<azonenberg_lab>
Playing with making probe tips still
<azonenberg_lab>
They're all decently shapr but getting really fine points is tricky
<azonenberg_lab>
needs to make a controller board
<B0101>
ooh...
<azonenberg_lab>
i can easily hit 2.5um tips, 1.5 is doable under good conditions
<azonenberg_lab>
but i want like 500nm
<B0101>
hmm....
<B0101>
WTH??? Copyright claim???? For MY lab notes????
<azonenberg_lab>
?
<azonenberg_lab>
Someone else is claiming your notes are infringing something?
<B0101>
Yup
<azonenberg_lab>
o_O
<azonenberg_lab>
Where did you have them posted?
<B0101>
I only keep them in a Member accessible web site
<azonenberg_lab>
Lol
<B0101>
Now its been taken down
<azonenberg_lab>
wtf... file a counterclaim
<azonenberg_lab>
Did they provide detail as to the exact offending material or just say "the whole site"
<B0101>
They told me the file name is: lab_paper_1.pdf
<B0101>
If I am not mistaken: THAT was notes that I taken from MY EXPERIMENT
<B0101>
I am told nothing else...
<B0101>
I am not even told who the claimant is!!!
<azonenberg_lab>
Is this from your web host or what?
<B0101>
From my web host....
<azonenberg_lab>
Who is US based i assume?
<B0101>
its an SG web host
<azonenberg_lab>
well if its a DMCA claim there is a specifically formatted response to a takedown request, saying you do not believe the content is infringing
<azonenberg_lab>
Which is risky if it IS, because you open yourself to a lawsuit - but if the claimant does not file a suit within a few weeks the content must be restored
<B0101>
azonenberg_lab: This isn't the first time....
<azonenberg>
B0101: What?
<azonenberg>
They've done it before?
<B0101>
I created a encryption program 2 years ago... they took it down because of a copyright claim
<azonenberg>
But they didnt tell you the claimant?
<azonenberg>
Thats pretty messed up
<B0101>
They never
<azonenberg>
Time to find a new web host IMO
<azonenberg>
One that will actually tell you who's making the claim and give you a fair fight
<azonenberg>
They are obligated to take it down immediately on recieving the notice no matter what
<azonenberg>
But they should give you the opportunity to make a counterclaim
<B0101>
I know... I have prepared the backup....
<B0101>
and I will move ASAP
<azonenberg>
DMCA claims have a history of being abused
<azonenberg>
i think ars technica or wired had their facebook page shut down after a DMCA claim
<azonenberg>
And it took them quite a while to get it back up
<B0101>
which sucks...
<azonenberg>
fb didnt even tell them what the offending content was or who had filed the claim
<B0101>
sucks even more
<B0101>
Singapore ISP's will do anything to prevent you from hosting a server at your home....
<azonenberg>
even in the USA there are problems with that
<azonenberg>
But usually they dont block odd high ports
<azonenberg>
Just well known ones
<azonenberg>
Still, its annoying enough that I plan to move my main server to an offsite datacenter soon
<B0101>
My ISP made sure that all their clients share the ISP's gateway server's External IP
<azonenberg>
They're using NAT?
<B0101>
Yup
<azonenberg>
Which to me probably means they're out of ip addresses
<azonenberg>
and are too lazy to deploy v6
<B0101>
up
<B0101>
*yup
<B0101>
and there are only 3 ISP's here in singapore
<azonenberg>
And they all collaborate to ensure insanely high prices etc?
<B0101>
this is my second ISP...
<B0101>
yup
<B0101>
And I am tired with their lies...
<B0101>
Service: Not good, Prices: REALLY HIGH!!!
<azonenberg>
lol, sounds typical of most companies in telecom these days
<B0101>
My ISP had a lot of downtimes...
<B0101>
and they blamed it on my router.... my server... my whatever
<azonenberg>
My home isp has trouble too, which is why i am moving my servers offsite
<azonenberg>
To a proper datacenter on a 100mbit pipe
<azonenberg>
With i think four or five nines uptime guaranteed
<B0101>
my ISP told me that i will have a 1 Gigabyte per second speed
<B0101>
Not kiddinf
<azonenberg>
:P
<B0101>
*kidding
<azonenberg>
I've been on *real* gigabit pipes
<azonenberg>
They're nice
<B0101>
but my speed is about 1MBPS
<azonenberg>
Fastest speedtest i ever hit was 250 Mbps down and 150 up
<azonenberg>
And i think the test server was the bottleneck
<B0101>
My speed test: download speed = 6.50 down
<azonenberg>
This is on campus in a lab thoguh
<azonenberg>
At home i get horrible speeds
<B0101>
Now I am watching a show similar to Good morning America
<B0101>
Ah 2012 B.S
<B0101>
they don't need to show it on TV
<B0101>
hows your mask experiment by the way??/
<azonenberg>
B0101: Not doing mask stuff today
<azonenberg>
Probe fab
<azonenberg>
And right now i'm actually battling one of my servers which doesnt seem to want to talk to me over the network
<azonenberg>
Seems to be booting, i hear the POST beep
<azonenberg>
and am not in the mood to haul one of my monitors across the house to debug it
<azonenberg_lab>
hi Harold_parker
<Harold_parker>
sup  azonenberg_lab
<Harold_parker>
how goes mate?
<Harold_parker>
:)
<azonenberg_lab>
As of now? Getting annoyed with one of my servers
<azonenberg_lab>
its having trouble booting for reasons unknown and i'm not in the mood to drag out a monitor to debug
<Harold_parker>
:(
<Harold_parker>
serial?
<azonenberg_lab>
I wish
<azonenberg_lab>
if it actually had an external port...
<Harold_parker>
aahhh damn :(
<azonenberg_lab>
Just dragged my roommate's one out, he left his door open :P
<azonenberg_lab>
Now i need to find power
<Harold_parker>
heheheh
<azonenberg_lab>
hey, its fair... he's gone for the weekend and wont miss it
<azonenberg_lab>
and he uses my tools all the time :P
<Harold_parker>
hehehe
<Harold_parker>
i'm sure he'd be honoured
<Harold_parker>
honored
<Harold_parker>
lol
<azonenberg_lab>
wow, this thing is still on ubuntu 9.04
<azonenberg_lab>
i havent used it in so long lol
<azonenberg_lab>
its been unplugged for the last few months since i pulled the power supply to test another box
<azonenberg_lab>
And never bothered to put it back in
<azonenberg_lab>
The thing uses soooo much electricity i dont use it unless i need the horsepower lol
<Harold_parker>
haha yeah
<Harold_parker>
and they'rre so damn noisy too!
<azonenberg_lab>
Actually, this one is quite quiet
<azonenberg_lab>
the rest of my rack is several times louder
<azonenberg_lab>
The problem with this one is it costs $200ish a month to keep running :P
<azonenberg_lab>
2x 1kW power supplies will do that to you
<Harold_parker>
yikes!!
<Harold_parker>
yeh i've seriously wondered at the possibility of pulling the case open
<Harold_parker>
and ditching the high power psus
<Harold_parker>
if its kept cool enough maybe all those fans are a waste of power?
<azonenberg_lab>
WIth this box? Not a chance
<Harold_parker>
ahh damn
<Harold_parker>
whats in it?
<azonenberg_lab>
quad core amd (sucky, i want a new mobo with an i7)
<azonenberg_lab>
16gb ddr2
<azonenberg_lab>
and four tesla c1060
<azonenberg_lab>
Its in a tower case since we couldnt find a rack case that could hold four double-width gpus :P
<Harold_parker>
ooooooh
<Harold_parker>
sexeeeeeeh
<Harold_parker>
how are those tesla's treating you?
<Harold_parker>
:D
<azonenberg_lab>
I want C2xxx
<Harold_parker>
are they what sucks all the juice?
<Harold_parker>
yeah
<Harold_parker>
srsly
<Harold_parker>
:D
<azonenberg_lab>
the 1xxx are nice but they dont have any L1 cache
<Harold_parker>
ewwww
<Harold_parker>
weak
<azonenberg_lab>
I have a box in my office thats a 4U
<azonenberg_lab>
i7, 12gb ddr3
<Harold_parker>
:D
<azonenberg_lab>
and 2x gtx 480
<Harold_parker>
noice
<azonenberg_lab>
Right now its operating at reduced capacity due to a dying PSU (lost a 12V rail or two) but the spare arrives tomorrow
<Harold_parker>
:(
<azonenberg_lab>
then i have another 4U job at home on the rack that's only 6GB ram, i7, and a geforce 9500 (mostly a file server)
<azonenberg_lab>
and two more 2U compute nodes, each with a geforce 9800, core2quad, 8gb ddr2
<azonenberg_lab>
Not a bad cluster for a home rack
<Harold_parker>
wow
<Harold_parker>
fuckin nice man
<Harold_parker>
:D
<azonenberg_lab>
in fact, when the CS department had an outage recently i offered my advisor's research group accounts on the rack lol
<Harold_parker>
what have you been throwing at it?
<Harold_parker>
hahaha
<azonenberg_lab>
Two or three of the guys were running simulations on it for a while
<Harold_parker>
nice
<Harold_parker>
awesome
<Harold_parker>
were they pleased?
<azonenberg_lab>
My boxes had good uptime
<azonenberg_lab>
so yeah :P
<Harold_parker>
haha noice
<Harold_parker>
what kind of sims were they running
<azonenberg_lab>
They actually had moved from the department machines to a single server i admin for my advisor earlier
<azonenberg_lab>
because the dept boxes were on a flaky raid file server
<azonenberg_lab>
That box was then knocked out by a PSU failure
<azonenberg_lab>
So while we waited for the spare to arrive i let them use my rack
<Harold_parker>
hah nice
<azonenberg_lab>
And i'm not sure, i'm not in that research group (data mining)
<azonenberg_lab>
the two groups i'm involved in are graphics (summer research assistantship) and security (which i'm doing my thesis work in)
<Harold_parker>
oooh cool
<Harold_parker>
nice mate :D
<Harold_parker>
whats the thesis topic?
<azonenberg_lab>
Personally, i got the cluster for an outside consulting job i was doing last year (molecular dynamics modeling)
<Harold_parker>
wafer RE ?? >:D >:D >:D
<azonenberg_lab>
The guy just got back to me and said he needed more sims done which is why i'm firing up this compute node, which had been gathering dust
<Harold_parker>
noice
<azonenberg_lab>
I normally keep the file server and one of the 2U jobs up all the time and WoL the others if i need more computing power
<Harold_parker>
will they help with the cots?
<Harold_parker>
costs
<azonenberg_lab>
Yeah
<Harold_parker>
aye nice
<azonenberg_lab>
and my thesis topic is still a little up in the air as i only entered the phd program three weeks ago :P
<azonenberg_lab>
But it will be something related to cpu-level security
<azonenberg_lab>
probably at the archiecture level with prototyping and testing of threat models on FPGAs
<azonenberg_lab>
Right now RE is purely a hobby
<azonenberg_lab>
though in a few years, with a lot of hobby-level RE under my belt plus a dissertation on embedded security, you never know lol
<azonenberg>
Bad lighting but you can see i'm htiting the pad
<Harold_parker>
:D
<Harold_parker>
oh yeah
<Harold_parker>
bwhahaha
<Harold_parker>
fuckin nice mate!!
<Harold_parker>
this is so cool
<azonenberg>
this is the most my scope can hit atm (stereozoom 4, 3x objective * 20x eyepiece = 60x)
<azonenberg>
i'll be doubling it with a better objective shortly
<azonenberg>
But since the intended purpose of the unit is wafer test and not RE i should be fine
<azonenberg>
When i have the budget for an FS60, of course, all bets are off :P
<Harold_parker>
:D
<azonenberg>
*drools at thought of 100x LWD objective*
<Harold_parker>
nice
<azonenberg>
And its not like i need to probe the 683 anyway lol
<Harold_parker>
i suppose you can attain soooome digital zooming with enough res in the photos?
<azonenberg>
its easy to pwn with uv
<Harold_parker>
683?
<Harold_parker>
ahh nice
<Harold_parker>
the pic?
<Harold_parker>
awesome
<azonenberg>
Yeah, i did it a few months ago on the other die from this same batch
<azonenberg>
Note how overkill this needle is for this magnification though lol
<azonenberg>
i need more zoom to even see the tip :p
<Harold_parker>
ahhhh yeh serious
<Harold_parker>
for interior proving it might be good though?
<Harold_parker>
*probing
<azonenberg>
The intention is wafer test
<Harold_parker>
oh yeah!!
<Harold_parker>
:d
<azonenberg>
hitting bond pads for the customer's new gadget to see if it works
<azonenberg>
before wasting time and $$ packaging them up
<azonenberg>
And i've hit targets of the same size on the 683 so its definitely adequate
<Harold_parker>
aye yep
<azonenberg>
Conveniently that also means it's good enough for testing my devices too ;)
<Harold_parker>
ahhh nice
<Harold_parker>
ahaha yes
<Harold_parker>
indeed :D
<Harold_parker>
quite so!!
<azonenberg>
Best part? Client paid for it so the whole rig cost me nothing
<Harold_parker>
bwhahahahaha
<Harold_parker>
now that is gold
<Harold_parker>
what is the product/
<Harold_parker>
?
<azonenberg>
NDA, sorry
<Harold_parker>
hah nice
<Harold_parker>
;)
<Harold_parker>
how much was that micropositioner?
<azonenberg>
125 a pop
<azonenberg>
on ebay
<Harold_parker>
nice!
<azonenberg>
Dirt cheap as they go, i wasnt expecting a S926 or similar lol
<Harold_parker>
heheh
<azonenberg>
its rated for 5um targets so my tips are already several times more precise than it needs
<Harold_parker>
awesome
<azonenberg>
Doesnt stop me from wanting to do better of course
<Harold_parker>
;)
<berndj>
i didn't know that the DMCA applied in singapore
<bart416>
berndj, it doesn't as far as I know
<berndj>
which is why i don't get how B0101 was getting DMCA takedown notices on his singapore host?
<bart416>
oh they try
<bart416>
They try hard
<bart416>
Mind you, if you live in the SU they'll still try to get to you
<bart416>
I mean I live in Belgium, and I get DMCA notices for a server in Sweden...
<bart416>
They don't even bother to check the country you live in
<berndj>
azonenberg, sorry to keep harping on about that uni STM project, but IIRC they (he?) made their probe by just pulling a lamp filament until it broke; with near certainty the break site would have a 1-atom tip *somewhere*
<bart416>
They just send the DMCA notices and threaten to sue
<berndj>
so ray gordon of them!
<bart416>
They usually shut up after you tell them you live outside the US
<bart416>
well for a week at least
<bart416>
Now I have a mail filter that redirects all mails with DMCA or the common takedown template to /dev/null
<bart416>
Saves me time and worries
<berndj>
you should get them on SORBS
<bart416>
lol
<berndj>
mindboggling that he got takedown notice on his own lab notes!
<bart416>
oh fun
<bart416>
At least in our case it's somewhat logical that they try to push DMCA takedown notices for DCC servers >_>
<berndj>
i thought sending fake takedown notices was a pretty serious offence
<bart416>
What was in the lab notes?
<bart416>
linky to them please
<berndj>
i dunno what B0101 is up to
<bart416>
Wouldn't be amazed if some publisher tried it
<bart416>
If there's a solution to one of their exercises in it
<bart416>
They did the same thing with students making answer databases in the US
<berndj>
it's a good reason to officially register your copyrights - then statutory (rather than just actual) damages kick in
<berndj>
that rings a bell... schaum's outline series maybe?
<bart416>
Nah, not schaum's
<bart416>
Schaum's doesn't seem to give a fuck
<berndj>
hmm. but i vaguely recall something about schaum's too
<bart416>
We published all the solutions to every single question in schaum's outline of signals and systems on the internet somewhere
<bart416>
We never got a single response on it
<bart416>
In fact most people don't even bother to check it (even those that need it)
<berndj>
maybe they have sane / ethical lawyers and/or same for execs
<berndj>
this whole patent / copyright trolling this is so dirty
<berndj>
i'm really glad i don't live in a very litigous society