Ah, cool. Apparently, they do have a VMWare product, and that's the one that I've ended up using. I hated it so much. If they have an alternative - Awesome.
I know EC2 uses a very customized version of Xen.
What's wrong with AoE? It's high performance, low-overhead, and simple.
We're looking at using KVM, or Xen. Xen PV has much better performance compared to our current ESXi cluster. I think our ESXi cluster is on FC + 1GE + HP Blades.
We can get far better performance from Xen by using DAS and replicating it up to a AoE store in case of local drive failure. Drive latencies are 1/10th of what they are on FC, and we're able to get much better IOPs from using local SSDs. Our systems, and TCO is far lower cost by using commodity Dell hardware instead.
Last company I was at had something like 500 TB aggregate storage, and 18 racks. We have over 100 Gbit/sec of aggregate bandwidth on our cluster. I'd say probably 25 gbit/sec of that was storage traffic. I'd like to see you try to meet that scale with a traditional FC SAN.
Don't they get their IPs from ARIN? They have to pay their ARIN dues like everyone else, don't they? Their endowment is 8.3 BILLION dollars. I don't think $160k is that bad for them.
I live in Scotland, and I recently signed up with an ISP that did this. They have block control over my building, so there wasn't any other solution. They have a device (I'm pretty sure it's just a linux box based on my nmapping) that looks at each packet's TTL. If the TTL is odd and the port is NOT 80 or 443, it drops the packet. If the TTL if odd and the port is 80 or 443, then it redirects you to a billing page.
I bypassed it by incrementing TTL at my gateway. I imagine people will modify openwrt/dd-wrt to do this as well. Additionally, I have a solution which tunnels my connection over a VPN to an Amazon EC2 instance and does some magic to beat QoS. It seems like oversubscribing at at least 2000% seems typical. I'm paying for a 50 mbit/sec connection. I see closer to ~6-8 mbit/sec (no, I'm not getting my megabytes and bits confused). Additionally, since I know a little about my ISP internally, they run all these blocks to their HQ over MetroE-like products, and then concentrate it into their core. Their transit is 10GigE (based on traffic numbers pulled from various private sources). I know that they sell far more than 10GigE of bandwidth to customers. There is far more wrong with the ISP environment here than you'd know.
My girlfriend's ISP is even worse. They do a significant amount of throttling on specific ports (1935, 80, so on..) and basically any kind of download during the day slows down to a halt. They have about 6000 people + several offices on a 10 GigE connection.
I don't know if this will even be seen, but I thought it was worth throwing out there.
I know exactly where Livermore is! Right next to Pleasanton, which is where I live. I usually tell people I like in San Jose as I work there, and it doesn't have the same radically liberal connotations as San Francisco. Where do you work in Livermore, the lab?
Why doesn't anyone ever consider DSL in these cases? In most metros there are at least 2-3 ISPs. Unlike cable the last mile for DSL is a dedicated loop. Meaning that as long as you have enough bandwidth from the ATM termination area to the ISP's backbone you're fine. Even with AT&T in the bay area we don't have any problems. This means lower ping times, higher bandwidth, and more consistent bandwidth. If you guys don't want throttled move to DSL, you are less likely to experience this because the last-mile is yours, not shared between you and everybody else in the neighborhood.
Obviously I can't transfer 30 GB over 1 Gbit/sec.
Basic math (30 Gbyte)*8=240 Gbit
240 gbit/1 gbit sec #Cancel units
240 sec MINIMUM.
More time because ethernet overhead, etc..
Anyways, pay for my 40 Gbyte/sec connection, or put the money in a bank, I can get FTTH for only, like 30k. I live in silicon valley.
Yes, this is a marketing stunt.
No, there is no point in this technology.
No, this technology doesn't actually work.
Yes, if you had the right stuff you could transfer 30 Gbyte in 2 seconds.
Pay me and I'll show you! Also, what distance is it going over? Can't break those damn laws of physics.
PS:
I would assume that they built this computer themselves.
1. How much does this cost/where can I buy these?
2. how is the radio in this
2a. Does it have multiple SSID/client interfaces?
3. Is there an openSDK?
I have looked at this idea from a standpoint of the proxy-holder. Imagine if you could take all the data flowing to every large social-networking site, and analyze it. Then you know you can sell a way to defend against proxies. So if I was a proxy holder I would: 1) data mine 2) Charge companies to block access -- extort 3) Charge people extra money to purchase access to the SSL version, in order to defend against SPI
There are currently a few ways to stop proxies: 1) Ban all known proxy URLs/IPs 2) Use SPI and analyze the content, then block it, rather than using URL/IP only 3) Trust... (HAHAH, just kidding) 4) blacklist:* whitelist IPs/URLs that only pertain the organization, and have a supervisor that has access to the whitelist.
IBM just screwed me a little over a week ago. I asked them whether they had any other T60s than the ones on the website, or they had any in release. The next day they ran a huge ad on their home page that said "THE NEW T60" and it pointed to a week and a half old page with the T60p, the model I wanted. If this was IBM still, I doubt that this would happen.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. It also has the Micosoft mentatlity of always keeping yourself secret until a key time when you know it is a good idea to release. My bets are if the PS3 comes out in November expect Halo3 by Q1 2007. Now the question will be what is the development status on Halo3? Maybe it will be released the same time as the movie, that will be interesting to see Halo3, Halo the movie, and PS3 to be released in the same week.
I was a friend of IllWill. Pretty sad story I think. Why don't companies just make better products? No store alarm to internet comparisons PLEASE. Well if he reads this I'd like to say good luck. their site was illmob.org which seems to be down right now.
VMware used to be corporate murder. They released "betas" that were free. Now they are going 100% free. They can crush their competition. They are going to come out with some kind of platform for selling programs with built in "machines". I could run apache native on windows! Good idea guys! 64-bit rosetta stone?
I was round a friend's house the other weekend, and [b]she[/b] fired up Halo 2 on her XBox, and I was struck with how primitive the graphics look. Sure, an XBox is a damn sight cheaper than my PC, but I can see why.
------------ Did I read that right? She? is she on xbox live? If so whats her gamertag:-)
A coupla things. At my company we use a server that's company has gone out of business for about 3 years now. If it changed we would have to either hack it to death which would be violating the EULA or by some new software. This might help the economy though. Maybe someone is smart enough to prod bush to create some huge problem so we have to hire more people to fix it. *fingers crossed* I don't want to have to reverse engineer that app. Its code is ugly and the time libraries are not disassembling nicely. (problems like wierd pointers?!?!)/me is gunna need alotta cofee.
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Ah, cool. Apparently, they do have a VMWare product, and that's the one that I've ended up using. I hated it so much. If they have an alternative - Awesome. I know EC2 uses a very customized version of Xen.
Seems like VMware to me: http://www.rackspace.com/information/newsroom/pressreleases/rackspace-private-cloud-leverages-vmware-to-extend-enterprise-computing-on-demand/
RS = Rackspace? If so, they use VMWare, because it's ENTERPRISE!
What's wrong with AoE? It's high performance, low-overhead, and simple. We're looking at using KVM, or Xen. Xen PV has much better performance compared to our current ESXi cluster. I think our ESXi cluster is on FC + 1GE + HP Blades. We can get far better performance from Xen by using DAS and replicating it up to a AoE store in case of local drive failure. Drive latencies are 1/10th of what they are on FC, and we're able to get much better IOPs from using local SSDs. Our systems, and TCO is far lower cost by using commodity Dell hardware instead. Last company I was at had something like 500 TB aggregate storage, and 18 racks. We have over 100 Gbit/sec of aggregate bandwidth on our cluster. I'd say probably 25 gbit/sec of that was storage traffic. I'd like to see you try to meet that scale with a traditional FC SAN.
Don't they get their IPs from ARIN? They have to pay their ARIN dues like everyone else, don't they? Their endowment is 8.3 BILLION dollars. I don't think $160k is that bad for them.
I live in Scotland, and I recently signed up with an ISP that did this. They have block control over my building, so there wasn't any other solution. They have a device (I'm pretty sure it's just a linux box based on my nmapping) that looks at each packet's TTL. If the TTL is odd and the port is NOT 80 or 443, it drops the packet. If the TTL if odd and the port is 80 or 443, then it redirects you to a billing page. I bypassed it by incrementing TTL at my gateway. I imagine people will modify openwrt/dd-wrt to do this as well. Additionally, I have a solution which tunnels my connection over a VPN to an Amazon EC2 instance and does some magic to beat QoS. It seems like oversubscribing at at least 2000% seems typical. I'm paying for a 50 mbit/sec connection. I see closer to ~6-8 mbit/sec (no, I'm not getting my megabytes and bits confused). Additionally, since I know a little about my ISP internally, they run all these blocks to their HQ over MetroE-like products, and then concentrate it into their core. Their transit is 10GigE (based on traffic numbers pulled from various private sources). I know that they sell far more than 10GigE of bandwidth to customers. There is far more wrong with the ISP environment here than you'd know. My girlfriend's ISP is even worse. They do a significant amount of throttling on specific ports (1935, 80, so on..) and basically any kind of download during the day slows down to a halt. They have about 6000 people + several offices on a 10 GigE connection. I don't know if this will even be seen, but I thought it was worth throwing out there.
I know exactly where Livermore is! Right next to Pleasanton, which is where I live. I usually tell people I like in San Jose as I work there, and it doesn't have the same radically liberal connotations as San Francisco. Where do you work in Livermore, the lab?
Why doesn't anyone ever consider DSL in these cases? In most metros there are at least 2-3 ISPs. Unlike cable the last mile for DSL is a dedicated loop. Meaning that as long as you have enough bandwidth from the ATM termination area to the ISP's backbone you're fine. Even with AT&T in the bay area we don't have any problems. This means lower ping times, higher bandwidth, and more consistent bandwidth. If you guys don't want throttled move to DSL, you are less likely to experience this because the last-mile is yours, not shared between you and everybody else in the neighborhood.
Obviously I can't transfer 30 GB over 1 Gbit/sec. Basic math (30 Gbyte)*8=240 Gbit 240 gbit/1 gbit sec #Cancel units 240 sec MINIMUM. More time because ethernet overhead, etc.. Anyways, pay for my 40 Gbyte/sec connection, or put the money in a bank, I can get FTTH for only, like 30k. I live in silicon valley. Yes, this is a marketing stunt. No, there is no point in this technology. No, this technology doesn't actually work. Yes, if you had the right stuff you could transfer 30 Gbyte in 2 seconds. Pay me and I'll show you! Also, what distance is it going over? Can't break those damn laws of physics. PS: I would assume that they built this computer themselves.
1. How much does this cost/where can I buy these? 2. how is the radio in this 2a. Does it have multiple SSID/client interfaces? 3. Is there an openSDK?
I have looked at this idea from a standpoint of the proxy-holder. Imagine if you could take all the data flowing to every large social-networking site, and analyze it. Then you know you can sell a way to defend against proxies.
So if I was a proxy holder I would:
1) data mine
2) Charge companies to block access -- extort
3) Charge people extra money to purchase access to the SSL version, in order to defend against SPI
There are currently a few ways to stop proxies:
1) Ban all known proxy URLs/IPs
2) Use SPI and analyze the content, then block it, rather than using URL/IP only
3) Trust... (HAHAH, just kidding)
4) blacklist:* whitelist IPs/URLs that only pertain the organization, and have a supervisor that has access to the whitelist.
I have noticed that setting the switch's MAC address on the port works well. Basically being like only allow traffic from/to MAC addy XYZ.
Why do you need port based security anyway? Just secure your switch, keep it locked up...
I for one welcome our Java/PHP/Python overlords! I would really love JAVA+PYTHON, thats like crack for a programmer.
If Microsoft opened up windows, we could do some great things.
IBM just screwed me a little over a week ago. I asked them whether they had any other T60s than the ones on the website, or they had any in release. The next day they ran a huge ad on their home page that said "THE NEW T60" and it pointed to a week and a half old page with the T60p, the model I wanted. If this was IBM still, I doubt that this would happen.
The main site is down for some reason (slashdot does that). The torrent is mirrored at: http://mirrors.atarack.com/Kororaa-Xgl-Live-CD-0.1 .torrent
We have ISO mirrors here for the impatient:
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here (thanks to sefcom)
here (thanks to Digital Extortion), and
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Yeah, that makes perfect sense. It also has the Micosoft mentatlity of always keeping yourself secret until a key time when you know it is a good idea to release. My bets are if the PS3 comes out in November expect Halo3 by Q1 2007. Now the question will be what is the development status on Halo3? Maybe it will be released the same time as the movie, that will be interesting to see Halo3, Halo the movie, and PS3 to be released in the same week.
I was a friend of IllWill. Pretty sad story I think. Why don't companies just make better products? No store alarm to internet comparisons PLEASE. Well if he reads this I'd like to say good luck. their site was illmob.org which seems to be down right now.
What OS do you have? Linux - 19.85141124 weeks (stop all extraneous services) Windows - Your screwed Mac OS X - I'd say 19.85141124/2
VMware used to be corporate murder. They released "betas" that were free. Now they are going 100% free. They can crush their competition. They are going to come out with some kind of platform for selling programs with built in "machines". I could run apache native on windows! Good idea guys! 64-bit rosetta stone?
It was not against the slashdot effect. It was againt the bad pr effect.
http://xbmodder.us/sun/approved.html http://xbmodder.us/sun/pdf A mirror of all the PDFs.
I was round a friend's house the other weekend, and [b]she[/b] fired up Halo 2 on her XBox, and I was struck with how primitive the graphics look. Sure, an XBox is a damn sight cheaper than my PC, but I can see why.
:-)
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Did I read that right? She? is she on xbox live? If so whats her gamertag
Cause they were bought by another company and they did contact me when I used two extra liscenses.
A coupla things. At my company we use a server that's company has gone out of business for about 3 years now. If it changed we would have to either hack it to death which would be violating the EULA or by some new software. This might help the economy though. Maybe someone is smart enough to prod bush to create some huge problem so we have to hire more people to fix it. *fingers crossed* I don't want to have to reverse engineer that app. Its code is ugly and the time libraries are not disassembling nicely. (problems like wierd pointers?!?!) /me is gunna need alotta cofee.