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We're looking for a system administrator with thorough linux knowledge who is excited to work in the internet advertising + big data ecosystems.
If interested (even just to chat, lunch) ping me - mina at-sign adgear.com
The linux e1000e may support many chipsets, so the fact that it's in service on your box doesn't necessarily mean you're running the suspect chipset, or that it's vulnerable.
Check with lspci -v, and check with the concrete test using the cold boot+magic packet others and the OP have posted.
We have a fairly small cassandra cluster in production, serving over 50x the volume they mentioned in their talk, with good latency (real-time bidding) and not-too-painful operational footprint.
He also completely misses the point about javascript's global-by-default variables and how easy it is to introduce them with typos, properly building classes, etc.