The idea sounds a lot like the software I develop. We sit on a server-peer network, and process messages - without ever hitting disk. We can query state information out of the network, even though most traffic is dynamic and not stored past initial processing and resending. Two parts to our software, I guess. State data and traffic. Pretty impressive peice of software I think. Maintaining the network state is far more difficult than most people realize. We generally keep around 100 megs of state in RAM, more depending on the traffic levels. My software has been around, in various incarnations, since the 80s.
Its called IRC.
Ahhh IRC is evil...
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This entire post is like flamebait for some of us.
I've been an oper on DALnet for six years now, and I currently lead up their coding team, so allow me to shed some light on this - assuming this makes me qualified.
The top 60 channels. Who goes to huge channels to chat? Ever tried talking in a channel with 20 active users? Try 800 active users. Nobody goes to large channels to chat, its pointless to even try. The folks that join these channels join looking for something specific, or to offer something. They find what they are looking for, and move on.
On DALnet, we've taken agressive action against warez, child porn, and drones. Drones are unfortunately the only item that I can speak on authoritively - we reject about 300 drones per second on any given server on our network. This is done through pattern matching in their registration. Drones is a serious problem on any network. A while back (five years or so), dianora of efnet did some drone hunting, and concluded that around 60% of "users" on irc were accually drones - hacked end-user computers. Drones are a far worse problem than people realize.
A few years ago, DALnet was seriously DDOS'd - we went from the top network in the world (around 140,000) to next to nothing. Our servers sometimes got hit with DDOS attacks in the range of 60 Gigabits per second. We shut down major providers, rendered entire datacenters useless, and obviously lost servers quickly. We've since changed our routing methods to rely heavily on anycast, and changed a lot of other things.
In my mind, DALnet is one of the networks that accually has one of the lowest noise ratios around. Quakenet, the current leader in usercount, raises questions with me. Their usercount rose very fast, and I wonder about their userbase. I personally know only -one- person who uses quakenet. You mention DALnet, Undernet or EFnet and people identify much more readily. Even more people use small IRC networks with 50-500 users.
99.9% for illegal purposes - bullshit. If you go to irc only to look for warez, then I think you are in the minority. I'd put illegal purposes around 5% at best. And that means real, live people at the keyboard, looking for illegal material.
1. set the console to the serial via boot flags, so the kernel will dump its boot to serial. 2. Use a BIOS that contains the ability to pipe its POST to serial. HP/Compaq servers have this ability, and im sure others do as well. 3. Cable them all to a serial console machine. Blade enclosures do this automatically, and work quite well.
Essentially, you have a serial console with equivelent ability of being in front of the machine, at least in the unix/linux server context. The only thing you cant do is install from physical media - but you can mitigate that with inventive use of pxe.:)
Note, this is technically illegal in the US. You're broadcasting outside the legal FCC range. Channels 12-14 are generally used for european users.
Not that this should stop you. Those handy firmwares also let you bump down (or up!) your broadcast strength. I recomend bumping it down to as low as you can while still getting the distance you require. I run my WRT54g at a comfy 12.5% of the possible output.
I used suprnova quite a bit to find links to legal material. I happen to watch a large amount of anime, the kind that is unlicensed in my area and is fan-subbed. This is -not- illegal, in my area. If there are places it is illegal, most anime houses generally have no problem with this activity.
As a result of these closures, I have lost a lagitimate method of finding legal content.
Hes looking for a DOCTOR you twit. RTFA. Hes not looking for drugs, hes looking for doctors who know how to treat his illness, according to what hes read and been told.
Hes also the sole maintainer of (i believe) the second and oldest still maintained linux distributions.
While I totally agree, and would definitely help out patrick if I could do anything to help, there are unfortunate conditions that I think apply to this. I might code a major GPL ircd, but chances are if I ever wanted this type of help, I probably wouldnt get a slashdot posting.
Its unfortunate in a lot of ways, but slashdot cant be the "help me" spot on the internet for the open-source coders out there. If i submitted something like this for myself, chances are I'd get rejected because "who the hell is epiphani and why do i care".
If you think the UN is going to provide you safety you are very close to totally wrong.
I never said the UN would provide safety. But seeing as the UN is a collection of the majority of the nations in the world, its not generally a good idea to piss them off.
The majority of the planet is weaker than the US, dependent on the US, or desperately in need of the US for protection or stability.
Canada is doing quite fine, thanks. Im sure there are quite a few nations out there that feel very much as though the US has hurt them far more than helped.
If your of the opinion that military might is what makes a country great, then perhaps you should evalute what your foreign policy has done to your image internationally. Get your head out of your ass and realize that the US is not the shining light in some world of poverty, violence and dispair.
Yeah, well, that entire religion has hated us for the better part of 150 years. And in earnet since the end of World War II.
Maybe that has to do with your foreign policy. Oh, and maybe a lot of them didnt have any problem with you until recently, when you invaded probably one of the more civilized of their nations in the middle east. You want a target for humanitarian reasons? Try Saudi Arabia. Oh right, they control a good section of your economy. Cant be pissing them off.
The US is significantly safer in many, many ways. However, it is clearly not secure.
Keep it up. Im sure your country will fall into civil war soon enough.
and look what its done to your country. Do you honestly think you're any safer, having pissed off the UN and the majority of the planet? Not to mention an entire major religion?
If someone really wants to blow up a building, they're going to blow up a building. Osama tried once, failed (1993) and didnt exactly give up. Its a completely false sense of security.
but when was there ever a missile attack on any north american target? This money seems like a complete waste, that could have been spent on a much more useful project - like, say, an asteriod defence system.
has been around for quite a while. People just think its a lot like nudity, thats all. Try woodstock or martigra for references.
And of course, there is even a japanese company selling spray on stockings, so I wouldnt call it future technology. But I'd definitely like to see more of it.
Im not sure where I originally heard this, probably here, but the parent makes a good point. It is Gates' Law. Every 18 months, the speed of software is reduced by 50%
I personally run two 800Mhz machines. I upgraded one of them from a 250Mhz machine a few months ago for all of $200 - including an 80GB HD. The other was severance pay from my old dot.bomb.
I'm starting to consider moving to something in the multi-gigahertz range, but I'm waiting for a few things to pick up. PCI-X is a big one. I dont see the point in getting a 3.2Ghz processor with a slow-ass bus behind it. I'm also waiting for RAM speeds to catch up as well. the 400Mhz stuff floating around is pretty good, but im waiting for the 667Mhz stuff to catch on. At that point I'll feel like a 3Ghz machine will be balanced.
My problem has rarely been processor speed. Its RAM access and Bus access. Now they're catching up, and I'll wait til the price on them breaks to resonable levels. At that point I'll happily put the cheeper hardware into a machine and not feel like I'm throwing a huge processor into a machine without the ability to make use of it.
To quote one of the great canadian political satirists and ranters, Rick Mercer once said (slightly paraphrased):
"Some people say that they arent going to vote because its like trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. Now listen to me very carefully here - when it comes to running a country, it is very important to choose the lesser of two evils."
The latest proposal by the powers that be is that Firefox 1.0 be distrubuted under what they call an "end user license agreement" that disallows modification or distribution, and that restricts what you can use Firefox for--similar to the terms of Microsoft's software. If this happens, I will not be using Firefox in the future.
I personally think that the same thing that happened to XFree will probably happen to Firefox, assuming they go that route. I'm not sure if its possible, considering I havent read the licensing around the Mozilla Organization, but it wouldnt surprise me to see a fork of the last possible version the minute they adopt more restrictive licensing.
As you would expect from a Virgin company, the experience will be truly unforgettable...
Also, in terms of the coolness factor, their initial ship is to be titled the "VSS Enterprise". It -almost- is starting to feel like a hoax, but if not, props to those virgin folks down under.
Agreed. If we want to stick with the Doctor example, I would equate it more towards someone performing impressive medical research without a license. Or practicing medicine without a license.
Most of these virus writers are teenagers with no formal education and no job prospects as a result. Writing something like this proves they're not only talented, but quite bored. Give them something positive to work on, and a paycheck to boot, and im sure good results will come of it.
I think the fact that these teens exist is a result of the stupidity of the system to depend on education metrics to represent knowledge and value.
Its not a car, its an SUV. This is something that I just dont understand.
Why release a hybrid SUV? I am willing to bet that most people that would be interested in a hybrid vehicle would not want something that big. If I wanted a fuel-efficient hybrid car, I'd want something that didnt have to heave around 3000lbs of weight. It just seems like the "hybrid" and the "SUV" just cancel each other out.
He shows Britney Spears saying she supports the President on Iraq. As if there weren't a host of brain-dead bimbo celebs, (Madonna, Sean Penn, Russell Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, Susan Sarandon, The Dixie Chicks, etc.), spouting off on the other side.
Huh? This is a deceit? Da hell kind of an arguement is this? He's trying WAY too hard to find things wrong with this film.
I'll assume for the moment that you are being serious in your comments...
How does this imply microsoft control over the desktop? Its an IETF draft, publically availible. While microsoft might have incredibly "evil" buisness practices, not all of their technological developments are moot. Take DHCP for example - damn handy system, developed by microsoft.
This strikes me as one of microsofts better points.
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The idea sounds a lot like the software I develop. We sit on a server-peer network, and process messages - without ever hitting disk. We can query state information out of the network, even though most traffic is dynamic and not stored past initial processing and resending. Two parts to our software, I guess. State data and traffic. Pretty impressive peice of software I think. Maintaining the network state is far more difficult than most people realize. We generally keep around 100 megs of state in RAM, more depending on the traffic levels. My software has been around, in various incarnations, since the 80s.
Its called IRC.
This entire post is like flamebait for some of us.
I've been an oper on DALnet for six years now, and I currently lead up their coding team, so allow me to shed some light on this - assuming this makes me qualified.
The top 60 channels. Who goes to huge channels to chat? Ever tried talking in a channel with 20 active users? Try 800 active users. Nobody goes to large channels to chat, its pointless to even try. The folks that join these channels join looking for something specific, or to offer something. They find what they are looking for, and move on.
On DALnet, we've taken agressive action against warez, child porn, and drones. Drones are unfortunately the only item that I can speak on authoritively - we reject about 300 drones per second on any given server on our network. This is done through pattern matching in their registration. Drones is a serious problem on any network. A while back (five years or so), dianora of efnet did some drone hunting, and concluded that around 60% of "users" on irc were accually drones - hacked end-user computers. Drones are a far worse problem than people realize.
A few years ago, DALnet was seriously DDOS'd - we went from the top network in the world (around 140,000) to next to nothing. Our servers sometimes got hit with DDOS attacks in the range of 60 Gigabits per second. We shut down major providers, rendered entire datacenters useless, and obviously lost servers quickly. We've since changed our routing methods to rely heavily on anycast, and changed a lot of other things.
In my mind, DALnet is one of the networks that accually has one of the lowest noise ratios around. Quakenet, the current leader in usercount, raises questions with me. Their usercount rose very fast, and I wonder about their userbase. I personally know only -one- person who uses quakenet. You mention DALnet, Undernet or EFnet and people identify much more readily. Even more people use small IRC networks with 50-500 users.
99.9% for illegal purposes - bullshit. If you go to irc only to look for warez, then I think you are in the minority. I'd put illegal purposes around 5% at best. And that means real, live people at the keyboard, looking for illegal material.
Take that a step further, at least with servers:
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1. set the console to the serial via boot flags, so the kernel will dump its boot to serial.
2. Use a BIOS that contains the ability to pipe its POST to serial. HP/Compaq servers have this ability, and im sure others do as well.
3. Cable them all to a serial console machine. Blade enclosures do this automatically, and work quite well.
Essentially, you have a serial console with equivelent ability of being in front of the machine, at least in the unix/linux server context. The only thing you cant do is install from physical media - but you can mitigate that with inventive use of pxe.
Note, this is technically illegal in the US. You're broadcasting outside the legal FCC range. Channels 12-14 are generally used for european users.
Not that this should stop you. Those handy firmwares also let you bump down (or up!) your broadcast strength. I recomend bumping it down to as low as you can while still getting the distance you require. I run my WRT54g at a comfy 12.5% of the possible output.
You're forgetting that big hunk of glacier sitting on greenland.
I used suprnova quite a bit to find links to legal material. I happen to watch a large amount of anime, the kind that is unlicensed in my area and is fan-subbed. This is -not- illegal, in my area. If there are places it is illegal, most anime houses generally have no problem with this activity.
As a result of these closures, I have lost a lagitimate method of finding legal content.
I told him I had learned about the program from a buddy in the #bulkers Internet relay chat (IRC) channel who uses the online handle Ep0ch.
I know ep0ch, that bastard is gonna get it now.
Hes looking for a DOCTOR you twit. RTFA. Hes not looking for drugs, hes looking for doctors who know how to treat his illness, according to what hes read and been told.
Hes also the sole maintainer of (i believe) the second and oldest still maintained linux distributions.
While I totally agree, and would definitely help out patrick if I could do anything to help, there are unfortunate conditions that I think apply to this. I might code a major GPL ircd, but chances are if I ever wanted this type of help, I probably wouldnt get a slashdot posting.
Its unfortunate in a lot of ways, but slashdot cant be the "help me" spot on the internet for the open-source coders out there. If i submitted something like this for myself, chances are I'd get rejected because "who the hell is epiphani and why do i care".
Insightful? Arrogant and misguided.
If you think the UN is going to provide you safety you are very close to totally wrong.
I never said the UN would provide safety. But seeing as the UN is a collection of the majority of the nations in the world, its not generally a good idea to piss them off.
The majority of the planet is weaker than the US, dependent on the US, or desperately in need of the US for protection or stability.
Canada is doing quite fine, thanks. Im sure there are quite a few nations out there that feel very much as though the US has hurt them far more than helped.
If your of the opinion that military might is what makes a country great, then perhaps you should evalute what your foreign policy has done to your image internationally. Get your head out of your ass and realize that the US is not the shining light in some world of poverty, violence and dispair.
Yeah, well, that entire religion has hated us for the better part of 150 years. And in earnet since the end of World War II.
Maybe that has to do with your foreign policy. Oh, and maybe a lot of them didnt have any problem with you until recently, when you invaded probably one of the more civilized of their nations in the middle east. You want a target for humanitarian reasons? Try Saudi Arabia. Oh right, they control a good section of your economy. Cant be pissing them off.
The US is significantly safer in many, many ways. However, it is clearly not secure.
Keep it up. Im sure your country will fall into civil war soon enough.
and look what its done to your country. Do you honestly think you're any safer, having pissed off the UN and the majority of the planet? Not to mention an entire major religion?
If someone really wants to blow up a building, they're going to blow up a building. Osama tried once, failed (1993) and didnt exactly give up. Its a completely false sense of security.
but when was there ever a missile attack on any north american target? This money seems like a complete waste, that could have been spent on a much more useful project - like, say, an asteriod defence system.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [1981]
has been around for quite a while. People just think its a lot like nudity, thats all. Try woodstock or martigra for references.
And of course, there is even a japanese company selling spray on stockings, so I wouldnt call it future technology. But I'd definitely like to see more of it.
Im not sure where I originally heard this, probably here, but the parent makes a good point. It is Gates' Law. Every 18 months, the speed of software is reduced by 50%
I personally run two 800Mhz machines. I upgraded one of them from a 250Mhz machine a few months ago for all of $200 - including an 80GB HD. The other was severance pay from my old dot.bomb.
I'm starting to consider moving to something in the multi-gigahertz range, but I'm waiting for a few things to pick up. PCI-X is a big one. I dont see the point in getting a 3.2Ghz processor with a slow-ass bus behind it. I'm also waiting for RAM speeds to catch up as well. the 400Mhz stuff floating around is pretty good, but im waiting for the 667Mhz stuff to catch on. At that point I'll feel like a 3Ghz machine will be balanced.
My problem has rarely been processor speed. Its RAM access and Bus access. Now they're catching up, and I'll wait til the price on them breaks to resonable levels. At that point I'll happily put the cheeper hardware into a machine and not feel like I'm throwing a huge processor into a machine without the ability to make use of it.
To quote one of the great canadian political satirists and ranters, Rick Mercer once said (slightly paraphrased):
"Some people say that they arent going to vote because its like trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. Now listen to me very carefully here - when it comes to running a country, it is very important to choose the lesser of two evils."
The latest proposal by the powers that be is that Firefox 1.0 be distrubuted under what they call an "end user license agreement" that disallows modification or distribution, and that restricts what you can use Firefox for--similar to the terms of Microsoft's software. If this happens, I will not be using Firefox in the future.
I personally think that the same thing that happened to XFree will probably happen to Firefox, assuming they go that route. I'm not sure if its possible, considering I havent read the licensing around the Mozilla Organization, but it wouldnt surprise me to see a fork of the last possible version the minute they adopt more restrictive licensing.
Like the website says:
As you would expect from a Virgin company, the experience will be truly unforgettable...
Also, in terms of the coolness factor, their initial ship is to be titled the "VSS Enterprise". It -almost- is starting to feel like a hoax, but if not, props to those virgin folks down under.
A little extreme on the allegories, aren't we?
Agreed. If we want to stick with the Doctor example, I would equate it more towards someone performing impressive medical research without a license. Or practicing medicine without a license.
Most of these virus writers are teenagers with no formal education and no job prospects as a result. Writing something like this proves they're not only talented, but quite bored. Give them something positive to work on, and a paycheck to boot, and im sure good results will come of it.
I think the fact that these teens exist is a result of the stupidity of the system to depend on education metrics to represent knowledge and value.
Its not a car, its an SUV. This is something that I just dont understand.
Why release a hybrid SUV? I am willing to bet that most people that would be interested in a hybrid vehicle would not want something that big. If I wanted a fuel-efficient hybrid car, I'd want something that didnt have to heave around 3000lbs of weight. It just seems like the "hybrid" and the "SUV" just cancel each other out.
Wait wait wait, it gets better:
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He shows Britney Spears saying she supports the President on Iraq. As if there weren't a host of brain-dead bimbo celebs, (Madonna, Sean Penn, Russell Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, Susan Sarandon, The Dixie Chicks, etc.), spouting off on the other side.
Huh? This is a deceit? Da hell kind of an arguement is this? He's trying WAY too hard to find things wrong with this film.
how does Japan manage to stay lightyears ahead of everyone else in wireless?
Might have something to do with the fact that they have 130 Million people in an area slightly smaller than california.
Lot less area to provide coverage for. Not to mention 26 million people in Tokyo alone, making it the highest density city on the planet.
I'll assume for the moment that you are being serious in your comments...
How does this imply microsoft control over the desktop? Its an IETF draft, publically availible. While microsoft might have incredibly "evil" buisness practices, not all of their technological developments are moot. Take DHCP for example - damn handy system, developed by microsoft.
This strikes me as one of microsofts better points.
You shouldnt have to.
DALnet hasnt allowed filesharing in any respect in over a year.