ok.. now explain why lamebook is blocked with the following message:
The link you are trying to visit has been reported as abusive by Facebook users. To learn more about staying safe on the internet, visit our Security Page. You can also check out the malware and phishing Wikipedia articles.
Blocking sites on copyright grounds is one thing but mis-declaring sites they have a personal beef with as the source of malicious installs is quite another.
- How badly does the ever-essential anti-malware suite drag down the supercomputer?
Shouldn't be needed since it should be extremely hard for malware to get into such a controlled environment to begin with.
Digital Fortress?
Machines only connect to their internal network and only run either Microsoft or in house apps? To top it off the cluster edition of windows has pretty much all services not even installed in the first place lat alone running so few open ports even if something did make it into the network.
Microsoft's aim is not to run on research clusters, but to make inroads into businesses that have in-house Windows system administration and programming capabilities and might have use for high performance computing. If so, the linpack benchmark is probably close to irrelevant for many applications.
It's not a smart aim. Programmers who make clustered apps are a different skill set from the programmers who make most of the software out there and if your average programmer attempts it the result will not scale no matter what resources you throw at the project and this is on top of the fact that only a subset of software problems are suited to clustering to begin with.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that even in the Linux case the benchmark scales better than most software that will run on a cluster.
Once you have the rare sort of programmer who can do this and the rare sort of software problem that needs it there is nothing at all that will make windows at all familiar since the rest of the supercomputing market runs on Unix/Linux.
I am impressed that Windows can actually scale to that type of hardware. However, my questions are:
- What kind of performance can an actual program achieve on Windows on that hardware?
Fairly good if the programmer is skilled at writing super computer applications.
- Are context switches from godawful slow memory allocation calls as painfully slow on this supercomputer as they are on the typical desktop?
It shouldn't matter too much since they would (mostly) avoid context switches by only running 1 copy of the software per core and half of windows is disabled in Super Computing edition.
- How badly does the ever-essential anti-malware suite drag down the supercomputer?
Shouldn't be needed since it should be extremely hard for malware to get into such a controlled environment to begin with.
There are other reasons Microsoft's idea is a bad one such as the higher licensing costs, no possible reason to want to write custom, non GUI software from scratch on Windows etc.
The leader in this case being Microsoft. Windows XP only partially supports IPv6 with some test drivers installed. Vista was the first actual IPv6 ready OS from Microsoft so before that there was a big question of: what is the point of going through the trouble of being IPv6 ready when 99% of your customers couldn't use it?
I've seen a lot more action now that Win7's numbers are moving up.
Not that it entirely defends his poor joke but he was reacting to her recent assertion that politicians have no right to criticize human rights abuses such as stoning women in Iran.
Keep in mind that the biggest drop was most likely do to ext4 adding data journaling rather than the usual medtadata journaling to make file contents less likely to be corrupted after an unplanned shutdown(power outage etc)
I didn't see any mention of them turning that feature off to find out one way or another.
You can work around the Linux repos on Redhat,SuSE, Debian and Ubuntu by just adding your own repo to the list and whatever software you want can still be centrally updated. It's something I've seen several software installers do.
You cam hardly blame the ISPs since the most popular os on the planet (XP) does a very poor job of supporting IPv6. More annoying is the fact that MS refuses to support the TLS extensions that would allow servers to virtual host SSL based sites meaning that we can't do proper SSL based virtual hosts until people stop using IE and Chrome on XP. If I could have done that my last job would have had 5 ips instead of over 100.
There has been a lot of even worse assumptions made that has been left in code simply because it happens to work on 32 bit systems. GCC now warns you about that sort of thing on 32 bit but programmers have a tendency to ignore the warnings.
You would be shocked at how much software will fail to compile with -Werror.
ABI nothing. That new OS needed to have software ported to it and a lot of Unix like software expects time_t and int to be interchangeable so changing it would involve fixing a lot of software.
You are forgetting that the old standard printer was dot matrix. You can take a cr/lf document and feed it directly to a dot matrix printer's device and have it print. If you do the same with lf only text format you get a garbled mess as it reprints the next line on the current one.
Ahh yes the 90s when everyone got pushed into computer work. I was still in high school and recall the class full of students who either didn't want to be there or worse yet one poor girl who just didn't have it in her to be a programmer who managed to reduce herself to tears each week because her parents wanted her to be a programmer.
It seems to me that we have managed to come up with a society that pushes people towards trendy jobs and the result is a total overflow of people doing popular jobs poorly while some trades don't have anywhere close to enough people applying even though they often pay better than the trendy jobs.
Reminds me of when my friends were taking out life insurance and the insurance guy starts trying to change my mind about single guys not needing life insurance by saying "What happens if you die? Who will pay for the funeral?"
I managed to get him to leave me alone with "I'll be dead, they can give me a 21 flush salute for all I care."
The difference is that Linux programs are stable and preform well if written for Linux and it's easy to port software from other Unix and Unix like OS and have them run well.
Writing a MS Windows like OS is a nightmare because even though Windows has some well documented APIs, it is also has a mass of non documented, poorly documented and buggy APIs. Years of Microsoft patching Windows because some major piece of software depended on some bug somewhere has only made the problem worse. To make something capable of emulating Windows you need to implement the whole mess with every last quirk duplicated and until that's done it's a game of chance whether a given piece of software will even run. That is why Wine has problems after over a decade of development, why ReactOS is mostly ignored and why the India's project is wishful thinking.
It's one of those mistakes that is blindingly obvious in hindsight but not one that people plan for. I wish databases warned you when you were close to overflowing an index but, as far as I know, they don't.
I really doubt space was the actual problem because TFA says "BI Incorporated, which runs the system, reached its data threshold - more than two billion records - on Tuesday. " The max value of a signed 32 bit int is 2 147 483 647. It is much more likely that someone set an index value on the database to int years ago and then forgot about it.
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ok.. now explain why lamebook is blocked with the following message:
The link you are trying to visit has been reported as abusive by Facebook users. To learn more about staying safe on the internet, visit our Security Page. You can also check out the malware and phishing Wikipedia articles.
Blocking sites on copyright grounds is one thing but mis-declaring sites they have a personal beef with as the source of malicious installs is quite another.
It's the same thing that gives me UPS as the first link if I search for a UPS tracking number.
- How badly does the ever-essential anti-malware suite drag down the supercomputer?
Shouldn't be needed since it should be extremely hard for malware to get into such a controlled environment to begin with.
Digital Fortress?
Machines only connect to their internal network and only run either Microsoft or in house apps?
To top it off the cluster edition of windows has pretty much all services not even installed in the first place lat alone running so few open ports even if something did make it into the network.
Microsoft's aim is not to run on research clusters, but to make inroads into businesses that have in-house Windows system administration and programming capabilities and might have use for high performance computing. If so, the linpack benchmark is probably close to irrelevant for many applications.
It's not a smart aim. Programmers who make clustered apps are a different skill set from the programmers who make most of the software out there and if your average programmer attempts it the result will not scale no matter what resources you throw at the project and this is on top of the fact that only a subset of software problems are suited to clustering to begin with.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that even in the Linux case the benchmark scales better than most software that will run on a cluster.
Once you have the rare sort of programmer who can do this and the rare sort of software problem that needs it there is nothing at all that will make windows at all familiar since the rest of the supercomputing market runs on Unix/Linux.
I am impressed that Windows can actually scale to that type of hardware. However, my questions are:
- What kind of performance can an actual program achieve on Windows on that hardware?
Fairly good if the programmer is skilled at writing super computer applications.
- Are context switches from godawful slow memory allocation calls as painfully slow on this supercomputer as they are on the typical desktop?
It shouldn't matter too much since they would (mostly) avoid context switches by only running 1 copy of the software per core and half of windows is disabled in Super Computing edition.
- How badly does the ever-essential anti-malware suite drag down the supercomputer?
Shouldn't be needed since it should be extremely hard for malware to get into such a controlled environment to begin with.
There are other reasons Microsoft's idea is a bad one such as the higher licensing costs, no possible reason to want to write custom, non GUI software from scratch on Windows etc.
Pretty sure Render Farms have the same obsolescence problem and there are businesses that depend on them.
The leader in this case being Microsoft. Windows XP only partially supports IPv6 with some test drivers installed. Vista was the first actual IPv6 ready OS from Microsoft so before that there was a big question of: what is the point of going through the trouble of being IPv6 ready when 99% of your customers couldn't use it?
I've seen a lot more action now that Win7's numbers are moving up.
Not that it entirely defends his poor joke but he was reacting to her recent assertion that politicians have no right to criticize human rights abuses such as stoning women in Iran.
Keep in mind that the biggest drop was most likely do to ext4 adding data journaling rather than the usual medtadata journaling to make file contents less likely to be corrupted after an unplanned shutdown(power outage etc)
I didn't see any mention of them turning that feature off to find out one way or another.
You can work around the Linux repos on Redhat,SuSE, Debian and Ubuntu by just adding your own repo to the list and whatever software you want can still be centrally updated. It's something I've seen several software installers do.
You cam hardly blame the ISPs since the most popular os on the planet (XP) does a very poor job of supporting IPv6. More annoying is the fact that MS refuses to support the TLS extensions that would allow servers to virtual host SSL based sites meaning that we can't do proper SSL based virtual hosts until people stop using IE and Chrome on XP. If I could have done that my last job would have had 5 ips instead of over 100.
There has been a lot of even worse assumptions made that has been left in code simply because it happens to work on 32 bit systems. GCC now warns you about that sort of thing on 32 bit but programmers have a tendency to ignore the warnings.
You would be shocked at how much software will fail to compile with -Werror.
And then you risk a bloated mess that will probably still need to be extended in some way you didn't think about.
ABI nothing. That new OS needed to have software ported to it and a lot of Unix like software expects time_t and int to be interchangeable so changing it would involve fixing a lot of software.
You are forgetting that the old standard printer was dot matrix. You can take a cr/lf document and feed it directly to a dot matrix printer's device and have it print. If you do the same with lf only text format you get a garbled mess as it reprints the next line on the current one.
War driving is a common technique and I've had at least one customer's WIFI hijacked by a spammer.
And of course there are worse things they can do with your internet connection.
The fastest moving train is often the worst possible one to be on jobs wise since that's where there is a massive crowd all hunting for work.
Ahh yes the 90s when everyone got pushed into computer work. I was still in high school and recall the class full of students who either didn't want to be there or worse yet one poor girl who just didn't have it in her to be a programmer who managed to reduce herself to tears each week because her parents wanted her to be a programmer.
It seems to me that we have managed to come up with a society that pushes people towards trendy jobs and the result is a total overflow of people doing popular jobs poorly while some trades don't have anywhere close to enough people applying even though they often pay better than the trendy jobs.
Do you filter outgoing mail and do you take any measures to prevent forum spamming?
Reminds me of when my friends were taking out life insurance and the insurance guy starts trying to change my mind about single guys not needing life insurance by saying "What happens if you die? Who will pay for the funeral?"
I managed to get him to leave me alone with "I'll be dead, they can give me a 21 flush salute for all I care."
Either a nightly cron with an email to the admin or possibly something like a Nagios plugin would be amazing.
The difference is that Linux programs are stable and preform well if written for Linux and it's easy to port software from other Unix and Unix like OS and have them run well.
Writing a MS Windows like OS is a nightmare because even though Windows has some well documented APIs, it is also has a mass of non documented, poorly documented and buggy APIs. Years of Microsoft patching Windows because some major piece of software depended on some bug somewhere has only made the problem worse. To make something capable of emulating Windows you need to implement the whole mess with every last quirk duplicated and until that's done it's a game of chance whether a given piece of software will even run. That is why Wine has problems after over a decade of development, why ReactOS is mostly ignored and why the India's project is wishful thinking.
It's one of those mistakes that is blindingly obvious in hindsight but not one that people plan for. I wish databases warned you when you were close to overflowing an index but, as far as I know, they don't.
I really doubt space was the actual problem because TFA says "BI Incorporated, which runs the system, reached its data threshold - more than two billion records - on Tuesday. " The max value of a signed 32 bit int is 2 147 483 647. It is much more likely that someone set an index value on the database to int years ago and then forgot about it.