Re: Cybertruckin’
I've got that song in my head now...
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I thought I'd download a copy "before I need it" and went to Sourceforge - I'd forgotten how annoying their download page was. I had to wade through tonnes of adverts (despite a Pihole), have a pointless wait and it started limping in at 3MB/s.
I killed that download and the Fastly download peaked at 850MB/s
We had a similar thing in a DR practice in an old job. The lorry turned up and we entered with the backup tapes. We'd always assumed that the rest of the Company would be up so stuff like AD would be available. The problem here was that we couldn't connect to the real network as the test recovered systems would likely clash with the real ones. In the end we managed to lay our hands on a DC backup and we were in business.
At its simplest you can just run a bit of Python/whatever by submitting a shell script to the scheduler (eg Slurm).
What gets more complicated is when you need to spread your code over more than one node. For this, most people use something like MPI to pass "messages" about. At its simplest you could use MPI to do something like "read file X and send back the results"; what's more complicated is doing things like simulating different bits of a protein on separate nodes and then coordinating the calculations.
25Gb for less than 60 quid a month in Switzerland.
Routing and using that bandwidth is actually a challenge :)
After uni I temped in a "Health Records Library" taking folders of medical records off shelves and putting some back. There was a computerised index and from time to time you by chance came across the files of someone you knew.
At uni there was a guy in a sports team I was in who had persistent rumours about having STDs. You have no idea how tempted I was when I came across his file whilst looking for a misplaced file. In the end I was good and didn't take a peak.
> It was a sad day when Scroobious Pip stopped making new music, it's true.
Very true. There would be a lot of very happy people if he chose to restart.
His companion, Dan le Sac, is still making music - most recently he did the music for one of the Tron games.
I used to work somewhere where they always seemed short of laptops; however, there were none missing in the system. One of the guys on the team seemed to have some very similar laptops available on his ebay account, they suspect (but never proved) that he was pinching them before the computers' details were entered into the CMDB.
> Swiss keyboards needs a lot of accented characters from different languages (remeber Switzerland has four official languages).
This Swiss laptop's keyboard is set to the Queen's English, Brenda would be proud!
The nearest thing we have to Gin and Dubonnet -->