This is NOT a Harvard architecture part - this isn't fetching instructions from RAM and executing them, like a regular DSP would.
Think of this more like an FPGA - you have a device that is configured for a specific processing algorithm, and data is fed in at wire rate and processed at wire rate.
An example of how a device like this might be used may be in order: I'm trying to find a radar pulse buried in the noise coming in from my receiver. I want to know the phase delay of the radar pulse - how long from when I sent it till I got it back.
Now, I know what my radar pulse looks like as it goes out. I know that any reflection is going to consist of versions of that pulse shape, delayed and of varying strengths. So what I do is called a correlation - the easiest way to think of this is to imagine having 2 transparencies, one of my outgoing pulse, and one of the incoming signal. Now, I hold them up to the light, and slide the incoming signal across the reference pulse until things match up - that's the point of maximum correlation, and that give me the delay of the signal.
A real correlation function is a bit more complicated as you have to allow for the signal level to be changed - if I am looking for a signal of N samples in a received data stream of M samples, I have to do M*N multiply and add operations to get my correlation. Now, for a radar signal I might be sampling at over a billion samples a second, and looking for a chirp of a 100 ns would give me over 100 billion MAC operations a second. There are ways to do that with conventional DSPs, but they are a galloping BITCH to do (you basically make a cluster of DSPs, and each DSP takes a part of the signal. Synchronising that is a bitch.)
This device would work by having the shape of the outbound pulse represented in the structure of the device itself, and the MACs are done by taking the incoming data stream and projecting it on the structure - thus you do all your processing in parallel, and at wire speed. You get a pulse out when the incoming signal matched the signal you ar looking for.
Look at the posts by the "g@merz" on Slashdot. Look at how they react to ANYTHING. "OMFG! U SUXOR! FAG!"
This, on a board that is NOT purely a gamer board. Now, consider the effect of something that attracts only gamers - the result will be to concentrate the "g@merz" to the strength of Alien blood.
I do not find it surprising that there is vitriol directed at a gaming channel. I find it surprising that anybody else is surprised.
Nota Bene - I draw a clear distinction between "gamer" - "a person who plays games" and "g@merz" - "a collection of immature morons".
OK, so how many tons of hydrogen had to be fused in order to make a gallon of gas - don't forget that fusion is not 100% effecient, so it takes many kilotons of hydrogen to make a ton of carbon (the rest being pissed off as heat, as helium/lithium, etc).
Also factor in the tons of carbon that never leave the star that made it./bullshit mode off
Now, what does ANY OF THIS have to do with ANYTHING?
OK, you want to critize our current usage of mineral oil vs. making biodiesel, great. But let's try to compare apples with some form of fruit, not compare apples to rocks!
I wonder if they fixed the bugs in Anaconda that prevent it from understanding an fstab which contains either:
a LABEL= line instead of a device name a file system type of "auto"
(and yes, I have reported both to RH.)
Perhaps they even fixed it so that when there is a failure, you have the option of going to another VC, fixing the problem, and trying again, rather than Anaconda's current behavior of "Nope. Had an error. Gonna reboot now. Definitely gonna reboot. [OK]"
This is not a reference to the Google stock, but rather to the pervasive attitude in today's society that is leading to our downfall as a civilization.
I want it NOW - as in, "I am unwilling to wait, and do the sensible thing, so I will do something completely stupid to get this right now."
Rather than waiting to earn and save enough money to buy (that plasma display|that new video card|that big SUV|...) people just charge it on the ol' credit card. Result - most of their income goes to servicing their debt.
Companies are like this, as well. Rather than borrowing money from a bank, or folding some profits back into R&D, they look for the immediate solution - "Let's sell off part of the company!" Unfortunately, unlike a bank debt which is designed to go away after a time (when you pay it off), selling off part of the company as stock is almost impossible to reverse. True, a company can try to buy back the outstanding shares, but as they do so, the cost of the outstanding shares will rise, and they are unlikely to ever be able to buy them back.
And I am sorry, but any employee who is swayed by stock options IS A TOTAL FSCKING MORON. The only way stock options are valuable is if the stock price of the company significantly increases from the time the options are granted to the time they are vested. As other posters have pointed out, this leads to a company trying to grow continuously, which is simply not possible. As a result, eventually you will get stock options that don't significantly appreciate in value.
There are better ways to "incentivize" an employee (that was the very term that was used by my boss as I was offered stock options - which were so far under water when the company was bought out that I was offered one whole dollar for the lot). A profit sharing plan, in which a percentage of the company's profits are credited to an account in the employee's name, with a vesting period, is FAR MORE effective at giving a key employee a reason to stay than stock options - the employee can SEE the value, can SEE the exact amounts of money he is walking away from, and that value DOES NOT FLUCTUATE as the market varies - hence the employee is unlikely to walk away at an uptick, as upticks and downturns simply don't happen.
Lastly, the whole purpose of playing the stock market has changed. It used to be a means by which you invested you money in a stock in return for dividends - converting cash into an annuity, thus attempting to guarantee youself an ongoing income, while still having the money available for use if needed. In that mode, the stock market is a non-zero sum game - you can gain value without somebody else losing value.
But now, the stock market is played like a trading card game - the idea of holding a stock for years is gone, buy it today and sell it tomorrow, lather rinse repeat. When it is played like that, the stock market becomes a zero-sum game - if I make money on the market somebody else had to lose - if I bought it low from you, then you lost your chance to make money, and if I sell high to you, you are losing money to me.
As a result, since in a zero-sum game everybody is in direct competition with everybody else with little motivation to co-operate, you get the "dog-eat-dog" mindset we see today.
No, I hope Google does NOT IPO. Yes, it would be nice to be able to buy a few shares of a well-run company who's management is planning for the long term. However, the odds of Google remaining such a company after IPO are vanishingly small. To paraphrase Marx (Groucho, not Karl) - "I wouldn't want to own stock in a company that would sell it to me."
Back when I was working with laser marking systems (1988), they were in the $100K region for a 25 joule per pulse laser marking system. This wasn't a raster scan system - just a flash of IR through a mask, and this wasn't a cutter, just a marker.
Now you can get a 25W continuous duty cutter for $10K.
My, how times have changed.
(of course, a laser capable of 15 pulses per second of 25J each, with a pulse width of 25ns, is a different beast than 25W continuous output, but...)
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Fixed width content - check. Setting a cookie for no adequately explored reason - check. Poor contrast on fonts - check.
/me looks out window. I don't see barrels full of burning trash. I don't see large numbers of people with spiky haircuts. I don't see Blank Reg. I don't see Max.
My TV still has an OFF button - they aren't illegal yet.
If the Nutworks insist upon preventing me from "consuming their content", then I shall retire to my books, my pre-broadcast bit DVDs and CDRs, and the 'Net. And as independant media fills the void, the mainstream media will realise they have screwed themselves but good.
Look at the adoption rates of HDTV in the US - the FCC has already had to extend the go-dark date on analog TV once due to a thunderous non-adoption of HDTV.
Sure, by all means write the FCC and try to get them to see reason. But if they do not, then it is most definitely NOT the end of days, people -
What is the mass of this paste per unit area protected, relative to the mass of the shuttle tiles? After all, if this stuff is ten times heavier it really doens't matter how much cheaper it is.
What is the strength of this material? If it is ten times more prone to shattering than shuttle tile it is no good.
Furthurmore, I could hold a big block of steel in my hand, and blowtorch it for a few seconds, and it will be cool. Now, put that same steel in a furnace for several minutes.
The single best demonstration this guy could do that would REALLY show if it were a better solution than shuttle tile would be to coat a box with this stuff, put a raw egg in the box, put the box in a furnace for a few minutes, then withdraw the egg.
OK, the question I would have is, exactly WHY is sftp too slow?
The raw throughput of sftp isn't much less than ftp, given that you have enough CPU on both ends of the link for the encryption/decryption.
You speak as though the slowdown of sftp is very large compared to ftp - not the few percent the protocol itself would add. This would lead me to beleive that you are running slow due to the encryption itself.
So, first of all I would check the CPUs of the machines involved - unless you are running an old junque P75 you should not have a big problem filling most pipes.
Secondly, check what encryption algorithm you are using for the link once it is up. Some of the algorithms require less CPU than others.
It really sounds like SSH/SFTP would be the solution you want, but you just need to to a bit of tuning.
Sure, the original trainer will NOT be teaching the class.
But you fail to think like a true BOFH - consider the possibities!
Blackmail of the PHBs involved
Identification of lucrative side contracts for "support" after the PHB put what you've taught them into practice
Identification of potential threats - in today's work-mobile society you never know when one of these Llusers (they deserve 2 'l's, like a llama) will be applying for work
Two words: Stock manipulation
And that's just a first pass while the coffee kicks in.
Unlike spamming, there are very clear laws about junk faxes. If you have contacted these assholes and they refuse to stop, they are in violation of law, and you can file against them.
Nothing says "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP BOTHERING ME" like a summons to court.
Of couse, the prerequisite to this is:
HIRE A LAWYER RATHER THAN BITCHING ABOUT IT ON SLASHDOT!
OK, so these cracked machines are listed in the bad guy's DNS servers.
ISPs can start preventing their DNS servers from talking to the bad guys DNS servers. Thus, all spammer domains will fail to resolve.
We now have a list of trojan'ed machines. Just do DNS queries, find out the ISPs involved, and have them go after the infected machines.
Alternatively, go after the infected machines directly - ram a worm down their throats that cleans the machine up, or at least formats the hard disk to knock it offline.
Hack the trojan - harvest the addresses of the spammers' web sites from the data feed.
I can open a header file on one bottle, the code using that header on another, and be able to quickly code.
I can open a bug report on one bottle, and the responsible code on another.
I can run my debugging telnet sessions on one display, and check the code on another.
For the same amount of money, the amount of usable glass you get with two bottles vs. the amount of glass you get with one big bottle is no comparison - two 17" is better than one 19", two 19" is better than one 25", etc.
Combine 2 monitors with multiple desktops and I can really Get Stuff Done.
Now, if only I could get Q/A to eat breakfast at their desks rather than in the bacteria, I could resolve a few bugs rather than killing time on Slashdot....
I have seen a bunch of my spam at work come in from the secondary MX. Until this moment I'd assumed it was due to our primary MX being down, or due to the spammer's mail client picking the "closer" MX (our MXs are widely spaced geographically and in IP space).
However, the solution seems simple enough IF you control the secondary MX - install the same level of anti-spamming on the secondary MX as you have on the primary MX.
Of course, if you don't control the secondary MX.....
tr = new Translation(from = Marketspeak, to = English)
tr < OpenLetterToSun I have shorted the shit out of Sun stock, and now I want it to go down like a Clinton Intern. I will now rip you a new one in an "open" letter targeted not at Sun but rather at the sheeple who day trade.
Once your stock price bombs out, I will make a killing, then buy in at the lower price. After that, expect another "open" letter praising Sun to the heavens, in order to pump the stock back up.
God, I love being a market manipulator^Wanalyst. <EOF>
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This is NOT a Harvard architecture part - this isn't fetching instructions from RAM and executing them, like a regular DSP would.
Think of this more like an FPGA - you have a device that is configured for a specific processing algorithm, and data is fed in at wire rate and processed at wire rate.
An example of how a device like this might be used may be in order:
I'm trying to find a radar pulse buried in the noise coming in from my receiver. I want to know the phase delay of the radar pulse - how long from when I sent it till I got it back.
Now, I know what my radar pulse looks like as it goes out. I know that any reflection is going to consist of versions of that pulse shape, delayed and of varying strengths. So what I do is called a correlation - the easiest way to think of this is to imagine having 2 transparencies, one of my outgoing pulse, and one of the incoming signal. Now, I hold them up to the light, and slide the incoming signal across the reference pulse until things match up - that's the point of maximum correlation, and that give me the delay of the signal.
A real correlation function is a bit more complicated as you have to allow for the signal level to be changed - if I am looking for a signal of N samples in a received data stream of M samples, I have to do M*N multiply and add operations to get my correlation. Now, for a radar signal I might be sampling at over a billion samples a second, and looking for a chirp of a 100 ns would give me over 100 billion MAC operations a second. There are ways to do that with conventional DSPs, but they are a galloping BITCH to do (you basically make a cluster of DSPs, and each DSP takes a part of the signal. Synchronising that is a bitch.)
This device would work by having the shape of the outbound pulse represented in the structure of the device itself, and the MACs are done by taking the incoming data stream and projecting it on the structure - thus you do all your processing in parallel, and at wire speed. You get a pulse out when the incoming signal matched the signal you ar looking for.
Look at the posts by the "g@merz" on Slashdot. Look at how they react to ANYTHING. "OMFG! U SUXOR! FAG!"
This, on a board that is NOT purely a gamer board. Now, consider the effect of something that attracts only gamers - the result will be to concentrate the "g@merz" to the strength of Alien blood.
I do not find it surprising that there is vitriol directed at a gaming channel. I find it surprising that anybody else is surprised.
Nota Bene - I draw a clear distinction between "gamer" - "a person who plays games" and "g@merz" - "a collection of immature morons".
OK, so how many tons of hydrogen had to be fused in order to make a gallon of gas - don't forget that fusion is not 100% effecient, so it takes many kilotons of hydrogen to make a ton of carbon (the rest being pissed off as heat, as helium/lithium, etc).
/bullshit mode off
Also factor in the tons of carbon that never leave the star that made it.
Now, what does ANY OF THIS have to do with ANYTHING?
OK, you want to critize our current usage of mineral oil vs. making biodiesel, great. But let's try to compare apples with some form of fruit, not compare apples to rocks!
I wonder if they fixed the bugs in Anaconda that prevent it from understanding an fstab which contains either:
a LABEL= line instead of a device name
a file system type of "auto"
(and yes, I have reported both to RH.)
Perhaps they even fixed it so that when there is a failure, you have the option of going to another VC, fixing the problem, and trying again, rather than Anaconda's current behavior of "Nope. Had an error. Gonna reboot now. Definitely gonna reboot. [OK]"
I want it NOW
This is not a reference to the Google stock, but rather to the pervasive attitude in today's society that is leading to our downfall as a civilization.
I want it NOW - as in, "I am unwilling to wait, and do the sensible thing, so I will do something completely stupid to get this right now."
Rather than waiting to earn and save enough money to buy (that plasma display|that new video card|that big SUV|...) people just charge it on the ol' credit card. Result - most of their income goes to servicing their debt.
Companies are like this, as well. Rather than borrowing money from a bank, or folding some profits back into R&D, they look for the immediate solution - "Let's sell off part of the company!" Unfortunately, unlike a bank debt which is designed to go away after a time (when you pay it off), selling off part of the company as stock is almost impossible to reverse. True, a company can try to buy back the outstanding shares, but as they do so, the cost of the outstanding shares will rise, and they are unlikely to ever be able to buy them back.
And I am sorry, but any employee who is swayed by stock options IS A TOTAL FSCKING MORON. The only way stock options are valuable is if the stock price of the company significantly increases from the time the options are granted to the time they are vested. As other posters have pointed out, this leads to a company trying to grow continuously, which is simply not possible. As a result, eventually you will get stock options that don't significantly appreciate in value.
There are better ways to "incentivize" an employee (that was the very term that was used by my boss as I was offered stock options - which were so far under water when the company was bought out that I was offered one whole dollar for the lot). A profit sharing plan, in which a percentage of the company's profits are credited to an account in the employee's name, with a vesting period, is FAR MORE effective at giving a key employee a reason to stay than stock options - the employee can SEE the value, can SEE the exact amounts of money he is walking away from, and that value DOES NOT FLUCTUATE as the market varies - hence the employee is unlikely to walk away at an uptick, as upticks and downturns simply don't happen.
Lastly, the whole purpose of playing the stock market has changed. It used to be a means by which you invested you money in a stock in return for dividends - converting cash into an annuity, thus attempting to guarantee youself an ongoing income, while still having the money available for use if needed. In that mode, the stock market is a non-zero sum game - you can gain value without somebody else losing value.
But now, the stock market is played like a trading card game - the idea of holding a stock for years is gone, buy it today and sell it tomorrow, lather rinse repeat. When it is played like that, the stock market becomes a zero-sum game - if I make money on the market somebody else had to lose - if I bought it low from you, then you lost your chance to make money, and if I sell high to you, you are losing money to me.
As a result, since in a zero-sum game everybody is in direct competition with everybody else with little motivation to co-operate, you get the "dog-eat-dog" mindset we see today.
No, I hope Google does NOT IPO. Yes, it would be nice to be able to buy a few shares of a well-run company who's management is planning for the long term. However, the odds of Google remaining such a company after IPO are vanishingly small. To paraphrase Marx (Groucho, not Karl) - "I wouldn't want to own stock in a company that would sell it to me."
Back when I was working with laser marking systems (1988), they were in the $100K region for a 25 joule per pulse laser marking system. This wasn't a raster scan system - just a flash of IR through a mask, and this wasn't a cutter, just a marker.
Now you can get a 25W continuous duty cutter for $10K.
My, how times have changed.
(of course, a laser capable of 15 pulses per second of 25J each, with a pulse width of 25ns, is a different beast than 25W continuous output, but...)
Fixed width content - check.
Setting a cookie for no adequately explored reason - check.
Poor contrast on fonts - check.
Yup. Good design.
/me looks out window.
I don't see barrels full of burning trash.
I don't see large numbers of people with spiky haircuts.
I don't see Blank Reg.
I don't see Max.
My TV still has an OFF button - they aren't illegal yet.
If the Nutworks insist upon preventing me from "consuming their content", then I shall retire to my books, my pre-broadcast bit DVDs and CDRs, and the 'Net. And as independant media fills the void, the mainstream media will realise they have screwed themselves but good.
Look at the adoption rates of HDTV in the US - the FCC has already had to extend the go-dark date on analog TV once due to a thunderous non-adoption of HDTV.
Sure, by all means write the FCC and try to get them to see reason. But if they do not, then it is most definitely NOT the end of days, people -
GO READ A BOOK FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
And tomorrow, Microsoft will announce that this service is "too limiting" and will announce their competing service.
Yet, you posted. So you must care about this to some extent, even if only caring about how stupid it is to be concerned about such a triviality.
However, it could have been worse - watch this, Bruce:
What if this had been Cmdr. Taco's home state?
(now watch Rob get the D.T.s just by suggestion).
pack .tongue -in .cheek
There is a simple reason that tall people earn more.
We are better educated.
We are better educated because, in school, we could see the blackboard, while the shorter people couldn't see the blackboard because of us.
Yes, but will the AMD chip have:
Treads
A nose-mounted Staser
Access to the Timelord Matrix?
What is the mass of this paste per unit area protected, relative to the mass of the shuttle tiles? After all, if this stuff is ten times heavier it really doens't matter how much cheaper it is.
What is the strength of this material? If it is ten times more prone to shattering than shuttle tile it is no good.
Furthurmore, I could hold a big block of steel in my hand, and blowtorch it for a few seconds, and it will be cool. Now, put that same steel in a furnace for several minutes.
The single best demonstration this guy could do that would REALLY show if it were a better solution than shuttle tile would be to coat a box with this stuff, put a raw egg in the box, put the box in a furnace for a few minutes, then withdraw the egg.
OK, the question I would have is, exactly WHY is sftp too slow?
The raw throughput of sftp isn't much less than ftp, given that you have enough CPU on both ends of the link for the encryption/decryption.
You speak as though the slowdown of sftp is very large compared to ftp - not the few percent the protocol itself would add. This would lead me to beleive that you are running slow due to the encryption itself.
So, first of all I would check the CPUs of the machines involved - unless you are running an old junque P75 you should not have a big problem filling most pipes.
Secondly, check what encryption algorithm you are using for the link once it is up. Some of the algorithms require less CPU than others.
It really sounds like SSH/SFTP would be the solution you want, but you just need to to a bit of tuning.
Unfortunately, this law only covers systems in which no human gets on the line, where the system just plays a recorded message.
If a human is making the call, even if all they are doing is pushing a "Next Call" button, then this law doesn't count.
Predictive dialer systems are in a grey area.
But you fail to think like a true BOFH - consider the possibities!
And that's just a first pass while the coffee kicks in.
This is a BOFH's DREAM!
Am I the only one who sees Simon's fine hand in this matter?
BOFH fodder, indeed....
If you can get the numbers of the offenders....
SUE THE BASTARDS
Unlike spamming, there are very clear laws about junk faxes. If you have contacted these assholes and they refuse to stop, they are in violation of law, and you can file against them.
Nothing says "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP BOTHERING ME" like a summons to court.
Of couse, the prerequisite to this is:
HIRE A LAWYER RATHER THAN BITCHING ABOUT IT ON SLASHDOT!
So, are we going to see shuttles who's primary color is "primer" and "Bondo"?
Shuttles with one wheel that is the mini-spare, for years?
Shuttles with plastic over one window?
Hmmm.
Could be worse.
We could see shuttles with spoilers, glo-lights, ThunderThump3000 stereos, and "R-Type" stickers...
Yes, it does improve productivity.
I can open a header file on one bottle, the code using that header on another, and be able to quickly code.
I can open a bug report on one bottle, and the responsible code on another.
I can run my debugging telnet sessions on one display, and check the code on another.
For the same amount of money, the amount of usable glass you get with two bottles vs. the amount of glass you get with one big bottle is no comparison - two 17" is better than one 19", two 19" is better than one 25", etc.
Combine 2 monitors with multiple desktops and I can really Get Stuff Done.
Now, if only I could get Q/A to eat breakfast at their desks rather than in the bacteria, I could resolve a few bugs rather than killing time on Slashdot....
I have seen a bunch of my spam at work come in from the secondary MX. Until this moment I'd assumed it was due to our primary MX being down, or due to the spammer's mail client picking the "closer" MX (our MXs are widely spaced geographically and in IP space).
However, the solution seems simple enough IF you control the secondary MX - install the same level of anti-spamming on the secondary MX as you have on the primary MX.
Of course, if you don't control the secondary MX.....
This is fine, so long as one condition is met:
That for any multiplayer online game, the user SHALL BE ABLE TO PREVENT REMOTE USERS FROM DEFINING THEIR OWN FACES.
Why?
One word:
Goatse
tr = new Translation(from = Marketspeak, to = English)
tr < OpenLetterToSun
I have shorted the shit out of Sun stock, and now I want it to go down like a Clinton Intern. I will now rip you a new one in an "open" letter targeted not at Sun but rather at the sheeple who day trade.
Once your stock price bombs out, I will make a killing, then buy in at the lower price. After that, expect another "open" letter praising Sun to the heavens, in order to pump the stock back up.
God, I love being a market manipulator^Wanalyst.
<EOF>
delete tr;
Teeshirt which can display text +
GPS tracking of Daryl McBride =
The perfect "I'm with stupid" teeshirt.