IMO google wants the dark fiber to connect their datacenter yes. that would make a hell of a lot of sense
however, all that fiber is a hell of a lot of capacity for one company. what they MIGHT do is SELL that capacity to other companies, just like an ISP. this would allow them to diversify their income source a bit and alleviate some fears that their whole business model could crash tomorrow.
the old "not putting all eggs in the same basket" deal
as far as i can tell, macos 7.5 (that's on a powerpc, a powerbook 5300) is NOT fully multi threaded. apps in the background "stop" running until they get to the foreground again
one thing those bureaucrats always overlook is the fact that rfid are rather fragile machines that can be disrupted quite easily.
sure, taking off the license off your van is illegal. but hitting the rfid chip with a large blunt object vaguely shaped like a rock... who's to say YOU purposedly did it? and as a bonus, you have no way of knowing it's disrupted, unlike losing your plate. do they really think this will stop criminals?
we have a bunch of dell rackmount servers here (poweredge 2650 and 750) and i've never had ANY problem with them. compare that to our hp server (now relegated to being a backup of a backup because of unreliability) or sun (running, can't update anything on it lest it crash) or ibm (8U, slow as a duck, but built like a tank), i'll take a dell anyday. i just wish they had a line with opterons in them
for older linux kernels, and some hardware, freebsd has better throughput (and more importantly, won't crash under high load). but it fails behind in LATENCY under lower load. it always will because of the design choice they made. easier to implement, bit more latency under low load
with recent linux kernels, NAPI (New Api, more appropriately named "Rx Polling") was introduced, and some of the drivers were converted to use that, bringing linux up to scratch FOR THAT HARDWARE. due to the above mentioned design choice, in linux each drivers must be converted individually. the upside is that they don't suffer a latency hit under low load.
unfortunately for me, the driver i need still lacks NAPI support.:(
while we're on the subject of "freebsd has better performance", that's not actually true. while doing real-world tests for a rather large website in a mixed environment (freebsd, debian, redhat) i found that the reason freebsd SEEMED to perform better is that it was more aggresive in killing processes when it is under memory pressure, relieving stress on the swap area and as such, freeing up the cpu from doing the swapping work (that was before 2.6, which has some tuneables to help now)
i actually looked at powerdns before settling on djbdns. i even had a working setup
the problem is that there is no easy way to manage the data. there's no good frontends already available for it. whereas with tinydns you don't need one.
the problem here is exactly that, there is no such thing as a "software engineer".
any asshat can call himself a programmer, and many do. even if they're complete utter crap. unlike the "engineer" title, the "programmer" one isn't regulated
iirc, intel's drm is based on a supopsedly "hacker proof" chip that has an rsa keypair in it.
everyone know how those uncrackable chips fared... well every time they tried to do something like this. it failed miserably.
i know what you'll say. "microsoft managed it with the xbox". which is bogus, microsoft's problem is the complete opposite as this one. microsoft is trying to prevent unsigned code from running on "their" hardware.
apple is trying to prevent their code from running on "unsigned" hardware. that implies the private key is in the paladium chip so it can "sign" a token sent by the OS. that's the worst case senario, and it will just take a few months to reverse engineer and distribute apple's private key along with pearpc (yes, you can read the key from that suposedly secure chip).
another possible implementation is that the chip just sends an "apple" id. maybe s string of text or something like that. that's even easier to circumvent.
don't be fooled by their marketing, pearpc will work just fine, albeit maybe illegally in the US (and canada soon). thanks to the DMCA
i wasn't really clear in my last post. what i really meant is, where most US issues affect canada too, the eff really has no official presence in canada. or none that i could find. as far as i can determine they are not even registered as a non profit. which doesn't really mean much, but it would help give them credibility. the eff's site doesn't say anything about canada, eff.ca belongs to some european import company, and even google doesn't turn up anything
as for the EFC, are you sure they are still around? the last post on their website is dated march 2004. considering minister Frula's plan to introduce a DMCA-like law these days, it's rather odd it doesn't even get a mention there. that lead me to think it's defunct. and yeah. again, not a registered non-profit.
you're right of course, i didn't mean to imply one caterpillar randomly decided it was a good idea to have wings. but it's simpler to explain it this way
i can see one very strong reason why a caterpillar would want to be a butterfly: need
say for exemple, at some point in time, the habitat changed, food was no longer abundant or was highly contested. a caterpillar would "evolve" into something else in order to eat. that would have started slowly, maybe small ugly fonctionnal wings. then later evolve as something better looking as a way to woo better mates
also, there was a story in here a few years ago (or less) about russians having a really large collection of phages, and the researchers being surprised to find none in america (i mean in labs and hospitals, not that there wasn't any in the environment:)
not to say that some sources are not contaminated with whatever, but that's not the reason most of the time.
that advice is usually given to all foreigners going anywhere but the most developped countries. the fact is, the water is not cleaned (if it is) the same way as what your system is used to.
locals can drink and abuse it without getting sick because they're used to it. your system, weakened by years of overtreated water, simply can't cope with it.
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they got that, it's called a TASER. and 10Kv is a bit on the low side. try 50kV
the taser also has the upside of being useable in many situations other than morons who point at the screen
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IMO google wants the dark fiber to connect their datacenter yes. that would make a hell of a lot of sense
however, all that fiber is a hell of a lot of capacity for one company. what they MIGHT do is SELL that capacity to other companies, just like an ISP. this would allow them to diversify their income source a bit and alleviate some fears that their whole business model could crash tomorrow.
the old "not putting all eggs in the same basket" deal
or like me, it'll reinforce the "it's too expensive, fuck it" idea.
better stick with web radios
i wouldn't want to work for a company that uses sperm as a security check... that means no chicks in the office!
as far as i can tell, macos 7.5 (that's on a powerpc, a powerbook 5300) is NOT fully multi threaded. apps in the background "stop" running until they get to the foreground again
one thing those bureaucrats always overlook is the fact that rfid are rather fragile machines that can be disrupted quite easily.
sure, taking off the license off your van is illegal. but hitting the rfid chip with a large blunt object vaguely shaped like a rock... who's to say YOU purposedly did it? and as a bonus, you have no way of knowing it's disrupted, unlike losing your plate. do they really think this will stop criminals?
don't knock em till you try em.
we have a bunch of dell rackmount servers here (poweredge 2650 and 750) and i've never had ANY problem with them. compare that to our hp server (now relegated to being a backup of a backup because of unreliability) or sun (running, can't update anything on it lest it crash) or ibm (8U, slow as a duck, but built like a tank), i'll take a dell anyday. i just wish they had a line with opterons in them
take note, i haven not read the benchmark.
:(
for older linux kernels, and some hardware, freebsd has better throughput (and more importantly, won't crash under high load). but it fails behind in LATENCY under lower load. it always will because of the design choice they made. easier to implement, bit more latency under low load
with recent linux kernels, NAPI (New Api, more appropriately named "Rx Polling") was introduced, and some of the drivers were converted to use that, bringing linux up to scratch FOR THAT HARDWARE. due to the above mentioned design choice, in linux each drivers must be converted individually. the upside is that they don't suffer a latency hit under low load.
unfortunately for me, the driver i need still lacks NAPI support.
while we're on the subject of "freebsd has better performance", that's not actually true. while doing real-world tests for a rather large website in a mixed environment (freebsd, debian, redhat) i found that the reason freebsd SEEMED to perform better is that it was more aggresive in killing processes when it is under memory pressure, relieving stress on the swap area and as such, freeing up the cpu from doing the swapping work (that was before 2.6, which has some tuneables to help now)
there's nothing wrong with that default page. i even sometimes leave it there after the server is up for lack of something better to replace it with.
:)
sometimes there are just no "publicly" accessible data to publish
i actually looked at powerdns before settling on djbdns. i even had a working setup
the problem is that there is no easy way to manage the data. there's no good frontends already available for it. whereas with tinydns you don't need one.
as i said many times when i installed djbdns a few months ago. djbdns is crap, but it's the best crap available
as for being more secure... it doesn't have nearly the same complexity and features as say, bind.
the problem here is exactly that, there is no such thing as a "software engineer".
any asshat can call himself a programmer, and many do. even if they're complete utter crap. unlike the "engineer" title, the "programmer" one isn't regulated
iirc, intel's drm is based on a supopsedly "hacker proof" chip that has an rsa keypair in it.
everyone know how those uncrackable chips fared... well every time they tried to do something like this. it failed miserably.
i know what you'll say. "microsoft managed it with the xbox". which is bogus, microsoft's problem is the complete opposite as this one. microsoft is trying to prevent unsigned code from running on "their" hardware.
apple is trying to prevent their code from running on "unsigned" hardware. that implies the private key is in the paladium chip so it can "sign" a token sent by the OS. that's the worst case senario, and it will just take a few months to reverse engineer and distribute apple's private key along with pearpc (yes, you can read the key from that suposedly secure chip).
another possible implementation is that the chip just sends an "apple" id. maybe s string of text or something like that. that's even easier to circumvent.
don't be fooled by their marketing, pearpc will work just fine, albeit maybe illegally in the US (and canada soon). thanks to the DMCA
i wasn't really clear in my last post. what i really meant is, where most US issues affect canada too, the eff really has no official presence in canada. or none that i could find. as far as i can determine they are not even registered as a non profit. which doesn't really mean much, but it would help give them credibility. the eff's site doesn't say anything about canada, eff.ca belongs to some european import company, and even google doesn't turn up anything
as for the EFC, are you sure they are still around? the last post on their website is dated march 2004. considering minister Frula's plan to introduce a DMCA-like law these days, it's rather odd it doesn't even get a mention there. that lead me to think it's defunct.
and yeah. again, not a registered non-profit.
the EFF is one of the few org i'd really consider donating to. unfortunately they only care about the US.
does anyone know of a canadian equivalent ? beside the similar sounding, but defunct looking, Electronic Frontier Canada?
make that rackS mods, and you'be closer
you're right of course, i didn't mean to imply one caterpillar randomly decided it was a good idea to have wings. but it's simpler to explain it this way
http://www.pvponline.com/archive/2005/pvp20050628. gif
i can see one very strong reason why a caterpillar would want to be a butterfly: need
say for exemple, at some point in time, the habitat changed, food was no longer abundant or was highly contested.
a caterpillar would "evolve" into something else in order to eat. that would have started slowly, maybe small ugly fonctionnal wings. then later evolve as something better looking as a way to woo better mates
do you have a script that does this? that's basicly what im looking to implement, but i don't fancy coding it :P
you might be right, i have not had a need to check for switches with more ports than 24. mines were for a wireless network dispersed over a large area
iirc, it's 15.8watts per port, that's plenty of power for a lot of apps. maybe even for a low power pc with a small LCD screen.
makes sense when you think about it.
:)
also, there was a story in here a few years ago (or less) about russians having a really large collection of phages, and the researchers being surprised to find none in america (i mean in labs and hospitals, not that there wasn't any in the environment
really interesting stuff
not to say that some sources are not contaminated with whatever, but that's not the reason most of the time.
that advice is usually given to all foreigners going anywhere but the most developped countries. the fact is, the water is not cleaned (if it is) the same way as what your system is used to.
locals can drink and abuse it without getting sick because they're used to it. your system, weakened by years of overtreated water, simply can't cope with it.