Keep in mind that it is illegal to use encryption over Ham radio airwaves, you cannot use it for work either. Anyone can legally sniff and listen to any data that goes over the Ham radio frequencies.
Think of the huge marketing databases that are going to be built around this if it ever becomes a reality. They're going to know where you drive everyday, whether or not you are stopping for their ads, what else you bought when you purchased the item advertised (if you use your credit card), where you normally shop, your travel patterns, and a whole pile of other things that we can't even begin to imagine.
Marketing people look for that magic connection called the Beer-Pampers theory. Wal-mart keeps one of the largest marketing databases ever, over 300 terrabytes. They found that customers that buy pampers usually buy beer also, and vice versa. So they put the beer and the pampers in the same aisle and increased their sales on those two products by over 80%. This will be a goldmine for companies like Informix who make one of the best databases for Data Warehousing.
What happens if the government gets ahold of this data, which they will. It'll be like playing SimNation for them. Make some changes in propaganda, or laws, or whatever else and observe the changes. This is pretty scary actually, welcome to the world of the high-tech Gestapo and ultra-effective targeted marketing.
I agree, Lego Mindstorms would be just the thing. While you're at it, have them build me a mindstorms robot that sits on my kitchen counter and sprays my cats with water when they jump up looking for something tasty to eat.
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One of the sweet things that most people don't know is that you can hot swap memory and CPU's with the Dynamic Reconfiguration feature. This is only on Sun hardware though.
However, with solaris 8 (and maybe 7) on x86 hardware, you can hotswap PCI cards. This feature under Linux would be huge win for the OS.
You could go with an expensive commercial solution like BigIP from F5, but those will run you at least $30k or so. You could also use Polyserve Understudy, which does pretty much the same thing only under Linux, and it's only about $400 or so. If you have all this expensive Cisco equipment and a Cat6000, you can run Local Director on that without buying additional hardware.
It all depends on your application that you're running. If it's just http, any of these will work, but if it's something else, you're stuck with linux-HA or Linux Virtual Server. Eddie will only do http as far as I know. Plus Eddie uses Erlang, which may affect performance.
>On a high bandwidth (>=100Mbps) private switched network, there should be no problem with keeping the bandwidth up to par with the hard drive transfer speeds.
Actually, the usable limit on 100Mbps network averages around 65% of that, so that's 65Mbps. Divide that by 8 and you get about 8MB/sec. Modern hard drives transfer much faster than this, especially SCSI (40-80MB/sec depending on what type of SCSI it is). Get yourself a gigabit adapter and you should be ok.
Depending on what you want this for, you may just be able to run rsync from your crontab and replicate changes across every 10 minutes or so. Making a RAID-2 volume over the network is going to absolutely kill the performance of your disk. I think even CODA may allow for some sort of data redundancy over the network. I suggest rsync though, I'm using it right now to keep media content on 5 separate identical linux boxes in sync with each other. I whacked up a little process that gets run every minute from cron. The process checks to see if other rsync processes to a particular server are running, and if so, it won't start another copy. If one isn't running, it fires up rsync to check for changes and replicate if there are any.
I've been using joker.com to register my domains. It's only $13.00 and their Terms and conditions didn't looks nearly as bad as any others. Someone take a look though because now that I look closer, there may be a couple of statements that are questionable, I'm no lawyer.
Someone else posted it on the site, which means that THEY violated the agreement that it was to be treated as a "trade secret". You didn't agree to anything at all. What if this was posted to hundreds of newsgroups, who would Microsoft go after then? Kinda hard to remove it from everyone's news servers.
Why can they even call it Kerberos in the first place? It's not Kerberos anymore, it's some wacky proprietary authentication since they hacked it all up.
This detailed scale model is a construction project which is probably not appropriate for people younger than about ten years of age or engineers who have ethics, depending on skill and motivation. Children should have adult supervision to assemble the model. Assembly will require at least 10 years of time and faked test records for certain components. Once you assemble the model, we do not guarantee that the retro rockets will function properly in such a cold climate. In fact, we have proof that they do not, but we launched it anyway. After you complete the model, grasp it firmly by the bottom and launch it directly into the cold, hard floor, then you'll know the landed configuration of the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft very well indeed!
Sorry, you're out of luck. My girlfriend signed up for DSL and got the internal PCI card. When I went to "fix" her computer with Linux, I couldn't find any drivers for the card.
Go and buy a 675 off Ebay for $160 or get one of the new LinkSys ADSL routers with a builtin 4 port switch and built in masquerading for $200.
I did a search at http://ftpsearch.lycos.com and came up with a few entries. However, the.tar.gz files checksum doesn't match the one listed on the cached page at google.
I haven't had time to look at it, I just grabbed the files.
Apparently, Cisco is developing Active Directory for Unix (maybe Linux also). This is because some of their new products rely upon it and many customers want to continue using Unix.
I'm tired from the night before, I bring up slashdot, and the first word I see... Dicklickers. Then I realize, oops, it's Chicklickers, sweet. To my dismay, it's chickclickers.
What if someone whatcked up a nice little genetic algorithm and let their computer solve it? How hard would it be?
A language that might be well suited to genetic programming and proving math theorems is Erlang (http://www.erlang.org). It supports all sorts of neat stuff, like hot swap code changes, and the ability to run both the new and old code at the same time. Your program could evolve.
Damn. I knew she was lyin' to me. I should've guessed when she tried to stab me with the handle and cut all of her fingers off. Ninja's with no fingers don't make very efficient killers. Plus the blood drips down the wall when they try to blend in.
My girlfriend is a ninja, and she will offer consulting services. And now that she's all set up with her DSL line and Linux, she's an expert on the subject.
I'll approach her tonight about it if I can find her. She likes to blend into the wall and jump out behind me and try to lop my head off with her katana. You'll probably want to consult over email with her because it's pretty dangerous being in the same room with her. She goes by "Nuprin" (little, yellow, different...).
This will work, but only if I don't use the --delete option. If a file doesn't exist on the ftp server, it must be deleted from the other machines also.
So if server A gets a file uploaded to it, and server B tries to do an rsync on it, server B is going to see this file that doesn't exist on itself, and delete it from server A. This gets more complicated when you have 3 or more servers trying to stay current.
I download a ton of music using Napster, and I buy more CD's now than I ever did before. Primarily because I'm able to listen to entire albums of artists I never would have listened to before.
Most of the time I'll download the whole album as MP3's, burn them to an audio CD and pop them in my changer in my car. The CD's I end up listening to the most are the ones I end up buying. I don't buy everything I download, but it's stuff that I wouldn't have purchased anyway.
Yeah, whatever. Even if that's true, what are they going to do about all of the crazies, cults, and terrorists? I can assure you that I will be as far away as possible from Times square on New year's eve.
I'm going to file a patent on a method of keeping track of ideas and inventions combined with a method of bringing legal action against a person or persons who infringe upon the ideas of other people without obtaining written permission of the inventing party.
This would involve starting up an office which would charge exhorbitant amounts of money to file your invention or idea with, but then you would be legally protected from other persons using your ideas. No matter how stupid or broad the idea, many people are bound to get rich off of this, including me.
Finally, a reason to make caffienated milk. I need my caffiene to wake up every day, but I also drink a gallon or so of milk every day too. I've always thought that if I could get both at the same time, I'd be much happier. Calcium to supply my brain cells, and the caffeine to release it. Nice.
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Keep in mind that it is illegal to use encryption over Ham radio airwaves, you cannot use it for work either. Anyone can legally sniff and listen to any data that goes over the Ham radio frequencies.
Think of the huge marketing databases that are going to be built around this if it ever becomes a reality. They're going to know where you drive everyday, whether or not you are stopping for their ads, what else you bought when you purchased the item advertised (if you use your credit card), where you normally shop, your travel patterns, and a whole pile of other things that we can't even begin to imagine.
Marketing people look for that magic connection called the Beer-Pampers theory. Wal-mart keeps one of the largest marketing databases ever, over 300 terrabytes. They found that customers that buy pampers usually buy beer also, and vice versa. So they put the beer and the pampers in the same aisle and increased their sales on those two products by over 80%. This will be a goldmine for companies like Informix who make one of the best databases for Data Warehousing.
What happens if the government gets ahold of this data, which they will. It'll be like playing SimNation for them. Make some changes in propaganda, or laws, or whatever else and observe the changes. This is pretty scary actually, welcome to the world of the high-tech Gestapo and ultra-effective targeted marketing.
I agree, Lego Mindstorms would be just the thing. While you're at it, have them build me a mindstorms robot that sits on my kitchen counter and sprays my cats with water when they jump up looking for something tasty to eat.
One of the sweet things that most people don't know is that you can hot swap memory and CPU's with the Dynamic Reconfiguration feature. This is only on Sun hardware though.
However, with solaris 8 (and maybe 7) on x86 hardware, you can hotswap PCI cards. This feature under Linux would be huge win for the OS.
You could go with an expensive commercial solution like BigIP from F5, but those will run you at least $30k or so. You could also use Polyserve Understudy, which does pretty much the same thing only under Linux, and it's only about $400 or so. If you have all this expensive Cisco equipment and a Cat6000, you can run Local Director on that without buying additional hardware.
However, I suggest:
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org or
http://linux-ha.org or
http://www.eddieware.org
It all depends on your application that you're running. If it's just http, any of these will work, but if it's something else, you're stuck with linux-HA or Linux Virtual Server. Eddie will only do http as far as I know. Plus Eddie uses Erlang, which may affect performance.
>On a high bandwidth (>=100Mbps) private switched
network, there should be no problem with keeping the bandwidth up to
par with the hard drive transfer speeds.
Actually, the usable limit on 100Mbps network averages around 65% of that, so that's 65Mbps. Divide that by 8 and you get about 8MB/sec. Modern hard drives transfer much faster than this, especially SCSI (40-80MB/sec depending on what type of SCSI it is). Get yourself a gigabit adapter and you should be ok.
Depending on what you want this for, you may just be able to run rsync from your crontab and replicate changes across every 10 minutes or so. Making a RAID-2 volume over the network is going to absolutely kill the performance of your disk. I think even CODA may allow for some sort of data redundancy over the network. I suggest rsync though, I'm using it right now to keep media content on 5 separate identical linux boxes in sync with each other. I whacked up a little process that gets run every minute from cron. The process checks to see if other rsync processes to a particular server are running, and if so, it won't start another copy. If one isn't running, it fires up rsync to check for changes and replicate if there are any.
Depending on their vendor, and what blades they bought with it, it would be around $85-$110k.
I've been using joker.com to register my domains. It's only $13.00 and their Terms and conditions didn't looks nearly as bad as any others. Someone take a look though because now that I look closer, there may be a couple of statements that are questionable, I'm no lawyer.
Why can they even call it Kerberos in the first place? It's not Kerberos anymore, it's some wacky proprietary authentication since they hacked it all up.
This detailed scale model is a construction project which is probably not appropriate for people younger than about ten years of age or engineers who have ethics, depending on skill and motivation. Children should have adult supervision to assemble the model. Assembly will require at least 10 years of time and faked test records for certain components. Once you assemble the model, we do not guarantee that the retro rockets will function properly in such a cold climate. In fact, we have proof that they do not, but we launched it anyway. After you complete the model, grasp it firmly by the bottom and launch it directly into the cold, hard floor, then you'll know the landed configuration of the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft very well indeed!
Go and buy a 675 off Ebay for $160 or get one of the new LinkSys ADSL routers with a builtin 4 port switch and built in masquerading for $200.
I haven't had time to look at it, I just grabbed the files.
Apparently, Cisco is developing Active Directory for Unix (maybe Linux also). This is because some of their new products rely upon it and many customers want to continue using Unix.
I'm tired from the night before, I bring up slashdot, and the first word I see... Dicklickers. Then I realize, oops, it's Chicklickers, sweet. To my dismay, it's chickclickers.
A language that might be well suited to genetic programming and proving math theorems is Erlang (http://www.erlang.org). It supports all sorts of neat stuff, like hot swap code changes, and the ability to run both the new and old code at the same time. Your program could evolve.
There's a lot of info on genetic programming available on http://www.geneticprogramming.com.
Damn. I knew she was lyin' to me. I should've guessed when she tried to stab me with the handle and cut all of her fingers off. Ninja's with no fingers don't make very efficient killers. Plus the blood drips down the wall when they try to blend in.
My girlfriend is a ninja, and she will offer consulting services. And now that she's all set up with her DSL line and Linux, she's an expert on the subject.
I'll approach her tonight about it if I can find her. She likes to blend into the wall and jump out behind me and try to lop my head off with her katana. You'll probably want to consult over email with her because it's pretty dangerous being in the same room with her. She goes by "Nuprin" (little, yellow, different...).
We are already using a product like Distributed Director.
This will work, but only if I don't use the --delete option. If a file doesn't exist on the ftp server, it must be deleted from the other machines also.
So if server A gets a file uploaded to it, and server B tries to do an rsync on it, server B is going to see this file that doesn't exist on itself, and delete it from server A. This gets more complicated when you have 3 or more servers trying to stay current.
There can be no single point of failure though. Regular operations must be able to carry on even if an entire Data Center explodes.
I download a ton of music using Napster, and I buy more CD's now than I ever did before. Primarily because I'm able to listen to entire albums of artists I never would have listened to before.
Most of the time I'll download the whole album as MP3's, burn them to an audio CD and pop them in my changer in my car. The CD's I end up listening to the most are the ones I end up buying. I don't buy everything I download, but it's stuff that I wouldn't have purchased anyway.
Thawte has offices in the US, dealing with them is easy.
Yeah, whatever. Even if that's true, what are they going to do about all of the crazies, cults, and terrorists? I can assure you that I will be as far away as possible from Times square on New year's eve.
I'm going to file a patent on a method of keeping track of ideas and inventions combined with a method of bringing legal action against a person or persons who infringe upon the ideas of other people without obtaining written permission of the inventing party.
This would involve starting up an office which would charge exhorbitant amounts of money to file your invention or idea with, but then you would be legally protected from other persons using your ideas. No matter how stupid or broad the idea, many people are bound to get rich off of this, including me.
What?!? Someone already does this?
Finally, a reason to make caffienated milk. I need my caffiene to wake up every day, but I also drink a gallon or so of milk every day too. I've always thought that if I could get both at the same time, I'd be much happier. Calcium to supply my brain cells, and the caffeine to release it. Nice.