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by hhw 11y ago
Your connection is only unusable if you don't cap the upload rate in your torrent client to below your total upload capacity, so that you leave some room for ACKs to be sent. Or, you can just get a seedbox or VPS with a decent connecti
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by hhw 11y ago
In reverse chronological order: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-Ja... http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/01/freebsd-community-b... http:/&#x2
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by hhw 11y ago
Interest in FreeBSD seems to be on the rise, with the advent of systemd. Many Linux users have been able to avoid it thus far, by sticking to 6.x Of RedHat and derivatives, or Debian 7. As these versions become longer in the tooth, it will
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by hhw 11y ago
You have this backwards. QNX is a real-time operating system, and is optimized for response time vs Linux, which is a general purpose operating system typically optimized for throughput, although some work has been done on modifications to
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by hhw 11y ago
>I used to interpret these decisions as flattering, but they are in fact simply taking the code they need, with the license that allows them to do it. They would never take GPL code as freely because they would risk being locked in by it
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by hhw 11y ago
40MW = 40,000KW Typical power density in a colocation facility these days is approximately 5kW per full cabinet (sold as 30A @ 208V or 60A @ 120V at 80% utilization). So, approximately 8000 full cabinets at average density, which would be e
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by hhw 11y ago
Maxmind data is also often just wrong, updated or not. As a hosting provider with a number of IP ranges, we have to deal with submitting corrections to them, Google, ip2location, etc. all the time. Not sure why none of them seem to use very
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by hhw 11y ago
For fast failover, you'd generally use BFD (bi-directional forwarding detection) in conjunction with a standard routing protocol like BGP, OSPF, or IS-IS. It's sufficiently complex to do on a proper networking platform, and even m
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by hhw 11y ago
Sorry, I didn't meant to imply the Z620/820 supports v3. Just pointing out that the performance jump in Sandy Bridge was significant. v1 and v2 are socket compatible, but v3 is not socket compatible with the earlier versions, but
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by hhw 11y ago
That's not correct. Sandy Bridge was a huge performance jump over Westmere, with ~50% performance for most applications on equivalent models between these two generations. A first gen E5 2640 should handily outperform the X5690, and a
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by hhw 11y ago
OVH frequently has problems with false positives, or so some of their customers report. They may offer good value for non-critical services, but they aren't exactly known for 100% uptime.
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by hhw 11y ago
FYI, it's trivial to hide processes from other users on BSD with a sysctl variable.
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by hhw 11y ago
Any networks that both accept the prefixes and see these advertisements as the best path will send their traffic towards the route leaker, who will lack the capacity to handle this traffic, effectively blackholing these routes. In theory, a
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by hhw 11y ago
Telecom Malaysia (AS4788) was leaking a full routing table to a Tier 1 network, Global Crossing (AS3549), who in turn was advertising the prefixes to its peers like Level3 (AS3356). Large portions of the Internet would have been affected. T
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by hhw 11y ago
Interest + Condo Fees + Home Repairs + Property Taxes + Property Transfer Taxes + Realtor Commissions are throwing cash away every bit as much as Rent. Mortgage payments are likely to go up the same way that rent does, or even more so. Inte
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by hhw 11y ago
What are you talking about? H264 acceleration with Intel graphics on Linux has been around since 2010 with vaapi.
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by hhw 11y ago
Google has a lot of settlement free peering, so the bandwidth itself is going to be close to free, although the infrastructure to support it would not be. They also don't have to worry about being present in as many peering locations a
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by hhw 12y ago
Because Intel destroys anything ARM has to offer in terms of price/performance or performance/watt, even on microservers since the Avotons came out. We're also going to see Xeon D's and Denvertons before proper ARM based
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by hhw 12y ago
Avoton C2750 octa-core microserver ($25/mo): # openssl speed rsa -multi 8 ... sign verify sign/s verify/s rsa 512 bits 0.000024s 0.000002s 42105.8 533333.3 rsa 1024 bits 0.000096s 0.000006s 1040
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by hhw 12y ago
There's a plethora of different bare metal / dedicated server hosting providers, so recommending one is like recommending what type of car you should buy. The most important criteria generally involve: location, managed vs unmanag
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by hhw 12y ago
1) Yes, there are several DNS service providers that offer BGP anycast with geographically aware failover / load balancing. UltraDNS and DYN are the larger ones. 2) Yes, some ISPs do set a minimum TTL. Although BGP anycast is the most
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by hhw 12y ago
No, there is significantly more complexity, overhead, and R&D to providing cloud services in comparison to bare metal. SoftLayer is actually a very expensive bare metal server provider. There are several good options that cost less than
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by hhw 12y ago
There was already an existing bug report in Bugzilla when I first ran into issue 1) years ago, and I added my comments to it. Issue 2) I haven't. As annoying as it is when it does happen, it's not that common and although requires
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by hhw 12y ago
Thunderbird is great as a cross-platform mail client; I run it on FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows. The Windows version has a slightly different menu layout, but I don't really mind this and it rarely comes up in regular use anyhow. I do ho
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by hhw 12y ago
At the very least, they wouldn't have the overwhelming advantage when negotiating peering terms with content and carrier networks. Eyeball (broadband) networks currently have far too much power, and is the reason why they make huge pro
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by hhw 12y ago
A more appropriate house analogy would be getting burgled by someone walking through your not yet existent living room wall of your half constructed house. The security flaw then is not that you're missing a wall, as it's not reas
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by hhw 12y ago
Doesn't every CDN already accomplish the same functionality with multiple origins and failover detection, while accelerating static content by caching it at the edge? Given how cost competitive CDNs already are, I don't see how th
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by hhw 12y ago
> See OpenBSD's refusal to add a MAC framework for an example of this. Jails also don't exist for similar reasons, though they are useful for reasons other than security. I think you've incorrectly interpreted OpenBSD&#x27
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by hhw 12y ago
That article completely ignores NDP exhaustion attacks. As autoconfiguration has no place in a server environment anyway, which is the protocol that breaks, there's absolutely no need to assign a /64. The more important goal is to
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by hhw 12y ago
What exercise? The upgrade guide tells you exactly how to remove what leftover files. You could copy and paste the rm commands mindlessly, not that I would suggest doing anything mindlessly. If you're using the official OpenBSD package

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