mileswu

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by mileswu 14y ago
There's still racial inequality if you have to pay extra (to use Uber) to get a similar service that other races can get cheaper (normal cab).
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by mileswu 14y ago
Although I've never tried them, there's http://www.server4you.com/root-server/ that is relatively good value for money, but still a little more expensive. I don't know how their support/reliability is. I actually use OVH on some older Kim
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by mileswu 14y ago
Universities and research institutes are also connected to private peering links such as ESNet[1] or Internet2[2]. This is actually a huge benefit because these links are typically uncongested and you can get much more reliable transmission
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by mileswu 14y ago
> We absolutely intend to make it a powerful platform for computation on big datasets. The datasets I run on tend to be several terabytes and all the clusters that I use utilize various distributed filesystems (eg. Lustre [1] or Dcach
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by mileswu 14y ago
I can see this being useful for teaching environments, but I'm not so sure how useful this would be for actual scientific research. Most universities tend to have their own computing cluster, which will make storing the (potentially large)
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by mileswu 14y ago
This is very similar to a projected supposed to help the Greek public debt situation. http://www.greecedebtfree.org/
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by mileswu 14y ago
I sign onto my various IM accounts from a variety of locations simultaneously (e.g. desktop at home, laptop in office, phone) and I find it infuriating that every protocol has a different way of handling that. MSN: Sends incoming message _o
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by mileswu 14y ago
I believe it depends on the country. I think in Switzerland (and perhaps Canada for music?) downloading copyrighted material was legal, but uploading was illegal. But I am pretty sure that is not the case for the US, and downloading is stil
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by mileswu 14y ago
Kinda OT, but out of interest, why do you use 'slogin' instead of 'ssh'? Just old habits dieing hard from 'rlogin'?
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by mileswu 14y ago
Scientific cluster computing (such as for the LHC or Open Science Grid) uses them all the time for authentication, both in CLI tools and on web pages.
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by mileswu 14y ago
>Each 56kb line with single hub and router (for remote disaster recovery sites only) Mm good old days of dialup. All yours for $900/month.
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by mileswu 14y ago
I wonder how much it would have cost to do this with mining/tunnelling/etc. modern equipment. And whether it would have been cheaper to pay him $10/hr for 22 years of work, or whether the 'modern' way would have cost more.
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by mileswu 14y ago
Amazon EC2 on the micro plan maybe? It's free for the first year as a trial.
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by mileswu 14y ago
Looking at my email I saw my Textdrive Lifetime hosting account was made in Sept 2005. I'm pretty sure I wasn't in on the first round either and I was second round "VC". They also offered a lifetime package known as "Mixed Grill" and "3 Mar
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by mileswu 14y ago
I believe the cat might be a Ragdoll, renowned for being really docile and letting you do things to it[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragdoll
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by mileswu 14y ago
Perhaps it should ask an additional security question or passphrase for 'dangerous' operations like remote wipe. Two-factor authentication (using say your phone like Google) wouldn't work however because typically it's your phone that is st
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by mileswu 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the actual NeXT he used. That is in a museum at CERN (where I work at the moment). I can check today by going to the museum, but it was there a few days ago when I showed some visitor friends around.
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by mileswu 14y ago
It's now showing in the Mac App Store for me as 4.4, but when I try to update to it, it says my OSX is too new. Hurr...
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by mileswu 14y ago
I grabbed the images from the PDF paper and put them here: Figure 1: http://i.imgur.com/imfvc.png Figure 2: http://i.imgur.com/xKIOv.png Figure 3: http://i.imgur.com/GevEd.png
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Interactive Swarm Simulation video(vimeo.com)
1 points by mileswu 14y ago|0 comments
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by mileswu 14y ago
Similar for the UK, is http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
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by mileswu 14y ago
The best way to view it is as an an improved CNAME record: faster resolution for clients and ability to use at the apex/root of the domain. As far as I understand it, if the domain that it points to is geo-DNS'd, then it can be geo-friendl
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DNS Made Easy - ANAME records (CNAME on apex/root solution)
3 points by mileswu 14y ago|2 comments