MDA? You mean those where you can't even shift+pageup in the console, since it only has memory for 80x25 characters? Bah... grow up man, get a Tseng ET4000. It's still the fastest card in the txt mode.
I'm an admin for a medium sized free webmail and I regulary observe 419 folks creating accounts manually and using them to send their shit out, manually. I'd say they have a text file of addresses and some body templates where they just change the names, copy/paste it into the webmail and click send. Once I observed some nigr doing this for eight hours straight. They must be really desperate...
Btw, I have most of the IP spaces of Nigeria, Lagos and Ivory coast in my firewall by now. It seems like the only way to get rid of them.
So when's Mars coming up?
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Seriously, with all the imagery Nasa has, Google Mars would be nice too.
Outside of Nigeria indeed. I maintain a large email system and while I think I have most of the Nigerian ISPs already in firewall, I now see all of these 419 guys accessing from Ivory Coast. Actually all other types of scam (lottery & co) were accessing from various countries in western Europe.
I was writing my own games on Sinclair Spectrum basic when I was 6. Does this make me a wunderkind programmer? No, just a bored sysadmin who is stuck at the mentality of basic and can't really progress beyond his shell scripts. That's why I'm affraid she's only going to be somewhat above-average secretary when she grows up.
There's a whole article in this month Scientific American on that topic. They examine three different methods of depositing CO2 from burning fossil fuels. I hope it will be online next month.
It seems all their boxen are based on Alpha processors. Why? Simply, because even today, you can get the most flops per clock tick out of Alpha. It's a shame such a wonderful architecture was burried.
Anyway, I think I'll be the first in line when they deceide to retire their gs320 servers:)
Have a look around rcgroups.com and other RC modeling sites. Usage of Li-Ion and Li-Po batteries is increasing and so is the number of burnt models, cars and houses due to the LiPo fire.
Never EVER put two drives from the same batch in the mirror (raid1)! If possible, use two drives of same/similiar size from two different manufacturers. As expirienced by many, all manufacturers ship a batch of disks that die sooner that expected every now and then. To reduce the chance of both drives in a mirror failing shortly one after another, use different drives.
I should know... I put 30 drives in raid10 and all 30 had the same firmware bug...
Is a bit of a problem. See, if you talk about a general purpose computer that still works, altough a bit slow, it can be put to good use in some dedicated application. Like, i still use my 386 for my home network DNS cache, i still use my old sparc pizzaboxen for my firewall, dns & co stuff, i still use "old" pentiumII for my fileserver, i still use !old athlon xp for my app server.
But if you have a bunch of keitais, built for some proprietary network with some proprietary hardware without any documentation, it's hard to find any use for them. Unless you find the original maker and convince them to release you the docs (for the sake of the planet or something), it's better to just take care of disposing them in an ecological manner.
... to find a dealer that would sell me a 35w version of mobile athlon64 and a desktop motherboard that would work with it. Kinda difficult around here.
Next, I have no air conditioning. I live in the nice cool basement in the summer and one of the two heated rooms of the house in the winter. Good windows (with vacuum inbetween two glass panels) also reduce your heating bill tremendously. Flourescent lights are double edged sword - just ask anyone in the power distribution business. They tend to shift phase and change the shape of the current - you can check that with osciloscope.
As seen in Nausicaa... Now we just need these engineered in a way to release excess poison as miasma. Oh, and dont forget to add giant mutant insects:)
Really, RHAS/RHEL distros were the ones i spent most of my time just making it work properly. Who knows, maybe it's just because i expected too much from them...
If you want to do it all-in-one over-the-night type push, you're very likely to fail. Or at least your users will kill you. Also, you may (or may not) hit many little annoying details that would make you belive m$ fud more and more.
I've been trough two migrations now and what i learned is this: go easy, keep the existing systems in place for their forseeable lifetime (dont fix if it's not broken approach), implement OSS stuff only for new services and gradually replace old systems with newer, running OSS. In a timeframe of 2-5 years or so.
Everything looks like it's going into parallelization of some sort... multicore CPUs, Cell suggest a multicore GPU... all we need now is a multicore audio board and maybe a multicore nuclear poweplant to power all that.
Show me an Athlon running Openstep:) The fastest machines we (press business) got openstep on were p3/800 with bx chipset and 100mhz bus. Everything that was over 100mhz did not work. Also, graphic cards were major pain in the ass... If i recall correctly only cetain ati mach/rage cards and matrox millenium worked properly (but these work everywhere today, so...)
... avoid it at all costs. Everyone I've talked with about iSCSI, from driver writers to end users does not like it. ATA over ethernet shows more promise, as it's much more simple than iSCSI. We'll see what future will bring... but for now I'd stick with fibrechannel.
The lack of simple inteligent proxies and load balancers such as mod_backhand for Apache 2.0 is a major show stopper. There's simply no large enough machine (for limited budget) that would be able to handle the load. And i find other load balancing solutions inferior.
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MDA? You mean those where you can't even shift+pageup in the console, since it only has memory for 80x25 characters? Bah ... grow up man, get a Tseng ET4000. It's still the fastest card in the txt mode.
CSS? That sounds like some modern buzzword. Lynx mode is still the best way to read slashdot on my trustworthy VT320.
I wonder, is it going to stay?
I'm an admin for a medium sized free webmail and I regulary observe 419 folks creating accounts manually and using them to send their shit out, manually. I'd say they have a text file of addresses and some body templates where they just change the names, copy/paste it into the webmail and click send. Once I observed some nigr doing this for eight hours straight. They must be really desperate ...
Btw, I have most of the IP spaces of Nigeria, Lagos and Ivory coast in my firewall by now. It seems like the only way to get rid of them.
Seriously, with all the imagery Nasa has, Google Mars would be nice too.
Outside of Nigeria indeed. I maintain a large email system and while I think I have most of the Nigerian ISPs already in firewall, I now see all of these 419 guys accessing from Ivory Coast. Actually all other types of scam (lottery & co) were accessing from various countries in western Europe.
I was writing my own games on Sinclair Spectrum basic when I was 6. Does this make me a wunderkind programmer? No, just a bored sysadmin who is stuck at the mentality of basic and can't really progress beyond his shell scripts. That's why I'm affraid she's only going to be somewhat above-average secretary when she grows up.
There's a whole article in this month Scientific American on that topic. They examine three different methods of depositing CO2 from burning fossil fuels. I hope it will be online next month.
It seems all their boxen are based on Alpha processors. Why? Simply, because even today, you can get the most flops per clock tick out of Alpha. It's a shame such a wonderful architecture was burried.
:)
Anyway, I think I'll be the first in line when they deceide to retire their gs320 servers
Lets see ... *turns around*
:) and Indigo2 w/ 21" SGI monitor (remote :)
:)
AlphaServer with about 15 old scsi drives - one needs a place to play with all these volume managers and tricks they offer
Old athlon with about a Tb of disks hanging on its 3ware card, all exported via NFS
One big UPS to handle all the junk around it
DEC MicroVax w/ VT320 running VMS and a 486 on top of it used for network bridge (DECNET baby!)
SGI Indy w/ camera (sweet toy
Some piles of various parts, cables & co junk
Of course, some more "normal" machines all over the house.
Electricity bill? Dont ask... At least that room doesn't need heating during the winter
Have a look around rcgroups.com and other RC modeling sites. Usage of Li-Ion and Li-Po batteries is increasing and so is the number of burnt models, cars and houses due to the LiPo fire.
Never EVER put two drives from the same batch in the mirror (raid1)! If possible, use two drives of same/similiar size from two different manufacturers. As expirienced by many, all manufacturers ship a batch of disks that die sooner that expected every now and then. To reduce the chance of both drives in a mirror failing shortly one after another, use different drives.
... I put 30 drives in raid10 and all 30 had the same firmware bug ...
I should know
Indeed I have, but I'm trying to keep my alphas and vaxen turned off for the most of the time :)
Is a bit of a problem. See, if you talk about a general purpose computer that still works, altough a bit slow, it can be put to good use in some dedicated application. Like, i still use my 386 for my home network DNS cache, i still use my old sparc pizzaboxen for my firewall, dns & co stuff, i still use "old" pentiumII for my fileserver, i still use !old athlon xp for my app server.
But if you have a bunch of keitais, built for some proprietary network with some proprietary hardware without any documentation, it's hard to find any use for them. Unless you find the original maker and convince them to release you the docs (for the sake of the planet or something), it's better to just take care of disposing them in an ecological manner.
P2P cannot change my taste of music, because I remember music by MUSIC (what a suprise) and not by the people playing/singing, name of band, etc.
It might start affecting it when someone developes a search sistem where i humm a certain melody and it comes up with similiar tunes.
... to find a dealer that would sell me a 35w version of mobile athlon64 and a desktop motherboard that would work with it. Kinda difficult around here.
Next, I have no air conditioning. I live in the nice cool basement in the summer and one of the two heated rooms of the house in the winter. Good windows (with vacuum inbetween two glass panels) also reduce your heating bill tremendously. Flourescent lights are double edged sword - just ask anyone in the power distribution business. They tend to shift phase and change the shape of the current - you can check that with osciloscope.
As seen in Nausicaa ... :)
Now we just need these engineered in a way to release excess poison as miasma. Oh, and dont forget to add giant mutant insects
Really, RHAS/RHEL distros were the ones i spent most of my time just making it work properly. Who knows, maybe it's just because i expected too much from them ...
If you want to do it all-in-one over-the-night type push, you're very likely to fail. Or at least your users will kill you.
Also, you may (or may not) hit many little annoying details that would make you belive m$ fud more and more.
I've been trough two migrations now and what i learned is this: go easy, keep the existing systems in place for their forseeable lifetime (dont fix if it's not broken approach), implement OSS stuff only for new services and gradually replace old systems with newer, running OSS. In a timeframe of 2-5 years or so.
try fastmail.fm. I hear nothing but good about them.
Everything looks like it's going into parallelization of some sort ... multicore CPUs, Cell suggest a multicore GPU ... all we need now is a multicore audio board and maybe a multicore nuclear poweplant to power all that.
Show me an Athlon running Openstep :) ... If i recall correctly only cetain ati mach/rage cards and matrox millenium worked properly (but these work everywhere today, so ...)
The fastest machines we (press business) got openstep on were p3/800 with bx chipset and 100mhz bus. Everything that was over 100mhz did not work. Also, graphic cards were major pain in the ass
... avoid it at all costs. Everyone I've talked with about iSCSI, from driver writers to end users does not like it. ATA over ethernet shows more promise, as it's much more simple than iSCSI. We'll see what future will bring ... but for now I'd stick with fibrechannel.
... in 10 Oracle exploits posted on Bugtraq earlier. It's holiday time anyway, those DBs can wait.[/sarcasm]
The lack of simple inteligent proxies and load balancers such as mod_backhand for Apache 2.0 is a major show stopper. There's simply no large enough machine (for limited budget) that would be able to handle the load. And i find other load balancing solutions inferior.
The last version I got running on yellowdog was blackdown 1.3.1 (fcs-02b). Everything higher doesn't survive even 'java -version'.