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Originally posted by GB9 View PostAnyone got a laptop or PC with a TB RAM? Or near?
Some of my last actual engineering work was spent using D-trace to slap the tulip out of the usual bunch of offshore morons that had shat out some of the worst code you could imagine and were then trying to tell the client that the million or so in sun equipment that they bought for a shared service was too small...
All this object orientated crap has created a bunch of morons that think they can code... It wasn't till I saw KSAR that I realised that Java was actually a clever language in the right hands...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksar/
dont know how it runs these days but it was the fasted stuff I had seen when I was using it in 2007..Comment
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Originally posted by bobspud View PostWhat so that tulipe programmers can crap poor memory structures all over it while it adds bulk heat and power draw... Seriously?
Some of my last actual engineering work was spent using D-trace to slap the tulip out of the usual bunch of offshore morons that had shat out some of the worst code you could imagine and were then trying to tell the client that the million or so in sun equipment that they bought for a shared service was too small...
All this object orientated crap has created a bunch of morons that think they can code... It wasn't till I saw KSAR that I realised that Java was actually a clever language in the right hands...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksar/
dont know how it runs these days but it was the fasted stuff I had seen when I was using it in 2007..
I remember, years ago, when Netezza was the new platform at the time and boy was it fast.
It was a worldwide deployment, so we couldn't stop others from putting poor database structures on the platform. Their view was the thing was so powerful you could put anything on it, no data modelling required .
Obviously, the end result was a system that became bloated with rubbish and slowed down beyond belief. As computing power is relatively cheap these days, unfortunately that sort of "abuse" becomes even more common.The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by eek View Post
"Why are you still torturing me with this windows ecosystem???"
Soon we were seeing BYOD cropping up everywhere (its a symptom by the way not the solution) and soon the office is full of Macs proving that you can indeed run them as well as windows etc.
So the problem for Apple is if they stop being interested in the hard stuff that offices do. Users will have less reason to bring them into an office and pretty soon all they have are iPads and phones.
Thats far too short sighted.Comment
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostObviously, the end result was a system that became bloated with rubbish and slowed down beyond belief. As computing power is relatively cheap these days, unfortunately that sort of "abuse" becomes even more common.
We are seeing it with AWS stuff as well. Dev's create an instance of something and its pretty inefficient before the shaky code goes on but that's ok because we are building for horizontal web scale () given that most server sizes in AWS are about a third of the speed of one physical box of the same memory and CPU spec that "we web scale it..." is costing thens of thousands of extra needless pounds...Comment
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Originally posted by bobspud View PostI would love to know who came up with that computers are cheap line. They are a genius! I have had to cost end to end infrastructures and I can tell you when you start to add backups, licences support, racks power then cooling, the last thing a badly used piece of hardware is, is cheap. Its frikken expensive actually!
We are seeing it with AWS stuff as well. Dev's create an instance of something and its pretty inefficient before the shaky code goes on but that's ok because we are building for horizontal web scale () given that most server sizes in AWS are about a third of the speed of one physical box of the same memory and CPU spec that "we web scale it..." is costing thens of thousands of extra needless pounds...
It seems that a lot of elegance and deep problem solving has gone from system implementation.
I just wish IT was seen as a true engineering discipline, it is at some places, but at most it isn't.
in fact, a number of people told me that at one time, the Post Office was good to work for, as they treated IT as an engineering discipline, ISEB compliance etc.
Probably not the case now, as I understand Fujitsu messed things up over there
People still don't get that following due process, limiting workarounds and sudden last minute changes, delivers reliable, working, systems, providing you can get the right personnel on board to deliver it.The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostWe know that, its a shame others don't.
It seems that a lot of elegance and deep problem solving has gone from system implementation.
I just wish IT was seen as a true engineering discipline, it is at some places, but at most it isn't.
in fact, a number of people told me that at one time, the Post Office was good to work for, as they treated IT as an engineering discipline, ISEB compliance etc.
Probably not the case now, as I understand Fujitsu messed things up over there
People still don't get that following due process, limiting workarounds and sudden last minute changes, delivers reliable, working, systems, providing you can get the right personnel on board to deliver it.Comment
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostWhat's the maximum capacity of a commercially available stick? 128GB? Perhaps in a server, but not an ordinary desktop/laptop. I guess you'd need a pretty high-end motherboard too. Anyway, no, I have a high-end machine (64GB), but nothing like that. TBH, I can't imagine too many applications for that sort of RAM outside of a server environment, with equivalent processing power(?).
You're right in that I've only seen it run on a 32 core server so far. Would be useful to have a standalone though.Comment
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