A hundred and thirty nine hits for all of slashdot is not a significant number given the average number of articles that pass through on a daily basis.
Think of the frequency of penny-arcade references (which isn't really a whole lot) and that only has 7000 to 1400 hits depending on the search term.
In fact, I have a larger hit count as a search term and by your logic I should be more famous then Jesus. Regardless of your obvious insanity I am starting to warm up to your logic. I'm beginning to enjoy my new found stardom. If I could just get some groupy geek chicks to come seem backstage after I've completed my show things will be alright. (giggity). Now, point me to my six foot pile of coke and matching pile of blue m&ms.
I have never heard of this place and judging by the titles they carry I'm not surprised. This is the equivalent of the five dollar bin at game stop from 10 years in the past. It's not going to be a hot seller shop and I'm left to wonder how well the titles now run on a modern OS.
I do read zero ads at slashdot, but then again I'm also a subscriber. A side effect of running no-script is that very little advertising works without java script or flash. There are of course ways around this, but I don't see many shops clamoring. I don't use no-script because I dislike ads, but rather it's a protection mechanism because the web is a big dark and scary place.
I'm not sure anyone has advocated advertising and marketing to be completely senseless and illegitimate means of promotion. Generally, people have a negative backlash for FALSE advertising, violations of user privacy and general badness. I'm fine with commercials and marketing campaigns as long as its clean good fun.
For your second point we are going back full circle here on the musicians and writers concept. I don't have an issue with someone making a good or great living at what they are doing nor using a publishing service. However, if said publishing service were to do things like fix prices or shit on everyone in the name of making a dollar I might be upset.
Oh crap, third point, games and we are back to the same theme. I don't have a problem purchasing games and I have already made a few this month. (Though mostly used because I like bargains) However, the complaint is not around game publishers, but reallly crappy drm. This one is basically a trade off and I don't really believe drm brings any benefit to the table. Name any major title or major protection mechanism and I can show you where to download a mostly functional copy. In some cases it is a fully functional title because the release is a near perfect copy. (mostly functional generally refers to the cut scenes being removed to save space). The standard argument here is that DRM brings nothing to the but woe to the honest gamer. For smaller titles I think DRM could actually bring some benefit if they are experiencing rampant piracy, but again this is a trade off with risks to the current customer base. Just keep in mind that once a title reaches a certain popularity threshold a cracked copy will be available.
These are all complex issues with various beliefs from all sides. In fact the side we haven't addressed is from those who don't really care to purchase things and yes those people do exist. I would probably be in that camp if I were not horribly lazy. In my old age I don't care to scavenge forums or troubleshoot some crappy release. It's just so much easier to pay up and enjoy my purchase.
This is of course why many many places have separate network segments for both desktops and server environments.
I'm not saying it's not a valid and good tactic for attack. Indeed, all of the big ones in recent years generally came from the desktop environment. Juicy ones such as microsoft source and the half life source code were directly launched through user mail.
This also another reason why corporate environments also invest heavily in deployment and security on the desktop. ie, why corporate desktop images suck balls.
In the forum thread mentioned there appears to be a comment regarding the phone's firmware.
Apparently, some guys over at xda developers uploaded the european rom and were able to get full bandwidth from the phone. Given the reception issues and other communication problems I'm going to say this is a badly cooked rom on part of the Sprint side. (Even more Epic fail).
Now, at the moment this is completely unconfirmed and if you are an Epic fail owner I would suggest visiting their site to confirm.
I can't find any documentation on the matter, but I'm willing to bet the PSN was stored in microcode.
I have great difficulty fathoming a process that can dynamically alter the design during fabrication. It's not like it's flipping a wheel on a serial number and punching some metal. (Well.. it's not too far from that). However, as much as I am interested in the process by which they used I am not dedicated enough to find some material on the matter.
In regards to the processor upgrade there are several methods they could invoke depending on how secure they want to make the process. However, given the price point isn't exactly the largest of numbers I'm going to wager the method will be something fairly inexpensive to implement.
We can capitalize on the brand recognition already present with millions of housewives.
In fact, once we launch we will have an army of married and single women knocking down the doors for the brand new DILDOS operating system.
Unfortunately, netcraft will likely confirm DILDOS as dead due to very few individuals admitting publicly they use our truly orgasmic operating system.
I've been with tmobile for a few years and as long as I remember there has been the ability to block messages.
I just looked to confirm and it's actually more fine grained now. Email, Text, Picture, Content Downloads....or just block them all.
Every carrier I have been with also charged for incoming texts, but I also admit I have only used three in my lifetime. Myself, I rarely use text messages and active discourage anyone from sending me a message. It's far more economical to operate without a plan then to commit to even a base plan for any period of time.
My experience with their phone support is also completely backwards from yours. I have never once encountered a situation in which they acted as you described. Now ATT I have had very similar experiences with.
You want a non-standard install on a no usb and no cdrom system and you wonder why you have issues finding help.
At that point you are far into the realm of advance because you have to use an alternate means such as staging the contents on disk or using a pxe based install. The latter isn't terribly difficult if you haven't done it before, but the first time setup isn't for the novice.
That is a really awful example of a problem solving situation.
With that said it is very unlikely that you need a distribution specific solution. There are many differences between distributions, but I have had little issue navigating the various system types. The exception for myself being Gentoo which made me do a triple take when reconfiguring some very legacy host I once found hiding in a rack.
I'm not sure about the desktop side, but on the server side it is certainly not two dimms.
Each bank is composed of three dimms and there are multiple channels per proc.
While I don't have the details on me it's pretty easy to see that both camps have significantly increased their memory footprint and it's quite easy to build a system with 256gb of ram or greater.
In a few instances there are systems types which do tax the proc far more then others. For these types of systems and other instances where licensing per core is extremely costly there is another type of processor which has a significantly higher clock frequency, but the trade off is far fewer cores. (This is entirely a good thing when considering licensed applications).
I've been waiting for this little guy since his first announcement.
I once tried compiling Boxee to run along side my mythbox, but eventually I gave up. It's fairly hopeless to compile outside of a debian system it would seem. However, at the time I really just wanted the application for desktop hulu support. Eventually, Hulu released the desktop app and I simply integrated this into my myth setup.
Now, the little unit is still somewhat appealing, but there are some fairly large flaws.
Even though I have the real estate to handle it's rather odd platform I would just rather not give up that space. Seriously, at some point didn't someone say you need to be a LITTLE conventional in the design. I'm also a little displeased with the remote because at this point it is clear to do anything meaningful I will need to use a keyboard. Those are some fairly obvious flaws in a set top design, but at least it isn't my money they are wasting.
I would assume if this was the period when there were untrusted petroleum products then it would stand to reason that this was the era for visible gas pumps.
After looking at a few of them I always wondered how bad the market must have been if the customers needed to see the gas being pumped into their vehicle.
I would assume that is why trust was so high when today we rarely consider the quality of the fuel we purchase.
Barco runs on military dollars so it's never going to be price competitive.
I think the video wall is a terrifically awful idea. Every noc I have worked in or near generally has one and typically no one actually uses it.
The last thing I actually want to do is rely on employees to be alarms. They are expensive and unreliable as logic circuits. While they can do some pretty good fuzzy analysis there are times when things which have hard rules for alarms are generally left to the software.
As such, when a major problem happens it is usually identified first by some automated software. When interested parties want to evaluate all the pretty graphs they generally log onto the monitoring portal or a quick link goes out to all those involved. Because there are generally many individuals who are conferencing into the event we do not rely on the video wall to provide the source material. Instead, individuals on the bridge are either told or added to the loop for materials going to those involved in the emergent activity. This is generally handled by the bridge resource managers and not the call/event leader.
What we do use the video wall for is generally presentations for change management. A project would have actually worked and costed a great deal less.
In cases of non-emergent behavior such as video surveillance the same techniques apply based on the application. While there are hot feeds ongoing there are typically motion alarms which highlight key areas. Again, whatever device the video wall is supposed to serve will usually be better served by allowing individuals to access the resource and ensuring there are capabilities to direct users to such resources.
This setup works well provided there are enough individuals available to orchestrate the call, but then again where I typically see the need for this is in large scale multi-million dollar entities. Even in the smaller org I am with now we have a smaller scaled down version of what I have described.
Peer Guardian does not maintain a block list, but the application is still quite usable. There are utilities and services available to gain fresh and user updated lists from. After this it is a simple matter to generate a block list that is peer guardian compatible.
The problem with such an approach is that it is resource intensive. However, if you have time to pirate then you have some time to dedicate to utilizing certain basic protections.
Bonnie is good for a straight disk measurement, but depending on the options set it may not be too useful. Depending on the configuration you may be able to burst large quantities over any thresholds.
Really, a few baselines need to be taken and compared against the cluster.
I would perform a few isolated IOZone and Orion benchmarks to set the baseline. Once this completed a parallel initiated test of all hosts will determine which units may be shared.
Now, if all the hardware is the same it should look relatively similar. However, if you are sharing even amongst yourselves the results from the baseline values will be quite different.
There are similar tests out there that can be had to evaluate the "noisy neighbor" in virtual environments. Essentially, applications which look for the highest yield hosts in virtual farms. Such methods are possible when overcommitment or bursting is possible. These same tests can be used to determine if you are sharing resources.
There are a whole slew of options to consider when inking the contract for these things. What a good deal of people fail to do is secure numbers for things such as processing capability, IOPS and even disk response times. A bare metal hard number is not necessary, but it should be something that the applications are comfortable running at. ie your provider may offer a large volume of storage, but this could be useless if the access times are greater then 30ms.
There are still more things to consider or details to examine to sleuth your way to a solution. However, it generally begins with best practices that should have been followed when the farm was established.
The funny thing about the blurb is it is entirely wrong.
Disney does not own the copyright to Winnie The Pooh, but rather they have a royalty agreement with the actual copyright holder.
The court battle and disagreement stemmed from a disagreement on royalties regarding merchandise with mixed characters. (ie, Pooh and Mickey backpacks would not be counted towards revenue generated under the Pooh brand).
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A hundred and thirty nine hits for all of slashdot is not a significant number given the average number of articles that pass through on a daily basis.
Think of the frequency of penny-arcade references (which isn't really a whole lot) and that only has 7000 to 1400 hits depending on the search term.
In fact, I have a larger hit count as a search term and by your logic I should be more famous then Jesus. Regardless of your obvious insanity I am starting to warm up to your logic. I'm beginning to enjoy my new found stardom. If I could just get some groupy geek chicks to come seem backstage after I've completed my show things will be alright. (giggity). Now, point me to my six foot pile of coke and matching pile of blue m&ms.
No seriously...
They are awful at advertising....
I have never heard of this place and judging by the titles they carry I'm not surprised. This is the equivalent of the five dollar bin at game stop from 10 years in the past. It's not going to be a hot seller shop and I'm left to wonder how well the titles now run on a modern OS.
I do read zero ads at slashdot, but then again I'm also a subscriber. A side effect of running no-script is that very little advertising works without java script or flash. There are of course ways around this, but I don't see many shops clamoring. I don't use no-script because I dislike ads, but rather it's a protection mechanism because the web is a big dark and scary place.
I'm not sure anyone has advocated advertising and marketing to be completely senseless and illegitimate means of promotion. Generally, people have a negative backlash for FALSE advertising, violations of user privacy and general badness. I'm fine with commercials and marketing campaigns as long as its clean good fun.
For your second point we are going back full circle here on the musicians and writers concept. I don't have an issue with someone making a good or great living at what they are doing nor using a publishing service. However, if said publishing service were to do things like fix prices or shit on everyone in the name of making a dollar I might be upset.
Oh crap, third point, games and we are back to the same theme. I don't have a problem purchasing games and I have already made a few this month. (Though mostly used because I like bargains) However, the complaint is not around game publishers, but reallly crappy drm. This one is basically a trade off and I don't really believe drm brings any benefit to the table. Name any major title or major protection mechanism and I can show you where to download a mostly functional copy. In some cases it is a fully functional title because the release is a near perfect copy. (mostly functional generally refers to the cut scenes being removed to save space). The standard argument here is that DRM brings nothing to the but woe to the honest gamer. For smaller titles I think DRM could actually bring some benefit if they are experiencing rampant piracy, but again this is a trade off with risks to the current customer base. Just keep in mind that once a title reaches a certain popularity threshold a cracked copy will be available.
These are all complex issues with various beliefs from all sides. In fact the side we haven't addressed is from those who don't really care to purchase things and yes those people do exist. I would probably be in that camp if I were not horribly lazy. In my old age I don't care to scavenge forums or troubleshoot some crappy release. It's just so much easier to pay up and enjoy my purchase.
This is of course why many many places have separate network segments for both desktops and server environments.
I'm not saying it's not a valid and good tactic for attack. Indeed, all of the big ones in recent years generally came from the desktop environment. Juicy ones such as microsoft source and the half life source code were directly launched through user mail.
This also another reason why corporate environments also invest heavily in deployment and security on the desktop. ie, why corporate desktop images suck balls.
You are confusing space mice with earth mice.
This is actually the origin story for the secrets of nym.
What people haven't realized is that with sufficient motivation the mice can produce telekinetic abilities.
In the forum thread mentioned there appears to be a comment regarding the phone's firmware.
Apparently, some guys over at xda developers uploaded the european rom and were able to get full bandwidth from the phone. Given the reception issues and other communication problems I'm going to say this is a badly cooked rom on part of the Sprint side. (Even more Epic fail).
Now, at the moment this is completely unconfirmed and if you are an Epic fail owner I would suggest visiting their site to confirm.
Reading over their document it looks like a fancy system for downloading a bios update.
Time will tell of course.
I can't find any documentation on the matter, but I'm willing to bet the PSN was stored in microcode.
I have great difficulty fathoming a process that can dynamically alter the design during fabrication. It's not like it's flipping a wheel on a serial number and punching some metal. (Well.. it's not too far from that). However, as much as I am interested in the process by which they used I am not dedicated enough to find some material on the matter.
In regards to the processor upgrade there are several methods they could invoke depending on how secure they want to make the process. However, given the price point isn't exactly the largest of numbers I'm going to wager the method will be something fairly inexpensive to implement.
"it all comes down to someone prying open the program and giving it some brain damage"
I immediately thought of Tron competing at the Special Olympics.
DILDOS is a household name!
We can capitalize on the brand recognition already present with millions of housewives.
In fact, once we launch we will have an army of married and single women knocking down the doors for the brand new DILDOS operating system.
Unfortunately, netcraft will likely confirm DILDOS as dead due to very few individuals admitting publicly they use our truly orgasmic operating system.
I'm not sure how long ago that actually was.
I've been with tmobile for a few years and as long as I remember there has been the ability to block messages.
I just looked to confirm and it's actually more fine grained now. Email, Text, Picture, Content Downloads....or just block them all.
Every carrier I have been with also charged for incoming texts, but I also admit I have only used three in my lifetime. Myself, I rarely use text messages and active discourage anyone from sending me a message. It's far more economical to operate without a plan then to commit to even a base plan for any period of time.
My experience with their phone support is also completely backwards from yours. I have never once encountered a situation in which they acted as you described. Now ATT I have had very similar experiences with.
You want a non-standard install on a no usb and no cdrom system and you wonder why you have issues finding help.
At that point you are far into the realm of advance because you have to use an alternate means such as staging the contents on disk or using a pxe based install. The latter isn't terribly difficult if you haven't done it before, but the first time setup isn't for the novice.
That is a really awful example of a problem solving situation.
With that said it is very unlikely that you need a distribution specific solution. There are many differences between distributions, but I have had little issue navigating the various system types. The exception for myself being Gentoo which made me do a triple take when reconfiguring some very legacy host I once found hiding in a rack.
I'm not sure about the desktop side, but on the server side it is certainly not two dimms.
Each bank is composed of three dimms and there are multiple channels per proc.
While I don't have the details on me it's pretty easy to see that both camps have significantly increased their memory footprint and it's quite easy to build a system with 256gb of ram or greater.
In a few instances there are systems types which do tax the proc far more then others. For these types of systems and other instances where licensing per core is extremely costly there is another type of processor which has a significantly higher clock frequency, but the trade off is far fewer cores. (This is entirely a good thing when considering licensed applications).
To reply to myself...
I just noticed the remote is a keyboard.
Now, just need to make it look less like a modern art piece and more like a vanilla piece of av hardware.
I've been waiting for this little guy since his first announcement.
I once tried compiling Boxee to run along side my mythbox, but eventually I gave up. It's fairly hopeless to compile outside of a debian system it would seem. However, at the time I really just wanted the application for desktop hulu support. Eventually, Hulu released the desktop app and I simply integrated this into my myth setup.
Now, the little unit is still somewhat appealing, but there are some fairly large flaws.
Even though I have the real estate to handle it's rather odd platform I would just rather not give up that space. Seriously, at some point didn't someone say you need to be a LITTLE conventional in the design. I'm also a little displeased with the remote because at this point it is clear to do anything meaningful I will need to use a keyboard. Those are some fairly obvious flaws in a set top design, but at least it isn't my money they are wasting.
I wonder if I can put mythtv on the hardware.....
Clearly the industry was destroyed once with the release of the record.
It happened again with the cd player.
This is pretty much the death knell for performers everywhere.
Due to replication errors there is a possibility the new tooth may grow back EVIL!
I would assume if this was the period when there were untrusted petroleum products then it would stand to reason that this was the era for visible gas pumps.
After looking at a few of them I always wondered how bad the market must have been if the customers needed to see the gas being pumped into their vehicle.
I would assume that is why trust was so high when today we rarely consider the quality of the fuel we purchase.
I never thought of turning an ancient host into an alarm clock.
Once however, I did hollow out an SGI case and turn it into a refrigerator.
The case was just too damned pretty to throw away.
Barco runs on military dollars so it's never going to be price competitive.
I think the video wall is a terrifically awful idea. Every noc I have worked in or near generally has one and typically no one actually uses it.
The last thing I actually want to do is rely on employees to be alarms. They are expensive and unreliable as logic circuits. While they can do some pretty good fuzzy analysis there are times when things which have hard rules for alarms are generally left to the software.
As such, when a major problem happens it is usually identified first by some automated software. When interested parties want to evaluate all the pretty graphs they generally log onto the monitoring portal or a quick link goes out to all those involved. Because there are generally many individuals who are conferencing into the event we do not rely on the video wall to provide the source material. Instead, individuals on the bridge are either told or added to the loop for materials going to those involved in the emergent activity. This is generally handled by the bridge resource managers and not the call/event leader.
What we do use the video wall for is generally presentations for change management. A project would have actually worked and costed a great deal less.
In cases of non-emergent behavior such as video surveillance the same techniques apply based on the application. While there are hot feeds ongoing there are typically motion alarms which highlight key areas. Again, whatever device the video wall is supposed to serve will usually be better served by allowing individuals to access the resource and ensuring there are capabilities to direct users to such resources.
This setup works well provided there are enough individuals available to orchestrate the call, but then again where I typically see the need for this is in large scale multi-million dollar entities. Even in the smaller org I am with now we have a smaller scaled down version of what I have described.
Dimmable fluorescent never really worked for me in the past.
I haven't looked into how natural LED lighting actually looks, but it's got to be a damn bit better then fluorescent.
Peer Guardian does not maintain a block list, but the application is still quite usable. There are utilities and services available to gain fresh and user updated lists from. After this it is a simple matter to generate a block list that is peer guardian compatible.
The problem with such an approach is that it is resource intensive. However, if you have time to pirate then you have some time to dedicate to utilizing certain basic protections.
Hammer it!
Bonnie is good for a straight disk measurement, but depending on the options set it may not be too useful. Depending on the configuration you may be able to burst large quantities over any thresholds.
Really, a few baselines need to be taken and compared against the cluster.
I would perform a few isolated IOZone and Orion benchmarks to set the baseline. Once this completed a parallel initiated test of all hosts will determine which units may be shared.
Now, if all the hardware is the same it should look relatively similar. However, if you are sharing even amongst yourselves the results from the baseline values will be quite different.
There are similar tests out there that can be had to evaluate the "noisy neighbor" in virtual environments. Essentially, applications which look for the highest yield hosts in virtual farms. Such methods are possible when overcommitment or bursting is possible. These same tests can be used to determine if you are sharing resources.
There are a whole slew of options to consider when inking the contract for these things. What a good deal of people fail to do is secure numbers for things such as processing capability, IOPS and even disk response times. A bare metal hard number is not necessary, but it should be something that the applications are comfortable running at. ie your provider may offer a large volume of storage, but this could be useless if the access times are greater then 30ms.
There are still more things to consider or details to examine to sleuth your way to a solution. However, it generally begins with best practices that should have been followed when the farm was established.
The funny thing about the blurb is it is entirely wrong.
Disney does not own the copyright to Winnie The Pooh, but rather they have a royalty agreement with the actual copyright holder.
The court battle and disagreement stemmed from a disagreement on royalties regarding merchandise with mixed characters. (ie, Pooh and Mickey backpacks would not be counted towards revenue generated under the Pooh brand).
That is like crazy wrong.
Knee Bouncers reminds me of happy tree friends...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLLNKpJrHro&feature=related
I bought my nephews a dvd of that for christmass ;)