My two cents, if they really wished to dramatically increase its usage, provide greater strength to incoming links on Google+ in Google's organic search results. Webmaster usage would increase at a ridiculous rate and the more content on the network the faster the snowball rolls. Right now as it stands with a general audience, it is still a pebble with no visible benefit of usage otherwise.
Part of me asks why are we still beating this dead horse, the other part likes to think it is only a matter of time as mobile platforms become more prevalent.
Oh no, a hacker saw my obligatory wacky animated avatar targeting the monthly pop culture event/person/thing/etc/insert/cmdr_taco/bad news everyone/virgin nerd/all your base belongs to us.
Outages happen more than that. We have been in several data centers, ThePlanet and The Fortress both have had major outages in the last two years which has affected business.
American cellular companies are notorious for being slow at releasing new broadband technology over their European and Japanese counterparts. I worked for AT&T Wireless in their data centers. Contrary to their commercials, 3G didn't take three years to complete, it was closer to eight years.
As previously committed, I would like to provide an update on where we stand following yesterday's explosion in our H1 data center. First, I would like to extend my sincere thanks for your patience during the past 28 hours. We are acutely aware that uptime is critical to your business, and you have my personal commitment that The Planet team will continue to work around the clock to restore your service.
As you have read, we have begun receiving some of the equipment required to start repairs. While no customer servers have been damaged or lost, we have new information that damage to our H1 data center is worse than initially expected. Three walls of the electrical equipment room on the first floor blew several feet from their original position, and the underground cabling that powers the first floor of H1 was destroyed.
There is some good news, however. We have found a way to get power to Phase 2 (upstairs, second floor) of the data center and to restore network connectivity. We will be powering up the air conditioning system and other necessary equipment within the next few hours. Once these systems are tested, we will begin bringing the 6,000 servers online. It will take four to five hours to get them all running.
We have brought in additional support from Dallas to have more hands and eyes on site to help with any servers that may experience problems. The call center has also brought in double staff to handle the increase in tickets we're expecting. Hopefully by sunrise tomorrow Phase 2 will be well on its way to full production.
Let me next address Phase 1 (first floor) of the data center and the affected 3,000 servers. The news is not as good, and we were not as lucky. The damage there was far more extensive, and we have a bigger challenge that will require a two-step process. For the first step, we have designed a temporary method that we believe will bring power back to those servers sometime tomorrow evening, but the solution will be temporary. We will use a generator to supply power through next weekend when the necessary gear will be delivered to permanently restore normal utility power and our battery backup system. During the upcoming week, we will be working with those customers to resolve issues.
We know this may not be a satisfactory solution for you and your business but at this time, it is the best we can do.
We understand that you will be due service credits based on our Service Level Agreement. We will proactively begin providing those following the restoration of service, which is our number priority, so please bear with us until this has been completed.
I recognize that this is not all good news. I can only assure you we will continue to utilize every means possible to fully restore service.
I plan to have an audio update tomorrow evening.
Until then,
Douglas J. Erwin
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
I am going to have to disagree with this one. I enjoyed Mandriva myself but having others that were unfamiliar with any Linux desktop use it was not quite as easy as having them use Ubuntu. It's one thing to offer a clean desktop with plenty of features, it's another to keep it clean and simple.
Although MySpace customizations can be very annoying, it is also part of its success. Being able to customize your profile to better reflect your tastes is part of what has helped MySpace skyrocket over competitors. Taking a plain, boring, white background profile and making it your own can be very gratifying.
People can spend hours upon hours customizing their own little site testing it out, MySpace banner ads get more and more impressions, that person then in turns shows it off to all their friends (or people they just have on their list as friends), and MySpace continues to accumulate ad impressions.
Although there are more crappy MySpace profiles, there are some profiles that really capitalize on dhtml and flash knowledge and even with limitations imposed, are very impressive.
Any feature that keeps people coming back to their website is really what they want and Facebooks direction makes perfect sense.
Hah! Imagine people doing a brain dump to not get the kiddy mode where their friends laugh at them when they look at their crayola screen. Oh wait, they may call that Vista.
It appears someone did not RTFA. The new glasses are not paper nor do they look bad at all. They are also not colored like ones of old.
Creating a film with a visual perspective with two cameras as eyes, and not just shifting an image an inch with different colors is really impressive and I do see a future in this, this time around!
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Where the hell are the 99.8% jokes at?!
"I like to update my devices to the latest bleeding edge builds during peak operation hours and when major production changes occur." - Newbie CTO
My two cents, if they really wished to dramatically increase its usage, provide greater strength to incoming links on Google+ in Google's organic search results. Webmaster usage would increase at a ridiculous rate and the more content on the network the faster the snowball rolls. Right now as it stands with a general audience, it is still a pebble with no visible benefit of usage otherwise.
Part of me asks why are we still beating this dead horse, the other part likes to think it is only a matter of time as mobile platforms become more prevalent.
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
Oh no, a hacker saw my obligatory wacky animated avatar targeting the monthly pop culture event/person/thing/etc/insert/cmdr_taco/bad news everyone/virgin nerd/all your base belongs to us.
Outages happen more than that. We have been in several data centers, ThePlanet and The Fortress both have had major outages in the last two years which has affected business.
American cellular companies are notorious for being slow at releasing new broadband technology over their European and Japanese counterparts. I worked for AT&T Wireless in their data centers. Contrary to their commercials, 3G didn't take three years to complete, it was closer to eight years.
I for one actually enjoyed those ads! To see those two together in a commercial was uncanny.
I like how each of the storage isles are compressed against each other initially and can then be opened with a crank.
As previously committed, I would like to provide an update on where we stand following yesterday's explosion in our H1 data center. First, I would like to extend my sincere thanks for your patience during the past 28 hours. We are acutely aware that uptime is critical to your business, and you have my personal commitment that The Planet team will continue to work around the clock to restore your service. As you have read, we have begun receiving some of the equipment required to start repairs. While no customer servers have been damaged or lost, we have new information that damage to our H1 data center is worse than initially expected. Three walls of the electrical equipment room on the first floor blew several feet from their original position, and the underground cabling that powers the first floor of H1 was destroyed. There is some good news, however. We have found a way to get power to Phase 2 (upstairs, second floor) of the data center and to restore network connectivity. We will be powering up the air conditioning system and other necessary equipment within the next few hours. Once these systems are tested, we will begin bringing the 6,000 servers online. It will take four to five hours to get them all running. We have brought in additional support from Dallas to have more hands and eyes on site to help with any servers that may experience problems. The call center has also brought in double staff to handle the increase in tickets we're expecting. Hopefully by sunrise tomorrow Phase 2 will be well on its way to full production. Let me next address Phase 1 (first floor) of the data center and the affected 3,000 servers. The news is not as good, and we were not as lucky. The damage there was far more extensive, and we have a bigger challenge that will require a two-step process. For the first step, we have designed a temporary method that we believe will bring power back to those servers sometime tomorrow evening, but the solution will be temporary. We will use a generator to supply power through next weekend when the necessary gear will be delivered to permanently restore normal utility power and our battery backup system. During the upcoming week, we will be working with those customers to resolve issues. We know this may not be a satisfactory solution for you and your business but at this time, it is the best we can do. We understand that you will be due service credits based on our Service Level Agreement. We will proactively begin providing those following the restoration of service, which is our number priority, so please bear with us until this has been completed. I recognize that this is not all good news. I can only assure you we will continue to utilize every means possible to fully restore service. I plan to have an audio update tomorrow evening. Until then, Douglas J. Erwin Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
A fool and their money are soon parted.
They are sold out mostly everywhere here in the Seattle area as well. I was over in Minnesota last week and they had them available all over.
He is hung like a horse! No, I really mean it Tiffany!
Let's celebrate this with a German chocolate cake.
I am going to have to disagree with this one. I enjoyed Mandriva myself but having others that were unfamiliar with any Linux desktop use it was not quite as easy as having them use Ubuntu. It's one thing to offer a clean desktop with plenty of features, it's another to keep it clean and simple.
Use Windows 9x and and instead of explorer, set shell=firefox.exe
Anyone else notice how the battery came right out (not soldered)?
Slashdot: News for nerds, behold the geek rapture.
Slashdotted already before first post. I am not showing that mirrordot has it either. Anyone have a cached version?
Here are new photos of the first 787 before paint.
787 Photos
Although MySpace customizations can be very annoying, it is also part of its success. Being able to customize your profile to better reflect your tastes is part of what has helped MySpace skyrocket over competitors. Taking a plain, boring, white background profile and making it your own can be very gratifying. People can spend hours upon hours customizing their own little site testing it out, MySpace banner ads get more and more impressions, that person then in turns shows it off to all their friends (or people they just have on their list as friends), and MySpace continues to accumulate ad impressions. Although there are more crappy MySpace profiles, there are some profiles that really capitalize on dhtml and flash knowledge and even with limitations imposed, are very impressive. Any feature that keeps people coming back to their website is really what they want and Facebooks direction makes perfect sense.
Slashdot readers including myself may frequent the San Fernando Valley area for those sounds!
Hah! Imagine people doing a brain dump to not get the kiddy mode where their friends laugh at them when they look at their crayola screen. Oh wait, they may call that Vista.
It appears someone did not RTFA. The new glasses are not paper nor do they look bad at all. They are also not colored like ones of old. Creating a film with a visual perspective with two cameras as eyes, and not just shifting an image an inch with different colors is really impressive and I do see a future in this, this time around!