Its been a few days now and I just graphed the number of delivered messages to one of my mail hosts and have seen about a 50% drop in mail. I wouldn't expect it to last though.
Ok, I did RTFA that slashdot posted too, but not the link inside the article. The initial article didn't mention anything about botnets and made it sound like it was the source of the spam.
What I don't like about this is that it gives normal people a false sense of security about the whole issue. The real issue is that governments aren't cracking down on people within their borders causing these problems including the U.S.
The Washington Post is not a security agency, they are a news agency. And when they do stuff like this they don't really have the right motives. Its just like those investigative reports that your local news channel does.
Slimy business practices have a way to continuing on despite everything, so in the wake of McColo it won't be long before we have a Colo King.
This couldn't be by volume. Given the amount of spam that everyone receives every day, I don't think a single ISP could possibly generate 75% of it. It would take multiple gigabit connections and I'm sure someone would have already noticed that kind of traffic coming from one place.
I've been watching this thing for about 10 minutes thinking. In about 9 minutes, everyone on slashdot will see a link for "High Def live video feed" and click on it. Suddenly, the server running this stream will start trying to transfer 50GB/sec (100,000+ users) and this thing WILL JUST DIE. Here we go.
Disclaimer: I know they couldn't transfer 50GB/sec or even 1GB per second.
This has to be one of the stupidest articles on Slashdot. There is no one solution for this and it will not be cheap at all. If you want any hope of reading old computer data formats, you're going to be buying lots of old hardware, drives, different architectures.
Its not the computer that reads the data, its the peripherals. Even with old stuff on ebay, I think you'd be looking at several thousand dollars if not tens of thousands to buy all the equipment to read all the formats from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
I really wish I could just stick my Amiga floppy disks into my Intel box, but alas, the disk formats are different. So I'd have to buy an Amiga, an ethernet card for it (this is actually the expensive part) and copy the files over the network.
Honestly though, if you could get people to agree to let you have their old media, digital archeology would be kinda fun.
I really hate it when programmers get architectural ideas. This is how we ended up with Java, and look how that turned out. Hasn't lived up to its promises, is completely pointless now and outdone by a lot of other languages.
I see a lot of comments on the LWN article of people talking about starting services after the user sees the desktop as cheating. However, I ask, does this really all matter. I'm not sure how everyone else uses their computer but I only need to boot my Linux machine about once every 30-60 days. I don't need to dual boot like I did back in say 2002 and comparitively, the amount of time it takes for Linux and X to start up are practically irrelivent. I can imagine laptop users may feel much differently about this, but I thought that was the point of being able to suspend/hibernate.
One thing that worries me is that a focus on ensuring a quick boot at the expense of a potentially less stable system is not a good thing. Fortunately however quick booting is not something that Linux requires, its something that distributions can decide to do or not, which is one of the strengths of the open source/Linux way.
Actually, from playing WoW for 2 months now (through Wine no less), I'm not too surprised that MMOGlider made a good deal of money. Seeing the desperation of a lot of players, I wouldn't be surprised people would pay $25 for this thing. I probably would too if it was allowed by Blizzard.
Heh, but that won't happen. Supply and demand will kick in and I think we'll all see just how many people there are in the world. I imagine supply will be about 1/2 to 1/4 what the demand will be, so prices will go up.
What I'm really wondering is, in the interest in quality and features, is it better to buy a new TV now, during the rush or after it. If companies suddenly do better, they may have more money for R&D and make better products afterwards. Then again, companies may strain to get products out and get cheap on quality.
If there is anything that is likely to end the world, it might be when all the country folk lose their TV just long enough for their addiction to take over and........
I personally will be sitting outside Best Buy to watch the festivities begin in Feb.
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I thought Barbarella had already been done too?
Its been a few days now and I just graphed the number of delivered messages to one of my mail hosts and have seen about a 50% drop in mail. I wouldn't expect it to last though.
Actually, its a square... oh nevermind.
Your kitchen conditions are worst than the Martian conditions, I'm afraid... :)
That might be true. I have a 2 year old.
considering that my dishwasher back on Earth only lasted 3. I wouldn't have expected their lander to last for that long.
Ok, I did RTFA that slashdot posted too, but not the link inside the article. The initial article didn't mention anything about botnets and made it sound like it was the source of the spam.
What I don't like about this is that it gives normal people a false sense of security about the whole issue. The real issue is that governments aren't cracking down on people within their borders causing these problems including the U.S.
The Washington Post is not a security agency, they are a news agency. And when they do stuff like this they don't really have the right motives. Its just like those investigative reports that your local news channel does.
Slimy business practices have a way to continuing on despite everything, so in the wake of McColo it won't be long before we have a Colo King.
This couldn't be by volume. Given the amount of spam that everyone receives every day, I don't think a single ISP could possibly generate 75% of it. It would take multiple gigabit connections and I'm sure someone would have already noticed that kind of traffic coming from one place.
Anyone else having problems going to it right now? I'm getting 500 errors
A non-replaceable lamp on an LCD projector? No thanks.
vi wins! Fatality!
In other news, what happened to Slashdot's RSS feed? I used to be able to get the feed based on my subscription, but that stopped worning yesterday.
It was impressive that it lasted longer than 10, but then it just started getting worse and worse until bam, disconnect.
I've been watching this thing for about 10 minutes thinking. In about 9 minutes, everyone on slashdot will see a link for "High Def live video feed" and click on it. Suddenly, the server running this stream will start trying to transfer 50GB/sec (100,000+ users) and this thing WILL JUST DIE. Here we go.
Disclaimer: I know they couldn't transfer 50GB/sec or even 1GB per second.
...really annoying buzzword...
Don't be redundant. Just say buzzword and that's enough.
Was it 'pencil'?
This has to be one of the stupidest articles on Slashdot. There is no one solution for this and it will not be cheap at all. If you want any hope of reading old computer data formats, you're going to be buying lots of old hardware, drives, different architectures.
Its not the computer that reads the data, its the peripherals. Even with old stuff on ebay, I think you'd be looking at several thousand dollars if not tens of thousands to buy all the equipment to read all the formats from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
I really wish I could just stick my Amiga floppy disks into my Intel box, but alas, the disk formats are different. So I'd have to buy an Amiga, an ethernet card for it (this is actually the expensive part) and copy the files over the network.
Honestly though, if you could get people to agree to let you have their old media, digital archeology would be kinda fun.
Being a programmer, I feel I can say this.
I really hate it when programmers get architectural ideas. This is how we ended up with Java, and look how that turned out. Hasn't lived up to its promises, is completely pointless now and outdone by a lot of other languages.
I would think CleverNickName would be the best person to answer that one.
Unlikely, looks like he hasn't commented on Slashdot since January.
In other news, a giant wooshing sound caught thousands of noobs by surprise today.
Oh jeez.
The right date is September 17th, not October 5th. But year after year people keep messing it up. Don't believe me, look here
Why?
I see a lot of comments on the LWN article of people talking about starting services after the user sees the desktop as cheating. However, I ask, does this really all matter. I'm not sure how everyone else uses their computer but I only need to boot my Linux machine about once every 30-60 days. I don't need to dual boot like I did back in say 2002 and comparitively, the amount of time it takes for Linux and X to start up are practically irrelivent. I can imagine laptop users may feel much differently about this, but I thought that was the point of being able to suspend/hibernate.
One thing that worries me is that a focus on ensuring a quick boot at the expense of a potentially less stable system is not a good thing. Fortunately however quick booting is not something that Linux requires, its something that distributions can decide to do or not, which is one of the strengths of the open source/Linux way.
Actually, from playing WoW for 2 months now (through Wine no less), I'm not too surprised that MMOGlider made a good deal of money. Seeing the desperation of a
lot of players, I wouldn't be surprised people would pay $25 for this thing. I probably would too if it was allowed by Blizzard.
Heh, but that won't happen. Supply and demand will kick in and I think we'll all see just how many people there are in the world. I imagine supply will be about 1/2 to 1/4 what the demand will be, so prices will go up.
What I'm really wondering is, in the interest in quality and features, is it better to buy a new TV now, during the rush or after it. If companies suddenly do better, they may have more money for R&D and make better products afterwards. Then again, companies may strain to get products out and get cheap on quality.
If there is anything that is likely to end the world, it might be when all the country folk lose their TV just long enough for their addiction to take over and........
I personally will be sitting outside Best Buy to watch the festivities begin in Feb.
Try the whole world. According to this counter, the world will be out of IPv4 addresses in 768 days.