[GreenKeys] OT - Highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years...

[Keelan Lightfoot]

The top supercomputer lists are based off of self reporting. 

As a person that has spent the better part of a decade building and maintaining mission critical systems on all operating systems, I can safely say without bias that you'd have to be actively suffering from brain trauma to design and build any large scale computing effort on Windows. 

The one supercomputer built on Windows probably received a significant chunk of either cash or 'marketing dollars' from Microsoft to construct such an atrocity. 

- Keelan

> On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>> 
>> Of the Top 500 fastest computers in the world, 485 run Linux, one runs 
>> Windows.
>> 
>> http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/
> 
> Not doubting you or anything, but I'm always suspicious of figures like 
> that.  How, exactly, are they derived?  Are they self-reported, or do they 
> rely upon an easily-customised banner, or use an equally-spoofed TCP/IP 
> fingerprint, or what?
> 
> In an effort to drag this back on topic, is there an RTTY equivalent of a 
> CW user's "fist", such as a variation in the warble?  Note that advances 
> are being made in the area of measuring precise power-supply fluctuations 
> in your local grid, and ambient light variations, etc.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
> http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)
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