I remember that morning. The first thing I did after waking up was get on my computer. Usually checked the normal stuff like email but also my friends' AIM messages before going out and getting breakfast at the main campus cafeteria. (USC, SC)
Nearly all my friends used AIM, and a good number actually updated their away messages. Personally I put favorite bash.org quotes in mine. One away message was particularly curious though, coming from a girl that doesn't usually put urgent-looking messages, but all it said was Turn on the news, now. And I went to turn on the small TV in my small one-room dormroom.
By that time that morning, the first plane had struck. I know I watched the news for a good while before my roommate came in after his classes. I think I even kept up on Slashdot, too. I had to eat before going to mine, so I left the news to my him.
The awkward feeling that I distinctly remember though, is the scene walking on campus that morning watching people going to class and other things, that may, or may not have heard the news. It looked like any other morning.
In my first IT job several years ago I made it to create new backup systems there, and by doing so I learned one of the most amazing things about Linux, and that is the cloneability of the entire machine with a single filesystem backup.
I tried to restore one of our webservers in an exercise. From a liveboot environment, I partitioned the disk, formatted it, mounted the filesystems, and rsynced over the root filesystem from backup. After that install the bootloader. I was just amazed that the new system booted up without a hitch (apart from complaining the system wasn't shut down properly); I was floored seeing that and showed all my fellow coworkers =)
Of course I know that in unix everything is a file is a file, and these things are possible, but seeing that in action is an experience. I'm happy that after learning how the innards of a Linux system works, that I was able to apply it.
I wanted to try one of the Droids but balked at the $100 per month plan. This was at Verizon at the time. No way i'm going to pay that much when my home cable is around half that.
Anyway, I've found out that a good compromise to owning a smartphone is owning an iPod touch. I get to listen to my music, read my newsfeeds or even watch some anime on the bus ride to work, all without paying a premium monthly fee. I keep my dumbphone too. No one ever calls me, anyway =(
Spend each day looking over the health of your server room. Oh no! The air conditioning went out! Good thing you have a backup system you just installed yesterday!
Be careful who you let visit your server farmville, or some equipment might disappear....
After a while of hard work you upgrade to a top tier datacenter! Is your PUE Index not as good as you want it? You can buy some extra equipment to help you obtain that goal in the cash shop.
Around when I first heard the term, I thought the internet was the cloud. For the simple fact that I represent the internet as a cloud whenever drawing network diagrams.
I saw a video from datacenterknowledge.com asking this very same question, though. It's fourteen minutes, but it shows that there is not a single definitive answer.
While everyone's ranting about Windows on a desktop, with servers (at least with Dell) you have a lot of choice, and there can even be a "no OS" configuration to do whatever you want with it. I would figure Windows licensing would be more straightforward than on desktops, but I wouldn't know.
Simply put, Google has provided an absolutely awesome, sky is the limit, technology. If multiple killer applications are not in place which leverage Wave within a year or two, I'd declare this a failure of developers and imagination rather than a failure of Google and/or Wave.
Wow, somehow I feel the same way with the Wii and certain 3rd party games.
It's just barely getting by! It looks like if he were to provide the full res version as a downloadable, it would be 4.42GB large. It would have been nice if there were say a wallpaper-sized version instead of that dinky thumbnail though.
If your customers put up vulnerable software on your shared, dedicated, or virtual hosting service and they don't update it or you don't detect it, someone's going to find it and exploit it.
Had something similar happen to my me. If you're monitoring server load, a webserver sending spam will definitely raise an alarm. As for services on odd ports, block everything except the real ports. Blocking outgoing traffic on IRC ports helps too in minimizing damage. The script kids are already making use of the recent Linux local root exploit (wunderbar_emporium) so make sure you do some yum updates!
All this "destroy all humans" thing in movies seems cultural to me. There's no shortage of these types of movies, but there aren't that many that deal with their coexistence. Something like A.I. or Bicentennial Man comes to mind.
I'd like to see more "coexisting with humans" types of entertainment. The East is all over this sort of stuff, like the recent Time of Eve show and older Ghost in the Shell series. If there are more of peaceful examples of how we could get along and benefit ourselves being with them, maybe our scientists and the rest of us don't have to worry about some robotic uprising. If anything, criminal machines and criminal humans would be working together. Same goes for the good guys.
Now first of all, I think it is perfectly fine to use RAID as a backup as long as it is *not the primary storage* of the machine you are backing up.
I have been considering Drobo as a backup device but the high price keeps putting me off. However, unlike standard RAID implementations, Drobo's is unique where it is expandable. Just pop out the smallest disk and pop in a larger one. I think for people as myself that have growing libraries and growing home directories, maintainence of a backup device that easy should be appealing, since it gives us more time to think about how to migrate data off primary storage to a larger disk, or how to add an extra disk to the LVM, etc.
I like this line of thinking. But it's still got to be free to upload videos. How about that you'd have to pay to have unrestricted uploading privileges? If you pay for a Premium YouTube account, you can upload >10min of video and the videos can surpass the 1GB limit.
Plus YouTube can make more features worth paying for. How about a Live YouTube feed? Pay to create one, and it'd be free to watch for anyone else. Something like that.
Another site I regularly peruse, nicovideo.jp, already does something like this.
Unfortunately I don't have any experiences like the OP but for me it was Slackware 10. I think I chose this as I had read it was good for learning the in and outs of linux... I didn't feel like trying anything else so I stayed with it for a while before switching back to windows when I got into college. So I had the general impression anything on linux to install anything you had to download the tarball do the "./configure", "make", "make install" ritual, and run startx for the GUI. I thought it was quite retro.
Finally I made the jump when I moved across the country 3 years ago; I had nothing so I decided on openSUSE 10 and have been pretty happy with it since. I also work with CentOS systems so I'm pretty much a RedHat person.
I wasn't expecting a Shuttle in here, but this is somewhat like my setup, at least hardware-wise. I got a Shuttle SG31G2, Intel Quad core and maxed out 4GB. This thing is very quiet and I'm very happy with it. While using it as my main desktop, I found out that Xen doesn't exactly play well with X for some reason (openSUSE 11.1 64-bit) where if I switched to console mode I couldn't switch back to X!
I ended up using KVM with Xen's network bridge setup scripts; it totally helps. Only thing I would like from a desktop user perspective is a management interface.
Unfortunately, the judge in the case refused to even look at the brief after Jones Day said the brief sided with one party (as most amicus briefs do); he also refused to dismiss the case at the request of BlockShopper. According to TechDirt, the judge even allegedly put pressure on BlockShopper to back down by saying, "Do you know, young man, how much money it's going to cost you to defend yourselves against Jones Day?"
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Meh, they're all stupid flash games in the end.
I remember that morning. The first thing I did after waking up was get on my computer. Usually checked the normal stuff like email but also my friends' AIM messages before going out and getting breakfast at the main campus cafeteria. (USC, SC)
Nearly all my friends used AIM, and a good number actually updated their away messages. Personally I put favorite bash.org quotes in mine. One away message was particularly curious though, coming from a girl that doesn't usually put urgent-looking messages, but all it said was Turn on the news, now. And I went to turn on the small TV in my small one-room dormroom.
By that time that morning, the first plane had struck. I know I watched the news for a good while before my roommate came in after his classes. I think I even kept up on Slashdot, too. I had to eat before going to mine, so I left the news to my him.
The awkward feeling that I distinctly remember though, is the scene walking on campus that morning watching people going to class and other things, that may, or may not have heard the news. It looked like any other morning.
In my first IT job several years ago I made it to create new backup systems there, and by doing so I learned one of the most amazing things about Linux, and that is the cloneability of the entire machine with a single filesystem backup.
I tried to restore one of our webservers in an exercise. From a liveboot environment, I partitioned the disk, formatted it, mounted the filesystems, and rsynced over the root filesystem from backup. After that install the bootloader. I was just amazed that the new system booted up without a hitch (apart from complaining the system wasn't shut down properly); I was floored seeing that and showed all my fellow coworkers =)
Of course I know that in unix everything is a file is a file, and these things are possible, but seeing that in action is an experience. I'm happy that after learning how the innards of a Linux system works, that I was able to apply it.
It's just hosted on the other side of the universe. There might be some latency.
I wanted to try one of the Droids but balked at the $100 per month plan. This was at Verizon at the time. No way i'm going to pay that much when my home cable is around half that.
Anyway, I've found out that a good compromise to owning a smartphone is owning an iPod touch. I get to listen to my music, read my newsfeeds or even watch some anime on the bus ride to work, all without paying a premium monthly fee. I keep my dumbphone too. No one ever calls me, anyway =(
I've never trusted GPS, and I never will... I could never forgive it... for the death of my boy.
Oh wow, there's an idea. "Server Farmville"
Spend each day looking over the health of your server room. Oh no! The air conditioning went out! Good thing you have a backup system you just installed yesterday!
Be careful who you let visit your server farmville, or some equipment might disappear....
After a while of hard work you upgrade to a top tier datacenter! Is your PUE Index not as good as you want it? You can buy some extra equipment to help you obtain that goal in the cash shop.
I would totally play this game.
It is, actually. If you don't include the -n option for echo, it will insert a \n to the string, changing the md5, which is the hash you got.
Around when I first heard the term, I thought the internet was the cloud. For the simple fact that I represent the internet as a cloud whenever drawing network diagrams.
I saw a video from datacenterknowledge.com asking this very same question, though. It's fourteen minutes, but it shows that there is not a single definitive answer.
While everyone's ranting about Windows on a desktop, with servers (at least with Dell) you have a lot of choice, and there can even be a "no OS" configuration to do whatever you want with it. I would figure Windows licensing would be more straightforward than on desktops, but I wouldn't know.
Simply put, Google has provided an absolutely awesome, sky is the limit, technology. If multiple killer applications are not in place which leverage Wave within a year or two, I'd declare this a failure of developers and imagination rather than a failure of Google and/or Wave.
Wow, somehow I feel the same way with the Wii and certain 3rd party games.
It's just barely getting by! It looks like if he were to provide the full res version as a downloadable, it would be 4.42GB large. It would have been nice if there were say a wallpaper-sized version instead of that dinky thumbnail though.
If your customers put up vulnerable software on your shared, dedicated, or virtual hosting service and they don't update it or you don't detect it, someone's going to find it and exploit it.
Had something similar happen to my me. If you're monitoring server load, a webserver sending spam will definitely raise an alarm. As for services on odd ports, block everything except the real ports. Blocking outgoing traffic on IRC ports helps too in minimizing damage. The script kids are already making use of the recent Linux local root exploit (wunderbar_emporium) so make sure you do some yum updates!
I was confused until I read this.
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2009-July/012198.html
If IP source headers are spoofed to somewhere else, say to AT&T networks, it makes sense to block them
All this "destroy all humans" thing in movies seems cultural to me. There's no shortage of these types of movies, but there aren't that many that deal with their coexistence. Something like A.I. or Bicentennial Man comes to mind.
I'd like to see more "coexisting with humans" types of entertainment. The East is all over this sort of stuff, like the recent Time of Eve show and older Ghost in the Shell series. If there are more of peaceful examples of how we could get along and benefit ourselves being with them, maybe our scientists and the rest of us don't have to worry about some robotic uprising. If anything, criminal machines and criminal humans would be working together. Same goes for the good guys.
Now first of all, I think it is perfectly fine to use RAID as a backup as long as it is *not the primary storage* of the machine you are backing up.
I have been considering Drobo as a backup device but the high price keeps putting me off. However, unlike standard RAID implementations, Drobo's is unique where it is expandable. Just pop out the smallest disk and pop in a larger one. I think for people as myself that have growing libraries and growing home directories, maintainence of a backup device that easy should be appealing, since it gives us more time to think about how to migrate data off primary storage to a larger disk, or how to add an extra disk to the LVM, etc.
I'm still in the middle of playing King's Quest V... and that's *with* a walkthrough =(
Apparently she's not as dumb as we've perceived her to be.
Uhura x Spock...
I just don't see that happening, even with an altered timeline.
Yeah, wish you could mod entire threads down.
I like this line of thinking. But it's still got to be free to upload videos. How about that you'd have to pay to have unrestricted uploading privileges? If you pay for a Premium YouTube account, you can upload >10min of video and the videos can surpass the 1GB limit.
Plus YouTube can make more features worth paying for. How about a Live YouTube feed? Pay to create one, and it'd be free to watch for anyone else. Something like that.
Another site I regularly peruse, nicovideo.jp, already does something like this.
Unfortunately I don't have any experiences like the OP but for me it was Slackware 10. I think I chose this as I had read it was good for learning the in and outs of linux... I didn't feel like trying anything else so I stayed with it for a while before switching back to windows when I got into college. So I had the general impression anything on linux to install anything you had to download the tarball do the "./configure", "make", "make install" ritual, and run startx for the GUI. I thought it was quite retro.
Finally I made the jump when I moved across the country 3 years ago; I had nothing so I decided on openSUSE 10 and have been pretty happy with it since. I also work with CentOS systems so I'm pretty much a RedHat person.
I wasn't expecting a Shuttle in here, but this is somewhat like my setup, at least hardware-wise. I got a Shuttle SG31G2, Intel Quad core and maxed out 4GB. This thing is very quiet and I'm very happy with it. While using it as my main desktop, I found out that Xen doesn't exactly play well with X for some reason (openSUSE 11.1 64-bit) where if I switched to console mode I couldn't switch back to X!
I ended up using KVM with Xen's network bridge setup scripts; it totally helps. Only thing I would like from a desktop user perspective is a management interface.
Unfortunately, the judge in the case refused to even look at the brief after Jones Day said the brief sided with one party (as most amicus briefs do); he also refused to dismiss the case at the request of BlockShopper. According to TechDirt, the judge even allegedly put pressure on BlockShopper to back down by saying, "Do you know, young man, how much money it's going to cost you to defend yourselves against Jones Day?"
I may not know much, but that's pretty low.
At least if you had privacy concerns with them, you have nothing to worry about now.