IIRC, in a cluster when you send a query to a cluster the query gets delagated to ONE machine. One advantage to having a cluster is being able to answer N queries at once (with N machines).
Another advantage to this is Fail-over: when you lose a machine in a cluster, the average load on the remaining machines goes up (they take over the load of the failed machine). Therefore frome a zero-downtime point of view a cluster of 8 quad-proc boxes will probably give you better performance (and better reliablity) than a 32-proc machine.
Of course this all relies on the DBMS used, OS, configuration, etc. (above knowlege comes from a weak Oracle background, sorry if I am way off base)
I went last year, and when I got back my boss asked if I had fun "playing" in Vegas... I told him that I was at DefCon7, he asked if I learned anything, and of course I did. He said "bring in your airline, hotel, and conference receipts, give them to Accounting, and tell them that you were at a 'Computer Security' conference, we'll reimburse you..." Hell, I did not even ask for it... I guess I just have a cool boss...
Come within two digits of cracking an 87-digit Russian security code that would have sent deadly missiles hurtling toward five of America's major cities.
Sure glad they stopped and did not check those last 100 codes! -laff-
I think this is a really cool idea, don't get me wrong, but:
These things don't work in mail-slot style ROM readers and they are precarious at best in caddy-readers... that is the only probelm I see.
I have a couple of old Plextor and NEC ROM drives that use caddys that live in my Linux box, and a spankin new mail-slot DVD drive in my new computer, so I would not be able to use these. Maybe I should have thought of that!:)
And of course the same goes for a a ton of Japanese market j-pop CD-singles that come on heart, star, and other shape (but balanced) CDs...
Here are lots of things that show up... my buddies and I once posted one of our girlfrineds as "One Captive Girl"... things like that don't get pulled until they are pointed out, ours was "offensive" (our sale)
The default settings for the Cisco675 is a CLEAR passoword for both modes, telnet enabled.
What does this mean?
USWest coustomers (that are forced to use PPP): Get your router IP, pick a random IP on the same subnet, telnet to that router. No password. Type "en" to go into "superuser" mode (again, no password). Type "show running". About half way through this report it shows CLEARTEXT username and PASSWORD for their USWest.net account. Use this to read that person's e-mail. Oh, did I mention that THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!!! --sigh--
USWest customers: change your passwords on your routers. I have e-mailed this "issue" to many people and the only response I have seen has been "Thanks, we posted that on the newsgroup a month ago". FYI - I have never read the USWest info newsgroups, who actually has?
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PS - Quick fix: set both Cisco675 passwords (not both to the same thing) and set the telnet port to something other then 23.
The kids at SubPort have already hacked out the interface for a 101-keyboard to the GameBoy GameLink port, and gods-know that they know how to write software for them. And HEY, that is just for the GB and GBC... give them a couple of months of reverse-engineering and they will have "the OS of choice" running on this mini-box.
The wording was kind of confusing on that page, but I thought that the GPS rollover (the modulo 1024 week field) was in the specs for the GPS system, and that if the receiver designers "cut the corners" and ignored this issue, it was their fault/problem.
I also read a while back that the biggest problem with this rollover would maybe cause problems in international banking due to the fact that some international banks use the GPS timestamp to coordinate electronic transfers. Sorry I don't have the references to these...
I can see the debate now, it has been on/. many times:
24/30fps for Movie/TV takes into account a 24/30'th of a second of "motion", on games it is a crisp static image... the more frames you can show, the more it "blurs" like reality.
My first box was an Apple ][c... and come to think of it, since it was at "the top of the line" of the time (128k memory... stand back!), it was my parents fault for starting this damn habbit I have of buying the expensive "better" stuff...::stroking my beloved PPro200::
I loved the "Portability" aspect of the the Apple ][c... It had that cute little green-screen monitor, and that speedy 1200 baud modem (which could fill an entire 760k disk with pr0n in just over night ).
I kick myself evey time I think of the fact that we sold that comp when we upgraded to the 386... I would love to spend a few hours optimising the Distributed.net client in BASIC:
10 Print "Moo" 20 goto 10
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Note to Dickie Sharp: Don't dis Consumers!
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Let's put all of the privacy/phone line/coaster issues asside for a second:
In 1997 when DVD was first coming out in the marketplace and DIVX was just a glimmer in Richard Sharp's (CEO: CC, DVE) eye, Dick made some comments that really started the "angst ball" rolling in the Home Theater market: He basically said "early adopters" of the DVD format were *stupid* for jumping on such a fetal format that had no solid chance of making it in the marketplace. This was just the first of many attemps my Circut City/Digital Video Express to keep the general public from buying *either* format until DIVX had a clear share of the market.
Dick Sharp's clear "hate" for the "Home Theater Elite" (l33t?) is what forced the battle lines to be drawn: 99% of those lines were on the Internet (Long live the information age!).
I guess the only way that I can conclude is to say that "We Won!"
Make sure you drop a 10kohm resistor in there, or you will reduce the life of the power supply... We ran into this same issue with some boxes that we wanted to boot right up when power was applied, soldering gun and a handfull of Radio Shack Resistors later we were golden...
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It's like Lasing a stick of dynamite!
Surely you can't be serious.
yeah, posted before it was completely downloaded.
:S
Now I have to go track down somewhere to watch this...
yay. It's MOV too. Shit.
Direct download for PC
Some of us don't/won't use Quicktime
IIRC, in a cluster when you send a query to a cluster the query gets delagated to ONE machine. One advantage to having a cluster is being able to answer N queries at once (with N machines).
Another advantage to this is Fail-over: when you lose a machine in a cluster, the average load on the remaining machines goes up (they take over the load of the failed machine). Therefore frome a zero-downtime point of view a cluster of 8 quad-proc boxes will probably give you better performance (and better reliablity) than a 32-proc machine.
Of course this all relies on the DBMS used, OS, configuration, etc. (above knowlege comes from a weak Oracle background, sorry if I am way off base)
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I went last year, and when I got back my boss asked if I had fun "playing" in Vegas... I told him that I was at DefCon7, he asked if I learned anything, and of course I did. He said "bring in your airline, hotel, and conference receipts, give them to Accounting, and tell them that you were at a 'Computer Security' conference, we'll reimburse you..." Hell, I did not even ask for it... I guess I just have a cool boss...
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Come within two digits of cracking an 87-digit Russian security code that would have sent deadly missiles hurtling toward five of America's major cities.
Sure glad they stopped and did not check those last 100 codes! -laff-
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I think this is a really cool idea, don't get me wrong, but:
:)
These things don't work in mail-slot style ROM readers and they are precarious at best in caddy-readers... that is the only probelm I see.
I have a couple of old Plextor and NEC ROM drives that use caddys that live in my Linux box, and a spankin new mail-slot DVD drive in my new computer, so I would not be able to use these. Maybe I should have thought of that!
And of course the same goes for a a ton of Japanese market j-pop CD-singles that come on heart, star, and other shape (but balanced) CDs...
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What The Heck!?!
Here are lots of things that show up... my buddies and I once posted one of our girlfrineds as "One Captive Girl"... things like that don't get pulled until they are pointed out, ours was "offensive" (our sale)
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The default settings for the Cisco675 is a CLEAR passoword for both modes, telnet enabled.
What does this mean?
USWest coustomers (that are forced to use PPP): Get your router IP, pick a random IP on the same subnet, telnet to that router. No password. Type "en" to go into "superuser" mode (again, no password). Type "show running". About half way through this report it shows CLEARTEXT username and PASSWORD for their USWest.net account. Use this to read that person's e-mail. Oh, did I mention that THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!!! --sigh--
USWest customers: change your passwords on your routers. I have e-mailed this "issue" to many people and the only response I have seen has been "Thanks, we posted that on the newsgroup a month ago". FYI - I have never read the USWest info newsgroups, who actually has?
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PS - Quick fix: set both Cisco675 passwords (not both to the same thing) and set the telnet port to something other then 23.
What is stupid is that Turing was driven to suicide by actual *charges* against his homosexuality.
Why were we fighting the germans again?
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The kids at SubPort have already hacked out the interface for a 101-keyboard to the GameBoy GameLink port, and gods-know that they know how to write software for them. And HEY, that is just for the GB and GBC... give them a couple of months of reverse-engineering and they will have "the OS of choice" running on this mini-box.
A
The wording was kind of confusing on that page, but I thought that the GPS rollover (the modulo 1024 week field) was in the specs for the GPS system, and that if the receiver designers "cut the corners" and ignored this issue, it was their fault/problem.
I also read a while back that the biggest problem with this rollover would maybe cause problems in international banking due to the fact that some international banks use the GPS timestamp to coordinate electronic transfers. Sorry I don't have the references to these...
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No, this is basically what I got too... I am depressed now... I am going to close myself off in my cube for a while...
We could have *both* failed... would not be the first time for me... sigh..
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Just tried the eEye iishax0r attack, tried to send BO2k over... no fun, didn't work...
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I can see the debate now, it has been on /. many times:
24/30fps for Movie/TV takes into account a 24/30'th of a second of "motion", on games it is a crisp static image... the more frames you can show, the more it "blurs" like reality.
It really does make a difference.
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This thread is making me weepy!
::stroking my beloved PPro200::
My first box was an Apple ][c... and come to think of it, since it was at "the top of the line" of the time (128k memory... stand back!), it was my parents fault for starting this damn habbit I have of buying the expensive "better" stuff...
I loved the "Portability" aspect of the the Apple ][c... It had that cute little green-screen monitor, and that speedy 1200 baud modem (which could fill an entire 760k disk with pr0n in just over night ).
I kick myself evey time I think of the fact that we sold that comp when we upgraded to the 386... I would love to spend a few hours optimising the Distributed.net client in BASIC:
10 Print "Moo"
20 goto 10
A
Let's put all of the privacy/phone line/coaster issues asside for a second:
In 1997 when DVD was first coming out in the marketplace and DIVX was just a glimmer in Richard Sharp's (CEO: CC, DVE) eye, Dick made some comments that really started the "angst ball" rolling in the Home Theater market: He basically said "early adopters" of the DVD format were *stupid* for jumping on such a fetal format that had no solid chance of making it in the marketplace. This was just the first of many attemps my Circut City/Digital Video Express to keep the general public from buying *either* format until DIVX had a clear share of the market.
Dick Sharp's clear "hate" for the "Home Theater Elite" (l33t?) is what forced the battle lines to be drawn: 99% of those lines were on the Internet (Long live the information age!).
I guess the only way that I can conclude is to say that "We Won!"
A
Make sure you drop a 10kohm resistor in there, or you will reduce the life of the power supply...
We ran into this same issue with some boxes that we wanted to boot right up when power was applied, soldering gun and a handfull of Radio Shack Resistors later we were golden...
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