[FQuest Alert] ENIGMA

[Bob]

The ENIGMA Server has taken a short leave of absence again and the Technicians are already working on it.

We hope to have service restored very shortly and will post additional as it is available...

Our apologies for any inconvenience...

-Bob

[Bob]

The ENIGMA Server has been restored to full service.

Event Start 11:47 Pm ET
Event End 12:00 AM ET
Event Duration 13 mins

Once again our sincere apologies and we can assure you that multiple technicians are looking at these situations with a fine tooth comb to determine the underlying cause.

Thanks,
Bob

[phppete]

enigma ~ ' One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable. '

Maybe if you change the server name it won't be up and down like a *****s knickers :P

[phppete]

What files live at
<path removed>
and
<path removed>

is that our site files as in /big/dom/x-domain/ ?

I see they are at 90% max, is that usual?

Pete


<EDIT: removed server administrative paths>

[Terra]

Miscellaneous utilities and such... There are no user serviceable parts inside...

90% max, is that usual?
Yes, since these are independent partitions...

--
Terra
--some things I would rather not have in googles index--
FutureQuest

[phppete]

Apologies for putting in the paths, I didn't realise that might be a problem. So would that mean I should remove my Sysinfo directories?

http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/

Not that I link to them so they are not indexed by Google. If it could be a problem let me know and I will remove them immediately.

Pete

[Terra]

I wouldn't stress it to much... I am mostly concerned about what is posted into the forums since there is a very close locality and association...

--
Terra
--less is more at times, except when the atomic 0-Order __alloc enigma rears its ugly head--
FutureQuest

[Monty]

hmmm, maybe it's because of the movie, the seas, and such, but I always thought that server was named for something else.

History of the Enigma Machine
About 1918, Albert Scherbius took his idea of the "rotating rotors" in a cipher machine to the German military. They weren't interested in his ideas at that point in time and so Scherbius took his idea to a German company called Gewerkschaft Securitas. That company bought his patents. The first Enigma machine was produced in the early 1920's. It was an electrical enciphering machine which provided "better" encryptions of messages than other machines at the time because of the rotating rotors.
The German Navy started buying Enigma machines in 1925 and they started to modify it. The German Army soon followed suit and they also modified the machine. Some of the modifications included adding or deleting some keys, the addition of the plug board and using more than three rotors.

The Germans placed a lot of confidence in the security of the Enigma machine because they thought that the probability of breaking a message would be too great for their enemies. They did have certain procedures on the operation of the machine. The Germans had manuals that the operator used to set the parameters of the machine for each day.

Contrary to the beliefs of the Germans, the Enigma machine was not secure. In 1928, the Poles acquired the knowledge about the German military Enigma by intercepting one, in customs, being sent to the German Embassy in Warsaw and examined it. A whole series of Enigma machines was produced at the factory in Warsaw. A group of brilliant mathematics students at the Poznan university (Rajewski, Rozycki and Zygalski) was recruited to work in the cryptological section of the Polish General Staff. By 1934 they decrypted the German Enigma signals. To facilitate decryption Rajewski designed an electromechanical programmable machine which he called 'Bomba' (Polish for bomb) because of the bomb-like ticking noise it made. On July 25, 1939, the Poles gave the French and the British replicas of Polish made Enigmas together with the drawings and information on the Enigma, Bomba and the decryption information.

source (http://www.ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/~russell/classes/enigma/history.html)

[lepton]

the Poles gave the French and the British replicas of Polish made Enigmas together with the drawings and information on the Enigma, Bomba and the decryption information Rajewski designed an electromechanical programmable machine which he called 'Bomba' Some things to keep in mind the next time you hear another "dumb Pollock" joke. :dopey:

Dave

(No, I'm not Polish)

[MPaul]

Not that I know anything about servers, but could the problems with ENIGMA be caused by a website.

I was just wondering if a script could bring a server to a halt. Does the server have like some sort of defense that keeps a script from hoging all the cpu. Somehow I always think servers are special creatures and I always forget that they are regular PCs :)

[LightGuide]

Originally posted by MPaul:
Somehow I always think servers are special creatures and I always forget that they are regular PCs :)

Ew.

I think Terra might take issue with that... lol.

[Andilinks]

...and I always forget that they are regular PCs My understanding is that while a regular PC can be a server, the servers in a facility like FQ are engineered for that purpose and are somewhat heavier duty. Though such a server could also be configured as an ordinary PC.

Something like the difference between a regular sedan and a police cruiser--they look alike but the police cruiser has heavier parts (tires, engine, suspension, etc) only where it counts.

Andi

[Deb]

Originally posted by MPaul:
Not that I know anything about servers, but could the problems with ENIGMA be caused by a website.

I was just wondering if a script could bring a server to a halt. Does the server have like some sort of defense that keeps a script from hoging all the cpu. Somehow I always think servers are special creatures and I always forget that they are regular PCs :) The problem appears to be somewhere in the kernel itself but that's not saying a certain type of usage pattern couldn't be causing it to rear its ugly head.

I think our favorite techs are getting close to nailing it down but unfortunately these elusive bugs are hard to track.

Keep'n our fingers crossed ;)

Deb
- Kicking it didn't seem like a good idea at the time...

[Randall]

Though such a server could also be configured as an ordinary PC. A theory I still hope to put to the test someday. I just have to get my hands on the most important element of the plan -- namely, a Rich Person.

:QTmoney:

Randall

[Andilinks]

I just have to get my hands on... a Rich Person. This appears to be a rare opportunity for paradigm shift, or even epiphany.

Why not just become a rich person?

Andi

[Randall]

Why not just become a rich person? Very well then. Give me all your money, and I'll be on my way. :noddy:

Randall

# Admit it. We already know what's causing the problem (http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15050&perpage=10&pagenumber=1)

[Andilinks]

No, you missed the paradigm shift. There is no need to make someone poor in order to become rich. Not a zero-sum game, I'll rephrase that. Why don't you just make yourself rich?

Andi

[Randall]

Uh, give me someone else's money? No, that would just make some other guy poor...

Give me time. I'll think of something. :safegrin:

Randall

[Wassercrats]

I was taught you should never turn yourself into a stranger. He should make himself Bruce. That way he could keep his beard. But if a "rich person" is like a "cheese product," it doesn't have to be a real person, so he'd be able to make himself a familar item named Rich. I think he should become a Beatles CD named Rich. But then his computer won't have a CD player because it's a server.

I think this is why more people don't turn themselves into CDs named Rich.

[Deb]

Randall is not able to make himself rich because FutureQuest doesn't allow THOSE types of "MLM" scams to be sent out from our Network.

What's a guy to do? Of course...he could breed gophers and sell them as pets...hmmm

[Deb]

Hmmm for some odd reason I thought we were in the last word thread...

Let's move topic of how to become rich there (http://aota.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15050) before Bob gets another ulcer ;)

[LightGuide]

Hi, Bob.

[Randall]

You see, it's just like I said. The Last Word is oozing into other threads and giving Enigma a nervous breakdown...

It's funny, but I was already contemplating a gopher farm. Great minds think alike. :)

Randall

# Oh yeah -- Hi Bob