So a company called Apple upgraded "Mac Mini". This is caled news? I see all the comments modded up and I realize that Slashdot is nothing else than an Apple zealot community nowadays.
It is really hard to find that particular information again. I did some research and here are the results. First, I had a look at the WP page about the Google platform. In the year 2003 Google released some specifications: "15,000 servers ranging from 533Mhz Intel Celeron to dual 1.4Ghz Intel Pentium III". One year later - the year of the IPO - someone (see the article) estimated the following specs:
719 racks
63,272 machines
126,544 CPUs
253 THz of processing power
126,544 GB of RAM
5,062 TB of hard drive space
Now we are in the year 2005 and at this growth rate, they should have more than 120.000 machines - especially with all the new services.
Here is a rather interesting interview with Urs Hoelzle. No numbers in here, but still a good read. You can also watch an interview with Urs as he talks about the software and hardware of Google. They use NetScaler as load balancers (link) and I think I read about the 120k machines in an article about the NetScaler load balancers a year ago.
The amount of servers could be something between 100.000 and 200.000 servers.
While it's well known that Google has an ub3r loadsharing cluster of 10k+ machines.
Not really true. They have about 100-140k machines in seven locations around the globe. This information was leaked a while ago (~1 year) and I guess, Google still grows.
If anybody's interested, I can look up the link to the source.
You can consider Linus as a wealthy, upper middle-class person. "My bedroom has a different zip code than my living room". He made some money from the VA Linux boom (also Red-hat?). He also earned some money at Transmeta.
Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that GenUX with an e-mail address of hparker@gen-ux.com?
What's wrong with that? You know, that the whole article summary was written by ScuttleMonkey and not by the gen-nux guy? Otherwise, it would be in italics. ScuttleMonkey was the one who spoke to the support staff.
The guy is called ClintJCL: one of his posts. You can find the same post in his blog, but he says, that he just copied it from/..
Some research at Google reveals a lot about this guy.
From past learning I understand TC won't stop Linux from working, and won't stop people from installing and using Linux, nor will it stop entire organizations from converting to Linux. But, what about the "Trusted" relationship to the Microsoft world? An entire organization running Linux would seem open to being completely shut out from a Microsoft shop.
It'll be the other way around. In the past years, we had to convince a lot of people, that it is a bad idea to create documents in a propitary file format like MS Word or MS PowerPoint. That was pretty tough and not always successful.
This time, people (not content providers at the first place) will understand pretty easily, that it is absolutely stupid to create documents/files which are only readable at a TC plattform. Mainly, because they learn that just a few computers will be able to open that file but also, because there was a huge media coverage about the disadvantages of all the TC efforts.
TC has a very bad standing in the public opinion, which is not true for the problem of "propitary file formats". I think, even that will change.
The guy is called ClintJCL: one of his posts. You can find the same post in his blog, but he says, that he just copied it from/..
Some research at Google reveals a lot about this guy.
Richard Chesler: [Reading a piece of paper] The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club?
Narrator: [Voice-over] I'm half asleep again; I must've left the original in the copy machine.
Richard Chesler: The second rule of Fight Club - is this yours?
Narrator: Huh?
Richard Chesler: Pretend you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this, what would you do?
Narrator: [pauses] Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous. [Gets up from the chair]
Narrator: [Talking slowly] And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
Narrator: [Voice-over] Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. [Snatches the piece of paper from boss' hands]
Narrator: [Voice-over] And I used to be such a nice guy.
Narrator: Or maybe you shouldn't bring me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up.
I guess, there are a lot more employees pissed: MiniMSFT.
I don't know, I'm not involved in that, but I met a former MSFT employee and he is still kind of brainwashed, but as time goes by, he's getting back to normal and he tells me more and more very strange stories about his former job.
Actually, I don't care. Read the blog, it's very interesting.
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I know that I'll be modded down to hell.
So a company called Apple upgraded "Mac Mini". This is caled news? I see all the comments modded up and I realize that Slashdot is nothing else than an Apple zealot community nowadays.
A 13 centimeter wafer that can hold 1.25 gigabyte of data? That's not impressive.
- 719 racks
- 63,272 machines
- 126,544 CPUs
- 253 THz of processing power
- 126,544 GB of RAM
- 5,062 TB of hard drive space
Now we are in the year 2005 and at this growth rate, they should have more than 120.000 machines - especially with all the new services.Here is a rather interesting interview with Urs Hoelzle. No numbers in here, but still a good read. You can also watch an interview with Urs as he talks about the software and hardware of Google. They use NetScaler as load balancers (link) and I think I read about the 120k machines in an article about the NetScaler load balancers a year ago.
The amount of servers could be something between 100.000 and 200.000 servers.
While it's well known that Google has an ub3r loadsharing cluster of 10k+ machines.
Not really true. They have about 100-140k machines in seven locations around the globe. This information was leaked a while ago (~1 year) and I guess, Google still grows.
If anybody's interested, I can look up the link to the source.
I just wish Google Earth was available for MacOS or Linux.
Funny, that the Google Earth Server runs SuSE Linux, but the clients are still Windows only.
You can consider Linus as a wealthy, upper middle-class person. "My bedroom has a different zip code than my living room". He made some money from the VA Linux boom (also Red-hat?). He also earned some money at Transmeta.
Or is it the tools, this CELF of which they speak?
Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) (currently down)
All the major consumer electronics comanies are members of CELF.
Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that GenUX with an e-mail address of hparker@gen-ux.com?
What's wrong with that? You know, that the whole article summary was written by ScuttleMonkey and not by the gen-nux guy? Otherwise, it would be in italics. ScuttleMonkey was the one who spoke to the support staff.
uptime-is-a-measure-of-masculinity
YES!
exciter root # uptime
18:18:07 up 421 days, 4:24, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
exciter root # uname -a
Linux exciter 2.4.23_pre8-gss #1 Fri Dec 12 17:51:50 CET 2003 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.10GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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The guy is called ClintJCL: one of his posts. You can find the same post in his blog, but he says, that he just copied it fromFrom past learning I understand TC won't stop Linux from working, and won't stop people from installing and using Linux, nor will it stop entire organizations from converting to Linux. But, what about the "Trusted" relationship to the Microsoft world? An entire organization running Linux would seem open to being completely shut out from a Microsoft shop.
It'll be the other way around. In the past years, we had to convince a lot of people, that it is a bad idea to create documents in a propitary file format like MS Word or MS PowerPoint. That was pretty tough and not always successful.
This time, people (not content providers at the first place) will understand pretty easily, that it is absolutely stupid to create documents/files which are only readable at a TC plattform. Mainly, because they learn that just a few computers will be able to open that file but also, because there was a huge media coverage about the disadvantages of all the TC efforts.
TC has a very bad standing in the public opinion, which is not true for the problem of "propitary file formats". I think, even that will change.
Free wifi is good, of course, but TNSTAAFL.
WEDYMBT?
Perfect solution!
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The guy is called ClintJCL: one of his posts. You can find the same post in his blog, but he says, that he just copied it fromTo confuse your co-workers, set up KDE on OSX and run this theme. Check out the screenshots.
Thanks. A friend of mine told me, that they have huge problems with VSS in their company. Database corruptions and so on.
VSS
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Richard Chesler: [Reading a piece of paper] The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club?
Narrator: [Voice-over] I'm half asleep again; I must've left the original in the copy machine.
Richard Chesler: The second rule of Fight Club - is this yours?
Narrator: Huh?
Richard Chesler: Pretend you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this, what would you do?
Narrator: [pauses] Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous. [Gets up from the chair]
Narrator: [Talking slowly] And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
Narrator: [Voice-over] Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. [Snatches the piece of paper from boss' hands]
Narrator: [Voice-over] And I used to be such a nice guy.
Narrator: Or maybe you shouldn't bring me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up.
Yes, the guy is called ClintCJL: one of his posts. You can find the same post in his blog, but he says, that he just copied it from /..
Some research at Google reveals a lot about this guy.
I guess, I found him: ClintJCL. I'm not totally sure, but he has a blog and posted exactly the same message and some anti-Linux stuff there.
What's wrong with you??? You're posting that again and again!!! See:
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Comment 3
Comment 4
Comment 5
And some more! Stop it!
What's wrong with you??? You're posting that again and again!!! See: Comment 1 Comment 2 Comment 3 Comment 4
How often do you wanna post that? I guess, I read exactly the same comment a few times here. Just stop it.
I guess, there are a lot more employees pissed: MiniMSFT.
I don't know, I'm not involved in that, but I met a former MSFT employee and he is still kind of brainwashed, but as time goes by, he's getting back to normal and he tells me more and more very strange stories about his former job.
Actually, I don't care. Read the blog, it's very interesting.