Monday, March 7, 2016

The Artsy Fartsy Computer Partsy Shakedown in the Breeze

The host for My Duck Soup has released a special offer to optimize the Web site and there are three tiers of upgrade goodness they offer.


At the peasant layer for $200

They will optimize the site.  I held the offer up in the air and shook it but nothing else came out of it.  I might have spotted a few moths as the offer has been sent out at RUSH priority at least three or four times previously.  You must act now!


At the Middle Class prole layer for $250

They will optimize and move your site to SSD hardware.  OK, that's a nice zing and a real performance boost.  Could be worth it.


At the layer for the Rich Bitch with a gold-plated bathroom for $300

We guess maybe also they will have Ivanka Trump talk dirty to you.  Maybe they will also throw in a cloud as people love to have clouds.  It may not occur to people their site was already on a cloud as it sure as hell ain't on your system.

There are things they call cloud processes but it's just making your files allocatable on multiple disk volumes for better load balancing.  That technique likely goes back to the sixties in IBM.  It's extremely common ... but no-one called it a cloud.

It is puff, tho.  Sho' as hell is that.

So maybe the Ivanka Trump dirty talk could do it for you instead.  Your call.


Digression to IBM history:  when I started, the OS was SVS, the abortion of a system in-between MVT and MVS, and it crashed almost every day.  From playing with IEHMOVE and other antiquities, it gave an idea of how the previous systems worked but I'm not clear when ISAM came into it and mostly replaced DA.  The question is because those would show when multi-volume processing started other than by processing multiple separate volumes as discrete entities.  So that's deep geek but the objective is to get a better idea of what years that started happening.  Not a huge deal, just curiosity.



What I asked the Great God Mescalito was why the hell should I send most of a primo bag of reefer to those guys.  I'm not seeing a reason.

He said sometimes in the reason is the carbuncle.

He hardly ever makes sense but it's cool hanging with him.  He says stuff like that and pauses so you have time to reflect on the depth of it.

Sometimes in the reason is the carbuncle.

I wouldn't even recognize a carbuncle, I'm just quite sure I don't want one, whatever it may be.  A carbuncle is in the general list of things you don't know but you are really sure you never want to see ... like carbuncles, malaria, anyone named Cliffie, Donald Trump, etc, etc.

(Ed:  who the hell is Cliffie?)

How should I know but tell me you know anyone named Cliffie, Deputy Dawg.


Even if I don't do anything, my site is at the peasant layer anyway and spins around as it will on its disk drive(s).  Do you see a reason to do anything?

Right, neither do I.


The performance of the site is adequate and I have a window open to it most of the time.  It stays up with high reliability and responds quickly so maybe you see something I'm needing but I don't.

(Ed:  reefer?)

Ah, now you understand the important things about data processing, matey.

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