A quick skim of the PDF leads me to believe they are still using NFS for the operation.
My question would be, does anybody have any meaningful experiences using CodaFS or Intermezzio?
Where I work, we have NFS mounted home directories. When the main server goes down, we all get to twiddle our thumbs because we cannot do anything without a home directory.
It would seem to me that the caching of Coda and Intermezzio would be better - you still have the centralized management of the disk images, but you also get the speed of local access and the robustness of not having a single failure point in the server.
But I've not had time to set up a trial system - has anybody else?
That was the sound of Belkin getting a TREMENDOUS bitchslap from the Internet.
What astounds me is not that they did this in the first place (although I told a Marketing Director where I work about it, and his first reaction was "That's STUPID! What were they thinking!").
It's not that a product director at Belkin would respond to something like this in a public forum without vetting his response against Corporate Marketing/Communications and Legal (or, if he did, that they would approve this).
It's not that they corrected the problem within days - that was inevitable.
It's the fact that it took them TWO TRIES to get a proper response on their web site to this - one a snippy, spin'ny "We didn't do anything wrong, we're undoing it, and we won't do it again, you annoying freaks" and then the properly "We are sorry, we will make it right." response.
Now, the interesting question is, "Is the Eric Deming, the moron responsible for all this, still employed by Belkin?"
Anybody interested in seeing how long until his email bounces?
Belkin has agreed to change their router firmware.
"We have discovered a better solution to our advertising needs. Rather than rewriting URLs once every eight hours, we will use Microsoft Messenger Service to inform customers of our wonderful offers every five minutes!"
There is a decided downside to volunteer mapping, and I assert that this is one of the reasons why the bazaar model of programming will have a very hard time creating mapping programs.
If I create a new algorithm for computing a nearly optimal route from A to Z, given a set of data describing the paths from A to Z, then anybody with a background in programming can review my algorithm. They may not be able to determine if my algorithm is perfect, but they can at least validate that it computes a route, not formats your hard drive, or deliberately routes you the long way around. At a minimum, they can throw some random routes at it, and see what happens.
However, it is harder to validate something like map data - if I submit an alleged map of my neighborhood, how do YOU validate it? Sure, if you live in the area you can drive over and check, but if you live in California, you can hardly check my work about a neighborhood in Kansas. And if you get nobody saying I am wrong, is that because I am right, or because nobody who cares to check lives close enough to where I live.
That is where companies who's life's blood is mapping have the advantage - they PAY people to check on these things. However, with Delorme admitting they no longer support Macintosh, just Windows and various PDAs, if you want trip planning and consumer mapping, you pretty much have to be running Windows (or maybe, if you hold your tongue just right, Wine).
I'd love to see a Free Software mapping solution.
I'm just afraid of finding the Natalie Portman Hot Grits Museum on 31337 Goatse Ave in the database.
This is not about Javascript pop-up ads, this is about the Windows Messenger service, which is a service that listens to a different port, and will pop up a dialog box when it receives a message from the wire.
This is similar to the service that Novell used to have, and the purpose is for local sysadmins to send out messages like "Server going down in 5 minutes, save your work and log out".
You could have your browser closed, and be doing nothing, and these will still come through.
Now, why the HELL do ISPs allow these packets on the wire, as they are a LAN service only, is beyond me (no, it is not - I understand all too well the stupidity and laziness of most ISPs).
I've been blocking ads for years, by using Squid + URL rewriting. I've had a pretty simple rule for such things - unless your ad is VERY annoying, I don't add you to the blocklist.
What is "very annoying"?
Your ad server tries to set a cookie on my machine - you are an uninvited guest along for the ride, you don't get to track me like a wild animal on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Your ad is flash based.
Your ad is overly-animated. I don't mind a simple, understated loop, but if your ad is too distracting from the main page, adios.
Your ad is Javascript.
Your ad tries to look like a system dialog box. Give it up, you don't know what my GTK theme looks like, and even if you did, it wouldn't work.
Be simple, be brief, be somewhat on target to the page I am viewing, and I won't block you.
I am a person. I am not a "consumer" - a gullet with eyes to see ads, ears to hear ads, a mouth to consume product, and an anus that craps cash. Treat me like a "consumer" and you go bye-bye.
Sorry, but you are either O(1) or O(n) - if you have any part of your operation that is O(n) you are O(n) - it's as simple as that.
I don't care if 99% of the time you are O(1), and 1% of the time you are O(n) - you are O(n).
The whole idea of Big-O notation is that, if runtime is F(n), then as n goes to infinity what is the primary part of F(n) - the part that contributes the most to the operation.
So let's say it correctly - the behavior is still O(n). It may be faster than it was, but it is still O(n). Call it O(n).
Scene: an interrogation cell in the Redmond Police Dept., shortly after the arrest of the virus writer.
Dramatis Persona: Skip Kiddie - the alleged virus writer. Sgt. Fritz DaMan - a police officer Bill Gates
Skip: 7h!$ $u><orz! 1 d!n`7 dew 7hj!$! Bill: Sargent, could you go get me a glass of water? For your troubles (hands Fritz a bundle of US$100 bills). Fritz: Sure thing, Mr. Gates! You know we are all here to serve you! (Backs out of room, bowing) Bill: OK, sparky, here's the deal. You have a choice to make. One choice leads to a chushy job, lots of pay, and a long life. The other leads to years in "the pokey" being pounded in the ass by convicted felons. Skip: 0K, !'m 1!$73n!n9. Bill: How'd you like to write viruses for Linux?
I have an Atheros A/B/G PCI card, and I can say that the Madwifi drivers for this card just aren't ready for prime time - go read the various messages about this card if you don't believe me.
The drivers will crash the kernel, will sometimes simply stop working after a while, and when they are working, they do not transfer data anywhere near the theoretical limits of the card.
The card "sort of" work to access an access point, but if you want to use them to create an access point they just don't work in my experience - I could see the other devices trying to access the system, but the MadWiFi driver was not accepting the connections. This even though I had WEP turned off and had the ESSID's set the same. Furthurmore, the driver's diagnostics simply could not tell me WHY the packets were being dropped.
Yes, the way to improve the native driver is to give feedback, to hack the code, and to try to improve that driver, rather than using the Windows driver, but please do not give people the impression that the Atheros drivers are anything other than extremely pre-alpha and unstable.
The real solution here is to pressure the card drivers to design the cards so that the system driver cannot be made to violate FCC/DTI/... specs - a microcontroller embedded on the card to control the RF adds $.25 to the bill of materials (less if integrated into the ASICs in the card) and would completely remove the problem of open-sourcing the drivers.
Symantec's stated reason to going to product activation is that NAV is one of the most pirated pieces of software out there.
Many of the pirates advertise their warez via spam.
Symantec is a member of the Business Software Alliance.
Symantec has an email reporting address specifically to foward spam advertising their products to.
Question: why doesn't Symantec have the BSA kick down the doors of these spammers, and haul them off to jail (the spammers are actually violating several laws, unlike most of the people the BSA currently goes after.)
My take: Symantec makes money off people "upgrading" their pirated versions to legit versions. Symantec beleives they will make even more money going to product activation. Symantec does not really care about piracy per se.
Good news: Aussies caught this scumbag. Bad news: Aussies don't have death penalty. Preferably one involving 'roo pheremones, a steel cage, ten male 'roos on sildenafil citrate, and pay-per-view.
Since installing 2.6.0-test9 under RH9, and after pulling the updated module-init tools, I had the following problems:
RPM died - had to get the bleeding edge version from Rawhide and install it. Vi would coredump on exit - had to get the latest glibc* from Rawhide. Wine died - still working on that one.
I had to fight to get the new module tools to load the correct AGPGART module to support the radeon DRI driver.
I'm a little worried that a kernel change is breaking fairly generic userspace apps like RPM and vi (Wine I can understand to some extent....)
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The problem that I see with using iSCSI is that you cannot share the storage for the units - each box needs its own section of disk.
/home, /usr, /bin, and so on, saving total storage.
With NFS, you can have all boxes sharing
A quick skim of the PDF leads me to believe they are still using NFS for the operation.
My question would be, does anybody have any meaningful experiences using CodaFS or Intermezzio?
Where I work, we have NFS mounted home directories. When the main server goes down, we all get to twiddle our thumbs because we cannot do anything without a home directory.
It would seem to me that the caching of Coda and Intermezzio would be better - you still have the centralized management of the disk images, but you also get the speed of local access and the robustness of not having a single failure point in the server.
But I've not had time to set up a trial system - has anybody else?
First of all, your link doesn't seem to work.
;)
Secondly, perhaps if you weren't "always this drunk" as your sig suggests you might not get into accidents
Third, as more and more morons drive SUVs, the relative advantage a car has over a bike is being lessened.
That was the sound of Belkin getting a TREMENDOUS bitchslap from the Internet.
What astounds me is not that they did this in the first place (although I told a Marketing Director where I work about it, and his first reaction was "That's STUPID! What were they thinking!").
It's not that a product director at Belkin would respond to something like this in a public forum without vetting his response against Corporate Marketing/Communications and Legal (or, if he did, that they would approve this).
It's not that they corrected the problem within days - that was inevitable.
It's the fact that it took them TWO TRIES to get a proper response on their web site to this - one a snippy, spin'ny "We didn't do anything wrong, we're undoing it, and we won't do it again, you annoying freaks" and then the properly "We are sorry, we will make it right." response.
Now, the interesting question is, "Is the Eric Deming, the moron responsible for all this, still employed by Belkin?"
Anybody interested in seeing how long until his email bounces?
Belkin is a privately held company, which in a case like this is a shame.
It would have been funny to have seen the affect on stock price this sort of gaff would have had.
Belkin has agreed to change their router firmware.
"We have discovered a better solution to our advertising needs. Rather than rewriting URLs once every eight hours, we will use Microsoft Messenger Service to inform customers of our wonderful offers every five minutes!"
There is a decided downside to volunteer mapping, and I assert that this is one of the reasons why the bazaar model of programming will have a very hard time creating mapping programs.
If I create a new algorithm for computing a nearly optimal route from A to Z, given a set of data describing the paths from A to Z, then anybody with a background in programming can review my algorithm. They may not be able to determine if my algorithm is perfect, but they can at least validate that it computes a route, not formats your hard drive, or deliberately routes you the long way around. At a minimum, they can throw some random routes at it, and see what happens.
However, it is harder to validate something like map data - if I submit an alleged map of my neighborhood, how do YOU validate it? Sure, if you live in the area you can drive over and check, but if you live in California, you can hardly check my work about a neighborhood in Kansas. And if you get nobody saying I am wrong, is that because I am right, or because nobody who cares to check lives close enough to where I live.
That is where companies who's life's blood is mapping have the advantage - they PAY people to check on these things. However, with Delorme admitting they no longer support Macintosh, just Windows and various PDAs, if you want trip planning and consumer mapping, you pretty much have to be running Windows (or maybe, if you hold your tongue just right, Wine).
I'd love to see a Free Software mapping solution.
I'm just afraid of finding the Natalie Portman Hot Grits Museum on 31337 Goatse Ave in the database.
This is not about Javascript pop-up ads, this is about the Windows Messenger service, which is a service that listens to a different port, and will pop up a dialog box when it receives a message from the wire.
This is similar to the service that Novell used to have, and the purpose is for local sysadmins to send out messages like "Server going down in 5 minutes, save your work and log out".
You could have your browser closed, and be doing nothing, and these will still come through.
Now, why the HELL do ISPs allow these packets on the wire, as they are a LAN service only, is beyond me (no, it is not - I understand all too well the stupidity and laziness of most ISPs).
Make your ads not suck, and I won't block them.
I've been blocking ads for years, by using Squid + URL rewriting. I've had a pretty simple rule for such things - unless your ad is VERY annoying, I don't add you to the blocklist.
What is "very annoying"?
Be simple, be brief, be somewhat on target to the page I am viewing, and I won't block you.
I am a person. I am not a "consumer" - a gullet with eyes to see ads, ears to hear ads, a mouth to consume product, and an anus that craps cash. Treat me like a "consumer" and you go bye-bye.
Sorry, but you are either O(1) or O(n) - if you have any part of your operation that is O(n) you are O(n) - it's as simple as that.
I don't care if 99% of the time you are O(1), and 1% of the time you are O(n) - you are O(n).
The whole idea of Big-O notation is that, if runtime is F(n), then as n goes to infinity what is the primary part of F(n) - the part that contributes the most to the operation.
So let's say it correctly - the behavior is still O(n). It may be faster than it was, but it is still O(n). Call it O(n).
What the hell is this supposed to mean? Either you are O(1) or you are O(n) - what is "small O(n) shadow" mean?
Listen - it's hard enough to type leet-speak, esp. using >< for x's.
Add to that doing the scene formatting, and trying to get it all done in time to go to work...
I was going to give Fritz a few more lines, but decided to just go for my punchline.
Scene: an interrogation cell in the Redmond Police Dept., shortly after the arrest of the virus writer.
Dramatis Persona:
Skip Kiddie - the alleged virus writer.
Sgt. Fritz DaMan - a police officer
Bill Gates
Skip: 7h!$ $u><orz! 1 d!n`7 dew 7hj!$!
Bill: Sargent, could you go get me a glass of water? For your troubles (hands Fritz a bundle of US$100 bills).
Fritz: Sure thing, Mr. Gates! You know we are all here to serve you! (Backs out of room, bowing)
Bill: OK, sparky, here's the deal. You have a choice to make. One choice leads to a chushy job, lots of pay, and a long life. The other leads to years in "the pokey" being pounded in the ass by convicted felons.
Skip: 0K, !'m 1!$73n!n9.
Bill: How'd you like to write viruses for Linux?
Currently, less than 85% of spam comes from trojaned DHCP clients.
So, by your own numbers, shutting down direct-to-MX email from DHCP clients should eliminate about 85% of spam - that is a worthy target.
I say 85% because if you had real figures showing a percentage less than 85% you would have used the lower number to make your point.
I have an Atheros A/B/G PCI card, and I can say that the Madwifi drivers for this card just aren't ready for prime time - go read the various messages about this card if you don't believe me.
The drivers will crash the kernel, will sometimes simply stop working after a while, and when they are working, they do not transfer data anywhere near the theoretical limits of the card.
The card "sort of" work to access an access point, but if you want to use them to create an access point they just don't work in my experience - I could see the other devices trying to access the system, but the MadWiFi driver was not accepting the connections. This even though I had WEP turned off and had the ESSID's set the same. Furthurmore, the driver's diagnostics simply could not tell me WHY the packets were being dropped.
Yes, the way to improve the native driver is to give feedback, to hack the code, and to try to improve that driver, rather than using the Windows driver, but please do not give people the impression that the Atheros drivers are anything other than extremely pre-alpha and unstable.
The real solution here is to pressure the card drivers to design the cards so that the system driver cannot be made to violate FCC/DTI/... specs - a microcontroller embedded on the card to control the RF adds $.25 to the bill of materials (less if integrated into the ASICs in the card) and would completely remove the problem of open-sourcing the drivers.
Symantec's stated reason to going to product activation is that NAV is one of the most pirated pieces of software out there.
Many of the pirates advertise their warez via spam.
Symantec is a member of the Business Software Alliance.
Symantec has an email reporting address specifically to foward spam advertising their products to.
Question: why doesn't Symantec have the BSA kick down the doors of these spammers, and haul them off to jail (the spammers are actually violating several laws, unlike most of the people the BSA currently goes after.)
My take: Symantec makes money off people "upgrading" their pirated versions to legit versions. Symantec beleives they will make even more money going to product activation. Symantec does not really care about piracy per se.
Never had the displeasure of seeing that one. Don't think I will, either.
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That is assuming you only want to know that signal existed, not the exact time point the signal arrived.
Good news: Aussies caught this scumbag.
Bad news: Aussies don't have death penalty. Preferably one involving 'roo pheremones, a steel cage, ten male 'roos on sildenafil citrate, and pay-per-view.
Ahhh. Mods, please mod parent +1, informative.
I'll check to see if I have TSC support enabled, and see what happens.
I was using 2.4.22, and all was well.
I started using 2.6.0-test9 and things started acting strange.
I did find out that Wine didn't like using NPTL - removing that fixed the problems with it.
I did find out that Seti@home was a problem with Seti's servers.
BUT, that still doesn't explain why RPM and vi died.
One would expect that, were this missing code, it would fail on all versions of the kernel, not just the latest.
Since installing 2.6.0-test9 under RH9, and after pulling the updated module-init tools, I had the following problems:
RPM died - had to get the bleeding edge version from Rawhide and install it.
Vi would coredump on exit - had to get the latest glibc* from Rawhide.
Wine died - still working on that one.
I had to fight to get the new module tools to load the correct AGPGART module to support the radeon DRI driver.
I'm a little worried that a kernel change is breaking fairly generic userspace apps like RPM and vi (Wine I can understand to some extent....)