September that never ended
All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September.
This scenario happened to me last weekend, where I was highest bidder on a weber barbeque and increased my "maximum" bid in the last few minutes as there were two bidders. My "high" bid was NOT increased. The bidding looked like
User ID: Bid Amount Date of bid
gtoomey ( 11) AU $41.20 20-Feb-05 18:11:19 AEDST
XXXXXXXX ( 1 ) AU $40.20 20-Feb-05 18:10:45 AEDST
gtoomey ( 11) AU $35.00 20-Feb-05 18:07:29 AEDST
gtoomey ( 11) AU $30.00 20-Feb-05 17:58:52 AEDST
YYYYYYY ( 21) AU $26.20 14-Feb-05 23:05:20 AEDST
ZZZZZZZ ( 588) AU $21.70 20-Feb-05 14:09:55 AEDST
etc
The $30-35 jump was when I was outbid. This was with ebay.com.au
With $20 billion in the bank and $1 billion a year in interest income, Microsoft could employ 15,000-20,000 people forever even if they never made another cent.
The reason is that most ISP data centres run servers (lots of outbound, little inbound) and retail customers (lots of inbound, little outbound). This "evens out" bandwidth usage.
I'm using linode.com for the same thing. Solaris zones look to be better implemented than virtuozzo.
If Sun can provide a full-featured OS, the slickness of SUSE (easy package management/admin gui), good range of drivers (including nvidia/nforce) then ISPs may well run Solaris.
Working out whats network traffic is valid becomes the issue.
eg you cant easily differentiate between a valid http request and one from a zombie. If you thousands of requests/second then the site may be effectively unreachable.
The cheapest solution is probably
this card that integrates with supermicro motherboards.
Remote admin is something you need to consider BEFORE you buy your hardware.
An ideal solution would be able to
- work when the machine has hung (usually means a separate IP for admin, thru a single ethernet port)
- access/change bios
- access to temperatures/fan speeds while OS is running
- mount CDs for reinstalling an OS, even remotely
IBM, Sun & Dell have rather expensive solutions in their servers. Admin is via a remote serial console.
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Unless they have lots of supercomputer time, seeding the occasional p2p file with bad data will be very expensive.
Since ioband.org is returning 500s, have a look at my notes on reducing bandwidth and getting sites to load fast
Rsync usually reports a 1000 fold speedup over a dumb copy.
Unichrome is mainly for motherboards with embedded graphics eg ABIT VA-20
I dont even know if there are stand alone unichrome graphics cards.
September that never ended
All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September.
Its been available and free for years. Its Red Hat Enterprise Linux minus the Red Hat name released under thet GPL. This is a new release.
This may be a bit offtopic, but the Noble One sauterne on the De Bortoli home page is the best dessert wine Australia produces"
Mark the parent as moronic, not interesting. Knoppix.net is one of the links in the story.
for the attack
User ID: Bid Amount Date of bid
gtoomey ( 11) AU $41.20 20-Feb-05 18:11:19 AEDST
XXXXXXXX ( 1 ) AU $40.20 20-Feb-05 18:10:45 AEDST
gtoomey ( 11) AU $35.00 20-Feb-05 18:07:29 AEDST
gtoomey ( 11) AU $30.00 20-Feb-05 17:58:52 AEDST
YYYYYYY ( 21) AU $26.20 14-Feb-05 23:05:20 AEDST
ZZZZZZZ ( 588) AU $21.70 20-Feb-05 14:09:55 AEDST
etc
The $30-35 jump was when I was outbid. This was with ebay.com.au
As an added feature, it delivers 500 volts to the approprive area when watching "Paris Hilton Live!"
The "shyness about making eye contact" is a symptom of austim and is used as a dianostic criterion.
with a remote cat protocol
With $20 billion in the bank and $1 billion a year in interest income, Microsoft could employ 15,000-20,000 people forever even if they never made another cent.
When I see X, KDE, & Postgres ported to Hurd then I'll believe it.
The reason is that most ISP data centres run servers (lots of outbound, little inbound) and retail customers (lots of inbound, little outbound). This "evens out" bandwidth usage.
You need nforce drivers to get the ethernet working for nforce motherboards. But I was thinking of the home market too with 3d graphics & sound.
If Sun can provide a full-featured OS, the slickness of SUSE (easy package management/admin gui), good range of drivers (including nvidia/nforce) then ISPs may well run Solaris.
Theres an email link on the home page & I'm going to email them & ask if its true.
The price is outrageous.
He passed the rights to Melbourne IT, again for free, knowing they were worth a fortune. Melbourne IT went to be become a $100 million company.
The aircraft is set to have "relaxation space, bars, duty free shops". We shall see.
Working out whats network traffic is valid becomes the issue. eg you cant easily differentiate between a valid http request and one from a zombie. If you thousands of requests/second then the site may be effectively unreachable.
Remote admin is something you need to consider BEFORE you buy your hardware.
An ideal solution would be able to
- work when the machine has hung (usually means a separate IP for admin, thru a single ethernet port)
- access/change bios
- access to temperatures/fan speeds while OS is running
- mount CDs for reinstalling an OS, even remotely
IBM, Sun & Dell have rather expensive solutions in their servers. Admin is via a remote serial console.