I really like my Sansa Connect WiFi enabled player with the Yahoo Music Unlimited service. I knew there was trouble ahead but I figured it would still work as a regular mp3 player once Yahoo Music Unlimited goes dark. The Sansa Connect runs Linux and uses Mono. Time to start hacking. A general purpose WiFi internet radio receiver would be cool. You can find Sansa Connects for under $90 as recently as last week and probably less next week.
FairPlay is definetly what I would call loose shackles. They let you do a lot with your "protected" content. The problem lies if/when Apple decides to retroactively change their DRM policy. Remember this is software not law. Apple through the terms of your license and through their technology could push out an update to iTunes that say "apply these terrible restrictions on all iTMS content."
This is not about mininova.org. Do you know why? Because DRM does not, will not and can not stop piracy.
It is my opinion DRM is not intended to stop piracy. Piracy will alwyas exist (like poverty and war). It is my opinion DRM is intended to extract more money from non-pirates like you and I.
I am proud to say that I participated in today's FSF event.
I believe the combination of Digital Rights Management technology and the Trusted Computing initiative are the single greatest threat to a free software desktop. I believe the danger is not just that we will be pushed into a desktop ghetto where we will not be allowed to enjoy the newest movies and music.
RMS' Right to Read might seem far out for most folks I believe he is point on. DRM will tie media to an user or possibly an user and a specific machine. DRM will allow corporations to gather unprecedented amounts of information about us. If we are not vigilant we are headed into an Orwellian dystopia where all of our digital habits are carefully monitored and controlled.
The really interesting thing is that it WILL NOT STOP PIRACY! As long as we enjoy books and movies with our eyes and music with our ears there will be an analog hole and there will be piracy. DRM is not about stopping piracy it is about destroying competition. Competition from small developers, competition from start ups and competition from free software...
For almost the whole of human history culture has been shared. Imagine if Shakespeare had been controlled by DRM and copyright law so that no was able to sample his plays. What would modern literature be like. I imagine it would be worse. We stand at a moment in history where we have an unprecedented ability to create and share. Do we want to hand the keys of our shared culture to those least likely to allow us to use it in meaningful ways?
I agree with those who say the problem are the laws such as the DMCA and as well as perpetual copyright. These things should be overturned. However it is my opinion that a motivated group of individuals could raise awareness within the public to create a backlash and prevent a DRM nightmare from fully forming.
If I did not stand up at this moment in time and let the world know that DRM is wrong I would be complicit in the effort of corporations to steal our shared culture.
Do I believe that I can stop the DRM juggernaut of Microsoft/Apple/Intel/Etc? I don't know but I don't believe I can just let it happen.
One note on RMS, you may not agree with him but he serves an extremely important role in both the free software and open source movements. He is the logical extreme of freedom while others serve as the logical extreme of pragmatism. He helps define the spectrum of opinion on all issues related to software freedom and for that (and more) I appreciate him. If we did not have him and the FSF we would not be where we are today.
I will be posting about my experience at http://psfk.blogspot.com/ (nothing to see there just yet 5/23/2006 @ 6:20 PM )
DRM tech is NOT what you need to secure your server. If it was, YOU would hold the chip's root secret key, but the TCG will NOT give you that! DRM exists to allow companies to [try to] secure "your" computer against YOU.
WRONG!
A TPM comes with no keys. You generate your own keypairs, and if you are using a free operating system you control what can boot and what can run. A TPM does not do what you are saying it does.
Alright -- so the technology can be used in a good way, too. But it was still primarily designed for the benefit of the cartel, and there's still a private key that you're not allowed to know. I think the danger greatly outweighs any possible benefit.
The only problem I have with your source is that a Trusted Computing Module (TPM) in the chipset is not equal to Microsoft Palladium (or whatever it is called now).
There is a private key that you are not allowed to know and it is the private key you generate! One functionality of a TPM is as a device for the secure generation and storage of key pairs. Your private key never leaves the TPM. You are the only person who has control over generation of keys in the TPM.
The TPM incorporates 3 types of functionality. These include keypair generation and storage, booting of only trusted systems (trusted by you), and TPM managment functions.
There is no DRM inherent in the TPM. The TPM should not be confused with the Microsoft extensions to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance's standards work. There is no MPAA/RIAA/Microsoft secret key in your TPM and there is no TCPA Certificate Authority from which you must get software certificates. The TCPA's work is cross platform and there is GPL code available to utilize the functionality of the TPM. You choose what system software is trusted to boot.
Implying that trusted computing is bad because it facilitates DRM is as flawed as saying encryption is bad because it allows "terrorists" and child pornographers to hide their secrets. The problem is not Trusted Computing Modules, the problem is non-free operating systems incorporating DRM functionality.
No, it's not. It's not about me being able to sign stuff, because I won't have the private key.
That's how the whole system works -- it's protecting the copyright cartel's "digital rights" from you. To them, you are the enemy. If you had the private key, you'd be able to decrypt whatever you wanted, which wouldn't make the system very good for protecting "their" content, now would it?
Windows users are going to get screwed by trusted computing, but it might actually make life on the net a little safer for those of us on the *nix side.
With companies like Discount Shoe Warehouse or Polo Ralph Lauren having 100,000+ credit card numbers stolen at a time I would say that data security needs to be a priority in this industry. There are no easy solutions to social engineering and phishing but we can make merchants shape up and fly right when it comes to protecting our CC#'s on their computers.
Not for long, they are trying to make these type of scans manditory, if you handle Credit Card information at all. This includes all those Mom and Pop hosted sites too.
Its called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Basically MasterCard, Discover and Amex aligned their data security standards with Visa's Cardholder Information Security Program. Everyone who stores transmits or processes cardholder data (CC# is the critical piece of info) must be compliant with the standard. E-commerce or no e-commerce, it does not matter. Are you storing cardholder data on a computer? If yes you must be PCI compliant.
Level 4 merchants (less than 20,000 ecom transactions or 6 million offline transactions) are not required to be scanned or complete the PCI Self Assesment Questionnaire. But those who do not beware! If you get haxored and have not gotten the PCI compliant seal from SecurityMetrics, Ambiron, Scan Alert or one of the other certified security assesors be ready to get out your checkbook. Fines for noncompliance could be as high as $500,000. Nobody ever accused Visa or MasterCard for being stingy with the fines.
All you web hosts out there this is important for you to. I work in risk for a large credit card processor. Part of a merchant acheiving PCI compliant status is to only work with PCI compliant service providers. This means you. I have already had to move merchants off of servers run by stubborn local little guy on to compliant servers run by people with more buisness sense. The reaction of many of the smaller web hosts is, "screw this, the Visa docs say that PCI validation is only required for merchants above level 4. We aren't doing this." Well PCI is here to stay and if somebody wants me to process their merchant paper I'm only going to do it if they are PCI compliant. You know what else, there are more and morePCI compliant service providers everyday.
Crap for crap look at Discount Shoe Warehouse, or Polo Ralph Lauren, or HSBC, or any of the hundreds of security breaches that cross my desk every year when Visa/MasterCard or an issuer reports that some of my cardholder's (we are an issuer also) info has been compromised. Everyone in the payment card industry needs to wake up and take security seriously.
I have carried my 12" powerbook in a waterfield designs sleeve case for 1.5 years now, and it is doing great. I switch off between a messenger style bag, a backpack and sometimes I use the strap that came with the sleeve case. Good stuff.
This exploit and this exploit still work under OS 10.3.4. I do not have any 3rd party security software, I did uncheck the open safe files after downloading checkbox in Safari preferences.
I mean, most of us are still using ipv4 and China only got something like 45 million ipv4 addresses. That is fewer than the combined total of IBM and Stanford. So what could we be missing out on anyway?
Do you really think those were "real" callers? Didn't you know everything on TV is scripted and made up? Why introduce unknown variables to your formula when you can script more interesting in concept and solution?
Did you ever actually watch Call for Help or TSS? Things went awry all the time and, atleast when I was watching it, Leo would get stumped from time to time. Hell, if it wasn't for Patrick and Google a lot of questions would have gone unanswered on TSS. I don't think the calls were scripted.
Most of the folks on slashdot are not programmers...
My opinion on the matter, you have no right to warez. If you can't afford or acquire legally the latest greatest MS operating system or Adobe/Macromedia graphics app use free software. We the hell do you think RMS has been ranting all these years? He believes that software is a human right, and we have come pretty far in making OSS available to just about anybody with a computer who wants it.
Oh, wait I forgot, I'm on slashdot. If we used free software we wouldn't be able to play the 1337 windows games.
Oh, and to the parent, screw you buddy. You obviously have no clue. There are lots of people making their dough from OSS. Both in the traditional, "Hi I'm Bleh and I work for HP" as well as guys in my local lug who have started small buisnesses with OSS at the core.
Let's face it, the linux center of mass in the Pacific Northwest is decidedly south of BC. Where is OSDL? Where are the West Coast linux strategists for IBM and Intel? Where is the 2nd fastest linux cluster and 5th fastest supercomputer in the world? Where is there a large Debian based distro aimed at homes and offices? Which Pacific Northwest city has new lugs sprouting up? Which prominent lug in the north did not participate at all in LFNW 2003, the largest LFNW to that date?
The triangle of Seattle, Portland, Richland (PNL puts it on the map) is the center of mass of Linux in the Northwest. Hopefully LFNW will take this into account in the future.
One of the perks of LFNW this year was a swank after party thrown by the local Class A Data Center, FiberCloud. The party was a great opportunity to meet a diverse array of folks.
I got to go on a tour of the data center, and I was really impressed. They currently have two bandwidth providers(AT&T and a Canadian Provider). The fiber running north doesn't touch any electronics beforing reaching Canada. They will be adding Sprint and MCI through a connection with their Everet data center later this year or early this year. The engineering of the facility was impressive. Their was forsight and redundancy built in all over the freakin' place.
But what was more impressive was how profesional they were in combination with how service oriented. Because of the size and location of their facility I got a small buisness feel from them. You know that real friendly, know your going to get to talk to a human and they are going to help you out kind of feeling.
They raffled off a pretty darn nice colocation package at the party. I left before the raffle. I hope they have just been delayed in informing me of winning.
I thought LFNW was awesome. I especially enjoyed the Pacific Northwest National Labs High Performance Linux Cluster talk given by Timothy A Witteveen of PNL. It is one hell of a machine. It is one hell of a machine. 9.4 teraflops and a 53 terrabyte SAN running NWLinux. It placed 5th on the last Top 500 List.
That 53 terrabyte SAN is one contiguous filesystem using lustre.
The use of QSNet2/Elan4 interconnects make the use of terbyte data sets with lots of internode communication more efficient than past machines. These interconnects provide a peak bandwidth of 340 MB/sec in each direction. But even more impresive than the bandwidth is the latency, between 2 us and 5 us. Compare that with ethernet latency measured in tens or even hundreds of ms.
During the presentation Tim went over two examples of simulations performed on their cluster that could not be accomplished on other machines. These examples were outside of my domain of knowledge, but one involved simulating the behavior of water molecules and the other was an extremely detailed protein folding simulation.
One last bit that was interesting was their methodology for updating the machines. They have over a thousand and took some time to determine an efficient means to keep the machines up to date. It was determined that reimaging the maches was faster than applying patches. They utilize a multicast approach in which allows them, theoretically, to reimage all of the machines in 28 minutes. They do not always reach this theoretical maximum, but they reimage a thousand machines PDQ.
The meet & greet in the commons was fun. Pogo Linux had a free drawing for a loaded AMD64 system. There was plenty of swag to be had from all sorts of folks. It was cool to stop and chat with one of the Helix developers. All in all there was a really good group of folks gathered.
I know Slashdot is full of trolls, but I must say I am a little suprised at how many crappy comments LFNW is getting. All I have to say to those filled with negativity is screw you. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have some cool stuff going on. Whether it is the 3 new lugs in Seattle, OSDL in Portland, the Linux Cluster at PNL, SeattleWireless, PersonalTelco or LFNW there are exciting things happening up here. I think a couple people on this site need to take their heads out of their arses and take a look around. Folks up here are using linux, and getting stuff done.
From UWTV.org and the 2002 University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia:
Google Linux Cluster, The
Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. In this discussion, Google Fellow Urs Holzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs. For more information about this program, please see the CSE web site.
Watch here using Windows Media Player or compatible:
The video is also available in streaming mpeg2 using IBM VideoCharger. If you are on the UW lan and want to use the VideoCharger link it can be found on the UWTV site.
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I really like my Sansa Connect WiFi enabled player with the Yahoo Music Unlimited service. I knew there was trouble ahead but I figured it would still work as a regular mp3 player once Yahoo Music Unlimited goes dark. The Sansa Connect runs Linux and uses Mono. Time to start hacking. A general purpose WiFi internet radio receiver would be cool. You can find Sansa Connects for under $90 as recently as last week and probably less next week.
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
FairPlay is definetly what I would call loose shackles. They let you do a lot with your "protected" content. The problem lies if/when Apple decides to retroactively change their DRM policy. Remember this is software not law. Apple through the terms of your license and through their technology could push out an update to iTunes that say "apply these terrible restrictions on all iTMS content."
This is not about mininova.org. Do you know why? Because DRM does not, will not and can not stop piracy.
It is my opinion DRM is not intended to stop piracy. Piracy will alwyas exist (like poverty and war). It is my opinion DRM is intended to extract more money from non-pirates like you and I.
I am proud to say that I participated in today's FSF event.
I believe the combination of Digital Rights Management technology and the Trusted Computing initiative are the single greatest threat to a free software desktop. I believe the danger is not just that we will be pushed into a desktop ghetto where we will not be allowed to enjoy the newest movies and music.
RMS' Right to Read might seem far out for most folks I believe he is point on. DRM will tie media to an user or possibly an user and a specific machine. DRM will allow corporations to gather unprecedented amounts of information about us. If we are not vigilant we are headed into an Orwellian dystopia where all of our digital habits are carefully monitored and controlled.
The really interesting thing is that it WILL NOT STOP PIRACY! As long as we enjoy books and movies with our eyes and music with our ears there will be an analog hole and there will be piracy. DRM is not about stopping piracy it is about destroying competition. Competition from small developers, competition from start ups and competition from free software...
For almost the whole of human history culture has been shared. Imagine if Shakespeare had been controlled by DRM and copyright law so that no was able to sample his plays. What would modern literature be like. I imagine it would be worse. We stand at a moment in history where we have an unprecedented ability to create and share. Do we want to hand the keys of our shared culture to those least likely to allow us to use it in meaningful ways?
I agree with those who say the problem are the laws such as the DMCA and as well as perpetual copyright. These things should be overturned. However it is my opinion that a motivated group of individuals could raise awareness within the public to create a backlash and prevent a DRM nightmare from fully forming.
If I did not stand up at this moment in time and let the world know that DRM is wrong I would be complicit in the effort of corporations to steal our shared culture.
Do I believe that I can stop the DRM juggernaut of Microsoft/Apple/Intel/Etc? I don't know but I don't believe I can just let it happen.
One note on RMS, you may not agree with him but he serves an extremely important role in both the free software and open source movements. He is the logical extreme of freedom while others serve as the logical extreme of pragmatism. He helps define the spectrum of opinion on all issues related to software freedom and for that (and more) I appreciate him. If we did not have him and the FSF we would not be where we are today.
I will be posting about my experience at http://psfk.blogspot.com/ (nothing to see there just yet 5/23/2006 @ 6:20 PM )
WRONG!
A TPM comes with no keys. You generate your own keypairs, and if you are using a free operating system you control what can boot and what can run. A TPM does not do what you are saying it does.
http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/tcpa_rebutt
The only problem I have with your source is that a Trusted Computing Module (TPM) in the chipset is not equal to Microsoft Palladium (or whatever it is called now).
There is a private key that you are not allowed to know and it is the private key you generate! One functionality of a TPM is as a device for the secure generation and storage of key pairs. Your private key never leaves the TPM. You are the only person who has control over generation of keys in the TPM.
The TPM incorporates 3 types of functionality. These include keypair generation and storage, booting of only trusted systems (trusted by you), and TPM managment functions.
There is no DRM inherent in the TPM. The TPM should not be confused with the Microsoft extensions to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance's standards work. There is no MPAA/RIAA/Microsoft secret key in your TPM and there is no TCPA Certificate Authority from which you must get software certificates. The TCPA's work is cross platform and there is GPL code available to utilize the functionality of the TPM. You choose what system software is trusted to boot.
Implying that trusted computing is bad because it facilitates DRM is as flawed as saying encryption is bad because it allows "terrorists" and child pornographers to hide their secrets. The problem is not Trusted Computing Modules, the problem is non-free operating systems incorporating DRM functionality.
You don't know what you are talking about, do you? Try reading about a topic before spouting off. The Trusted Gentoo page might be a good place to start, http://www.gentoo.org/news/20050202-trustedgentoo
Windows users are going to get screwed by trusted computing, but it might actually make life on the net a little safer for those of us on the *nix side.
With companies like Discount Shoe Warehouse or Polo Ralph Lauren having 100,000+ credit card numbers stolen at a time I would say that data security needs to be a priority in this industry. There are no easy solutions to social engineering and phishing but we can make merchants shape up and fly right when it comes to protecting our CC#'s on their computers.
Its called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Basically MasterCard, Discover and Amex aligned their data security standards with Visa's Cardholder Information Security Program. Everyone who stores transmits or processes cardholder data (CC# is the critical piece of info) must be compliant with the standard. E-commerce or no e-commerce, it does not matter. Are you storing cardholder data on a computer? If yes you must be PCI compliant.
Level 4 merchants (less than 20,000 ecom transactions or 6 million offline transactions) are not required to be scanned or complete the PCI Self Assesment Questionnaire. But those who do not beware! If you get haxored and have not gotten the PCI compliant seal from SecurityMetrics, Ambiron, Scan Alert or one of the other certified security assesors be ready to get out your checkbook. Fines for noncompliance could be as high as $500,000. Nobody ever accused Visa or MasterCard for being stingy with the fines.
All you web hosts out there this is important for you to. I work in risk for a large credit card processor. Part of a merchant acheiving PCI compliant status is to only work with PCI compliant service providers. This means you. I have already had to move merchants off of servers run by stubborn local little guy on to compliant servers run by people with more buisness sense. The reaction of many of the smaller web hosts is, "screw this, the Visa docs say that PCI validation is only required for merchants above level 4. We aren't doing this." Well PCI is here to stay and if somebody wants me to process their merchant paper I'm only going to do it if they are PCI compliant. You know what else, there are more and more PCI compliant service providers everyday.
Crap for crap look at Discount Shoe Warehouse, or Polo Ralph Lauren, or HSBC, or any of the hundreds of security breaches that cross my desk every year when Visa/MasterCard or an issuer reports that some of my cardholder's (we are an issuer also) info has been compromised. Everyone in the payment card industry needs to wake up and take security seriously.
nice
I have carried my 12" powerbook in a waterfield designs sleeve case for 1.5 years now, and it is doing great. I switch off between a messenger style bag, a backpack and sometimes I use the strap that came with the sleeve case. Good stuff.
Tne video is in divx format. I played it using VLC media player. It is a sweet little opensource media player that will play divx out of the box.
This exploit and this exploit still work under OS 10.3.4. I do not have any 3rd party security software, I did uncheck the open safe files after downloading checkbox in Safari preferences.
I like how most of the people defining hardcore programming in this forum probably don't write code.
Why don't they block it on ALL cable modems and let people unblock it if they wish? Because each support call costs Comcast $9.
I mean, most of us are still using ipv4 and China only got something like 45 million ipv4 addresses. That is fewer than the combined total of IBM and Stanford. So what could we be missing out on anyway?
Do you really think those were "real" callers? Didn't you know everything on TV is scripted and made up? Why introduce unknown variables to your formula when you can script more interesting in concept and solution?
Did you ever actually watch Call for Help or TSS? Things went awry all the time and, atleast when I was watching it, Leo would get stumped from time to time. Hell, if it wasn't for Patrick and Google a lot of questions would have gone unanswered on TSS. I don't think the calls were scripted.
Are you new here?
Most of the folks on slashdot are not programmers...
My opinion on the matter, you have no right to warez. If you can't afford or acquire legally the latest greatest MS operating system or Adobe/Macromedia graphics app use free software. We the hell do you think RMS has been ranting all these years? He believes that software is a human right, and we have come pretty far in making OSS available to just about anybody with a computer who wants it.
Oh, wait I forgot, I'm on slashdot. If we used free software we wouldn't be able to play the 1337 windows games.
Oh, and to the parent, screw you buddy. You obviously have no clue. There are lots of people making their dough from OSS. Both in the traditional, "Hi I'm Bleh and I work for HP" as well as guys in my local lug who have started small buisnesses with OSS at the core.
Let's face it, the linux center of mass in the Pacific Northwest is decidedly south of BC. Where is OSDL? Where are the West Coast linux strategists for IBM and Intel? Where is the 2nd fastest linux cluster and 5th fastest supercomputer in the world? Where is there a large Debian based distro aimed at homes and offices? Which Pacific Northwest city has new lugs sprouting up? Which prominent lug in the north did not participate at all in LFNW 2003, the largest LFNW to that date?
The triangle of Seattle, Portland, Richland (PNL puts it on the map) is the center of mass of Linux in the Northwest. Hopefully LFNW will take this into account in the future.
One of the perks of LFNW this year was a swank after party thrown by the local Class A Data Center, FiberCloud. The party was a great opportunity to meet a diverse array of folks.
I got to go on a tour of the data center, and I was really impressed. They currently have two bandwidth providers(AT&T and a Canadian Provider). The fiber running north doesn't touch any electronics beforing reaching Canada. They will be adding Sprint and MCI through a connection with their Everet data center later this year or early this year. The engineering of the facility was impressive. Their was forsight and redundancy built in all over the freakin' place.
But what was more impressive was how profesional they were in combination with how service oriented. Because of the size and location of their facility I got a small buisness feel from them. You know that real friendly, know your going to get to talk to a human and they are going to help you out kind of feeling.
They raffled off a pretty darn nice colocation package at the party. I left before the raffle. I hope they have just been delayed in informing me of winning.
I thought LFNW was awesome. I especially enjoyed the Pacific Northwest National Labs High Performance Linux Cluster talk given by Timothy A Witteveen of PNL. It is one hell of a machine. It is one hell of a machine. 9.4 teraflops and a 53 terrabyte SAN running NWLinux. It placed 5th on the last Top 500 List.
That 53 terrabyte SAN is one contiguous filesystem using lustre. The use of QSNet2/Elan4 interconnects make the use of terbyte data sets with lots of internode communication more efficient than past machines. These interconnects provide a peak bandwidth of 340 MB/sec in each direction. But even more impresive than the bandwidth is the latency, between 2 us and 5 us. Compare that with ethernet latency measured in tens or even hundreds of ms.
During the presentation Tim went over two examples of simulations performed on their cluster that could not be accomplished on other machines. These examples were outside of my domain of knowledge, but one involved simulating the behavior of water molecules and the other was an extremely detailed protein folding simulation.
One last bit that was interesting was their methodology for updating the machines. They have over a thousand and took some time to determine an efficient means to keep the machines up to date. It was determined that reimaging the maches was faster than applying patches. They utilize a multicast approach in which allows them, theoretically, to reimage all of the machines in 28 minutes. They do not always reach this theoretical maximum, but they reimage a thousand machines PDQ.
The meet & greet in the commons was fun. Pogo Linux had a free drawing for a loaded AMD64 system. There was plenty of swag to be had from all sorts of folks. It was cool to stop and chat with one of the Helix developers. All in all there was a really good group of folks gathered.
I know Slashdot is full of trolls, but I must say I am a little suprised at how many crappy comments LFNW is getting. All I have to say to those filled with negativity is screw you. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have some cool stuff going on. Whether it is the 3 new lugs in Seattle, OSDL in Portland, the Linux Cluster at PNL, SeattleWireless, PersonalTelco or LFNW there are exciting things happening up here. I think a couple people on this site need to take their heads out of their arses and take a look around. Folks up here are using linux, and getting stuff done.
I propose the next lfnw be in Redmond. Maybe Microsoft Research will loan us the space.
Fox News is somehow outside the mainstream? Well maybe outside to the right...
From UWTV.org and the 2002 University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia:
Google Linux Cluster, The
Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. In this discussion, Google Fellow Urs Holzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs. For more information about this program, please see the CSE web site.
Watch here using Windows Media Player or compatible:
Modem
DSL (250k)
Cable (1300k)
The video is also available in streaming mpeg2 using IBM VideoCharger. If you are on the UW lan and want to use the VideoCharger link it can be found on the UWTV site.