One of the (many, many) things I detest about prison rape jokes is that it's really a serious problem. If you're condoning rape as an acceptable sentence from your country's justice system... then I don't know what to say. If you just haven't thought about it, you might want to.
Thirded. Srsly. Although the guy who submitted this is new to spamming slashdot, doesn't he know you're supposed to link to your google ad filled blog?
#1 provider -- well yeah, they're the only one who makes Macs. Combine the figures for all the PC manufacturers and Apple won't be coming out ahead any more.
Trying to automate things on Windows Server consumes a large part of my time at work. Some of the managment stuff is kind of nice but all of it is complicated, fragile and inconsistent. For example: you can view BUT NOT CHANGE the IIS configuration via the WMI API. A lot of stuff can be changed via WMI, though, so I spent a good few hours trying to use it before giving up and spawning the IIS command line tools to change configuration.
And don't get me started about Visual Studio; I had to develop a large chunk of ruby code to fix up VS projects so that Microsoft's command line tools will build what their own IDE created.
The Unix/Linux way is great: everything is in text files and everything is a process/file. The Windows way means everything has one of several APIs you have to learn, and even then it might not work right. No wonder most people just use the GUI while yearning for some way to automate what they're doing after going through the same set of steps on the 5th out of 20 servers.
Powershell is OK but lives in that awkward space where it's not a real programming language, but still has too many shell-isms. Somewhere between bash and perl with a neat way of piping objects around and a whole lot of inconsistencies to make things confusing.
(oh, yeah: "automate stuff" is a large part of my job description)
AMD x86_64 processors have an IOMMU. Intel's first x86_64 processors didn't but I don't know if this is still the case. IOMMUs are also important if you are running virtual machine software that allows some VMs access to physical hardware -- Xen lets you do this, for instance.
Ah, how wonderful it is to live in a country with actual employment laws, where you can't fire people without a reason. Ok so our government is trying to weaken this but they're not doing as well as they'd like.
But then I take all my annual leave every year -- and I work four days a week, happily taking the 20% pay cut this entails. The choice you present is a false dichotomy; I want to be the guy who is happy.
There were two tricks I knew about: PWM, which was used by a lot of MOD players to get sound, and another method where you (approximately) set the 1 bit speaker output to the derivative of the PCM sample values: signal goes up, set the speaker to 1, signal goes down, set the speaker to 0.
I think PWM probably sounded better but the derivative-based method missed out on the characteristic whine of PWM (especially audible at a sampling rate of 11KHz).
"the rest of the people"... well, the rest of the people who have sufficiently high incomes to be able to afford iPhones/etc. In your western middle class bubble that may well be many people but it's not "the rest of the people" by a long shot.
So what happens when people have the freedom to buy and take whatever medicine they want? There are externalities -- such as breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- to you taking whatever you want.
The original article was someone asking about problems with their dedicated server. What I guess I'm getting at is that EC2 isn't a dedicated server / VPS provider, and therefore not suitable for their use case. Which you agree with:-)
Yes, I know servers will fail. But as long as the disks still spin and haven't had crap written over them, then random VPS/dedicated server provider will be able to resurrect your box without you having to lift a finger. Which is a lot less work for you to do. I still keep backups myself:-)
I knew about EBS, didn't realise they did EBS backed images. It's good to know they warn you that your VM is going away (I didn't know that; is it advertised at all?).
But still, if I want a stable box I'd rather get one that stayed up without me having to check my email to make sure it wasn't about to get shut down. And there are lots of VPS providers who'll sell you one of those for less than what EC2 charge.
Relaunch... with a new disk loaded from S3. So relaunch from a backup that you had to make yourself.
My reading of the EC2 terms suggested that they could make your VM go away for maintenance reasons, whereas "normal" VPS hosting will try to keep your data around etc.
Your MTA melting due to incoming connections is not the fault of their network. It's your box. Fix it, or get someone else to, or don't run an MTA (srsly, SENDMAIL? The 90s called, they want their line noise configuration back). If the connections never transfer any data, maybe SYN cookies would help? (is there a full TCP handshake?) Did you get a new IP when you moved?
And $35 isn't that much to pay. Surely you're paying several times that per month for the hosting, and if not, their margins are thin enough that you can't expect them to jump through whatever hoops your paranoia requires.
Sickle cell anaemia is the example of adaptation to something that isn't, in normal circumstances, good, that was given in my high school science class:
Essentially, it's bad for you, but makes you less susceptible to malaria, which is worse. So if there's a high prevalence of malaria in your area, it gives you an evolutionary advantage.
How do you guys cope with having to add sales tax to advertised prices? Does it drive you up the wall? It's certainly confused me the times I've been to the US. The mental arithmetic to add those numbers is way easier than multiplying by 1.06...
(in sensible NZ, prices advertised to the general public must include sales tax)
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One of the (many, many) things I detest about prison rape jokes is that it's really a serious problem. If you're condoning rape as an acceptable sentence from your country's justice system... then I don't know what to say. If you just haven't thought about it, you might want to.
Yes. But they're not just a bunch of macs in radio range using bonjour and ichat. Also, they provide internet gateways.
Yeah, ad-hoc wifi: communicate with people who are within shouting range. Not really that helpful if your government cuts off the internet.
Thirded. Srsly. Although the guy who submitted this is new to spamming slashdot, doesn't he know you're supposed to link to your google ad filled blog?
#1 provider -- well yeah, they're the only one who makes Macs. Combine the figures for all the PC manufacturers and Apple won't be coming out ahead any more.
Preach it, brother!
Trying to automate things on Windows Server consumes a large part of my time at work. Some of the managment stuff is kind of nice but all of it is complicated, fragile and inconsistent. For example: you can view BUT NOT CHANGE the IIS configuration via the WMI API. A lot of stuff can be changed via WMI, though, so I spent a good few hours trying to use it before giving up and spawning the IIS command line tools to change configuration.
And don't get me started about Visual Studio; I had to develop a large chunk of ruby code to fix up VS projects so that Microsoft's command line tools will build what their own IDE created.
The Unix/Linux way is great: everything is in text files and everything is a process/file. The Windows way means everything has one of several APIs you have to learn, and even then it might not work right. No wonder most people just use the GUI while yearning for some way to automate what they're doing after going through the same set of steps on the 5th out of 20 servers.
Powershell is OK but lives in that awkward space where it's not a real programming language, but still has too many shell-isms. Somewhere between bash and perl with a neat way of piping objects around and a whole lot of inconsistencies to make things confusing.
(oh, yeah: "automate stuff" is a large part of my job description)
AMD x86_64 processors have an IOMMU. Intel's first x86_64 processors didn't but I don't know if this is still the case. IOMMUs are also important if you are running virtual machine software that allows some VMs access to physical hardware -- Xen lets you do this, for instance.
Ah, how wonderful it is to live in a country with actual employment laws, where you can't fire people without a reason. Ok so our government is trying to weaken this but they're not doing as well as they'd like.
But then I take all my annual leave every year -- and I work four days a week, happily taking the 20% pay cut this entails. The choice you present is a false dichotomy; I want to be the guy who is happy.
There were two tricks I knew about: PWM, which was used by a lot of MOD players to get sound, and another method where you (approximately) set the 1 bit speaker output to the derivative of the PCM sample values: signal goes up, set the speaker to 1, signal goes down, set the speaker to 0.
I think PWM probably sounded better but the derivative-based method missed out on the characteristic whine of PWM (especially audible at a sampling rate of 11KHz).
Er, 25 years ago HTTP didn't exist. Let alone SSL.
Young whippersnappers these days crowing about their 5 digit UIDs...
Hey, don't forget our old friend <table>!
"the rest of the people" ... well, the rest of the people who have sufficiently high incomes to be able to afford iPhones/etc. In your western middle class bubble that may well be many people but it's not "the rest of the people" by a long shot.
So what happens when people have the freedom to buy and take whatever medicine they want? There are externalities -- such as breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- to you taking whatever you want.
The original article was someone asking about problems with their dedicated server. What I guess I'm getting at is that EC2 isn't a dedicated server / VPS provider, and therefore not suitable for their use case. Which you agree with :-)
Yes, I know servers will fail. But as long as the disks still spin and haven't had crap written over them, then random VPS/dedicated server provider will be able to resurrect your box without you having to lift a finger. Which is a lot less work for you to do. I still keep backups myself :-)
I knew about EBS, didn't realise they did EBS backed images. It's good to know they warn you that your VM is going away (I didn't know that; is it advertised at all?).
But still, if I want a stable box I'd rather get one that stayed up without me having to check my email to make sure it wasn't about to get shut down. And there are lots of VPS providers who'll sell you one of those for less than what EC2 charge.
Relaunch ... with a new disk loaded from S3. So relaunch from a backup that you had to make yourself.
My reading of the EC2 terms suggested that they could make your VM go away for maintenance reasons, whereas "normal" VPS hosting will try to keep your data around etc.
Your MTA melting due to incoming connections is not the fault of their network. It's your box. Fix it, or get someone else to, or don't run an MTA (srsly, SENDMAIL? The 90s called, they want their line noise configuration back). If the connections never transfer any data, maybe SYN cookies would help? (is there a full TCP handshake?) Did you get a new IP when you moved?
And $35 isn't that much to pay. Surely you're paying several times that per month for the hosting, and if not, their margins are thin enough that you can't expect them to jump through whatever hoops your paranoia requires.
HA HA HA EC2 uptime SLA HA HA HA
I'm pretty sure that an EC2 instance can just go away at any time... it's not supposed to be a permanent VM that lasts for ever.
Sickle cell anaemia is the example of adaptation to something that isn't, in normal circumstances, good, that was given in my high school science class:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease
Essentially, it's bad for you, but makes you less susceptible to malaria, which is worse. So if there's a high prevalence of malaria in your area, it gives you an evolutionary advantage.
How do you guys cope with having to add sales tax to advertised prices? Does it drive you up the wall? It's certainly confused me the times I've been to the US. The mental arithmetic to add those numbers is way easier than multiplying by 1.06...
(in sensible NZ, prices advertised to the general public must include sales tax)
Some of us have no depth perception to begin with, you insensitive clod!
Surely you guys could just put slightly less money into your enormous military, and more into education? No tax increase required!
Legally sound doesn't mean right. Even if what SCO did was legally sound I think most people here would still say it was wrong...
Butbutbut everyone knows it's the Python programmers who are the real anti-intellectuals!
(ducks)