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Comment Re:What's the advantage? (Score 1) 106

by msh104 (#36692126) Attached to: Real-Time Text Over Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk

From what i understood this is not what they do.
They check what key strokes have been entered in the past second and at what interval.
They then transmit all this information to the other side where this is being shown.
So while typing, one XML request / second is being send.

Still a lot of xml requests, but a nice compromise if you want natural typing in semi-realtime ( one second delay ).

Comment Re:Wonderful. (Score 1) 228

by msh104 (#36385036) Attached to: Dutch To Introduce Net Neutrality By Law

The Netherlands is the second country in the world to do so. ( Chili was the first ) I'd say that counts as "much earlier than anyone else".
It is however true that at the same other people are considering putting quite dangerous infrastructure in place ( mostly under child pornography banner )
Nevertheless, this is still a move in the right direction.

Comment Upgrade kernel + R1Soft (Score 3, Informative) 300

by msh104 (#32541204) Attached to: Volume Shadow Copy For Linux?

Just upgrade your kernel using a manual build of the 2.6 kernel.
Also install static versions of the modutils ( insmod, modprobe, etc )
Use an external ( a machine with decent software ) for this so your compile doesn't break.
I have done so in the past and it works fine. ( and plan an update for those machines, anything with 2.4 is way to old... )

After that you can just use R1Soft hot copy,
http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/

This program is free ( as in beer ) to download and works with every block device.
You can even write to a block device if you really need to.

Their commercial offerings are pretty good as good. ( and DO work with the 2.4 kernel )
We use it here at work.

I heard btrfs supports something like this as well.

Any way, good luck!
First Person Shooters (Games)

An Early Look At Next-Gen Shooter Bodycount 238

Posted by Soulskill from the piece-by-piece dept.
If you ask fans of first-person shooters what feature they'd like to see in a new game, their answers — now and for the past 15 years — probably involve destructible environments. Game developers have tried to satisfy this demand with scripted events, breakable objects, and more crates than you can shake a rocket launcher at. However, Bodycount, an upcoming game from Codemasters Guildford, is aiming to deliver what gamers have wanted for so long: the ability to blast apart whatever you please. Quoting the Guardian's games blog from their hands-on with the game: "... it's not just about effect, it's about access. In Bodycount, you can blow chunks out of thinner interior walls, allowing you to burst through and catch enemies by surprise. You can also brilliantly modify cover objects – if you're hiding behind a crate and want to take out enemies without popping up from behind it, shoot a hole in it. Bingo, you've got a comparatively safe firing vantage. The difference between this and say, Red Faction or Bad Company, is that the destruction isn't limited to pre-set building sections. It's everywhere. This should, of course, grind the processor to a halt, but the team has come up with a simple compromise to facilitate its vision. 'The trick is that we're not running full physics on everything,' explains lead coder, Jon Creighton. ... This is tied in with one of the best cover systems I've ever seen. While in a crouching position (gained by holding the left trigger down), you can use the left analogue stick to subtly look and aim around your cover object, ducking and peeking to gain that perfect view of the war zone. It's natural, it's comfortable and it's adaptive, and it will surely consign the whole 'locking on' mechanic to the graveyard of cover system history."
Games

StarCraft II Beta To Begin This Month 182

Posted by Soulskill from the zerg-inc dept.
mrxak writes "It's official; Activision Blizzard's much-anticipated sequel to 12-year-old StarCraft is going to enter closed beta 'this month,' according to company President Mike Morhaime during an investor conference call. This comes in the wake of the SC2 beta forums showing up briefly on Battle.net. If you've got a Battle.net account, it's probably not too late to opt-in for upcoming Blizzard beta tests."
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Enterprise Security For the Executive 75

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
brothke writes "If Shakespeare were to write an information security tragedy, it would not be titled Hamlet, rather Bayuk. The story of Jennifer Bayuk is tragic in that she spent a decade as CISO at Bear, Stearns, building up its security group to be one of the best in the business; only to find it vaporized when the firm collapsed and was acquired by J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp. After all that toil and sweat, Bayuk was out of a job. (Full disclosure: Bayuk and I have given a presentation together in the past, and I did get a copy of this book for free.)" Read below for Ben's review.
Security

Alleged Ponzi Mastermind Hacked In Antigua 51

Posted by kdawson from the honor-among-thieves dept.
krebsonsecurity writes "Criminal hackers apparently involved in break-ins at several US financial institutions also appear to have dug up dirt on Robert Allen Stanford, a man slated to go on trial this month for his alleged part in an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. Quoting: 'In early 2008, while federal investigators were busy investigating disgraced financier Robert Allen Stanford for his part in an alleged $8 billion fraudulent investment scheme, Eastern European hackers were quietly hoovering up tens of thousands customer financial records from the Bank of Antigua, an institution formerly owned by the Stanford Group.'"

Comment Re:How does it deal with replication latency? (Score 1) 137

by msh104 (#30079546) Attached to: Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen

Thanks for the feedback!

I am really looking forward to it.

You know it's actually quite easy to have multiple block devices using drbd and make them available to your VM? You can specify as many drbd devices as you like in your config. I am currently using one for root and one for swap.

disk = [
  'drbd:drbd-server1-root,xvda1,w',
  'drbd:drbd-server1-swap,xvda2,w',
]

I am no expert at this but couldn't you use a third drbd block for storing the journal that keeps track of all the changes and use that for recovery?

I suppose it would cause some writes all over the disk, so that might get tricky to get optimized. But it does come with the advantage that it doesn't do any strange things to the data on the drbd device all the time :)

Either that, or i am completely misunderstanding you :)

Have fun and keep up the good work ;)

Comment Re:How does it deal with replication latency? (Score 1) 137

by msh104 (#30071324) Attached to: Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen

Hi bcully

Mind if i ask you something.

Currently i am running a xen setup where we replicate the storage between two machines using drbd.
Live migration is supported in this scenario and failover is said to be as well though i haven't come around to check that out yet.

1. Are there any advantages to using Remus over such a setup. ( other then being much easier to setup :p )
2. Would it be possible to use proven solutions like drbd with remus or does this simply miss the point?

I'll be sure to check it out when it turns up in the next version

Greets

Mark

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