From the Yunann province in China? Seen thouse over the past few weeks. Nothing to worry about (unless you have easily broken passwords and badly named accounts).
"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."
There are no clean solutions in Windows. All roads lead to madness.
If Microsoft is really wanting to learn from it's 'competitors' it should take a good look at OpenBSD. Clean interfaces, extremely well documented, and safe.
Lots of people have compact flash media why not make a model of your wonder device that supports compact flash? The semi-competant guys at Frontier Labs do (albeit the firmware from there products is less than perfect).
SD/MMC cards are useless because they are too fragile (physically and electromagically) so much so you can't just put one in your wallet and just carry it around for a week without the card dying.
Please support CF in your future products OK PLZ TKS.
I built a small disconnected network to build 40 nodes using G4U. Grabbed a machine threw a big disk in it and gave it gigabit to the switch I was using. I left g4u running overnight uploading the image and it failed (other than the new nodes the rest of the hardware was pulled out of production). Ran again and many hours later it was done. By then we were running out of time so we ended up dumping it and making 4 images and fanning out. Ended up taking less time to do this than to use g4u for creating 1 image. I would give it another shot by making the image with dd and having g4u serve it (not sure how I would do that). Uploading the image was very very horrible and costly (in terms of time).
Choose a notional pattern and set of guideliness that your 2D and 3D people are forced to adhere to. This is not only for pathing but file names (some studios are very pedantic about this).
Microsoft DFS can let you run many file servers using big (ie. FreeBSD or other non-windows) beasts so the entire namespace is visiable to everyone but the specifics are left to the admins to deal with (shuffle around transpearently to the users). Samba's implementation of DFS is horribly broken (only allows 'lower case' paths.
Choose your hardware carefully, your disk system will be the biggest bottle neck on your renderfarm (even if you have fully switched gigabit to each node).
Whatever disc architecture you choose test a demo in a production like environment or you'll regret it when the bill comes.
Take a look at readable tcp dump and you'll notice that it is just the ascii character set shifted continuously. Now if you NEVER need disk access then this could be usable (aka isp and router junction points) but once you hit disk you are bottlenecked. Even with U320 SCSI you can only hit 320 MB/s (~2.5Gbit/s) assuming linear reads at full cacity of your full array of disks.
Disk is limiting pretty much anything, such as playing raw 2K video (2048x1556) in real time (seconds is relatively easy but minutes is difficult). I could care less how fast your network speed as when 1 non-solid state device (ie. disk) is entered into the mix the network performance is notional compared to real performance.
It is just me or did the 'public-facing CEO memo' say a whole lot of nothing? I think the only real point in that memo was that managing systems is hard to scale if not done right. To that, I agree.
The company I work at is having all kinds of growing pains from being a 1 tiny server with 5 employees setup to a bunch of big servers and a lot more employees in three different cities with only 2 sysadmins (me and another dude). I wouldn't trust any commercial management software that doesn't fit with the needs and the flexibility of my department. Hell upgrading to w2k3 server will cost over $10,000 (CAN, with CALs) per server yet FreeBSD costs 1 CDR and a few man hours. Still that doesn't help in the managment of resources department.
Tools help Systems people keep the network/resources in check. They don't solve the problem.
Joy. Backup software which doesn't suck is an undocumented sign of the apocalypse. When good backup software also deals with multiple drive libraries in a way which also doesn't suck then we will also know the point where pi repeats.
Fujitsu 'did it right' with the P-Series. It would be nice to have a faster processor but the flexibility the P-Series (I have the 2120) is unmatched. 8 hours+ battery life and when you add in a 7200rpm drive it is not as sluggish.
Games are best avoided here but I didn't buy it for mobile gaming just mobile working and notes taking in class.
Interesting to say the least but a few of the effects looked a little plastic. It should be a good 2 hour ride though. I'm still wondering which shot "will be so expensive that no one will every copy it."
It doesn't suck. I just got back from seeing it. The h@x0r stuff is bad but I've come to expect that from Hollywood. It's actually quite good. I'm glad I was invited to go see it with the visual effects team used for a few of the shots.
Hello troll. You may find it fun to learn that Winnipeg is not yet part of the US and the "bus company" is funded in part by the city and the provincial government.
I prefer to look at it as not necessarily technology is bad but from a luser's persepective it is so easy for technology to go out of hand.
Give it 20 years when even making toast is abstracted into some large machine we don't have direct control over. Joe Q. User would just say 'toast' and toast would come out. The user cannot appriciate nor have control over the toaster in fact quite the opposite. This ignorance fosters abuse ('it will always work so I don't have to care for it') in us lazy humans and when we make these machines more intelligent to deal with our ignorance it isn't too much of a stretch that they (the machines) may put off by our ignorance.
The main point is that in the facination with bigger, faster, stronger we lose the ability (as a people) to fully understand how we interact with the world and how it interacts with us.
Think of this as a Paul Bunyan story where the chainsaw has feelings and self awareness.
Anyways that's just my opinion. No refunds will be considered for any reason.
It is stuff like this that makes we wonder if the estimate of us needing 3 earths to sustain our current level of consumption is accurate.
It's really sickening how much stuff we aquire only just to end up as pollution.
I've a friend or two with some hazardous looking basements full of old hardware and despite the fact they do not need that kind of excess they just won't quit.
And if you want impressions and suggestions then add "review" or "suggestions" to the search criteria. Joe Q. Internet hosting a site is about as acurate as your average slashdot user.
Then again this site is all about "News for sheep and stuff that barely qualifies as news."
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From the Yunann province in China?
Seen thouse over the past few weeks.
Nothing to worry about (unless you have easily broken passwords and badly named accounts).
"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."
There are no clean solutions in Windows. All roads lead to madness.
If Microsoft is really wanting to learn from it's 'competitors' it should take a good look at OpenBSD. Clean interfaces, extremely well documented, and safe.
Dear MP3 player manufacturers,
Lots of people have compact flash media why not make a model of your wonder device that supports compact flash? The semi-competant guys at Frontier Labs do (albeit the firmware from there products is less than perfect).
SD/MMC cards are useless because they are too fragile (physically and electromagically) so much so you can't just put one in your wallet and just carry it around for a week without the card dying.
Please support CF in your future products OK PLZ TKS.
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I built a small disconnected network to build 40 nodes using G4U. Grabbed a machine threw a big disk in it and gave it gigabit to the switch I was using. I left g4u running overnight uploading the image and it failed (other than the new nodes the rest of the hardware was pulled out of production). Ran again and many hours later it was done. By then we were running out of time so we ended up dumping it and making 4 images and fanning out. Ended up taking less time to do this than to use g4u for creating 1 image. I would give it another shot by making the image with dd and having g4u serve it (not sure how I would do that). Uploading the image was very very horrible and costly (in terms of time).
It would be great if it wasn't so damned slow.
Faster to dd to an itermediary drive and fan out to all your machines (with parallelism equal to the number of people you got).
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Take a look at readable tcp dump and you'll notice that it is just the ascii character set shifted continuously. Now if you NEVER need disk access then this could be usable (aka isp and router junction points) but once you hit disk you are bottlenecked. Even with U320 SCSI you can only hit 320 MB/s (~2.5Gbit/s) assuming linear reads at full cacity of your full array of disks.
Disk is limiting pretty much anything, such as playing raw 2K video (2048x1556) in real time (seconds is relatively easy but minutes is difficult). I could care less how fast your network speed as when 1 non-solid state device (ie. disk) is entered into the mix the network performance is notional compared to real performance.
It is just me or did the 'public-facing CEO memo' say a whole lot of nothing? I think the only real point in that memo was that managing systems is hard to scale if not done right. To that, I agree.
The company I work at is having all kinds of growing pains from being a 1 tiny server with 5 employees setup to a bunch of big servers and a lot more employees in three different cities with only 2 sysadmins (me and another dude). I wouldn't trust any commercial management software that doesn't fit with the needs and the flexibility of my department. Hell upgrading to w2k3 server will cost over $10,000 (CAN, with CALs) per server yet FreeBSD costs 1 CDR and a few man hours. Still that doesn't help in the managment of resources department.
Tools help Systems people keep the network/resources in check. They don't solve the problem.
Hm, and I was about to re-rip all my CDs at 320 kbps MP3 ...
You either have very few CDs or way too much time on your hands.
I was considering making higher bit rate versions of my library but would only hire my brother to do it for me (over 200 albums).
Joy.
Backup software which doesn't suck is an undocumented sign of the apocalypse. When good backup software also deals with multiple drive libraries in a way which also doesn't suck then we will also know the point where pi repeats.
DLT is certainly faster than typing though if you were using BackupExec or was not saving data in a easy to migrate form then I would agree.
:)
DLT+tar is decent.
Exabyte+tar is slow.
Exabyte+BackupExec = pain... 8 hours just to get a catalog and just as long to retireve anything.
BackupExec is all kinds of crap.
I think the use of the term DLT peaked my interest but I agree with the original statement.
Fujitsu 'did it right' with the P-Series.
It would be nice to have a faster processor but the flexibility the P-Series (I have the 2120) is unmatched. 8 hours+ battery life and when you add in a 7200rpm drive it is not as sluggish.
Games are best avoided here but I didn't buy it for mobile gaming just mobile working and notes taking in class.
Takashi 'Beat' Kitano would be a better choice.
If you haven't seen Brother or Battle Royale you should this guy is the king of stoic acting.
Interesting to say the least but a few of the effects looked a little plastic. It should be a good 2 hour ride though. I'm still wondering which shot "will be so expensive that no one will every copy it."
It doesn't suck. I just got back from seeing it. The h@x0r stuff is bad but I've come to expect that from Hollywood. It's actually quite good. I'm glad I was invited to go see it with the visual effects team used for a few of the shots.
Hello troll. You may find it fun to learn that Winnipeg is not yet part of the US and the "bus company" is funded in part by the city and the provincial government.
We are not so lucky in Winnipeg as we have a 'post secondary' bus fare so $40+/month is far from free. :)
Our gas prices are not all that hot either... 76.2 cents per litre. I expect a frozen Mad Max scenario is on the horizon.
I prefer to look at it as not necessarily technology is bad but from a luser's persepective it is so easy for technology to go out of hand.
Give it 20 years when even making toast is abstracted into some large machine we don't have direct control over. Joe Q. User would just say 'toast' and toast would come out. The user cannot appriciate nor have control over the toaster in fact quite the opposite. This ignorance fosters abuse ('it will always work so I don't have to care for it') in us lazy humans and when we make these machines more intelligent to deal with our ignorance it isn't too much of a stretch that they (the machines) may put off by our ignorance.
The main point is that in the facination with bigger, faster, stronger we lose the ability (as a people) to fully understand how we interact with the world and how it interacts with us.
Think of this as a Paul Bunyan story where the chainsaw has feelings and self awareness.
Anyways that's just my opinion. No refunds will be considered for any reason.
Agreed.
Oh, they will be in time.
It is stuff like this that makes we wonder if the estimate of us needing 3 earths to sustain our current level of consumption is accurate.
It's really sickening how much stuff we aquire only just to end up as pollution.
I've a friend or two with some hazardous looking basements full of old hardware and despite the fact they do not need that kind of excess they just won't quit.
It is just sad.
agreed
Asimov, Issac - I, Robot.
Read it.
It's good for you like soup.
You can obtain a copy at your local book store, library or eBook Warez IRC channel (though the former is preferred to the later).
And if you want impressions and suggestions then add "review" or "suggestions" to the search criteria. Joe Q. Internet hosting a site is about as acurate as your average slashdot user.
Then again this site is all about "News for sheep and stuff that barely qualifies as news."
Oh yeah.. BAAAAAAAAH!