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Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets
by Bruce Williams 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

FYI Just weeks before switching on a massive, super-efficient data center in rural Oregon, Facebook is giving away the designs and specifications to the whole thing online. In doing so, the company is breaking a long-established unwritten rule for Web companies: don't share the secrets of your server-stuffed data warehouses http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37317/?a=f Bruce Williams Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Soren Kierkegaard

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LISP
by Christina Klam 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

All, One of our ISP is planning to do a LISP deployment. (1) Does anyone know if Sprint uses LISP? (2) Does anyone know of any good guides/documentation of LISP? Thank you, Christina Klam

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Yahoo! Mail Technical Contact
by Nathanael C. Cariaga 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Hi All, Is there by any chance a Yahoo! Mail Technical Contact is subscribed in this mailing list? Please reply directly to my email. Thank you very much. -nathan

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Re: altdb.net: password length
by Bret Palsson 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Yep! It sure did. Phew I don't need to re-submit. Thanks guys! I received many responses. -Bret On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: > My understanding is that the implementation of the DES algorithm used > ignores any characters after the first 8, so basically yes. > -Jonesy > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:43:06 -0600, Bret Palsson <bret(a)getjive.com> wrote: >> Is there a limit of 8 characters for the CRYPT-PW? >> >> -Bret

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Re: Alternatives to GSLB ?
by Jeff Blaum 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Just wanted to thank everyone who replied to my question on the list and off-list. Cheers, Jeff On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Paul W. Roach III <paul(a)isaroach.com>wrote: > The downside of anycast for TCP services require state to be replicated in > realtime across all app servers to prevent crappy user experience in the > case where I switch servers mid-transaction. > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Jack Carrozzo <jack(a)crepinc.com> wrote: > >> Anycast works. >> >> [...] we are looking for ideas on >> > how to 1) ensure clients are routed to the closest geographical server >> 2) >> > ensure the client hits the server(s) with the shortest path. >> > >> >> No need to deal with that yourself when BGP eats that problem for >> breakfast >> lunch and dinner. >> >> -Jack Carrozzo >> > >

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internet probe can track you within 690 m
by Jeroen van Aart 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20336-internet-probe-can-track-you-do… "The new method zooms in through three stages to locate a target computer. The first stage measures the time it takes to send a data packet to the target and converts it into a distance – a common geolocation technique that narrows the target's possible location to a radius of around 200 kilometres. (..) Finally, they repeat the landmark search at this more fine-grained level: comparing delay times once more, they establish which landmark server is closest to the target. The result can never be entirely accurate, but it's much better than trying to determine a location by converting the initial delay into a distance or the next best IP-based method. On average their method gets to within 690 metres of the target and can be as close as 100 metres – good enough to identify the target computer's location to within a few streets." It seems to me to be a rather flaky way of finding out your estimated location. But I guess it could be helpful when the objective is just to create some global database of demographics for marketing and privacy invasion purposes, where specifics of an individual's exact location don't really matter. Besides the latter can always be subpoenaed. ;-) One more reason to use VPN and other such techniques to hide your location. Greetings, Jeroen -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

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altdb.net: password length
by Bret Palsson 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Is there a limit of 8 characters for the CRYPT-PW? -Bret

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Bharti Airtel Contact
by jacob miller 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Anyone with a Technical Contact for Bharti Airtel kindly contact me off list. I have been having BGP flaps for much of the day on a link to London. Regards, Jacob

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altdb
by Bret Palsson 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

I'm trying to register my maintainor object to altdb. Is there any documentation on how to do this? Here is what I sent to auto-dbm(a)altdb.net mntner: MAINT-JIVE descr: Jive Communications, Inc. admin-c: BEP7-ARIN tech-c: BEP7-ARIN upd-to: routing(a)getjive.com mnt-nfy: routing(a)getjive.com auth: MD5-PW 2a930d2ac634aa45e4224e575d2a1bdb mnt-by: MAINT-JIVE changed: routing(a)getjive.com 20110411 source: ALTDB Thanks, Bret

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Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing
by Mark Kent 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Well, this will be the third time that Level3 has purchased my primary upstream provider. Maybe this will be different than with Genuity and Wiltel, but Level3 needs to either stop using the word "legacy" or educate their employees so they know that "legacy" is good and not bad. -mark

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