The really nice part is that they can use their 0.5 FBFs of stuff to data-mine the Internet once, and then sell the work over and over again. (There's a little work to sort/package the data for each client, but trivial compared to crunching and tagging the Internet in the first place.)
IBM's breakthrough is called WebFountain--half a football field's worth of rack-mounted processors, routers, and disk drives running a huge menagerie of programs.
Later:
It uses a cluster of thirty 2.4-GHz Intel Xeon dual-processor computers running Linux to crawl as much of the general Web as it can find at least once a week.
To ensure that WebFountain's finger is constantly on the pulse of the Internet, an additional suite of similar computers is dedicated to crawling important but volatile Web sites, such as those hosting blogs, at least once a day. Other machines maintain access to popular non-Web-based sources, such as Usenet (a newsgroup service that predates the Web) and the Internet Relay Chat system, known as IRC. The data is then passed into WebFountain's main cluster of computers, currently composed of 32 server racks connected via gigabit Ethernet. Each rack holds eight Xeon dual-processor computers and is equipped with about 4-5 terabytes of disk storage.
That's a lot of stuff, but half a football field? Possibly they're including cubicles for the staff or did they just inherit some old Big Iron space that was that large?
I'll believe this works well when they have something that can be checked for accuracy. At best, it'll be like voice recognition: another neat technology that needs a few more nines.
Standard on the Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG sports sedan and the S600 luxury sedan are seats that circulate air through the cushion, drawing off perspiration in hot weather. The seats also can be programmed to "breathe," inflating and deflating twice each minute to relax the spine and back muscles.
The amount of spam I've received routed through South Korea has declined over the last couple of years. It peaked when all the schools installed the same distro with open proxies (and other problems), but has tapered off. Possible causes: fixing installations, general blocking of Korea (causing spammers to avoid it), and the huge availablity of open proxy home machines on DSL elsewhere. I doubt it's due to Korean ISPs aquiring clue or a working abuse address.
Dropping 200.x.x.x would be dropping an/8. Perhaps extreme, but I don't know anyone in South America, and could easily whitelist them if I did. Get some ISPs that are serious about abuse, and people and blocklists will probably be glad to open holes for their net-blocks.
Not that they pay any attention to the rules of either. It was always a hoot to get a S.1618 Murky in Spanish on a spam from Argentina to a Canadian email box.
If you want to learn more about semantic webs and Friend Of A Friend systems (and Enemy Of An Enemy too, no doubt), then starting points would be FOAF Vocabulary Specification and RDF Interest Group You don't always need a central database for this, but it helps.
Workstation had all the same code that Server had; it was just "crippled" by the Registry entries so that Microsoft could make more money selling Server versions to the Enterprise.
I believe it also had a task running that would "fix" the registry settings if you manually changed them. The tweek involved killing/pausing the task, and then changing the registry.
You don't need electronics for that. People have tried this with inverting prism glasses. After a while, the brain adjusts to them and perceives things normally. But it's not a lot of fun if you suddenly yank them off after adjusting and try to walk around.
I wonder how he feels about spam? It's bad enough normally, but he'll get "you've got mail!" for pen1s-x-tend0rs as he's walking along the sidewalk or talking to someone. (Sure, he could toggle off notification. Do you think he's the type to have anything less than maximum verbosity?)
And I guess we'll eventually need laws against driving and Instant Messaging at the same time.
How's SCO going to contact Google? As soon as they try to google to get contact info, they'll probably get some contact address in Irkutsk Russia near Lake Biakal.
One question I have, that wasn't answered in the FA: What format(s) are the other TLDs using for their DNS records?
If the format is different across various TLDs, anyone programming for just the.com/.net format was foolish. (Too lazy to haul out the Cricket book and check.)
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The really nice part is that they can use their 0.5 FBFs of stuff to data-mine the Internet once, and then sell the work over and over again. (There's a little work to sort/package the data for each client, but trivial compared to crunching and tagging the Internet in the first place.)
According to the article, Web Fountain is supposed to sift through information which isn't XML tagged.
Or send it to Slashdot. :^)
I'll believe this works well when they have something that can be checked for accuracy. At best, it'll be like voice recognition: another neat technology that needs a few more nines.
I dunno. Is linux.nu available?
Keep in mind that MIT is in absolutely no danger of running out of IP addresses for a long time. Slap them down to a /24 and see how they feel then!
Just like the latest cars. Now if only the couch had breathing seats like the BMWs--or is that too creepy?
The amount of spam I've received routed through South Korea has declined over the last couple of years. It peaked when all the schools installed the same distro with open proxies (and other problems), but has tapered off. Possible causes: fixing installations, general blocking of Korea (causing spammers to avoid it), and the huge availablity of open proxy home machines on DSL elsewhere. I doubt it's due to Korean ISPs aquiring clue or a working abuse address.
I think they used special effects in the movie to dress them up a little.
"Looks like #2 just hit the fan!"
Dropping 200.x.x.x would be dropping an /8. Perhaps extreme, but I don't know anyone in South America, and could easily whitelist them if I did. Get some ISPs that are serious about abuse, and people and blocklists will probably be glad to open holes for their net-blocks.
Not that they pay any attention to the rules of either. It was always a hoot to get a S.1618 Murky in Spanish on a spam from Argentina to a Canadian email box.
If you want to learn more about semantic webs and Friend Of A Friend systems (and Enemy Of An Enemy too, no doubt), then starting points would be FOAF Vocabulary Specification and RDF Interest Group You don't always need a central database for this, but it helps.
There were a few disappearences that were covered up. He wasn't a tame lion after all.
I believe it also had a task running that would "fix" the registry settings if you manually changed them. The tweek involved killing/pausing the task, and then changing the registry.
You don't need electronics for that. People have tried this with inverting prism glasses. After a while, the brain adjusts to them and perceives things normally. But it's not a lot of fun if you suddenly yank them off after adjusting and try to walk around.
Of course they'll only be used for good things right?
And I guess we'll eventually need laws against driving and Instant Messaging at the same time.
Cool! I should be incorporated in a couple days. Woohoo! (I can be a gang of one, right?)
Unless they mean "low level of talking"?
In Google's case, SCO probably wants user licences. How many users does Google have? :^P
The real question is why is Verisign prepping to increase the update cycle, and is this a good thing?
If the format is different across various TLDs, anyone programming for just the .com/.net format was foolish. (Too lazy to haul out the Cricket book and check.)