When, after a LONG period of overloaded instance servers, with literally months of people complaining, in patch 3.2 not only you encouraged everybody to run as many heroics per day as they can possibly do due to easy emblems of conquest, but at the same time you pretty much forced any hardcore raider to never skip the daily heroic for at the very least 1 month. As a result, the load is now 3 times worse and people complain of being locked out of instances for 40-50 minutes even in offpeak hours, not to mention that due to the priority system, low level instances are pretty much inaccessible. This hurts the new players a lot. Those same new players whose experience you are terrified to ruin, and due to which you won't apply more restrictive anti goldspam measures, causing everyone to have to endure the constant shit in city channels.
How tall does this rack have to be? Typically 42 Rack Units, as I said in the original post. A rack unit is 1.75" (and we use them even here in Europe so at least servers fit in racks, fortunately:-) ) so this makes the standard rack able to contain a little over 6 feet worth of hardware, or 185ish cm. Of course the rack itself is usually a bit taller since it has a base and some fans on top (let me stress: usually).
Resistance is an expensive trait. Bacteria which evolved many resistances would be as bloated as Vista and similarly unable to perform their original function efficiently, thus mostly harmless (pun doubly intended: It would also be a very effective Douglas Adams-esque way of dealing with the threat)
(oh look btw, 11 updates plus the friggin' no-thank-you Silverlight, and a mandatory reboot which I can only postpone.)
I'd find a way to trick MediaDefender into DoS'ing some sensitive and well monitored.gov or.mil facility, then watch them disappear from the planet, hopefully with serious and non-temporary consequences for the MAFIAA bastards behind them, too, maybe earning all of us some decent civil liberty guarantees in the process.
Failing that, I'd be content with seeing them DoS themselves or any of their parent companies every time they try to spray their shit on any other address.
I also find it hard to believe that the standard battery on an iPod is going to suddenly going to turn into an explosive device if they take it into space. That sounds like more of a bureaucratic oversight than anything else.
Given that ipod batteries (admittedly rarely) explode down here on earth as well, I guess they just don't want the chance of it happening in space
Mars' atmosphere is a lot thinner than Earth's, and the pressure at surface level is only 0.6% of Earth's. Even if supplied with breathable air, and heating, you wouldn't survive in the martian environment due to the extremely low pressure. The suits *have* to be airtight.
It was. Although I think the 32bit data-bus was only added in 486DX
Nope, it was the 386DX. Actually, "DX" originally stood for Doubleword eXchange (32bit bus) and SX for "Singleword eXchange" (thus 16bit bus).
The first to come out was the 386DX, then they made the 386SX which was nearly 100% pin-compatible with the 80286 and thus appealed many motherboard manufacturers and people on a cheap budget.
The 80486 took the DX-SX to a different meaning: the DX version had an integrated math coprocessor, the SX didn't (although 486SX CPUs were long rumored to be 486DX cores in which the FPU failed factory tests).
10 geek cool points to anybody who remembers QSD's Telenet NUI...now those were the days...
Hmm..... 0208057040540
Also my first chat, Altger, 026245890040004, and AMP, 023422020010700....those were the days:-)
(Don't ask me how I remember a bunch of 13 to 15 digits numbers.... my mind retains some pretty odd bits of info (but not others. Can't remember what I ate yesterday:-) )
Actually there is only one person preventing a multibutton mouse, unfortunately no one outranks him. He won't even allow a build-to-order option when you are ordering online.
No problem. No hurry. I'll wait.
Meanwhile I'm using an Acer Travelmate 803. I've been thinking about switching to a Powerbook for a few months but that single button truly kept me off. In no fucking way am *I* going to change my habits due to its lack of a right button - it's a Mac, bloody hell - isn't that supposed to be user friendly?.
Btw, most of my friends who switched use external mice, which are multibutton, so they don't see that as a problem . Personally I'm good with the touchpad and don't like carrying a mouse around, so, until Uncle Steve changes his mind, I'll just wait.
(I'm surprised noone attempted a right button mod:-) )
It is with astonishment that we learn about your agreement with the SCO group regarding their alleged Intellectual Property rights over the Linux Source Code. These claims by the SCO group have yet to be proven, and, though a final verdict has not been issued by a judge, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence mounting against their claims, or their good faith (or lack thereof) available all over the Internet. I suggest You have a look at www.slashdot.org or at www.groklaw.net.
We, as a customer of Yours (id XXXXXX, host XXXXXX) are frankly surprised about how money collected from us is used and cannot accept to be even indirectly financing the SCO group's lawsuits against basically the rest of the world.
Until today we have been a perfectly satisfied customer of yours, with record uptime, not a single connectivity problem and no complaints whatsoever, but, sadly, regardless of this we feel forced to take action and vote with our money.
We are already considering alternative hosting solutions with partners which do not support a company whose lack of ethics and moral standards put Enron to shame.
Please reconsider your actions and issue a public statement about this. Should You decide not to do so, You've just lost a customer. April will be our last month of hosting with rackshack/EV1 and we will stop directing our customers in need of hosting to your website.
Yours Truly
----- Gianluca Marcari - Un*x and Networking Xpertise Tel +39 33 55 444 545 netXpertise s.r.l. - http://www.netXpertise.com - Via F.Satolli N.16 - 00165 Roma Sede Operativa: Via Callegati N.41 - 48023 Ravenna Fax: +39 0544 538 034
Now if there were only a way to block certain Flash advertisements and still be able to watch Strong Bad answering his e-mail.
I use Mozilla Firebird and the excellent Flash click to view extension, which only downloads and plays flash content once you've clicked on a message replacing the original content.
No more of those ugly beasts for me, and I still get to see all legit flash sites.
255 12,000, 25,000, or I've seen torrents that were several hundred K.
Let's just use metatorrents then: A tiny.torrent, distributed via DNS TXT records, which points to the real.torrent (which could be over a megabyte - ever seen a DVD ISO's torrent?), which is served by bittorrent itself, with its bandwidth efficiency!
I've actually seen this happen on bittorrent sites - and it would work perfectly in this situation. Maybe a "metatorrent" format for lower overhead could be designed, specifically targeted at this kind of usage (ie max 1MB files, stripped headers, etc) to make this thing work even better with DNS transport.
Anyway I recall a previous (maybe 2 years ago?)/. story about DNS tunnelling, where the author described a proxy communicating via dns txt record and bypassing ISP's restrictions. But this one could be actually practical by using meta-torrents (or meta-meta-torrents, or....).
A few months ago Paul though Bayesean filtering was the one true solution. The only problem was that people who have spent years working on the techniques he described never achieved results anywhere close to the ones he claims.
Your mileage may vary. Mine is excellent, for example. I've been using a Naive Bayesian filter, POPFile, for a while now, and I'm at 99.74 accuracy with 11564 classified messages and 29 errors. (For the record, 15 spams filtered thru and a few friends jokes, honestly looking a bit like spam, got filtered out. Not a single work mail got lost).
While I might agree that auto-reacting DDOS filters could turn into a pretty ugly beast when someone really clever finds a way to abuse them, I wouldn't be that critic of Paul Graham's work. He came out with a hell of an idea a few months ago, and this one could be even better with a few safeguards and adjustments in place. I suggest he has a word with bittorrent's Bram Cohen, who might know a thing or two about distributed computing, coordinated network efforts and protocol resistance to tampering and abuse.
I fully agree about the failure of many antispam efforts: For one, realtime blacklist have been outsmarted and bent against their purpose by brighter spammers with an evil sense of irony, but some techniques do work, and given his track record I'd be inclined to give this guy a chance to show what he's up to.
And, though I agree that a real, final solution to the problem might involve adoption of a new mail transfer protocol to supplant SMTP, which makes too many assumptions of goodwill, I don't see that coming anytime soon, so we'd better have a look around and see what can be done to improve the current situation.
The guy admits right up front that he doesn't have an answer, and he still gets modded up as Informative? That's just great.
I don't have a cooling solution but I do have a bit of advice which might make his heat problem a bit easier to cope with. I was not offtopic, trolling or making useless jokes so frankly I don't see any problem with that moderation (but I'm a little biased, be warned:-) )
btw fp:-)
More evidence that he's just karma-whoring.
Sorry to disappoint you, no need to karma whore. Been at 50 for as long as I can remember, then this "excellent" thing came. And I like to have first post every now and then:-) , esp. when I have something more than First Post! to say about the subject.
No, seriously, I don't have any exceptional cooling method to suggest, so I'd focus on reducing heat production instead of dissipating.
1) Power off every non-essential item (You say you've already done it, but have a second look at what's REALLY essential. Got 2 firewalls in cluster configuration? Keep only one! Pull out that hot-swappable hard drive from your raid-1 array! - Warning: will have a long-term impact to your uptime) 2) Ventilation. As long as you're not in Saudi Arabia, air from outside is cooler than what the server room would be without air conditioning. 3) People! Humans give off a lot of bodily heat (Matrix jokes apart). Keep people off the server room unless it's really necessary 4) Lighting - Use compact fluorescent instead of incandescent (they run much cooler, too) and turn them off when it's not needed 5) Shadow - An incredibly effective way of bringing down room temperature by as much as 10 degrees. Might not apply to you, but if you are in a very exposed side of the building, or under the roof, you might benefit greatly from it. 6) (Illegal in many countries) Cooling with running water. Extremely effective, but a huge waste of water 7) (a bit extreme) Replace the less loaded and less critical servers with a couple laptops you might have lying around. I'm writing from a 1.6Ghz Centrino laptop with 512MB DDR - it's a lot more powerful than some of the servers I have at work. (and laptops tend to be terribly stable). Its power supply is rated 65W! 8) - If all else fails, decentralization. Put the remaining servers farther apart (the heat in a single 42U rack filled with equipment is tremendous, while if you spread the content all over the room it will be more bearable for the hardware). Get a few very long network cables and take something out in other rooms, also (even if only the server room is ups-protected, it won't make a big difference when power goes down for a day).
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When, after a LONG period of overloaded instance servers, with literally months of people complaining, in patch 3.2 not only you encouraged everybody to run as many heroics per day as they can possibly do due to easy emblems of conquest, but at the same time you pretty much forced any hardcore raider to never skip the daily heroic for at the very least 1 month. As a result, the load is now 3 times worse and people complain of being locked out of instances for 40-50 minutes even in offpeak hours, not to mention that due to the priority system, low level instances are pretty much inaccessible. This hurts the new players a lot. Those same new players whose experience you are terrified to ruin, and due to which you won't apply more restrictive anti goldspam measures, causing everyone to have to endure the constant shit in city channels.
How tall does this rack have to be? :-) ) so this makes the standard rack able to contain a little over 6 feet worth of hardware, or 185ish cm. Of course the rack itself is usually a bit taller since it has a base and some fans on top (let me stress: usually).
Typically 42 Rack Units, as I said in the original post. A rack unit is 1.75" (and we use them even here in Europe so at least servers fit in racks, fortunately
It's a 19" _rack_, not _box_. As in, the standard (non-telco) datacenter rack size, accomodating up to 42U, 19" wide.
Do the Nintendo Wii and its balance board get a tax exemption?
Cause I sure like hell burn calories playing it :)
Same for Dance Dance Revolution and its offspring!
Resistance is an expensive trait. Bacteria which evolved many resistances would be as bloated as Vista and similarly unable to perform their original function efficiently, thus mostly harmless (pun doubly intended: It would also be a very effective Douglas Adams-esque way of dealing with the threat)
(oh look btw, 11 updates plus the friggin' no-thank-you Silverlight, and a mandatory reboot which I can only postpone.)
I'd find a way to trick MediaDefender into DoS'ing some sensitive and well monitored .gov or .mil facility, then watch them disappear from the planet, hopefully with serious and non-temporary consequences for the MAFIAA bastards behind them, too, maybe earning all of us some decent civil liberty guarantees in the process.
Failing that, I'd be content with seeing them DoS themselves or any of their parent companies every time they try to spray their shit on any other address.
DoE had $20M to offer for this contest, but couldn't find $4M to save Fermilab ?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of energy efficient lightning, but what the hell?
I also find it hard to believe that the standard battery on an iPod is going to suddenly going to turn into an explosive device if they take it into space. That sounds like more of a bureaucratic oversight than anything else.
Given that ipod batteries (admittedly rarely) explode down here on earth as well, I guess they just don't want the chance of it happening in space
Are you joking?
Mars' atmosphere is a lot thinner than Earth's, and the pressure at surface level is only 0.6% of Earth's. Even if supplied with breathable air, and heating, you wouldn't survive in the martian environment due to the extremely low pressure. The suits *have* to be airtight.
It was. Although I think the 32bit data-bus was only added in 486DX
Nope, it was the 386DX. Actually, "DX" originally stood for Doubleword eXchange (32bit bus) and SX for "Singleword eXchange" (thus 16bit bus).
The first to come out was the 386DX, then they made the 386SX which was nearly 100% pin-compatible with the 80286 and thus appealed many motherboard manufacturers and people on a cheap budget.
The 80486 took the DX-SX to a different meaning: the DX version had an integrated math coprocessor, the SX didn't (although 486SX CPUs were long rumored to be 486DX cores in which the FPU failed factory tests).
Is this the flaw Cisco was trying to keep secret and that caused Michael Lynn to resign his job in order to be free to speak about?
Appeared a little over a month ago right here
10 geek cool points to anybody who remembers QSD's Telenet NUI...now those were the days...
....those were the days :-)
:-) )
Hmm..... 0208057040540
Also my first chat, Altger, 026245890040004, and AMP, 023422020010700
(Don't ask me how I remember a bunch of 13 to 15 digits numbers.... my mind retains some pretty odd bits of info (but not others. Can't remember what I ate yesterday
Actually there is only one person preventing a multibutton mouse, unfortunately no one outranks him. He won't even allow a build-to-order option when you are ordering online.
:-) )
No problem. No hurry. I'll wait.
Meanwhile I'm using an Acer Travelmate 803.
I've been thinking about switching to a Powerbook for a few months but that single button truly kept me off.
In no fucking way am *I* going to change my habits due to its lack of a right button - it's a Mac, bloody hell - isn't that supposed to be user friendly?.
Btw, most of my friends who switched use external mice, which are multibutton, so they don't see that as a problem . Personally I'm good with the touchpad and don't like carrying a mouse around, so, until Uncle Steve changes his mind, I'll just wait.
(I'm surprised noone attempted a right button mod
IDDQD
IDKFA
IDCLIP (or IDSPISPOPD)
Hmm... no.
DNKROZ
DNHYPER
DNITEMS
DNWEAPONS
neither.
/god
/give all
/noclip
bah. Beats me.
to: headsurfer@ev1.net
.
Dear Sirs,
It is with astonishment that we learn about your agreement with the SCO group regarding their alleged Intellectual Property rights over the Linux Source Code.
These claims by the SCO group have yet to be proven, and, though a final verdict has not been issued by a judge, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence mounting against their claims, or their good faith (or lack thereof) available all over the Internet. I suggest You have a look at www.slashdot.org or at www.groklaw.net
We, as a customer of Yours (id XXXXXX, host XXXXXX) are frankly surprised about how money collected from us is used and cannot accept to be even indirectly financing the SCO group's lawsuits against basically the rest of the world.
Until today we have been a perfectly satisfied customer of yours, with record uptime, not a single connectivity problem and no complaints whatsoever, but, sadly, regardless of this we feel forced to take action and vote with our money.
We are already considering alternative hosting solutions with partners which do not support a company whose lack of ethics and moral standards put Enron to shame.
Please reconsider your actions and issue a public statement about this.
Should You decide not to do so, You've just lost a customer. April will be our last month of hosting with rackshack/EV1 and we will stop directing our customers in need of hosting to your website.
Yours Truly
-----
Gianluca Marcari - Un*x and Networking Xpertise Tel +39 33 55 444 545
netXpertise s.r.l. - http://www.netXpertise.com - Via F.Satolli N.16 - 00165 Roma
Sede Operativa: Via Callegati N.41 - 48023 Ravenna Fax: +39 0544 538 034
I use Mozilla Firebird and the excellent Flash click to view extension, which only downloads and plays flash content once you've clicked on a message replacing the original content.
No more of those ugly beasts for me, and I still get to see all legit flash sites.
Space Elevator. Everything else is too dangerous and expensive.
Dangerous?
You think this engine would be dangerous?
Wait before John Carmack learns about it and sticks a BFG9000 up his next rocket engine!!!
That's gonna be dangerous
Vaporware!
Nuclear Vaporware, actually
Sorry, your business is PRINTING dollars?
Come on, it's letting you do everything you want except for printing the bloody thing....
Print it with another program.
Let's just use metatorrents then: .torrent, distributed via DNS TXT records, which points to the real .torrent (which could be over a megabyte - ever seen a DVD ISO's torrent?), which is served by bittorrent itself, with its bandwidth efficiency!
A tiny
I've actually seen this happen on bittorrent sites - and it would work perfectly in this situation. Maybe a "metatorrent" format for lower overhead could be designed, specifically targeted at this kind of usage (ie max 1MB files, stripped headers, etc) to make this thing work even better with DNS transport.
Anyway I recall a previous (maybe 2 years ago?) /. story about DNS tunnelling, where the author described a proxy communicating via dns txt record and bypassing ISP's restrictions. But this one could be actually practical by using meta-torrents (or meta-meta-torrents, or ....).
three-words: high speed condoms.
Make sure you wear them correctly, and not upside down!!!!
A few months ago Paul though Bayesean filtering was the one true solution. The only problem was that people who have spent years working on the techniques he described never achieved results anywhere close to the ones he claims.
Your mileage may vary. Mine is excellent, for example. I've been using a Naive Bayesian filter, POPFile, for a while now, and I'm at 99.74 accuracy with 11564 classified messages and 29 errors. (For the record, 15 spams filtered thru and a few friends jokes, honestly looking a bit like spam, got filtered out. Not a single work mail got lost).
While I might agree that auto-reacting DDOS filters could turn into a pretty ugly beast when someone really clever finds a way to abuse them, I wouldn't be that critic of Paul Graham's work. He came out with a hell of an idea a few months ago, and this one could be even better with a few safeguards and adjustments in place. I suggest he has a word with bittorrent's Bram Cohen, who might know a thing or two about distributed computing, coordinated network efforts and protocol resistance to tampering and abuse.
I fully agree about the failure of many antispam efforts: For one, realtime blacklist have been outsmarted and bent against their purpose by brighter spammers with an evil sense of irony, but some techniques do work, and given his track record I'd be inclined to give this guy a chance to show what he's up to.
And, though I agree that a real, final solution to the problem might involve adoption of a new mail transfer protocol to supplant SMTP, which makes too many assumptions of goodwill, I don't see that coming anytime soon, so we'd better have a look around and see what can be done to improve the current situation.
I don't have a cooling solution but I do have a bit of advice which might make his heat problem a bit easier to cope with. I was not offtopic, trolling or making useless jokes so frankly I don't see any problem with that moderation (but I'm a little biased, be warned
btw fp
More evidence that he's just karma-whoring.
Sorry to disappoint you, no need to karma whore. Been at 50 for as long as I can remember, then this "excellent" thing came. And I like to have first post every now and then :-) , esp. when I have something more than First Post! to say about the subject.
No, seriously, I don't have any exceptional cooling method to suggest, so I'd focus on reducing heat production instead of dissipating.
1) Power off every non-essential item (You say you've already done it, but have a second look at what's REALLY essential. Got 2 firewalls in cluster configuration? Keep only one! Pull out that hot-swappable hard drive from your raid-1 array! - Warning: will have a long-term impact to your uptime)
2) Ventilation. As long as you're not in Saudi Arabia, air from outside is cooler than what the server room would be without air conditioning.
3) People! Humans give off a lot of bodily heat (Matrix jokes apart). Keep people off the server room unless it's really necessary
4) Lighting - Use compact fluorescent instead of incandescent (they run much cooler, too) and turn them off when it's not needed
5) Shadow - An incredibly effective way of bringing down room temperature by as much as 10 degrees. Might not apply to you, but if you are in a very exposed side of the building, or under the roof, you might benefit greatly from it.
6) (Illegal in many countries) Cooling with running water. Extremely effective, but a huge waste of water
7) (a bit extreme) Replace the less loaded and less critical servers with a couple laptops you might have lying around. I'm writing from a 1.6Ghz Centrino laptop with 512MB DDR - it's a lot more powerful than some of the servers I have at work. (and laptops tend to be terribly stable).
Its power supply is rated 65W!
8) - If all else fails, decentralization. Put the remaining servers farther apart (the heat in a single 42U rack filled with equipment is tremendous, while if you spread the content all over the room it will be more bearable for the hardware). Get a few very long network cables and take something out in other rooms, also (even if only the server room is ups-protected, it won't make a big difference when power goes down for a day).
btw fp
If this guy is right, the establishmet robs you, again!
And this is not even Soviet Russia!