Re: How to develop a random number generation device

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:24:48 -0700, the renowned John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:43:03 -0400, krw <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <2thte3hom8nmbma5udd2spqliinpbdlubl@xxxxxxx>,
jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:53:09 -0700, ChairmanOfTheBored
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:45:45 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:31:16 -0700, ChairmanOfTheBored
<RUBored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:37:02 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:59:35 -0700, ChairmanOfTheBored
<RUBored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:30:27 -0700, MooseFET <kensmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


And XP occasionally crashes when a user-level process screws up. Not
as often as '98 type systems, but it still happens. And Patch Tuesday
has become a ritual.

You're an idiot.

So you didn't put in the patches LOL!



An idiot that applies patch "every Tuesday" is just as retarded as one
that runs "defrag" more than once or twice a year when they have no apps
that cause severe fragmentation, like a database app or such.

Patch Tuesday is Microsoft's practice of accumulating a bunch of
patches and releasing them on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday


I certainly don't update that often. I like to let the patches mellow
for a month or so, because Microsoft's patches are so stupid they
often break more than they fix.

"The second problem affected large deployments of Windows, such as can
be found at large companies. Such large deployments found it
increasingly difficult to make sure all systems across the company
were all up to date. The problem was made worse by the fact that,
occasionally, a patch issued by Microsoft would break existing
functionality, and would have to be uninstalled."

Damn, you actually *don't* know much about this stuff.


*** you. I have administered networks before.

The company I currently work for has several thousand computers and
several hundred laptops, and that doesn't even count the lab use
machines.

We do not experience the horse*** you allow yourself to succumb to.

You don't install OS patches? How do you manage that?

It's interesting that you didn't know about Patch Tuesday.

What is interesting is that you actually think that is how it is done.


Perhaps the hardware you choose is ***, therefore the results you get
are shit, shithead.


I just bought a dozen HP ML350 "server" boxes; ECC memory, redundant
power supplies, redundant BIOS, redundant fans, hot-plug RAID drives.
The layout, packaging, and cabling are superb. How's that?

Overkill. You likely won't manage those worth a ***... either.

There's not a lot I can do about Windows (I have to run it for some of
the apps I use) but it's certainly worth $3K to have reliable hardware
and drives. Every time a Dell dies, it costs me or one of my people a
week or two to get everything back to where it was, and we're surely
worth more than $3K a week.

The cool thing about raid hot-plug is that I can occasionally plug in
a blank drive, and my C: drive gets cloned, OS and all. I stash the
clone in a baggie. If my machine dies for any reason, I grab a spare
box from down the hall, plug in the copy of C:, and I'm back online in
5 minutes.

And, once a year maybe, I plug a brand-new drive in one of the raid
lots, so my drives never die from shear wear-out.

You're probably better off going quite a bit longer than that between
replacements. Believe me, there are two ends of a bath tub. They
gave me a new Dell (hmm, maybe there is a common thread here) on my
first day. The disk drive died that afternoon and I lost a couple of
days work (couldn't get it replaced right away). It could have been
far worse though.


Actually, with RAID, I can just let one of the drives fail, and pop in
a new one when it does. No panic.

John

Have you actually tested this? What happens if you don't have the same
kind of drive available? I don't think it will work until you replace
the drive.



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