IPMI is a management interface that allows you to do some neat remote administration tasks on these servers up to and including remote console so you can even install an OS on them over the network. They are a separate network interface with this running. I have several of these boxes deployed in my datacenters and firstly, the IPMI interface is configured with a non-public IP address, and secondly, the box is behind a firewall blocking all traffic that is not explicitly allowed, so while this is some sloppy-ass stuff on Supermicro's part, I am personally not that concerned. I am sure that there are many who are not nearly as cautious as I am though who might need to be concerned. Although if they are also that careless, chances are they might not have bothered to set up the IPMI interface as well or even plugged it in.
Exactly. Supermicro definitely screwed the pooch on this one, but so is anyone deploying these systems without a firewall in front of them. It's just common sense.
Japan was not "tapped out". It's well documented that their backs were against the wall and they were prepared to throw the bodies of every last fighting man, woman and child into the expected land invasion by the allies, and it would have been a horrific bloody mess. So many casualties were anticipated from the planned allied invasion that the US started pumping out Purple Heart medals in advance of the action and so many were manufactured that those same medals are still being awarded today.
Hell, even AFTER the nukes were dropped some of the more rabid Japanese commanders still wanted to continue the fight and nearly mutinied. If the bombs hadn't been dropped to show overwhelming tactical advantage, their collective spirit wouldn't have broken, and the deaths, casualties and mass suicides during the Okinawa invasion would have been repeated on a far larger scale.
Seriously? They're offering a free service, with certain rules and requirements for certain types of videos to be hosted there. Don't want to agree to those terms, fine. Go put your video somewhere else. There's Vimeo, Vevo (who actually focuses on music content...) Veoh, Metacafe, etc. etc.
How is that evil? That's like having a farm where there's a gun range and letting everyone in town can use it for free, but if you want to use certain rifles, you have to use the ammo they freely provide. "OMG, I have to use your free ammo at your free gun range instead of my own? STOP OPPRESSING ME!"
"Google has confirmed that it will remove the music videos of independent artists unless they sign up to its upcoming subscription music service. Many independent musicians and labels have refused to do so, claiming that the contracts offer significantly worse deals than the likes of Spotify and Pandora."
Here's a thought... why not both? Sign up for Youtube as well as Spotify and Pandora.
I think you need to have another look at VPS. It's been the case for several years now that you sign up for an account, pay for what you want and then an automated deployment system allows you to spin up a brand new VPS with your choice of sizing and OS all in about 60 seconds. Digital Ocean even lets you just throw some cash in your balance and then charges you per day so you can spin up and shut down as many VPSs as you like with whatever capacity you have the credit for on that day.
If this is supposed to be some dig against going with little cloud services and then being surprised by outages, please share your thoughts on Amazon's EBS outages that have taken many of the highest trafficked services online out 3 times in the last 2 years. Or Microsoft's multple cloud service failures that have dragged things to a halt at many businesses using Office online. Or look to Slashdot's own front page yesterday and today to see coverage of Adobe's Creative Cloud service being offline for 28 hours.
> I don't think VPS fits directly into the cloud conversation
VPS's are considered cloud, you're virtualizing hardware and paying someone else to maintain those VMs on their infrastructure with (supposedly) no need to concern yourself with the maintenance of that underlying hardware or network infrastructure. How is that not cloud? I brought my experience with one provider up because it falls into those parameters.
>This would be no different then a collocation getting DOS'd
Ah, but it is. Firstly, most cloud providers are co-locating within another facility themselves instead of owning the place. Secondly and most importantly, if my co-location provider has a spectacular failure of some sort, I still have the option of going down to the datacenter with my truck and loading all *my* servers into the back then going across the street to another co-lo. With cloud providers, they're hundreds or thousands of kilometers away and you don't own anything in their facilities so you have no recourse unless you have local backups of everything to start elsewhere (which you should). And even if you have backups, I would be willing to bet you don't have bare-metal VM copies so you'll be provisioning new VMs and installing your application(s) and then restoring backups, which is a far more involved process than re-racking and assigning new IPs to a machine.
> However being it is suppose to be the cloud company key job to keep it running.
Yes, supposed to be, and actually do are two different things. And most of the time you don't find out about the cloud host's deficiencies until far too late. One cloud company I had a personal linux server with got hit with a DOS attack and their response was to ignore their customer service email and phone for almost a week while trying to clean it up. Needless to say I bought another VPS elsewhere, restored by backups and cancelled my account at the original place as soon as their systems settled down enough. I couldn't possibly imagine leaving my business systems vulnerable to those kind of shenanigans.
> also with a proper contract you can squarely blame them for any mistake
Are you truly that naive? If you have an SLA with *your* client to uphold it doesn't matter if you have someone to blame or not. Your client will blame *you*. It's your decision to go with a service company that has caused you to miss your SLA so it is your fault. Period. Say that SLA violation costs you $100,000. I can bet you your annual paycheck that the agreement you signed with the cloud provider will only see you getting refunded hosting costs during the outage and not a nickel toward your actual losses. So yeah, you lost $100K on the SLA violation but good news! You're getting $250 off your cloud bill. Sweet! Er. wait...
Every single thing on your list has one major difference. Fishing? Resource consumed. Wildflowers? Resource consumed. Videotape, resource (potential sales) consumed. FM broadcasting, resource consumed (spectrum. Your little micro FM might block someone else who paid for the spectrum). All of these are a thing because if a lot of people do it, the resources will be gone or severely degraded.
Now, if I fly a drone and photograph me some tornado carnage and then post it on youtube vs selling it to a TV station would you please point out where that resource I consumed was? Hell, even if there were 500 microdrones in the air at the same time taking footage, how is that a problem? As long as they abide by the same regulations of amateur use with regard to altitude and line of sight, who cares?
This is a classic example of the regulations not catching up to reality.
I couldn't agree more. Things fail, you cannot rely on electrical/power assist functions in all cases so as a responsible motor vehicle operator you should be required to know what to do in the event that one or more of these systems fails. In fact, it should be mandatory to receive a driver's license. A pilot has to demonstrate the ability to handle an engine failure before receiving their license, and a motorcyclist has to demonstrate the ability to handle the bike with the front tire locked up in a panic stop before getting theirs, so why not car drivers having the same requirements?
In addition, it saddens me to see manual gearboxes being nearly nonexistent in North America, as that also gives you far better control over your vehicle in a situation like this. Something weird going on with your engine? Step 1, put in the clutch. Step 2, put it in neutral (which many automatics won't let you do at highway speeds any more), step 3, sort it out on the shoulder. Works for both an engine that dies unexpectedly, as well as those alleged reports of stuck throttles.
"No gaming control pad should have a touchscreen. It was absolutely ridiculous on the Wii U"
I strongly disagree. Used properly, the touchpad and second display can be a great addition. Just look at some of the DS or 3DS games for how it should be done. In fact, if Nintendo would release a WiiU addon that would allow me to use my 3DS cartridges on it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat and airmail them a thank you cake.
Really? We're equating phones, ipods and tablets to PCs now? Walk into an office with an iPad and tell your boss you don't need a computer any more. See how far that gets you. By the same token, there are more bikes than cars, I guess Detroit better hang it up and call the liquidators, bikes won.
"devices" aren't even in the same area code as PCs and laptops, capability and *usability* wise. Trying to equate one to the other is ludicrous. One observation that stuck with me about tablets vs computers is that someone remarked "Tablets are information and media consumption devices, while computers are information and media creation devices". And it's true. I have a tablet. I love my tablet. It's great for looking shit up or watching a video in bed or or reading email on the train on the way to work. But if I have to type a paragraph on the thing I want to hurl it down the hallway by the time I finish. And if someone told me I HAD to do my job on it, I'd put it on the desk, walk out and become a farmer, garbageman, mechanic, or anything else that wouldn't force me to use a tablet to do tech work.
I'll tell you what. I'll buy you a ticket to fly down and explain to the fatherless 3 year old how this is a win for moviegoers. Do report back on how that goes.
They don't need it like Microsoft did. Microsoft as a gaming company was an unknown quantity and their debut was back when games were "kids" activities so they had to market heavily. Valve on the other hand is a well known game company with a proven track record, even in the console space. Try and find a console gamer who hasn't at least played Left for Dead, Portal, Team Fortress 2 or Half Life 2 on a console at least once.
Also, the age demographic has shifted since the introduction of the Xbox more than a decade ago and many of the people who are going to be getting the next gen consoles are are adults who have been playing games for years and again are well familiar with Valve and probably Steam as well. The big push isn't going to be to market to the soccer moms, it's going to be to appeal to the discerning gamer.
Actually, reading the article, I rather think they have. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing stuff like this:
"To promote the alliance, Nestle now plans to deliver more than 50 million chocolate bars featuring the Android mascot to shops in 19 markets, including the UK, US, Brazil, India, Japan and Russia.
The packaging had to be produced in advance over the past two months. But despite the scale of the operation, the two firms managed to keep the story a secret,"
You mean they didn't want to turn down a free opportunity to have their trademark splashed all over the world in marketing blurbs for the next couple of years on someone else's dime? Shocking!
Too bad this is nothing like an MMO or RPG. You're not leveling up to take on a boss at the end of a lengthy quest, you're just getting dropped into random match after random match. The concept of grinding hours on end to unlock a handful of efficiencies is dreadful.
There's 1.12 billion shares of Activision. These two deals alone acquire control of 601 million of them, or 53.6% of all outstanding shares. If I have 53% control of a company, you know how much leverage your 12% gives you? Absolutely none.
They could theoretically make some of their money back on their piece of software sales through the Windows Marketplace. For example I know of at least 2 people with $1000+ worth of iOS software they've bought for their iDevices and Apple gets 30% of that straight off the top. That's also Google's strategy with pricing the Nexus devices how they do, they're basically selling them at cost with the intention of getting revenue through the Play store.
Is it likely that Microsoft would be able to make it all back in this situation? No. But if they took a really long view of things and kept aggressively going after the market once they'd seeded millions of cheap units into it, they might be able to make it viable. Half the problem with their device is chicken and egg: There's nobody writing apps for the devices because there's no install base and there's no install base because nobody's writing apps to be used. Toss a few million units out into the world for cheap and that shifts. But it's a very ballsy move and many wouldn't be willing to take a risk like that.
It's international numbers are huge and it hasn't even opened in Asia yet where it's expected to do EXTREMELY well. The more stories I see calling Pac Rim a "bomb" despite the numbers it's racking up are starting to make me think this article:
Between the two of them they've caused the biggest changes in Western health and diet, and yet were both so wrong. They honestly both thought what they were doing was the Right Thing, but by cherry picking evidence that supported their theories (especially in Keys' case) and ignoring data that pointed otherwise, they committed the cardinal sin of science: Don't make your data fit your hypothesis.
I tend to take a bit of a strict view of these things. If you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, like driving with your license suspended or drunk, and an accident happens, you're automatically partly at fault. Because if you were doing what you were supposed to, your vehicle wouldn't have been on the road and the accident would most likely not have occurred at all. I don't care if the immediate accident was your fault or not, the simple fact of the matter is you shouldn't have been there at all.
"Or he was drunk" - His fault and he was breaking the law
"Or high" - His fault and he was breaking the law
"Or had a suspended license" - Indeed he did, and once again, HIS FAULT for being on the road when he shouldn't have been.
"Or a warrant." - So he's breaking the law 24/7 and should have turned himself in to sort it out.
"Or was an 'undocumented worker'" - You mean someone in the country illegally who hasn't got a driver's license? You mean someone breaking the law by driving a motor vehicle without a license? His fault.
"even if he wasn't the at fault party" - These words do not mean what you think they mean. If any of your conditions you listed for fleeing were true (and one was!) then he should NOT have been on the road, and by choosing to drive he deliberately started a chain of events that ended in tragedy. His fault.
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IPMI is a management interface that allows you to do some neat remote administration tasks on these servers up to and including remote console so you can even install an OS on them over the network. They are a separate network interface with this running. I have several of these boxes deployed in my datacenters and firstly, the IPMI interface is configured with a non-public IP address, and secondly, the box is behind a firewall blocking all traffic that is not explicitly allowed, so while this is some sloppy-ass stuff on Supermicro's part, I am personally not that concerned. I am sure that there are many who are not nearly as cautious as I am though who might need to be concerned. Although if they are also that careless, chances are they might not have bothered to set up the IPMI interface as well or even plugged it in.
Exactly. Supermicro definitely screwed the pooch on this one, but so is anyone deploying these systems without a firewall in front of them. It's just common sense.
Japan was not "tapped out". It's well documented that their backs were against the wall and they were prepared to throw the bodies of every last fighting man, woman and child into the expected land invasion by the allies, and it would have been a horrific bloody mess. So many casualties were anticipated from the planned allied invasion that the US started pumping out Purple Heart medals in advance of the action and so many were manufactured that those same medals are still being awarded today.
Hell, even AFTER the nukes were dropped some of the more rabid Japanese commanders still wanted to continue the fight and nearly mutinied. If the bombs hadn't been dropped to show overwhelming tactical advantage, their collective spirit wouldn't have broken, and the deaths, casualties and mass suicides during the Okinawa invasion would have been repeated on a far larger scale.
Seriously? They're offering a free service, with certain rules and requirements for certain types of videos to be hosted there. Don't want to agree to those terms, fine. Go put your video somewhere else. There's Vimeo, Vevo (who actually focuses on music content...) Veoh, Metacafe, etc. etc.
How is that evil? That's like having a farm where there's a gun range and letting everyone in town can use it for free, but if you want to use certain rifles, you have to use the ammo they freely provide. "OMG, I have to use your free ammo at your free gun range instead of my own? STOP OPPRESSING ME!"
"Google has confirmed that it will remove the music videos of independent artists unless they sign up to its upcoming subscription music service. Many independent musicians and labels have refused to do so, claiming that the contracts offer significantly worse deals than the likes of Spotify and Pandora."
Here's a thought... why not both? Sign up for Youtube as well as Spotify and Pandora.
I think you need to have another look at VPS. It's been the case for several years now that you sign up for an account, pay for what you want and then an automated deployment system allows you to spin up a brand new VPS with your choice of sizing and OS all in about 60 seconds. Digital Ocean even lets you just throw some cash in your balance and then charges you per day so you can spin up and shut down as many VPSs as you like with whatever capacity you have the credit for on that day.
>You get what you pay for.
If this is supposed to be some dig against going with little cloud services and then being surprised by outages, please share your thoughts on Amazon's EBS outages that have taken many of the highest trafficked services online out 3 times in the last 2 years. Or Microsoft's multple cloud service failures that have dragged things to a halt at many businesses using Office online. Or look to Slashdot's own front page yesterday and today to see coverage of Adobe's Creative Cloud service being offline for 28 hours.
> I don't think VPS fits directly into the cloud conversation
VPS's are considered cloud, you're virtualizing hardware and paying someone else to maintain those VMs on their infrastructure with (supposedly) no need to concern yourself with the maintenance of that underlying hardware or network infrastructure. How is that not cloud? I brought my experience with one provider up because it falls into those parameters.
>This would be no different then a collocation getting DOS'd
Ah, but it is. Firstly, most cloud providers are co-locating within another facility themselves instead of owning the place. Secondly and most importantly, if my co-location provider has a spectacular failure of some sort, I still have the option of going down to the datacenter with my truck and loading all *my* servers into the back then going across the street to another co-lo. With cloud providers, they're hundreds or thousands of kilometers away and you don't own anything in their facilities so you have no recourse unless you have local backups of everything to start elsewhere (which you should). And even if you have backups, I would be willing to bet you don't have bare-metal VM copies so you'll be provisioning new VMs and installing your application(s) and then restoring backups, which is a far more involved process than re-racking and assigning new IPs to a machine.
> However being it is suppose to be the cloud company key job to keep it running.
Yes, supposed to be, and actually do are two different things. And most of the time you don't find out about the cloud host's deficiencies until far too late. One cloud company I had a personal linux server with got hit with a DOS attack and their response was to ignore their customer service email and phone for almost a week while trying to clean it up. Needless to say I bought another VPS elsewhere, restored by backups and cancelled my account at the original place as soon as their systems settled down enough. I couldn't possibly imagine leaving my business systems vulnerable to those kind of shenanigans.
> also with a proper contract you can squarely blame them for any mistake
Are you truly that naive? If you have an SLA with *your* client to uphold it doesn't matter if you have someone to blame or not. Your client will blame *you*. It's your decision to go with a service company that has caused you to miss your SLA so it is your fault. Period. Say that SLA violation costs you $100,000. I can bet you your annual paycheck that the agreement you signed with the cloud provider will only see you getting refunded hosting costs during the outage and not a nickel toward your actual losses. So yeah, you lost $100K on the SLA violation but good news! You're getting $250 off your cloud bill. Sweet! Er. wait...
Every single thing on your list has one major difference. Fishing? Resource consumed. Wildflowers? Resource consumed. Videotape, resource (potential sales) consumed. FM broadcasting, resource consumed (spectrum. Your little micro FM might block someone else who paid for the spectrum). All of these are a thing because if a lot of people do it, the resources will be gone or severely degraded.
Now, if I fly a drone and photograph me some tornado carnage and then post it on youtube vs selling it to a TV station would you please point out where that resource I consumed was? Hell, even if there were 500 microdrones in the air at the same time taking footage, how is that a problem? As long as they abide by the same regulations of amateur use with regard to altitude and line of sight, who cares?
This is a classic example of the regulations not catching up to reality.
I couldn't agree more. Things fail, you cannot rely on electrical/power assist functions in all cases so as a responsible motor vehicle operator you should be required to know what to do in the event that one or more of these systems fails. In fact, it should be mandatory to receive a driver's license. A pilot has to demonstrate the ability to handle an engine failure before receiving their license, and a motorcyclist has to demonstrate the ability to handle the bike with the front tire locked up in a panic stop before getting theirs, so why not car drivers having the same requirements?
In addition, it saddens me to see manual gearboxes being nearly nonexistent in North America, as that also gives you far better control over your vehicle in a situation like this. Something weird going on with your engine? Step 1, put in the clutch. Step 2, put it in neutral (which many automatics won't let you do at highway speeds any more), step 3, sort it out on the shoulder. Works for both an engine that dies unexpectedly, as well as those alleged reports of stuck throttles.
save $4000 and get a solowheel
http://inventist.com/soloindex.php
"No gaming control pad should have a touchscreen. It was absolutely ridiculous on the Wii U"
I strongly disagree. Used properly, the touchpad and second display can be a great addition. Just look at some of the DS or 3DS games for how it should be done. In fact, if Nintendo would release a WiiU addon that would allow me to use my 3DS cartridges on it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat and airmail them a thank you cake.
Really? We're equating phones, ipods and tablets to PCs now? Walk into an office with an iPad and tell your boss you don't need a computer any more. See how far that gets you. By the same token, there are more bikes than cars, I guess Detroit better hang it up and call the liquidators, bikes won.
"devices" aren't even in the same area code as PCs and laptops, capability and *usability* wise. Trying to equate one to the other is ludicrous. One observation that stuck with me about tablets vs computers is that someone remarked "Tablets are information and media consumption devices, while computers are information and media creation devices". And it's true. I have a tablet. I love my tablet. It's great for looking shit up or watching a video in bed or or reading email on the train on the way to work. But if I have to type a paragraph on the thing I want to hurl it down the hallway by the time I finish. And if someone told me I HAD to do my job on it, I'd put it on the desk, walk out and become a farmer, garbageman, mechanic, or anything else that wouldn't force me to use a tablet to do tech work.
Doesn't matter. The NSA already knows who it is. The rest is just paperwork.
I'll tell you what. I'll buy you a ticket to fly down and explain to the fatherless 3 year old how this is a win for moviegoers. Do report back on how that goes.
They don't need it like Microsoft did. Microsoft as a gaming company was an unknown quantity and their debut was back when games were "kids" activities so they had to market heavily. Valve on the other hand is a well known game company with a proven track record, even in the console space. Try and find a console gamer who hasn't at least played Left for Dead, Portal, Team Fortress 2 or Half Life 2 on a console at least once.
Also, the age demographic has shifted since the introduction of the Xbox more than a decade ago and many of the people who are going to be getting the next gen consoles are are adults who have been playing games for years and again are well familiar with Valve and probably Steam as well. The big push isn't going to be to market to the soccer moms, it's going to be to appeal to the discerning gamer.
These would be the same people whose Apple products are made in factories with anti-suicide nets installed on them? Something something, pot kettle.
Actually, reading the article, I rather think they have. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing stuff like this:
"To promote the alliance, Nestle now plans to deliver more than 50 million chocolate bars featuring the Android mascot to shops in 19 markets, including the UK, US, Brazil, India, Japan and Russia.
The packaging had to be produced in advance over the past two months. But despite the scale of the operation, the two firms managed to keep the story a secret,"
You mean they didn't want to turn down a free opportunity to have their trademark splashed all over the world in marketing blurbs for the next couple of years on someone else's dime? Shocking!
Too bad this is nothing like an MMO or RPG. You're not leveling up to take on a boss at the end of a lengthy quest, you're just getting dropped into random match after random match. The concept of grinding hours on end to unlock a handful of efficiencies is dreadful.
There's 1.12 billion shares of Activision. These two deals alone acquire control of 601 million of them, or 53.6% of all outstanding shares. If I have 53% control of a company, you know how much leverage your 12% gives you? Absolutely none.
They could theoretically make some of their money back on their piece of software sales through the Windows Marketplace. For example I know of at least 2 people with $1000+ worth of iOS software they've bought for their iDevices and Apple gets 30% of that straight off the top. That's also Google's strategy with pricing the Nexus devices how they do, they're basically selling them at cost with the intention of getting revenue through the Play store.
Is it likely that Microsoft would be able to make it all back in this situation? No. But if they took a really long view of things and kept aggressively going after the market once they'd seeded millions of cheap units into it, they might be able to make it viable. Half the problem with their device is chicken and egg: There's nobody writing apps for the devices because there's no install base and there's no install base because nobody's writing apps to be used. Toss a few million units out into the world for cheap and that shifts. But it's a very ballsy move and many wouldn't be willing to take a risk like that.
It's international numbers are huge and it hasn't even opened in Asia yet where it's expected to do EXTREMELY well. The more stories I see calling Pac Rim a "bomb" despite the numbers it's racking up are starting to make me think this article:
http://comicsbeat.com/hollywood-mystery-who-is-trying-to-kill-pacific-rim/
is less tinfoil woo-woo and more the real story.
Between the two of them they've caused the biggest changes in Western health and diet, and yet were both so wrong. They honestly both thought what they were doing was the Right Thing, but by cherry picking evidence that supported their theories (especially in Keys' case) and ignoring data that pointed otherwise, they committed the cardinal sin of science: Don't make your data fit your hypothesis.
I tend to take a bit of a strict view of these things. If you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, like driving with your license suspended or drunk, and an accident happens, you're automatically partly at fault. Because if you were doing what you were supposed to, your vehicle wouldn't have been on the road and the accident would most likely not have occurred at all. I don't care if the immediate accident was your fault or not, the simple fact of the matter is you shouldn't have been there at all.
"Or he was drunk" - His fault and he was breaking the law
"Or high" - His fault and he was breaking the law
"Or had a suspended license" - Indeed he did, and once again, HIS FAULT for being on the road when he shouldn't have been.
"Or a warrant." - So he's breaking the law 24/7 and should have turned himself in to sort it out.
"Or was an 'undocumented worker'" - You mean someone in the country illegally who hasn't got a driver's license? You mean someone breaking the law by driving a motor vehicle without a license? His fault.
"even if he wasn't the at fault party" - These words do not mean what you think they mean. If any of your conditions you listed for fleeing were true (and one was!) then he should NOT have been on the road, and by choosing to drive he deliberately started a chain of events that ended in tragedy. His fault.