[lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-04 Thread Nicholas Tang
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knew of any project prioritization tools that are free/low-cost and allow for some sort of dynamic project and resource allocation. Here's the use-case/ description of what I'm looking for: There are 10 projects in the pipeline. Using some interface, we assign

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-04 Thread Nicholas Tang
order.) Then again, maybe if I just had more of a clue with Project that wouldn't be the case, but I don't *think* so. From everything I've read, the use case I described actually seems to be pretty rare, which seems odd. Nicholas On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Brad Know

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-05 Thread Nicholas Tang
There are indeed a huge number of them - before sending this email I had checked out the tours and/or online demos for at least 8 or 9 of them, which is why I gave up and decided to try here - none of them actually did what I described. Ultimately those are all great tools (to some degree ;) ) for

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-05 Thread Nicholas Tang
Actually, as far as I can tell, Basecamp completely lacks all of the functionality I described. Nicholas On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Nick Silkey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nicholas Tang wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone knew of any proj

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-05 Thread Nicholas Tang
ins wrote: > * Nicholas Tang wrote: >> Ultimately those are all great tools (to some degree ;) ) for managing >> projects, but not so much for prioritizing multiple projects and >> seeing how that impacts scheduling/ resourcing... that's what I'm >> really struggli

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-05 Thread Nicholas Tang
Actually, I'm not sure that what you described works... not for the way I'd like to do things, anyways. Rearranging project (or task) ordering should be something I can do dynamically and immediately and the dates should be based purely on resource (i.e. people) limitations, and I don't *think* th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Red Hat vs CentOS

2009-07-31 Thread Nicholas Tang
Nothing's perfect, but if you're looking for a happy medium, Oracle Enterprise Linux isn't bad. It's similar to CentOS - using RHEL as a base - but with an added layer of patches for issues that Oracle and its customers wanted fixed. Plus, it's dirt cheap compared to RHEL, and you don't have to h

Re: [lopsa-discuss] swap or no swap that is the question

2009-09-11 Thread Nicholas Tang
When you've got a single-function box, and you know you can tune it to stop short of swap, I think it's probably fine to go without swap. For simplicity and consistency, we have swap turned on for our webservers, but honestly, if they ever started swapping (and we make sure they have enough memory

Re: [lopsa-discuss] enterprise NAS

2009-10-05 Thread Nicholas Tang
We switched from Onstor to Exanet nodes not too long ago and haven't regretted it in the slightest. Onstor's product was actually more stable 5 years ago than it was 2 years ago. I can't vouch for it recently - talking to people at Onstor they swear they've fixed the reliability issues, but after

[lopsa-discuss] Hiring DBAs

2009-12-16 Thread Nicholas Tang
I have a question for the crowd. I've done a reasonable amount of hiring of SAs, but now we've got some spots open for DBAs. I've never done that, personally, and was wondering if anyone on this list had, and if so, what resources you used - job boards, mailing lists, forums, job fairs, etc. The

Re: [lopsa-discuss] structuring a sys admin internship program

2010-09-14 Thread Nicholas Tang
We tackle this a few different ways, generally (although I can't say we've had huge numbers of interns in here). 1.) Give them something new and experimental to install/ setup. There are always a few projects that teams put in the "we'll get to that... eventually..." bucket that tend to fall into