a: it sounds like you have a crappy lappy... my T400 thinkpad can run both cores wide open and be perfectly content on a hardwood table or my work desk. I use it to play TF2 with the ATI card in full res for hours too - without nar'y a whimper or slowdown.
b: I've done considerable testing on older home routers, linksys, actiontec, and netgear - unfortunately it's all outdated information that will offer little help at 100mbps speeds. The linksys I had was unable to host a multiplayer FPS server on my 4mbps symetrical DSL... I found that the CPU was unable to handle the traffic. The actiontec wasn't better, but the netgear (with its 50Mhz RISC cpu and 4MB of ram) ran just fine.
At these speeds, if you want a decent amount of features (like IDS, caching, port forwarding, etc) you'll need to bust out an old P3 (or even maybe a single core P4) with a linux firewall distro like smoothwall.
Microsoft's SIS is a joke. A few folks have dedupe down to a science - Data Domain and NetApp.
We virtualized our filers into an ESX 3.5 cluster and dropped the VMDK files onto a NetApp 3140... deduped them to 18% of their original size. No performance impact, actually faster than our original servers and much more efficient.
ROI - three months.
Difficulty to implement dedup? A checkmark and the OK button.
From IBM and Yahoo called OmniFind. It runs on a desktop or server and can index multiple shares... and the basic version is free but offers a lot of functionality.
Although if your business is booming, a GSA is freakin' sweet.
It seems like the better way would be to develop and deploy the MMO in an environment much like super computers and their applications are. Connecting servers with ultrahighspeed interconnects like InfiniBand (or now maybe even 10Gb ethernet would suffice) to create one large fabric of processing - not individual hotspot servers. This would allow the environment to dedicate more processors and memory to hotspots and not have idle servers laying around waiting for a group of players to explore that part of the map.
It seems a little ridiculous in this age of virtualization and distributed computing that they couldn't have come up with something a little better.
If there was any love from Apple for its users, they would dump the AT&T exclusive deal and allow the iPhone to be sold and supported on all the other networks out there. But since they get such a sweet kickback from AT&T, they have zero incentive.
Every iPhone user I talk to in the midwest says they would dump AT&T in a heartbeat for Verizon or US Cellular (if they would ever support SIM cards). Even more people who don't have an iPhone would get one if they didn't have to sign up with AT&T.
The college I work at is not a massive environment with a small budget - but we managed to purchase a couple of ASA firewalls with an IPS module to identify and stop P2P traffic.
It just fucking works - and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to keep asshats from torrenting television shows and movies on our limited uplink and campus WANS.
The scary part is someone with this data was dumb enough to run a P2P client on the same machine. Who knows whatelse was on that machine.
This could be the next step in actually having secured, signed, digital copies.
I could see a variation of this made available for official documents that need to "phone home" for decription. If the document is somewhere its not supposed to be - scambled.
Of course there are many ways to circumvent this - but I'm tired of faxes being legally more viable than anything digital.
Just because you didn't send email from "robogun@gmail.com" doesn't mean your robogun@att.net isn't on a spam list somewhere. How do you increase the size of a spam list exponentially? strip all the domains from the addresses and find common names... then generate one email address for each domain you want to hit.
Ta-da... spam email sent to accounts that were never used. This could indicate that google's directory harvest attack identification methods need some fine tuning, but I doubt its maliciously allowing people to spam you, that's just plain stoopid.
Not really. Think of it like beta testers, or even better - neutral sensors. They aren't paying for the service, so they can't call your helpdesk and bitch about its effectiveness or about that one spam message that really offended them.
McAfee gets millions of email accounts to monitor and use as sensors for new spam, allowing them to gather that data, crunch it, and redistribute the new spam identifcation data to their own paying customers, including gmail.
This allows them to be more accurate and have better feedback on how their spam filtration is doing.
Bigger the sensor net - the better your product, as a rule of thumb anyway. Leave it to McAfee to fuck it all up though.
Interestingly enough, Cisco's IronPort uses Sophos, McAfee, and Trend for scanning email. They decided they could do better by licensing they spam/virus filters that rolling out their own. I like the idea of leveraging multiple vendors for this kind of work - belt, suspenders, and a jumpsuit...
As an email administrator - I wouldn't give a user the ability to disable virus filtration on their email account - even if I knew they weren't a direct threat to any known virii. Too many stupid people out there know how to use the FWD button.
I know what you're saying, but since you're probably the smartest user out of the tens of thousands that use your email server - they're not likely to give you a one-off option.
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a: it sounds like you have a crappy lappy... my T400 thinkpad can run both cores wide open and be perfectly content on a hardwood table or my work desk. I use it to play TF2 with the ATI card in full res for hours too - without nar'y a whimper or slowdown.
b: I've done considerable testing on older home routers, linksys, actiontec, and netgear - unfortunately it's all outdated information that will offer little help at 100mbps speeds. The linksys I had was unable to host a multiplayer FPS server on my 4mbps symetrical DSL... I found that the CPU was unable to handle the traffic. The actiontec wasn't better, but the netgear (with its 50Mhz RISC cpu and 4MB of ram) ran just fine.
At these speeds, if you want a decent amount of features (like IDS, caching, port forwarding, etc) you'll need to bust out an old P3 (or even maybe a single core P4) with a linux firewall distro like smoothwall.
Anyone else tired of this patent crap?
I fail to see how this is news, they included it by default in Win 7 and someone accessed it, yay. This has been doable for 4 years...
Someone created a free download that put a GUI on the feature that just about any user can figure out... that makes it news.
Microsoft's SIS is a joke. A few folks have dedupe down to a science - Data Domain and NetApp.
We virtualized our filers into an ESX 3.5 cluster and dropped the VMDK files onto a NetApp 3140... deduped them to 18% of their original size. No performance impact, actually faster than our original servers and much more efficient.
ROI - three months.
Difficulty to implement dedup? A checkmark and the OK button.
Or become a teacher, nurse, or faculty member of a college... or did you not read the link?
Oh yeah, I forgot where I am.
From IBM and Yahoo called OmniFind. It runs on a desktop or server and can index multiple shares... and the basic version is free but offers a lot of functionality.
Although if your business is booming, a GSA is freakin' sweet.
Pay your loan for 10 years... and the government will excuse the rest.
Some restrictions apply...
http://www.nextstudent.com/articles/student-loans-forgiven.asp
It seems like the better way would be to develop and deploy the MMO in an environment much like super computers and their applications are. Connecting servers with ultrahighspeed interconnects like InfiniBand (or now maybe even 10Gb ethernet would suffice) to create one large fabric of processing - not individual hotspot servers. This would allow the environment to dedicate more processors and memory to hotspots and not have idle servers laying around waiting for a group of players to explore that part of the map.
It seems a little ridiculous in this age of virtualization and distributed computing that they couldn't have come up with something a little better.
Bidding is open for a Hitachi S-6180 from the University of Wisconsin... mds.bussvc.wisc.edu
Five grand (and a the winning bid) and it can be yours.
Google Bot respects the robots.txt file... Rupert, use it or shut the fuck up.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Let Microsoft install IE... let the user connect to the internet and download any (and all) browser they want.
Who fucking cares which browser it comes with - the user has full opportunity to use any they want.
If there was any love from Apple for its users, they would dump the AT&T exclusive deal and allow the iPhone to be sold and supported on all the other networks out there. But since they get such a sweet kickback from AT&T, they have zero incentive.
Every iPhone user I talk to in the midwest says they would dump AT&T in a heartbeat for Verizon or US Cellular (if they would ever support SIM cards). Even more people who don't have an iPhone would get one if they didn't have to sign up with AT&T.
To some folks, having their data hosted in a facility that handles Amazon's data is worth the price.
Build your own cloud.
The cost savings of virtualization more than pay for building your own... and you still get to keep your data.
I remember Gateway stores were poaching from local retailers like Circuit City... the grass died on both sides of that fence.
I neither own this game or the console its on - but I'm assuming the game downloads its ad content from a single source.
Block it on your DNS or redirect it to photos (or videos) you'd like to see during the loading of a level.
Once this shit hits the internet - it's out there. There is no undo button or magical legal action you can take to cover it up anymore.
You'd be better off to admit you fucked up and spend your efforts cleaning up the mess instead of trying to cover up this crap.
Oh yeah - and piss off the media - that helps your case too.
The college I work at is not a massive environment with a small budget - but we managed to purchase a couple of ASA firewalls with an IPS module to identify and stop P2P traffic.
It just fucking works - and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to keep asshats from torrenting television shows and movies on our limited uplink and campus WANS.
The scary part is someone with this data was dumb enough to run a P2P client on the same machine. Who knows whatelse was on that machine.
You may actually have a point there... *I* would actually go to one of those parties.
I think the fear was that we'd have a store full of Office, SQL, and Access classes at the genius bar (or whatever they're calling it).
If they, however, decide to start using these storefronts to start teaching certification classes, you'll get a lot more attention.
Be careful, hot secretaries may have swine flu.
Pfft... this is slashdot, nobody here is hitting that.
At least Chuck E. Cheese lets the parents get a pitcher to ease the pain of the entire experience.
Microsoft better do the same.
This could be the next step in actually having secured, signed, digital copies.
I could see a variation of this made available for official documents that need to "phone home" for decription. If the document is somewhere its not supposed to be - scambled.
Of course there are many ways to circumvent this - but I'm tired of faxes being legally more viable than anything digital.
Did you have an easy to guess username?
Just because you didn't send email from "robogun@gmail.com" doesn't mean your robogun@att.net isn't on a spam list somewhere. How do you increase the size of a spam list exponentially? strip all the domains from the addresses and find common names... then generate one email address for each domain you want to hit.
Ta-da... spam email sent to accounts that were never used. This could indicate that google's directory harvest attack identification methods need some fine tuning, but I doubt its maliciously allowing people to spam you, that's just plain stoopid.
Not really. Think of it like beta testers, or even better - neutral sensors. They aren't paying for the service, so they can't call your helpdesk and bitch about its effectiveness or about that one spam message that really offended them.
McAfee gets millions of email accounts to monitor and use as sensors for new spam, allowing them to gather that data, crunch it, and redistribute the new spam identifcation data to their own paying customers, including gmail.
This allows them to be more accurate and have better feedback on how their spam filtration is doing.
Bigger the sensor net - the better your product, as a rule of thumb anyway. Leave it to McAfee to fuck it all up though.
Interestingly enough, Cisco's IronPort uses Sophos, McAfee, and Trend for scanning email. They decided they could do better by licensing they spam/virus filters that rolling out their own. I like the idea of leveraging multiple vendors for this kind of work - belt, suspenders, and a jumpsuit...
As an email administrator - I wouldn't give a user the ability to disable virus filtration on their email account - even if I knew they weren't a direct threat to any known virii. Too many stupid people out there know how to use the FWD button.
I know what you're saying, but since you're probably the smartest user out of the tens of thousands that use your email server - they're not likely to give you a one-off option.