| --- Log opened Fri Apr 30 00:00:06 2010 |
| --- Day changed Fri Apr 30 2010 |
| 00:00 | < Derakon> | Since we're taking a data format used by astrologers and adapting it from 2D to 4D. |
| 00:00 | < Derakon> | Anyway, I just wanted to flesh something out so I could present ideas in some detail at a meeting tomorrow. |
| 00:00 | < Rhamphoryncus> | Google does 16 terabytes in the cloud for $4096/year |
| 00:00 | < Derakon> | If we do decide a catalogue is a good idea then we'll research ways to not have to do it ourselves. |
| 00:01 | < Derakon> | $4k/year for our current data needs is a lot... |
| 00:02 | < Rhamphoryncus> | How many hours are you spending on this? |
| 00:02 | < Rhamphoryncus> | How much do you already have invested in storage hardware? |
| 00:02 | < Rhamphoryncus> | Do you have backups of everything in multiple locations? (Although I haven't found good docs on what google does) |
| 00:03 | < Derakon> | Me, personally? 0, no idea, no idea but probably not. |
| 00:04 | < Derakon> | Anyway, gotta go. |
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| 02:45 | < Alek> | why would a torrent that can see a number of seeds not be able to connect and download from them? |
| 02:46 | < ToxicFrog> | They're all behind poorly configured firewalls so you can't connect to them. You're behind a poorly configured firewall so they can't connect to you. |
| 02:48 | < Alek> | bah. |
| 02:48 | < Alek> | I went through a lot of rigamarole already to open up my NAT. -_- |
| 02:48 | < Alek> | guess it's them. >_> |
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| 03:09 | < Vornicus> | Also, some clients aren't set up to use encryption, and some will /only/ speak via encryption. |
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| 19:29 | | * Derakon successfully leads a group meeting for over an hour. \o/ |
| 19:29 | <@Derakon> | With prep time of, well, about an hour, I say that ain't bad. |
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| 21:04 | <@Derakon> | http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7280/zeldamaps.jpg |
| 21:05 | <@Derakon> | Whoops, that was meant to be a memo to myself. |
| 21:05 | <@Derakon> | Somehow got a prefixed newline. |
| 22:03 | | * McMartin eyes his co-workers. |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | So, one of us got an obvious spam message pretending to be a spam alert, a la the fake malware scans |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | It has the same attention to detail and punctuation one has come to expect from spam. |
| 22:04 | < TheWatcher> | ... I have a bad feeling about this. |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | This has led them to begin speccing out LOLGUARD, an antimalware program powered by lolcats. |
| 22:04 | <@Derakon> | And they believed it, didn't they? |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | No. |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | OH NOES YOU HAZ A BOTNET |
| 22:04 | <@Derakon> | Ah. |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | NOM BOTNET? Y/N |
| 22:04 | < TheWatcher> | Thank gods. |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | Y |
| 22:04 | <@McMartin> | NOM NOM NOM NOM |
| 22:04 | < TheWatcher> | Heee |
| 22:05 | <@McMartin> | That said, we're a VM company that specializes, in part, in undoing the shit that idiots do to their systems |
| 22:05 | <@Derakon> | Or making it easier for people to revert to a known-good configuration? |
| 22:05 | <@McMartin> | We're not completely above completely isolating a VM and then running attack programs just to see what they try to do. |
| 22:06 | <@McMartin> | Derakon: Differential disk images with automatic revert capabilities will do that, yes |
| 22:06 | <@Derakon> | ...differential disk image? Is that like, load disk image, then run patch on it to get to a different state? |
| 22:07 | <@McMartin> | Yeah, it's a fairly standard VM technology these days. |
| 22:07 | <@Derakon> | Hunh. |
| 22:07 | <@McMartin> | This is a little facile, and in fact the bits that make it still usable also give malware opportunities to act, but the upshot is that "nuke, pave, install admin-approved applications" is, when using our product, basically "push the button". |
| 22:07 | < celticminstrel> | And VM stands for what... virtual machine? |
| 22:07 | <@McMartin> | Yeah. |
| 22:08 | <@Derakon> | They're handy little things. |
| 22:08 | <@McMartin> | Such as is provided by fine products like VMware Player/Fusion, Parallels Desktop, or Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox). |
| 22:08 | <@Derakon> | Amazon uses them a bunch both for its computing cloud and for in-house development. |
| 22:09 | <@Derakon> | I had a cheapo VM that was getting ~2x its nominal maximum CPU capacity because the other VMs on the physical machine were idle most of the time. |
| 22:09 | <@Derakon> | (Whereas my program was pegging the CPU almost all the time, running massive log analysis scripts) |
| 22:09 | <@McMartin> | MokaFive (the company I work for) uses them as the infrastructure for easily-managed-by-IT corporate desktops. |
| 22:11 | | * Derakon realizes the futility of trying to find out where in his codebase Neutral Density filters are referred to... |
| 22:11 | <@Derakon> | (You wouldn't think "nd" would be a common character combination at first, would you?) |
| 22:11 | < celticminstrel> | Why not? |
| 22:12 | <@Derakon> | Because it's Friday and your brain's a bit fried? |
| 22:12 | < celticminstrel> | Plenty of words contain 'nd'... |
| 22:12 | < celticminstrel> | Okay, sure. :P |
| 22:12 | <@Derakon> | See, by "you" you were supposed to read "I". |
| 22:12 | < celticminstrel> | Yeah, I got that. |
| 22:14 | <@Derakon> | (In related news, why the module that's otherwise dedicated to handling cameras also has code for dealing with the filter wheels, I have no idea...) |
| 22:14 | < TheWatcher> | (because it's Special like that) |
| 22:14 | <@Derakon> | Maybe I should get a model of a short bus and stencil OMX onto its side. |
| 22:15 | <@Derakon> | Nah, that's unfair to the folks that ride the short bus. |
| 22:15 | < TheWatcher> | And to the bus. |
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| --- Log closed Sat May 01 00:00:25 2010 |