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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.
all up-ons and upside yo momma's nasty ass knuckle hair.
My Ass hurts.
white power!!
that's already happened. jackass.
next time pay attention.
jackass.
In groundbreaking news, the central Canadian statistical agency based in Orangefork, Saskatchewan has finally published the results of a 5-year study investigating the deterioting state of the FreeBSD community.
Sponsored by the Association of Novell Users in Montreal and the Liberal Party of Canada, this intensive study encompassed 14 users in 3 provinces, using a total of 23 hours of interviews, phone conversations, and instant messaging. A background in computers was not necessary in order to participate in the provess.
75% of the users declared that the impact of FreeBSD in their lives has been reduced in the last 12 months or has been non-existent. 20% were undecided, while 5% confused the term with "freebasing" and were reluctant to speak about it unless her probation officer was present.
Speaking in anonymity, Frank Dreschel from University of Stoufville who resides at 67 Woodgate Drive, feels that the results are no surprising. "You know, I always felt that FreeBSD was forced upon me by my predecessor. It is especially sad considering that my job has nothing to do with information technology at all, since I'm part of the housekeeping staff. Perhaps you should talk to some of the engineering students?"
Which is nice.
Fucking karma-whoring shit-sucking goat fucker.
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Fuck karma.
MOD ME DOWN, I HATE THE FUCKING META MODERATION MESSAGES!
die anti caps filter..fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
ahaha you moron..you can disable meta moderation and all that shit in your preferences
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - The last *BSD coder, Natalie Portman was found dead in her Maine home this morning. She was naked and petrified, and covered in hot grits. Police are speculating that she didn't pay her fucking SCO license. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will try and fuck her dead corpse - even if you didn't enjoy her work, there's no denying her contributions to geek fapping. Truly an American icon.
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
do not click! tubgirl/goatse combination link!
Hi their, just in case things go sidewise as it were I have put up a mirror.h ines is at http://mirrorit.demonmoo.com/r_175/www.tnl.net/blo g/entry/How_many_Google_machines
The mirror of http://www.tnl.net/blog/entry/How_many_Google_mac
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you == pathetic.Loser.with.way.too.much.time.on.your.han
IPO season is just around the corner, and we should reflect on how socially responsible investing should be applied to two pre-IPO companies: Google and Atheros.
Please visit the following link.
http://www.h1b.info/lca.php
It enables you to find the number of H-1B employees employed at certain companies. Through some research on the Internet, I determined the H-1B composition of the following companies that plan to file for an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
15% Google (150 H-1B workers out of 1000)
24% Atheros Communications (24 H-1B workers out of 100)
The above data for H-1B workers pertains to persons who are currently in H-1B status. The number of employees for Atheros is estimated to be 100. Note that the percentages range from 15% to 24%.
If we include the number of former H-1B workers (now converted to American permanent residence and the like), we can safely say that the percentages are doubled, ranging from 30% to 48%. Is anyone bothered by these numbers?
Hundreds of thousands of American citizens lost their jobs in the tech sector, and these 3 companies claim that they cannot find just 350 workers to meet their needs. So, they sought out H-1B workers.
I urge you, my fellow Americans, to boycott the impending IPOs of Atheros and Google. When your fellow citizen was out of work for 2 years during the tech depression, these companies sought foreign workers to fill their ranks.
Do not participate in the IPOs of these companies. Do not financially reward companies that put the screws to American workers. If Atheros and Google want to have an IPO, they should relocate to Asia or another foreign country for the IPO. Those foreign countries have workers with the supposed right set of skills for Atheros and Google.
It uses teh open sources, unlike teh buggy odder kind (like wat M$ w1nd0ze uses). we should just call it buggy sources, since all sources except lunix's open kind are buggy!!!!111 hehe, i am teh funny!!!
Do NOT disgrace a work of art like the Big Lebowski by fucking up one of the most perfect lines. You cockmagnet. That's Busch Leage, you fucking douchebag. I would cut your brake lines if I knew who you were.
IIRC, Google's machines have no hard drives. It's too slow so they just keep everything in memory and network boot.
They never worry about losing CAT scans... ...because the waiting list is so long, you'll likely never get one anyways!