I address this question in the paper and on the tiny FAQ here. Basically, DHAs require a spammer to interactively query an email server and blindly guess popular names: here, the server can throttle or block access to these requesters, and the success rate is very low.
With MicroID, the tokens are meant for public use, and thus can accessed with a simple HTTP GET. Cracking them yields much higher success rates (25% from Digg) than DHAs, as well as a "verified" user email, & links to that user's associated content (e.g., favorite Last.fm songs for ringtone spam, favorite Digg articles).
I'd argue that the added value of a spammer getting an email address connected to your online "identity" -- your user profile, recently-played Last.fm songs, favorite Digg articles, etc -- makes getting your email from a MicroID a little more valuable than the ordinary harvested email address. Plus, they don't have to bother confirming the address to see if it's still active (Digg already did).
to clear up any confusion: Blue Gene/L doesn't use Myrinet or Infiniband; it's connected internally by separate torus, tree, and global interrupt networks, with gigabit Ethernet to the outside world.
Hah! Except that for a brief moment I thought that the REAL Donald Knuth was pissed off at me for some reason. Good trolling, I suppose... (are you supposed to commend someone on their trolling?)
LUFS (Linux Userland Filesystem) already provides a nicely-developed interface to allow for userspace programs to implement filesystems over exotic protocols like SSH, FTP -- even Gnutella. Another project, FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace, part of AVFS) performs a similar task.
Moreover, the SHFS project website admits that it's "partially based" on FTPFS; but the FTPFS website says it's now obsolete and recomends using LUFS instead.
So the question: why did this merit an article? SHFS is just a proof-of-concept project for some kid's operating systems class, and I'll bet that despite the warning ("Warning: This is beta quality code. It was not tested on SMP machine. Backup data before playing with it!") tons of Slashdotters -- most without any kernel-hacking experience -- will have downloaded and perhaps installed it before I finish typing this post. This is dangerous.
So -- if you want to play with (and implement your own, it's remarkably easy!) fun filesystems, try LUFS or FUSE instead.
yeah, off the bat i recognized the logo from the old ftpsearch.ntnu.no, now ftpsearch.lycos.com. are they a part of lycos, is lycos partnered with them, or what?
now might be a nice time to plug jabber, a currently in-development project to develop an ICQ/AIM-like protocol with a distributed server architecture and plugin-able compatibility with existing protocols like AIM/toc, ICQ, Yahoo Pager (?), the new IETF/Microsoft protocol being worked on, etc.
it's a pretty neat project, they've got a lot of ideas and not so much code (a sort-of functioning server, a windows client, a tcl client, and a gtk/gnome client are all in beta right now). especially interesting are the transport mechanisms to other protocols -- which will allow a user to use multiple services at the same time? check it out!
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he seemed like a pretty nice guy over the phone; a little confused, but he joked around and stuff with me. he wasn't FUD-controlled or anything -- just uneducated. (i mean, he called ME -- that's as good a sign as any...)
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okay, i just got *everything* working. i'm using both/dev/hda AND a virtual HD and it's just as fast as if i were running win95 w/out vmware. i've run quake, aol, ms IE, cuteftp, pagemaker 6.5, photoshop 5.0, and a host of other programs and they all work wonderfully. check out my screenshots.
FASTEST/BEST: using BOTH a virtual hd & /dev/hda?
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i think i figured out the best setup for vmware. i installed win95 to a vmware "virtual hard drive" this morning, so i set the virtual hd as my primary master, and set/dev/hda (or the safe-rawdisked version, if you wish) to primary slave, and wallah! the speed of having a local copy of windows plus all my apps. i guess that my registry's fucked, however... i bet i can fix that though.
i've still got all those crazy vmware screenshots here. today i served up 5.9 gigs because of a single link from slashdot this morning -- scary. i guess i'll probably have hit 6 when i wake up.
vmware can be sped up (/dev/hda vs. virtual hd)
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a lot of my friends are complaining that vmware is really slow -- but they're running off of/dev/hda, and using their real windows partition. i didn't realize i could do this at first, and so i ended up formatting a new win95 "virtual disk" on my ~/vmware/win95/win95.dsk. is it just me, or does this make things WAAAY faster? no more horrible disk-crunching sounds, much faster performance, etc...
also, has anyone used the X server that came with vmware? i haven't, but it still seems kind of fast anyhow. does it significantly improve things?
anyone try playing quake or something like that?
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...because of you guys. i had no idea what being "slashdotted" was like. wow...
oh, and my vmware screenshots are still being served at here. anyone else got vmware working well? i'm curious to know, i'll put shots up on my ever-growing site.
nope, sorry, i was wrong, you CAN boot from/dev/hda. you just specify "/dev/hda" as your hard drive in the config program and remember to run it as root.
i would be afraid of running your current linux partition with that same partition as your host OS, though. that might mess some things up.
nope, sorry, i was wrong, you CAN boot from/dev/hda. you just specify "/dev/hda" as your hard drive in the config program and remember to run it as root.
i would be afraid of running linux in linux though. that might mess some things up.
wow, thanks. i tried that and it gave me "can't initialize ide0:0" but i realized that's because i wasn't running vmware as root! i'm using my own primary partition right now and everything seems to work... thanks.
i'm running 2.2.3 and i didn't have those problems... i guess that's all i can tell you. i assume you have module support enabled in your kernel, and you did "make modules; make modules_install" when you built your kernel...
actually, funny thing you mentioned that. that's due in a month or so, according to their website, the intentioned audience being "IT executives looking into new solutions with Linux" and lots of scary stuff.
a few things: vmware doesn't run off of your actual windows partition, it makes a "virtual disk drive" (basically a really big file called win95.dsk or something) for you. so i had to reinstall win95. that's what a bunch of those screenshots are from.
it runs pretty nicely, too. i've got a p2/350 and most things run pretty fast, but in full-screen mode (which is WAAY freakier than the screenshots) it a] scares me because i can't even tell i'm in linux, and b] seems to run eerily well. in the config program, there's a "memory slider" that allows you to specify how much memory you want the virtual machine to think it has (and thus still from your host OS's cpu/mem). i haven't spent the time to install anything big, so i haven't played quake or whatever on it yet.
i also still haven't moved up to the X server they want me to use, or even to the latest X version (i know, i'm lazy) -- vmware tells me that if i get it it'll use DGA better for better full-screen mode. i was too busy playing "solitaire."
regarding the license key: i put it up on my blooming vmware site for now... but please don't use this as your permanent license key! you can get one for free from vmware.com once it comes back up! this is just for impatient people like me!
i got it at around 1am this morning, after it was just released. i thought i reported it here pretty early, too. whatever. anyhow, it's working and it's REALLY SCARY. check out my screenshots here. hell, i'll even put the original archives i downloaded off of vmware.com (before it went down and all) up there, too. i think you might need a license key, though, too -- that was available free at their site before it went down. oh well.
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I address this question in the paper and on the tiny FAQ here. Basically, DHAs require a spammer to interactively query an email server and blindly guess popular names: here, the server can throttle or block access to these requesters, and the success rate is very low.
With MicroID, the tokens are meant for public use, and thus can accessed with a simple HTTP GET. Cracking them yields much higher success rates (25% from Digg) than DHAs, as well as a "verified" user email, & links to that user's associated content (e.g., favorite Last.fm songs for ringtone spam, favorite Digg articles).
I'd argue that the added value of a spammer getting an email address connected to your online "identity" -- your user profile, recently-played Last.fm songs, favorite Digg articles, etc -- makes getting your email from a MicroID a little more valuable than the ordinary harvested email address. Plus, they don't have to bother confirming the address to see if it's still active (Digg already did).
to clear up any confusion: Blue Gene/L doesn't use Myrinet or Infiniband; it's connected internally by separate torus, tree, and global interrupt networks, with gigabit Ethernet to the outside world.
The pictures are right there in the article. It's the half-rack system they're standing next to. Here are more.
Hah! Except that for a brief moment I thought that the REAL Donald Knuth was pissed off at me for some reason. Good trolling, I suppose ... (are you supposed to commend someone on their trolling?)
Moreover, the SHFS project website admits that it's "partially based" on FTPFS; but the FTPFS website says it's now obsolete and recomends using LUFS instead.
So the question: why did this merit an article? SHFS is just a proof-of-concept project for some kid's operating systems class, and I'll bet that despite the warning ("Warning: This is beta quality code. It was not tested on SMP machine. Backup data before playing with it!") tons of Slashdotters -- most without any kernel-hacking experience -- will have downloaded and perhaps installed it before I finish typing this post. This is dangerous.
So -- if you want to play with (and implement your own, it's remarkably easy!) fun filesystems, try LUFS or FUSE instead.
- Burlington Coat Factory was caught by an undercover investigation that shocked the United States.
- CNNfn: Burlington recalls coats
pretty gross, eh? at least they used linux to keep their inventory of dog fur---
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yeah, off the bat i recognized the logo from the old ftpsearch.ntnu.no, now ftpsearch.lycos.com. are they a part of lycos, is lycos partnered with them, or what?
now might be a nice time to plug jabber, a currently in-development project to develop an ICQ/AIM-like protocol with a distributed server architecture and plugin-able compatibility with existing protocols like AIM/toc, ICQ, Yahoo Pager (?), the new IETF/Microsoft protocol being worked on, etc.
it's a pretty neat project, they've got a lot of ideas and not so much code (a sort-of functioning server, a windows client, a tcl client, and a gtk/gnome client are all in beta right now). especially interesting are the transport mechanisms to other protocols -- which will allow a user to use multiple services at the same time? check it out!
he seemed like a pretty nice guy over the phone; a little confused, but he joked around and stuff with me. he wasn't FUD-controlled or anything -- just uneducated. (i mean, he called ME -- that's as good a sign as any ...)
okay, i just got *everything* working. i'm using both /dev/hda AND a virtual HD and it's just as fast as if i were running win95 w/out vmware. i've run quake, aol, ms IE, cuteftp, pagemaker 6.5, photoshop 5.0, and a host of other programs and they all work wonderfully. check out my screenshots.
i've still got all those crazy vmware screenshots here. today i served up 5.9 gigs because of a single link from slashdot this morning -- scary. i guess i'll probably have hit 6 when i wake up.
also, has anyone used the X server that came with vmware? i haven't, but it still seems kind of fast anyhow. does it significantly improve things?
anyone try playing quake or something like that?
oh, and my vmware screenshots are still being served at here. anyone else got vmware working well? i'm curious to know, i'll put shots up on my ever-growing site.
i've got it here.
nope, sorry, i was wrong, you CAN boot from /dev/hda. you just specify "/dev/hda" as your hard drive in the config program and remember to run it as root.
i would be afraid of running your current linux partition with that same partition as your host OS, though. that might mess some things up.
nope, sorry, i was wrong, you CAN boot from /dev/hda. you just specify "/dev/hda" as your hard drive in the config program and remember to run it as root.
i would be afraid of running linux in linux though. that might mess some things up.
wow, thanks. i tried that and it gave me "can't initialize ide0:0" but i realized that's because i wasn't running vmware as root! i'm using my own primary partition right now and everything seems to work ... thanks.
i'm running 2.2.3 and i didn't have those problems ... i guess that's all i can tell you. i assume you have module support enabled in your kernel, and you did "make modules; make modules_install" when you built your kernel...
actually, funny thing you mentioned that. that's due in a month or so, according to their website, the intentioned audience being "IT executives looking into new solutions with Linux" and lots of scary stuff.
it runs pretty nicely, too. i've got a p2/350 and most things run pretty fast, but in full-screen mode (which is WAAY freakier than the screenshots) it a] scares me because i can't even tell i'm in linux, and b] seems to run eerily well. in the config program, there's a "memory slider" that allows you to specify how much memory you want the virtual machine to think it has (and thus still from your host OS's cpu/mem). i haven't spent the time to install anything big, so i haven't played quake or whatever on it yet.
i also still haven't moved up to the X server they want me to use, or even to the latest X version (i know, i'm lazy) -- vmware tells me that if i get it it'll use DGA better for better full-screen mode. i was too busy playing "solitaire."
regarding the license key: i put it up on my blooming vmware site for now
hope this all helps.
i got it at around 1am this morning, after it was just released. i thought i reported it here pretty early, too. whatever. anyhow, it's working and it's REALLY SCARY. check out my screenshots here. hell, i'll even put the original archives i downloaded off of vmware.com (before it went down and all) up there, too. i think you might need a license key, though, too -- that was available free at their site before it went down. oh well.