LOL noobs. Four IBM 3370 bolted together side by side sounds just about right for a late 70s mainframe installation. Not too big, not too small.
Probably the OP is confusing his dates. A single 3380 DASD unit stores well over two gigs, but it wasn't released until June of 1980. OP was probably still wearing disco pants and gazing at lava lamps, early 1980 is "close enough" to the 70s.
I think its funny that "news for nerds" doesn't know that hard currency and physical currency are two different things to businessmen / economists and/. is getting them confused.
Hard currency is someone else's stable currency or gold. You want that when you're doing the hyperinflation thing like Iran's doing now and the US is attempting to do and Germany did about 90 years ago. Foreigners like satellite broadcasters want "real" aka hard money.
Physical currency is the paper bills. Once a stack of bills can't buy a roll of toilet paper, people start using money instead. Ditto firewood/kindling. Again a symptom of inflation. Most legal foreign trade doesn't involve paper currency so the satellite owner probably doesn't care about Iran's paper currency.
It takes pretty high tech to make cutting edge hard to counterfit paper money. Coinage is possible if you have gold. Paper checks, bank accounts, and credit cards don't care how many zeros are on them. Bitcoin would work but its hardly the only solution and requires a lot more electricity than a checkbook. Its not a huge deal.
Sadly, in the USA, that makes you a far right corner of the bell curve elite athlete.
I shit you not, I'm considered an "athlete" or "jock" at work because I take a 1+ mile walk every day as a portion of my lunch hour while everyone else in the 500 person building sits around and gets fatter at lunch time.
Perhaps vlm is actually Mitt Romney's sock puppet?/quote>
LOL Johnson and Ron Paul's sock puppet, yeah thats me. The only politician I've ever donated money to was Ron Paul, even though I don't like his social issues, way too far right.
Its not rocket science here, I'm allocating a zero percent interest rate / rate of return on his investments which is a bit pessimistic and he's probably not going to grad school for 45 years. The point being after a couple years in the big city he's darn near an order of magnitude more than necessary to hire himself a grad student of his own or personal assistant / domestic help. In fact if he only took 5 years or so of grad school, the numbers seem to imply he could afford to hire a whole little cadre of personal assistants.
Probably the best thing would be owning decent condition housing near campus, decent car requiring no maintenance expenses... You can't work 120 hours per week if you're spending 20 hours per week additional stopping the roof from collapsing and nursing a beater of a broken down old car and no idea where tomorrows dinner is coming from.
Hard sci fi figured it all out a long time ago. Read KSR's red mars with special focus on the guerrilla geo/aero/engineering project. Given a lot of thought its all pretty predictable.
The conception is that something has to push the "lesser" students out so that only the best examples make it through a degree program.
That's a correct conception. Depending on the field of course, there might only be academic positions for a small fraction of the people who make it all the way to the end of the program.
Its very much like pro sports. Not a bad life if you end up as a NFL quarterback with a long career. Of course the odds of that are rather low.
Not a binary decision. Work the $150K job for 6 years or until downsized, bank the whole thing, go back to academia for your $20K/yr 80 hr/wk job, withdraw money from the bank account to hire a clone of yourself willing to work for $20K/yr at only 40 hours, then give him half your workload and both of you coast along at 40 hrs? At zero interest rate, 150 * 6 / 20 is still 45 years...
My experience was system crash due to corruption of loaded executables, then at the hard reboot it fails the e2fsck because the "drive" is basically unwritable so the e2fsck can't complete.
It takes a long time to kill a modern SSD... this failure was from back when a CF plugged into a PATA-to-CF adapter was exotic even by/. standards
LOL I'd be the guy installing a RFID "fuzzer" that repeats 20 random kids IDs every time my fuzzer detects my frenemy walking thru the cattle gate. Thus my frenemy gets busted. God only knows what he'd do to me to get even after that.
Never underestimate the ability of people to screw up a simple security system. My guess is 99% of those systems will be vulnerable to a simple playback attack, why not, doing a good job means spending more money, right?
Also I've always wondered how RFIDs work in the presence of numerous other RFIDs, per person.
If the mark of the beast existed when I was a kid, I'd currently be tagged with 6 schools, something like 7 jobs, god only knows how many the.mil would insert (just one, or one per unit I served in, or..). I guess you have to accept multiple invalid rfids per person, at least a couple dozen, which seems to make rate limiting invalid IDs more difficult. So in a classroom of 30 kids, you have to accept perhaps 1000 RFIDs before you get suspicious someone is messing with the system.
Also, being idiots, I'm sure instead of cryptographically secure identifiers, they'll be morons implementing systems using SS numbers, sequential numbers, etc. So it'll be easier to crack and/or a sniffer will sniff yummy identity theft stuff.
Isn't sprint like the king of MVNO operators in the USA, like they make more dough off MVNO's reselling them than via retail ops directly selling Sprint, or so I've heard? I wonder if softbank will change strategies. That would certainly shake things up. Hope the MVNO's have solid contracts and/or deep pockets.
Einstein did invent the atomic bomb, didn't he...?
LOL no that's not really his thing. It was a big physics project and he was a physicist some decades before Trinity, but that's about as much connection as exists.
Its like asking who invented the computer (or the internet), the real invention is the very twisty logic required to narrow it down to only and exactly one person.
Sorry for being on topic. I remember discussing this on/. and I'm still kinda surprised Hans actually did it. I still think it was a bad conviction, even if it randomly happened to have turned out to be correct. Kind of like the salem witch trial convictions were wrong, even if we somehow figured out one of them was a real live magical genuine witch after the fact (however unlikely that would be).
Anyway, enough dr phil and now on to IT stuff:
1) Most benchmarks don't matter. Nobody makes money running benchmarks. Because the cost of casting up a production image is virtually (ha ha) zero because of virtualization SW and NAS stuff and puppet and some other tools, its well worth your while to spend an hour or two trying various instrumented FS to see which is fastest under your own workload, unless your workload is so stereotypical you can just rely on the hivemind opinion. Best of all if you can load balance on the FE then run multiple BE each with different FS and if applicable different FS parameters then watch how each FS actually performs under real live load. This is how REAL IT is done, as opposed to "I drunk me an energy drink and got a linux CDrom with this magazine and read me a slashdot article" style IT. I would not be surprised if somebody with some totally werido workload actually benefits off running reiserfs. Its a huge possible solution space and I'm sure it wins somewhere.
2) Check out the contents of something like/lib/modules/"somethin"/kernel/fs. Dude, I've got a minix module which I haven't used production since 1992 ish era (running minix of course). As long as someone, somewhere, has an old disk image from some historical whatever, someone's probably going to want computer archaeologist tools to look at the innards on a modern system. Admittedly for minix and maybe soon reiserfs, they might be better served by something like "mtools for reiserfs" than a kernel module or a FUSE solution, but if someone wants to do something in free software that you don't personally like, well good luck stopping them. Whaddya gonna do, change the license to something non-free just to stop them? Good luck!
So what exactly were his crimes? What damage did he cause? It's pretty much proven that he isn't a foreign agent and did not forward any information to other people.
We needed a boogy man to scare people with now that Kevin Mitnick isn't so scary. The modern witch hunt... some individuals must suffer for the amusement of the masses and control games of the elite. Our lapdogs in the UK are not cooperating. Bush probably would have already started bombing the UK in retaliation, but Obama will probably think of some other way to screw things up.
Its amusing to strip away the internet BS in his case and come up with analogies to breaking into a public library and photocopying stuff from the restricted collection. Yeah, he's a crook, but so small time as to scarcely be worth looking at, getting the USA witch trial treatment is a wee bit excessive.
In fact, there's also stupid people in television stations, because the amount of broadcasts with the wrong aspect ratio is rather astounding.
A little off topic, but I've seen SD PBS analog "basic" cable channels with black bars holding a HD aspect video, that HD aspect video is holding a SD video, inside that SD video is a HD signal. Yes, double blackbar'd. Impressive fail there.
Kick back and tell the tale of your favorite hack. For example, Linus had a good one in his interview. You define hack, and favorite. Hardware, software, legal, moral, ethical, financial whatever. Something you did, or something you saw someone else do. As long as its your story. The only requirement of the story is that it be a good story.
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LOL noobs. Four IBM 3370 bolted together side by side sounds just about right for a late 70s mainframe installation. Not too big, not too small.
Probably the OP is confusing his dates. A single 3380 DASD unit stores well over two gigs, but it wasn't released until June of 1980. OP was probably still wearing disco pants and gazing at lava lamps, early 1980 is "close enough" to the 70s.
I think its funny that "news for nerds" doesn't know that hard currency and physical currency are two different things to businessmen / economists and /. is getting them confused.
Hard currency is someone else's stable currency or gold. You want that when you're doing the hyperinflation thing like Iran's doing now and the US is attempting to do and Germany did about 90 years ago. Foreigners like satellite broadcasters want "real" aka hard money.
Physical currency is the paper bills. Once a stack of bills can't buy a roll of toilet paper, people start using money instead. Ditto firewood/kindling. Again a symptom of inflation. Most legal foreign trade doesn't involve paper currency so the satellite owner probably doesn't care about Iran's paper currency.
It takes pretty high tech to make cutting edge hard to counterfit paper money. Coinage is possible if you have gold. Paper checks, bank accounts, and credit cards don't care how many zeros are on them. Bitcoin would work but its hardly the only solution and requires a lot more electricity than a checkbook. Its not a huge deal.
Considering that I'm still out doing 5 mile runs
Sadly, in the USA, that makes you a far right corner of the bell curve elite athlete.
I shit you not, I'm considered an "athlete" or "jock" at work because I take a 1+ mile walk every day as a portion of my lunch hour while everyone else in the 500 person building sits around and gets fatter at lunch time.
Perhaps vlm is actually Mitt Romney's sock puppet?/quote>
LOL Johnson and Ron Paul's sock puppet, yeah thats me. The only politician I've ever donated money to was Ron Paul, even though I don't like his social issues, way too far right.
Its not rocket science here, I'm allocating a zero percent interest rate / rate of return on his investments which is a bit pessimistic and he's probably not going to grad school for 45 years. The point being after a couple years in the big city he's darn near an order of magnitude more than necessary to hire himself a grad student of his own or personal assistant / domestic help. In fact if he only took 5 years or so of grad school, the numbers seem to imply he could afford to hire a whole little cadre of personal assistants.
Probably the best thing would be owning decent condition housing near campus, decent car requiring no maintenance expenses... You can't work 120 hours per week if you're spending 20 hours per week additional stopping the roof from collapsing and nursing a beater of a broken down old car and no idea where tomorrows dinner is coming from.
They also always want everyone else to undergo population declines but never have the guts to say who and how.
Hard sci fi figured it all out a long time ago. Read KSR's red mars with special focus on the guerrilla geo/aero/engineering project. Given a lot of thought its all pretty predictable.
The conception is that something has to push the "lesser" students out so that only the best examples make it through a degree program.
That's a correct conception. Depending on the field of course, there might only be academic positions for a small fraction of the people who make it all the way to the end of the program.
Its very much like pro sports. Not a bad life if you end up as a NFL quarterback with a long career. Of course the odds of that are rather low.
Not a binary decision. Work the $150K job for 6 years or until downsized, bank the whole thing, go back to academia for your $20K/yr 80 hr/wk job, withdraw money from the bank account to hire a clone of yourself willing to work for $20K/yr at only 40 hours, then give him half your workload and both of you coast along at 40 hrs? At zero interest rate, 150 * 6 / 20 is still 45 years...
How does this tablet Zune squirt? Is it available in brown?
On the other hand, even if its all as you describe, the only way to make it worse would be to charge for it.
My experience was system crash due to corruption of loaded executables, then at the hard reboot it fails the e2fsck because the "drive" is basically unwritable so the e2fsck can't complete.
It takes a long time to kill a modern SSD... this failure was from back when a CF plugged into a PATA-to-CF adapter was exotic even by /. standards
Dog bark shock collars. Proles are meant to be seen not heard.
PLUS they know who the mastermind is.
LOL I'd be the guy installing a RFID "fuzzer" that repeats 20 random kids IDs every time my fuzzer detects my frenemy walking thru the cattle gate. Thus my frenemy gets busted. God only knows what he'd do to me to get even after that.
the mapping is kinda creepy.
Its to help the school shooters and child abductors who get the app installed on their phone. They need tech too, you know.
Never underestimate the ability of people to screw up a simple security system. My guess is 99% of those systems will be vulnerable to a simple playback attack, why not, doing a good job means spending more money, right?
Also I've always wondered how RFIDs work in the presence of numerous other RFIDs, per person.
If the mark of the beast existed when I was a kid, I'd currently be tagged with 6 schools, something like 7 jobs, god only knows how many the .mil would insert (just one, or one per unit I served in, or ..). I guess you have to accept multiple invalid rfids per person, at least a couple dozen, which seems to make rate limiting invalid IDs more difficult. So in a classroom of 30 kids, you have to accept perhaps 1000 RFIDs before you get suspicious someone is messing with the system.
Also, being idiots, I'm sure instead of cryptographically secure identifiers, they'll be morons implementing systems using SS numbers, sequential numbers, etc. So it'll be easier to crack and/or a sniffer will sniff yummy identity theft stuff.
Isn't sprint like the king of MVNO operators in the USA, like they make more dough off MVNO's reselling them than via retail ops directly selling Sprint, or so I've heard? I wonder if softbank will change strategies. That would certainly shake things up. Hope the MVNO's have solid contracts and/or deep pockets.
Einstein did invent the atomic bomb, didn't he...?
LOL no that's not really his thing. It was a big physics project and he was a physicist some decades before Trinity, but that's about as much connection as exists.
Its like asking who invented the computer (or the internet), the real invention is the very twisty logic required to narrow it down to only and exactly one person.
Sorry for being on topic. I remember discussing this on /. and I'm still kinda surprised Hans actually did it. I still think it was a bad conviction, even if it randomly happened to have turned out to be correct. Kind of like the salem witch trial convictions were wrong, even if we somehow figured out one of them was a real live magical genuine witch after the fact (however unlikely that would be).
Anyway, enough dr phil and now on to IT stuff:
1) Most benchmarks don't matter. Nobody makes money running benchmarks. Because the cost of casting up a production image is virtually (ha ha) zero because of virtualization SW and NAS stuff and puppet and some other tools, its well worth your while to spend an hour or two trying various instrumented FS to see which is fastest under your own workload, unless your workload is so stereotypical you can just rely on the hivemind opinion. Best of all if you can load balance on the FE then run multiple BE each with different FS and if applicable different FS parameters then watch how each FS actually performs under real live load. This is how REAL IT is done, as opposed to "I drunk me an energy drink and got a linux CDrom with this magazine and read me a slashdot article" style IT. I would not be surprised if somebody with some totally werido workload actually benefits off running reiserfs. Its a huge possible solution space and I'm sure it wins somewhere.
2) Check out the contents of something like /lib/modules/"somethin"/kernel/fs. Dude, I've got a minix module which I haven't used production since 1992 ish era (running minix of course). As long as someone, somewhere, has an old disk image from some historical whatever, someone's probably going to want computer archaeologist tools to look at the innards on a modern system. Admittedly for minix and maybe soon reiserfs, they might be better served by something like "mtools for reiserfs" than a kernel module or a FUSE solution, but if someone wants to do something in free software that you don't personally like, well good luck stopping them. Whaddya gonna do, change the license to something non-free just to stop them? Good luck!
So what exactly were his crimes? What damage did he cause? It's pretty much proven that he isn't a foreign agent and did not forward any information to other people.
We needed a boogy man to scare people with now that Kevin Mitnick isn't so scary. The modern witch hunt... some individuals must suffer for the amusement of the masses and control games of the elite. Our lapdogs in the UK are not cooperating. Bush probably would have already started bombing the UK in retaliation, but Obama will probably think of some other way to screw things up.
Its amusing to strip away the internet BS in his case and come up with analogies to breaking into a public library and photocopying stuff from the restricted collection. Yeah, he's a crook, but so small time as to scarcely be worth looking at, getting the USA witch trial treatment is a wee bit excessive.
You're a genius! I'm off to the Linus thread to pilfer some more +5 questions. :-)
The guy I stole that question from won't be complaining about me too much...
There should probably be a list of generic /. interview questions, everyone wants to hear about ur favorite hack, a couple others.
...you are talking about valuable time, but seem to be suggesting that he learn MMIX? Really?
TAOCP is not a MMIX textbook... Wait till you learn what else is in the books.... Learning MMIX was about 0.001% of the way....
In fact, there's also stupid people in television stations, because the amount of broadcasts with the wrong aspect ratio is rather astounding.
A little off topic, but I've seen SD PBS analog "basic" cable channels with black bars holding a HD aspect video, that HD aspect video is holding a SD video, inside that SD video is a HD signal. Yes, double blackbar'd. Impressive fail there.
In 2 or 3 years, the Chinese are coming:
I've been hearing that for about 10 years. I think Government Motors will easily pay enough to prevent it.
15 octal is 13 decimal. 1999 decimal + 13 decimal = 2012 decimal
Kick back and tell the tale of your favorite hack. For example, Linus had a good one in his interview. You define hack, and favorite. Hardware, software, legal, moral, ethical, financial whatever. Something you did, or something you saw someone else do. As long as its your story. The only requirement of the story is that it be a good story.