The comments say he uses subversion now
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Home Directory In CVS
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· Score: 5, Informative
Did you see his followup reply at the bottom??
Re: CVS homedir (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 11, 2003
I suppose I should mention that these days I keep most of my home directory in subversion. I have not gotten around to writing a successor to this article yet, but it works even better than cvs, and that's probably the most common question people ask me about this article these days.
I don't think they used RAID. Drives aren't as reliable as they've been spec'd out to be.
I guess if they have everything important backed up on DVD and/or their data wasn't worth much, it'd just be a hassle... But when the system fails you end up with a big panic: running out to buy a new drive, then trying to get everything back up and running again.
I've built similar configurations and lost a drive (twice now!) and it's a big mess. At least with a separate system drive they eliminated one problem... if they lose the main drive they can reinstall and if they lose a data drive, they can at least reboot.
I would recommend raid -- at least raid 5 which would give them 3/4 terabyte and less headaches.
Why don't we let him commercialize our highway system as well??
I can just see it now...
People who took a wrong turn or merely wandered from their lane would be diverted into an information kiosk where helpful personnel would tell them of many more favorable destinations than the one they were driving towards.
Every so often, all drivers would be stopped to read a billboard before continuing on their trip. People with crappy cars would have to periodically clean ads off their windshield with their windshield wipers. The trunk would be full of cookies.
Of course there could be some good points: the speed limit would be 150.4 mph to get to your house!!!
Unfortunately, you could only drive 12.8 mph when leaving it. Cable modem users would share their highway with every teenager in the neighborhood. Rich folks would have private highways and would travel 150.4 mph all the time.
So as an experiment I added a thrid MX, the first two are of priority 0 and 10. The third I made 100 (not that it really matters). On this third server I set up even stricter anti-spam rules. The amount of spam fell of very quickly after that.
Sounds like that could be the answer. Just make a local 3rd mail exchanger with spam controls and maybe the traffic will be diverted off the second one.
I wonder if the solution to this problem will be crippled software like other consumer goods.
I mean "solutions" like having to step on parking brake before you can put your car in gear or having to press a button on your automotive GPS before you can navigate with it.
Or possibly huge warning labels like you find on ladders or on your car visors.
Who's to say the unintended consequence for this kind of lawsuit could be to have very large popup menus before internet access is enabled each time you use your system or mail is read?
Maybe the outcome will be having Trusted Computing forced upon us?
Actually, squid already has peer-to-peer functionality built-in now. Squid proxies can already work in a distributed fashion to form a larger meta-cache.
A squid proxy is more permanent than a client (can keep the cached copy available for some amount of time); it already has peer-to-peer code built in over udp, tcp and even multicast; and the firewall issues are usually already worked out;
I still think that you should move bittorrent functionality into squid.
Then the caching would be on the gateway machine letting all the machines behind the proxy enjoy the benefits without all the usability/firewall problems you run into setting up bittorrent.
Not a huge deal, since the official URL is windowsupdate.microsoft.com . The start menu, Tools in IE, and Windows Help all have that address. The worm author was kinda stupid, he should have pointed it to microsoft.com or windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
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I don't think they used RAID. Drives aren't as reliable as they've been spec'd out to be.
I guess if they have everything important backed up on DVD and/or their data wasn't worth much, it'd just be a hassle... But when the system fails you end up with a big panic: running out to buy a new drive, then trying to get everything back up and running again.
I've built similar configurations and lost a drive (twice now!) and it's a big mess. At least with a separate system drive they eliminated one problem... if they lose the main drive they can reinstall and if they lose a data drive, they can at least reboot.
I would recommend raid -- at least raid 5 which would give them 3/4 terabyte and less headaches.
I wonder if this will stimulate Digital TV sales.
If people realize that the flag will go in in 2005, will people rush out to buy devices now that ignore it?
funny thing about that - the manual says that the speaker has a fairly large magnet and to observe caution near your credit cards/etc.
I've been thinking for a while that the iPod *is* the entry-level mac.
Why don't we let him commercialize our highway system as well??
I can just see it now...
People who took a wrong turn or merely wandered from their lane would be diverted into an information kiosk where helpful personnel would tell them of many more favorable destinations than the one they were driving towards.
Every so often, all drivers would be stopped to read a billboard before continuing on their trip. People with crappy cars would have to periodically clean ads off their windshield with their windshield wipers. The trunk would be full of cookies.
Of course there could be some good points: the speed limit would be 150.4 mph to get to your house!!!
Unfortunately, you could only drive 12.8 mph when leaving it. Cable modem users would share their highway with every teenager in the neighborhood. Rich folks would have private highways and would travel 150.4 mph all the time.
because Bluetooth
cars would be a killer app
Actually, scp will work fine, just use 'none' as the cipher.
You can even automate things using public key authentication so there aren't passwords.
a simplified recipe for setting up public key authentication is:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
it will ask for a file name, and then generate two files: file and file.pub
copy file.pub to user@remote in $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
(If the file already exists, append the contents of the file to the end)
copy file to your local machine's $HOME/.ssh/identity
If everything is set up ok, you should be able to do:
ssh user@remote
and you should be logged in without a password.
Then try:
scp -c none localfile user@machine:remotefile
no passwords, secure login, fast transfers.
Just get an MSI mega pc.
You can turn on and off the computer and still use the home theater section independently.
When I first saw this, I started to do the "who needs a USB LED light?" kind of groan until the idea started to grow on me.
Kensington wifi finder
It's a small dedicated wifi finder/key fob.
So as an experiment I added a thrid MX, the first two are of priority 0 and 10. The third I made 100 (not that it really matters). On this third server I set up even stricter anti-spam rules. The amount of spam fell of very quickly after that.
Sounds like that could be the answer. Just make a local 3rd mail exchanger with spam controls and maybe the traffic will be diverted off the second one.
sounds like you're looking for a scape-g0t..
so candle truck gives 1 result.
;)
strangely, searching for:
candle truck wtf
gives 1-100 of 712
(my preferences are set to 100 results)
I wonder if the solution to this problem will be crippled software like other consumer goods.
I mean "solutions" like having to step on parking brake before you can put your car in gear or having to press a button on your automotive GPS before you can navigate with it.
Or possibly huge warning labels like you find on ladders or on your car visors.
Who's to say the unintended consequence for this kind of lawsuit could be to have very large popup menus before internet access is enabled each time you use your system or mail is read?
Maybe the outcome will be having Trusted Computing forced upon us?
This is great for kids. Give them the cd, they put it in the computer and play lots of games. And they never screw up the computer.
Alternatively...
They could just play the GLA in Command and Conquer Generals instead.
(I wonder if it would be harder to get reimbursed for a $40 game from petty cash than to get a multi-million-dollar simulation written...)
I believe they show up as 6 individual drives.
I mean, if you make $10k/year, the decimal notation cheats you out of $240. $100k/year and you are making $2400 less.
Actually, squid already has peer-to-peer functionality built-in now. Squid proxies can already work in a distributed fashion to form a larger meta-cache.
A squid proxy is more permanent than a client (can keep the cached copy available for some amount of time); it already has peer-to-peer code built in over udp, tcp and even multicast; and the firewall issues are usually already worked out;
I still think that you should move bittorrent functionality into squid.
Then the caching would be on the gateway machine letting all the machines behind the proxy enjoy the benefits without all the usability/firewall problems you run into setting up bittorrent.
Funny suggestion. That's exactly what solaris does. It writes its kernel core dumps to the swap partition.
I thought he was dead. ;)
Looks like Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf has won again!
I just export it to my web server, wait a couple of weeks for google to index it, and then google it.
Not a huge deal, since the official URL is windowsupdate.microsoft.com . The start menu, Tools in IE, and Windows Help all have that address. The worm author was kinda stupid, he should have pointed it to microsoft.com or windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
darn...
cvs co msworm.asm
click. tap. clack. click.
cvs commit -m 'fix url'
make;make install
ok, done. Thanks!