>a) compile a custom kernel with far fewer services available
WTF? # chkconfig --del
>b) Change program locations and links so that random calls by path wouldn't work (i.e. something like ls would be/sdf/sajfs/ysfs/sj while cat would be/uwsius/usiufs/sc etc...
What?????
>c) remove dozens of commands entirely
Haha! Why'd you do that? # chmod 400/path/to/command
I don't think there will be the next internet bust, but I agree with you that they're very vulnerable.
I'd say these are most likely: 1) Drop in ad revenue (caused by search engine spammers and ad fraud) 2) A new search technology superior to Google's 3) New clustering technology (that can search more pages or store a more current Web cache)
My feeling is that Google share price will drop to US$80 within a month.
The other day I saw this new search engine (it was written about at news.com) that had great search results. I don't find Google's search results very smart - it's just that they store a lot of them on their cluster file system.
>The Origin server was equipped with 32 MIPS processors and eight I/O modules.
I'm not familiar with specialized SANs. I didn't know about these - quite cool: http://www.sgi.com/origin/3000/bricks.html
> had to sustain nearly 6GB per second of aggregate I/O throughput to achieve these world-record result > SGI TP9500 system is based on technology developed by LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc., and sustained close to 3GB-per-second throughput during the backup > An SGI OriginTM 3000 server with SGI storage software technology was the platform for the backup and restore operation and had to sustain nearly 6GB per second of aggregate I/O throughput to achieve these world-record results.
I understand that storage did 3GB/sec and the server had to do 6GB/sec in order to read-and-backup. The IX brick can have up to 11 PCI-X slots - I'd like to know if they used 11 FC HBA or more on this system...
> Fibre Channel disk capacity was used to store 10.297TB of customer data, composed of files ranging from 2 GB to 42GB.
Huge files! Smaller files would really bog them down. Incidentally, the disk array they used has a 2GB cache so if many files were 2GB in size, that helped a lot.
> Single XFS filesystem figures > Backup of 1TB at file-level (in minutes): 7:09 > Restore of 1TB at file level (in minutes): 15:29
If my calculation is correct (1024GB/(15*60)) write (restore) per was 1.13GB/sec write and read performance was about twice as much, which probably are figures that we need to remember.
Why not the best of both worlds - be constantly annoyed by the wireless whisper AND get cancer?
From the article: >The network is self-healing, too, so that in case a forklift driver blocks your transmission, the network will automatically search for another route that maps around the forklift
The network is self-healing, so if a forklift goes nuts and you hide behind a container, it will the network will automatically instruct the forklift to go around the container to search and destroy you.
Also - they already make wireless-proof wallpaper. I'm sure there are affordable ways to make buildings wireless-proof and in the future that will probably become a standard offering in factory construction..
500TB per se doesn't mean much - I wonder what kind of thruput per node they can get.
Donno if anyone has noticed - the genius who wrote the/. article said 10K nodes instead of 10K CPUs. We really need the ability to moderate article authors...
>If they fixed the flaws, those businesses would tank.
Haha... I propose they will start selling their A/V software cheaply to make all A/V vendors go bust, then they will quietly fix all security flaws, so that they can fire all their A/V experts and still keep charging for the A/V software! But because of competitive pressures from Linux, they will have to cut price of Windows OS, so in the end Windows will be secure but it will cost the same as it does now! That way Microsoft will make more money because they won't have to employ dedicated programmers to code bugs and security flaws into their software. Oh, wait, that's how it is now!
>How could this go any better for Microsoft?
Well, for your info, pal, the worldwide antivirus market is about $3b, which Microsoft makes in a month. Why would anyone go in such trouble for an 8% increase in sales (_assuming_ they can have 100% of the antivirus market).
>They're sweating to produce the experts; they're producing the profits that REQUIRE that Microsoft doesn't tighten up their software.
By this logic you are a proponent of the idea that OSS is bad for software ISVs because commercial applications constantly get undercut or made expensive by free OSS apps which creates unemployment - as OSS software destroys their market, commercial software vendors got nothing to do and are forced go out of business.
If there's anything to sweat about, I'm sure they'd choose to sweat over making OS more secure and then focusing on more productive tasks.
Yes, that can be done. It's just that, like the quoted text says, for a person not interested in any particular distribution but rather in the app they work on, it's probably simpler to contribute to Debian instead. I think that was the idea - while both ways are fine, Debian's is truer to idea of free/OSS.
"Red Hat has already proposed an answer to this problem, but I think it's the wrong answer. Their Fedora project is obviously intended to look like Debian. But unlike Debian, Fedora is an extremely unequal partnership. "Fedora" is where the community developers are supposed to build Red Hat's product, while the certifications and vendor endorsements are held back for the high-priced "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" brand. This is especially obvious in recent certification announcements: the Common Criteria certification will go to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux", not "Fedora". And of course the entire steering board of the Fedora project are Red Hat employees. Red Hat recently announced a second draft of the leadership structure for Fedora, in which they have eliminated voting, expressing the need to keep control in the hands of Red Hat's management....
How much would I advise a volunteer, community developer to contribute to Fedora? I think it makes sense to make Fedora packages for your own software - that way, you have some assurance that it will be packaged correctly. Beyond that, because of the vastly unequal partnership, I fear that a volunteer developer would be making himself an unpaid employee of Red Hat rather than a member of a real community. I guess that's OK if you think they'll hire you eventually. But I'd advise volunteer developers to concentrate their work on projects where the partnerships are demonstrably equal."
I don't care about every MS update or security incident either, but most such news are created by/. readers who rejoice over every Microsoft failure. That's sad, too.
Would news about the final release be newsworthy? Perhaps. Is news about Beta 1 newsworthy? I just can't see why would it be.
Oh, I get it now - Microsoft makes shitty OS and then secretly invests in anti-virus companies to make money!
Shiiit, maybe I should have put this in the slashdot-user-friendly format with little numbers as in: 1. Write shitty OS 2. Invest in A/V vendors 3. Profit
First, I did not claim they aren't available from 3rd party manufacturers. There are, and many of them are made in violation of trademark laws - the same thing as ink cartridges "for HP printers" (trademark violation) or copies of completely GPL-ed "Red Hat Linux".
Second, using parts from unauthorized 3rd party manufacturers (in case of printer cartridges usually there are no authorized 3rd party manufacturers) voids your guaratee, pal. http://www.mbatc.de/english/bedingungen.htm
So if you think this is "unfair" or that original cartridges are "too expensive", either don't buy such printer (car) or take the risk of screwing up your printer (car) and buy fake cartridges (spare parts), but don't bitch about it.
Am I the only one who news about Linux OS releases, subreleases and betas make sick? Not to mention the comments that we already know by heart - a Beowulf cluster of those, a torrent link, a new-must-have GNOME or some stupid driver, blah blah blah. WHO TF CARES!
I am not going to spend a second of my time debugging a commercial distribution's betas. Maybe I'd do something for Debian, but Fedora, Mandrake et al? Screw them!
Of course - if the fact is known or could be known prior to the purchase, what's the problem? If you have a problem with that, just buy some other printer.
You can't buy a Benz and then accuse D-C of overpricing spare parts. Are they supposed to be good guys and sell them at cost?
Power Computing started kicking Apple's ass - if you wanted a good and cheap Mac you'd get one from Power Computing. Then Apple cancelled their licence.
This is kind of opposite to what happened to SPARC/Sun clone manufacturers - they were allowed to prosper.
It'd be interesting to know why in the case of the latter it worked out... Anyone?
Yeah, whatever. Like the researchers work there for free and they have cheap tents instead of air-conditioned office buildings. Whatever they paid to Microsoft is likely insignificant in comparison to other expenses.
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It wouldn't make shit - it's a huge overlap in J2EE, high end servers, UNIX, storage and much more.
>a) compile a custom kernel with far fewer services available
/sdf/sajfs/ysfs/sj while cat would be /uwsius/usiufs/sc etc...
/path/to/command
WTF?
# chkconfig --del
>b) Change program locations and links so that random calls by path wouldn't work (i.e. something like ls would be
What?????
>c) remove dozens of commands entirely
Haha! Why'd you do that?
# chmod 400
Obviously your thinking is one dimensional.
It will get real bad for IBM.
It's existing IBM customers moving from AIX and WebSphere to Sun's stuff at a fraction of IBM's maintenance fee.
You're laughing now?
(www.whysanity.net/monos/ggr2.html)
I don't think there will be the next internet bust, but I agree with you that they're very vulnerable.
I'd say these are most likely:
1) Drop in ad revenue (caused by search engine spammers and ad fraud)
2) A new search technology superior to Google's
3) New clustering technology (that can search more pages or store a more current Web cache)
My feeling is that Google share price will drop to US$80 within a month.
The other day I saw this new search engine (it was written about at news.com) that had great search results. I don't find Google's search results very smart - it's just that they store a lot of them on their cluster file system.
Quite amazing...
>The Origin server was equipped with 32 MIPS processors and eight I/O modules.
I'm not familiar with specialized SANs.
I didn't know about these - quite cool:
http://www.sgi.com/origin/3000/bricks.html
> had to sustain nearly 6GB per second of aggregate I/O throughput to achieve these world-record result
> SGI TP9500 system is based on technology developed by LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc., and sustained close to 3GB-per-second throughput during the backup
> An SGI OriginTM 3000 server with SGI storage software technology was the platform for the backup and restore operation and had to sustain nearly 6GB per second of aggregate I/O throughput to achieve these world-record results.
I understand that storage did 3GB/sec and the server had to do 6GB/sec in order to read-and-backup. The IX brick can have up to 11 PCI-X slots - I'd like to know if they used 11 FC HBA or more on this system...
> Fibre Channel disk capacity was used to store 10.297TB of customer data, composed of files ranging from 2 GB to 42GB.
Huge files! Smaller files would really bog them down.
Incidentally, the disk array they used has a 2GB cache so if many files were 2GB in size, that helped a lot.
> Single XFS filesystem figures
> Backup of 1TB at file-level (in minutes): 7:09
> Restore of 1TB at file level (in minutes): 15:29
If my calculation is correct (1024GB/(15*60)) write (restore) per was 1.13GB/sec write and read performance was about twice as much, which probably are figures that we need to remember.
Why not the best of both worlds - be constantly annoyed by the wireless whisper AND get cancer?
From the article:
>The network is self-healing, too, so that in case a forklift driver blocks your transmission, the network will automatically search for another route that maps around the forklift
The network is self-healing, so if a forklift goes nuts and you hide behind a container, it will the network will automatically instruct the forklift to go around the container to search and destroy you.
Yeah, and the number (2.7m) looks very similar to the number of shares they don't have and are trying to buy back.
Probably they want to give them those non-existing shares.
Don't be (d)evil!
Also - they already make wireless-proof wallpaper. I'm sure there are affordable ways to make buildings wireless-proof and in the future that will probably become a standard offering in factory construction..
>I'm not saying this was a mistake; I offer it only as the explanation as to why Apple earns millions per quarter while Microsoft earns billions.
Why make billions when you can make millions?
Muhahahahahaha
You're right.
/. article said 10K nodes instead of 10K CPUs.
500TB per se doesn't mean much - I wonder what kind of thruput per node they can get.
Donno if anyone has noticed - the genius who wrote the
We really need the ability to moderate article authors...
>>you need everyone to sell all their stock
>To who?
This is really funny! Great comment!
>You left out:
>Deliberately breaking standards for no good reason.
>Need to replace the power supply in a Dell box?
>Better buy it from Dell for a hefty markup or you just might toast your motherboard.
That's not true.
Because of cost issues, OEM manufacturers make desktop cases and power supplies small and non-standard.
My IBM Aptiva and another brand name desktop also couldn't use "standard" parts, but that's reasonable.
>If they fixed the flaws, those businesses would tank.
Haha...
I propose they will start selling their A/V software cheaply to make all A/V vendors go bust, then they will quietly fix all security flaws, so that they can fire all their A/V experts and still keep charging for the A/V software! But because of competitive pressures from Linux, they will have to cut price of Windows OS, so in the end Windows will be secure but it will cost the same as it does now!
That way Microsoft will make more money because they won't have to employ dedicated programmers to code bugs and security flaws into their software. Oh, wait, that's how it is now!
>How could this go any better for Microsoft?
Well, for your info, pal, the worldwide antivirus market is about $3b, which Microsoft makes in a month. Why would anyone go in such trouble for an 8% increase in sales (_assuming_ they can have 100% of the antivirus market).
>They're sweating to produce the experts; they're producing the profits that REQUIRE that Microsoft doesn't tighten up their software.
By this logic you are a proponent of the idea that OSS is bad for software ISVs because commercial applications constantly get undercut or made expensive by free OSS apps which creates unemployment - as OSS software destroys their market, commercial software vendors got nothing to do and are forced go out of business.
If there's anything to sweat about, I'm sure they'd choose to sweat over making OS more secure and then focusing on more productive tasks.
>First, these cannot be used as windows on cars. The minimum tint is something like 20%, and these allow only 10% of the light.
Riiiight. You can put them on the roof and probably rear side windoews.
>Third, less energy gets through the atmosphere when the sun is near the horizon -- much less.
For the roof top panel noon is the best.
Yes, that can be done. It's just that, like the quoted text says, for a person not interested in any particular distribution but rather in the app they work on, it's probably simpler to contribute to Debian instead.
I think that was the idea - while both ways are fine, Debian's is truer to idea of free/OSS.
Gee, if he's an open source developer, how the hell is he supposed to make a living if not by providing support, consulting or something like that?
Bruce Perens explains this problem here
"Red Hat has already proposed an answer to this problem, but I think it's the wrong answer. Their Fedora project is obviously intended to look like Debian. But unlike Debian, Fedora is an extremely unequal partnership. "Fedora" is where the community developers are supposed to build Red Hat's product, while the certifications and vendor endorsements are held back for the high-priced "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" brand. This is especially obvious in recent certification announcements: the Common Criteria certification will go to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux", not "Fedora". And of course the entire steering board of the Fedora project are Red Hat employees. Red Hat recently announced a second draft of the leadership structure for Fedora, in which they have eliminated voting, expressing the need to keep control in the hands of Red Hat's management.
How much would I advise a volunteer, community developer to contribute to Fedora? I think it makes sense to make Fedora packages for your own software - that way, you have some assurance that it will be packaged correctly. Beyond that, because of the vastly unequal partnership, I fear that a volunteer developer would be making himself an unpaid employee of Red Hat rather than a member of a real community. I guess that's OK if you think they'll hire you eventually. But I'd advise volunteer developers to concentrate their work on projects where the partnerships are demonstrably equal."
I don't care about every MS update or security incident either, but most such news are created by /. readers who rejoice over every Microsoft failure. That's sad, too.
Would news about the final release be newsworthy?
Perhaps.
Is news about Beta 1 newsworthy? I just can't see why would it be.
Oh, I get it now - Microsoft makes shitty OS and then secretly invests in anti-virus companies to make money!
Shiiit, maybe I should have put this in the slashdot-user-friendly format with little numbers as in:
1. Write shitty OS
2. Invest in A/V vendors
3. Profit
What a bunch of bullshit.
First, I did not claim they aren't available from 3rd party manufacturers. There are, and many of them are made in violation of trademark laws - the same thing as ink cartridges "for HP printers" (trademark violation) or copies of completely GPL-ed "Red Hat Linux".
Second, using parts from unauthorized 3rd party manufacturers (in case of printer cartridges usually there are no authorized 3rd party manufacturers) voids your guaratee, pal.
http://www.mbatc.de/english/bedingungen.htm
So if you think this is "unfair" or that original cartridges are "too expensive", either don't buy such printer (car) or take the risk of screwing up your printer (car) and buy fake cartridges (spare parts), but don't bitch about it.
Am I the only one who news about Linux OS releases, subreleases and betas make sick?
Not to mention the comments that we already know by heart - a Beowulf cluster of those, a torrent link, a new-must-have GNOME or some stupid driver, blah blah blah.
WHO TF CARES!
I am not going to spend a second of my time debugging a commercial distribution's betas.
Maybe I'd do something for Debian, but Fedora, Mandrake et al? Screw them!
Of course - if the fact is known or could be known prior to the purchase, what's the problem?
If you have a problem with that, just buy some other printer.
You can't buy a Benz and then accuse D-C of overpricing spare parts. Are they supposed to be good guys and sell them at cost?
Power Computing started kicking Apple's ass - if you wanted a good and cheap Mac you'd get one from Power Computing. Then Apple cancelled their licence.
This is kind of opposite to what happened to SPARC/Sun clone manufacturers - they were allowed to prosper.
It'd be interesting to know why in the case of the latter it worked out... Anyone?
> Considering that XP costs money
Yeah, whatever. Like the researchers work there for free and they have cheap tents instead of air-conditioned office buildings.
Whatever they paid to Microsoft is likely insignificant in comparison to other expenses.
Just found this today by following a link from news.com:
:-)
http://userlinux.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UserLinux