Expensive intially can save untold cost later. I bought my Sony DDS3 drive back when they were twice what they are now, and it's been worth every penny. Come to think of it, that drive is the single most expensive computer component I've ever bought; it was money well spent. I've had to restore from tapes as much as 6 months old: no errors, no problems. The QIC80 drives I used to use were not that reliable. Travan etc. is pretty much QIC80 on steriods.
The only problem I have with it is that it's internal compression is about equivalent to gzip -1; I like better. A reasonably fast machine, the alternative compression program of your choice, and the buffer program can solve that problem.
Also, don't buy the "new" Adaptec 2940UWPro (the one that can drive all the connectors at once) SCSI controller to hook your new drive to, it doesn't speak to Sony tapes, and Adaptec's response is: "We know. Too bad." Excretus Est Ex Altitudine
I'm pretty sure that it's been done. Most of the words in the Roget's Thesaurus that's available from Gutenberg are taken, it seems like. I haven't actually run my ~500K word list against whois, I don't want to get filtered. NSI only gives the full zones out to spammers who can pay for them, apparently, a desire to do legitimate statistical research isn't sufficient.
My first car was a '77 Olds Cutlass, no rear bumper when I bought it, a rust bucket that you'd have had to see to beleive. Wound up bolting a 2x6 on as a bumper after the cops threatened to impound it. The rear axle was held in place with bailing wire; the little bracket on the spring that was supposed to have a hole that the axle fit into had a slot, so the wire kept the slop down.
It was so rusted out that I lost a spare tire out the side of the trunk one day, taking a curve a bit hard. We bungeed the trunk lid down, punched holes in the top, and called it a "speed sensitive spoiler".
It had a Rocket 350 engine in it, we only ever lost one stoplight drag race, to a Porsche, IIRC. The car became unstable over 90MPH or so but it never took long to get there. It was a bit loud as the exhaust system ended just after the Y joint. No need for neon to make the underside of the car glow at night.
It had a little plastic skull for a hood ornament, half inch steel mesh for a front grille, and little stick figure people, dogs, mailboxes, baby carriges, etc painted on the doors. When it pulled out of a parking space it left it's mark: an outline of little rust chips and the occasional small suspension part. Never did leak any oil.
To meet it was to fear it, to pass it was near impossible, non-vital repairs were unthinkable. Who needs the front brakes when the rear still work?
I can beat the guy with the 386. I remember fondly the days wasted with my 286 and a 1200 bps modem, racking up some impressive phone bills. Anybody else remember the first public-access Usenet node? Joliet One, or something like that, an AT&T 3b2 IIRC; it was before the Great Renaming. It always seemed to me that the lurkers and leeches made up the majority of the BBS population even back then.
The 'net as we now know it is geared less for interactive communication than the BBSen were, and the proportion of "quiet folk" has increased. That's a natural consequence of lowering the entry hurdles: once you'd managed to find a good BBS back then, you were more likely to say something just to prove to yourself that you'd done it.
I recall a SysOp buddy of mine pulling the plug on his active and growing board because the "real user ratio" had fallen too low for him. He said he wanted people to communicate, and never realized that the readers, the audience, the lurkers, were at least as important to comunication as those who wrote.
I'm kinda suprised that nobody's mentioned it yet. Building a log statistics and storage system is an excellent way for somebody to pick up Perl or Python knowledge, or to enhance what they have. Use Apache's CustomLog directive to get referer and user-agent info in your logfiles, and let your imagination run wild as to what kind of data can be mined out of them. User tracking from page to page doesn't require cookies. As compressable as log data is, there's no real excuse not to save it. If you've got enough traffic that logs are taking up disk space you want, you've already got a tape drive or something (right? you'd better...)
Allright, ye've shown me up as the lazy reptile I am. TCP/IP is out, I grant. Thanks for the link. Note also that it has 2K words of disk. We can bounce back a light static page to an HTTP request or reasonable fake, and put it on the web if not the 'net. 1k op/sec will not survive the slashdot effect, unless we can get Mel on it.
20 bit word size? That'll make things a little tougher unless it's good at bit banging. I have faith in the perverse genius of the folks who do things like text mode quake ("it's for the blind, Pops, really...") to do anything they want to see done.
Let's not drag an ugly fact across this discussion by mentioning I/O. I was raised on Intel; "We don't need no steenking I/O..." Besides, a working fake serial port can't be that hard, and having the hardware hacked to do new stuff was obviously a part of this machine's operational life, so it's not like we're betraying it's memory by taking a soldering iron to it.
52 years old... If they restore it to actual operational status I'll bet they don't run it for very long at a time. Spare tubes and such are gonna be a bear to find. Power shouldn't be a big deal, there's almost certainly some local power company that'd eat the bill to have a "Sponsored by" sign on it.
I wanna know if they'd put it on the 'net, assuming of course they could find implementors for the necessary software. I'd be willing to do a little work on that, just to see it done. Show up the guy with the TRS80 you can telnet to.
Somebody beat me to the inevitable Beowulf comment.
Try turning your monitor's brightness all the way up, maybe darken the room you're in, and maybe back off from the monitor a bit more. Doom2 used to give me the same kind of problems.
Somebody suggested that training method when I was raising my first puppy. Now she's addicted to pepper sauce and beer. Dogs do not digest spicy foods well...
"if you let someone get burned by their own bad habits, it is sometimes enough to break them of those habits."
Unreadable Python is tough but can be done. See the standard turtle module; xmllib shows what can be accomplished through proper use of regexps.
Many of the rules he mentions can be applied; just because your first block used one indent doesn't mean the second block (at the same level) need use the same indent. The "open list" line continuation trick can be good for some real horrors with some care.
Of course if you're willing to work at it you can do things like this:
from sys import*;from string \ import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= '-',a);d='-d'in \ a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l -d,l-1+d while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and \ map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce( lambda \ x,y:(x>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))
(\ denotes form induced breaks not present in the original; should be 4 lines total).
Extra point if you can figure that one out and/or name the source I've shamelessly stolen it from.
Socket 5 was the initial Pentium socket; 486en go into a Socket 3.
There were some motherboards made that could be jumpered up to 80Mhz motherboard speed, for pushing the 486-DX50's. I've got two (which have two PCI slots but don't seem to have BIOS code to use 'em). AMD 5x86-133's do not react well to overclocking even with heroic cooling, I've killed two on these boards. Also killed one of the bords, I think I melted something in the CPU 'cuz the voltage regulator gave up the magic smoke.
Adding beverages to the fridge would increase the thermal mass; the electronics would tend to stay cooler because the liquids will need more energy to heat than the air.
I'm may be just strung out from being up too late, but I seem to recall that the NSA doesn't file for a patent until someone else has filed an application that would overlap theirs.
In this case, I'd bet that some of the voice recognition work prompted the NSA's move. Now, let's spin some drunken spiderwebs of conspiracy... The topic extraction came along because that's part of the system for which they developed voice recognition in the first place, and there's probably somebody at Ft. Meade that got reamed for not trimming that out, as it says too much about what they've been doing for who knows how long. Shades of "Enemy of the State": "every time you say 'bomb', or 'president', or any one of hundreds of other key words it's filtered out and flagged for analysis" (yeah, I know that's not a verbatim quote).
I really want to know, as everybody else does, what their full capabilities are. I'd also like to know what they're doing with those capabilities they admit to having. I'm sure that since they're government, we can trust them. The techs who run what's gotta be a massive system are all people, though... How many [girl|boy]friend's names are on the watch list, do ya think?
Thanks to the person who posted the link to the patent, that was thoughtful.
OK, I'll bite; pennance for a smartass comment elsewhere on this story...
I pay for my internet connection. I pay for email I get. When I get mail I didn't ask for, don't want, advertising a product I have no interest in, that I paid to recieve, it ticks me off. Granted, it's not that big an expense for most, but the principle is sound. Hosting an anti-spam system along with this article isn't hypocritical; as others have pointed out the difference is whether you go to it, or it comes to you.
Anyway, what would the response be if Mr. Vixie was to exert influence on the editors of MenWeb in regard to this article? When Vixie Enterprises is presumably a paid or at least compensated host for them? If my ISP wanted me to take down a new dirty jokes collection because, for example, they also hosted several Puritan web sites; not only would I quickly find another ISP but they'd be reviled for censoring content. (assuming no prior content restrictions, as such almost certainly don't apply to MenWeb).
I think the best idea (ie; what I do) is somewhere between a "network console" and switch boxes. Rather, both.
For the cost of any of the better electronic switches, or less, buy yourself a really good monitor etc for one machine. Then get a cheap monitor etc and one of the crappy little mechanical switches ($25 at CyberGuys, where I bought my last from (warning: Java is required to navigate the site, other than that they're pretty cool)). Do everything you can via X11 on your pretty display, and then you have the "off" console for those things you can't do, like rebooting the little bastards after they've forgotten how to speak to their NICs.
While I haven't had any serious experiance with the better electrical KVM switches, I can't imagine how they'd not tear up high-bandwidth video signals. I like to push my monitor out as far as it'll go, and have had poor results from the high grade 6 foot extension cables. That ruled out switches of either type on my console machine.
After going through the questions (varies, varies, O-, too long, etc) I got a response that said "Only those accepted will be contacted".
I loved WordPerfect, from (IIRC) 2.0 on a Victor 9000 under DOS 1.0 up to 5.1, whereupon it started to suck. I've tried WP8-Linux, actually bought a shrink-wrapped copy from a store, and found it too slow to use with moderately complex layout. A two column, single page document should not take 90 seconds (!) to scroll down one line. This on a PPro-233 with 196MB of RAM. I don't need WYSIWYG; I'd love the old character based interface, but that's not available anymore without per-user licenses.
There's a really great word processor and decent layout program in there still, struggling to get out. If Corel had any sense they'd release the source to public scrutiny, put up with the derisive comments about it's quality or lack thereof, and accept the assistance of all of us fans. I'd understand if they didn't want to do this with the latest and greatest; so give us the code to 5.1 and let your users save the product.
If you're doing something like pulling headlines and providing links to the full story where it was found, I don't think anybody could reasonably object. If you summarize the story yourself (like slashdot) that's cool; if you quote some of the page it's a little more iffy. Search engines do it. If you're pulling text and serving it yourself, more folks are going to have a problem with that. I'd imagine most sane outfits would ask you (politely first) to desist before going to legal action. My understanding of the concept of "fair use" means that you could summarize and provide links, and even quote chunks directly, even if the original source objected.
What do others get away with is probably the standard to test against. Google caches a lot of pages and serves them, is that republication without permission legal? I think they'll stop offering pages cached from your site if you ask; haven't heard of 'em being sued yet. LinuxToday consists mostly of quotes from stories from other sites, have they gotten any complaints? Granted, their process probably isn't automated.
"A digital library for the future. We have already started to build it - we have already collected much of the Web as well as other public Internet materials including Netnews and downloadable software."
They claim to have near 20 terabytes collected, although AFAIK they don't make any of it available to the public. At least their spider is polite, it seems to honor robots.txt, and it's throttled. What's the legality there?
Then again, there's eWatch, who runs a spider over sites being monitored daily, with never a query for robots.txt and a deceptive User-Agent string. They sell "Internet Monitoring":
While not on topic, this quote from the propaganda for their new Cybersleuth(R; TM, & FU) service is also likely of interest:
"eWatch CyberSleuth will attempt to identify the entity or entities behind the screen name(s) which have targeted your organization."
...and...
"...then containment is the next step. Containment is a two part endeavor focusing on (1.) Neutralizing the information appearing online, and; (2.) Identifying the perpetrators behind the postings, rogue website, hack, etc. Neutralizing information posted online, if appropriate, is the removal of the offending messages from where ever they appear in cyberspace. This may mean something as simple as removing a posting from a web message board on Yahoo! to the shuttering of a terrorist web site. The objective is to not only stop the spread of incorrect information, but ensure that what has already spread is also eliminated."
Go check it out on their site; I've lost some context in quoting. That'll probably get me a free target's eye view of the service.
...but I tend to ramble. To get back to the point, I'd say go ahead and do it, openly and above board, and see what kind of feedback you get from your vict... sources.
Maybe it's just my habitual paranoia showing, and/or my ignorance of things stock, but I suspect MicroSloth of doing everything possible to keep the price up. Monday and Tuesday it's started a little down, dropped until noon-ish, and struggled back up to a minor loss.
I may well be reading the numbers wrong, but wasn't Monday afternoon's rally the result of a couple of huge trades, like a quarter of the day's volume?
Slashdot Mirror
Expensive intially can save untold cost later. I bought my Sony DDS3 drive back when they were twice what they are now, and it's been worth every penny. Come to think of it, that drive is the single most expensive computer component I've ever bought; it was money well spent. I've had to restore from tapes as much as 6 months old: no errors, no problems. The QIC80 drives I used to use were not that reliable. Travan etc. is pretty much QIC80 on steriods.
The only problem I have with it is that it's internal compression is about equivalent to gzip -1; I like better. A reasonably fast machine, the alternative compression program of your choice, and the buffer program can solve that problem.
Also, don't buy the "new" Adaptec 2940UWPro (the one that can drive all the connectors at once) SCSI controller to hook your new drive to, it doesn't speak to Sony tapes, and Adaptec's response is: "We know. Too bad." Excretus Est Ex Altitudine
I'm pretty sure that it's been done. Most of the words in the Roget's Thesaurus that's available from Gutenberg are taken, it seems like. I haven't actually run my ~500K word list against whois, I don't want to get filtered. NSI only gives the full zones out to spammers who can pay for them, apparently, a desire to do legitimate statistical research isn't sufficient.
Anybody want to slip me a copy of the zones?
"Welcome to the First Church of Applientology; I'm your host, L. Ron Hoover..."
...not the game.
You do not grok assembly. I would post as an example the 10 line CRC16 routine I used to use for my YMODEM implementation, if I could find it...
"queer for gears..."
-- Naked Came the Robot, Barry Longyear
My first car was a '77 Olds Cutlass, no rear bumper when I bought it, a rust bucket that you'd have had to see to beleive. Wound up bolting a 2x6 on as a bumper after the cops threatened to impound it. The rear axle was held in place with bailing wire; the little bracket on the spring that was supposed to have a hole that the axle fit into had a slot, so the wire kept the slop down.
It was so rusted out that I lost a spare tire out the side of the trunk one day, taking a curve a bit hard. We bungeed the trunk lid down, punched holes in the top, and called it a "speed sensitive spoiler".
It had a Rocket 350 engine in it, we only ever lost one stoplight drag race, to a Porsche, IIRC. The car became unstable over 90MPH or so but it never took long to get there. It was a bit loud as the exhaust system ended just after the Y joint. No need for neon to make the underside of the car glow at night.
It had a little plastic skull for a hood ornament, half inch steel mesh for a front grille, and little stick figure people, dogs, mailboxes, baby carriges, etc painted on the doors. When it pulled out of a parking space it left it's mark: an outline of little rust chips and the occasional small suspension part. Never did leak any oil.
To meet it was to fear it, to pass it was near impossible, non-vital repairs were unthinkable. Who needs the front brakes when the rear still work?
I miss that car.
I can beat the guy with the 386. I remember fondly the days wasted with my 286 and a 1200 bps modem, racking up some impressive phone bills. Anybody else remember the first public-access Usenet node? Joliet One, or something like that, an AT&T 3b2 IIRC; it was before the Great Renaming. It always seemed to me that the lurkers and leeches made up the majority of the BBS population even back then.
The 'net as we now know it is geared less for interactive communication than the BBSen were, and the proportion of "quiet folk" has increased. That's a natural consequence of lowering the entry hurdles: once you'd managed to find a good BBS back then, you were more likely to say something just to prove to yourself that you'd done it.
I recall a SysOp buddy of mine pulling the plug on his active and growing board because the "real user ratio" had fallen too low for him. He said he wanted people to communicate, and never realized that the readers, the audience, the lurkers, were at least as important to comunication as those who wrote.
I'm kinda suprised that nobody's mentioned it yet. Building a log statistics and storage system is an excellent way for somebody to pick up Perl or Python knowledge, or to enhance what they have. Use Apache's CustomLog directive to get referer and user-agent info in your logfiles, and let your imagination run wild as to what kind of data can be mined out of them. User tracking from page to page doesn't require cookies. As compressable as log data is, there's no real excuse not to save it. If you've got enough traffic that logs are taking up disk space you want, you've already got a tape drive or something (right? you'd better...)
Allright, ye've shown me up as the lazy reptile I am. TCP/IP is out, I grant. Thanks for the link. Note also that it has 2K words of disk. We can bounce back a light static page to an HTTP request or reasonable fake, and put it on the web if not the 'net. 1k op/sec will not survive the slashdot effect, unless we can get Mel on it.
20 bit word size? That'll make things a little tougher unless it's good at bit banging. I have faith in the perverse genius of the folks who do things like text mode quake ("it's for the blind, Pops, really...") to do anything they want to see done.
Let's not drag an ugly fact across this discussion by mentioning I/O. I was raised on Intel; "We don't need no steenking I/O..." Besides, a working fake serial port can't be that hard, and having the hardware hacked to do new stuff was obviously a part of this machine's operational life, so it's not like we're betraying it's memory by taking a soldering iron to it.
(...been up waaaay too long now...)
Adoption of quantum computing will be delayed in the financial arena by early bugs:
Plaintive customer: "My account can't be empty, I checked the balance this morning and it had over $1000 in it..."
...been up too long, sorry.
52 years old... If they restore it to actual operational status I'll bet they don't run it for very long at a time. Spare tubes and such are gonna be a bear to find. Power shouldn't be a big deal, there's almost certainly some local power company that'd eat the bill to have a "Sponsored by" sign on it.
I wanna know if they'd put it on the 'net, assuming of course they could find implementors for the necessary software. I'd be willing to do a little work on that, just to see it done. Show up the guy with the TRS80 you can telnet to.
Somebody beat me to the inevitable Beowulf comment.
Try turning your monitor's brightness all the way up, maybe darken the room you're in, and maybe back off from the monitor a bit more. Doom2 used to give me the same kind of problems.
Somebody suggested that training method when I was raising my first puppy. Now she's addicted to pepper sauce and beer. Dogs do not digest spicy foods well...
:)
"if you let someone get burned by their own bad habits, it is sometimes enough to break them of those habits."
And sometimes it just makes a big stink.
Looked great in preview, screwed when posted. The important flaw is on the last line; I think I can get this one right:
n ge(o-1,-1,-1)))
lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),ra
If you want to post <(<) or >(>) note that the preview form converts the char entities back to characters, and double check 'em.
Many of the rules he mentions can be applied; just because your first block used one indent doesn't mean the second block (at the same level) need use the same indent. The "open list" line continuation trick can be good for some real horrors with some care.
Of course if you're willing to work at it you can do things like this:
(\ denotes form induced breaks not present in the original; should be 4 lines total).
Extra point if you can figure that one out and/or name the source I've shamelessly stolen it from.
Socket 5 was the initial Pentium socket; 486en go into a Socket 3.
There were some motherboards made that could be jumpered up to 80Mhz motherboard speed, for pushing the 486-DX50's. I've got two (which have two PCI slots but don't seem to have BIOS code to use 'em). AMD 5x86-133's do not react well to overclocking even with heroic cooling, I've killed two on these boards. Also killed one of the bords, I think I melted something in the CPU 'cuz the voltage regulator gave up the magic smoke.
Adding beverages to the fridge would increase the thermal mass; the electronics would tend to stay cooler because the liquids will need more energy to heat than the air.
Other than that tred's right on the money.
I'm may be just strung out from being up too late, but I seem to recall that the NSA doesn't file for a patent until someone else has filed an application that would overlap theirs.
In this case, I'd bet that some of the voice recognition work prompted the NSA's move. Now, let's spin some drunken spiderwebs of conspiracy... The topic extraction came along because that's part of the system for which they developed voice recognition in the first place, and there's probably somebody at Ft. Meade that got reamed for not trimming that out, as it says too much about what they've been doing for who knows how long. Shades of "Enemy of the State": "every time you say 'bomb', or 'president', or any one of hundreds of other key words it's filtered out and flagged for analysis" (yeah, I know that's not a verbatim quote).
I really want to know, as everybody else does, what their full capabilities are. I'd also like to know what they're doing with those capabilities they admit to having. I'm sure that since they're government, we can trust them. The techs who run what's gotta be a massive system are all people, though... How many [girl|boy]friend's names are on the watch list, do ya think?
Thanks to the person who posted the link to the patent, that was thoughtful.
OK, I'll bite; pennance for a smartass comment elsewhere on this story...
I pay for my internet connection. I pay for email I get. When I get mail I didn't ask for, don't want, advertising a product I have no interest in, that I paid to recieve, it ticks me off. Granted, it's not that big an expense for most, but the principle is sound. Hosting an anti-spam system along with this article isn't hypocritical; as others have pointed out the difference is whether you go to it, or it comes to you.
Anyway, what would the response be if Mr. Vixie was to exert influence on the editors of MenWeb in regard to this article? When Vixie Enterprises is presumably a paid or at least compensated host for them? If my ISP wanted me to take down a new dirty jokes collection because, for example, they also hosted several Puritan web sites; not only would I quickly find another ISP but they'd be reviled for censoring content. (assuming no prior content restrictions, as such almost certainly don't apply to MenWeb).
Good eye, though; I read the article earlier and didn't catch the "vix.com" address. Here's another tidbit in return: The slashdot effect may not be as intense as is rumored.
No, in my case at least it replaced 4 middlin' quality with two. Got rid of some, at least.
I think the best idea (ie; what I do) is somewhere between a "network console" and switch boxes. Rather, both.
For the cost of any of the better electronic switches, or less, buy yourself a really good monitor etc for one machine. Then get a cheap monitor etc and one of the crappy little mechanical switches ($25 at CyberGuys, where I bought my last from (warning: Java is required to navigate the site, other than that they're pretty cool)). Do everything you can via X11 on your pretty display, and then you have the "off" console for those things you can't do, like rebooting the little bastards after they've forgotten how to speak to their NICs.
While I haven't had any serious experiance with the better electrical KVM switches, I can't imagine how they'd not tear up high-bandwidth video signals. I like to push my monitor out as far as it'll go, and have had poor results from the high grade 6 foot extension cables. That ruled out switches of either type on my console machine.
Pun intended?
After going through the questions (varies, varies, O-, too long, etc) I got a response that said "Only those accepted will be contacted".
I loved WordPerfect, from (IIRC) 2.0 on a Victor 9000 under DOS 1.0 up to 5.1, whereupon it started to suck. I've tried WP8-Linux, actually bought a shrink-wrapped copy from a store, and found it too slow to use with moderately complex layout. A two column, single page document should not take 90 seconds (!) to scroll down one line. This on a PPro-233 with 196MB of RAM. I don't need WYSIWYG; I'd love the old character based interface, but that's not available anymore without per-user licenses.
There's a really great word processor and decent layout program in there still, struggling to get out. If Corel had any sense they'd release the source to public scrutiny, put up with the derisive comments about it's quality or lack thereof, and accept the assistance of all of us fans. I'd understand if they didn't want to do this with the latest and greatest; so give us the code to 5.1 and let your users save the product.
Read. Play with /proc/sys/vm/* and see if it helps.
JWZ's question is a good one; I'd like to know why the RSS rlimit stuff doesn't seem to work, too. The other rlimits seem to work.
If you're doing something like pulling headlines and providing links to the full story where it was found, I don't think anybody could reasonably object. If you summarize the story yourself (like slashdot) that's cool; if you quote some of the page it's a little more iffy. Search engines do it. If you're pulling text and serving it yourself, more folks are going to have a problem with that. I'd imagine most sane outfits would ask you (politely first) to desist before going to legal action. My understanding of the concept of "fair use" means that you could summarize and provide links, and even quote chunks directly, even if the original source objected.
What do others get away with is probably the standard to test against. Google caches a lot of pages and serves them, is that republication without permission legal? I think they'll stop offering pages cached from your site if you ask; haven't heard of 'em being sued yet. LinuxToday consists mostly of quotes from stories from other sites, have they gotten any complaints? Granted, their process probably isn't automated.
Then there are things like the Internet Archive:
They claim to have near 20 terabytes collected, although AFAIK they don't make any of it available to the public. At least their spider is polite, it seems to honor robots.txt, and it's throttled. What's the legality there?
Then again, there's eWatch, who runs a spider over sites being monitored daily, with never a query for robots.txt and a deceptive User-Agent string. They sell "Internet Monitoring":
While not on topic, this quote from the propaganda for their new Cybersleuth(R; TM, & FU) service is also likely of interest:
Go check it out on their site; I've lost some context in quoting. That'll probably get me a free target's eye view of the service.
...but I tend to ramble. To get back to the point, I'd say go ahead and do it, openly and above board, and see what kind of feedback you get from your vict... sources.
Maybe it's just my habitual paranoia showing, and/or my ignorance of things stock, but I suspect MicroSloth of doing everything possible to keep the price up. Monday and Tuesday it's started a little down, dropped until noon-ish, and struggled back up to a minor loss.
I may well be reading the numbers wrong, but wasn't Monday afternoon's rally the result of a couple of huge trades, like a quarter of the day's volume?