Here's teh lowdown. Oakenfold is fucking glowstick waving stadium trance. Micro cancelled a gig in Tulsa last week because "there weren't enough people there." Terry Mullan has a 40 percent cancel rate.
The presence of MDMA and K at massives attract stupid frat boys and sorority girls who get mashed up and raise their hands to people who shouldn't be making 300 bucks a night, let alone 15,000 like Oaky.
Here are a few links for background information on drum and bass, arguably a deeper, more exciting genre than Eurotrance, and definitely the most diverse genre out there.
It sounds as though you're trying to build a server cluster or farm of some sort. Why do you need tiny machines?
24/7, high duty cycle machines need good cooling and power supplies. Better supplies and cooling than your average Shuttle SV24 or fresh-off-the-boat flexATX case is going to give you. Rackmount stuff is used for a reason. It's uniform, easily swapped, ruggedly built and easy to maintain.
Do you really want to run around, swapping out SIMMS (or DIMMS, as I suspect you meant to type) and maintaining OS's on thousands of machines?
I have a hard time thinking that a company that has a budget for computers of at least 1 million dollars (bare minimum 1k per machine x 1000) would hire a person that would need to post an Ask Slashdot to get recommendations for the systems.
Methinks this is another "I'm bored. I like beowulf clusters. Let's see if i can start a geeky conversation about what a good theoretical tiny case would be for the dream cluster that i always think about in Chemistry" Ask Slashdot, not a legitimate request for consulting. If it is, I work for the low fee of $300 per hour, two hour minimum.
Absence of data does not mean absence of information. For example, call a friend. If they don't answer, have your received any information? Yes. You now know that they are not home or do not wish to speak to you.
No news is good news, i always say.
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Here's the rub. They have no right to prosecute people for uncapping cable modems.
What they're looking for is illegal software, and where's there's smoke, there's fire.
I mean, think about it. Somebody's downloading 80gb a day straight, what the fuck do you think they're getting? The latest Mandrake ISO's? I think not.
It's the same reason they do inquiries when suspicious patterns of credit card activity pop up.
They know (and yes, the FBI isn't stupid) that when somebody's downloading that much, it's pretty much guaranteed (99 percent of the time) that they've got something illegal on their computer. Give the warrant-issuing judge a few reams showing the direct correlation between bandwidth over-usage and piracy probability, and that thing's signed faster than Robert Downey Jr.'s traveler's cheques in a Tijuana crackhouse.
This was just a weak excuse to bust a piracy ring. Or something. Who the fuck knows what goes on in the FBI's collective head?
I do think that some low-level filtering software a la csound would do wonders; however, linux is sorely lacking in audio tools. Wintel and MacOS are where it's at, and I wouldn't even think about Macs for this kind of situation.
I highly doubt that he has any DVD-ROM games. If he does, he probably doesn't mind doing it for that.
I'm sure that he does mind having to find and swap out one of 30 CD's each time he wants to switch games, wait for the system to start responding thirty seconds after he puts the CD in, closing the autorun popup 'install' screen, starting the game, waiting for it to spin up the 52x so that it can read three sectors off of it, and praying that some hairline scratch on the surface doesn't cover one of those three sectors.
If you're a short-attention-span gamer like me, it's a lot more convenient to pick up a commodity 60gb drive, run cd-image-spoofing software or no-cd cracks than it is to set up a pile of CDROM drives so you can play your games at a whim.
Oh, yeah, RIGHT. Like IM is going to get anything done.
Chat log for room InterfaceProgramming4053
GeorgeCEO: don't fuck with me man GeorgeCEO: i'll kill you fucker LunixGuru: I WILL HACK YUOR AIM! SusieSecretary: a/s/l? LunixGuru: FUCK YUO BIATCH JimJanitor: HOT GIRLS PRESS 123 NOW SusieSecretary: 123123123123 GeorgeCEO: slut LunixGuru: I need a faster computar LunixGuru: My Windows XP 2000 NT machine is slow GeorgeCEO: work harder you dumb shit GeorgeCEO: i'll kill yuo and your mothar SusieSecretary: Anybody want hot chat?
Is it obsolete, though? Has it lost any functionality for YOU?
Stay on the bleeding edge, pay for the privilege. Go with what you know and like, save some bucks, and deal with not having the shiniest and most glittery toy in the office.
Go on and be proud of your Vx, sir. I'll continue to flip open my 3xe and jot down appointments (and calculate subnets, and read Slashdot Light Mode, and browse my mailing lists, and play Soko-ban, and on and on and on...) with the best of them.:)
Creating something new that extends the functionality of something can be rightly considered inventing, though.
The Linux system extended the functionality of the x86/PC platform from a spreadsheet cruncher to a multitasking system capable of doing full TCP/IP routing/manipulation functions. Sure as shit sounds like he extended the functionality of that to me.
More like it shouldn't matter if you're watching TV on a 5" black and white portable or a 4000 dollar Sony Wega - you shouldn't have to pay to avoid being attacked by shit like this.
And yes, it is an attack. I got hit with one of these at work, and it completely fucked every browser setting on my machine, for EVERY USER ACCOUNT. Bad NT architecture notwithstanding, it cost us lost time on the clock to go fix everything, not to mention time to check for possible installation of tracking spyware, which could release business-related information (we use a Perl/Oracle frontend, with calls through CGI scripts with some submitted data as parameters on the HTTP request line). That's a possible intrusion attempt, and malicious use of our company resources.
The government doesn't care about speeding. They don't care about drunk driving. Nor about marijuana usage or possession.
What they do care about is money. The majority of funding for most small to medium-size law enforcemnt departments comes from three sources: DUI fines, speeding tickets and fines for pot-related 'crimes'.
I totally agree on this point. However, I want as close to perfect recording as possible for my dollar.
What happens when they say, "OK, they ate up 192 kbit mp3's. Let's cut down our bandwidth 30 percent and cut it down to 128." Then we're getting some garbage. And then, "Well, 96 kbit is 90 percent as good as 128, and they can still hear the lyrics, so let's do that." Eventually we're paying $1 per song for a 200 kilobyte 32kbit/sec mp3.
I'm just concerned that there's no black-and-white line drawn between acceptable and unacceptable.
Yes, but do they buy that same postcard and hang it on the wall and tell their friends, "Oh, look. It's a Picasso"?
No, they don't. And I'll agree that CD's are multiple generations removed from the original. But, with the exception of the distribution-generation copy, each one is either a necessity for recording the entire song (multitracking/bouncing/overdubbing) or is part of the production process (mastering, editing).
If I want fuzz in my pop music, i'll record it off the local Clear Channel force-feeder, and for free, to boot.
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Here's teh lowdown. Oakenfold is fucking glowstick waving stadium trance. Micro cancelled a gig in Tulsa last week because "there weren't enough people there." Terry Mullan has a 40 percent cancel rate.
The presence of MDMA and K at massives attract stupid frat boys and sorority girls who get mashed up and raise their hands to people who shouldn't be making 300 bucks a night, let alone 15,000 like Oaky.
Here are a few links for background information on drum and bass, arguably a deeper, more exciting genre than Eurotrance, and definitely the most diverse genre out there.
Ishkur
Dogs On Acid
Drum and Bass Arena
And here's a pretty good atmospheric drum and bass mix by yours truly.
So? That's your fault for contracting from shit builders.
;)
I agree, those are egregious errors, but if you had a clue you'd have seen what they do beforehand or built the systems yourself.
Don't slag the chinese geeks.
Of course this can be done.
.25 dot pitch GUI screens?
The Atrai used a TV for its monitor.
Do you understand the difference between 40x25 16-color text and 1280x1024
You don't sound very educated on this issue.
It sounds as though you're trying to build a server cluster or farm of some sort. Why do you need tiny machines?
24/7, high duty cycle machines need good cooling and power supplies. Better supplies and cooling than your average Shuttle SV24 or fresh-off-the-boat flexATX case is going to give you. Rackmount stuff is used for a reason. It's uniform, easily swapped, ruggedly built and easy to maintain.
Do you really want to run around, swapping out SIMMS (or DIMMS, as I suspect you meant to type) and maintaining OS's on thousands of machines?
I have a hard time thinking that a company that has a budget for computers of at least 1 million dollars (bare minimum 1k per machine x 1000) would hire a person that would need to post an Ask Slashdot to get recommendations for the systems.
Methinks this is another "I'm bored. I like beowulf clusters. Let's see if i can start a geeky conversation about what a good theoretical tiny case would be for the dream cluster that i always think about in Chemistry" Ask Slashdot, not a legitimate request for consulting. If it is, I work for the low fee of $300 per hour, two hour minimum.
Absence of data does not mean absence of information. For example, call a friend. If they don't answer, have your received any information? Yes. You now know that they are not home or do not wish to speak to you.
No news is good news, i always say.
Fnord?
Certainly won't be called on in class much.
Here's the rub. They have no right to prosecute people for uncapping cable modems.
What they're looking for is illegal software, and where's there's smoke, there's fire.
I mean, think about it. Somebody's downloading 80gb a day straight, what the fuck do you think they're getting? The latest Mandrake ISO's? I think not.
It's the same reason they do inquiries when suspicious patterns of credit card activity pop up.
They know (and yes, the FBI isn't stupid) that when somebody's downloading that much, it's pretty much guaranteed (99 percent of the time) that they've got something illegal on their computer. Give the warrant-issuing judge a few reams showing the direct correlation between bandwidth over-usage and piracy probability, and that thing's signed faster than Robert Downey Jr.'s traveler's cheques in a Tijuana crackhouse.
This was just a weak excuse to bust a piracy ring. Or something. Who the fuck knows what goes on in the FBI's collective head?
If you've got the right hookups, there's really not that much of a difference. ;)
No! Not a Beowulf Cluster!
Raid Array! Raid Array!
"Why yes, i've got a two-way striped black hole Raid Array. Never fills up. Of course, it's write only, and I can't see it...."
No, you didn't say that.
And I quote:
That's why they only care about scandals in Republican administrations
There is no "almost" in there, no "far more" in there, no "barely" in there. You spoke in absolutes. Sucks that you can't edit posts, huh?
I do think that some low-level filtering software a la csound would do wonders; however, linux is sorely lacking in audio tools. Wintel and MacOS are where it's at, and I wouldn't even think about Macs for this kind of situation.
I highly doubt that he has any DVD-ROM games. If he does, he probably doesn't mind doing it for that.
I'm sure that he does mind having to find and swap out one of 30 CD's each time he wants to switch games, wait for the system to start responding thirty seconds after he puts the CD in, closing the autorun popup 'install' screen, starting the game, waiting for it to spin up the 52x so that it can read three sectors off of it, and praying that some hairline scratch on the surface doesn't cover one of those three sectors.
If you're a short-attention-span gamer like me, it's a lot more convenient to pick up a commodity 60gb drive, run cd-image-spoofing software or no-cd cracks than it is to set up a pile of CDROM drives so you can play your games at a whim.
Check it out, FUDder.
So, rather than get ISDN at $100 per month, you spent TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for a phone loop?
You do realize that the same 10 grand you spent would have paid for your ISDN for EIGHT YEARS, right?
Show me a fucking 10k by 10k pixel 32 bit banner ad. A simple link will be sufficient.
Watch out for AMD. :)
Is it obsolete, though? Has it lost any functionality for YOU?
:)
Stay on the bleeding edge, pay for the privilege. Go with what you know and like, save some bucks, and deal with not having the shiniest and most glittery toy in the office.
Go on and be proud of your Vx, sir. I'll continue to flip open my 3xe and jot down appointments (and calculate subnets, and read Slashdot Light Mode, and browse my mailing lists, and play Soko-ban, and on and on and on...) with the best of them.
Creating something new that extends the functionality of something can be rightly considered inventing, though.
The Linux system extended the functionality of the x86/PC platform from a spreadsheet cruncher to a multitasking system capable of doing full TCP/IP routing/manipulation functions. Sure as shit sounds like he extended the functionality of that to me.
Lame for not having consistently 100 percent perfect typing? I misspelled a URL, that was all.
May 2015: "I've finally cracked these emails. What do they contain?"
More like it shouldn't matter if you're watching TV on a 5" black and white portable or a 4000 dollar Sony Wega - you shouldn't have to pay to avoid being attacked by shit like this.
And yes, it is an attack. I got hit with one of these at work, and it completely fucked every browser setting on my machine, for EVERY USER ACCOUNT. Bad NT architecture notwithstanding, it cost us lost time on the clock to go fix everything, not to mention time to check for possible installation of tracking spyware, which could release business-related information (we use a Perl/Oracle frontend, with calls through CGI scripts with some submitted data as parameters on the HTTP request line). That's a possible intrusion attempt, and malicious use of our company resources.
The government doesn't care about speeding. They don't care about drunk driving. Nor about marijuana usage or possession.
What they do care about is money. The majority of funding for most small to medium-size law enforcemnt departments comes from three sources: DUI fines, speeding tickets and fines for pot-related 'crimes'.
I totally agree on this point. However, I want as close to perfect recording as possible for my dollar.
What happens when they say, "OK, they ate up 192 kbit mp3's. Let's cut down our bandwidth 30 percent and cut it down to 128." Then we're getting some garbage. And then, "Well, 96 kbit is 90 percent as good as 128, and they can still hear the lyrics, so let's do that." Eventually we're paying $1 per song for a 200 kilobyte 32kbit/sec mp3.
I'm just concerned that there's no black-and-white line drawn between acceptable and unacceptable.
Yes, but do they buy that same postcard and hang it on the wall and tell their friends, "Oh, look. It's a Picasso"?
No, they don't. And I'll agree that CD's are multiple generations removed from the original. But, with the exception of the distribution-generation copy, each one is either a necessity for recording the entire song (multitracking/bouncing/overdubbing) or is part of the production process (mastering, editing).
If I want fuzz in my pop music, i'll record it off the local Clear Channel force-feeder, and for free, to boot.