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Article posted on Jul 31
Defcon
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 31, 2005, 10:59 pm
We got on Hacker Jeopardy for the Saturday round. We sucked. However, we also drank more than both other teams put together, and since beer counts as points (in our case, 15 beers in 20 minutes, 8 of which were mine), we made it to Final Jeopardy but still lost big time. Needless to say, we were all very drunk afterwards.
Also, I got whipped by Vinyl Vanna.
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Article posted on Jul 26
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 26, 2005, 1:05 pm
I have been at the reno airport for 15 minutes, and I've already spent $20.45:
* $7.95 internet access
* $5.25 beer
* $7.25 chicken ceasar salad
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Article posted on Jul 25
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 25, 2005, 3:12 pm
8000 series 3ware controller w/o cache: 275MB/s cached, 31MB/s buffered
9000 series 3ware controller w/ cache: 2142MB/s cached, 92MB/s buffered
both are 4-disk RAID0. results according to "hdparm -Tt"
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Article posted on Jul 25
Why not?
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 25, 2005, 1:03 pm
# uname -a
Linux foo 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp #1 SMP Mon May 30 22:45:17 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# ./is64
Your longs are 32 bits long
Yes, that's a 32bit userland running on a 64bit kernel.
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Article posted on Jul 25
"Meet my new secretary of state"
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 25, 2005, 12:45 am
Inspired from this.
Update: This is from the first 5 minutes after posting:
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Article posted on Jul 22
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 22, 2005, 11:12 pm
I have seen the unreleased 1994 version of the Fantastic Four. Go to the trivia section of the IMDB entry to see why it was never released.
It's great! This would have made a cool early 1980s cheesy scifi action movie (it certainly looks like it was made in the early 80s); the punchline is it was made in 1994. My favorite part:
Dr. Doom is about to steal some diamond thing. Out steps The Jeweler with Alicia Masters at gunpoint. Now, it's important to know that Doom has never met Alicia before, nor does he know who she even is.
Jeweler: One more step and I'll kill her!
Doom looks at Alicia, then at Jeweler, then back at Alicia.
Doom: So?
Jeweler: I'll do it!
Doom: Please, don't let me get in your way.
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Article posted on Jul 21
Why can't I have nice things?
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 21, 2005, 12:20 am
I have perfected the art of getting into accidents; I no longer have to be in the car to get into one.
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Article posted on Jul 20
Grand Theft Auto: Simulated Nipples
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 20, 2005, 2:44 pm
I bought San Andreas saturday... it's okay, IMHO not better than Vice City (but certainly bigger). However, I'm glad I bought it when I did.
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Article posted on Jul 20
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 20, 2005, 8:29 am
Google can't see your swing set. ... yet.
I bet they have a team of researchers working on solving this now.
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Article posted on Jul 19
Google, Round 3
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on July 19, 2005, 8:17 pm
Rather than reiterate it, I'll just post an IRC log from earlier:
<fo0bar> well, I had google call #3 today
<sil> how'd that go?
<fo0bar> I'm not sure... I bombed a very easy question (how do you find if a number is a power of 2), but there were several parts where he would ask "is there any other way to do X" and I would find some really odd way of doing it and he would say "wow, I never even thought of that"
<fo0bar> for example, "now, you mentioned DNS queries go over UDP..." "well, most of the time; you can do AXFR zone transfers over TCP" "ok... any other reasons you could see for using TCP to do DNS?" "<think about it for a minute> well, not much real-world use, but under a normal DNS query, if the server doesn't respond before your timeout, you have no idea if the server is down or it's just taking its time upstream, so you could use TCP to connect, at which point you know at least the server is responding, then issue the query"
<fo0bar> "wow, I never thought of that"
<fo0bar> he later mentioned that many of his "any other ways to do X?" questions were to get novel ideas out of me, or to get me to admit "I don't know"
<sil> haha
<fo0bar> "If you have a file transfer and you don't want it taking up all the bandwidth of the network, what would you do" "you could do rate limiting at the server level"
<fo0bar> "what if you don't have root access to the server?" "well, QOS on the routers/switches"
<fo0bar> "and if you don't have access to the network?" "there's always application layer rate limiting, such as --bwlimit in rsync"
<fo0bar> "ok, and any other ways?" "... place a 10mb half duplex hub between the server and the switch?"
<fo0bar> "ha ha... anything else?" "ummm.... nope, can't think of anything else"
<sil> haha
<sil> that's an awesome answer
<sil> how many questions did they ask or so?
<fo0bar> it was more of a discussion that branched off in hundreds of directions than a set of questions
<sil> that's neat
<fo0bar> it started with "I'm opening up a web browser and going to www.cnn.com, describe the things that need to happen for me to get my news back to me"
<fo0bar> "how much detail do you want?"
<fo0bar> "as much as you want or can do"
<fo0bar> so we were talking about how the app talked to the system resolver, then the whole DNS process (DNS took a LOT of the interview), then routing table lookups and what needs to happen on local subnet vs default routes, HTTP protocol, /etc/services, etc, etc
<sil> that's really neat :)
<sil> how long was the interview?
<fo0bar> about 45 minutes again
<fo0bar> yeah, I just hope that powers of 2 thing didn't hurt me too much
<fo0bar> I was floundering
<fo0bar> at the very least I should have said "count up from 2^1 until you're equal to or above the target number?"
<sil> eh, i doubt it, it sounds like you did really well on everything else
<fo0bar> thanks
<fo0bar> from what he told me this would be almost a pure sysadmin position... you have to know "networking" from the server's perspective, but I wouldn't touch a router or switch during my duties
<sil> what happens now?
<fo0bar> I wait for the recruiter to call again, most likely thursday or friday (they have reviews of interviews on tuesdays and thursdays)
<fo0bar> I'm 99% sure that if they like me after "interview #2" (they don't count the first screening with the recruiter an "interview"), they fly me out for an in-person interview
<sil> oh neat :)
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