SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the vounteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time and didn't know that, you might want to stick around (and scroll down) because we're going to explain what a Beowulf Cluster is next.
And if you really want your business to succeed, don't have any dealings with Slashdot, people will only complain that their lives are being ruined by your blatant advertising and will threaten to write letters nasty to you, your mom, your plumber and the EFF while also hyperanalyzing your whois records and posting the security holes related to your mail server's serial port to their blog.
What are the chances of that. I know I saw this on there just days ago. But they seemed to have removed it. It used to be on severs that part of the operating system choices where "No operating system, Microsoft config" and "No operating system, Linux config". Did it get removed because of my comment?
That's cool. But one thing that has always annoyed me about their server configuration utility is that you can select "no operating system, Linux configuration", but there are some hardware options that don't work with that option and so you have to select the microsoft config. So much for getting some extra counts for the Linux side
A year ago, after most of Indiana went through its first timezone change in 40+ years, we found out that it presented a few problems in Linux, I tried to post a story to Slashdot about it to warn other people in the US that they would be dealing with this problem later when the rest of the US changes to the new DST. I tried several times to post it and they were all rejected.
Basically, you need to make sure that if you change your timezone data on your system that you restart everything, otherwise when the time does change, some programs continue to use the old timezone data and are an hour off.
Ok, I'll bite. What is a "sailboat" in this context? Never heard that word used the way you are using it. And I couldn't find it in any lingo dictionary.
1. When a registrar uploads data to root DNS servers, it also puts some hash of the numbers in a lookup table. 2. Browsers are modified to lookup these hashes in #1 to determine if the DNS servers it is talking to are ok.
The net needs to be more secure and there need to be more checks in place through authoritive sources.
This pharming attack reminds me of when I first installed the doorbell on my house, every once in a while it would go off and nobody was at our door, it turned out that the people across the street had the same doorbell set to the default settings.
I wanted to add a bit more to my answer and I want everyone to think about something. The Internet is distributed, not centralized. If one provider of content, like Youtube, is reaching the point where its impossible to scale any further from one point (10Gbits/sec sustained or something like that currently), then it should put a mirror of its content in another backbone, thus distributing the load over the net. And if they happened to saturate all the backbones, then there is obviously enough traffic (and revenue) to cause providers to grow, creating more "backbones". And besides, if Youtube reaches a limit, competitors will come along to supply content for the demand.
To say that the Internet is not scalable is just rediculous talk. Its like saying cities are not scalable. Maybe nobody can build buildings more than 100 floors, but that doesn't mean the city can't grow. Its scaleable to the point where there is a Youtube mirror and 10Gbit/sec provider for every major city on earth. Sounds kinda like how TV is distributed via affiliates huh?
How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis?
Simple, I wouldn't put up with it. I would demand that they make technologies that do scale. With all the breakthroughs that we've seen lately in storage, CPU power and bandwidth on I2, I just can't believe these kind of statements. These kind of fear tactics I believe are meant to help drive up the price of bandwidth when people are driving it down.
Wikipedia is the "Great Library of Alexandria" of our time. And like open source, it will only die when enough people lose interest of it. And that flame is far from going out or being stomped out by political or social interests.
Didn't the wikimedia foundation used to provide a way for anyone to download the entire 25GB+ database for wikipedia? So anyone could pick up with it. Even if that's not still the case, the torch would likely be passed onto someone else.
After all, look how long defunct operating systems last.
Interesting article. Unfortunately since most companies never wise up about security, its probably in the companies best interest to recognize the needs of IT workers instead of being even more paranoid about them. I used to work as a system administrator at a company where most of us where disgruntled due to the lack of progress of the company and poor leadership, then things got worse when the new owner of the company stopped trusting the admins for no good reason. This created a situation where long time employees started taking the attitude of "This company wouldn't survive for a month without me here". Amazingly, companies like this do survive the departure of their best employees.
I played where people were bringing their "hacked" items online.
I never got the point of the hackers. They would get all their hacked items and put on their shield of godly fortress that protects you from everything and then they'd say "Ready to go kill some monsters?" Come on! I mean how much of a pussy are you that you're so afraid that your virtual character is going to get hurt a little or die. It was pathetic.
Diable - first multiplayer game I played that had a free online service, levels were randomly created, high customization factor and tons of loot
Everyone knows you meant Diablo. Actually, I think Diablo should be noteworth for its making player killing in RPGs popular (and troublesome). There was nothing like waiting at the entrance to the dungeon and typing "Hey, come on down to the dungeon and help me!".......... WHAM!
This reads like a smear campaign. I'm surprised the editors didn't edit out the employer name, at least. If it's legit, then there's going to be bad blood and possibly legal repercussions.
If they edited out the employer name, you would be the first person to complain that they don't mention what company it was. You can't please people on Slashdot.
Of course anyone can sue anybody at anytime for anything. Actually winning a judgement is another matter.
But that's usuaully used as a scare tactic. At least with what we've seen in public news. Its a scare tactic to keep people from doing something like making a parody of strawberry shortcake (Eh hem).
Suing someone for their livelyhood when you have no legal ground to do so is just plain stupid. Anyone who needed to work and was being tried to prevent that would surely challenge the plaintiff. Who wouldn't challenge that? What was The Planet thinking? Actually, don't answer that.
I hope this makes people think twice before hosting with The Planet or one of their resellers or one of their resellers or one of their resellers or one of their resellers........
If you ever want to see some cool simulations of water and other particles, there are some folks in the POVRay animation usenet newsgroup (on news.povray.org) that have been experimenting around with fluids over the past year. They are actually pretty neat animations that simulate fluids pretty well.
Good for you. However, unrequested advertisements sent to my email address are invasive, period. And calling your advertisements a "news letter" is (mildly) deceptive. If you do neither, then, again, good for you. But I will call those who do spammers.
As do I. I wouldn't send out advertisements via email because that's more invasive. You have to "go through it" to get to your real email. The only exception to this is if I was going to tell my current customers about a new service. But that's very few and far between and usually they are interested if only to see what we're doing.
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SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the vounteers' home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time and didn't know that, you might want to stick around (and scroll down) because we're going to explain what a Beowulf Cluster is next.
And if you really want your business to succeed, don't have any dealings with Slashdot, people will only complain that their lives are being ruined by your blatant advertising and will threaten to write letters nasty to you, your mom, your plumber and the EFF while also hyperanalyzing your whois records and posting the security holes related to your mail server's serial port to their blog.
What are the chances of that. I know I saw this on there just days ago. But they seemed to have removed it. It used to be on severs that part of the operating system choices where "No operating system, Microsoft config" and "No operating system, Linux config". Did it get removed because of my comment?
That's cool. But one thing that has always annoyed me about their server configuration utility is that you can select "no operating system, Linux configuration", but there are some hardware options that don't work with that option and so you have to select the microsoft config. So much for getting some extra counts for
the Linux side
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/DST_Time_Chan ge_Issues
A year ago, after most of Indiana went through its first timezone change in 40+ years, we found out that it presented a few problems in Linux, I tried to post a story to Slashdot about it to warn other people in the US that they would be dealing with this problem later when the rest of the US changes to the new DST. I tried several times to post it and they were all rejected.
Basically, you need to make sure that if you change your timezone data on your system that you restart everything, otherwise when the time does change, some programs continue to use the old timezone data and are an hour off.
Ok, I'll bite. What is a "sailboat" in this context? Never heard that word used the way you are using it. And I couldn't find it in any lingo dictionary.
I'm sorry, I was thinking about from the wrong way. That wouldn't work. But perhaps something along those lines could be implemented.
1. When a registrar uploads data to root DNS servers, it also puts some hash of the numbers in a lookup table.
2. Browsers are modified to lookup these hashes in #1 to determine if the DNS servers it is talking to are ok.
The net needs to be more secure and there need to be more checks in place through authoritive sources.
This pharming attack reminds me of when I first installed the doorbell on my house, every once in a while it would go off and nobody was at our door, it turned out that the people across the street had the same doorbell set to the default settings.
I wanted to add a bit more to my answer and I want everyone to think about something. The Internet is distributed, not centralized. If one provider of content, like Youtube, is reaching the point where its impossible to scale any further from one point (10Gbits/sec sustained or something like that currently), then it should put a mirror of its content in another backbone, thus distributing the load over the net. And if they happened to saturate all the backbones, then there is obviously enough traffic (and revenue) to cause providers to grow, creating more "backbones". And besides, if Youtube reaches a limit, competitors will come along to supply content for the demand.
To say that the Internet is not scalable is just rediculous talk. Its like saying cities are not scalable. Maybe nobody can build buildings more than 100 floors, but that doesn't mean the city can't grow. Its scaleable to the point where there is a Youtube mirror and 10Gbit/sec provider for every major city on earth. Sounds kinda like how TV is distributed via affiliates huh?
How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis?
Simple, I wouldn't put up with it. I would demand that they make technologies that do scale. With all the breakthroughs that we've seen lately in storage, CPU power and bandwidth on I2, I just can't believe these kind of statements. These kind of fear tactics I believe are meant to help drive up the price of bandwidth when people are driving it down.
Linux has been a success for me, and that's enough.
At first I thought Nick Gisburne might be this guy. Fortunately, that video is still up. Hillarious and oh so telling.
Um, what the hell? This guy has a spot on ZDnet now? At least we know what he looks like.
Bandwidth is cheap as dirt.
Eh hem. You wanna bet? Don't let those dime-a-dozen hosting companies that advertise terabytes of bandwidth for a few dollars a month fool you.
Wikipedia is the "Great Library of Alexandria" of our time. And like open source, it will only die when enough people lose interest of it. And that flame is
far from going out or being stomped out by political or social interests.
Didn't the wikimedia foundation used to provide a way for anyone to download the entire 25GB+ database for wikipedia? So anyone could pick up with it. Even if
that's not still the case, the torch would likely be passed onto someone else.
After all, look how long defunct operating systems last.
but if you have stuff, you WILL make friends.
But as the grandparent said, not a real friend.
And what about the guy in Office Space?
Oh come on, that company must have sent out about a million memos.
Interesting article. Unfortunately since most companies never wise up about security, its probably in the companies best interest to recognize the needs of IT workers instead of being even more paranoid about them. I used to work as a system administrator at a company where most of us where disgruntled due to the lack of progress of the company and poor leadership, then things got worse when the new owner of the company stopped trusting the admins for no good reason. This created a situation where long time employees started taking the attitude of "This company wouldn't survive for a month without me here". Amazingly, companies like this do survive the departure of their best employees.
I played where people were bringing their "hacked" items online.
I never got the point of the hackers. They would get all their hacked items and put on their shield of godly fortress that protects you from everything and then they'd say "Ready to go kill some monsters?" Come on! I mean how much of a pussy are you that you're so afraid that your virtual character is going to get hurt a little or die. It was pathetic.
Diable - first multiplayer game I played that had a free online service, levels were randomly created, high customization factor and tons of loot
Everyone knows you meant Diablo. Actually, I think Diablo should be noteworth for its making player killing in RPGs popular (and troublesome). There was nothing like waiting at the entrance to the dungeon and typing "Hey, come on down to the dungeon and help me!".......... WHAM!
This reads like a smear campaign. I'm surprised the editors didn't edit out the employer name, at least. If it's legit, then there's going to be bad blood and possibly legal repercussions.
If they edited out the employer name, you would be the first person to complain that they don't mention what company it was. You can't please people on Slashdot.
Of course anyone can sue anybody at anytime for anything. Actually winning a judgement is another matter.
But that's usuaully used as a scare tactic. At least with what we've seen in public news. Its a scare tactic to keep people from doing something like making a parody of strawberry shortcake (Eh hem).
Suing someone for their livelyhood when you have no legal ground to do so is just plain stupid. Anyone who needed to work and was being tried to prevent that would surely challenge the plaintiff. Who wouldn't challenge that? What was The Planet thinking? Actually, don't answer that.
I hope this makes people think twice before hosting with The Planet or one of their resellers or one of their resellers or one of their resellers or one of their resellers........
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if you dont live in the 1980s, CG-wise).
Actually, I am living in the 1980s.
If you ever want to see some cool simulations of water and other particles, there are some folks in the POVRay animation usenet newsgroup (on news.povray.org) that have been experimenting around with fluids over the past year. They are actually pretty neat animations that simulate fluids pretty well.
Good for you. However, unrequested advertisements sent to my email address are invasive, period. And calling your advertisements a "news letter" is (mildly) deceptive. If you do neither, then, again, good for you. But I will call those who do spammers.
As do I. I wouldn't send out advertisements via email because that's more invasive. You have to "go through it" to get to your real email. The only exception to this is if I was going to tell my current customers about a new service. But that's very few and far between and usually they are interested if only to see what we're doing.