Nicely put. That would be a "no". It wasn't an insult to ask, btw. The ability to write a generator for free association of that class is respectable in and of itself. If you haven't achieved that, the work itself is still quite good.
But the botnet folks have been all over cloud computing for so long I think the major market proponents trying to sell that stuff are actually taking their cues from the botnets, not the other way around.
If Conficker goes live it will be the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. It will have more than 100 times the RAM, processors and storage of RoadRunner, the official record holder. The official record doesn't include prior worms like Storm. It will have more bandwidth than Google. It could store the Internet Archive a thousand times over, redundantly. It will have access to the personal documents of at least 10 million people. The operator clearly has the understanding necessary to harness all of that power or Conficker would not exist. Statistically at least a few of those PCs must have access to databases that know the medical history, credit application and other intimate details of the rest of us. You would have to be living off the grid since birth to escape the awareness of this thing.
And the guy running it won't be paying anything at all for it. They could if they wanted to make all those millions of computers do protein folding and help find cures for cancer overnight. The aggregate extra CPU load would probably bring several regional power grids down. They probably won't do that. Whatever it is they do it's probably not going to be good.
You know, I wish the people responsible for large enterprises would look at this and say - "Hey! There's an opportunity here. We could leverage our existing assets to do some interesting distributed architecture stuff between Greg the typist's keystrokes. After hours we could probably have some incredible data mining going on! Lunchtime our desktops could be doing something more interesting than driving that aquarium screensaver! You know, there's a lot of storage on these desktops that's could be put to good use..." I would really like that. I've been crying in my coffee for twenty years that I can't find somebody brilliant enough to do let me do that.
Maybe that's this guy's problem too. He got tired of waiting for permission from people with no understanding and took the initiative because he could.
Why is it that worms and viruses have better security than legitimate programs?
On the average they don't. Much like legitimate programs there are many thousands of applications in this group and the ones that persist tend to be ones that stand out in some field. Since the operating challenge for these applications includes active aggressive and professional detection and eradication efforts the survivors are the ones which excel in the ease of installation, network security and transparent user interface categories.
So many people are so utterly convinced of their masterful Windows skills that you can't reach them. The existence of rootkits that can hide their presence even from a hypervisor, that don't exist in their detection database because they're unique and targeted, or just not widely spread enough to have found an AV company's honeypot does not deter them in the least.
I've given up trying to correct this level of idiocy. You keep up the good fight for me, ok?
If you had a random domain name generator that collided with legitimate servers, it's trivial to tweak the generation algorithm to 1. DOS servers you want attacked as collateral damage and 2. collide with the quite legitimate, long registered host you've long since rooted on your desired activation day.
I'll concur that the conficker botmaster has definite skills and an in-depth understanding of protocols, algorithms, networks, social engineering and Windows exploits. That doesn't mean he's not fourteen.
When your refrigerator and your toilet can both talk to your doctor, you may find your refrigerator adjusting its resupply order with the supermarket and hence your diet, based on the intestinal parasites of your weekend guests.
Businesses know that IPv6 is broken, untested, and unstable in production environments, with hastily written standards that factor little in the way of security.
Which makes it so unlike the rest of the Internet.
Look, if you're looking at IPv4 or IPv6 to provide some security you're doing it wrong.
Black hole routing IPv4 plays hob with their infosec engagements. A lot of people black hole huge swaths of the IPv4 space for security reasons. IPv6 opens up a bunch of doors that were closed before. Same with eastern Europe.
I think we're past that now. As we come to full understanding of how badly we've been had the result could very well be to undermine the "full faith and credit of these United States". The irony is that the idiots that pulled this trick will then find their inflated bank balances as worthless as the IOU's of an unemployed meth addict. They did it all for nothing.
And in the future after you've invested in this technology that approaches the limits of copper, you'll find that your neighboring building isn't finding any such limit because he did what you should have done: drag the damned fiber optic cable.
He'll save money too because he'll be working with commercial off the shelf equipment available at NewEgg. As his speeds go up to 100Gbps per strand you'll be standing there with your copper in your hand going "lol wut?"
Senescence provides a useful biological function. It allows each new generation to triumph over the old. Without it we would eventually stifle our youth and die out.
But this thing still is cool. If you can get gps and bidirectional communications in an SD form factor and 4GB storage as well, you're well on your way to some interesting rover applications.
Intel can shut down AMD's ability to use the X86 technology without giving up the AMD-64 technology if they can show that AMD defaulted on the agreement.
AMD can use the X86 technology and prevent Intel from using the AMD-64 technology if they prevail.
A court is going to have to measure this. The smart money is on a settlement but barring that Intel will win.
Let us meet here again in seven years, when the matter is settled.
The ARM netbooks and embedded devices are coming and there's nothing Microsoft or Intel can do about it except adapt and compete. The time when you could defeat a good technology with an evangelist is long gone since the public now knows evangelists are just shills for hire. The day a MS rep could derail a Linux deployment with a sneer has passed. Sorry Enderle, your day is done.
Intel will choose to compete and they have a good start because they started years ago. As the Atom die shrinks and gains SOC capabilities, its power requirements will come down. Maybe not to ARM levels, but to an acceptable level faster than ARM can bring their performance up to acceptable levels for a good user experience. Microsoft will choose to use the tools they have, and fail to adapt. That's what they do. They can't grasp a market that's abandoned the need for them. It's alien to their corporate culture. After they've failed in the market they'll buy an ARM OS vendor and try, but that's five years hence. and they'll buy five of them badly and integrate them poorly and we'll laugh at their ineptitude here.
Ultimately Intel will win this one but there will be some interesting side stories and products between now and then. Microsoft will lose because they choose not to port to the interesting new platform Linux runs on already, and so when the channels merge again they will have lost share. By then low power devices might be most of the share, at least for end user devices.
Cisco backplanes are measured in terabits per second. What have you got?
-->Yeah, I don't work for HP, Cisco or IBM. I'm genuinely interested. Hook up with the guy who knows the real deal and gimme some numbers because I asked.
It's how I get my children interested in math, science, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering and aerodynamics. If you have a better method than punching holes in clouds I'd love to hear it. Difficulty: it has to actually work on children 4-10 years of age. If you haven't got them hooked on thinking by then, you ain't gonna.
By plugging the servers directly into the switch fabric you can get away from those icky standard network interconnects and instead offer insanely fast low latency proprietary interconnects. And once your customers are hooked you can drag them a long way before they can get off the hook.
And you forgot to mention that HP offers Fusion io's IODrive in a blade module for 320GB of 800MBPs 80K IOPs goodness. Let's see Cisco pull THAT off.
At least we're not expending a few billion government dollars to make the B&M Foundation Campus of Giving even more grand, in order to provide a more comfortable workspace for the folks who will spend their days deciding which poor people to help. That would be tragicomic.
To be fair, he was only CIO of DC for 3 of the 5 years that the misfeasance was going on. Despite this I have to go with the "buck stops" rule. He's responsible by inheritance. If it were not so, delegation of responsibility would no longer work.
There are various strategies to reduce failure on your raid, and to ensure that N+1 drives don't fail in a period where >N failure results in catastrophic data loss. The data is far more valuable than the equipment, so it's best to be sure. There are more factors than you imply in your post, so of course the best advice is "know what the >?#@ you're doing."
You are correct that unbatching your drives helps. So does staggering their incorporation, or various types of wear variegation. Despite your level these are real issues. All spinning drives eventually suffer catastrophic failure. SSDs typically have a more graceful failure mode, but they still fail eventually. If your job involves not managing drives but managing the information stored on them, these are important issues to you.
Of course the best course depends on your application. If I had 10000 desktops and ten server rooms around the world and 100 GB of essential data that must not be lost (like for example, the formula for stuff to make nuclear missiles), I'd store an encrypted copy on every desktop in addition to the steps I took in the server room.
And if you're at the top of your tree: I've been screaming this for 20 years and people still don't get it. If you're going to use desktop computers in your infrastructure, they're resources. Desktop computers are not dumb terminals. If you use these resources correctly you can get distributed execution and distributed storage in addition to the other utility that desktops provide, often at zero or minimal cost. You have a supercomputer and you don't even know it. You have a free SAN that can store a petabyte. It's idle and it always will be. That's wasteful.
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Nicely put. That would be a "no". It wasn't an insult to ask, btw. The ability to write a generator for free association of that class is respectable in and of itself. If you haven't achieved that, the work itself is still quite good.
But the botnet folks have been all over cloud computing for so long I think the major market proponents trying to sell that stuff are actually taking their cues from the botnets, not the other way around.
If Conficker goes live it will be the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. It will have more than 100 times the RAM, processors and storage of RoadRunner, the official record holder. The official record doesn't include prior worms like Storm. It will have more bandwidth than Google. It could store the Internet Archive a thousand times over, redundantly. It will have access to the personal documents of at least 10 million people. The operator clearly has the understanding necessary to harness all of that power or Conficker would not exist. Statistically at least a few of those PCs must have access to databases that know the medical history, credit application and other intimate details of the rest of us. You would have to be living off the grid since birth to escape the awareness of this thing.
And the guy running it won't be paying anything at all for it. They could if they wanted to make all those millions of computers do protein folding and help find cures for cancer overnight. The aggregate extra CPU load would probably bring several regional power grids down. They probably won't do that. Whatever it is they do it's probably not going to be good.
You know, I wish the people responsible for large enterprises would look at this and say - "Hey! There's an opportunity here. We could leverage our existing assets to do some interesting distributed architecture stuff between Greg the typist's keystrokes. After hours we could probably have some incredible data mining going on! Lunchtime our desktops could be doing something more interesting than driving that aquarium screensaver! You know, there's a lot of storage on these desktops that's could be put to good use..." I would really like that. I've been crying in my coffee for twenty years that I can't find somebody brilliant enough to do let me do that.
Maybe that's this guy's problem too. He got tired of waiting for permission from people with no understanding and took the initiative because he could.
Why is it that worms and viruses have better security than legitimate programs?
On the average they don't. Much like legitimate programs there are many thousands of applications in this group and the ones that persist tend to be ones that stand out in some field. Since the operating challenge for these applications includes active aggressive and professional detection and eradication efforts the survivors are the ones which excel in the ease of installation, network security and transparent user interface categories.
Think of it as advanced beta testing.
Was a beautiful assortment of BS. Very poetic. Thanks, I've added it to my collection. Are you using a generator, or did you just free-associate it?
So many people are so utterly convinced of their masterful Windows skills that you can't reach them. The existence of rootkits that can hide their presence even from a hypervisor, that don't exist in their detection database because they're unique and targeted, or just not widely spread enough to have found an AV company's honeypot does not deter them in the least.
I've given up trying to correct this level of idiocy. You keep up the good fight for me, ok?
If you had a random domain name generator that collided with legitimate servers, it's trivial to tweak the generation algorithm to 1. DOS servers you want attacked as collateral damage and 2. collide with the quite legitimate, long registered host you've long since rooted on your desired activation day.
I'll concur that the conficker botmaster has definite skills and an in-depth understanding of protocols, algorithms, networks, social engineering and Windows exploits. That doesn't mean he's not fourteen.
When your refrigerator and your toilet can both talk to your doctor, you may find your refrigerator adjusting its resupply order with the supermarket and hence your diet, based on the intestinal parasites of your weekend guests.
Businesses know that IPv6 is broken, untested, and unstable in production environments, with hastily written standards that factor little in the way of security.
Which makes it so unlike the rest of the Internet.
Look, if you're looking at IPv4 or IPv6 to provide some security you're doing it wrong.
Black hole routing IPv4 plays hob with their infosec engagements. A lot of people black hole huge swaths of the IPv4 space for security reasons. IPv6 opens up a bunch of doors that were closed before. Same with eastern Europe.
When it is rainin', you can't fix it nohow.
I think we're past that now. As we come to full understanding of how badly we've been had the result could very well be to undermine the "full faith and credit of these United States". The irony is that the idiots that pulled this trick will then find their inflated bank balances as worthless as the IOU's of an unemployed meth addict. They did it all for nothing.
It's a secret list. You can't know what sites are on it, but you can't link to sites on the list.
It's like your girlfriend who doesn't want you to say certain things, but won't tell you what they are.
Only a government weasel could come up with such an idea. It's clear he doesn't know how the Internet works.
And in the future after you've invested in this technology that approaches the limits of copper, you'll find that your neighboring building isn't finding any such limit because he did what you should have done: drag the damned fiber optic cable.
He'll save money too because he'll be working with commercial off the shelf equipment available at NewEgg. As his speeds go up to 100Gbps per strand you'll be standing there with your copper in your hand going "lol wut?"
Senescence provides a useful biological function. It allows each new generation to triumph over the old. Without it we would eventually stifle our youth and die out.
Granted.
But this thing still is cool. If you can get gps and bidirectional communications in an SD form factor and 4GB storage as well, you're well on your way to some interesting rover applications.
Intel can shut down AMD's ability to use the X86 technology without giving up the AMD-64 technology if they can show that AMD defaulted on the agreement.
AMD can use the X86 technology and prevent Intel from using the AMD-64 technology if they prevail.
A court is going to have to measure this. The smart money is on a settlement but barring that Intel will win.
Let us meet here again in seven years, when the matter is settled.
The ARM netbooks and embedded devices are coming and there's nothing Microsoft or Intel can do about it except adapt and compete. The time when you could defeat a good technology with an evangelist is long gone since the public now knows evangelists are just shills for hire. The day a MS rep could derail a Linux deployment with a sneer has passed. Sorry Enderle, your day is done.
Intel will choose to compete and they have a good start because they started years ago. As the Atom die shrinks and gains SOC capabilities, its power requirements will come down. Maybe not to ARM levels, but to an acceptable level faster than ARM can bring their performance up to acceptable levels for a good user experience. Microsoft will choose to use the tools they have, and fail to adapt. That's what they do. They can't grasp a market that's abandoned the need for them. It's alien to their corporate culture. After they've failed in the market they'll buy an ARM OS vendor and try, but that's five years hence. and they'll buy five of them badly and integrate them poorly and we'll laugh at their ineptitude here.
Ultimately Intel will win this one but there will be some interesting side stories and products between now and then. Microsoft will lose because they choose not to port to the interesting new platform Linux runs on already, and so when the channels merge again they will have lost share. By then low power devices might be most of the share, at least for end user devices.
Cisco backplanes are measured in terabits per second. What have you got?
-->Yeah, I don't work for HP, Cisco or IBM. I'm genuinely interested. Hook up with the guy who knows the real deal and gimme some numbers because I asked.
Don't forget the red iron oxide. video
or is it just "haha lookit my rockit go!"?
It's how I get my children interested in math, science, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering and aerodynamics. If you have a better method than punching holes in clouds I'd love to hear it. Difficulty: it has to actually work on children 4-10 years of age. If you haven't got them hooked on thinking by then, you ain't gonna.
By plugging the servers directly into the switch fabric you can get away from those icky standard network interconnects and instead offer insanely fast low latency proprietary interconnects. And once your customers are hooked you can drag them a long way before they can get off the hook.
And you forgot to mention that HP offers Fusion io's IODrive in a blade module for 320GB of 800MBPs 80K IOPs goodness. Let's see Cisco pull THAT off.
At least we're not expending a few billion government dollars to make the B&M Foundation Campus of Giving even more grand, in order to provide a more comfortable workspace for the folks who will spend their days deciding which poor people to help. That would be tragicomic.
Or are we?
To be fair, he was only CIO of DC for 3 of the 5 years that the misfeasance was going on. Despite this I have to go with the "buck stops" rule. He's responsible by inheritance. If it were not so, delegation of responsibility would no longer work.
There are various strategies to reduce failure on your raid, and to ensure that N+1 drives don't fail in a period where >N failure results in catastrophic data loss. The data is far more valuable than the equipment, so it's best to be sure. There are more factors than you imply in your post, so of course the best advice is "know what the >?#@ you're doing."
You are correct that unbatching your drives helps. So does staggering their incorporation, or various types of wear variegation. Despite your level these are real issues. All spinning drives eventually suffer catastrophic failure. SSDs typically have a more graceful failure mode, but they still fail eventually. If your job involves not managing drives but managing the information stored on them, these are important issues to you.
Of course the best course depends on your application. If I had 10000 desktops and ten server rooms around the world and 100 GB of essential data that must not be lost (like for example, the formula for stuff to make nuclear missiles), I'd store an encrypted copy on every desktop in addition to the steps I took in the server room.
And if you're at the top of your tree: I've been screaming this for 20 years and people still don't get it. If you're going to use desktop computers in your infrastructure, they're resources. Desktop computers are not dumb terminals. If you use these resources correctly you can get distributed execution and distributed storage in addition to the other utility that desktops provide, often at zero or minimal cost. You have a supercomputer and you don't even know it. You have a free SAN that can store a petabyte. It's idle and it always will be. That's wasteful.