The problem with the Westin and any other data in the downtown Seattle area is power. We have servers in Internap Fischer Plaza and they have 30 AMP caps on each rack. We can't get more than 15 1Us in a cabinet even though there's space for 30. You can't pay them for more because they can't get more. I have heard straight from them that they are pretty worried about power because power use is soaring and it's next to impossible to get more.
If you go just outside the Seattle area (Kent, Tukwilla), they'll be happy to give you 90 AMPs per rack for less overall cost.
I liked my cell phone better when it just made phone calls. Smaller is better, but like Windows and even Linux these days, you shouldn't just cram stuff in because you can.
Drug mules routinely swallow roundish ballons that pass naturally through. Why not something transparent with cameras in it? Why risk getting stuck or ripping you a new asshole, so to speak.
Object lesson? I think you mean an 'abject lesson' but I could be wrong. Of course, I could predict that some virus will infect Microsoft in the future too. And that a much lesser used format will not be affected. I suppose I could blog about it. Then when it happens, I could blog some more about it, saying how smart I was. Maybe I'd misuse the word 'irony' too as in "isn't it ironic that Microsoft got infected when linux didn't"... It would be a web-trifecta...
NOC monkeys are worthless. They don't know shit about shit. We cut our calls to the noc to zero when we installed power strips that could be managed over the net. All they ever did for us was reboot. I'd drive to the data center in the middle of the night just on principal to not pay one of those floor monkeys $150 to reboot a server.
Hmmm....that got me thinking. Where are the conspiracy theorists who think that the appearance that the government is grossly inept is actually a cover up? You know, that the government is actually really super smart and can get away with massively complex operations like 9/11 and completely cover them up? If anyone gets too close to the truth they just leak some wiretapping program or reveal secret prisons to throw you off... Now that's a real conspiracy.
I don't really game much and obviously can't speak authoritatively on the subject of war video games. How many of them allow you to commit atrocities as part of the normal gameplay?
As far as 3 vs 6 million - About 40 million non combatents died in WW2. You generally don't hear about 34 million of the civilians or the 25 million soldiers who died. But everyone knows the six million figure. Why is that?
I disagree. What's more complex? A 100 line verbose function or one that does the same thing using recursion but is only 10 lines. A trash novel or a haiku?
I don't think anyone questions that what the guy did was wrong. The question is, should he face extradition to the US and a possible 70 year jail sentance,
You'll probably get modded for that. Of course how unjust it would be for that 70 year sentence. Oh my god - the US is so evil. 70 YEARS!
Except it's a max of 5 years. Which I would say is lenient for stealing 950 passwords from military computers. He should get 10 years tacked on for the crime of being a fucking idiot.
Earlier this year, a google search on our product name suddenly returned 10 times as many results. I wondered what the hell happened. Good thing we don't rely to heavily on Google.
Oh, and don't forget to solve the age-old problem of uniquely identifying visitors to a website instead of just hits or IP addresses.
Well, I don't really know the specifics of live journal, but it is my understanding that they have users and users have accounts. In addition, it was my understanding that these users were the target of the TOS and their accounts could be terminated. Logged in accounts are - guess what - logged in the weblogs. You can track logged in users. As far as volume goes, you don't have to look through all the logs only some of them. Caching servers and load balancers don't matter, some of the users hits will get into the web logs. I used to do this for a living, tracking and banning users at a free porn host. Our apache logs grew so fast we had to delete them almost daily despite the presence of several dozen squid proxies. Of course, this was in the 90s when disks were a hell of a lot smaller.
Yup, but a lot of "administrators" won't be smart enough to notice things like that. They won't get past the "how dare they not download our ads. They must be stopped..." part of the thought process
Well, in my experience, it's the PHBs who do the "how dare they not download our ads. They must be stopped..." and issue the directive of "find me all/how many/etc of the users who block our ads" to the administrators. Having been given somewhat similar tasks, if you don't find that fun, maybe you shouldn't be an adminstrator of a high traffic web site. Analyzing that sort of stuff is par for the course.
Browser information is also in the logs. And before you reply saying you can spoof that, I know. Fact is, outside of tech circles like this, text only browser usage and spoofing the user-agent is rare. I'd say text based web browsing is probably fairly rare here too, though I'm sure someone will post ancedotal evidence in the form of "I use lynx all the time" or "$text_browser represents 75% of my $conspiracy_theory blog visitors". I use lynx too, but it only represents about 0.1% of my total browsing.
I just ad blocked images from a local web server and looked in the logs afterwards. No more requests for the images. Maybe I am missing something seems that it would be trivial to detect. Just look in the logs. You wouln't even have to look through all of them, you could just take samples.
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The problem with the Westin and any other data in the downtown Seattle area is power. We have servers in Internap Fischer Plaza and they have 30 AMP caps on each rack. We can't get more than 15 1Us in a cabinet even though there's space for 30. You can't pay them for more because they can't get more. I have heard straight from them that they are pretty worried about power because power use is soaring and it's next to impossible to get more.
If you go just outside the Seattle area (Kent, Tukwilla), they'll be happy to give you 90 AMPs per rack for less overall cost.
I liked my cell phone better when it just made phone calls. Smaller is better, but like Windows and even Linux these days, you shouldn't just cram stuff in because you can.
Drug mules routinely swallow roundish ballons that pass naturally through. Why not something transparent with cameras in it? Why risk getting stuck or ripping you a new asshole, so to speak.
You'll all get your copies from work.
Well if you are using PHP, you are already riding the short bus - if you know what I mean. And I think you do...
was when I hacked apart a laptop with an AR15.
Object lesson? I think you mean an 'abject lesson' but I could be wrong. Of course, I could predict that some virus will infect Microsoft in the future too. And that a much lesser used format will not be affected. I suppose I could blog about it. Then when it happens, I could blog some more about it, saying how smart I was. Maybe I'd misuse the word 'irony' too as in "isn't it ironic that Microsoft got infected when linux didn't"... It would be a web-trifecta...
NOC monkeys are worthless. They don't know shit about shit. We cut our calls to the noc to zero when we installed power strips that could be managed over the net. All they ever did for us was reboot. I'd drive to the data center in the middle of the night just on principal to not pay one of those floor monkeys $150 to reboot a server.
Hehe, actually I haven't. It is about time too. My point is still valid though.
How long does it take to write this stuff?
And how long to seek?
Because if it isn't faster than swapping old-technology tapes, it's not worth a damn.
Upgraded your tape drive lately? Every time I have gone up one DDS number, the tapes are twice the size and the speed doubles or triples.
NEVER!
We can't just use 60s technology to get there? I'm shocked!
Hmmm....that got me thinking. Where are the conspiracy theorists who think that the appearance that the government is grossly inept is actually a cover up? You know, that the government is actually really super smart and can get away with massively complex operations like 9/11 and completely cover them up? If anyone gets too close to the truth they just leak some wiretapping program or reveal secret prisons to throw you off... Now that's a real conspiracy.
I don't really game much and obviously can't speak authoritatively on the subject of war video games. How many of them allow you to commit atrocities as part of the normal gameplay?
As far as 3 vs 6 million - About 40 million non combatents died in WW2. You generally don't hear about 34 million of the civilians or the 25 million soldiers who died. But everyone knows the six million figure. Why is that?
Is it too soon for a Haulocaust video game? Seriously, it would promote dialogue and what-not...
I disagree. What's more complex? A 100 line verbose function or one that does the same thing using recursion but is only 10 lines. A trash novel or a haiku?
This is Slashdot - an anecdote is all that is required for proof. Unless it's an anecdote they disagree with. That's called a troll or flamebait here.
If SQL is pronounced 'ess cue ell', is MySQL pronounced 'emm why ess cue ell'?
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From your post, I am assuming you think it's pronounced "mysequel" which it's not. Officially, it's pronounced "my ess que ell".
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/what-is.ht
I don't think anyone questions that what the guy did was wrong. The question is, should he face extradition to the US and a possible 70 year jail sentance,
You'll probably get modded for that. Of course how unjust it would be for that 70 year sentence. Oh my god - the US is so evil. 70 YEARS!
Except it's a max of 5 years. Which I would say is lenient for stealing 950 passwords from military computers. He should get 10 years tacked on for the crime of being a fucking idiot.
So it's okay that you come in - uninvited - and rifle through my shit. No really.
Earlier this year, a google search on our product name suddenly returned 10 times as many results. I wondered what the hell happened. Good thing we don't rely to heavily on Google.
Oh, and don't forget to solve the age-old problem of uniquely identifying visitors to a website instead of just hits or IP addresses.
Well, I don't really know the specifics of live journal, but it is my understanding that they have users and users have accounts. In addition, it was my understanding that these users were the target of the TOS and their accounts could be terminated. Logged in accounts are - guess what - logged in the weblogs. You can track logged in users. As far as volume goes, you don't have to look through all the logs only some of them. Caching servers and load balancers don't matter, some of the users hits will get into the web logs. I used to do this for a living, tracking and banning users at a free porn host. Our apache logs grew so fast we had to delete them almost daily despite the presence of several dozen squid proxies. Of course, this was in the 90s when disks were a hell of a lot smaller.
Yup, but a lot of "administrators" won't be smart enough to notice things like that. They won't get past the "how dare they not download our ads. They must be stopped..." part of the thought process
Well, in my experience, it's the PHBs who do the "how dare they not download our ads. They must be stopped..." and issue the directive of "find me all/how many/etc of the users who block our ads" to the administrators. Having been given somewhat similar tasks, if you don't find that fun, maybe you shouldn't be an adminstrator of a high traffic web site. Analyzing that sort of stuff is par for the course.
Browser information is also in the logs. And before you reply saying you can spoof that, I know. Fact is, outside of tech circles like this, text only browser usage and spoofing the user-agent is rare. I'd say text based web browsing is probably fairly rare here too, though I'm sure someone will post ancedotal evidence in the form of "I use lynx all the time" or "$text_browser represents 75% of my $conspiracy_theory blog visitors". I use lynx too, but it only represents about 0.1% of my total browsing.
I just ad blocked images from a local web server and looked in the logs afterwards. No more requests for the images. Maybe I am missing something seems that it would be trivial to detect. Just look in the logs. You wouln't even have to look through all of them, you could just take samples.