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How Many Google Machines, Really?
BoneThugND writes "I found this article on TNL.NET. It takes information from the S-1 Filing to reverse engineer how many machines Google has (hint: a lot more than 10,000).
'According to calculations by the IEE, in a paper about the Google cluster, a rack with 88 dual-CPU machines used to cost about $278,000. If you divide the $250 million figure from the S-1 filing by $278,000, you end up with a bit over 899 racks. Assuming that each rack holds 88 machines, you end up with 79,000 machines.'" An anonymous source claims
over 100,000.
Whoah
That's a lot of CLUSTERZ!
I fail it.
Of course, someone *will* say the obligatory "imagine a beowulf..." comment in this thread.
FIRST POST
That's not necessarily a "Troll".
The absence of punctuation makes it unclear.
"FUCK, NIGGERS HOOK NOSES AND CURRY, MOTHER FUCKERS!"
This is Informative. Even though I'm not a motherfucker, I did not know what niggers are hooking.
"FUCK NIGGERS, HOOK NOSES, AND CURRY MOTHER FUCKERS!"
This is Insightful, but possibly Redundant information.
plzfixkthx.
Slashdot trolling phenomena
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a large subset of the bizarre and complex Slashdot subculture found on the popular Slashdot technology website. They are a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, amuse them, or challenge their thinking. Slashdot trolling is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general.
In addition to trolling, there are a number of recurring, off-topic jokes that are seen on the site. See Slashdot subculture.
There exists a trolling sub-subculture, referred to as Trolltalk, with a complex array of trolling organizations that all exists within the depths of the slashdot comment system.
This is a list of some of the trolls that may be encountered when browsing Slashdot comments. Some of these behaviours are usually considered to be more offensive or insightful than others. On Slashdot, many of these phenomena have become the object of parody.
See List of Slashdot trolls for links to examples in each category.
Table of contents [showhide]
1 Disruptive Trolls
1.1 Crapflooding
1.2 Page widening/lengthening
2 Offensive Trolls
2.1 Shock sites and shock content
2.2 Homosexuality & Racism
2.3 Nationalistic insults
3 Deceptive Trolls
3.1 Article text alteration trolls
3.2 Web vendor referral trolls
3.3 Signature trolls
3.4 Movie spoiler
4 Other Trolls
4.1 First post
4.2 *BSD is dying
4.3 Stephen King is dead
4.4 Hot grits / Natalie Portman
4.5 Reigniting flamewars
4.6 Pancake Eating Ninja Troll
5 Minor Trolls
6 Related articles
Disruptive Trolls
Crapflooding
Crapflooding consists of multiple copies of the same message posted many times with slight variations in order to avoid being filtered. Scripted crapflooding attacks, in which the process of posting is automated, can be very effective. Usually used in conjunction with a crapflood, some trolls write or copy offtopic stories into their comments. Many involve gratuitous and homoerotic sex scenes with the names of Slashdot's editors or other open source celebrities substituted for the characters in the original story. Other stories generally have no set topic and are usually nonsensical and surreal as well as offensive. Some trolls simply post comments that are completely incoherent on any level. Occasionally, trolls may post Base64 encoded images and comments, which appear nonsensical until decoded, whereupon they appear merely offensive (most of the time).
See also lameness filter.
Page widening/lengthening
The original page widening posts were simple messages consisting of one long stream of characters with no spaces. This caused browsers to render a very wide page with horizontal scroll bars, making it nearly impossible to read the comments page. Slashdot began inserting spaces into any long run of characters to prevent this and so began the evolutionary battle between Slashcode and the page widening trolls. Newer and more inventive ways of causing page widening were discovered, with the use of blockquote tags and the "." character to cause extreme widening on Internet Explorer. These methods were also eventually closed off by the Slashdot editors. Improvements in browser software have also closed many of the loopholes used to widen pages.
Offensive Trolls
Shock sites and shock content
A popular technique amongst Slashdot trolls is to post links to "shock sites" in order to annoy and offend other readers by tricking them into following the links. This is often accomplished by posting the link under the guise of being another link to the article or a rebuttal to the article.
A variation on this theme is for a troll to accuse a legitimate link or comment as being a link or reference to a shock site. In some cases this can have the desired effect of a
Or what they gave her. And I'm not talking about flowers.
When you think you've heard it all...
Correcting your post:
For some reason you bolded random words, they shouldn't be bolded. Please go back to school and learn acceptable use of bold.