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BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution?
HotTuna writes "I'm responsible for a closed, private network of retail stores connected to our corporate office (and to each other) with IPsec over DSL, and no access to the public internet. We have about 4GB of disaster recovery files that need to be replicated at each site, and updated monthly. The challenge is that all the enterprise file replication tools out there seem to be client/server and not peer-to-peer. This crushes our bandwidth at the corporate office and leaves hundreds of 7Mb DSL connections (at the stores) virtually idle. I am dreaming of a tool which can 'seed' different parts of a file to different peers, and then have those peers exchange those parts, rapidly replicating the file across the entire network. Sounds like BitTorrent you say? Sure, except I would need to 'push' the files out, and not rely on users to click a torrent file at each site. I could imagine a homebrew tracker, with uTorrent and an RSS feed at each site, but that sounds a little too patchwork to fly by the CIO. What do you think? Is BitTorrent an appropriate protocol for file distribution in the business sector? If not, why not? If so, how would you implement it?"
A couple weeks ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john, Barack Obama -- the messiah himself -- came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was busy and in any case I was sure the secret service wouldn't even let me shake his hand.
As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as his cock -- or at least as I imagined it!
I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a liberal democrat and had been on the Obama train since last year. Of course I'd had fantasies of meeting him, sucking his cock and balls, not to mention sucking his asshole clean, but I never imagined I would have the chance. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of Barack Obama, the chosen one.
Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?
I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled.
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big half nigger cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was that Barack Obama wasn't there to see my loyalty and wash it down with his piss.
I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. It's even better than listening to an Obama speech!
Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.
I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of Barack Obama dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful democrat.
I think you should check out http://www.netwinsite.com for a product called Surgemail. It has a built in program called Surgeplus, a client that synchronizes any folders you want. You could create a script on each machine to do daily archival changes and have Surgeplus automatically upload these files to Surgemail.
I know this is a mail server however for 5 accounts this is free to use. You can log into the same account and have each offsite to have a backup of all the files in a distributed manner.
so the storage folder you want to backup to would be like this:
c:\Offsite\Store001 -- current store backup is stored in
c:\Offsite\StoreXXX -- Other stores will sync into these folders automatically (will automatically create it from the server)
On the server you would have the folder you want to store it in as: ...
private/Backup/Store001
private/Backup/Store002
private/Backup/Store003
BEST OF ALL, THIS IS FREE for under 5 users. Since you only need to login as the same user, it will be synchronized across all of your remote stores giving you full offsite secure backup. No need to pay for offsite backup services.
This is also a full fledged mail/calendar server so if you want to use that portion too, it is the least expensive mail server to use internally.
Check it out and give it a try. My clients love it!
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I've worked at places that use IPSec or VPN. A common problem is that the server is loaded down so the secure connection is rather slow. So people will use VPN to pick up email/access the intranet when they need to and plain IP for internet access. Or people will bring laptops home and use plain IP on their unsecured home wireless network. Problem with this scheme is that if one of the machines with the files on is abused like this you could potentially have a problem. And if the files end up on pirate bay or you'll probably get fired no matter how encrypted they are.
Now in an ideal world everyone would understand things enough to not connect a secure machine to the public internet and also that it doesn't matter if files leak if they are sufficiently encrypted. Or that as you put it "if a competitor wanted the information there are easier ways to get it".
But we don't live in that world.
Mind you I'd define sufficiently encrypted as something much more secure than a passworded ZIP file.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
To bad I don't have any mod points, this one (above troll) is better than the usual.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
christ, you just defined WoW updates a business critical function? kids these days...
I just wasted 5 minutes of my life watching the U2/Coheed video. What an utter moron! There's absolutely no similarity between STP, U2 and Coheed (I'll leave for you to decide 'the Supremes' but even that is a stretch in my opinion).