Posts by Tom 38

Ours is "on by default" for new connections, which will gradually ensure that the majority will not disable it.

fighting against engineers using the terms "master" and "slave" in their documentaion

But we don't call the HA service checking them "overseer", we call it "heartbeat". Because we love shitty Sunday night ITV dramas.

Re: Cue lots of pictures appearing on the internet

If you're mugged in London, the police don't even look at CCTV to see if they can ID them, why would they look at user produced footage?

This would divert them from important work, like entering the details of the next mugging in to the system.

Re: Who cares!!!

There is no list

* Every user account at an ISP is given a flag

That is a list. "Each user account" is a list that can be enumerated and iterated, "a flag" is something that can be extracted from each entry in the list. It is unequivocally and unquestionably a list.

It depends, are you worth a billion dollars or more? In which case, most registrars will just bend over and take it (hp.com, ms.com, ad.com). Alternatively, can you rig the contest (uk.com).

Everyone else, three characters or more please.

Re: Dyes and Markers, Bats and Nails

A baseball bat with nails and a cloaked room guard (able to evade heat detection from out in the hallway) batting and beating the ass of the intruder like the crowbar attack in the tunnels in CounterStrike might knock these invasions down a tick or two.

… and …

The hell have you been smoking?

Firstly, Counterstrike is a game. You left-click to whack someone with a crowbar.

You two should both be ashamed of yourselves - there is no crowbar in counter strike, you have a KNIFE, left click is slash, right click is stab.

The game with the crowbar you are both thinking of is Half-Life. Shocked and appalled…

Re: Doubt she'll win

Thing is, HairyNigerianTruckers.com is still down, so you have to go on to match.com

Re: "some 2 person Luxembourgian office"

To be honest, I've no problem being in a Maastricht treaty style agreement with countries with similar taxation policies. Being in one with countries whose economic existence is based upon them being tax havens is batshit insane though. These principalities need to exit the EU, and countries like Ireland need to stop offering stupid tax incentives to multi-nationals.

Re: Even the dumbest porn-addicted teen...

A particular IP address flags a request to be checked against the blacklist, but the blacklist can then block individual pages etc at an IP address, so it's not nearly as crude as simple DNS manipulation. However proxy servers etc can obviously still be used.

Are you implying it does DPI to inspect my HTTP request, determine whether the URI specified is on a black list or not before deciding whether to forward the packet on or reset the connection?

It will be a bad thing if your 480gb revodrive goes titsup the day after they go titsup (or the month before tbh).

Re: Webs? 5 of them?

I'll bet you dollars to donuts that these guinea pigs died of hunger, thirst or cold. Better not to blame poor Jordan though…

Re: Tech-fetishism meets control freakery meets Big Brother

Everything is "a geek thing" until it is so useful that it is an "everyone thing".

Re: Beep!

It's a personal computer that sits on top of your desk - how can that not be a "desktop PC"?

Re: Nice one Trevor!

It doesn't have to be that pricey, I picked up two Rackable enclosures for $100 each from ebay, each is 3U and has 16 hotswap bays. They are hooked up over mini SAS to a (Dell) LSI HBA, £70 on ebay. They sit in an Ikea LACK side table (£25), which is a very cheap 6U rack on castors. I also had to replace the PSUs and exhaust fans for silence.

Downsides are SATA-2, so I can "only" pull 1.2 GB/s out of each enclosure - does me fine, the disks I buy can't push that anyway and, as Trevor said, since this is for MAID, who gives a fuck - 300MB/s would be fine.

The other cheap option is a DIY with a Norco chassis, which isn't actually that cheap once you've bought chassis, backplane, psu and expander card.

Re: Is this a story?

The purpose of shit jobs is to motivate us to get better jobs. I've done a mind numbing number of mind numbing jobs, some are shitter than others. I would put this amazon picker role as "meh" on my own personal "would you do this for cash?" scale, alongside other similarly light physical labour jobs that I've done - bar work, boxing dog food, bulk mail sorting, postie, gas meter man and so on.

Compared to some of the more hellish jobs I've had though, and it seems like this guy is just winging. Try cutting turf for 12 hours a day, or working in the (very) unclean side of a hospital laundry.

However, it is much much harder than some of the more cushty roles I've had - receptionist, delivery driver, data entry clerk, software engineer - the last one is a doddle btw, no way I'm going back to cutting turf.

Re: Why only the US

Who said the consumer benefits from this? All the money will go to lawyers, any remnant will go to a consumer NGO, conveniently run by lawyer's OHs.

Re: Does your TV not have audio out connectors?

Of course his TV has audio out, his issue is that his "amp" has no audio in. He likes that his speakers "look cool", are wireless, can be moved around the house and be arranged in to zones, but dislikes that he can only use them to stream content from the internet.

Re: Not Good

I think you'll find they twig pretty damn smartish and have toll gates up ready for the summer season.

I think you'll find they are much smarter than that already - you can get in to Cornwall for free, but to leave you must pay to get back across the Tamar

Re: Doubt it

This is just incorrect. Tapes, HDDs and SSDs all can seek to specific positions. In tapes, the seek is excruciating, in HDDs the seek is painful and in SSDs the seek is almost non-existent. Of the three, only SSDs could be described as random access.

This goes back to my original point, they are the same, the differences are just technical - transfer rate, seek time and so on. You might think that tape is dead, but for storing mass data that you read back sequentially, its the fucking dogs.

Even today, there are applications where tape is supremely better than HDD, and it is the height of foolishness to think that because SSDs are superior to HDD in terms of seek speed and transfer rate that there will be no application where HDDs are the superior solution (and therefore that HDDs are doooomed).

Re: @AC re slipstream SSH datastream

So there is a vector (possibly OS specific) that was used to break into SSH, and SSH itself is a vector to compromise whatever OS is being used. Which may be Linux.

No-one has suggested that sshd was broken in to, only that once the server was broken in to with enhanced credentials, that allowed them to install a backdoor that hooked itself in to sshd.