It has been done. I can't remember off the top of my head which one, but I cleaned up a virus infection about a year ago that installed the distributed.net client.
Its gotten bad enough that Symantec has posted a KB article on it, here.
Actualy this is not a push for open-source, but a push for alternatives. BBC, from what I understand is not really happy with Real and it looking to find other formats. Over at Radio 1 they are testing Windows Media formats.
Let the opensource, linux, anti-microsoft, beowulf cluster, and the other flames begin.
Although I have no idea what it is your researching, or even what all thoes TLA's mean, I can still provide you with a little recommendation.
SGI/IRIX in my experince is great for crunching numbers, we have an Origin 200 dual CPU with a gig and a half of ram supporting the load of 3 full time 3d designers. Granted SGI has the advantage in the graphics arena, but in our situation the rendering aspect is handed off to x86 workstations (but thats a whole other ball of wax)
One other thing to consider is SGI's wonderful support. We recently had a failure that crashed the server, SGIs ESP program notified them of the crash, and within a few minutes a tech had called us to schedule a service guy to come out and replace our motherboard/ram/cpu with all brand new equipment. Since we're an out of the way town, the soonest we could get is the next day.
On a side note, from what our service tech was saying most of @Home's customer proxy servers are(used to be) Origin 200's.:P
If you do choose to go the IRIX route, you might look into the Origin 300 line, from what I hear its supposed to be the next step for the 200 series.
If you are still considering, and need any real-life experince feedback or have any questions, drop me an email.
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Actualy I undertook a project along these lines a while back minus the democratic part. MP3Linux was basicly just a cheap name I came up with at 3am. Did bunches of neet things, you could finger [string]@mp3box and as long as their was only one match it would kick it up next in the playlist. Or if you were feeling adventuresome you could telnet to it on a specific port and browse though a menu listing and try to find the song of your choice. It did have the notable feature of only queueing songs for playing, so people wouldnt fight over which song was currently playing.
Once I get home from work I'll try to dig up the harddrive I had it installed on. I axed the project since I didnt have any drives larger than a gig to deticate to a jukebox machine.
Also, I think they have something like this over at ID Software. jukebox.idsoftware.com if my brain serves me correctly.
For the most part this is a mute point. I would love to hear from other people who deal in the ISP industry, but as far as I knew DSL was gone.
I live in a medium sized city, and thanks to Qworst DSL has pretty much been driven out. With the high cost of equipment, its not even looking like a viable business opertunity anymore. Is there something i'm missing? Has it hit market saturation? Or is it just the fact the telco wont let us have more than 2 COs?
Sorry, a bit offtopic. but this is something i have needed to get off my chest:P
I spoke to a long haul truker about a week ago, who in additions to some of his friends, take their computers along with them in their semis. Suprizingly enough they leave them on all the time too(!) A few useful tips I picked up were:
-Use the older NEC monitors over other brands, supposedly they are a little more forviging and wont degaus every few seconds like others
-Quantium drives are better about seeking and reading when the drive is moving about, normaly I dont recommend quantium, but from this guys personal experinces with drives going out once a month I would
On a side note, I might also recommend laptop harddrives in your PC, over in our electronics department we have some laptop->IDE converters, if anyone is interested I can track down where they came from.
I had this explained to me by a MicroSerf at a recent con.
Web users only really count if your using the Win2k authentication scheme to verify your users, or if they are accessing a Microsoft driven database. (In there reasoning, the webserver is just a "proxy" between the client and the database)
IMHO, its not really as bad as it sounds. Im a linux lover and all but im hooked on win2k. With the use of profiles you can reinstall applications that are trashed by users on login *grin*.
I have knowen about this for quite a time and decided not to post it due to the/. effect. =(
This is geared twards application developers to get things done, unfortunately its been posted to slashdot now, so I guess every script kiddie and there leet gr00p are hacking away at it right now.
Crap. Now where am I going to compile new kernels at.
Neet, I shot off about 3 emails to my friends from various staff accounts (childish i know, but its neet)... now it just throws out "Still working on creating your mailbox....".
With the invention of high speed access (DSL, Cable, Ethernet) the internet becomes an invaluble resource. Head over to ftp.netscape.com, download a god auful old version of netscape in mac format, and use it as your key. It will alwas be around, even if netscape go backrupt you will still be able to find it somewhere on the net.
Personly, im using a 12mb porn video from one of my favorite sites that im keeping on a PGP encrypted disk. its a large site, so im sure its not going under before the next time I get a wild hare and chnage encryption schemes to thow off the guys I hear breathing on my line.
Also to deal with the size issue, cant it use looping data? i.e. if your key is taco, cant it just XOR with tacotacotacotaco untill it reaches the EOF of the file to be encrypted? Granted its a little insecure, but think of the odds if your encrypting a 2gb disk with a 100 meg key?
So if I put on my antimatter underwear I could go back in time? Or would it just make gamma stuff and keep me from reproducing?
Hrmmm...I dont wanna be the first to try it.
Also, if theres another me made out of antimatter, he already knows how im going to die, because time gos backwards.. so couldnt I just call him and ask him how the rest of my life is going to work out... and maybe tonights lotto numbers...
*sigh* someone give me a job in a think tank, I cant handle this real world stuff...
As I was reading the site, the first thing that came to mind was.. after everyone has there month of CPU time, what will they do with the machine? Most likey they will be selling time on your donated machines.
Almost anyone can call themselfs "non-proft" these days and get away with anything short of murder. (For that you have to work for a place like Microsoft)
Uh. Last time I checked ftp.cdrom.com and www.microsoft.com were the only two sites that couldnt get slashdotted. And MS is using how many boxes?:P -Tacos man, tacos, and blocks...mmm...keyrate.
Slashdot Mirror
RTFA... Mountain View, Ca., January 7, 2002. 16 days ago.
It has been done. I can't remember off the top of my head which one, but I cleaned up a virus infection about a year ago that installed the distributed.net client.
Its gotten bad enough that Symantec has posted a KB article on it, here.
Distributed.net also has a trojans page here.
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www.symetrix.net
Actualy this is not a push for open-source, but a push for alternatives. BBC, from what I understand is not really happy with Real and it looking to find other formats. Over at Radio 1 they are testing Windows Media formats.
Let the opensource, linux, anti-microsoft, beowulf cluster, and the other flames begin.
This wasn't ment to me a review! It plainly states this is his excuse for leaving work to go watch a movie.
Although I have no idea what it is your researching, or even what all thoes TLA's mean, I can still provide you with a little recommendation.
:P
SGI/IRIX in my experince is great for crunching numbers, we have an Origin 200 dual CPU with a gig and a half of ram supporting the load of 3 full time 3d designers. Granted SGI has the advantage in the graphics arena, but in our situation the rendering aspect is handed off to x86 workstations (but thats a whole other ball of wax)
One other thing to consider is SGI's wonderful support. We recently had a failure that crashed the server, SGIs ESP program notified them of the crash, and within a few minutes a tech had called us to schedule a service guy to come out and replace our motherboard/ram/cpu with all brand new equipment. Since we're an out of the way town, the soonest we could get is the next day.
On a side note, from what our service tech was saying most of @Home's customer proxy servers are(used to be) Origin 200's.
If you do choose to go the IRIX route, you might look into the Origin 300 line, from what I hear its supposed to be the next step for the 200 series.
If you are still considering, and need any real-life experince feedback or have any questions, drop me an email.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of Monks praying that your install goes sucessfuly?!
I hope i'm not the only one that, after I read this, wondered what the heck monks need linux for?
Taking Microsoft bashing to a whole new level?
Radio Shack! Duh!
As far as figuring out what you want to build... you've got questions they have answers.
:)
http://www.colocations.org/
Brought to you by the same great folks at shellreview. More geared twards the shell provider, but it will give you alot of good leads then you can do your own research into the individual companies.
Actualy I undertook a project along these lines a while back minus the democratic part. MP3Linux was basicly just a cheap name I came up with at 3am. Did bunches of neet things, you could finger [string]@mp3box and as long as their was only one match it would kick it up next in the playlist. Or if you were feeling adventuresome you could telnet to it on a specific port and browse though a menu listing and try to find the song of your choice. It did have the notable feature of only queueing songs for playing, so people wouldnt fight over which song was currently playing.
Once I get home from work I'll try to dig up the harddrive I had it installed on. I axed the project since I didnt have any drives larger than a gig to deticate to a jukebox machine.
Also, I think they have something like this over at ID Software. jukebox.idsoftware.com if my brain serves me correctly.
For the most part this is a mute point. I would love to hear from other people who deal in the ISP industry, but as far as I knew DSL was gone.
:P
I live in a medium sized city, and thanks to Qworst DSL has pretty much been driven out. With the high cost of equipment, its not even looking like a viable business opertunity anymore. Is there something i'm missing? Has it hit market saturation? Or is it just the fact the telco wont let us have more than 2 COs?
Sorry, a bit offtopic. but this is something i have needed to get off my chest
I spoke to a long haul truker about a week ago, who in additions to some of his friends, take their computers along with them in their semis. Suprizingly enough they leave them on all the time too(!) A few useful tips I picked up were:
-Use the older NEC monitors over other brands, supposedly they are a little more forviging and wont degaus every few seconds like others
-Quantium drives are better about seeking and reading when the drive is moving about, normaly I dont recommend quantium, but from this guys personal experinces with drives going out once a month I would
On a side note, I might also recommend laptop harddrives in your PC, over in our electronics department we have some laptop->IDE converters, if anyone is interested I can track down where they came from.
-mikey
Mod me down. I never post anyways :D
The sad part is, I started reading this and thought to myself "That sounds like MadCamel".... then I looked at who posted it. *sigh* :P
I think they mean it in a Intranetish setting.
Web User -> Web Server -> Database
is (in MS'es eyes) equal to
User -> Database
so they would like to charge for the "client" access to the database like a normaly licenced user.
I think i'll email the guy that did the presentation and ask him, and get back to you.
-Mike
I had this explained to me by a MicroSerf at a recent con.
Web users only really count if your using the Win2k authentication scheme to verify your users, or if they are accessing a Microsoft driven database. (In there reasoning, the webserver is just a "proxy" between the client and the database)
IMHO, its not really as bad as it sounds. Im a linux lover and all but im hooked on win2k. With the use of profiles you can reinstall applications that are trashed by users on login *grin*.
I happen to be close friends with an ex-gH member, and I must say, there more than a half of a notch from a script kiddie.
If you ever saw gH code, you would understand.
-Mike
I have knowen about this for quite a time and decided not to post it due to the /. effect. =(
This is geared twards application developers to get things done, unfortunately its been posted to slashdot now, so I guess every script kiddie and there leet gr00p are hacking away at it right now.
Crap. Now where am I going to compile new kernels at.
Neet, I shot off about 3 emails to my friends from various staff accounts (childish i know, but its neet)... now it just throws out "Still working on creating your mailbox....".
Heh, hotfixes suck.
-Mike
With the invention of high speed access (DSL, Cable, Ethernet) the internet becomes an invaluble resource. Head over to ftp.netscape.com, download a god auful old version of netscape in mac format, and use it as your key. It will alwas be around, even if netscape go backrupt you will still be able to find it somewhere on the net.
Personly, im using a 12mb porn video from one of my favorite sites that im keeping on a PGP encrypted disk. its a large site, so im sure its not going under before the next time I get a wild hare and chnage encryption schemes to thow off the guys I hear breathing on my line.
Also to deal with the size issue, cant it use looping data? i.e. if your key is taco, cant it just XOR with tacotacotacotaco untill it reaches the EOF of the file to be encrypted? Granted its a little insecure, but think of the odds if your encrypting a 2gb disk with a 100 meg key?
So if I put on my antimatter underwear I could go back in time? Or would it just make gamma stuff and keep me from reproducing?
Hrmmm...I dont wanna be the first to try it.
Also, if theres another me made out of antimatter, he already knows how im going to die, because time gos backwards.. so couldnt I just call him and ask him how the rest of my life is going to work out... and maybe tonights lotto numbers...
*sigh* someone give me a job in a think tank, I cant handle this real world stuff...
Log in :P
As I was reading the site, the first thing that came to mind was.. after everyone has there month of CPU time, what will they do with the machine? Most likey they will be selling time on your donated machines.
Almost anyone can call themselfs "non-proft" these days and get away with anything short of murder. (For that you have to work for a place like Microsoft)
Negitive on that.
Several members of the internet community have taken it apon themselfs to make sure AntiOnlines site is down.
Last I heard the uplink was just ignoring all packets bound for *.antionline.com...
-Mike
Uh. Last time I checked ftp.cdrom.com and www.microsoft.com were the only two sites that couldnt get slashdotted. And MS is using how many boxes? :P -Tacos man, tacos, and blocks...mmm...keyrate.