we can now finally get a recent java for *BSD and more obscure linux platforms (linux/alpha, linux/ppc). I don't care about support, I just want to have it more or less working.
when are they going to repeat these experiments in let say China or Japan? I'm *very* interested in what would the conclusions be there. For what i know abaout japanese, they don't use spaces between 'words'. A single kanji represents the whole word and their outline is always more or less square. So the whole bouma theory fails here, as he finds out. I'm sure they could leard more interesting things in other writing sysmtems...
If you had to deliver millions of email messages per day, you'd find out that ext3 is not the tool for the job. I simply can't imagine email servers on this scale without reiserfs.
Also, i lost my/home three times last year on ext3. The cause was a hardware problem, true, but fs should not be a toast because of it.
Heck, give me then 3600rpm disks with transfer speeds of 20mb/s and capacity of 2Tb! I'd gladly have dozen of them to put my dvd collection on.
I've heard some things about the new Hitachi 400gb drive being optimized for tv settop boxes. Does that mean that it's optimized for linear reads/writes? If so, why did they not decrease rpm in order to gain more capacity?
Or at least that's what some would want:) Which would be interesting to see...
Anyway, they already have good failover support for their firewall, nice bgpd, support for T1 hardware was recently merged into -current... Theo himself is looking into replacing ciscos with OpenBSD.
Large majority of todays apps are limited by the i/o of the harddrives. So what's the point in having multiple machines accessing the same drives at almost the same time? Yup, even bigger bottleneck.
Now if the shared storage is a rackfull of ram (flash or dram + batteries), that's something completely different. Then such a shared filesystem can really show its muscles. Of course, if the locking and fencing system can keep up with the demands:)
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Hey wait, 386 is waay to fast for this... Lets think about those commodore 128 with whatwasitcalledagain version of linux... but... ummm... those would still be too fast. What about pocket calculators?
Yes, i was bitter too... but the problem actually is the fubared bios. There exists workarounds for it in the installer (ie install smp kernel even if only one proc and boot with apic or something). However, recenlty intel offered the documentation for this old beast and the problem was quicky worked around.
For setup and forget, you can't beat BSD init. Sure, as BSD boxen mostly fall into this category (servers).
Now if you're tinkering with your box, you need something like runlevels and separate start/stop script for every daemon and some more things out there. Either traditional SysV or the new parallel style that's emerging from Gentoo and some other places.
But in the end, you'll most likely stick with what your favourite distro provides.
In fact slashdot is completely readable in text mode if you enable 'lynx mode' in your preferences. It's so good that i'm using it all the time, even in gfx browsers.
See PyDDR. Prebuilt for most of the popular distributions, requires some work to get it working from scratch. Hook your pad (or two) to your PC with the help of a $15 adapter and you're ready to go. Song collections can be found all over the net.
Another usefull obfuscation is something like @my.domain.blah.foo.tld. That 10 lines of perl would need to do some serious mx lookups to figure out the real address and that would usually cost some real time when parsing gazilion of obfuscated addresses.
I heard that they're thinking of extending OpenOffice in similiar ways too. I'm sure there are people who cant wait for that, but i'm not sure yet if this is a good thing or bad...
The picture on the site says 'patent pending'... hm? What about Silverado? I have one of those for a couple of years now. You can track it as far back as February 2001.
This reminds me of a shit we had back in the april at the place where i work. We got a couple of production server r00ted with suckit, with the only possible attack vector being apache/php (only port 80 was open in the firewall), that were latest versions back then. The only way to stop it was to recompile a kernel without modules support and some minor patches to deny writes to/dev/kmem in any possible way... therefore killing the method suckit uses to load itself. See point 6 here and here.
There were quite a lot of similiar reports from the folks all aronud at that time...
My big hairy conspiracy theory would be in the line of super zonda type of organization hiring some of the most skilled crackers and r00ting the boxen all around... for spamming, ddosing or whatever... welcome to the Wild Wild Net.
Oh, just try running OS X on 8gig box vs. 256mb or so one... The difference in responsivness is tremendous. Remember that ram is an order of magnitude faster than hard disk.
I would love to have that amount of memory for KDE desktop, but unfortunately i only have a gig and a half and am therefore 'forced' to use xfce:)
They're your friends, family and/or neighbors. In short, they are people who view a computer as merely a tool, not a hobby or profession.
Bingo. Just a few months ago i had a hard time convincing my father that the million dollars are not waiting for him somewhere in Netherlands at some online lottery. And he's an university professor.
The spam only plays on peoples' GREED. So it's either we change (for the better, as a community) or we suffer.
So when I see that OpenBSD is supposed to work on platforms like the VAX or the hp300, the first question that I ask is WHY?
Because I still have my VAX running to keep my room warm during the winter. Oh, and it can still serve some obvious lame jobs well (dhcp, dns).
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something i'm still missing at google are 'file searches'. lets say i know a name of the file and would like to find some ftp servers that still have it. how i do that with google?
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we can now finally get a recent java for *BSD and more obscure linux platforms (linux/alpha, linux/ppc). I don't care about support, I just want to have it more or less working.
Big kernel lock. About as good as FreeBSD 4.x or Linux 2.0.x.
:)
It's a good start, you'll know that the other cpu under the hood will be at least doing somethign, not just heating the air
Imagine a beowulf of these ...
when are they going to repeat these experiments in let say China or Japan? I'm *very* interested in what would the conclusions be there. ...
For what i know abaout japanese, they don't use spaces between 'words'. A single kanji represents the whole word and their outline is always more or less square. So the whole bouma theory fails here, as he finds out.
I'm sure they could leard more interesting things in other writing sysmtems
If you had to deliver millions of email messages per day, you'd find out that ext3 is not the tool for the job. I simply can't imagine email servers on this scale without reiserfs.
/home three times last year on ext3. The cause was a hardware problem, true, but fs should not be a toast because of it.
Also, i lost my
YMMV.
For me, tv commercials already have such effect. For 90% of the junk there is, i remember it as NOT to buy.
:)
If the majority of population would do the same, the world would be a better place
Heck, give me then 3600rpm disks with transfer speeds of 20mb/s and capacity of 2Tb! I'd gladly have dozen of them to put my dvd collection on.
I've heard some things about the new Hitachi 400gb drive being optimized for tv settop boxes. Does that mean that it's optimized for linear reads/writes? If so, why did they not decrease rpm in order to gain more capacity?
Or at least that's what some would want :) Which would be interesting to see ...
... Theo himself is looking into replacing ciscos with OpenBSD.
...
Anyway, they already have good failover support for their firewall, nice bgpd, support for T1 hardware was recently merged into -current
Something good will come out of it, i'm sure
Large majority of todays apps are limited by the i/o of the harddrives. So what's the point in having multiple machines accessing the same drives at almost the same time? Yup, even bigger bottleneck.
:)
Now if the shared storage is a rackfull of ram (flash or dram + batteries), that's something completely different. Then such a shared filesystem can really show its muscles. Of course, if the locking and fencing system can keep up with the demands
Hey wait, 386 is waay to fast for this ... Lets think about those commodore 128 with whatwasitcalledagain version of linux ... but ... ummm ... those would still be too fast. What about pocket calculators?
Yes, i was bitter too ... but the problem actually is the fubared bios. There exists workarounds for it in the installer (ie install smp kernel even if only one proc and boot with apic or something).
However, recenlty intel offered the documentation for this old beast and the problem was quicky worked around.
For setup and forget, you can't beat BSD init. Sure, as BSD boxen mostly fall into this category (servers).
Now if you're tinkering with your box, you need something like runlevels and separate start/stop script for every daemon and some more things out there. Either traditional SysV or the new parallel style that's emerging from Gentoo and some other places.
But in the end, you'll most likely stick with what your favourite distro provides.
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Find a used, secondhand alpha system.
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Still most powerfull cpu for the clock, excellent support by all free unices, excellent hardware (DEC rules)
Nice and hot (like most of today cpus), power hungry as well, usually comes in big boxes with enough room for all the case modding you want.
In fact slashdot is completely readable in text mode if you enable 'lynx mode' in your preferences. It's so good that i'm using it all the time, even in gfx browsers.
Yup, it's actualy a SDL output ... so if you can put SDL on the tv screen, you can have pyddr on tv too.
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I have a dxr3 equipped box for these things and what you know, there was a sdl patch for dxr3 driver floating around once
See PyDDR. Prebuilt for most of the popular distributions, requires some work to get it working from scratch. Hook your pad (or two) to your PC with the help of a $15 adapter and you're ready to go. Song collections can be found all over the net.
Another usefull obfuscation is something like @my.domain.blah.foo.tld. That 10 lines of perl would need to do some serious mx lookups to figure out the real address and that would usually cost some real time when parsing gazilion of obfuscated addresses.
I heard that they're thinking of extending OpenOffice in similiar ways too. I'm sure there are people who cant wait for that, but i'm not sure yet if this is a good thing or bad ...
The picture on the site says 'patent pending' ... hm? What about Silverado? I have one of those for a couple of years now. You can track it as far back as February 2001.
There were quite a lot of similiar reports from the folks all aronud at that time
My big hairy conspiracy theory would be in the line of super zonda type of organization hiring some of the most skilled crackers and r00ting the boxen all around ... for spamming, ddosing or whatever ... welcome to the Wild Wild Net.
I would love to have that amount of memory for KDE desktop, but unfortunately i only have a gig and a half and am therefore 'forced' to use xfce
Such is computing for the impatient ...
The spam only plays on peoples' GREED. So it's either we change (for the better, as a community) or we suffer.
Because I still have my VAX running to keep my room warm during the winter.
Oh, and it can still serve some obvious lame jobs well (dhcp, dns).
something i'm still missing at google are 'file searches'. lets say i know a name of the file and would like to find some ftp servers that still have it. how i do that with google?