It is a little tough to figure out from the Top 500 list, but before the addition of these processors, WETA seemed to have 3 entries in the top 200. Unless of course the article is completely wrong, and these 250 Blades are actually the third super computer that WETA has, and it really is a stand alone.
I know I have gotten spam reports from places like spam cop because people have included the URL of my website in their spam. My site had nothing to do with the spam other than the spammer was using an article on the site to back up his point of view.
This type of system could very easily be abused to blackhole many mailing lists.
One of the defendants is American Science and Surplus, which has long been a destination for geeks and hackers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. It is a great source of weird bits and pieces which can complete just about any project.
Just reading through the article, it seems to imply that programmers had multiple machines on their desktops. I.e. their HP Workstation running HP-UX, and their Intel Workstation running Windows of some sort with an office suite on it. Taking two pieces of hardware (one of which is expensive), a variety of software licenses, and maintainence of two boxes, and replacing it with one (which possibly could be more difficult to maintain in an enterprise) would still be a significant cost savings.
If chrisd would have joined Alex Chiu's Affiliate program, he could have received a couple of dozen Super 21,000 gauss Neodymium Eternal Life Rings from all of the people clicking on the link in the story. He and his closest friends could have lived forever;)
One thing that I haven't seen pointed out is that spammers seem to use the RBL's to find open relays. They no longer have to look for them, they look on the lists, or look for rejects in their own logfiles.
Get listed in Osirusoft, and watch your mail volume skyrocket within hours.
To the best of my knowledge, the Silmarillion was nothing more than a collection of notes until after J.R.R. Tolkien's death. Afterwards, Christopher Tolkien collected those notes and assembled the Silmarillion.
It is also my belief that the Hobbit literally started it all, that Tolkien started delving into Middle Earth, creating it, to entertain his children. I.e. he did not start off attempting to create a world, a history, and multiple languages, but instead that they are a by-product of the story he constructed to entertain his children.
You may also want to check out The Marvelous Land of Snergs by E.A. Wyke-Smith. This book is considered to be the source Tolkien pulled the concept of Hobbit's from. ISBN: 1882968042
I know I have heard about replacing the current tension wires (the top wires on the tower poles) with steel + fiber bundles.
Seems to me that it would be a whole lot easier to deal with that wire (which isn't energized) than dealing with the wires which actually carry current.
Excellent book, as soon as I saw this topic I thought of Victorian Internet.
Would move the legacy of the telegraph into the Information age.
I also recently heard on NPR a show detailing how Pneumatic Tubes are making a come back. Specifically in hospital centers. They are being used as a way to distribute medications from centralized dispensories, and to bring things like blood samples to labs.
As a note, they are filming all three at once, not completeing them at once. Once the filming is finished, the first movie Fellowship will go into post production. A bulk of the efforts will go towards getting that movie in the can.
So in other words, technical advances in the next year plus will be able to be used in the post production of the second and third movies.
I can safely say I have seen more than alot of people not directly involved in the production, and what I have seen has impressed the hell out of me.
As was pointed out by others, even with 3 movies it will be impossible to follow the books exactly. I have listened to a number of radio plays of LoTR, the BBC one was 13 hours worth of audio and they still had to cut whole sections of the books to pull it off.
And if you are going to bring up other PJ movies, you can't forget Meet the Feebles.;)
It's not the server, it is the bandwidth. It is pretty hard to get a decent sized feed when a bulk of your incoming money goes out to charities. Of course we should have posted it in text instead of an image, but it makes the source happier to have it be an image.
So arbitrary code executed as a non-privledged user can't affect a unix system? Ok I will give you in a perfect world maybe that is true. But what about say all of the work that happens to be in my homedirectory, or lets extend that to what if this arbitrary code just rm -f'ed every file I had delete access to. Or how about that code just sends a copy of my.pgp or.ssh directory. Maybe put a trojan in my path so that it got re-executed. Maybe looked for the most common unix addressbooks and sent itself on to all of my unix using friends. I guess what I am saying is executing code that you don't know what it does is bad on any system. Just because people don't run as a superuser typically on Unix machines doesn't mean viruses are impossible.
Recently built a server with an AMI 428 card. It is an old hunk of a HP NetServer 5/166 LS2 (Dual Pentium 166's). The preformance speed up over straight scsi was quite nice. I am running 3 raid 1's. But at about 3 week intervals I am crashing. There is a new driver for the controller which I haven't tried yet, but it doesn't list the mysterious SMP + MegaRaid crashes as resolved. The box is running Debian with a 2.2.10 kernel.
Now from all of my research it seemed like NetApp was the way to go. So I pushed and pushed and pushed, and finally we got a F760. (Nothing like going from nothing to the top of the ladder) And now it is 2.5 months into being a NetApp user. Both the 1 and 2 month aniversaries were marked with a MB dieing. I must say it is fast, real fast, but right now the analogy is fast like a race car going towards a wall. Now ease of use, maintainence, etc on the UNIX side has been pretty carefree for me. The NetApp has been very easy to use, easy to monitor, and easy to setup. But the NT department which paid for half of it is hating life. The NetApp's quota system is straight out of unix which is not good for NT, i.e. you are putting quota's on users, groups, or qtree's (Think root level directories which are made in a special way). According to the NT guru's file ownership by individual's in NT is a bad idea, therefore all files are owned by an administrator equivalent. This means you lose user quotas. NT has a different group philosophy than unix (multiple groups can have access to a single file) so I am guessing the group quota's are out as well. Leaving qtree's, which are sort of ugly. Right now our NT people are looking at taking the loss on the NetApp and giving it to UNIX (Fine by me;) and replacing it with a conventional NT file server. Another downside for the NT side of things is that the NetApp's is configured much like a UNIX box. It uses init and rc files etc etc. Well from NT land there is a carriage return/line feed issue. All of those files have Unix style carriage return/line feeds. I am not sure if they break if you start using dos style but I am leary to find out. Which means the Unix side is resonsible for all configuration of the NetApp. This is both good and bad. They aren't going to break my stuff, but I have to take on additional labour. Note: The hardware failures were quickly resolved by NetApp, but it still sucked hard. The NT quota issues are supposed to be resolved in the next major version of the NetAppOS codenamed Guiness or some such. The NT people IMO haven't fully explored the quota possibilities instead taking the partyline that it's too much work. And it is entirely possible that I have not uncovered all of the problem's and solution's for those problems in the time we have had it.
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It is a little tough to figure out from the Top 500 list, but before the addition of these processors, WETA seemed to have 3 entries in the top 200. Unless of course the article is completely wrong, and these 250 Blades are actually the third super computer that WETA has, and it really is a stand alone.
SpamCop and others
This type of system is very abusable.
I know I have gotten spam reports from places like spam cop because people have included the URL of my website in their spam. My site had nothing to do with the spam other than the spammer was using an article on the site to back up his point of view.
This type of system could very easily be abused to blackhole many mailing lists.
One of the defendants is American Science and Surplus, which has long been a destination for geeks and hackers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. It is a great source of weird bits and pieces which can complete just about any project.
Just reading through the article, it seems to imply that programmers had multiple machines on their desktops. I.e. their HP Workstation running HP-UX, and their Intel Workstation running Windows of some sort with an office suite on it. Taking two pieces of hardware (one of which is expensive), a variety of software licenses, and maintainence of two boxes, and replacing it with one (which possibly could be more difficult to maintain in an enterprise) would still be a significant cost savings.
If chrisd would have joined Alex Chiu's Affiliate program, he could have received a couple of dozen Super 21,000 gauss Neodymium Eternal Life Rings from all of the people clicking on the link in the story. He and his closest friends could have lived forever ;)
One thing that I haven't seen pointed out is that spammers seem to use the RBL's to find open relays. They no longer have to look for them, they look on the lists, or look for rejects in their own logfiles.
Get listed in Osirusoft, and watch your mail volume skyrocket within hours.
He was 111 at the begining of Lord of the Rings.
Or a more complete collection:
Rolozo's Tolkien
To the best of my knowledge, the Silmarillion was nothing more than a collection of notes until after J.R.R. Tolkien's death. Afterwards, Christopher Tolkien collected those notes and assembled the Silmarillion.
It is also my belief that the Hobbit literally started it all, that Tolkien started delving into Middle Earth, creating it, to entertain his children. I.e. he did not start off attempting to create a world, a history, and multiple languages, but instead that they are a by-product of the story he constructed to entertain his children.
You may also want to check out The Marvelous Land of Snergs by E.A. Wyke-Smith. This book is considered to be the source Tolkien pulled the concept of Hobbit's from. ISBN: 1882968042
I know I have heard about replacing the current tension wires (the top wires on the tower poles) with steel + fiber bundles. Seems to me that it would be a whole lot easier to deal with that wire (which isn't energized) than dealing with the wires which actually carry current.
Excellent book, as soon as I saw this topic I thought of Victorian Internet. Would move the legacy of the telegraph into the Information age. I also recently heard on NPR a show detailing how Pneumatic Tubes are making a come back. Specifically in hospital centers. They are being used as a way to distribute medications from centralized dispensories, and to bring things like blood samples to labs.
As a note, they are filming all three at once, not completeing them at once. Once the filming is finished, the first movie Fellowship will go into post production. A bulk of the efforts will go towards getting that movie in the can.
So in other words, technical advances in the next year plus will be able to be used in the post production of the second and third movies.
I can safely say I have seen more than alot of people not directly involved in the production, and what I have seen has impressed the hell out of me. As was pointed out by others, even with 3 movies it will be impossible to follow the books exactly. I have listened to a number of radio plays of LoTR, the BBC one was 13 hours worth of audio and they still had to cut whole sections of the books to pull it off. And if you are going to bring up other PJ movies, you can't forget Meet the Feebles. ;)
It's not the server, it is the bandwidth. It is pretty hard to get a decent sized feed when a bulk of your incoming money goes out to charities. Of course we should have posted it in text instead of an image, but it makes the source happier to have it be an image.
So arbitrary code executed as a non-privledged user can't affect a unix system? Ok I will give you in a perfect world maybe that is true. But what about say all of the work that happens to be in my homedirectory, or lets extend that to what if this arbitrary code just rm -f'ed every file I had delete access to. Or how about that code just sends a copy of my .pgp or .ssh directory. Maybe put a trojan in my path so that it got re-executed. Maybe looked for the most common unix addressbooks and sent itself on to all of my unix using friends. I guess what I am saying is executing code that you don't know what it does is bad on any system. Just because people don't run as a superuser typically on Unix machines doesn't mean viruses are impossible.
One of the few Y2K issues I have seen. According to freekevin.com he is not due to be released for another 11 months.
Recently built a server with an AMI 428 card. It is an old hunk of a HP NetServer 5/166 LS2 (Dual Pentium 166's). The preformance speed up over straight scsi was quite nice. I am running 3 raid 1's. But at about 3 week intervals I am crashing. There is a new driver for the controller which I haven't tried yet, but it doesn't list the mysterious SMP + MegaRaid crashes as resolved. The box is running Debian with a 2.2.10 kernel.
Now from all of my research it seemed like NetApp was the way to go. So I pushed and pushed and pushed, and finally we got a F760. (Nothing like going from nothing to the top of the ladder) And now it is 2.5 months into being a NetApp user. Both the 1 and 2 month aniversaries were marked with a MB dieing. I must say it is fast, real fast, but right now the analogy is fast like a race car going towards a wall. Now ease of use, maintainence, etc on the UNIX side has been pretty carefree for me. The NetApp has been very easy to use, easy to monitor, and easy to setup. But the NT department which paid for half of it is hating life. The NetApp's quota system is straight out of unix which is not good for NT, i.e. you are putting quota's on users, groups, or qtree's (Think root level directories which are made in a special way). According to the NT guru's file ownership by individual's in NT is a bad idea, therefore all files are owned by an administrator equivalent. This means you lose user quotas. NT has a different group philosophy than unix (multiple groups can have access to a single file) so I am guessing the group quota's are out as well. Leaving qtree's, which are sort of ugly. Right now our NT people are looking at taking the loss on the NetApp and giving it to UNIX (Fine by me ;) and replacing it with a conventional NT file server. Another downside for the NT side of things is that the NetApp's is configured much like a UNIX box. It uses init and rc files etc etc. Well from NT land there is a carriage return/line feed issue. All of those files have Unix style carriage return/line feeds. I am not sure if they break if you start using dos style but I am leary to find out. Which means the Unix side is resonsible for all configuration of the NetApp. This is both good and bad. They aren't going to break my stuff, but I have to take on additional labour. Note: The hardware failures were quickly resolved by NetApp, but it still sucked hard. The NT quota issues are supposed to be resolved in the next major version of the NetAppOS codenamed Guiness or some such. The NT people IMO haven't fully explored the quota possibilities instead taking the partyline that it's too much work. And it is entirely possible that I have not uncovered all of the problem's and solution's for those problems in the time we have had it.