They're called snapshots and most middle-to-big servers have them. Big honking servers like NetApps ($100k+) and even the little NAS boxes from Iomega (~$4k) have them. Blow something away? No big deal, just go into the.snapshot directory and pull out data up to two weeks old. I imagine it's all in the works for some upcoming version of a Linux filesystem the same way software raid and journaling were once only found in the realm of the big servers.
Right, because the government won't bail them out if they suddenly find that they have to raise the price an objectionable amount. You yourself just said that you would find anything over $0.40 objectionable which is not that far off. What happens when some other flakes decide to spread anthrax and the post office decides it should now cost $1.40 to mail things so that it can all be more secure? Just like what the airlines fell into after 9/11. Welcome to tax subsidized service, now with 50% less service. Flying these days is like visiting the DMV!
Seriously, is there anything circulated by standard bulk mail these days that cannot now be done through email where it can be distributed much more cheaply and can be discarded more easily? How much of our infrastructure is dedicated to paying for automobiles and their gasoline for sending around flyers about new mortgage rates, pre-approved credit cards, and a sale down the street, the very things we are up in arms about in SPAM? I know not everyone has a computer or can afford good Internet service, but what I would give to get my bills and maagzines on time (see Zinio.com for online magazine distribution where I have received my Eweek mags). I already pay bills online, why not do everything else that way? Paper is so 2002.
Thawte will take your SSN *OR* a driver's license number. Since you have no problem showing that to a complete stranger at the post office, you should have no problem showing it to Thawte. I sure as hell wasn't going to give them my SSN. I don't recall ever telling them who I worked for. It's a private cert and has nothing to do with who I work for, though I have used the account to get certs for my workplace email and other unrelated personal accounts.
Who needs software?!? Just rip an MP3 of the tone and it will spread like wildfire. If ever there was a humanitarian use for computer technology, this is it. Third world countries can have the tone playing continuously in the background across computer speakers on all systems to keep disease carrying mosquitos away. Then again most people who can afford to have a computer running 24x7 aren't really concerned about catching cholera from mosquitos. Still it could put all those old Rio PMP300 players to good use. Public places could run it over the loudspeakers to keep those areas free from bugs. It's not like we would mind since we cannot hear it. Those areas affected by West Nile carrying mosquitos would also appreciate this.
How silly to market this as a boon to cell-toting SUV freaks as cure for mosquito annoyances when it applies to a situation of life and death elsewhere in the world.
This sounds like a complete show-stopper. The use of basic Exchange-like functionality in an organization is just a first step. After that come plugins for all sorts of CRMs and other such sales and marketing applications. Still it is admirable that they have covered the tiny fraction of the world that only uses Exchange for what Outlook already does on its own. Also important will be adding functionality that Exchange itself is missing so that people are drawn to this server.
What we've done is placed a small firewall just outside our main firewall on the same ISP subnet. All clients must use the same VPN software they use when traveling to then access the network through the main firewall. Rules in place on the small firewall only allow authenticated traffic hubbed through the main firewall and nothing else. So you don't even get a free ride on Internet access if you break into the network. 802.1x is definitely next and we may or may not keep the IPSec.
So what you're saying is someone breaking into your home, stealing the snail mail card, and then ordering over the web on your computer using your credit cards can be verified as being yourself? Seems pretty secure to me.
Big whoop. You can do that by looking up people near you in Thawte's Web of Trust and getting identified enough times. I got my cert and then enough signatures in one evening at a local UG meeting to get my name on my cert. Get 100 points and then you too can certify others. And no one needs to pay taxes to support Thawte's free certs.
No no no. The kid wants to do something productive and actually program, not get trapped into setting up a whole new system and get involved in patches and unrelated packages. All he has to do is get a hold of a free language package on the web like Tcl/Tk or Perl or even LISP and he's good to go with one download and a double-click. So why go through the trouble of all that for something so simple? Talk about overengineering the solution.
This is the problem with Slashdot readers: they automatically assume Linux=freeware. You know, freeware *does* exist for other systems. However, the author of the article didn't necessarily state that Windows was the system that was loaded on the theoretical 12 year old's target system.
Gawd what a waste. If only all the people that bought this sort of crappy gadget had something *really* serious to do on a computer. Of course that's probably what they said about the joystick when it first came out, and it can be used for serious stuff like 3D modeling in medical apps. I only see this being used in a porno parlor 10 years from now with little pink buttons right on the top as the best new enhancement. Enjoy the new Microsoft Feel-Mouse(TM)!
This is what I like about TiVo. They are in the business of making rabid fans because they know that by making us their evagelists they can only win. I've never heard anyone rave about a Replay. TiVo fans can count on TiVo knowing them and keeping them happy.
I bet the Native Americans wished Europeans dawdled this much when exploring the New World. The first thing they did when they sighted land was to set foot.
We've seen this new world so many damn times! At what point do we send a ship full of people to just circle the place once and come back? I'd be happy to see a NASA mission go out from the Earth and back for just six months to get beyond the moon.
Signs of life are not going to change what we are going to do to that planet. The real interest is a) water, and b) if there is water, what natural resources can we plunder?
From what I understand, you can hack your Tivo series 1 to enable video extraction which you can then burn to DVD. That isn't much more of a hack than a FreeVo, and I expect that the schedule handling of the TiVo is much more advanced than what you will get out of the free systems, albeit much pricier.
The majority of then attend neither church and do not live to please anyone. They say they believe in God, but in truth he is no more real to them than the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus that they pay more attention to during those respective popular holidays. It would be better for them to be truthful and realise what it is they are living rather than making their limited time a big sham.
There are those that live their lives well and advance humanity, but do now know God. In essence, they have not learned about God and so have no actually rejected Him.
Those that go to church and then turn around and screw their neighbor's wife, well I think we have that one pegged.
If you want an example of an early religion that rejects the hoarding of worldly goods, look no farther than the "Thou shalt no covet..." parts of the Ten Commandments. I believe it all follows the same Buddhist philosophy that we let worldly goods rule us and they can be the cause of a lot of pain (money is the root of all evil?), so living a simpler life leaves more room for God, family, and friends. Honestly, I see Buddhism as being very compatible with my Catholicism because Buddha not worshipped but instead held as a role model.
but the next time someone blows up part of Manhattan and there's no power or basic services for weeks, these skills could come in really handy. The farther infrastructure is built up, the further it has to fall when infrastructure below it is suddenly pulled out from underneath. It would be wise to somehow actively maintain these older skills in part of society so that the skill is not lost if someone blows up the International Soap Makers' Convention. =) While the Internet is a sort of insurance against the loss of knowledge it is not a complete guarantee since there can be a big difference between knowledge and how to apply the tricks of the trade.
If they choose to enforce this law, then you as the consumer can choose to not purchase over the Internet from companies in California. Plenty of others to choose from and I doubt the law stands if things get worse because of public outcry. Too many people think of the Internet as something that will inevitably fall to taxation, when I say it laid the first ground for no-tax laws. Make your voices heard people, or just pay your sheep tax.
What he means is that you can run anything anywhere anytime without having to go around loading "Software Package B 2.3" at every server farm that will ever encounter your job. It will not matter whether you are running on Win32, Linux, HP-UX, or Atari 2600; the architecture should be an abstract concept many levels down that the grid user should ignore.
This is much like a lot of the distributed computing systems out there these days. I don't think Folding@Home cares whether you ran their work unit on a Red Hat box or on Solaris sparc systems.
A lot of these concepts are what we are waiting for. We have a server farm that is metered by resources available from license servers, but the data is geographically separated so licenses available at one site may not be available at others. Technologies that allow reliable data transfer (NFSv4?) might enable this, but it also needs to be calculated whether the amount of time it takes to transfer the data will be longer than it takes to process the data. Not all our sites have multiple T1s so it may be cheaper to just boost the size of those lines vs buying $100k licenses. Total grid computing sounds very possible when you talk about breaking the job down to "Add register 1 and register 2" but the task of breaking the job down to that size and transferring to a remote system canh take so much longer than actually doing that locally. Some larger granularity will be needed to make it efficient to transfer a job remotely.
As I mentioned in my post, "secure" handling would be the first requirement. Security and encryption must go without saying. In order to further ensure security, a job must be as widely spread as possible. If I split an aerodynamic simulation in encrypted fashion across 100 compute farm services I am much more secure than if I did the same thing with a single service.
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They're called snapshots and most middle-to-big servers have them. Big honking servers like NetApps ($100k+) and even the little NAS boxes from Iomega (~$4k) have them. Blow something away? No big deal, just go into the .snapshot directory and pull out data up to two weeks old. I imagine it's all in the works for some upcoming version of a Linux filesystem the same way software raid and journaling were once only found in the realm of the big servers.
That's right, no ideas. Just keep leeching off the old ones. Moblog? Ho hum.
Right, because the government won't bail them out if they suddenly find that they have to raise the price an objectionable amount. You yourself just said that you would find anything over $0.40 objectionable which is not that far off. What happens when some other flakes decide to spread anthrax and the post office decides it should now cost $1.40 to mail things so that it can all be more secure? Just like what the airlines fell into after 9/11. Welcome to tax subsidized service, now with 50% less service. Flying these days is like visiting the DMV!
Seriously, is there anything circulated by standard bulk mail these days that cannot now be done through email where it can be distributed much more cheaply and can be discarded more easily? How much of our infrastructure is dedicated to paying for automobiles and their gasoline for sending around flyers about new mortgage rates, pre-approved credit cards, and a sale down the street, the very things we are up in arms about in SPAM? I know not everyone has a computer or can afford good Internet service, but what I would give to get my bills and maagzines on time (see Zinio.com for online magazine distribution where I have received my Eweek mags). I already pay bills online, why not do everything else that way? Paper is so 2002.
Thawte will take your SSN *OR* a driver's license number. Since you have no problem showing that to a complete stranger at the post office, you should have no problem showing it to Thawte. I sure as hell wasn't going to give them my SSN. I don't recall ever telling them who I worked for. It's a private cert and has nothing to do with who I work for, though I have used the account to get certs for my workplace email and other unrelated personal accounts.
Who needs software?!? Just rip an MP3 of the tone and it will spread like wildfire. If ever there was a humanitarian use for computer technology, this is it. Third world countries can have the tone playing continuously in the background across computer speakers on all systems to keep disease carrying mosquitos away. Then again most people who can afford to have a computer running 24x7 aren't really concerned about catching cholera from mosquitos. Still it could put all those old Rio PMP300 players to good use. Public places could run it over the loudspeakers to keep those areas free from bugs. It's not like we would mind since we cannot hear it. Those areas affected by West Nile carrying mosquitos would also appreciate this.
How silly to market this as a boon to cell-toting SUV freaks as cure for mosquito annoyances when it applies to a situation of life and death elsewhere in the world.
This sounds like a complete show-stopper. The use of basic Exchange-like functionality in an organization is just a first step. After that come plugins for all sorts of CRMs and other such sales and marketing applications. Still it is admirable that they have covered the tiny fraction of the world that only uses Exchange for what Outlook already does on its own. Also important will be adding functionality that Exchange itself is missing so that people are drawn to this server.
So much for a cheap (harhar!) joke. Way to get bent out of shape, dude.
What we've done is placed a small firewall just outside our main firewall on the same ISP subnet. All clients must use the same VPN software they use when traveling to then access the network through the main firewall. Rules in place on the small firewall only allow authenticated traffic hubbed through the main firewall and nothing else. So you don't even get a free ride on Internet access if you break into the network. 802.1x is definitely next and we may or may not keep the IPSec.
So what you're saying is someone breaking into your home, stealing the snail mail card, and then ordering over the web on your computer using your credit cards can be verified as being yourself? Seems pretty secure to me.
It probably cost $0.50 tax money for him to give you your change for $0.25. Thanks for wasting everyone else's money.
Big whoop. You can do that by looking up people near you in Thawte's Web of Trust and getting identified enough times. I got my cert and then enough signatures in one evening at a local UG meeting to get my name on my cert. Get 100 points and then you too can certify others. And no one needs to pay taxes to support Thawte's free certs.
At which point I have to ask, is it then actually possible to be a SpamAssassin?
No no no. The kid wants to do something productive and actually program, not get trapped into setting up a whole new system and get involved in patches and unrelated packages. All he has to do is get a hold of a free language package on the web like Tcl/Tk or Perl or even LISP and he's good to go with one download and a double-click. So why go through the trouble of all that for something so simple? Talk about overengineering the solution.
This is the problem with Slashdot readers: they automatically assume Linux=freeware. You know, freeware *does* exist for other systems. However, the author of the article didn't necessarily state that Windows was the system that was loaded on the theoretical 12 year old's target system.
Gawd what a waste. If only all the people that bought this sort of crappy gadget had something *really* serious to do on a computer. Of course that's probably what they said about the joystick when it first came out, and it can be used for serious stuff like 3D modeling in medical apps. I only see this being used in a porno parlor 10 years from now with little pink buttons right on the top as the best new enhancement. Enjoy the new Microsoft Feel-Mouse(TM)!
This is what I like about TiVo. They are in the business of making rabid fans because they know that by making us their evagelists they can only win. I've never heard anyone rave about a Replay. TiVo fans can count on TiVo knowing them and keeping them happy.
I bet the Native Americans wished Europeans dawdled this much when exploring the New World. The first thing they did when they sighted land was to set foot.
We've seen this new world so many damn times! At what point do we send a ship full of people to just circle the place once and come back? I'd be happy to see a NASA mission go out from the Earth and back for just six months to get beyond the moon.
Signs of life are not going to change what we are going to do to that planet. The real interest is a) water, and b) if there is water, what natural resources can we plunder?
From what I understand, you can hack your Tivo series 1 to enable video extraction which you can then burn to DVD. That isn't much more of a hack than a FreeVo, and I expect that the schedule handling of the TiVo is much more advanced than what you will get out of the free systems, albeit much pricier.
You're starting to look like a good target.
The majority of then attend neither church and do not live to please anyone. They say they believe in God, but in truth he is no more real to them than the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus that they pay more attention to during those respective popular holidays. It would be better for them to be truthful and realise what it is they are living rather than making their limited time a big sham.
There are those that live their lives well and advance humanity, but do now know God. In essence, they have not learned about God and so have no actually rejected Him.
Those that go to church and then turn around and screw their neighbor's wife, well I think we have that one pegged.
If you want an example of an early religion that rejects the hoarding of worldly goods, look no farther than the "Thou shalt no covet..." parts of the Ten Commandments. I believe it all follows the same Buddhist philosophy that we let worldly goods rule us and they can be the cause of a lot of pain (money is the root of all evil?), so living a simpler life leaves more room for God, family, and friends. Honestly, I see Buddhism as being very compatible with my Catholicism because Buddha not worshipped but instead held as a role model.
but the next time someone blows up part of Manhattan and there's no power or basic services for weeks, these skills could come in really handy. The farther infrastructure is built up, the further it has to fall when infrastructure below it is suddenly pulled out from underneath. It would be wise to somehow actively maintain these older skills in part of society so that the skill is not lost if someone blows up the International Soap Makers' Convention. =) While the Internet is a sort of insurance against the loss of knowledge it is not a complete guarantee since there can be a big difference between knowledge and how to apply the tricks of the trade.
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If they choose to enforce this law, then you as the consumer can choose to not purchase over the Internet from companies in California. Plenty of others to choose from and I doubt the law stands if things get worse because of public outcry. Too many people think of the Internet as something that will inevitably fall to taxation, when I say it laid the first ground for no-tax laws. Make your voices heard people, or just pay your sheep tax.
Take a look at a company called RTDA. We use their Flowtracer/NC product with its FlexLM license tracking.
What he means is that you can run anything anywhere anytime without having to go around loading "Software Package B 2.3" at every server farm that will ever encounter your job. It will not matter whether you are running on Win32, Linux, HP-UX, or Atari 2600; the architecture should be an abstract concept many levels down that the grid user should ignore.
This is much like a lot of the distributed computing systems out there these days. I don't think Folding@Home cares whether you ran their work unit on a Red Hat box or on Solaris sparc systems.
A lot of these concepts are what we are waiting for. We have a server farm that is metered by resources available from license servers, but the data is geographically separated so licenses available at one site may not be available at others. Technologies that allow reliable data transfer (NFSv4?) might enable this, but it also needs to be calculated whether the amount of time it takes to transfer the data will be longer than it takes to process the data. Not all our sites have multiple T1s so it may be cheaper to just boost the size of those lines vs buying $100k licenses. Total grid computing sounds very possible when you talk about breaking the job down to "Add register 1 and register 2" but the task of breaking the job down to that size and transferring to a remote system canh take so much longer than actually doing that locally. Some larger granularity will be needed to make it efficient to transfer a job remotely.
As I mentioned in my post, "secure" handling would be the first requirement. Security and encryption must go without saying. In order to further ensure security, a job must be as widely spread as possible. If I split an aerodynamic simulation in encrypted fashion across 100 compute farm services I am much more secure than if I did the same thing with a single service.