This should provide IBM a boost in sales being that it's looking like it's providing true support for Solaris.
Last I checked, other x86 blade vendors (HP and Dell come to mind) were only truly supporting Windows and Linux. Even though I consider them both enterprise operating systems, it'd be a lot easier justifying IBM BladeCenters to the higher ups and getting them in-house with Sun's support. In the long run, this could also get the convergence on one *nix OS (linux) easier since the gateway is in place.
Was checking it out and clicked on the boing boing link. I checked out the "Swimmer nearly eviscerated by a crocodile needlefish in Hawaii" story and as it came up, an ad popped up below it. What did it say you ask? "Low Hawaii vacation prices" Not exactly your target market when reading that story...
There used to be a live virus flash animation on their site where it would show you what countries worm emails was being picked up in. On the left hand side, they had a list of big worm outbreaks and would play through the outbreak and show infected regions. Very nice demo, but it looks like it's no longer - http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/threats/ now brings you to their home page.
I guess it depends on how much drive space you want...You'd still be paying for the RAID 1 functionality on the mobo (albeit not as much as a separate card). 4x120gig with raid 1 on the mobo would probably be around the same price as 3x120gig with a separate raid 5 controller. $/gig with raid 1 is the most expensive so I guess if storage space isn't that great, raid 1 would be the way to go. But as you get more drives with raid 5, the $/gig (or the obligatory $/.jpg of pr0n) goes down...In my situation, I was thinking of getting 4 120 gig drives. I've got about 6 months of the howard stern show (set up a cron job to record it every morning and I've been to lazy to burn it all), vmware images of 3 different os's, and my family's vast mp3 collection all stored between three machines...but hey that's my situation...
I'm in the market for a new machine, and I've been spec'ing out different parts for my budget...These drives are nice and big, but what happens when you lose a 120 gig drive...I've pretty much decided that I'm going to have to get an IDE RAID card and highly recommend them...the RAID cards at work have saved me hours and hours of restoring from backup...Check out the 3ware Escalade, the Promise SuperTrak, or the Adaptec 2400A. RAID 5 is the way to go (with or without removable drives). I've been watching the prices for 120 Gig drives drop and now it's just about the price where I can afford to spend 150 clams to buy an extra drive that would be used to protect myself from a drive failure.
I see it happening every weekend in NYC, but I'm sure it happens elsewhere. Let me explain my findings. I've found that people between the ages of 19 to 30 are most likely to be infected by this virus. It usually always happens after drinking at bars or clubs. I even have been infected by this dastardly virus. After having quite a few beers and vodka cranberries, I've been know to get infected by virus that I've been calling the ILOVEYOU virus...It's usually only communicable to people of the opposite sex, unless you travel to the village. The more you drink, the more apparent this virus becomes. Good thing is that it usually lasts only about eight hours before it's effects wear off.
I'll get to the bottom of this. Will report back with more information on Sunday.
Things like number 50: My main computers will have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks.
Q. How does the PC owner transfer their license rights for the operating system?
A. The GPL can be found here.
Q. What if the donor can't find the backup CDs, End-Use License Agreement, End-User manual and the Certificate of Authenticity? Can they still donate the PC and operating system? A. It can be downloaded from here
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Lowtax has been doing this for a while now...
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Check out Lowtax's spam page...it's half way down...while you're visiting the ICQ pranks are great too...just look out for the pusher bot...
Their top 100 host names from January 2002 can be found here. Care to wager what the top host name is? WWW of course... A list of all their January 2002 surveys can be found here.
We will release our mutant bats to combat the over population of bats. And then when all the flies are gone and the bats start taking over the town, we'll then release a pack of killer wolves to take care of the bats...
From WPoison's Safety page: The second problem was the potentially bad effects that having a locally installed copy of Wpoison might have on one's
own CPU and bandwidth usage. Obviously, given the nature of how Wpoison actually works, it can easily be seen that
(unless something is done to prevent it) the evil spammer address harvesting web crawlers may get trapped by Wpoison (as
intended) but that then, they might begin to access your installed copy of Wpoison over and over again (as intended)
perhaps even to such an extent that they end up using up most/all of your available CPU cycles and/or most/all of your
available network bandwidth.
This problem also was solved in a fairly trivial and straightforward way. In a nutshell, just prior to the time it generates the
very tail end of any one of its randomly-generated pseudo web pages, Wpoison pauses for several seconds. It just does
nothing (other than wasting time) during those several seconds.
The effect of these calculated pauses is that they insure that any address harvesting web crawlers that may be diligently
attempting to suck as many Wpoison-generated web pages out of your site as fast as possible will in fact only be able to
suck pages out at a reasonable and moderate pace which will not have any sustained dramatic effect upon your CPU
So unless the web server is running on a older machine, it should have no problems with creating a new page every few seconds.
Perhaps there should be some sort of ORBS database for webcrawlers that don't adhere to the robot exclusions protocol (i.e. ignoring the robots.txt file)...may be kinda hard with someone scanning with a dynamically assigned IP address. - grunby
Something like WPoison has to be used more often. Until a higher percentage of harvested emails are faked, these web spiders will continue roaming the web, adding email addresses to their collection. - grunby
Saw it this morning, but I was just unable to reproduce it. Went to AdCritic and all of a sudden, everything on the page faded to a transparent state (javascript), and then an ad came up selling something (don't remember the product). To get back to AdCritic, I had to click on the "Close Ad" button. Pretty cool, but it'd get real annoying after the first couple. Has anyone else seen this type of ad?
As soon as the data leave the server and digitally lies on the client machine, it'll get cracked. We've seen and heard it a thousand times before (ie. don't trust client side data in any cgi)...
Any when you've got thousands of crackers, who want to be the first to crack the next latest thing, it's only a matter of time. I guess the only way around something like this is to have the data reside on the merchant's server and out of the hands of the client, but until we all can access the internet from everywhere, that won't happen.
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Re:@Home not blocking port 80 yet
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Sure they say no servers, but a simple route add -host 24.0.0.203 reject works wonders
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This should provide IBM a boost in sales being that it's looking like it's providing true support for Solaris. Last I checked, other x86 blade vendors (HP and Dell come to mind) were only truly supporting Windows and Linux. Even though I consider them both enterprise operating systems, it'd be a lot easier justifying IBM BladeCenters to the higher ups and getting them in-house with Sun's support. In the long run, this could also get the convergence on one *nix OS (linux) easier since the gateway is in place.
is not to play
in New Orl...well I guess not any more.
Was checking it out and clicked on the boing boing link. I checked out the "Swimmer nearly eviscerated by a crocodile needlefish in Hawaii" story and as it came up, an ad popped up below it. What did it say you ask? "Low Hawaii vacation prices" Not exactly your target market when reading that story...
There used to be a live virus flash animation on their site where it would show you what countries worm emails was being picked up in. On the left hand side, they had a list of big worm outbreaks and would play through the outbreak and show infected regions. Very nice demo, but it looks like it's no longer - http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/threats/ now brings you to their home page.
Found here. Governments will be able to see some source to 2000, XP, .net, and CE.
./configure --prefix=/opt/windows
tar zxvf win32xp-i386.tar.gz
cd win32xp
make
make install
- grunby
Just saw this on cnet. They're calling it a hoax.
- grunby
I guess it depends on how much drive space you want...You'd still be paying for the RAID 1 functionality on the mobo (albeit not as much as a separate card). 4x120gig with raid 1 on the mobo would probably be around the same price as 3x120gig with a separate raid 5 controller. $/gig with raid 1 is the most expensive so I guess if storage space isn't that great, raid 1 would be the way to go. But as you get more drives with raid 5, the $/gig (or the obligatory $/.jpg of pr0n) goes down...In my situation, I was thinking of getting 4 120 gig drives. I've got about 6 months of the howard stern show (set up a cron job to record it every morning and I've been to lazy to burn it all), vmware images of 3 different os's, and my family's vast mp3 collection all stored between three machines...but hey that's my situation...
oh yeah - and the pr0n...
- grunby
I'm in the market for a new machine, and I've been spec'ing out different parts for my budget...These drives are nice and big, but what happens when you lose a 120 gig drive...I've pretty much decided that I'm going to have to get an IDE RAID card and highly recommend them...the RAID cards at work have saved me hours and hours of restoring from backup...Check out the 3ware Escalade, the Promise SuperTrak, or the Adaptec 2400A. RAID 5 is the way to go (with or without removable drives). I've been watching the prices for 120 Gig drives drop and now it's just about the price where I can afford to spend 150 clams to buy an extra drive that would be used to protect myself from a drive failure.
- grunby
I see it happening every weekend in NYC, but I'm sure it happens elsewhere. Let me explain my findings.
I've found that people between the ages of 19 to 30 are most likely to be infected by this virus. It usually always happens after drinking at bars or clubs. I even have been infected by this dastardly virus. After having quite a few beers and vodka cranberries, I've been know to get infected by virus that I've been calling the ILOVEYOU virus...It's usually only communicable to people of the opposite sex, unless you travel to the village. The more you drink, the more apparent this virus becomes. Good thing is that it usually lasts only about eight hours before it's effects wear off.
I'll get to the bottom of this. Will report back with more information on Sunday.
- grunby
man rdate
- grunby
You mustn't forget The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord.
Things like number 50: My main computers will have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks.
- grunby
I can't remember the last time a major gaming company released the Mac version of a game the same time they released the Windows version.
How's about Neverwinter Nights?
- grunby
If only man pages were like this
There are a huge bunch more right here
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Q. How does the PC owner transfer their license rights for the operating system?
A. The GPL can be found here.
Q. What if the donor can't find the backup CDs, End-Use License Agreement, End-User manual and the Certificate of Authenticity? Can they still donate the PC and operating system?
A. It can be downloaded from here
- [grunby]
Check out Lowtax's spam page...it's half way down...while you're visiting the ICQ pranks are great too...just look out for the pusher bot...
- grunby
Their top 100 host names from January 2002 can be found here. Care to wager what the top host name is? WWW of course...
A list of all their January 2002 surveys can be found here.
- [grunby]
We will release our mutant bats to combat the over population of bats. And then when all the flies are gone and the bats start taking over the town, we'll then release a pack of killer wolves to take care of the bats...
- grunby
From WPoison's Safety page:
The second problem was the potentially bad effects that having a locally installed copy of Wpoison might have on one's own CPU and bandwidth usage. Obviously, given the nature of how Wpoison actually works, it can easily be seen that (unless something is done to prevent it) the evil spammer address harvesting web crawlers may get trapped by Wpoison (as intended) but that then, they might begin to access your installed copy of Wpoison over and over again (as intended) perhaps even to such an extent that they end up using up most/all of your available CPU cycles and/or most/all of your available network bandwidth.
This problem also was solved in a fairly trivial and straightforward way. In a nutshell, just prior to the time it generates the very tail end of any one of its randomly-generated pseudo web pages, Wpoison pauses for several seconds. It just does nothing (other than wasting time) during those several seconds.
The effect of these calculated pauses is that they insure that any address harvesting web crawlers that may be diligently attempting to suck as many Wpoison-generated web pages out of your site as fast as possible will in fact only be able to suck pages out at a reasonable and moderate pace which will not have any sustained dramatic effect upon your CPU
So unless the web server is running on a older machine, it should have no problems with creating a new page every few seconds.
Perhaps there should be some sort of ORBS database for webcrawlers that don't adhere to the robot exclusions protocol (i.e. ignoring the robots.txt file)...may be kinda hard with someone scanning with a dynamically assigned IP address.
- grunby
Something like WPoison has to be used more often. Until a higher percentage of harvested emails are faked, these web spiders will continue roaming the web, adding email addresses to their collection.
- grunby
Saw it this morning, but I was just unable to reproduce it. Went to AdCritic and all of a sudden, everything on the page faded to a transparent state (javascript), and then an ad came up selling something (don't remember the product). To get back to AdCritic, I had to click on the "Close Ad" button. Pretty cool, but it'd get real annoying after the first couple. Has anyone else seen this type of ad?
- [grunby]
Check out this Nvidia page for a mirror of the Wolfenstein download.
- [grunby]
As soon as the data leave the server and digitally lies on the client machine, it'll get cracked. We've seen and heard it a thousand times before (ie. don't trust client side data in any cgi)...
Any when you've got thousands of crackers, who want to be the first to crack the next latest thing, it's only a matter of time. I guess the only way around something like this is to have the data reside on the merchant's server and out of the hands of the client, but until we all can access the internet from everywhere, that won't happen.
- [grunby]
Sure they say no servers, but a simple
route add -host 24.0.0.203 reject
works wonders
- grunby
Right after I signed Dibona's Free Speech, Free Sklyarov petition...
- grunby