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Google and Their Server Farm

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-heard-there-are-at-least-fifty-boxes-in-it dept.

JR writes "CNet has a very interesting story about Google, operating systems, and where Google may be going. The upshot is that they may make OS issues totally irrelevant by supplying everything anyone needs over the web from their mega-server-farm."

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  1. The wookie defense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Yeah but does it run linux?
    2. Imagine a beowolf cluster of uhhhh.
    3. In Soviet Russia the computer uses the only old people in Korea.
    4. Hot grits
    5. ???
    6. Profit!!!

    I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip the waitress.

  2. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ha! It's snowing!

  3. Re:Brilliant by xtracto · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, here I go, mod me offtopic but I noticed SlashDot wont let me reload a page... at least not directly.

    I am using Firefox 1.0+ and after I load a page in slashdot and click the reload button it gets disabled... I am using tabs so I just have to to another tab an return, and the reload is again enabled... is this normal???

    --
    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
  4. Better to buy than rent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't doubt your sincerity, but you are wrong.
    It's better to rent

    and from The Economist
    http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm? story_id=3722894
    The figures look even more striking in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it is possible to rent an $800,000 house for $2,000 a month. Making the same assumptions about rents and house prices, but also deducting tax relief on a fixed-rate mortgage and adding property taxes, a buyer would pay $120,000 more over seven years than if he had rented. House prices in San Francisco would need to rise by at least 4% a year (2% in real terms) for it to prove cheaper to buy a house. Since 1950 American house prices in real terms have risen by an annual average of just over 1%. To expect them to rise faster from their current dizzy heights smacks of irrational exuberance, to say the least.

  5. Re:Not surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i'm getting tired of the moderation abuse on this site. any post even remotely mentioning intellectual property laws or whatever that doesn't talk about how much they suck instantly gets moderated down, usually "overrrated," which everybody knows is immune from m2.

    hey, fuckfaces: moderation is not your chance to vote for what you like or don't like. stop moderating down posts because you don't like their subjects.