It's like why MS gets exploited more than Linux distros etc. RHL9 is remote rootable out of the box, but spammers/hackers aren't interested in using that to do their stuff - not worth it. Yet.
If thousands of unpatched Windows XP machines spread around the world started editing wikipedia how'd you deal with that? Remove anonymous access? Captchas could help, while there are ways around captchas, it looks like the cost-benefit of getting around captchas for wikis would be deterring. So I'd suggest getting wikis captcha-ready, so you can just flip the switch when stuff happens, or it could even be automatically activated - X changes in a minute, Y changes in 10 minutes.
BTW I don't see how Alexa stats would be representative or typical. Stats from an ISP would be better.
"Real Life" 1) No quicksaves/quickrestore. No save spots. No save games. Nada. 2) There's no respawn button[1]. 3) Too often there's no background music that warns you that a Big Baddie is near or something important is about to happen. 4) Too many cheaters, lamers and arseholes ruining the game. 5) AFAIK almost all players die.
The graphics, sound, smell etc are pretty realistic though.
Replayability? Let me think about this:).
[1] Whilst there have been reports (unverified) of respawning, since almost everything changes - attributes, XP, location, era etc, that's not really very helpful.
I've tried it recently and it doesn't seem to fix stuff cleanly - I had to manually delete stuff from registry before all the spyware got deactivated.
Anyway that misses the point. I don't see why the FBI etc are busy throwing silly kids into jail but letting this spyware people get away with their crap.
If the spyware people can do what they do just because of some stupid "agreement" then the worm makers could do the same thing. Sheesh.
One day I'm going to start putting an EULA on my stuff, if you click on it, you agree to give me all rights to you, your property, your family, friends, relatives, their property etc. Doh.
And you also agree to quack like a duck everytime you hear the words/names "Microsoft", "RIAA", "MPAA".
Yeah. Maybe there have been one or two searches for opteron servers on Dell's search page:). Anyone looking for an Opteron version of the Poweredge 1600SC?
But their hands are probably tied. Rumour is that Dell has committed to buying USD5 billion of Intel stuff. I suppose that's how Dell gets real cheap Intel stuff? Now I'm wondering if Dell has a "get out" clause (they should if they are sane) somewhere, and if it does, what it is and whether it is close to applying... Watch Intel and Dell closely to see who is squirming the most, and perhaps you might figure more out.
It's worth supporting AMD just to watch the Intel and Dell show. Bwahahaha.
Still I'm sure Intel will manage to turn things around. Sure looks like they've the stomach to make the hard decisions based on technical stuff when it comes down to the crunch (plus plenty of reserve belly fat). Of course it took them a while (judging from the recent presentation by the ex-Intel chap) but there's plenty of inertia/momentum involved when making chips esp when you've been doing things well the past X years. Intel can afford to make a mistake or two every now and then, as long as it corrects them eventually.
Not sure about the Itanic though - my guess is it'll remain one of the fringe chips. If Intel doesn't make a good server class "Pentium M 64", then AMD is going to take that market (and Dell is in for a rough ride). If Intel does make a good AMD64 chip, I don't see that many people flocking to the Itanic. Heh.
If Intel screwed up/miscalculated[1] and can only launch a decent competitor in 2005+, Dell's competitors can take significant market share IF they play the Opteron card well. But which x86 server maker wants to piss Intel off by playing the Opteron card and which can actually pull it off? Sun? IBM? HP??
[1] Looks like Intel's 64bit extensions aren't 100% AMD64 compatible. That might be intentional, and not a problem in itself. The problem is if Microsoft insists on some things that Intel has left out (e.g. the NX stuff). Chips take some time to be fixed, tested etc...
"Anyone using a bot like that would be blocked quickly"
I don't see how you can block multiple attackers as easily without the wiki not being a wiki- it's like blocking email spam. But as long as the wiki doesn't get as much eyeballshare it has little to worry about.
If a wiki ever became the homepage for many millions I wonder how long it'll stay that way...
I sure hope it is _impossible_ to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki or insert an IFRAME or something similar (think self-replicating or MSIE exploit IFRAMEs).
There's a reason why China has Red Flag Linux and been trying to push its own tech (CPU, wireless etc). They still remember the days of opium and gunboats.
"Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." -- Bill Gates
I think that Bill Gates quote has less bullshit than _any_ quote from the BSA.
While the article is overhyped, I would like to point out that the white/beige box PCs have significant market share esp in other countries (like the 3rd world).
You said: "The K8 is somewhat improved though but still has the heat factor"
The normal Athlons run hotter. But not the K8s. You cannot use the normal Athlons as an example of the Athlon64s/Opterons.
Whilst the K8s are speced for 80+Watts, most run at 50+ watts. Which is cooler than most normal Athlons and P4s (not the mobile ones).
My guess for one of the reasons why AMD specs for 80+ watts is because they intend to go dual core and their dual core chips will be pin compatible with the existing single cores - it is advantageous for AMD if most things don't need to be changed - just drop the chip in (in contrast Intel has enough clout to push BTX etc just coz they can't get stuff 100W). Another reason would be to stop people using crappy coolers.
Uh, they're already stealing CPUs etc. Go look -there are a number of articles on this.
Hijacking is pretty common. Plus the risk is lower with stealing CPUs than trafficking drugs. Whilst just possession of cocaine gets you in trouble in most places, possession of a few hundred P4s is not illegal, and even less suspicious if you set up a legit facade/front around it - forged docs, companies etc.
Given P4s may or may not be legit depending on context, chip sniffing dogs are unlikely to be as useful compared to drug sniffing dogs.
Well I'm still unclear on what you are trying to say about the Motorola chips and why.
Are they really that terrible compared to the G5? Any details?
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Well, here's my thoughts on swap.
First you should worry about how your O/S does "memory overcommit".
Many O/Ses overcommit mem. How they handle the case when it turns out there really isn't any mem left (including swap) is what you'd want to know. Some O/Ses (and versions of O/S) effectively kill -9 random processes till there's enough RAM to run. Some applications intentionally allocate large amounts of mem and usually don't every use them. So they usually won't work if you have overcommit turned off (and not enough RAM+swap).
If you having tons of swap just to avoid your O/S poor handling of mem overcommit, you may end up in a death spiral of swapping. Running processes page by page off your HDD isn't fun to watch (it's so 50s or was that 60s:) ).
My HDD transfers at max 40-50MB/sec, random seek transfer maybe about 11MB/sec.
At worst case how long does it take to swap out and swap in the largest process you'd ever have, given the speed of the HDD? Can you wait that long? Can the app wait that long? Will the machine be dead for practical purposes?
So if you can wait 20 secs, maybe 512MB is ok, assuming the pig process only uses half or so of your swap (plus whatever physical RAM you have).
But with a small swap, you may run out of mem and hit the memory overcommit scenario.
I'd still keep swap - just so that when my machine runs out of mem starts slowing down, rather than slamming full speed into a hard wall.
Even if a fridge isn't the most efficient way to warm the house, it very efficient.
A fridge isn't that efficient in cooling, but it is very efficient in generating heat. Basic physics/thermodynamics.
Like many other devices most of the energy ends up as heat, very little escapes the room/house as light or other forms of energy. In fact a fridge pumps the heat from stuff inside it.
A heatpump can actually be more efficient at heating than a pure 100% heater. This is achieved by pumping the heat from somewhere so you get additional heat on top of the energy you put in.
A fridge is problematic if you don't want the room warmer. e.g. you are airconditioning the room and your fridge is inside the room.
Of you want the fridge to cool more effectively whilst inside an already warm room.
While people say a library could degenerate into a glorified ISP, I believe that is not necessarily true - the Web is huge and diverse, so a library could easily set its desired context (home page) with links to stuff, similarly it could also set a policy depending on what sort of library it wants to be - e.g. no porn etc.
While books are cheaper than computers. In some places physical space is at a premium, there it may be cheaper to put books into electronic formats and print and bind them on demand. The computers are there for you to check if you really want the book enough - so the library doesn't waste money printing it out and storage space later when it is returned (out of space = donate to other libraries or charities). Same goes for CDs, DVDs etc.
But the Corporates and Cartels won't like that sort of thing.
Was talking about public libraries. The links I pointed to may have more books than some public libraries.
Who expects college/uni students to rely on public libraries for their research?
That said, more and more research material is becoming publicly accessible on the Web. Heck often the Web's search engines are far better than the various library search engines etc.
That's what I hope the soldiers keep in mind from time to time (not all the time - would affect performance) as they are ordered to kill and risk their lives.
When it starts getting close to black and white and when your leaders start to do pretty bad stuff that's when soldiers/people should start to think.
But for some people it is: "just follow orders", "just doing my duty", genocide? No problem. Kill those with "wrong religion"? Sure no problem.
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Heh, who the Americans actually vote for could be irrelevant too if the vote results get diebolded.
:).
As for the poll results, maybe they were diebolded too
It's like why MS gets exploited more than Linux distros etc. RHL9 is remote rootable out of the box, but spammers/hackers aren't interested in using that to do their stuff - not worth it. Yet.
If thousands of unpatched Windows XP machines spread around the world started editing wikipedia how'd you deal with that? Remove anonymous access? Captchas could help, while there are ways around captchas, it looks like the cost-benefit of getting around captchas for wikis would be deterring. So I'd suggest getting wikis captcha-ready, so you can just flip the switch when stuff happens, or it could even be automatically activated - X changes in a minute, Y changes in 10 minutes.
BTW I don't see how Alexa stats would be representative or typical. Stats from an ISP would be better.
"Real Life"
:).
1) No quicksaves/quickrestore. No save spots. No save games. Nada.
2) There's no respawn button[1].
3) Too often there's no background music that warns you that a Big Baddie is near or something important is about to happen.
4) Too many cheaters, lamers and arseholes ruining the game.
5) AFAIK almost all players die.
The graphics, sound, smell etc are pretty realistic though.
Replayability? Let me think about this
[1] Whilst there have been reports (unverified) of respawning, since almost everything changes - attributes, XP, location, era etc, that's not really very helpful.
I've tried it recently and it doesn't seem to fix stuff cleanly - I had to manually delete stuff from registry before all the spyware got deactivated.
Anyway that misses the point. I don't see why the FBI etc are busy throwing silly kids into jail but letting this spyware people get away with their crap.
If the spyware people can do what they do just because of some stupid "agreement" then the worm makers could do the same thing. Sheesh.
One day I'm going to start putting an EULA on my stuff, if you click on it, you agree to give me all rights to you, your property, your family, friends, relatives, their property etc. Doh.
And you also agree to quack like a duck everytime you hear the words/names "Microsoft", "RIAA", "MPAA".
Yeah. Maybe there have been one or two searches for opteron servers on Dell's search page :). Anyone looking for an Opteron version of the Poweredge 1600SC?
...
But their hands are probably tied. Rumour is that Dell has committed to buying USD5 billion of Intel stuff. I suppose that's how Dell gets real cheap Intel stuff? Now I'm wondering if Dell has a "get out" clause (they should if they are sane) somewhere, and if it does, what it is and whether it is close to applying... Watch Intel and Dell closely to see who is squirming the most, and perhaps you might figure more out.
It's worth supporting AMD just to watch the Intel and Dell show. Bwahahaha.
Still I'm sure Intel will manage to turn things around. Sure looks like they've the stomach to make the hard decisions based on technical stuff when it comes down to the crunch (plus plenty of reserve belly fat). Of course it took them a while (judging from the recent presentation by the ex-Intel chap) but there's plenty of inertia/momentum involved when making chips esp when you've been doing things well the past X years. Intel can afford to make a mistake or two every now and then, as long as it corrects them eventually.
Not sure about the Itanic though - my guess is it'll remain one of the fringe chips. If Intel doesn't make a good server class "Pentium M 64", then AMD is going to take that market (and Dell is in for a rough ride). If Intel does make a good AMD64 chip, I don't see that many people flocking to the Itanic. Heh.
If Intel screwed up/miscalculated[1] and can only launch a decent competitor in 2005+, Dell's competitors can take significant market share IF they play the Opteron card well. But which x86 server maker wants to piss Intel off by playing the Opteron card and which can actually pull it off? Sun? IBM? HP??
[1] Looks like Intel's 64bit extensions aren't 100% AMD64 compatible. That might be intentional, and not a problem in itself. The problem is if Microsoft insists on some things that Intel has left out (e.g. the NX stuff). Chips take some time to be fixed, tested etc
"Anyone using a bot like that would be blocked quickly"
I don't see how you can block multiple attackers as easily without the wiki not being a wiki- it's like blocking email spam. But as long as the wiki doesn't get as much eyeballshare it has little to worry about.
If a wiki ever became the homepage for many millions I wonder how long it'll stay that way...
I sure hope it is _impossible_ to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki or insert an IFRAME or something similar (think self-replicating or MSIE exploit IFRAMEs).
as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours
First dose is free. Now it's time to pay...
There's a reason why China has Red Flag Linux and been trying to push its own tech (CPU, wireless etc). They still remember the days of opium and gunboats.
I think you left out the "In Soviet Russia" bit, plus you need a bit more work on the punchline.
Keep at it, you're pretty close.
"Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
-- Bill Gates
I think that Bill Gates quote has less bullshit than _any_ quote from the BSA.
"all articles will tend toward a stable equilibrium - IE, a version that everyone can agree on"
Well that depends on who "everyone" is.
The wikis have just been fortunate that the worms or spammers aren't using them as messageboards or something else...
Most people won't vandalize your stuff, it's the 1% you have to worry about.
Call me a cynic but if the wikis ever become really popular or important enough, the spam will come. Meantime enjoy the innocence whilst it lasts.
Hope the wiki is archived from time to time.
While the article is overhyped, I would like to point out that the white/beige box PCs have significant market share esp in other countries (like the 3rd world).
The Secret Market Contender: White-Box PCs
You said:
"The K8 is somewhat improved though but still has the heat factor"
The normal Athlons run hotter. But not the K8s. You cannot use the normal Athlons as an example of the Athlon64s/Opterons.
Whilst the K8s are speced for 80+Watts, most run at 50+ watts. Which is cooler than most normal Athlons and P4s (not the mobile ones).
My guess for one of the reasons why AMD specs for 80+ watts is because they intend to go dual core and their dual core chips will be pin compatible with the existing single cores - it is advantageous for AMD if most things don't need to be changed - just drop the chip in (in contrast Intel has enough clout to push BTX etc just coz they can't get stuff 100W). Another reason would be to stop people using crappy coolers.
But are glass shower doors really safer?
Well maybe someone screwed up big time, and stories had to be made up.
Uh, they're already stealing CPUs etc. Go look -there are a number of articles on this.
Hijacking is pretty common. Plus the risk is lower with stealing CPUs than trafficking drugs. Whilst just possession of cocaine gets you in trouble in most places, possession of a few hundred P4s is not illegal, and even less suspicious if you set up a legit facade/front around it - forged docs, companies etc.
Given P4s may or may not be legit depending on context, chip sniffing dogs are unlikely to be as useful compared to drug sniffing dogs.
Well if they weren't hot-swap parts and they didn't switch off the router then those hot parts might not be that hot ... :)
Well I'm still unclear on what you are trying to say about the Motorola chips and why.
Are they really that terrible compared to the G5? Any details?
Well, here's my thoughts on swap.
:) ).
First you should worry about how your O/S does "memory overcommit".
Many O/Ses overcommit mem. How they handle the case when it turns out there really isn't any mem left (including swap) is what you'd want to know. Some O/Ses (and versions of O/S) effectively kill -9 random processes till there's enough RAM to run. Some applications intentionally allocate large amounts of mem and usually don't every use them. So they usually won't work if you have overcommit turned off (and not enough RAM+swap).
If you having tons of swap just to avoid your O/S poor handling of mem overcommit, you may end up in a death spiral of swapping. Running processes page by page off your HDD isn't fun to watch (it's so 50s or was that 60s
My HDD transfers at max 40-50MB/sec, random seek transfer maybe about 11MB/sec.
At worst case how long does it take to swap out and swap in the largest process you'd ever have, given the speed of the HDD? Can you wait that long? Can the app wait that long? Will the machine be dead for practical purposes?
So if you can wait 20 secs, maybe 512MB is ok, assuming the pig process only uses half or so of your swap (plus whatever physical RAM you have).
But with a small swap, you may run out of mem and hit the memory overcommit scenario.
I'd still keep swap - just so that when my machine runs out of mem starts slowing down, rather than slamming full speed into a hard wall.
Even if a fridge isn't the most efficient way to warm the house, it very efficient.
A fridge isn't that efficient in cooling, but it is very efficient in generating heat. Basic physics/thermodynamics.
Like many other devices most of the energy ends up as heat, very little escapes the room/house as light or other forms of energy. In fact a fridge pumps the heat from stuff inside it.
A heatpump can actually be more efficient at heating than a pure 100% heater. This is achieved by pumping the heat from somewhere so you get additional heat on top of the energy you put in.
A fridge is problematic if you don't want the room warmer. e.g. you are airconditioning the room and your fridge is inside the room.
Of you want the fridge to cool more effectively whilst inside an already warm room.
While people say a library could degenerate into a glorified ISP, I believe that is not necessarily true - the Web is huge and diverse, so a library could easily set its desired context (home page) with links to stuff, similarly it could also set a policy depending on what sort of library it wants to be - e.g. no porn etc.
While books are cheaper than computers. In some places physical space is at a premium, there it may be cheaper to put books into electronic formats and print and bind them on demand. The computers are there for you to check if you really want the book enough - so the library doesn't waste money printing it out and storage space later when it is returned (out of space = donate to other libraries or charities). Same goes for CDs, DVDs etc.
But the Corporates and Cartels won't like that sort of thing.
Was talking about public libraries. The links I pointed to may have more books than some public libraries.
Who expects college/uni students to rely on public libraries for their research?
That said, more and more research material is becoming publicly accessible on the Web. Heck often the Web's search engines are far better than the various library search engines etc.
"It's not nearly that black and white."
That's what I hope the soldiers keep in mind from time to time (not all the time - would affect performance) as they are ordered to kill and risk their lives.
When it starts getting close to black and white and when your leaders start to do pretty bad stuff that's when soldiers/people should start to think.
But for some people it is: "just follow orders", "just doing my duty", genocide? No problem. Kill those with "wrong religion"? Sure no problem.
Libraries without enough books could always have a link to Project Gutenberg on their start up page.
A link to the Baen Free Library could be good too.
Trouble is the PCs may end up even more hogged that way.
Would be helpful if libraries could print books themselves from free/public domain material.
"What will the resume say? Besides, if they are homeless, how is the employer going to contact them?"
Email of course.
Just full of shit.