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by rm-rf 17y ago
I've heard that for very large service providers, it is possible to run out of 1918's. IIRC Comcast did a presentation where they figured they needed 100 million IP addresses for a nation wide rollout of their triple play service. They appe
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by rm-rf 17y ago
"There is an incentive for scientists to check for errors..." Unless your career, grants and funding are dependent on the validity of the model, or if the model is highly politicized. In those cases, there is no incentive for finding errors
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Assume that there are always errors in the data, and that the errors in the data are unbiased - i.e. that half of the errors are biased towards the model and half are biased away from the model. In cases where the errors are biased away fro
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by rm-rf 17y ago
"Most bright alien species probably go extinct gradually, allocating more time and resources to their pleasures, and less to their children. They eventually die out when the game behind all games—the Game of Life—says “Game Over; you are ou
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Dang - Mom was right. I better call her and let her know.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that Walmart's databases track way more interesting things than tweets. I'd assume that they know where every pallet of product is located anywhere in the world and what's in it, where every truck is and what's in it, the re
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by rm-rf 17y ago
As compared to a 'Enterprise' e-mail system, where I can retract any e-mail that has not yet been read by the recipient, even if it's hours later, without leaving bread crumbs in the recipients mailbox(s). That's a real nice feature that I'
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Another example is OS X's active screen corners. If I set the upper right corner to something useful, like 'Beam me up Scotty', I have about a .5 probability of transporting back to the Enterprise when I really wanted to find a file. Active
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by rm-rf 17y ago
>If you ever wished... For about 10 seconds after you hit 'send'. I'm assuming all they do is hold the message a bit before starting delivery.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I'd believe it if there were: - pictures of the disassembled laptop. - a flex circuit instead of phone wire. - the make/model of the laptop Sounds like there's a problem in the keyboard-chair interface.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
That's interesting. I thought I was the only one with fifty thousand unsecured desktops on my network. It's nice to know I have company. Not really.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Yes. Load balancers have 'site level' load balancing, sometimes called 'Global Server Load Balancing' or something similar. They have the ability to direct users to a new site by changing the DNS 'A' record t IP's at the new site.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I have no idea what the submitters intent was, but I upvoted this and am commenting on it because I think that it's interesting. If the anti-botnet vendor's assertion is true, that the botnet was ordinary/amateur, then the much of what the
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by rm-rf 17y ago
On Windows & Linux? Doubletake. (Or an OEM version - HP OpenView Storage Mirroring). We keep 25 million files in sync between two sites across a WAN. DNS? Load balancers do that automatically. They have features like GSLB that test each
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by rm-rf 17y ago
That's the key. I don't mind a flash app that adds optional functionality (like an auto mfg having a slick rotating view of the inside of their cars), but I absolutely hate having basic functionality buried in flash (what models do they off
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I fully understand that. It was intended to be an analogy. Let me try again. A decade ago, clueless sysadmins put unpatched servers directly on the Internet with no firewall protecting ports that didn't need to be exposed, with no hardenin
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by rm-rf 17y ago
How history repeats itself. Years ago I struggled to convince a group of sysadmins that server hardening, firewalls and patching were essential for any Internet connected system. I heard things like "there's a million computers on the Inter
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I didn't think that the article was saying that software engineering is more difficult for Toyota than it is for other care makers, but rather that software engineering doesn't bring with it the 60 years of QA knowledge and process that mec
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Is see two threads here. (1) How do you communicate with affected customers, and (2) Root cause analysis, ruthlessly done, with no BS and no excuses. On (1), this appears to have been an outage that only a subset would have noticed, so the
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Adobe's inability to write code that lasts more than a month between exploits makes me more than happy to use Silverlight for streaming media.
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The Tracability of an Anonymous Online Comment(freedom-to-tinker.com)
5 points by rm-rf 17y ago|1 comments
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by rm-rf 17y ago
As one who occasionally ends up on the receiving end of these sort of subpoenas, I'm not surprised that a slightly broader dragnet would lead to much better information. It'd be very interesting to know if there is some combination of cach
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I took it that the point of the post is that even if you don't have a Facebook account, any one of your friends, co-workers or acquaintances could have imported their contact info into Facebook, you included, like it or not. So how do you
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Opting out of a social network doesn't sound possible, unless you can somehow maintain separate e-mail and phone numbers for each of your contacts, something that would be almost impossible to do, or if you managed to find a circle of frien
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Sort of covered: "Ideally, you've designed your system such that real-time human intervention is never required; every failure should be handled automatically, with repairs needing human hands neatly enqueued for processing during work hour
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Someone from MS reached out to the OP in a comment: "I am a Program Manager on the Bing team at Microsoft, thanks for bringing this issue to our attention." Have to give them credit for that.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Of course re-booting servers or re-starting processes forces app servers to re-cache data, database servers re-parse, re-cache and re-optimize queries and throws away good query plans & replaces them with new versions, some of which wil
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by rm-rf 17y ago
And - every time you re-boot you loose valuable data that could be used to determine the root cause of whatever is breaking the server OS. I've got a mantra that I have to repeat pretty often: "Re-booting is not a valid troubleshooting tech
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Well said. The key is to recognize that daily/weekly re-boots are a temporary band-aid to hold you over until the application vendors/developers can roll out an app that's not quite so badly broken.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Apparently all of the software on my Mac is really just a bunch of popsicle houses. Too bad that I've sunk a couple grand into it.

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