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This is the ISP that has the fancy underground data center.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/

Look at the second picture. Any source of direct light on your peripheral vision is guaranteed to cause eyestrain. Lightning in general looks hard cold, and dark. It's one thing to have that in a room, but living on that environment for weeks is going to affect your mood. I have no respect for design disregarding ergonomics.

We've read about this particular data center before, though we didn't have this video. The first link in TFA has layouts and other pictures. Very cool.

Ya blue screen almost never happen anymore. Except here, here and here...
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/10/09/blue-screen-of-death-in-unexpected-locations/

SuperSlug

Here's a map of all the google data center locations... How top secret are they now? I believe the ones in OR/WA are in "The Dalles" which is close to the Bonneville dam? maybe that data center is hydroelectric powered. http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/

I'm guessing they have an SDSL/SHDSL line (synchronous DSL, so same speed each way) - that's the only way you'll get a decent upstream rate (and if they haven't got that, then they should look at it).

Colocation is indeed another feasible option, but then you have the headache of managing the security and integrity of a system that is outside your corporate firewall, and not under your physical control (See these incidents of data centre server theft).

But there are legitimate uses for self-signed certs IMHO (intranets, privacy for non-commercial sites, embedded devices, etc.). Having to set up your own CA or kow-tow to Verisign or GoDaddy shouldn't be necessary for every minor use of ssl.

I think you're right that any browser would have to give _some_ kind of warning for a self-signed cert it hasn't seen before. It's just that a lot of people think that FF3's handling of self-signed certs is an over-the-top reaction to the very real threat of phishing, resulting in too many hoops to jump through for the legitimate cases.

Myself, I agree with the OP's point on that one, FF3 should probably be tweaked to not go DEFCON 5 over every self-signed cert, even if Perspectives can work around the issue.

infosthetics.com propose several awesome pictures. I'm fan of the map of science (research domains identified by keywords, and linked according to co-citation between research papers). It feels me like understanding how our individual work contributes to a collective effort.

Also, this article is titled "IT posters to cover your empty walls". Could be relevant ?

http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=304

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