Usenet is one system. If i post something to one server, it propegates outward to the rest of them.
If you shut down usenet, you shut down usenet.....there is not "oh, well...lolz it will pop back up somewhere!"
What pisses me off is that Usenet is a TERRIFIC source of information on just about any topic you can imagine. It is the best discussion system I have found for AS/400. There are experts in the field that will respond to any questions that you have within hours, 24/7.
Please, for the love of god, don't let this story go any further....please nobody post this to digg, or reddit, or any other place that will get it even more publicity. What the MAFRIAA wants is for all of us to be up in arms, and if we get the 14 year old ZOMFG HACK-ZORES on the case that is exactly what will happen.
usenet will go the way of bittorrent.
NOthing to see here folks, move along./quickly now//QUICKLY!
Google is so good because they are good at deciding what pages matter! Leave your page as it is and fill it with content. It isn't like all of the sudden *POOF* google appeared and now we all have to conform to their model. They evolved in parallel to web pages...meaning THEY ALREADY KNOW HOW TO INDEX YOUR SHIT!
You assume too much in not considering that Interpol or the NSA or Mossad may very well run this thing. What motivation would the NSA, which is an orginization with almost limitless funds, have in creating a botnet of the scale of storm? If they did, why would they sell it off?
It makes a lot of sense to use the Spamhaus RBL to block things in a firewall. If a site is black listed for sending spam, then I don't want any traffic from that site, not email, not web traffic, anything. However, I am not aware of a system that ties an iptables DROP rule to an RBL. why don't you write one....isn't that the whole point of OSS? from the 30 seconds that on spamhaus.org, it looks like they let you download the entire list for a fee.....so...just grab the list and write yourself a perl script to generate iptables rules...
all in all it should take you about 5 minutes to build a "system" do to this. Giving it a nice web GUI should take about 15.
Yeah, and i thought of the same thing like 10 years ago when i was driving. "Hrm, if i put a keyboard on the back of my steering wheel, and turned it sideways, i could type without letting go of the wheel!"
Don't you all see! Vista was a wise move by Microsoft. IT has been long been agreed upon that one major contributor to windows' insecurity is its popularity. If Microsoft comes out with an OS that nobody wants, they won't be popular anymore, and suddenly they'll have a secure OS!!!
but but but...we need a hot backup in case Johnny CEO's blackberry stops working when some chinese asshole decides to put red bull in his Mr. Fusion and the world implodes.
Well, you know that saying that if full tilt nuclear war breaks out that the intertubes will still function? There is a reason for that...ARMED GUARDS to kill off the zombies and pr0n starved nerds of course!!
IN all honesty though, a freaking suspended glass NOC? Does it really matter whether you can see the server racks or not?//my data center will have an armory, and slides that go everywhere. (yes, those kinds of slides)
yeah, i suppose your right..we've created all sorts of WONDERFUL things like: cable tv! satelite tv! satelite radio! FM stereo RADIO! HDTVs!!! teledildonics! halo3! CELLPHONES!!!! SECOND LIFE!!!!!
the spread on the WWW? any slashdot nerd with his/her salt should know that tcp/ip has existed since the 70s. THAT was the revolution and it happened 30 years ago. The fact that you can now use that creation to display all sorts of colorful images on your monitor means NOTHING! And the network has only come because people turned it into a business and started laying fiber all over the place.
So, while your ability to watch youtube videos is pretty cool, I would definitely NOT put it next to achievements like nuclear power.
Why is it that we had our first flight in 1903, 36 years later we exploded our first atomic bomb, 25 yeras after that we had a man in space, and only 8 years after that we had human beings on the moon. In the last 38 years what have we done? Why couldn't we put a man on the moon 9 months from now if we needed to? 30 YEARS to get this base going? If we started developing technology at the rate we were 100 years ago, we should have home based cold fusion reactors in 30 years! We should have near light-speed travel in 30 years! We should have mastered matter/energy conversion in 30 years!!!
screw this job, i'm going back to school for physics....oh, wait.
YES! I cannot TELL you how many times i've had to explain this to people. I get to sit in my office and play with my lin box all day because of all the time i spent when we first got started organizing everything, and making sure that everything was setup CORRECTLY!
Some people in my company/industry hate me because I'm 20 (I started here when i was 19) and I'm the admin of a medium sized business (we have about 200 employees). What they don't understand is that the reason why they have to sit in their cubicles inputting numbers into the computer all day, and I get to sit in my office reading/. is: when i was in highschool and they were out getting hammered and partying, i was at HOME sitting at my computer learning python and perl and mysql. I was learning howto setup apache while they were learning how to use an apple as a makeshift pipe. I was on ebay buying up cheap routers so that i could learn IOS, they were at the local flea market trying to buy fake ids.
Yeah thats a bit of a rant, and slightly off topic, but i have a feeling that a lot of people here share the same experience. It just torques me when people at work get mad because I don't have to do some mind-numbing job all day./rant off.
If you are gaming, editing music/photos/video etc. you need a lot of power/ram if you are editing music/photos/video and are doing it professionally, you probably are using a mac.
My sentence should have read something along the lines of:
if you are gaming, or if your job involves high def video editing hi-res photo editing, music production, or graphic design you need a LOT of power/ram (and if you're doing any of the professional stuff, you're probably doing it on a mac).
I am NOT a mac zealot. I have sacrificed probably more karma by making derogatory remarks about mac than anybody on slashdot. I LOATHE apple, however, i HAVE worked in high end record studios, i have worked with graphic designers, and i know people that own video production studios. ALl of these people are using a mac to do their jobs. Maybe its the best way to do it, maybe not, but the fact of the matter is that its the standard. Just like linux is probably better suited to be a secure desktop workstation, it doesn't matter, windows is the standard. Yes you can get all the same stuff done on linux, but windows is the standard, and windows is what is taught.
The greatest lesson to be learned from this is that not everyone thinks that a super, ultra, mega, turbo powerful and equally as powerful processor is what they need. It was exactly what i was telling somebody at work today. If you are into playing games, rendering video, editing really hi-res photos, or doing music editing...need a REALLY powerful machine, with a LOT of ram (actually if you are doing any of these as your job, you should probably be using a mac). However, if you are like me, and your laptop is more or less a thin client that connects to other machines via either Remote Desktop or SSH, then the cheapest, most durable, lightest, and most efficient laptop is EXACTLY what you need.
If I could buy a pallet of these things and run rdesktop and OpenVPN on them, half of my users would be using them from home. hell, $100 bucks is cheaper than my friggin blackberry! and i bet it doesn't get confused when you throw anything but txt based email at it!
I apologize if this offended you. I really didn't mean it as an insult towards deaf people.
Yes, i am insensitive, no, not a clod.
well......maybe.
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Can you give us any insight into the hardware/platform that slashdot runs on? How many servers does it use? What did you code it in? (a half drunk, coked-up deaf guy screaming HTML into a tin can on a string?) How much bandwidth does it use?
I know this is more than one question, but my MAIN question is just: "What does it take to run slashdot, hardware/software/bandwidth wise?"
Uh, why? If you're not streaming it on demand, then just stream is using HTTP with edge caching and don't worry about the lack of QoS because you're not going to watch it until the whole thing is downloaded. Because then you still have the problem of clogging the tubes when 50 different people are all trying to download 40 different things, and they ALL require a different stream because none of them started the download at the same time. This is why the cable companies can stream an a few hundred mpeg-4 streams down the pipe to 20 thousand different people at the same time without bandwidth becoming a problem, multicast is the same concept...just with packets.
Why not just allocate a piece of the available IP multicast bandwidth in the same way that pieces of the Electromagnetic Spectrum are licensed out. Sure it wouldn't be on demand, but people have been getting by without ondemand television now for 50+ years. Add to this the fact that the ability to have ~1Tb of harddisk is not difficult...and you've got yourself a nice internet connected DVR.
"playing a video kills my network performance" I just want to let everybody know that I had this exact problem on several different linux boxes running gentoo. We (being me and the folks in #gentoo on freenode.net) finally figured out that it was due to an IRQ conflict between the soundcard and the wireless card.
Remapping IRQs in the bios didn't fix it....so i sacrificed both cards to the thermite gods.
Well that was a high school that probably had close to NO network resources. The OP referenced "Unix Clusters" meaning that his univ. most likely does physics/biology research, which usually come with big fat honking grants of cash.
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No, you ARE wrong.
Usenet is one system. If i post something to one server, it propegates outward to the rest of them.
If you shut down usenet, you shut down usenet.....there is not "oh, well...lolz it will pop back up somewhere!"
What pisses me off is that Usenet is a TERRIFIC source of information on just about any topic you can imagine. It is the best discussion system I have found for AS/400. There are experts in the field that will respond to any questions that you have within hours, 24/7.
Please, for the love of god, don't let this story go any further....please nobody post this to digg, or reddit, or any other place that will get it even more publicity. What the MAFRIAA wants is for all of us to be up in arms, and if we get the 14 year old ZOMFG HACK-ZORES on the case that is exactly what will happen.
/quickly now //QUICKLY!
usenet will go the way of bittorrent.
NOthing to see here folks, move along.
Google is so good because they are good at deciding what pages matter! Leave your page as it is and fill it with content. It isn't like all of the sudden *POOF* google appeared and now we all have to conform to their model. They evolved in parallel to web pages...meaning THEY ALREADY KNOW HOW TO INDEX YOUR SHIT!
from the 30 seconds that on spamhaus.org, it looks like they let you download the entire list for a fee.....so...just grab the list and write yourself a perl script to generate iptables rules...
all in all it should take you about 5 minutes to build a "system" do to this.
Giving it a nice web GUI should take about 15.
Yeah, and i thought of the same thing like 10 years ago when i was driving. "Hrm, if i put a keyboard on the back of my steering wheel, and turned it sideways, i could type without letting go of the wheel!"
I call lemming law on you, oh mac fanboi!
Don't you all see! Vista was a wise move by Microsoft. IT has been long been agreed upon that one major contributor to windows' insecurity is its popularity. If Microsoft comes out with an OS that nobody wants, they won't be popular anymore, and suddenly they'll have a secure OS!!!
DUH!
but but but...we need a hot backup in case Johnny CEO's blackberry stops working when some chinese asshole decides to put red bull in his Mr. Fusion and the world implodes.
Well, you know that saying that if full tilt nuclear war breaks out that the intertubes will still function? There is a reason for that...ARMED GUARDS to kill off the zombies and pr0n starved nerds of course!!
//my data center will have an armory, and slides that go everywhere. (yes, those kinds of slides)
IN all honesty though, a freaking suspended glass NOC? Does it really matter whether you can see the server racks or not?
yeah, i suppose your right..we've created all sorts of WONDERFUL things like:
cable tv!
satelite tv!
satelite radio!
FM stereo RADIO!
HDTVs!!!
teledildonics!
halo3!
CELLPHONES!!!!
SECOND LIFE!!!!!
the spread on the WWW? any slashdot nerd with his/her salt should know that tcp/ip has existed since the 70s. THAT was the revolution and it happened 30 years ago. The fact that you can now use that creation to display all sorts of colorful images on your monitor means NOTHING! And the network has only come because people turned it into a business and started laying fiber all over the place.
So, while your ability to watch youtube videos is pretty cool, I would definitely NOT put it next to achievements like nuclear power.
Because its there. Because we have to look at it every night, and because there are people out there saying that we can't.
so fuck off.
Why is it that we had our first flight in 1903, 36 years later we exploded our first atomic bomb, 25 yeras after that we had a man in space, and only 8 years after that we had human beings on the moon. In the last 38 years what have we done? Why couldn't we put a man on the moon 9 months from now if we needed to? 30 YEARS to get this base going? If we started developing technology at the rate we were 100 years ago, we should have home based cold fusion reactors in 30 years! We should have near light-speed travel in 30 years! We should have mastered matter/energy conversion in 30 years!!!
screw this job, i'm going back to school for physics....oh, wait.
PSH..
nmap -sP *.*.*.* > ips.txt
Yes, yes, yes yes, and YES!!!
/. is:
/rant off.
YES! I cannot TELL you how many times i've had to explain this to people. I get to sit in my office and play with my lin box all day because of all the time i spent when we first got started organizing everything, and making sure that everything was setup CORRECTLY!
Some people in my company/industry hate me because I'm 20 (I started here when i was 19) and I'm the admin of a medium sized business (we have about 200 employees). What they don't understand is that the reason why they have to sit in their cubicles inputting numbers into the computer all day, and I get to sit in my office reading
when i was in highschool and they were out getting hammered and partying, i was at HOME sitting at my computer learning python and perl and mysql. I was learning howto setup apache while they were learning how to use an apple as a makeshift pipe. I was on ebay buying up cheap routers so that i could learn IOS, they were at the local flea market trying to buy fake ids.
Yeah thats a bit of a rant, and slightly off topic, but i have a feeling that a lot of people here share the same experience. It just torques me when people at work get mad because I don't have to do some mind-numbing job all day.
Dinner is on me tonight, folks. When VG dropped below a dollar and everybody thought it was gonna go completely under, i stayed the course.
/yes, I'm gloating.
And you wanna know what originally got me interested in this stock? Reading the article on slashdot about Vonage getting sued.
HAHA!
holy shit man, let me clarify this for you.
If you are gaming, editing music/photos/video etc. you need a lot of power/ram
if you are editing music/photos/video and are doing it professionally, you probably are using a mac.
xanax, you, now!
My sentence should have read something along the lines of:
if you are gaming, or if your job involves high def video editing hi-res photo editing, music production, or graphic design you need a LOT of power/ram (and if you're doing any of the professional stuff, you're probably doing it on a mac).
I am NOT a mac zealot. I have sacrificed probably more karma by making derogatory remarks about mac than anybody on slashdot. I LOATHE apple, however, i HAVE worked in high end record studios, i have worked with graphic designers, and i know people that own video production studios. ALl of these people are using a mac to do their jobs. Maybe its the best way to do it, maybe not, but the fact of the matter is that its the standard. Just like linux is probably better suited to be a secure desktop workstation, it doesn't matter, windows is the standard. Yes you can get all the same stuff done on linux, but windows is the standard, and windows is what is taught.
SO STFU!
The greatest lesson to be learned from this is that not everyone thinks that a super, ultra, mega, turbo powerful and equally as powerful processor is what they need. It was exactly what i was telling somebody at work today. If you are into playing games, rendering video, editing really hi-res photos, or doing music editing...need a REALLY powerful machine, with a LOT of ram (actually if you are doing any of these as your job, you should probably be using a mac). However, if you are like me, and your laptop is more or less a thin client that connects to other machines via either Remote Desktop or SSH, then the cheapest, most durable, lightest, and most efficient laptop is EXACTLY what you need.
If I could buy a pallet of these things and run rdesktop and OpenVPN on them, half of my users would be using them from home.
hell, $100 bucks is cheaper than my friggin blackberry! and i bet it doesn't get confused when you throw anything but txt based email at it!
I apologize if this offended you. I really didn't mean it as an insult towards deaf people.
Yes, i am insensitive, no, not a clod.
well......maybe.
Can you give us any insight into the hardware/platform that slashdot runs on? How many servers does it use? What did you code it in? (a half drunk, coked-up deaf guy screaming HTML into a tin can on a string?) How much bandwidth does it use?
I know this is more than one question, but my MAIN question is just: "What does it take to run slashdot, hardware/software/bandwidth wise?"
As far as streaming video goes:
Why not just allocate a piece of the available IP multicast bandwidth in the same way that pieces of the Electromagnetic Spectrum are licensed out. Sure it wouldn't be on demand, but people have been getting by without ondemand television now for 50+ years. Add to this the fact that the ability to have ~1Tb of harddisk is not difficult...and you've got yourself a nice internet connected DVR.
jusathought.
That is the sound of the internet bubble version 2.1.5-rc-5 bursting.
Remapping IRQs in the bios didn't fix it....so i sacrificed both cards to the thermite gods.
Well that was a high school that probably had close to NO network resources. The OP referenced "Unix Clusters" meaning that his univ. most likely does physics/biology research, which usually come with big fat honking grants of cash.