Precisely. Earth is small. Just hitting the Earth is like trying to shoot a hoop from the other side of the Atlantic. Hitting it in the gradual way to slow down is like shooting a hoop in NY by bouncing it off the Washington Monument while on a rollercoaster in Karachi.
rsync to Amazon S3 might be an option, if only for cross-platform capabilities. No versioning though, but outside of Apple's Time Machine (obviously useless for Windows and Linux), you're not going to get that without some major headache.
Server running opensolaris/*bsd with ZFS, rsync to that, create a snapshot every day.
What hard drives do they use? Gosh, how do their computers look? I mean if 1TB or 1.5TB hard drives really are the largest drives out there, then they would have to get like 150,000 hard drives!
Quantum do 112 drives in a 4U rack, which with controllers and raid, and assuming they've moved to 1.5TB drives since I last saw it (when it was 1TB) give you about a petabyte in a rack -- maid to reduce power consumption.
the tom hanks/ bill paxton/ kevin bacon movie with the famous "houston, we have a problem" line
freeze frame when they cut back to ed harris and ground crew strategizing, point to some guy in the background fiddling with some equipment, and say "that's me"
Meh. Jeff Goldblum, Independence day, that's what I tell everyone.
If you want to add an analogy they can relate to, also bring a long a stack of encylopedias or an OED and do the "the words in X many of these books will fit on that disk" comparison.
There's always room for one more library of congress
Either that or can we just turn a blind eye while Google DDoSes every server associated with these people into oblivion. -- An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
No, the point is Windows is still swiss cheese no matter how much their marketing department is saying its secure.
A OS shouldnt need anti-virus.
Not for the traditional usage of a virus, but how many "virus"s are actually trojans -- which AV products, I believe (don't pay much attention) will stop. If someone is happy enough to download and run "coolgame.sh", which is
you're equally screwed. (or more likely, a program changing your desktop links to point to a key-logging firefox)
Tie it into a priv exploit and you can hide all evidence by replacing coreutils. Tripwire might spot it happening, but that would be classed as "anti-virus".
The problem isn't windows, or linux, Even with the strongest apparmor installation, all it takes is the email saying "run this under sudo". It's untrusted ways of getting executable software on to your machine (and even that doesn't eliminate the threat)
I heard it had been cancelled, at least by the SCiFi channel. But maybe they were going to do some DVD movies of it, like they did (ARC of Truth, Continuum) with SG1.
I also heard rumours of a new series - called Stargate Universe, does anybody know anything about that?
Because I'm a fucking dumbass and didn't think about it....
Finally, proof that slashdot helps you at work! I'll redouble my efforts at spending time on this site during work hours
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Remember when Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 hit Jupiter? There were people saying (and being interviewed on the BBC no less) that pieces of Jupiter would break off and collide with Earth...
The claims of some regarding LHC are no less crazy. What distresses me is the level of coverage these nutbars have had on the news channels.
1) It's silly season, there's no other news to report on. News channels have 24 hours to fill, and they can't put 1khz glitz on *all* the time. 2) It makes people aware of science, some actually come away with a limited knowledge of subatomic particles. Anything increasing scientific awareness is good.
Sorry but that's totally wrong. Although you CAN stream low quality versions over the web, BBC iPlayer is PRIMARILY a peer to peer content delivery service.
That's not how it's used. 90% of iplayer use is the bolted-on streaming service, which admittedly is crap to anyone with a myth tv or redux account.
Bah, my YTD uptime for most of my systems is 99.995 without clustering running Windows 2003. We are a java shop not a.net shop though but java isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination.
That's easy. I have machines that have been 100% uptime since November 2003, when the power went, the UPS drained, and the generators didn't start.
As systems get more complex, downtime gets longer. A really simple system will rely on 20 components. Each of those 99.995% uptime leaves you with 99.9% uptime - A medium-complexity system will rely on 200 components, your uptime is now down to 99%. A truly complex system will rely on 2000 components, and will be down 35 days a year.
Of course, you have a variety of "downtime". At any one time the "internet" is "down" -- 100,000 webservers even with 5-9s up time will be down more often then not.
FWIW we had more downtime from a clustered windows file server than we had from the temporary replacement desktop PC with a linux software raid-5, much of that downtime was due to mcaffee, but a fair amount (about 5 hours in a year) due to culmative windows issues.
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You know what? Let's try it. I mean, how many people would have to be intimidated for you to swing the vote? That's a lot of home invasions.
269 in the US. 2000 election
Others have posted evidence that intimidation has happened recently
At 99.9999999%, if I'm the only male survivor, and the other 5 are hot chicks, I'm going to really dig repopulating the planet. Let the games begin. :)
Not enough genetic diversity
Precisely. Earth is small. Just hitting the Earth is like trying to shoot a hoop from the other side of the Atlantic. Hitting it in the gradual way to slow down is like shooting a hoop in NY by bouncing it off the Washington Monument while on a rollercoaster in Karachi.
Beware the oids of march
rsync to Amazon S3 might be an option, if only for cross-platform capabilities. No versioning though, but outside of Apple's Time Machine (obviously useless for Windows and Linux), you're not going to get that without some major headache.
Server running opensolaris/*bsd with ZFS, rsync to that, create a snapshot every day.
What hard drives do they use? Gosh, how do their computers look? I mean if 1TB or 1.5TB hard drives really are the largest drives out there, then they would have to get like 150,000 hard drives!
Quantum do 112 drives in a 4U rack, which with controllers and raid, and assuming they've moved to 1.5TB drives since I last saw it (when it was 1TB) give you about a petabyte in a rack -- maid to reduce power consumption.
Pretty cheap too, under a million per rack.
I've heard conflicting stories about those (real) pirates. Some say they are protecting their waters that were being over fished by foreigners
Which is why they attack fishing boats?
the tom hanks/ bill paxton/ kevin bacon movie with the famous "houston, we have a problem" line
freeze frame when they cut back to ed harris and ground crew strategizing, point to some guy in the background fiddling with some equipment, and say "that's me"
Meh. Jeff Goldblum, Independence day, that's what I tell everyone.
If you want to add an analogy they can relate to, also bring a long a stack of encylopedias or an OED and do the "the words in X many of these books will fit on that disk" comparison.
There's always room for one more library of congress
If you want to keep it exciting and still realistic
Read out some BOFH stories?
Because IMO Facebook is just another fad and will go the same way as Friends Reunited
Just like slashdot...
I'm just curious how C# is said - anyone?
Thanks!
C-pound would be C£
I usually refer to an "octothorpe" as a "hash", so it's "C-hash", or CASH for short.
Why must they make me trawl through 8 pages of ads?
To make money?
Either that or can we just turn a blind eye while Google DDoSes every server associated with these people into oblivion.
--
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
How about an international treaty to implement the death penalty for spammers all over the world.
I mean, why not? Don't we squish mosquitos when they pester us? Spammers are a thousand times more annoying and just as harmful and useless.
How about a death penalty for anyone that buys anything from spam?
Some of us prefer not to steal games, thanks.
If you steal a game DRM won't hinder you any more than if you buy it.
What are your thoughts on copying games?
just about anything you COULD do with Perl, which was "basically everything"
$#/%% ^!&**//!\\|!($$
There, just wiped your harddrive
No, the point is Windows is still swiss cheese no matter how much their marketing department is saying its secure.
A OS shouldnt need anti-virus.
Not for the traditional usage of a virus, but how many "virus"s are actually trojans -- which AV products, I believe (don't pay much attention) will stop. If someone is happy enough to download and run "coolgame.sh", which is
#!/bin/bash
echo "loading cool game"
rm -Rf ~
echo "HAHA LOOSER!"
you're equally screwed. (or more likely, a program changing your desktop links to point to a key-logging firefox)
Tie it into a priv exploit and you can hide all evidence by replacing coreutils. Tripwire might spot it happening, but that would be classed as "anti-virus".
The problem isn't windows, or linux, Even with the strongest apparmor installation, all it takes is the email saying "run this under sudo". It's untrusted ways of getting executable software on to your machine (and even that doesn't eliminate the threat)
Muhammad sucks, Christ Sucks, Richard Dawkins Sucks, Flying Spaghetti Monster sucks
Anyone else?
The Japanese giving the best chance because of their technological superiority over the Chinese.
The Chinese just need to stand on each other shoulders
I heard it had been cancelled, at least by the SCiFi channel. But maybe they were going to do some DVD movies of it, like they did (ARC of Truth, Continuum) with SG1.
I also heard rumours of a new series - called Stargate Universe, does anybody know anything about that?
Look on gateworld or wikipedia
Because I'm a fucking dumbass and didn't think about it....
Finally, proof that slashdot helps you at work! I'll redouble my efforts at spending time on this site during work hours
Remember when Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 hit Jupiter? There were people saying (and being interviewed on the BBC no less) that pieces of Jupiter would break off and collide with Earth...
The claims of some regarding LHC are no less crazy. What distresses me is the level of coverage these nutbars have had on the news channels.
1) It's silly season, there's no other news to report on. News channels have 24 hours to fill, and they can't put 1khz glitz on *all* the time.
2) It makes people aware of science, some actually come away with a limited knowledge of subatomic particles. Anything increasing scientific awareness is good.
Sorry but that's totally wrong. Although you CAN stream low quality versions over the web, BBC iPlayer is PRIMARILY a peer to peer content delivery service.
That's not how it's used. 90% of iplayer use is the bolted-on streaming service, which admittedly is crap to anyone with a myth tv or redux account.
Bah, my YTD uptime for most of my systems is 99.995 without clustering running Windows 2003. We are a java shop not a .net shop though but java isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination.
That's easy. I have machines that have been 100% uptime since November 2003, when the power went, the UPS drained, and the generators didn't start.
As systems get more complex, downtime gets longer.
A really simple system will rely on 20 components. Each of those 99.995% uptime leaves you with 99.9% uptime -
A medium-complexity system will rely on 200 components, your uptime is now down to 99%.
A truly complex system will rely on 2000 components, and will be down 35 days a year.
Of course, you have a variety of "downtime". At any one time the "internet" is "down" -- 100,000 webservers even with 5-9s up time will be down more often then not.
FWIW we had more downtime from a clustered windows file server than we had from the temporary replacement desktop PC with a linux software raid-5, much of that downtime was due to mcaffee, but a fair amount (about 5 hours in a year) due to culmative windows issues.