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by bdonlan 15y ago
Perhaps they're looking to grow the service slowly initially? If they announced pricing significantly lower than amazon's right at launch they'd get a flood of new traffic that could overload however much resources they provisioned for laun
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Sure, but remember each /64 takes up space in their router's routing table. Assigning every linode a /64 would take up quite a lot of memory, then.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
This is the perfect time to get practice using IPv6, so you're not scrambling when it _does_ get scarce :)
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Linode has a /30: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2600-3C00-1
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by bdonlan 15y ago
They want to charge you for the static route you've added to their (finite) router memory, and the administrative overhead for adding it when they don't have the process automated yet.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
As I understand it, they don't yet have any automation for setting up /64 prefix routes yet, so every /64 deployed has to be manually added to the router configs. Anyway, you're free to set up your own routing rules using that /64 to forwar
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by bdonlan 15y ago
That is the same amount that Aurora was charged for the network access; essentially, she was ordered to make Aurora whole, which is basically the whole point of a civil action.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
As far as I can tell, they're closed down ... their blog ( http://diomedeblog.wordpress.com/ ) has been inactive for over a year, and as far as I can see there's nowhere for existing users to log in (they had open signups at one point last
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Yep. He plugs his ISP's modem into the LAN side of his network (the uplink port - usually a LAN-side port with built-in crossover intended for chaining switches), then has two DHCP servers running on the same segment. Oops.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
If you do use AWS, however, it is vitally important to understand the tools they provide for redundancy, and their limitations. There are multiple availability zones for a reason, and although there was some multi-AZ downtime at the start,
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by bdonlan 16y ago
It's not even an uproar really. The only people who care are privacy freaks who didn't take the time to think through the implications of Dropbox's feature set when they first signed up.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Note also that 0.1-0.5% refers to irrecoverable data loss, not temporary unavailability.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
> No, they were not: "a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as mony" The fact that § 486 exists suggests that, under the law, it doesn't have to be a government minting something for it to be a coi
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by bdonlan 16y ago
If you looked at the actual laws the liberty dollar is cited as allegedly violating - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/514.html and http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/486.html - you'll find it's quite specific about what is a prob
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The bootloader on a phone is comparable to the BIOS on a PC. If you reflash your BIOS with unsupported code (Openboot?) and brick it, you shouldn't expect the warranty to cover you for this. It's the same principle. Now, whether they can le
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Hypothetically, dropbox could install on the system a second, isolated authentication process, which generates a keypair for that machine, and hides it somewhere with an ACL that does not allow the normal user direct access. Then, upon logi
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Getting robots in wouldn't help with the Fukushima incident much; the real problem there is getting energy out, not getting robots in.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
There's a difference between sub/super critical (producing energy via fission) and "hot" (producing energy _at all_). Chernobyl became more reactive (= more fission) as the water boiled away, leading to a runaway criticality, and explosive
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by bdonlan 16y ago
I'm pretty sure they lifted a non-functional mockup with similar weight characteristics, not the final functional Dragon model...
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by bdonlan 16y ago
They don't have to be global state - they can be updating thread local state, for example, in what is essentially dynamic scope. Depending on the OS, the efficiency of such TLS accesses can be quite good - on Linux, for example, it's just a
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by bdonlan 16y ago
How is consistency sacrificed with HRD? Do you mean that, with HRD, you could potentially see the effects of some write W to entity group A, write some value dependent on that write to entity group B, then immediately look at entity group A
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by bdonlan 16y ago
There's an option to download music only when on wifi, and you can explicitly tell it to cache specified tracks on the device. You can also tell it to automatically sync new purchases.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
They don't offer an API for this cloud files service and the ToS clearly restricts it to personal use. They may be positioning it as a loss leader (or at least with slimmer margins than S3 normally has) in order to drive sales to Amazon MP3
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Sounds like this might reduce redundancy - if all your instances tend to be on the same machine, a single failure could take them all out...
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by bdonlan 16y ago
From a quick skim of the two sources, the difference in sizes can be attributed to: 1) The GNU version has MUCH more verbose commenting 2) The GNU version reads input in blocks in cooked mode, rather than a character at a time as the BSD ca
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by bdonlan 16y ago
I was under the impression that GSM phones support multiple frequency bands - why not just adjust the base station configuration so phones can roam between the two networks?
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Does this mean I'd have to give someone my credit card number to have them pay me? Or would they have a separate deposit-only account identifier?
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by bdonlan 16y ago
By the point you're producing hydrogen, you're already well beyond your design limits... Moreover, they've already lost primary, secondary, and tertiary power, so what exactly is going to run those ignition circuits? A gas flame near the re
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by bdonlan 16y ago
There's already no chain reaction - the control rods, plus the boron in the water they're pumping in absorb too many neutrons to sustain a reaction. The heat is not from uranium fission, but rather from the fission products made while the r
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The central part of tokyo (ward 23) is (with a few very small exceptios) exempt from blackouts, due to having a lot of critical government infrastructure on its grid. Most central tokyo trains have multiple power sources, and are running al

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