Gah, isn't that an eerie feeling to look for your name on the list. Reminds me of the AIDS tests we were required to take while working in the infectious disease labs. I could rule out most of the normal ways a person could become HIV+ (a pretty dull life) and most of the work was pretty routine, but there always that worry in the back of your mind.
In this case I'm not a P2P'er, but I did find one of my boxes was hacked and turned into an FTP server / port scanner the other week. With the way this week has gone so far...
Dang, fp and spot on... checking to see if my cube froze over...
About 10 years back we had a similar problem. The main AC unit failed and we were watching the mercury rise after we did most of the above. We were able to bring portable air conditioners which pushed the hot air though 1' plastic tubing to the cool outside air. It worked, no holes in the wall. The generator adds a little difficulty, but nothing long extension cords wont fix.
Don't forget to pull the ceiling panels if you can - assuming the air is cooler. Was for me.
As for dry ice - don't forget that sublimes to CO2. I suspect every door/window is open right now, so less of a ventilation issue. Blowing a fan over what ever you use will help.
Argh - way to many 'but java applets suck' posts already. They do. Wrong tool for the job. Just about any servlet textbook will give an example where an image was created on the server side, set the appropriate response type, and stream it back to the user. As long as you are creating the image on the fly, there is nothing stopping you from also creating an image map/html that gives you user interactivity. Odds are post/re-paint will be enough. Take a look at mapquest.com or most interactive maps that push you a gif for an example.
Reliance on the client will lead to nothing but heartache IMHO.
I have already mentioned the cheaper price and the community availability when problems come up, but what other reasons have Slashdot readers come up with for a switch?
I'd recommend sabotage. With little effort, you can ensure the SCO specific hardware never really works right. Putting the RAID card in the microwave for a few seconds seems to work.
Will the airport security start taking away your magnets, and wires?
Yes, and worse.
I do way to many trans-Atlantic flights. Before 9/11, I pulled out the breadboard and iron and made an external battery pack for my iPaq. Lets just say it was not well received when they scanned it at the airport, and again on the way back. No humor at all...
First off, I tend to spend most of my time in the J2EE/Unix world, so take this with the appropriate grains of salt. I have had to deal with the beast here and there, so...
support 100+ concurrent requests on a decent 2-4 CPU box This should be easy, all Microsoft bashing aside. If it can't handle that, look to your code. Without having any more info, I'd guess you are probably making way to many RPC calls. I did an ASP.NET front end connected to Apache Axis (WebServices via JavaBeans) on the back end to search and pull content. Not ideal but with the ASP caching tags, it only did one or two RPC's a minute after a bit. Treat all your calls like it has the overhead of SOAP and refactor.
Lots of database questions... Sounds like you are not caching anything in your business logic. You may have 100+ unique concurrent user requests, but that should not translate into 200+ concurrent database requests. Tier your applications, find where things are bottlenecking, and re-use wherever possible. RAM is cheap compared to making the same query over and over again.
obvious answer is 'buy more systems', but what if your customer says I only have 20K budgeted for the year. I'm probably way to cynical, but I've seen customers pay you to turn water into house wine and then expect a smashing merlot. There are many code optimizations you can make, but the cost of custom software is usually enough to make a hardware vendor blush. Most customers are more than happy enough to burn your time if you let them...
One could argue 5 cheap systems for 3K each... Real world benchmark? Eight dual CPU x86 boxes are serving up 1.5M hits/day of mostly static content on one of the systems I worked on. Know where you need CPU, I/O, and/or network bandwidth. First off, not all 'enterprise' hardware is...Spending more does not make it better either. Do your homework on what is inside the server. Think of dropping $70k on a Hummer or a Porsche - they have different strengths. You could spend a lot of money on one box. Perhaps wedding singer is a better analogy.
A bunch of reliability/failover issues. If the customer demands five 9's, w00t! They will be pulling out the checkbook. Real fail-over is expensive. Find the middle ground and make sure you don't do something stupid in your SLA.
If reliability really matters, you probably want a Unix box. A couple CPU Solaris or AIX box is not that costly. Course, if someone else has to carry the pager...I'll just quietly step away from the soap box...
Most people use those services because all you have to do is double-click on a few songs, go to bed with Kazaa on and the next day you have whatever music you wanted. I doubt there will be a big group of people Wardriving for Tunes.
I suspect there will be more and more willing to unplug the cat5 and leach off the wireless connections however. I've got six unique home networks around me w/o any security. PrettyKitty, TSUNAMI, homeboxen, Blaze, Ford150, and JarJar.
PrettyKitty? JarJar??? These freaks are within WiFi range. Ah well - it is late. Any recomendations? (kidding)
Dry Ice is the hot tip. Place a block in a remote corner of the area of your next outdoor grilling event, and you'll suffer nary a bite.
My god does that explain why those blood sucking bastards torment me on the first leg of our camping trips. I'd freeze the steaks and slip in a chunk of dry ice so it would keep it cool without creating a huge mess. Not to mention any gel packs to carry out on the way home./me shakes head for not connecting the dots.... Peter gets the food pack this year.
Iâ(TM)ve had five Dell C810 Latitude laptop screens (over three machines) that all exhibited this ghosting problem. Kits from work, so they were under warranty. No problems with any of the thinkpads or the Dell Precision M50 (?), so Iâ(TM)m willing to bet Dell cut some corners on the Latitude series.
Iâ(TM)ve had a server parked at home waiting to get updated with the 1.6 version of Counter Strike. When the hell are they going to get around to re-opening the beta? Or even better, releasing the bloody thing? Yes â" since I would be hosting I could get in the beta â" but I enjoy playing with folks Iâ(TM)ve gamed with for a couple years now would be SOL. They shut it down in January, and never heard a peep since.
Well, it use to be free and work in wince⦠Looks like IBM continues the care and feeding of itâ(TM)s J2ME / IDE combo that works on something other than a cell phone. (now Websphere Studio Device Developer, use to be VisualAge ME) The good news (and bad) is it is a full commercial offering, and I know there are other ones out there... Iâ(TM)m of the camp that Sun should produce reference JDKâ(TM)s rather than commercial / performance ones â" especially on the J2EE side. Way back when, I remember Sun seemed to be more worried about license revenue than shipping something compelling. Perhaps they did not want to compete with the partners⦠A functional SDK is nice, but not needed from them â" there are others.
For me, I got seduced back into c/c++ when I dropped Familiar Linux on my pocket pc. Never went back.
They were IBM xSeries boxes - they don't (that I'm aware of) offer a x86 version with AMD. Had this been sponsered by someone who did do AMD servers, you would have seen Athlons in there. This was an IBM gig - and they had xeon's in inventory. Not a bad bit of kit, btw...
You are correct about the floating point, however. For chipsets, look for the AMD-8131 in boards like this. Most of the new workstation class boards from AMD will be based on the Opteron...
I think you're trolling but I'll respond. A bullet is a bullet is a bullet. In 2011, 40 year old weaponry will be an M-16 / M-60 / AK-47 / AK-74. Last time I check those weapons fire projectiles that will kill a human being. I'm pretty sure the same results will happen 8 years from now too
Actually, one of the biggest surprises for me was finding out a 25MM (?) cannon with a depleted uranium projectile â" fired from a Bradly if I remember correctly â" was able to knock out a Russian t-72 tank. Weapon systems evolve, with armor and other defensive gear changing to match that threat. Not that I disagree with the rest of your comments, but I suspect we will see improvements on body armor and matching bullet technology in the next few years.
1. Sell movie tickets for a loss. 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
Tell me again why people who think the airline industry is a good place to turn a profit have a viable business model here?
2. Sell popcorn and a soda for $10, but to more people since the theater is packed. Now if they let you bring your own snacks, I would wonder about this gig... Damn airlines want $5 for a drink even on international flights these days.
Who has a fast enough CPU to run this game, but *doesn't* have any kind of 3d accelerated video card.
How about those of us using VMWare - no native 3D card when running in a VMWare session, but more CPU/Ram than you can shake a stick at.... Not that it matters for ut3k - they _have_ a linux client.
that a ceratin scene in zion where lots of skin is shown along with partying was completely uncessary and detrcted form the theme of the movie?
Ah, I suspect you missed the point. I, like many others, watched the scene turn into a rave -boring after about fifteen seconds. Once I realized they were going to play the entire dance track however, it was the perfect opportunity to deal with the cause/effect of a couple pints before the movie.... LOTR was not near as forward thinking.
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First Mozilla.org changed the name from Phoenix to Firebird because Phoenix BIOS was annoyed (afraid someone could mistakenly buy a web browser instead of a BIOS chip).
Now, they realized that the name was already in use by another open source project but they have no intention to get back.
Phoenix BIOS actually created a web browser - thus, Phoenix Browser was a legitimate gripe by the Phoenix BIOS folks. There would have been confusion, followed by a lawsuit that Mozilla would lose.
Firebird was used by an open source DB project. While there was no legal issues - IE, no trademark dilution of the Firebird Database product, in spirit it was wrong to snag the name. When people talk of the open source 'firebird' project, their may be confusion. One of the hazards of using common words like windo ^H^H^H ^H (nah, not today) to describe your product.
Anyhow, what does it mean to me? Branding strategy? Meeting the minimum legal requirements? Put a sock in it. I've invested time debugging issues and just using the browser formally known as phoenix as it developed. I don't condone that attitude however, and I won't promote it or be attached to it in the future. I suspect it left a bad taste with others as well...
For the most part, if they were really malicious, you are boned anyhow.... The good news is development is really a small community - even if they don't get the book thrown at them, I know folks that were more or less excommunicated because of bridge burning and other stupid departure tricks. More than ever, jobs are had by personal recommendation rather than some recruiter pushing your resume. You may not like your job, your peers, etc - but I've seen prospects burned before they got in the door because of what they did a company or three back. Odds are, if this guy was a senior level developer, he has more at stake than you. I know I made sure everything was checked in, documented where possible, and asked IT to change my passwords - I also never checked to see if they did...
I'm dumbfounded.... But it's essentially a modified glider, so it could glide back to the ground if the propulsion fails.
That does not make me feel safe, this makes me feel safe. Almost every piston aircraft glides to the ground on such an event - some better than others. Most folks spend tons of time practicing for engine events. Seriously... I'm way to many years into restoring a '58 Stitts and have put more love into that o200 continental engine with the express purpose of NEVER having to land because of engine failures.
Yup, this one is for the marketing department. They might fly it to Oshkosh once, and then trailer it back for a roadshow/museem. Not something I would commute between Minneapolis and Chicago with... or leave the pattern... even it was environmentally friendly.
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Gah, isn't that an eerie feeling to look for your name on the list. Reminds me of the AIDS tests we were required to take while working in the infectious disease labs. I could rule out most of the normal ways a person could become HIV+ (a pretty dull life) and most of the work was pretty routine, but there always that worry in the back of your mind.
In this case I'm not a P2P'er, but I did find one of my boxes was hacked and turned into an FTP server / port scanner the other week. With the way this week has gone so far...
Why on earth would you need 100 addresses per human being? I can for see needing two at most
Never had a bitter ex-girlfriend, I see...
Dang, fp and spot on... checking to see if my cube froze over...
About 10 years back we had a similar problem. The main AC unit failed and we were watching the mercury rise after we did most of the above. We were able to bring portable air conditioners which pushed the hot air though 1' plastic tubing to the cool outside air. It worked, no holes in the wall. The generator adds a little difficulty, but nothing long extension cords wont fix.
Don't forget to pull the ceiling panels if you can - assuming the air is cooler. Was for me.
As for dry ice - don't forget that sublimes to CO2. I suspect every door/window is open right now, so less of a ventilation issue. Blowing a fan over what ever you use will help.
Argh - way to many 'but java applets suck' posts already. They do. Wrong tool for the job. Just about any servlet textbook will give an example where an image was created on the server side, set the appropriate response type, and stream it back to the user. As long as you are creating the image on the fly, there is nothing stopping you from also creating an image map/html that gives you user interactivity. Odds are post/re-paint will be enough. Take a look at mapquest.com or most interactive maps that push you a gif for an example.
Reliance on the client will lead to nothing but heartache IMHO.
I have already mentioned the cheaper price and the community availability when problems come up, but what other reasons have Slashdot readers come up with for a switch?
I'd recommend sabotage. With little effort, you can ensure the SCO specific hardware never really works right. Putting the RAID card in the microwave for a few seconds seems to work.
Am I missing the question??
Will the airport security start taking away your magnets, and wires?
Yes, and worse.
I do way to many trans-Atlantic flights. Before 9/11, I pulled out the breadboard and iron and made an external battery pack for my iPaq. Lets just say it was not well received when they scanned it at the airport, and again on the way back. No humor at all...
support 100+ concurrent requests on a decent 2-4 CPU box
This should be easy, all Microsoft bashing aside. If it can't handle that, look to your code. Without having any more info, I'd guess you are probably making way to many RPC calls. I did an ASP.NET front end connected to Apache Axis (WebServices via JavaBeans) on the back end to search and pull content. Not ideal but with the ASP caching tags, it only did one or two RPC's a minute after a bit. Treat all your calls like it has the overhead of SOAP and refactor.
Lots of database questions...
Sounds like you are not caching anything in your business logic. You may have 100+ unique concurrent user requests, but that should not translate into 200+ concurrent database requests. Tier your applications, find where things are bottlenecking, and re-use wherever possible. RAM is cheap compared to making the same query over and over again.
obvious answer is 'buy more systems', but what if your customer says I only have 20K budgeted for the year.
I'm probably way to cynical, but I've seen customers pay you to turn water into house wine and then expect a smashing merlot. There are many code optimizations you can make, but the cost of custom software is usually enough to make a hardware vendor blush. Most customers are more than happy enough to burn your time if you let them...
One could argue 5 cheap systems for 3K each...
Real world benchmark? Eight dual CPU x86 boxes are serving up 1.5M hits/day of mostly static content on one of the systems I worked on. Know where you need CPU, I/O, and/or network bandwidth. First off, not all 'enterprise' hardware is...Spending more does not make it better either. Do your homework on what is inside the server. Think of dropping $70k on a Hummer or a Porsche - they have different strengths. You could spend a lot of money on one box. Perhaps wedding singer is a better analogy.
A bunch of reliability/failover issues.
If the customer demands five 9's, w00t! They will be pulling out the checkbook. Real fail-over is expensive. Find the middle ground and make sure you don't do something stupid in your SLA.
If reliability really matters, you probably want a Unix box. A couple CPU Solaris or AIX box is not that costly. Course, if someone else has to carry the pager...I'll just quietly step away from the soap box...
Most people use those services because all you have to do is double-click on a few songs, go to bed with Kazaa on and the next day you have whatever music you wanted.
I doubt there will be a big group of people Wardriving for Tunes.
I suspect there will be more and more willing to unplug the cat5 and leach off the wireless connections however. I've got six unique home networks around me w/o any security. PrettyKitty, TSUNAMI, homeboxen, Blaze, Ford150, and JarJar.
PrettyKitty? JarJar??? These freaks are within WiFi range. Ah well - it is late. Any recomendations? (kidding)
Dry Ice is the hot tip. Place a block in a remote corner of the area of your next outdoor grilling event, and you'll suffer nary a bite.
/me shakes head for not connecting the dots.... Peter gets the food pack this year.
My god does that explain why those blood sucking bastards torment me on the first leg of our camping trips. I'd freeze the steaks and slip in a chunk of dry ice so it would keep it cool without creating a huge mess. Not to mention any gel packs to carry out on the way home.
>>the [low-traffic] sites might seem irrelevant with their pitiful millions of page views
Great. My counter's currently on 2137, and that's after a year. I'm off to hang myself.
Well that should get some hits. What is the URL for the webcast?
Iâ(TM)ve had five Dell C810 Latitude laptop screens (over three machines) that all exhibited this ghosting problem. Kits from work, so they were under warranty. No problems with any of the thinkpads or the Dell Precision M50 (?), so Iâ(TM)m willing to bet Dell cut some corners on the Latitude series.
Industry problem my assâ¦
re-opening the beta?
It IS open.
Re-open the beta to new players. Where can you download the client? (other than the fileshack service)
Iâ(TM)ve had a server parked at home waiting to get updated with the 1.6 version of Counter Strike. When the hell are they going to get around to re-opening the beta? Or even better, releasing the bloody thing? Yes â" since I would be hosting I could get in the beta â" but I enjoy playing with folks Iâ(TM)ve gamed with for a couple years now would be SOL. They shut it down in January, and never heard a peep since.
Well, it use to be free and work in wince⦠Looks like IBM continues the care and feeding of itâ(TM)s J2ME / IDE combo that works on something other than a cell phone. (now Websphere Studio Device Developer, use to be VisualAge ME)
The good news (and bad) is it is a full commercial offering, and I know there are other ones out there... Iâ(TM)m of the camp that Sun should produce reference JDKâ(TM)s rather than commercial / performance ones â" especially on the J2EE side. Way back when, I remember Sun seemed to be more worried about license revenue than shipping something compelling. Perhaps they did not want to compete with the partners⦠A functional SDK is nice, but not needed from them â" there are others.
For me, I got seduced back into c/c++ when I dropped Familiar Linux on my pocket pc. Never went back.
SAP has a deal with DB2... Not that IBM and SAP are huge buddies either. But there are lots of options out there if you want to spite someone.
It really is too bad they can't use Athlons.
They were IBM xSeries boxes - they don't (that I'm aware of) offer a x86 version with AMD. Had this been sponsered by someone who did do AMD servers, you would have seen Athlons in there. This was an IBM gig - and they had xeon's in inventory. Not a bad bit of kit, btw...
You are correct about the floating point, however. For chipsets, look for the AMD-8131 in boards like this. Most of the new workstation class boards from AMD will be based on the Opteron...
I think you're trolling but I'll respond. A bullet is a bullet is a bullet. In 2011, 40 year old weaponry will be an M-16 / M-60 / AK-47 / AK-74. Last time I check those weapons fire projectiles that will kill a human being. I'm pretty sure the same results will happen 8 years from now too
Actually, one of the biggest surprises for me was finding out a 25MM (?) cannon with a depleted uranium projectile â" fired from a Bradly if I remember correctly â" was able to knock out a Russian t-72 tank. Weapon systems evolve, with armor and other defensive gear changing to match that threat. Not that I disagree with the rest of your comments, but I suspect we will see improvements on body armor and matching bullet technology in the next few years.
1. Sell movie tickets for a loss.
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
Tell me again why people who think the airline industry is a good place to turn a profit have a viable business model here?
2. Sell popcorn and a soda for $10, but to more people since the theater is packed. Now if they let you bring your own snacks, I would wonder about this gig... Damn airlines want $5 for a drink even on international flights these days.
Who has a fast enough CPU to run this game, but *doesn't* have any kind of 3d accelerated video card.
How about those of us using VMWare - no native 3D card when running in a VMWare session, but more CPU/Ram than you can shake a stick at.... Not that it matters for ut3k - they _have_ a linux client.
that a ceratin scene in zion where lots of skin is shown along with partying was completely uncessary and detrcted form the theme of the movie?
Ah, I suspect you missed the point. I, like many others, watched the scene turn into a rave -boring after about fifteen seconds. Once I realized they were going to play the entire dance track however, it was the perfect opportunity to deal with the cause/effect of a couple pints before the movie.... LOTR was not near as forward thinking.
First Mozilla.org changed the name from Phoenix to Firebird because Phoenix BIOS was annoyed (afraid someone could mistakenly buy a web browser instead of a BIOS chip).
Now, they realized that the name was already in use by another open source project but they have no intention to get back.
Phoenix BIOS actually created a web browser - thus, Phoenix Browser was a legitimate gripe by the Phoenix BIOS folks. There would have been confusion, followed by a lawsuit that Mozilla would lose.
Firebird was used by an open source DB project. While there was no legal issues - IE, no trademark dilution of the Firebird Database product, in spirit it was wrong to snag the name. When people talk of the open source 'firebird' project, their may be confusion. One of the hazards of using common words like windo ^H^H^H ^H (nah, not today) to describe your product.
Anyhow, what does it mean to me? Branding strategy? Meeting the minimum legal requirements? Put a sock in it. I've invested time debugging issues and just using the browser formally known as phoenix as it developed. I don't condone that attitude however, and I won't promote it or be attached to it in the future. I suspect it left a bad taste with others as well...
Nope... just a good set of over sized tires and a helmet. Thought about an emergency chute for me, however.
Cool link, btw. Any idea on cost?
I don't have a complete list, but you may want to add 66.35.250.150 to your IP blocks banned. I've seen way to much time lost to that one...
For the most part, if they were really malicious, you are boned anyhow.... The good news is development is really a small community - even if they don't get the book thrown at them, I know folks that were more or less excommunicated because of bridge burning and other stupid departure tricks. More than ever, jobs are had by personal recommendation rather than some recruiter pushing your resume. You may not like your job, your peers, etc - but I've seen prospects burned before they got in the door because of what they did a company or three back. Odds are, if this guy was a senior level developer, he has more at stake than you. I know I made sure everything was checked in, documented where possible, and asked IT to change my passwords - I also never checked to see if they did...
I'm dumbfounded.... But it's essentially a modified glider, so it could glide back to the ground if the propulsion fails.
That does not make me feel safe, this makes me feel safe. Almost every piston aircraft glides to the ground on such an event - some better than others. Most folks spend tons of time practicing for engine events. Seriously... I'm way to many years into restoring a '58 Stitts and have put more love into that o200 continental engine with the express purpose of NEVER having to land because of engine failures.
Yup, this one is for the marketing department. They might fly it to Oshkosh once, and then trailer it back for a roadshow/museem. Not something I would commute between Minneapolis and Chicago with... or leave the pattern... even it was environmentally friendly.