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  1. Re:you know something... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Wikipedia Needs $20K
    Not to flame, but... Anybody who questions the Wikipaedia guys by saying "servers are cheap" or moderates such posts as "insightful" has absolutely NO IDEA what they are talking about. We're talking about a very high load site here that needs to be clustered with enough redundancy to handle some problems without killing off the entire system. You do not run that on some crappy off-ebay or made-from-spares systems you can obtain for, what, a few hundred bucks. If you seriously believe that then you are totally misguided and should shut the fsck up on the issue.

    I do not handle hardware purchases for our department. However, a decent server, say one of those compaq dl380's with multiple CPUs, oodles of RAM and HD space, would roughly cost at least 3000 euros (3600 dollars). So let's say this is 4000 per server which I consider a reasonable estimate. This still buys you only 5 servers for 20k. Say you want four machines clustered and a little money left over for the next emergency and there you have your 20k figure.

    You really can't compare Wikipaedia to some crummy, hard to read, static, low demand webpage. You don't NEED processing power for that sort of website. It'll probably run off of a 486.

    It pains me to read that you run an ISP. Next time please just shut your noisehole and leave the subject of web hosting to the professionals, okay? This goes for all the other "20k is too much money" clueless fools too.

  2. Re:Despair? by chuck · · Score: 2 · on CIA Warns China Might Be Planning Cyber Attack

    There are always new frontiers.

  3. Links... by TRoLL. · · Score: 0 · on Lucent to Offer Cheap Wavelan Cards

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7

    There's a few to start you off.

  4. Re:FreeNet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Lucent to Offer Cheap Wavelan Cards
    l0pht is not the only group involved in this project. I am tired of everyone assuming this is so, just because so many people get to the l0pht site looking for security info.

    BOWSIG

    Sinister

    Wireless stuff is a lot more finicky than software. You can't just put the thing in gdb and debug it. You need a lot more discipline, and more tools, to get this stuff done right. So don't jump into wireless WAN hacking unless you have the patience, time, and either money to buy equipment, or access to it some other way (school, work, sneaking into gov't lab at night....)

  5. get yer kernels here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux 2.2.1
    as usual, I have kernel stuff available for download. 2.1.x, 2.2pre, and finally 2.2.x are available here.


    Now, does anyone know why the mirroring system is
    sucking so badly? I had to go to russia to get these, they weren't on us or uk mirrors.


    Someone needs to invent multicast FTP to get all mirrors updated at the same time.

  6. patches available here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux 2.2.0pre9 = 2.2.0 Final (Almost)
    patches through pre9 available here.

    Should I put up the whole pre9 kernel? I want to discourage people from downloading the whole kernel (and sucking up my entire T1) if they don't need it, but then again many people running 2.0 series may finally decide that this is 2.2 and want it. Comments here, please --drwho@sinister.com

  7. get pre7 and previous here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sony NOT suing Connectix,and Linux Pre-7 out

    get patches here

  8. get pre5 and pre6 patches here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released
    you can download 2.2-pre5 and 2.2-pre6 patches a ftp://ns3.sinister.com/pub/linux

    The Leaders of Men, made a promise for a new life -- Joy Division (as Warsaw)

  9. download 2.2-pre5 here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux 2.2.0pre5

    get patches here.

  10. Grab patches here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux 2.2.0 pre4

    you can grab patches from 2.1.120 on up and several full kernel trees at
    ftp://ns3.sinister.com/pub/linux

  11. Get yer kernels here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux 2.2.0-pre3 is available

    us usual, patches available at ns3.sinister.com