All due to a router config bug introduced by Microsoft.. So it was really Microsoft DoSing themselves via Akamai.
And it would be unfair to blame the router config for more than a few hours of outage. The big problem was the complete and utter paralysis of management on the conference calls.
I don't think the details of that outage have been leaked much. It was quite a hoot talking to those involved during the outage. And it wasn't hard, given the duration.
It is my recollection that the problem related to Microsoft's filtering DNS requests from Akamai.
I pay about $6.50/lbs for Organic Fair Trade Certified beans at my local Co-Op, Trader Joes, etc. It is very good, organic, helps poor famers and it is cheap.
Starbucks sells Fair Trade Certified coffee but they generally do not sell it in brewed form. Probably pricey too.
Blurb: Coffee is the second largest US import after oil, and the US consumes one-fifth of all the world's coffee, making it the largest consumer in the world. But few Americans realize that agriculture workers in the coffee industry often toil in what can be described as "sweatshops in the fields." Many small coffee farmers receive prices for their coffee that are less than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty and debt.
Fair Trade is a viable solution to this crisis, assuring consumers that the coffee we drink was purchased under fair conditions. To become Fair Trade certified, an importer must meet stringent international criteria; paying a minimum price per pound of $1.26, providing much needed credit to farmers, and providing technical assistance such as help transitioning to organic farming. Fair Trade for coffee farmers means community development, health, education, and environmental stewardship.
In my case the tip-off was slow throughput when copying the files. cat'ing them to/dev/null results in only a 6-7 MB/sec read rate.
A couple of simultaneous downloads would also complicate things (combined with other desktop activity). I doubt it would be much of a problem on an otherwise quiescent system.
I Never really had a problem under Linux until I started using P2P..
I know that Reiser does extremely well with space management on small files (CDDB database is a great example). Do any of the other Linux FSs do better than EXT2 with frag?
He plans to begin design work on a prototype in the next several weeks.
Great. I hope he lets us know when he has a design for a prototype.. And then maybe when there is actually a prototype vs. a vague bong inspired idea..
At this rate it seems that it would be easy for someone to get a jump on any opportunity and beat him to the market and patent.
Google averages 2415 searches / second
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200 million searches a day, eh? Being a performance geek, I am driven to estimate the implications of that load.. Please feel free to augment and correct..
200M searches/day = 8.33M/hour = 138888/min =
*** Google averages 2415 searches / second ***
Average page size = 5,563 bytes (a search for "apple", hey I RTFA) Assume outbound bandwidth requirement of 6000 bytes/search with some overhead. 2415/sec * 6000 bytes/search =
CPU.. 2415 searches/second.. Determine required aggregate CPU capacity using various assumed values for 'CPU per search':
0.25 CPU sec/search = 603 CPU seconds required for each wall second 0.5 CPU sec/search = 1207 1.0 CPU sec/search = 2415 2.0 CPU sec/search = 4830 4.0 CPU sec/search = 9660 8.0 CPU sec/search = 19320
Assume they only run the search boxes at 50-80% util and tweak estimates accordingly. Also, the burstiness inherent in the internet will greatly impact these requirements (assume at least +30% for the second to second variations as well as the hourly variations).
I have no doubt that cell phones are used for tracking. Why bother with GPS on the vehicle.
How widespread is the ability to turn on the cellphone mics and monitor conversations (you know, like the Mercedes incident), even when the phone is not being used? How about when the phone appears to be turned off?
I do not know if those capabilities exist, but I would certainly be trying to obtain them if I were in charge of developing intercept/tracking tech.
In case it has been 10 or more years since you last looked, many engines are now completely obscured by plastic covers.
These covers hide the ugly bits and also help improve underhood airflow and thermodynamics. The auto companies extensively simulate underhood airflows.
The concept of a fully removable front section is a good one for ease of service (once you get it off). But not necessarily for collision repair costs.
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It took Microsoft down for DAYS.
All due to a router config bug introduced by Microsoft.. So it was really Microsoft DoSing themselves via Akamai.
And it would be unfair to blame the router config for more than a few hours of outage. The big problem was the complete and utter paralysis of management on the conference calls.
I don't think the details of that outage have been leaked much. It was quite a hoot talking to those involved during the outage. And it wasn't hard, given the duration.
It is my recollection that the problem related to Microsoft's filtering DNS requests from Akamai.
Yeah.. offtopic: A post about coffee in a coffee thread.
I pay about $6.50/lbs for Organic Fair Trade Certified beans at my local Co-Op, Trader Joes, etc. It is very good, organic, helps poor famers and it is cheap.
Starbucks sells Fair Trade Certified coffee but they generally do not sell it in brewed form. Probably pricey too.
Blurb:
Coffee is the second largest US import after oil, and the US consumes one-fifth of all the world's coffee, making it the largest consumer in the world. But few Americans realize that agriculture workers in the coffee industry often toil in what can be described as "sweatshops in the fields." Many small coffee farmers receive prices for their coffee that are less than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty and debt.
Fair Trade is a viable solution to this crisis, assuring consumers that the coffee we drink was purchased under fair conditions. To become Fair Trade certified, an importer must meet stringent international criteria; paying a minimum price per pound of $1.26, providing much needed credit to farmers, and providing technical assistance such as help transitioning to organic farming. Fair Trade for coffee farmers means community development, health, education, and environmental stewardship.
You can read more about Fair Trade coffee here.
Err... How do you tell?
/dev/null results in only a 6-7 MB/sec read rate.
In my case the tip-off was slow throughput when copying the files. cat'ing them to
A couple of simultaneous downloads would also complicate things (combined with other desktop activity). I doubt it would be much of a problem on an otherwise quiescent system.
I Never really had a problem under Linux until I started using P2P..
I know that Reiser does extremely well with space management on small files (CDDB database is a great example). Do any of the other Linux FSs do better than EXT2 with frag?
Nice article, but we need more Linux-centric bench and test sites.
He plans to begin design work on a prototype in the next several weeks.
Great. I hope he lets us know when he has a design for a prototype.. And then maybe when there is actually a prototype vs. a vague bong inspired idea..
At this rate it seems that it would be easy for someone to get a jump on any opportunity and beat him to the market and patent.
SGI's IRIX.
That detail is kept under pretty tight wraps by Cray. It is licensed from SGI and is discolosed as a business risk in their regulatory filings.
IRIX has always been my favorite UNIX.
They were listed as part of the solution.
Oak Ridge has done extensive evaluations of recent IBM, SGI and Cray technology. Though I am still looking forward to data on IBM's Power5.
Cray X1 Eval
SGI Altix Eval
A friend and I came up with a similar idea, only we wanted to do it in, er, trailer parks.
Who would have guessed our idea could be extended across Europe.
Anyone know a good IP lawyer?
I would like to know more about the brain mechanism that causes Taco to post so many dupes.
Any chance a slashdot reader can arrange a Taco brain scan right as he is posting a dupe?
That is where I do my crosswords.
In fact, I am thinking of moving my office.
That was a great uproar and a good package. Dan Farmer sure took some flak for that one. He lost a good security gig with SGI as I recall.
But one of the coolest parts of the kit was the postscript file that featured an Intel-like logo that read "Satan Inside".
I had great fun printing those on self-adhesive transparency material and widely distributing..
A quick search turned up one of many sources for the postscript:
Satan Inside
200 million searches a day, eh? Being a performance geek, I am driven to estimate the implications of that load.. Please feel free to augment and correct..
200M searches/day = 8.33M/hour = 138888/min =
*** Google averages 2415 searches / second ***
Average page size = 5,563 bytes (a search for "apple", hey I RTFA)
Assume outbound bandwidth requirement of 6000 bytes/search with some overhead.
2415/sec * 6000 bytes/search =
*** 13.88 MB/sec avg or 1200 GB/day bandwidth requirement (OUTBOUND ONLY) ***
CPU.. 2415 searches/second.. Determine required aggregate CPU capacity using various assumed values for 'CPU per search':
0.25 CPU sec/search = 603 CPU seconds required for each wall second
0.5 CPU sec/search = 1207
1.0 CPU sec/search = 2415
2.0 CPU sec/search = 4830
4.0 CPU sec/search = 9660
8.0 CPU sec/search = 19320
Assume they only run the search boxes at 50-80% util and tweak estimates accordingly. Also, the burstiness inherent in the internet will greatly impact these requirements (assume at least +30% for the second to second variations as well as the hourly variations).
MYSQL just received $19.5 million in venture capital funding.
While this could and should be great, it remains to be seen what impact the influx will have.
Years ago, a friend and I thought of using lasers to paint logos on the moon.
Of course, at the time, we were both working at Amazon and worried that they would try to steal and patent our idea. So we didn't do it.
On the subject of 'cool shell scripts', converting your awk to C and compiling it is pretty damn cool.
The performance improvement was about 6-7X on my project.
awka does that.
On my project it took less time to convert the awk to C, gcc the C and run the binary than it did to run the perl version.
This is not a perl flame. I am old. I use awk.
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In the future, the Motion Picture Association of America will control your television set
Let's see 'em control the TV when I put a couple slugs from the 12 gauge into it.
I have no doubt that cell phones are used for tracking. Why bother with GPS on the vehicle.
How widespread is the ability to turn on the cellphone mics and monitor conversations (you know, like the Mercedes incident), even when the phone is not being used? How about when the phone appears to be turned off?
I do not know if those capabilities exist, but I would certainly be trying to obtain them if I were in charge of developing intercept/tracking tech.
In case it has been 10 or more years since you last looked, many engines are now completely obscured by plastic covers.
These covers hide the ugly bits and also help improve underhood airflow and thermodynamics. The auto companies extensively simulate underhood airflows.
The concept of a fully removable front section is a good one for ease of service (once you get it off). But not necessarily for collision repair costs.