla owner (as well as tens of thousands of miles of enhanced autopilot in a legacy Model S across the continental US). I’m safer in a Waymo, because they know how to actually build an autonomous vehicle. I’ll put my kids in a Waymo, I do not allow FSD to be active in my
Teslas. It’s just theater to juice Tesla enterprise value, not a human safe autonomy system.
I don’t need to be able to own it, I need it to work and be safe. Let those who use FSD own the consequences of system failure. They’ll learn eventually. You’re never going to talk cultists out of their cult of personality, imho.
While I would not pay for Tesla assisted self driving, I have seen it provide daily utility to many drivers, especially older ones.
At only $100 per month on a $40k vehicle, I consider it to be a serious product and not just a parlor trick, since no other car seller comes close to offering it anywhere near that price.
Lidar is a hard requirement to safe autonomy. Elon took the wrong (cheaper) path (to juice Tesla profits), and lies to smooth over it. Tesla vision only autonomy will never be as safe as Waymo and others who use Lidar. That’s not politics, that’s facts. Vehicles require the laser generated point cloud.
If you think I’m wrong, let me put you in the path of a Tesla at speed at night with low contrast. Best case, I’m wrong. I’m fine being wrong. There is no shame in being wrong, only in ignoring facts and data. Worst case, you’re dead and no one cares. I don’t want this for you, and you shouldn’t want this for you either.
Do you feel lucky? You can supply the Tesla or I can (I have a Model S, X, and Y, all upgraded to the latest self driving hardware). If you’re a believer, I’ll give you the opportunity to put your faith in your savior. Again, I do not recommend, but I believe in free will.
I live in a neighborhood where the same Model Y you can buy at the dealer is driving around by itself with no one behind the wheel. I've already completed your challenge.
I am unwilling to argue with someone who ignores facts and reality. My apologies. The facts and evidence stand that Tesla’s autonomy is incomplete compared to competitors, and present a life safety risk. If you’re unwilling to put your life at risk, you don’t believe in the safety of the subject system. It’s that simple.
If you don’t believe in it, just say “I’m going to advocate for it because of my belief system and feelings but I don’t trust it myself.” That’s far more intellectually honest then “I believe in it enough to aggressively defend it publicly but won’t stand in front of the car because I don’t actually trust it.”
They said they are already taking the risk, as is everyone who lives in a neighborhood with a Tesla owner.
You can still be right that Tesla vision only system are more dangerous, but your experimental challenge proves nothing because the cars are already live driving in the real world under poor conditions.
I still think 90% of what made UO unique is the fact there was no Google or central repository of expert knowledge. Yes, UOStratics existed, but it wasn't perfect. A lot of the fun was in the fact basically nobody knew the BEST way to play, and therefore everyone was just doing whatever they thought was fun.
If someone create a new MMORPG in which rules changes a little every day or several days in unpredictable manner then no one will be knowing the BEST way to play or at least harder to find the BEST way. But maybe there will be no balance.
I don't think that would work: either the rules change little enough that you can still document meta-strategies, or the rules change too much and players can't learn them either.
I remember spending so much time every patch day with other people on my server where we just tried out different combinations of spells, weapons, armor, tactics to see what worked this week.
This is an extremely widespread issue. I send close to a million emails per month across dozens of different providers (all newsletters.) These are all from high reputation domains and email accounts. We are completely unable to make anything happen with Microslop. It is infuriating.
I want the car to be able to contact emergency services, but not to otherwise be able to use the cellular network. Is there a good way to sabotage the eSIM, without otherwise breaking the modem? (This would still allow the car to be tracked via IMEI, but I'm not too worried about that: anyone capable of that is also capable of tracking my actual phone, and anyone buying that data will already know what car I own.)
There's often been a few cases of "disappeared" people who went missing and it turns out they actually crashed off the road somewhere and weren't found for a week or two.
That's extreme of course but there are probably a lot of accidents that happen in low-density rural country areas or late at night when there aren't many people around. The automatic e-call from the car gives exact GPS coordinates and severity of the accident, even if you are unconscious or if your phone that was neatly in the cup holder before the crash was flung somewhere else (potentially even flew out of the car etc) and you're trying to find it while someone might be dying in the seat next to you etc.
People didn't survive before all this. It's a mandatory feature now because it's so effective at saving lives. 2 to 10% reduction in fatalities and serious injuries apparently. Would you also question why we have mandatory airbags and traction control?!
right, but airbags, seatbelts, etc. are not internet connected. That's the critical distinction. I do not want the risks that come with my car connecting to the internet.
A much more reasonable ask would be for your car's systems to use your phone to place a call to emergency services. I absolutely do not want yet another internet connected device in my life, especially one like a car, where examples exist of hackers being able to disable the electronics remotely.
Funnily enough, I mostly hear about it from hyper-individualistic types. It's probably a facet of some American conservative-traditionalist belief cluster invented in the last 40 years, but it's hard to say for sure, because the people who say this tend to be bad at introspection, so can't answer my questions about it (even when they're curiously cooperating with my investigation).
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