Why are all the replies to this comment seeming to take it seriously?:-|
Because some of us have had to clean up the mess left by people like him. The world is full of people who do really stupid things whilst thinking they are doing a good job.
For the record, obviously I was testing the kernel in a virtual machine on my laptop, using the same version of the distribution we use (in-house, built by me, but originally based on a now ancient version of Red hat).
That's sick, ugly, and wrong. What's worse is you actually think you are doing the right thing.
Stop messing about and replace all the custom stuff with standard stuff before you drag your company to its knees or drive it into the arms of Microsoft.
Yeah... that's not going to happen. Not only am I good at what I do (seriously, how many system administrators even take their time to compile custom kernels nowadays for maximum performance?), but a very close relative is also the CEO. I bet people here even use us for their hosting:)
There is a massive amount of difference between being able to compile a custom kernel and being in the kind of situation where it's the right thing to do. 'Good at what you do' doesn't mean technically brilliant, it means doing the right thing at the right time.
Keeping your job because you are related to the CEO is the kind of nepotism that kills otherwise good companies.
You don't put bleeding edge or custom kernels on production servers without seriously heavy testing. You would not run production stuff on a windows beta release would you? It's the same thing.
Stick to proper releases of good distributions and customize as little as possible. You will get a system many times more stable than anything MS has ever come up with.
Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance
KVM is fantastic virtualization technology, yet Xen gets all the hype these days. Why? Paravirtualization is pretty cool stuff, but seriously, what CPU's are made without some type of hardware-assisted virtualization support?
Xen doesn't get all the hype. From what I've seen everyone is ditching xen and redhat is leading the way. Not that I mean to imply that xen deserves to get ditched, it's great too.
Hey, for once I agree with St. Obama. I realize that geeks are never going to admit it, but there is a price for our geekery. How many of us are distracted, and have short attention spans. Let's take a moment to think about...
Hey look... an ipad....
W
That might have been modded funny but you are DEAD RIGHT. It's not just geeks that buy flashy phones and laptops though.
What are those personality traits? What should I be trying to do in order to make a good impression on the people at my work?
Don't attempt to game the system with false personality traits. You will be seen though very quickly. The working world has seen quite enough people who misrepresent themselves, don't do it.
Do everything people ask of you to a high standard and try to learn interesting new things both at work and in your own time.
I don't understand the need for wide-area highly accurate (less than 1ms accurate) timing. Once you get beyond a reasonable distance, the speed of light starts playing into the equation.
Like most smart people you are forgetting how dumb most people are.
Wall street traders don't understand much about time. They only understand how to obfuscate financial transactions like a high speed shell game. To them more speed means more chances to skim off a percentage and the laws of physics don't even get considered.
Hint: When the Great Depression hit, the money lost by the traders on Wall Street did not suddenly spew forth into the hands of "us".
Because the money you mention never really existed.
If I had a thousand dollars in paper money under my bed before the great depression it would have had a certain buying power. In the middle of the great depression it would have had a much greater buying power. The value lost on Wall Street spewed forth into paper money and real physical assets.
let's do away with the arbitrage, gambling, and bullshit from wall street. make them own a stock for ONE WHOLE DAY. No more of this low-latency trading bullshit. They're just skimming money off the top of the financial markets--away from the regular folks. EVERY PENNY THESE GUYS MAKE COMES OUT OF OUR POCKET.
You are absolutely, painfully right and it pains me deeply that I don't have any mod points.
These jokers want time more accurate than NTP can provide but I'll bet most of them still believe time is a universal invariant. They don't need time more accurate than NTP can provide, they need to be hit in the head with a hammer until they stop moving.
in the middle of a critical action during a life threatening operation. I'd also be worried about lag as one would assume that some surgical procedures require timely precision.
Surely they would require a private virtual circuit for this. Doing this over the internet is asking for trouble.
Just because I use DNSBL's doesn't mean I don't use greylisting as well.
I've been doing greylisting for years and greet pause checks years before that. I don't much like abusing SMTP in such a fashion but as you point out it does work well.
It's not that the king spammers are in the US, it's that the US has the most machines permanently connected to the internet and infected by spambots. The whole statistics is a bit skewed because spam is one of those crimes where the one executing it is not necessarily also the one wanting to do it.
You are quite right. I get loads of SMTP connections from the US but xen.spamhaus filters out almost all of it. The spam that gets though tends to come from servers in south america, the middle east, and sometimes china. I'm wondering if the only reason for that is because spamhaus is better at mapping home IP ranges for the western world.
It's really sad that I have to drop mail connections from non-business IP space. Windows on broadband is a curse.
The real question is "up to what point do we really have a choice" ? There is a breaking point.
E.g. WWII was considered by the united states sufficient reason to suspend civil liberties, and treat the Japanese on American soil as enemies. I doubt anyone seriously disagreed with that tactic back then.
Maybe some Japanese descended Americans would have disagreed.
There is a simple resolution to this new weapon: countries known to be in the market for it will have their civilian merchant fleet classified as legitimate military targets.
I really hope Bing succeeds. I haven't used it much so far, mostly out of Inertia. But I don't like the idea of placing all my bets with Google. It's very important that an alternate good quality search engine is available. MS is best placed to achieve that for they have the man-power & the money. I hope they succeed.
Indexing the entire internet isn't a matter of money, it's a matter of skill. MS don't have that skill and they can't buy it. If MS absorb Yahoo they will do no more than wreck the only real competition Google have.
If Yahoo stay independent, and spend all their resources improving search they might catch up, but it's not likely. Yahoo+MS will never catch up.
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Why are all the replies to this comment seeming to take it seriously? :-|
Because some of us have had to clean up the mess left by people like him. The world is full of people who do really stupid things whilst thinking they are doing a good job.
For the record, obviously I was testing the kernel in a virtual machine on my laptop, using the same version of the distribution we use (in-house, built by me, but originally based on a now ancient version of Red hat).
That's sick, ugly, and wrong. What's worse is you actually think you are doing the right thing.
Stop messing about and replace all the custom stuff with standard stuff before you drag your company to its knees or drive it into the arms of Microsoft.
Yeah... that's not going to happen. Not only am I good at what I do (seriously, how many system administrators even take their time to compile custom kernels nowadays for maximum performance?), but a very close relative is also the CEO. I bet people here even use us for their hosting :)
There is a massive amount of difference between being able to compile a custom kernel and being in the kind of situation where it's the right thing to do. 'Good at what you do' doesn't mean technically brilliant, it means doing the right thing at the right time.
Keeping your job because you are related to the CEO is the kind of nepotism that kills otherwise good companies.
You don't put bleeding edge or custom kernels on production servers without seriously heavy testing. You would not run production stuff on a windows beta release would you? It's the same thing.
Stick to proper releases of good distributions and customize as little as possible. You will get a system many times more stable than anything MS has ever come up with.
Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance
KVM is fantastic virtualization technology, yet Xen gets all the hype these days. Why? Paravirtualization is pretty cool stuff, but seriously, what CPU's are made without some type of hardware-assisted virtualization support?
Xen doesn't get all the hype. From what I've seen everyone is ditching xen and redhat is leading the way. Not that I mean to imply that xen deserves to get ditched, it's great too.
Hey, for once I agree with St. Obama. I realize that geeks are never going to admit it, but there is a price for our geekery. How many of us are distracted, and have short attention spans. Let's take a moment to think about...
Hey look... an ipad....
W
That might have been modded funny but you are DEAD RIGHT. It's not just geeks that buy flashy phones and laptops though.
What are those personality traits? What should I be trying to do in order to make a good impression on the people at my work?
Don't attempt to game the system with false personality traits. You will be seen though very quickly. The working world has seen quite enough people who misrepresent themselves, don't do it.
Do everything people ask of you to a high standard and try to learn interesting new things both at work and in your own time.
...had a Domain controller...
You don't mean an activity directory domain controller do you?
There are obvious ways to get a faster and more stable system, none of which require spending money.
Turbo boost and turbo core over-clock cores in use up to a thermal limit.
Hardly cutting edge stuff.
I don't understand the need for wide-area highly accurate (less than 1ms accurate) timing. Once you get beyond a reasonable distance, the speed of light starts playing into the equation.
Like most smart people you are forgetting how dumb most people are.
Wall street traders don't understand much about time. They only understand how to obfuscate financial transactions like a high speed shell game. To them more speed means more chances to skim off a percentage and the laws of physics don't even get considered.
Hint: When the Great Depression hit, the money lost by the traders on Wall Street did not suddenly spew forth into the hands of "us".
Because the money you mention never really existed.
If I had a thousand dollars in paper money under my bed before the great depression it would have had a certain buying power. In the middle of the great depression it would have had a much greater buying power. The value lost on Wall Street spewed forth into paper money and real physical assets.
let's do away with the arbitrage, gambling, and bullshit from wall street. make them own a stock for ONE WHOLE DAY. No more of this low-latency trading bullshit. They're just skimming money off the top of the financial markets--away from the regular folks. EVERY PENNY THESE GUYS MAKE COMES OUT OF OUR POCKET.
You are absolutely, painfully right and it pains me deeply that I don't have any mod points.
These jokers want time more accurate than NTP can provide but I'll bet most of them still believe time is a universal invariant. They don't need time more accurate than NTP can provide, they need to be hit in the head with a hammer until they stop moving.
That's the best thing I've seen all week.
in the middle of a critical action during a life threatening operation. I'd also be worried about lag as one would assume that some surgical procedures require timely precision.
Surely they would require a private virtual circuit for this. Doing this over the internet is asking for trouble.
Just because I use DNSBL's doesn't mean I don't use greylisting as well.
I've been doing greylisting for years and greet pause checks years before that. I don't much like abusing SMTP in such a fashion but as you point out it does work well.
the thing is, there are still 100000's of open relay's out there, plenty of them unsecured linux boxes run by amatures.
It's a problem but it's nowhere near the scale of the problem posed by millions of windows bots on domestic broadband.
Anyone who sets up a mail server as an open relay sooner or later ends up blacklisted and can't send mail at all.
. . . is another man's ham. Both are dead pigs.
Ham is dead pigs. Spam is a mix of 90% cheap stuff with 10% dead pigs. Spam is all filler and no content.
It's not that the king spammers are in the US, it's that the US has the most machines permanently connected to the internet and infected by spambots. The whole statistics is a bit skewed because spam is one of those crimes where the one executing it is not necessarily also the one wanting to do it.
You are quite right. I get loads of SMTP connections from the US but xen.spamhaus filters out almost all of it. The spam that gets though tends to come from servers in south america, the middle east, and sometimes china. I'm wondering if the only reason for that is because spamhaus is better at mapping home IP ranges for the western world.
It's really sad that I have to drop mail connections from non-business IP space. Windows on broadband is a curse.
There are about a million XP SP2 users who have SATA disks and keep finding their driver floppy doesn't work when they try their yearly reinstall.
what stops say iraq ships sailing under say french flag?
There is an easy way to tell genuine french ships. They surrender instantly.
Just kidding.
The real question is "up to what point do we really have a choice" ? There is a breaking point.
E.g. WWII was considered by the united states sufficient reason to suspend civil liberties, and treat the Japanese on American soil as enemies. I doubt anyone seriously disagreed with that tactic back then.
Maybe some Japanese descended Americans would have disagreed.
There is a simple resolution to this new weapon: countries known to be in the market for it will have their civilian merchant fleet classified as legitimate military targets.
The American way used to be 'don't tread on me'.
It became 'blow the hell out of everything'.
And one day I are going to say that you is using bad grammar.
One day you might post as yourself not Anonymous Coward.
What's the matter? Scared of being modded a troll?
I really hope Bing succeeds. I haven't used it much so far, mostly out of Inertia. But I don't like the idea of placing all my bets with Google. It's very important that an alternate good quality search engine is available. MS is best placed to achieve that for they have the man-power & the money. I hope they succeed.
Indexing the entire internet isn't a matter of money, it's a matter of skill. MS don't have that skill and they can't buy it. If MS absorb Yahoo they will do no more than wreck the only real competition Google have.
If Yahoo stay independent, and spend all their resources improving search they might catch up, but it's not likely. Yahoo+MS will never catch up.