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by alexkus 14y ago
> 'steal her soul.' That's a bit Crocodile Dundee isn't it?
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by alexkus 14y ago
Two main solutions (given that the article mentions that they have huge machines already):- A) Allow a single solar system to span multiple machines. Very hard, especially if the server software isn't architected for this. Retrofitting this
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by alexkus 14y ago
I doubt it. Google pay little to no corporation tax on profits in the UK (because they ship all of the profits overseas where Corporation tax isn't so expensive). But Google employ lots of people in the UK so they do contribute a non-insign
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by alexkus 14y ago
Write prototypes in a language that you don't use in production. It allows you to get to grips with the problem and prevents you from just copy-and-pasting large chunks of the "i'll rewrite this later" code into production. I tend to write
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by alexkus 14y ago
Maintaining double digit digit growth year on year will be tricky.
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Criticisms about working space often come down to 'the garden on the other side of the fence would be easier to work in'. Yep. There are 150 people on our floor, all open plan. The partitions are only 1m high. It's not a problem. Some
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by alexkus 14y ago
Again you're missing the point. Just checking 31 sockets for data is much much much less work than checking 600k sockets, even if they are all via local IPs. I agree that a connection from a local IP is not as much work for the kernel as fr
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by alexkus 14y ago
GMP (arbitrary precision library) implements it as a lookup table for "low" n but uses a different set of identities for larger n. http://gmplib.org/manual/Fibonacci-Numbers-Algorithm.html
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by alexkus 14y ago
For large number (1M+) of connections (doing websockets or long polling) to replicate the functionality of a COMET server I've been playing with rolling my own TCP handling via libnetfilter_queue as I simple don't need the ~10kB of r/w buff
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by alexkus 14y ago
They're valuable if the server is used to implement a COMET server. We maintain a large number of connections (doing overlapping long polling) and we send the same information to each connection (about 30 times an hour at peak). Even if the
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by alexkus 14y ago
You seem to be missing the point of the scenario they're testing. Lots of idle connections (doing overlapping long polling) is exactly how many COMET servers work. We send ~60 "events" via our COMET server (APE from www.ape-project.org) in
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by alexkus 14y ago
But a meeting invite from the past may contain other information I want in the future. Deciding what is useful to keep and what can be safely trashed is a very tricky (if not impossible) problem. As for generic expiry of individual emails,
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by alexkus 14y ago
The Raspberry Pi onboard ethernet is connected via USB. $ dmesg | grep -i usb | grep -i ether [ 3.058947] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:[ELIDED]
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by alexkus 14y ago
Maven thread is ----->
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by alexkus 14y ago
How it scales is an interesting question. Could it, for example, replace a COMET server that is maintaining 100 connections (all doing long polling)? 1000? 10000? Could it also be hacked into doing Websockets upgrade (and subsequently maint
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by alexkus 14y ago
Or you encrypt the data yourself first (so that even the browser doesn't see your sensitive data), that way it's a free and probably unreliable (in the long term) 50GB storage facility. I might just use it as an extra backup repository.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Then it's easy for law enforcement to force Mega to remove all known versions of certain copyrighted material as they can now prove that Mega are hosting copies of that particular bit of copyrighted material, .e.g. If they find a ripped ver
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by alexkus 14y ago
It's 28 days minimum in the UK[1] (for a full time employee) but these can include the public holidays (8 a year in England/Wales, 9 a year in Scotland and 10 a year in NI). <generalisations follow> In reality most IT companies give
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by alexkus 14y ago
If you only need to go into the office once a fortnight (common with telecommuting jobs) you can have 10 on the go at once. Many telecommuting jobs will be much less office time than that too, I've done several where I never went I've never
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by alexkus 14y ago
Indeed, I've always thought of them as a cunning way of soaking up some of the pressure. The UK's version ( http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/ ) goes a step further as you have to provide your name and a full address, so regularly signing p
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by alexkus 14y ago
> What happens when they run out? 2 digits of base > 10? 3 digit numbers? Hardly a tricky problem to solve...
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Every (non kernel) C project I have worked with has effectively 0 build time after making changes. For trivial changes maybe. Rebuild time will depend on the size/complexity of the project and the number of dependencies on the thing t
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by alexkus 14y ago
That's the IDE not the language. Java, itself, does not highlight your syntax errors. Nor does C. There are IDEs out there that will do exactly the same thing for you for your C code.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Probably the more sensible way to do it. In the UK they've made it more complex that a license is required (for your home address) if you watch live TV on any device (including a computer or smartphone).
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by alexkus 14y ago
The vans can detect a CRT TV on the ground floor; that's about it. The database of TV owners is the easier way to catch people. In the UK if you buy or rent a TV (or other bit of equipment that can be used to watch/record TV programmes[1])
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by alexkus 14y ago
Also:- The contents of /var/run/screen/ and the "S-<username>" subdir that should be there... The output of "ps u" and "ps -ef | grep s[c]reen"
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by alexkus 14y ago
That's it, thanks.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Thanks Is there a site I can sign up for package update notifications for a bunch of projects? I don't want info on all CVEs or all system packages but just a list of packages I'm interested in (and more than just ubuntu/Debian packages). I
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by alexkus 14y ago
Excellent, I can give it to a friend who seems to use me (via Skype) as a proxy for StackOverflow. He hasn't got the hint with lmgtfy links so I'll try a different tack...
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by alexkus 14y ago
It has less entropy now that you've given away some information about it.

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