nice going. im an ex-CTO now because the company i worked for just wouldnt listen. and i quit over it rather than have my name associated with a small company who routinely spammed people. best decision i ever made. getting a job is pretty easy for me....i dont know about other people but it usually takes me 4-6 weeks to get a new job at an equal or higher salary...maybe SOS here should just quit.
MENSA is actually suprisingly easy to get into. take the test - you *will* pass. of course i got bored of it after the first yr..and didnt want to pay 44 odd bucks for a quaterly magazine - but its a good social club...especially for geeks.
the us is a big country. maine is a backwater..maybe you should try living in a real city instead ? texans for example are quite different from people living in boston or new york...
its true that most american cities are becoming pretty much like one another but american "culture" still varies from state to state.
cybersphere still running eh ? i remember exploiting bugs, causing mayhem and generally being a pain in the arse in CS around 5 years ago. got toaded 5 times too. always managed to spoof my ip and login tho. real fun at times. is the bug where you get attacked by a enforcer bot and try to flee and end up getting killed but yet stay alive with negative health and become invincible still around ?? i exploited that for a heck of a long time...managed to piss off quite a few people with that one. are you guys going to allow chars to code too ? that was one of the annoying things about CS...chars couldnt code their own weapons and whatnot.
true but gigassembler kicked celeras arse back into the middle ages...which is DAMN IMPRESSIVE for a underfunded public project fighting against a huge commercial behemoth with loads of money and a massive alpha supercomputer cluster. and dont forget that gigassembler ran on 100 piiis they bought off the shelf.
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oh puh-lease. of course it costs money to build hardware. it costs ford more than that to build a car. does the average person expect ford to weld the car hood shut ? no ? why not ? cos its ridiculous. and as for obfuscating the API -- its an INTERFACE to the hardware. intellectual property doesnt come into it. you can reverse engineer NVIDIAs card with a electron microscope more easily than reading the API to it. they could release a non OpenGL certified open source driver AND a binary driver which is openGL ceritifed. NVIDIA may be a hardware company but the software sells the hardware not the other way around. all anyone needs from NVIDIA is the SPECS not the stupid chip mask.
X11 is not bloated. it just provides a LOT of low level interfaces which can be a *fucking* pain to deal with. Consider the following example : im using XImages and reading writing from them. my proggie crashes in most linux systems but works with SGIs perfectly. why ? cos the color visual defaulted to in linux doesnt allow overlay modes for most cards (this is xf86 4.x) and default is truecolor which is readonly. i mean..WTF ? why doesnt the godamn X server have an autovisual selection capability ? cos X11 is too low level to deal with it. now take the GTK which allows you much less control but defaults to an intelligent visual overlay. that hides the inherent painfulness of X but causes other problems. ever notice netscape segfaults or gnome inverted if you switch to directcolor 24 bit instead of truecolor ? try it and learn. bottom line is that its not X11's fault..just that the protocol is not at a high enough level to deal with the regular real life weirdness in different systems.
i was using SPSS (i think) to do this sort of thing. its really fast once you get used to it and easy to simulate with drag and drop components. i was using it on AIX...dont know if a linux version is available. its highly specialised but will do what you need fairly easily.
Actually i do know and work with a CIO. and i can definitely say this : power is NOT an issue with servers. HEAT is definitely an issue. if transmeta can deliver low power chips which run COLD, theyre going to fill the server room. why ? cause not all server rooms have 2 tons or more of airconditioning for a few square feet. those that dont are currently lying vacant or being sold at rock bottom prices. get me a datacenter that doesnt have much cooling or 200A power drops that i can buy cheap (1-2 mil instead of the current 5-10mil) AND fill it with high capacity servers that suck very little power and require no cooling and i'll jump on it. as will most other colos. heat is a really big issue. as is amps per rack.
yup. and condor can also be attached with gnu queue which also does via distributed job processing via shell scripts for finer grained control of which servers process which jobs.
RAID 5 the freaking disk space with RAID 5 hardware (icp-vortex has good controllers) and then RAID-1 mirror the RAID-5 array (you need two) over ethernet. not exactly easy to set up but doable. BTW, if not going for linux only solutions, sun does exactly this with some of the SAN solutions available for solaris/sparcs specially on their E4500 line over fcal. i recommend sun if you can afford it (anything less that $1-2 mil budget dont even bother - you need netra, veritas, coupla e4500s, fiber switches, redundant locations etc). BTW, morgan stanley just finished doing this (i dont work for em i saw it done tho) in NY..they have two mirrored locations via fiber using E4500s (10cpu/20gig ram, fcal and netra boxen).
a year ago i applied and got a job at a small company building a web based system. they had spent 4 years building it with 4 different teams (average teams lasted 6 months to 1.5 yrs) with programmers from MIT, consultant groups, in house programmers etc. result ? 4 years and 2 million dollars and i ended up throwing the whole mess out and started from scratch by firing the 15 people working in house and firing the consultants. one year later the system now works and im out looking for a job since selling the stuff is really not what im here for. anyway, my point is consultants can burn you hard. so can ASPs. in house programming is best IF THE PEOPLE ARE COMPETENT. so - GET COMPETENT PEOPLE and MAKE SURE THEY DELIVER. get realistic schedules and get a good team with clear guidelines. open source programmers who have worked on 5-6 projects are best. they usually wont let you down. BTW, im no longer in the US so you cant hire me.:)
i bought a coupla dozen epsons for the company i work for. damn good resolution (upto 1600 x 1200) and they took video, SVGA, XVGA and i could hook em up to my SGI Octanes and Origin machines at 1600x1200x32bpp without any problems. typically budget $5K for the projector and $5-10K per year for bulbs.
unfortunately copy protection schemes have gotten smarter. you can now buy ASICs with hardware protection and encrypted digital links. you can also get tamper proof devices all the way from antenna to decoder to screen...the only way to beat it would be a camcorder or equivalent but that degrades the signal too much. although none of these have gotten anywhere in the real world, they ARE being implemented slowly even if everyone fights them every step of the way. for example, the FPGAs/ASICs with tamper proof hardware resistant to electron microscopes and logic analysers are being introduced gradually in several products especially on the high end. The trickle down effect almost guarantees the low end will experience it. just like software copy protection schemes with FlexLM licensing servers (instead of stupid "unhackable" copy protection requiring physical media such as cds which doesnt work) as on the SGI machines is gradually trickling down along with ASPs which store and control data remotely.
have you looked at the price of alphas lately ? a decent 4 CPU compaq alpha is about all you can buy for $200K with RAID. 8 or 16 CPU alphas go for well over 700K$'s.
"in each case the teenager telnetted to the server and obtained root access". what the FUCK ? he obtained ROOT access to the ISPs servers and they couldnt stop him ? people - this is fighting the wrong battle. any joe random cracker should NOT be able to obtain ROOT access to ANY server at ANY ISP. period. if those servers had been locked down tight and the sys admins at the ISPs werent so freaking incompetent this would never happen.
go alphas. go with debian. the alphas dont have 2 gig file limitations that 32 bit systems have and dont require nasty hacks to get files above 4 gigs working. i recommend atipa or microway and use debian or redhat 6.2 not 7. autoupgrade will save your ass a few times..i know debians apt-get dist update && apt-get upgrade and redhats up2date -b in the cron have saved my bacon lots of times. alphas..especially the new 21264As with the cs20 1u form factor or 4u up2000+ mobo powered 833Mhz duals kick intel butt all over the place. i run a few alphas and am planning getting loads more.
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nice going. im an ex-CTO now because the company i worked for just wouldnt listen. and i quit over it rather than have my name associated with a small company who routinely spammed people. best decision i ever made. getting a job is pretty easy for me....i dont know about other people but it usually takes me 4-6 weeks to get a new job at an equal or higher salary...maybe SOS here should just quit.
and remember -- when in doubt use synchronised atomic spinlocks. specially with that kind of aggressive threading.
which has known threading issues. switch to blackdown..ive been using it for 450 threads sustained with no problems. use the FCS JDK 1.2.2 or 1.3
MENSA is actually suprisingly easy to get into. take the test - you *will* pass. of course i got bored of it after the first yr..and didnt want to pay 44 odd bucks for a quaterly magazine - but its a good social club...especially for geeks.
the us is a big country. maine is a backwater..maybe you should try living in a real city instead ? texans for example are quite different from people living in boston or new york... its true that most american cities are becoming pretty much like one another but american "culture" still varies from state to state.
cybersphere still running eh ? i remember exploiting bugs, causing mayhem and generally being a pain in the arse in CS around 5 years ago. got toaded 5 times too. always managed to spoof my ip and login tho. real fun at times. is the bug where you get attacked by a enforcer bot and try to flee and end up getting killed but yet stay alive with negative health and become invincible still around ?? i exploited that for a heck of a long time...managed to piss off quite a few people with that one. are you guys going to allow chars to code too ? that was one of the annoying things about CS ...chars couldnt code their own weapons and whatnot.
true but gigassembler kicked celeras arse back into the middle ages...which is DAMN IMPRESSIVE for a underfunded public project fighting against a huge commercial behemoth with loads of money and a massive alpha supercomputer cluster. and dont forget that gigassembler ran on 100 piiis they bought off the shelf.
oh puh-lease. of course it costs money to build hardware. it costs ford more than that to build a car. does the average person expect ford to weld the car hood shut ? no ? why not ? cos its ridiculous. and as for obfuscating the API -- its an INTERFACE to the hardware. intellectual property doesnt come into it. you can reverse engineer NVIDIAs card with a electron microscope more easily than reading the API to it. they could release a non OpenGL certified open source driver AND a binary driver which is openGL ceritifed. NVIDIA may be a hardware company but the software sells the hardware not the other way around. all anyone needs from NVIDIA is the SPECS not the stupid chip mask.
what does VA Linux do ? and how did they build up ? then copy what they did and youre there.
X11 is not bloated. it just provides a LOT of low level interfaces which can be a *fucking* pain to deal with. Consider the following example : im using XImages and reading writing from them. my proggie crashes in most linux systems but works with SGIs perfectly. why ? cos the color visual defaulted to in linux doesnt allow overlay modes for most cards (this is xf86 4.x) and default is truecolor which is readonly. i mean..WTF ? why doesnt the godamn X server have an autovisual selection capability ? cos X11 is too low level to deal with it. now take the GTK which allows you much less control but defaults to an intelligent visual overlay. that hides the inherent painfulness of X but causes other problems. ever notice netscape segfaults or gnome inverted if you switch to directcolor 24 bit instead of truecolor ? try it and learn. bottom line is that its not X11's fault..just that the protocol is not at a high enough level to deal with the regular real life weirdness in different systems.
just use this one instead. besides the fact its better than intels, a linux driver is also available.
i was using SPSS (i think) to do this sort of thing. its really fast once you get used to it and easy to simulate with drag and drop components. i was using it on AIX...dont know if a linux version is available. its highly specialised but will do what you need fairly easily.
we have had 512MB AND secure storage for a long time.
Actually i do know and work with a CIO. and i can definitely say this : power is NOT an issue with servers. HEAT is definitely an issue. if transmeta can deliver low power chips which run COLD, theyre going to fill the server room. why ? cause not all server rooms have 2 tons or more of airconditioning for a few square feet. those that dont are currently lying vacant or being sold at rock bottom prices. get me a datacenter that doesnt have much cooling or 200A power drops that i can buy cheap (1-2 mil instead of the current 5-10mil) AND fill it with high capacity servers that suck very little power and require no cooling and i'll jump on it. as will most other colos. heat is a really big issue. as is amps per rack.
yup. and condor can also be attached with gnu queue which also does via distributed job processing via shell scripts for finer grained control of which servers process which jobs.
eCos is hard real time and open source. check redhat.com
221 B baker street is the sherelock holmes museum. pretty small and expensive (7 bucks for a look see) but nicely preserved.
RAID 5 the freaking disk space with RAID 5 hardware (icp-vortex has good controllers) and then RAID-1 mirror the RAID-5 array (you need two) over ethernet. not exactly easy to set up but doable. BTW, if not going for linux only solutions, sun does exactly this with some of the SAN solutions available for solaris/sparcs specially on their E4500 line over fcal. i recommend sun if you can afford it (anything less that $1-2 mil budget dont even bother - you need netra, veritas, coupla e4500s, fiber switches, redundant locations etc). BTW, morgan stanley just finished doing this (i dont work for em i saw it done tho) in NY..they have two mirrored locations via fiber using E4500s (10cpu/20gig ram, fcal and netra boxen).
a year ago i applied and got a job at a small company building a web based system. they had spent 4 years building it with 4 different teams (average teams lasted 6 months to 1.5 yrs) with programmers from MIT, consultant groups, in house programmers etc. result ? 4 years and 2 million dollars and i ended up throwing the whole mess out and started from scratch by firing the 15 people working in house and firing the consultants. one year later the system now works and im out looking for a job since selling the stuff is really not what im here for. anyway, my point is consultants can burn you hard. so can ASPs. in house programming is best IF THE PEOPLE ARE COMPETENT. so - GET COMPETENT PEOPLE and MAKE SURE THEY DELIVER. get realistic schedules and get a good team with clear guidelines. open source programmers who have worked on 5-6 projects are best. they usually wont let you down. BTW, im no longer in the US so you cant hire me. :)
hushmail.com SSL, secure, fully encrypted.
i bought a coupla dozen epsons for the company i work for. damn good resolution (upto 1600 x 1200) and they took video, SVGA, XVGA and i could hook em up to my SGI Octanes and Origin machines at 1600x1200x32bpp without any problems. typically budget $5K for the projector and $5-10K per year for bulbs.
unfortunately copy protection schemes have gotten smarter. you can now buy ASICs with hardware protection and encrypted digital links. you can also get tamper proof devices all the way from antenna to decoder to screen...the only way to beat it would be a camcorder or equivalent but that degrades the signal too much. although none of these have gotten anywhere in the real world, they ARE being implemented slowly even if everyone fights them every step of the way. for example, the FPGAs/ASICs with tamper proof hardware resistant to electron microscopes and logic analysers are being introduced gradually in several products especially on the high end. The trickle down effect almost guarantees the low end will experience it. just like software copy protection schemes with FlexLM licensing servers (instead of stupid "unhackable" copy protection requiring physical media such as cds which doesnt work) as on the SGI machines is gradually trickling down along with ASPs which store and control data remotely.
have you looked at the price of alphas lately ? a decent 4 CPU compaq alpha is about all you can buy for $200K with RAID. 8 or 16 CPU alphas go for well over 700K$'s.
"in each case the teenager telnetted to the server and obtained root access". what the FUCK ? he obtained ROOT access to the ISPs servers and they couldnt stop him ? people - this is fighting the wrong battle. any joe random cracker should NOT be able to obtain ROOT access to ANY server at ANY ISP. period. if those servers had been locked down tight and the sys admins at the ISPs werent so freaking incompetent this would never happen.
go alphas. go with debian. the alphas dont have 2 gig file limitations that 32 bit systems have and dont require nasty hacks to get files above 4 gigs working. i recommend atipa or microway and use debian or redhat 6.2 not 7. autoupgrade will save your ass a few times..i know debians apt-get dist update && apt-get upgrade and redhats up2date -b in the cron have saved my bacon lots of times. alphas ..especially the new 21264As with the cs20 1u form factor or 4u up2000+ mobo powered 833Mhz duals kick intel butt all over the place. i run a few alphas and am planning getting loads more.