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Comment Re:Worth every penny ... (Score 1) 377

by malloc (#33302738) Attached to: Intel Buys McAfee

Second, as far as system slow down, and this one hurts as I hate defending such shitty products ... but ...

ALL ON-DEMAND SCANNERS KILL PERFORMANCE.

I invite you to try eset's NOD32. On our R&D build servers we had been forced by IT to use Symantec and McAfee at various times. Both sucked horribly: very slow, occasional file access conflicts. It got to the point that we had to say "Screw IT's policy", and tried NOD32. Wow, what a difference. We no longer notice the slowdown, and never get any trouble from it.

Yes, you're right, the act of scanning files is going to take CPU/IO, but it doesn't have to suck as badly as McAfee/Symantec make it.

Comment Make -jX (Score 2, Interesting) 661

by malloc (#32962990) Attached to: 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care?

6 cores. Do You Care?

Written like someone who's never heard of 'make -j'. Seriously, anybody that compiles stuff wants more cores, and if you ever reach a point were disk IO is the bottleneck just throw in an SSD.

Random project on my box:

make clean; time make -j8
Real: 4.3s

make clean; time make -j1
Real: 14.7s

Compiling is an inherently parallelizable task.

Comment Forget About Speed (Score 3, Informative) 403

by malloc (#32773878) Attached to: Tunneling Under the Great Firewall?

... while ... enjoying sufficient speed?"

Unless they've opened a few new trans-pacific pipe connections since I was last there, forget about speed. Maybe it was just my ISP (Great Wall, ha) but within China you can get nice (e.g. 750kb/s) speed but the moment you cross the pacific your latency is killer and you're crawling at 5-10kb/s. This is using corporate VPN or without. I suspect the actual throughput is a result of active throttling by the State. In terms of restricting general information, making something extremely painful is nearly the same as blocking it.

Comment Re:Really? Yes Really. (Score 1) 403

by malloc (#32773784) Attached to: Tunneling Under the Great Firewall?

it really shouldn't be a problem. They filter state secrets and political opinions

Have you ever been there?

I've spent a total of 3 months in the last several years. In actual practice they block tons of things you want. (e.g. Wikipedia, last time I was there in 2007).
News

Submission + - Wikileaks founder under threat by US authorities (thenexthope.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The NYC hacker conference (Hackers On Planet Earth, aka HOPE) put out an alert for their primary keynote speaker, Wikileaks's Julian Assange. They fear Mr. Assange may be in danger should he come to the U.S. In the link provided, they sumerise the story call for the public to band together in the hopes that the U.S. will "Let Julian Speak!" On another interesting note, the person who reported the man who leaked the documents to Wikileaks is belieaved to be coming to the "HOPE" conference too.

Submission + - Humans too simple to understand universe (edmontonsun.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A top British scientist says we may never know all the secrets of the universe because, quite simply, we're just not smart enough.

"Just as Einstein's ideas would baffle a chimpanzee," said President of the Royal Society Lord Martin Rees, gaining a full understanding of how the universe works might not be possible "simply because they're beyond human brains."
Security

Submission + - Airplane Alternative for Accessing Secure Network? 3

Submitted by malloc
malloc writes: I'm trying to solve a problem between some code I maintain and a remote customer's application. For a several weeks we have been locked in an ugly loop: start: me->email(try this); sleep(day or more because they're on the other side of the world); them->email(interpretation of results); goto start; The obvious thing is to get a remote ssh connection, but because of "network security rules" they won't allow it. The last time I had this situation I ended up flying to the customer site to do something a remote connection could have solved in a few hours. Though the economics of flying are stupid, my inner geek chaffs even more at the principle of flying meat around the world to do what network technology was exactly designed for: sending my keystrokes to a console. Putting the "they should fix their security policy" retort aside, are there any practical solutions? Using IM instead of email would be better, but still stupid: manually copying my commands to their terminal and pasting the results back. I really want a terminal program that has an "OK" button they can hit to allow my command to run and send the result back, but my google-foo doesn't turn up any such thing. Are there any "monitored" terminal applications like this? What have you done in this situation?
The Internet

China Drops In Domain Registrations From #2 To #4 38

Posted by Soulskill from the displaced-spammers dept.
darthcamaro writes "A year ago, it looked like the .cn country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for China was growing so fast that it would displace .com. In 2010 that's no longer the case, as .cn has dropped from being the number two global domain by registrations to number four. And yes, .com is still number one. According to VeriSign, the top 10 list of TLDs in the first quarter was: .com, .de, .net, .cn, .uk, .org, .info, .nl, .eu and .ru. So why did .cn decline? Spammers. 'Many of these are low-priced promotional names that have now come up for renewal at a higher price,' said Pat Kane, vice president of naming services at VeriSign. 'The .cn registration decline was also based on the CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) registry's implementation of the real names directive from the Chinese government primarily around verifiable "whois" data.'"

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