1 IP (which are in fact two, since they allow two PPPoE connections). And I don't NAT anyone, since I'm just hosting websites/email, not selling dialup accounts.
Yes, got a dedicated line. I'm on a 100Mbps line, but not exactly one of the cheap ones. You can see the price list at http://www.ds-networks.com/bflets/. Also, when I applied for the line one year and a half ago, my Japanese was not good enough to understand the terms of the contract, so I asked their sales department by email, in English, just to be sure.
It's more expensive than a domestic 100Mbps service, but still cheaper than many domestic broadband lines in other countries.
...and I upgraded them long ago, as he did (photos here). I don't understand why this is news: just replace the disk, add memory. Nothing else. Besides, NetBSD for Qube2 is available at www.netbsd.org, ready to install.
However, I agree that the Qubes are wonderful machines if you don't need raw CPU power. The ones I have are MMQUBE2s, the japanese version of the Qube3. They're great as file servers (one of them is my internal network's file server, using NFS and Samba), and another is a remote backup server for my FreeBSD boxes. They just suck 45Watt each, don't need a CPU fan (just a heat sink), and produce almost no sound. And they look cool.:-)
I have been running my own email server for years, and now if I want to send email to AOL users I have to route it through my ISP which negates the privacy aspect of having my own server.
Yes, that's right. These things happens. But whether we like AOL or not, they still own their servers and have the right to decide what email goes through their servers and what email doesn't. You could tell your friends about that, and let them decide whether they would like to move to other ISP or not.
Break the Internet? Something tells me that you don't know very well what you're talking about. Spamhaus (or ORDB or any other black list service) cannot block anything if you (or your ISP) don't want anything blocked.
It's the email server's administrator choice to use such a blacklist or not. In other words: if you're running an email server, you can choose whether you want to block these IPs or not.
You could argue that you're a customer of an ISP that's using Spamhaus or ORDB to block spam and you cannot do anything about that. And I would agree with you on that: you should have the choice to use the blacklists on your email account(s) or not. But that, from the system administrator's point of view, is not a simple task, as of now.
If they know the IPs, why don't they just raid the creeps and cut it off at the source?
Virtual hosts. You can place as many name-based virtual hosts (websites) as you want on a single IP address. I, for example, have many domains hosted in my server at home using a single IP. I have just a few, but the average ISP/hosting company have hundreds or thousands of websites sharing the same IP address. It wouldn't be very wise to block them all because one of them is ilegal.
I assume you're talking about the -a parameter in Windows' ping command. Looks like that switch is just used to resolve the reverse DNS for an IP, so we have the following:
This doesn't mean that these machines are on the same network. It means that SCO's or center7's network admin(s) didn't configure the reverse DNS for 216.250.142.125 and 216.250.140.112 to return the names of the websites hosted there. This could be because these machines are hosting several other sites (virtual hosts) on the same IPs.
Tracing route to www.canopy.com [216.250.142.120] over a maximum of 30 hops:.... Tracing route to www.caldera.com [216.250.140.125] over a maximum of 30 hops:.... Tracing route to www.sco.com [216.250.140.112] over a maximum of 30 hops:....
They're not on the same C class. Most likely these machines are on different locations. Sorry to tell you, but your post doesn't apply.:)
I'll give you free space and bandwidth in one of my servers to host it. In Japan, just in case there's some stupid law they could use to stop you from setting up your forum.:)
It's easy enough to end up with tens of thousands of photographs on your machine if you're in the habit of carrying a digital camera around. Now, think about what happens when you snap video clips the way you currently snap photographs.
This is already happening. With cameras being integrated into phones, it's growing even more.
I couldn't agree more. I don't take many pictures, but I already have around 2Gb of them in my harddisk, all of them taken by me. And that was when I used to go around carrying a BIG digital camera.
Now that I bought a new phone, I guess I'll be taking pictures at pretty much everything here in Tokyo (translation: I'll be taking pictures of all the girls I cross on the street).
(8) Broom-closet sized apartments that cost thousands of dollars a month
Not really. If you want to live in central Tokyo, it's going to be expensive, of course. You can find one-room apartments (around 20m2) starting at around 70000 yen (almost $600). The farther you go from the center of Tokyo, the cheaper it gets. Also, Tokyo is the most expensive city in Japan. Just go to Osaka or Hiroshima and you'll find 3 and 4-room apartments for a bit more than that (around 100000 yen/month).
My wife an I are living in the east border of Tokyo (half an hour from Shinjuku), and we're paying $1100/month for a nice apartment (photos here). Probably small by american standards, yes, but more than enough space for us.
(9) Elbow-to-elbow people in almost any public place, all the time
No. That's true only during rush hours (7:30-9:00am) and express trains in the afternoon/night. The rest of the time is quiet enough. And about crowded public places, these are only the places where lots of people go: Shinjuku (specially the Kabukicho district), Shibuya, Ikebukuro or Harajuku. And I bet you would pay to be there even if only to see the girls.;)
(10) Haughty disdain for Americans by most of the older population
This is probably true (I'm spanish, and I've never been discriminated in any way in the time I've been living here). But I guess that the fact that most young people do like foreigners (ie: girls) compensates for it.
(11) Expect to work 12 hour days if you get a job there. Be ostracized and frowned upon if you don't. (if not fired outright)
I'm working in a Japanese company and I work 8 hours/day (like the rest here). Before being here, I was working also 8 hours/day. Anyway, if you don't speak Japanese (or don't want to), you can always find a job in an american company.
Anything. I've got a 100Mbps fiber optics line at home and I'm running my server on it. Unlimited traffic.
Of course, ilegal contents are forbidden, like anywhere else. And remember that porn is ilegal in Japan, so probably there won't be as much abuse as there would be in other countries.
If they were smart, they'd sell "per song" to Amazon, or whoever, and do it just like iTunes does. Hell, you could set up terminals in CD-Stores for punters to grab the tracks they want directly to their iPod and then pay at the counter.
This is already available in Japan since at least two years ago. This is a machine in a music store that lets you choose individual songs from the machine's catalog and save them to a MiniDisc. You can bring your own MiniDiscs, or buy them at this machine.
In the example given, the spam harvester used a unique User-Agent string and a constant IP address for spidering.
It's not so easy. What you say is true, most of them use a constant IP address. But more sofisticated spammers are now using open proxies to both harvest email addresses from websites and spam referer logs. In my domain, for example, there's one guy who's trying to spam my logs since several months ago. I receive several hundred hits every day, each of them from a different IP address. He's using open proxies around the Net.
Right now, I see only two practical solutions for spam:
The article says their cluster has 'more than 2000 processors'. So presumably they mean 'more than 2304'? They just bought 588 blade servers * 2 CPUs each = 1176 CPUs.
The article says that they switched to blade servers because of space limitations. Let's assume the 15 racks they already had are all full of 1U dual CPU servers. 15 racks * 42U = 630 dual CPU servers. 630 servers * 2 CPUs = 1260 CPUs.
So, 1176 + 1260 = 2436 CPUs. That's assuming all the 15 racks they already owned contain all 1U servers.
So yes, they probably own the biggest Intel-based cluster.
The problem with this is that it's so darn expensive. Those fiber-optic connections have to be perfect. It's just too expensive to put that in on a mass scale.
Then move to Japan. They've been selling FTTH since a loooong time ago, and it isn't expensive. I have a 100Mbps dedicated line at home with two IP addresses for 17.000 yen/month (around $145/month). And it would be much cheaper if I just wanted a shared 100Mbps line (more information in NTT-East's site, but in Japanese).
And this is a screenshot of my machine downloading two FreeBSD ISOs at around 25Mbps on this line.
You obviously have somehow missed the whole transition from 10Mb burst to 160Mb burst we've seen in the last few years. Scsi has, as well, gone from 8-bit with 5Mb transfer (scsi1) to 10Mb transfer @ 8bit or 20Mb transfer @ 16bit (scsi2), 40Mb transfer @ 16bit wide (scsi3) and now 80Mb transfer @ 16bit wide with ultra2.
80MBytes/second? The Ultra320 bus already supports 320MBytes/second. Of course, no single hard disk supports this transfer rate (yet). But you can connect 8 x 40MB/second Ultra2 disks to an Ultra320 card and have a total transfer rate of the full 320MB/s. Specially useful for RAID volumes.
...and it looks like their support people have no f*cking idea about it.
I uploaded the messages to my site, just in case you'd like to take a look at them:
http://www.ag0ny.com/misc/mscrawler
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Do you live in a terrorist Nation? Then fear us. If you don't, then why are you jealous?
What is a 'terrorist nation'? There are terrorist groups in every country (the US not being an exception). And I don't think many people are feeling jealous for not being american.
America was burned on 9/11 (or 11/09), not your country. We have every right to defend/protect ourselfs from the likes of you. We didn't start this war, you did.
Yes, something terrible happend on 9/11. I agree on that. But your government is using that as an excuse to attack Iraq. Iraq != Osama Bin Laden. And yes, your country started this war. This war is no more than a smokescreen to evade attention on the great failure ni finding the real responsibles for the 9/11 attack.
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And did you notice the three letters on the upper right corner of that icon? :)
1 IP (which are in fact two, since they allow two PPPoE connections). And I don't NAT anyone, since I'm just hosting websites/email, not selling dialup accounts.
Yes, got a dedicated line. I'm on a 100Mbps line, but not exactly one of the cheap ones. You can see the price list at http://www.ds-networks.com/bflets/. Also, when I applied for the line one year and a half ago, my Japanese was not good enough to understand the terms of the contract, so I asked their sales department by email, in English, just to be sure.
It's more expensive than a domestic 100Mbps service, but still cheaper than many domestic broadband lines in other countries.
Most people don't know what to do with 100Mbs anyways.
Since there are no traffic limits, set up a small home-based ISP, as I've done.
...and I upgraded them long ago, as he did (photos here). I don't understand why this is news: just replace the disk, add memory. Nothing else. Besides, NetBSD for Qube2 is available at www.netbsd.org, ready to install.
:-)
However, I agree that the Qubes are wonderful machines if you don't need raw CPU power. The ones I have are MMQUBE2s, the japanese version of the Qube3. They're great as file servers (one of them is my internal network's file server, using NFS and Samba), and another is a remote backup server for my FreeBSD boxes. They just suck 45Watt each, don't need a CPU fan (just a heat sink), and produce almost no sound. And they look cool.
I have been running my own email server for years, and now if I want to send email to AOL users I have to route it through my ISP which negates the privacy aspect of having my own server.
Yes, that's right. These things happens. But whether we like AOL or not, they still own their servers and have the right to decide what email goes through their servers and what email doesn't. You could tell your friends about that, and let them decide whether they would like to move to other ISP or not.
The problem is choice.
Break the Internet? Something tells me that you don't know very well what you're talking about. Spamhaus (or ORDB or any other black list service) cannot block anything if you (or your ISP) don't want anything blocked.
It's the email server's administrator choice to use such a blacklist or not. In other words: if you're running an email server, you can choose whether you want to block these IPs or not.
You could argue that you're a customer of an ISP that's using Spamhaus or ORDB to block spam and you cannot do anything about that. And I would agree with you on that: you should have the choice to use the blacklists on your email account(s) or not. But that, from the system administrator's point of view, is not a simple task, as of now.
That's not so much bandwidth. It's just 1.5Mbps (around 180Kbytes/second). I guess they're on a little T1 line or something like that.
If they know the IPs, why don't they just raid the creeps and cut it off at the source?
Virtual hosts. You can place as many name-based virtual hosts (websites) as you want on a single IP address. I, for example, have many domains hosted in my server at home using a single IP. I have just a few, but the average ISP/hosting company have hundreds or thousands of websites sharing the same IP address. It wouldn't be very wise to block them all because one of them is ilegal.
I assume you're talking about the -a parameter in Windows' ping command. Looks like that switch is just used to resolve the reverse DNS for an IP, so we have the following:
:)
Name: c7pub-216-250-142-120.center7.com
Address: 216.250.142.120
Name: c7pub-216-250-140-112.center7.com
Address: 216.250.140.112
Name: www.caldera.com
Address: 216.250.140.125
This doesn't mean that these machines are on the same network. It means that SCO's or center7's network admin(s) didn't configure the reverse DNS for 216.250.142.125 and 216.250.140.112 to return the names of the websites hosted there. This could be because these machines are hosting several other sites (virtual hosts) on the same IPs.
Or it could just be that SCO's admins are lazy.
Please look at the IPs again:
.... .... ....
:)
Tracing route to www.canopy.com [216.250.142.120] over a maximum of 30 hops:
Tracing route to www.caldera.com [216.250.140.125] over a maximum of 30 hops:
Tracing route to www.sco.com [216.250.140.112] over a maximum of 30 hops:
They're not on the same C class. Most likely these machines are on different locations. Sorry to tell you, but your post doesn't apply.
More interesting yet: Sun's Cobalt equipment: Qubes, Raqs... Is SCO trying to bite their own ally on this madness?
I'll give you free space and bandwidth in one of my servers to host it. In Japan, just in case there's some stupid law they could use to stop you from setting up your forum. :)
It's easy enough to end up with tens of thousands of photographs on your machine if you're in the habit of carrying a digital camera around. Now, think about what happens when you snap video clips the way you currently snap photographs.
This is already happening. With cameras being integrated into phones, it's growing even more.
I couldn't agree more. I don't take many pictures, but I already have around 2Gb of them in my harddisk, all of them taken by me. And that was when I used to go around carrying a BIG digital camera.
Now that I bought a new phone, I guess I'll be taking pictures at pretty much everything here in Tokyo (translation: I'll be taking pictures of all the girls I cross on the street).
(8) Broom-closet sized apartments that cost thousands of dollars a month
;)
Not really. If you want to live in central Tokyo, it's going to be expensive, of course. You can find one-room apartments (around 20m2) starting at around 70000 yen (almost $600). The farther you go from the center of Tokyo, the cheaper it gets. Also, Tokyo is the most expensive city in Japan. Just go to Osaka or Hiroshima and you'll find 3 and 4-room apartments for a bit more than that (around 100000 yen/month).
My wife an I are living in the east border of Tokyo (half an hour from Shinjuku), and we're paying $1100/month for a nice apartment (photos here). Probably small by american standards, yes, but more than enough space for us.
(9) Elbow-to-elbow people in almost any public place, all the time
No. That's true only during rush hours (7:30-9:00am) and express trains in the afternoon/night. The rest of the time is quiet enough. And about crowded public places, these are only the places where lots of people go: Shinjuku (specially the Kabukicho district), Shibuya, Ikebukuro or Harajuku. And I bet you would pay to be there even if only to see the girls.
(10) Haughty disdain for Americans by most of the older population
This is probably true (I'm spanish, and I've never been discriminated in any way in the time I've been living here). But I guess that the fact that most young people do like foreigners (ie: girls) compensates for it.
(11) Expect to work 12 hour days if you get a job there. Be ostracized and frowned upon if you don't. (if not fired outright)
I'm working in a Japanese company and I work 8 hours/day (like the rest here). Before being here, I was working also 8 hours/day. Anyway, if you don't speak Japanese (or don't want to), you can always find a job in an american company.
Anything. I've got a 100Mbps fiber optics line at home and I'm running my server on it. Unlimited traffic.
Of course, ilegal contents are forbidden, like anywhere else. And remember that porn is ilegal in Japan, so probably there won't be as much abuse as there would be in other countries.
If they were smart, they'd sell "per song" to Amazon, or whoever, and do it just like iTunes does. Hell, you could set up terminals in CD-Stores for punters to grab the tracks they want directly to their iPod and then pay at the counter.
This is already available in Japan since at least two years ago. This is a machine in a music store that lets you choose individual songs from the machine's catalog and save them to a MiniDisc. You can bring your own MiniDiscs, or buy them at this machine.
In the example given, the spam harvester used a unique User-Agent string and a constant IP address for spidering.
It's not so easy. What you say is true, most of them use a constant IP address. But more sofisticated spammers are now using open proxies to both harvest email addresses from websites and spam referer logs. In my domain, for example, there's one guy who's trying to spam my logs since several months ago. I receive several hundred hits every day, each of them from a different IP address. He's using open proxies around the Net.
Right now, I see only two practical solutions for spam:
- A blacklist service like Spamhaus:
Pros: easy to setup, no maintenance.
Cons: some spam still goes through.
- A sender confirmation program like qconfirm:
Pros: no spam gets through, ever. Can be configured on a per user basis.
Cons: requires some maintenance, installation is not to easy as a blacklist.
The article says their cluster has 'more than 2000 processors'. So presumably they mean 'more than 2304'?
They just bought 588 blade servers * 2 CPUs each = 1176 CPUs.
The article says that they switched to blade servers because of space limitations. Let's assume the 15 racks they already had are all full of 1U dual CPU servers. 15 racks * 42U = 630 dual CPU servers. 630 servers * 2 CPUs = 1260 CPUs.
So, 1176 + 1260 = 2436 CPUs. That's assuming all the 15 racks they already owned contain all 1U servers.
So yes, they probably own the biggest Intel-based cluster.
The problem with this is that it's so darn expensive. Those fiber-optic connections have to be perfect. It's just too expensive to put that in on a mass scale.
Then move to Japan. They've been selling FTTH since a loooong time ago, and it isn't expensive. I have a 100Mbps dedicated line at home with two IP addresses for 17.000 yen/month (around $145/month). And it would be much cheaper if I just wanted a shared 100Mbps line (more information in NTT-East's site, but in Japanese).
And this is a screenshot of my machine downloading two FreeBSD ISOs at around 25Mbps on this line.
Where oh were is my 5Mbit cable modem? Heck, some poor bastards are still stuck using 56k modems...
;)
Come to Japan and get yourself a 100Mbps line.
You obviously have somehow missed the whole transition from 10Mb burst to 160Mb burst we've seen in the last few years. Scsi has, as well, gone from 8-bit with 5Mb transfer (scsi1) to 10Mb transfer @ 8bit or 20Mb transfer @ 16bit (scsi2), 40Mb transfer @ 16bit wide (scsi3) and now 80Mb transfer @ 16bit wide with ultra2.
80MBytes/second? The Ultra320 bus already supports 320MBytes/second. Of course, no single hard disk supports this transfer rate (yet). But you can connect 8 x 40MB/second Ultra2 disks to an Ultra320 card and have a total transfer rate of the full 320MB/s. Specially useful for RAID volumes.
Not that I needed these speeds yet, though...
Guess I should use 'preview' next time I post at this hours: here is the link.
...and it looks like their support people have no f*cking idea about it.
I uploaded the messages to my site, just in case you'd like to take a look at them:
http://www.ag0ny.com/misc/mscrawler
Do you live in a terrorist Nation? Then fear us. If you don't, then why are you jealous?
What is a 'terrorist nation'? There are terrorist groups in every country (the US not being an exception). And I don't think many people are feeling jealous for not being american.
America was burned on 9/11 (or 11/09), not your country. We have every right to defend/protect ourselfs from the likes of you. We didn't start this war, you did.
Yes, something terrible happend on 9/11. I agree on that. But your government is using that as an excuse to attack Iraq. Iraq != Osama Bin Laden. And yes, your country started this war. This war is no more than a smokescreen to evade attention on the great failure ni finding the real responsibles for the 9/11 attack.