[RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 127, Issue 4

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Maybe it was resold from a movie set.

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Today's Topics:

1. Sun making users feel better through fakery (Adam Thompson)
2. Re: Sun making users feel better through fakery (Daryl F)


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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:26:36 -0500
From: Adam Thompson <athompson at avant.ca>
To: roundtable at muug.mb.ca
Subject: [RndTbl] Sun making users feel better through fakery
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I have a Sun Storage Array 7110. This is an "integrated" appliance,
running custom hardware and custom software. In the configuration GUI, on
the page where I configure the 4 gigabit network ports, there are - as with
everything else in the GUI - visual aids. In this case, there are
schematic-style icons of four network ports on the left-hand side of the
page, with little green and yellow indicators for link and traffic
respectively.
I know the green dots actually track the green LEDs on the back of the
chassis, i.e. they do show actual link status in (near-)real-time.
However, the yellow dots also flicker in a manner than *might* reflect the
physical LEDs... but I was never sure.

[image: Inline image 1]

Today, while doing some unrelated maintenance on the unit, I got curious
and dug in.

I found this in the page's javascript:

akNetDevice.prototype.setActivity = function (active)
>
{

var dev = this;


> for (var i = 0; i < this.akno_widgets.length; i++)

this.akno_widgets[i].setActivity(active);


> this.akno_timeout = setTimeout(function () {

if (dev.akno_timeout)

dev.setActivity(!active);

}, 100 + Math.random() * (active ?

akNet.DEVICE_FLICKER_ON : akNet.DEVICE_FLICKER_OFF));

};?



*Despite* having found this, the flickering yellow dots *STILL* give me a
sense of satisfaction, a vague notion that "oh, OK, the network ports are
working"!

Someone at Sun actually listened to a UI designer, it would seem. And yet
I now also feel cheated - I was hoping the UI team was geeky enough to
actually flash the browser window graphics in time with the hardware :).


[image: Avant logo] *Adam Thompson*
Senior Systems Administrator
*voice:* 204.789.9596 x24 | *email:* athompson at avant.ca | *web:* avant.ca
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 16:53:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Daryl F <wyatt at prairieturtle.ca>
To: Adam Thompson <athompson at avant.ca>
Cc: roundtable at muug.mb.ca
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Sun making users feel better through fakery
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Adam Thompson wrote:

> I have a Sun Storage Array 7110. This is an "integrated" appliance,

You should buy *real* hardware from Oracle ;)

-Daryl


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