"I started using Gentoo on the desktop and now I've rolled it out as a production server using some great technologies: ReiserFS, RAID-5, Gentoo patched kernel, Samba... you name it."
Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the World's Steepest Street.
According to this, at its most steep section (6 meters long)
"Baldwin Street has a maximum gradient of 1m in 2.86m. This means for every 2.86 metres horizontal it goes up vertically 1 metre" (the word meter is only in their for clarity - you can equally say 2.86 feet horozontal it goes vertically 1 foot.)
By my calculations that's 19.3 degrees incline. This is steepest section of the world's steepest street, so yeah, 30 degrees seems a pinch on the overzealous side.
Overall, the street has a vertical distance of 69.2m, and a horozontal distance of 359 m.
Basically because the USA is afraid of the European inspired GSM network.
In NZ (where I live) it was always funny watching the CDMA, DAMPS and APMS provider - Telecom NZ - play catch-up in the technology, features and capabilities to the GSM provider - Vodafone.
It also helps that we can use phones that are literally from Asian countries. (At least, GSM ones.) You can go to Hong Kong and buy a GSM phone, and come here and put a Vodafone NZ SIM card in it and it will work. Keeps the competition up! (I don't have to wait for Vodafone NZ to play catch up if I don't want to.)
I must admit, I was confused what the heck this article was about. Cards like this have been in NZ since... oh, 2000? [looks at archive.org] Yep. There we go. Mentioned on Vodafone New Zealand's website four years ago.
The Nokia Card Phone in the year 1999. Sure this was GSM data old-school (the original - pre-GPRS - specification for data over GSM, at 9600 bps.) But hey. Same basic idea.
The current version of en.wikipedia.org (English edition) is 301 MB, and the dump including the edit histories (ie: old versions) of the articles is 9079MB. The current version download of all languages is 686 MB.
(As I understand it, all articles are included in that 301 MB download. It is gzip compressed, however.)
As for images and uploaded files, for English, they're available as a split tar file - 1.9 and 1.7 GB for a total of a 3.6 gb download.
Actually.. for cooking, such things are still metric. As far as I am concerned, a teaspoon is defined as 5mL, a dessertspoon is 10mL and a tablespoon is 15 mL. A cup is 250 mL.
(Yes, this is a metric teaspoon and a metric cup. The point is that there are still metric definitions for them. I'm a New Zealander, and I have a bunch of measuring cups at home, and they have these values written on them. Recipe books too expect me to use metric cooking units.)
So, in other words, are you so sure you're using imperial cooking units? I wouldn't be surprised if your cookbooks are actually metric and you didn't know.
Yeah.. it's called international standards. They can be difficult to change, and do you want to be responsible for it?
Meanwhile, at least outside of the USA those altimeters are calibrated in millibar or hectopascals (QNH) - (metric units) whereas americans still have it in inches-of-mercury(imperial.)
Oh no! You were forced to comply with the later RFCs!
RFC 2476 states: 3.1 Submission Identification Port 587 is reserved for email message submission as specified in this document. Messages received on this port are defined to be submissions. The protocol used is ESMTP [SMTP-MTA, ESMTP], with additional restrictions as specified here.
In other words, for submitting to an MTA, you're supposed to be using 587, not 25, these days. 25 is for inter-MTA traffic. (In practice, allowing submissions on port 25 is often required as well, as that RFC itself states in the paragraph straight after.)
While most email clients and servers can be configured to use port 587 instead of 25, there are cases where this is not possible or convenient. A site MAY choose to use port 25 for message submission, by designating some hosts to be MSAs and others to be MTAs.
Be realistic. You have exactly twelve posts in your LJ. (k4_pacific, right?)
I have one thousand three hundred and fifty six. Are you *still serious*? Besides, the save-as would include all the layout / navigation guff as well as the entry content.
Anyway, there's a better option. There now exists a real livejournal backup tool. (And, it allows you to search the entire contents of your LJ. When your LJ spans several years, that's rather useful.)
It's supposed to grab the comments too, but I'm not one hundred perecent sure about that feature's relability.
Hrrm.. I imagine that that would have only ever happened as a mistake - never as an unannounced delibrate action. I cannot imagine Brad being as unrepentent and arrogant as Dave here. (Another/.er has said that Dave apparently has quite a reputation for arrogance.)
LJ is a completely different level of outfit - their scale is huge. They also created and released (the open source) memcached, now a standard way of accellerating databases on very heavy traffic'd sites.
Cairo: Vector graphics rendering library that can take advantage of XRender and other such extensions, especially those supplied by:
Keith's X Server: A redesign of X Servers, focussing on "Modern" design and features used by modern X Software. (Client side fonts, composing offscreen.)
Wiemea: X Window manager that uses Ciaro for output and rendering.
The theory is that Ciaro will become the standard way of drawing graphics, and since everything is vector based, it becomes resoultion independent. (Increasing the resolution doesn't make things smaller unless you want it to - it simply makes things smoother.)
But websites are funny. Half the time the client will either loose interest - not care the same four static HTML pages are there day after day-, or completely replace the whole thing with a twelve year old's creation, or simply go bankrupt.
That's the thing - it's usually not worth the effort making mantainable websites because the odds are the website author won't end up maintaining them anyway.
Look, we're talking about "Security Experts" that claimed that because the images were found in unallocated portions of the disk, he was clearly guilty! So, no, I don't think they'd be able to see it.
Some of the images were found in unallocated file space, and would have to have been placed there deliberately since cached images from browsing sessions wouldn't have been stored in unallocated space.
These 'experts' were pretty unbeliviably f'ing stupid - didn't they know that all caches automatically delete old files and once a file is deleted, whatever's there goes into unallocated space? That's the whole point of a cache?
Who, and why, would put files in unallocated space? Would this person know how to do this? (Not exactly common knowledge.) Or is it more likely that these were files - possibly part of the browser cache - that got deleted? Files possibly deleted by the previous owner?
Excuse me.. I'm ranting. Sorry.
Anyway, Most forensic scientists are competnent. Most 'security experts' are, well, bovine excrement.
Err, exactly this is why the OPL exists, albiet originally for IRC. There is also the CBL, which lists about a million open proxies and compromised machines.
I suggest you check up on how a DNSBL works and find out about them. They publish a constantly updated list of such proxies and other things, mainly for filtering out spam but can be used to filter out anything you don't want from an open proxy using DNS protocols.
As you can appriciate, having a constantly updated list is preferable to a static list of 1000.
There's no reason why Sprint couldn't use the OPL, Sorbs, NJABL, CBL or any of the other open proxy DNSBL's out there.
Well.. yep, for 10 years in the future, Promise and Software would have the same "readibility".
We're using Windows 2000 & 2003, and trust me, it's simpler to use a Promise card to mirror the boot volume than to use 2k's software mirroring. Recently moved to SATA based drives.
There are advantages to the promise cards still - with the enclosures, you get hot-swap and you get status LED's and what not. (We're hoping to be able to say to person on the phone, "which one has the orange light?")
Similar feature set as VSS, runs on MSDE (which is free) or SQL Serer 2K so it's a heck of a lot more robust, supposed to intergrate into VS.Net as well as VSS.
Single user edition is free ( http://software.ericsink.com/20040213.html#10151 )
You never know what kind of crazy sitation you're in. What if you have no spare 3ware cards with you? What if it's 10 years later and 3ware IDE cards are ancient history? What if you want to recover data off a recovered drive for some reason and you just want to put it in a USB box?
It's a nice backstop that Promise "arrays" are still accessable with conventional hardware.
This author is talking about cash registers - where they're likely out and about all day from place to place doing a service run with spares in the back of the car.
And, yes, RAID-1 - as the poster said, mirroring. For many applications, mirroring is perfectly fine - it's best to mirror the boot disc.
Slashdot Mirror
"it mucks up SQL server."
I suspect that it's only firewall that screws up SQL Server. Turn that off.
Or read the notes on it properly.
If so, read the release notes. The firewall is turned off at the end of setup in 2K3SP1RC1. So, there won't be a problem with SQL Server on 2K3SP1RC1!
You're missing this.
... you name it."
"I started using Gentoo on the desktop and now I've rolled it out as a production server using some great technologies: ReiserFS, RAID-5, Gentoo patched kernel, Samba
What's missing is the context - funroll-loops.
Yes - you would notice the difference, but I suspect that would have been due to the pre-emptive patches, not the real-time patches.
(The RT side would have been idle if it was never given a RT task to do on the dev workstations.)
FWIW, I believe preemptive is in mainline now.
I could be wrong, but from memory, only specalised software can use the RT side of things, but pre-emptive improves latency for all Linux processes.
Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the World's Steepest Street.
According to this, at its most steep section (6 meters long)
"Baldwin Street has a maximum gradient of 1m in 2.86m. This means for every 2.86 metres horizontal it goes up vertically 1 metre" (the word meter is only in their for clarity - you can equally say 2.86 feet horozontal it goes vertically 1 foot.)
By my calculations that's 19.3 degrees incline. This is steepest section of the world's steepest street, so yeah, 30 degrees seems a pinch on the overzealous side.
Overall, the street has a vertical distance of 69.2m, and a horozontal distance of 359 m.
Basically because the USA is afraid of the European inspired GSM network.
In NZ (where I live) it was always funny watching the CDMA, DAMPS and APMS provider - Telecom NZ - play catch-up in the technology, features and capabilities to the GSM provider - Vodafone.
It also helps that we can use phones that are literally from Asian countries. (At least, GSM ones.) You can go to Hong Kong and buy a GSM phone, and come here and put a Vodafone NZ SIM card in it and it will work. Keeps the competition up! (I don't have to wait for Vodafone NZ to play catch up if I don't want to.)
I must admit, I was confused what the heck this article was about. Cards like this have been in NZ since... oh, 2000? [looks at archive.org] Yep. There we go. Mentioned on Vodafone New Zealand's website four years ago.
The Nokia Card Phone in the year 1999. Sure this was GSM data old-school (the original - pre-GPRS - specification for data over GSM, at 9600 bps.) But hey. Same basic idea.
Do the dos versions work under dosbox?
s =1
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_new
Check out http://download.wikimedia.org/.
The current version of en.wikipedia.org (English edition) is 301 MB, and the dump including the edit histories (ie: old versions) of the articles is 9079MB. The current version download of all languages is 686 MB.
(As I understand it, all articles are included in that 301 MB download. It is gzip compressed, however.)
As for images and uploaded files, for English, they're available as a split tar file - 1.9 and 1.7 GB for a total of a 3.6 gb download.
Are you sure? How many machines are f.root-servers.net?
h p
BGP anycast anyone?
There's currently twenty four f root server/s.
http://www.isc.org/about/press/?pr=2004040800 gives the press release for Portugal.
There are more in Brisbane, Auckland, Toronto, Taiwan, Singapore, Moscow, Paris, UAE, Seoul...
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/ops/f-root/sites.p
Actually.. for cooking, such things are still metric. As far as I am concerned, a teaspoon is defined as 5mL, a dessertspoon is 10mL and a tablespoon is 15 mL. A cup is 250 mL.
(Yes, this is a metric teaspoon and a metric cup. The point is that there are still metric definitions for them. I'm a New Zealander, and I have a bunch of measuring cups at home, and they have these values written on them. Recipe books too expect me to use metric cooking units.)
So, in other words, are you so sure you're using imperial cooking units? I wouldn't be surprised if your cookbooks are actually metric and you didn't know.
Yeah.. it's called international standards. They can be difficult to change, and do you want to be responsible for it?
Meanwhile, at least outside of the USA those altimeters are calibrated in millibar or hectopascals (QNH) - (metric units) whereas americans still have it in inches-of-mercury(imperial.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNH
Oh no! You were forced to comply with the later RFCs!
RFC 2476 states:
3.1 Submission Identification
Port 587 is reserved for email message submission as specified in this document. Messages received on this port are defined to be submissions. The protocol used is ESMTP [SMTP-MTA, ESMTP], with additional restrictions as specified here.
In other words, for submitting to an MTA, you're supposed to be using 587, not 25, these days. 25 is for inter-MTA traffic. (In practice, allowing submissions on port 25 is often required as well, as that RFC itself states in the paragraph straight after.)
While most email clients and servers can be configured to use port 587 instead of 25, there are cases where this is not possible or convenient. A site MAY choose to use port 25 for message submission, by designating some hosts to be MSAs and others to be MTAs.
Be realistic. You have exactly twelve posts in your LJ. (k4_pacific, right?)
I have one thousand three hundred and fifty six. Are you *still serious*? Besides, the save-as would include all the layout / navigation guff as well as the entry content.
Anyway, there's a better option. There now exists a real livejournal backup tool. (And, it allows you to search the entire contents of your LJ. When your LJ spans several years, that's rather useful.)
It's supposed to grab the comments too, but I'm not one hundred perecent sure about that feature's relability.
Hrrm.. I imagine that that would have only ever happened as a mistake - never as an unannounced delibrate action. I cannot imagine Brad being as unrepentent and arrogant as Dave here. (Another /.er has said that Dave apparently has quite a reputation for arrogance.)
LJ is a completely different level of outfit - their scale is huge. They also created and released (the open source) memcached, now a standard way of accellerating databases on very heavy traffic'd sites.
Anyway, there is finally a livejournal backup program - downloads your LJ to your local computer.
Yep - I would have liked to see Promise, 3ware and Adaptec cards in the mix for comparison purposes.
(Not saying that Promise are good or anything - but that it'd be interesting.)
That's the thing - how much of this 'raid' is true hardware RAID, and how much is merely software-with-an-INT-13-hook-so-you-can-boot.
And what is performance like if you used just bog standard NT/2003 software mirroring/RAIDing.
http://www.freedesktop.org/.
Cairo: Vector graphics rendering library that can take advantage of XRender and other such extensions, especially those supplied by:
Keith's X Server: A redesign of X Servers, focussing on "Modern" design and features used by modern X Software. (Client side fonts, composing offscreen.)
Wiemea: X Window manager that uses Ciaro for output and rendering.
The theory is that Ciaro will become the standard way of drawing graphics, and since everything is vector based, it becomes resoultion independent. (Increasing the resolution doesn't make things smaller unless you want it to - it simply makes things smoother.)
Want to know why they won't?
Read Want to tick off the CEO of Nokia?.
They're not as easy to find as traditional SPF records. Do a TXT query for _ep.hotmail.com.
d irect>list1._ep.hotmail.com</indirect> <indirect>list2._ep.hotmail.com</indirect><indirec t>list3._ep.hotmail.com</indirect></m></out></ep>"
"<ep xmlns='http://ms.net/1'testing='true'><out><m><in
But websites are funny. Half the time the client will either loose interest - not care the same four static HTML pages are there day after day-, or completely replace the whole thing with a twelve year old's creation, or simply go bankrupt.
That's the thing - it's usually not worth the effort making mantainable websites because the odds are the website author won't end up maintaining them anyway.
Look, we're talking about "Security Experts" that claimed that because the images were found in unallocated portions of the disk, he was clearly guilty! So, no, I don't think they'd be able to see it.
Some of the images were found in unallocated file space, and would have to have been placed there deliberately since cached images from browsing sessions wouldn't have been stored in unallocated space.
These 'experts' were pretty unbeliviably f'ing stupid - didn't they know that all caches automatically delete old files and once a file is deleted, whatever's there goes into unallocated space? That's the whole point of a cache?
Who, and why, would put files in unallocated space? Would this person know how to do this? (Not exactly common knowledge.) Or is it more likely that these were files - possibly part of the browser cache - that got deleted? Files possibly deleted by the previous owner?
Excuse me.. I'm ranting. Sorry.
Anyway, Most forensic scientists are competnent. Most 'security experts' are, well, bovine excrement.
It's 'cause this lj is a lj of GIF files rather than the norm of text.
(Yep, each entry is simply <IMG SRC... )
Check out http://www.blackholes.us/ and http://countries.nerd.dk/
t
- country based DNSBL data.
For example, http://www.blackholes.us/zones/country/nigeria.tx
Err, exactly this is why the OPL exists, albiet originally for IRC. There is also the CBL, which lists about a million open proxies and compromised machines.
I suggest you check up on how a DNSBL works and find out about them. They publish a constantly updated list of such proxies and other things, mainly for filtering out spam but can be used to filter out anything you don't want from an open proxy using DNS protocols.
As you can appriciate, having a constantly updated list is preferable to a static list of 1000.
There's no reason why Sprint couldn't use the OPL, Sorbs, NJABL, CBL or any of the other open proxy DNSBL's out there.
Well.. yep, for 10 years in the future, Promise and Software would have the same "readibility".
We're using Windows 2000 & 2003, and trust me, it's simpler to use a Promise card to mirror the boot volume than to use 2k's software mirroring. Recently moved to SATA based drives.
There are advantages to the promise cards still - with the enclosures, you get hot-swap and you get status LED's and what not. (We're hoping to be able to say to person on the phone, "which one has the orange light?")
Soucegear vault. (http://www.sourcegear.com/)
Similar feature set as VSS, runs on MSDE (which is free) or SQL Serer 2K so it's a heck of a lot more robust, supposed to intergrate into VS.Net as well as VSS.
Single user edition is free ( http://software.ericsink.com/20040213.html#10151 )
You never know what kind of crazy sitation you're in. What if you have no spare 3ware cards with you? What if it's 10 years later and 3ware IDE cards are ancient history? What if you want to recover data off a recovered drive for some reason and you just want to put it in a USB box?
It's a nice backstop that Promise "arrays" are still accessable with conventional hardware.
This author is talking about cash registers - where they're likely out and about all day from place to place doing a service run with spares in the back of the car.
And, yes, RAID-1 - as the poster said, mirroring. For many applications, mirroring is perfectly fine - it's best to mirror the boot disc.