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jafo writes:
Florian has announced that DRBD has been pulled into Linus' tree and will be in the 2.6.33 mainline kernel release. DRBD is a Linux driver which does RAID-like mirroring of hard drives, but between different systems across the network. It's most commonly used for high availability, real-time multi-site data replication, and SAN-less clustered file-systems. As a longtime DRBD user, I'm happy to see this tip of the hat to such a useful project.
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jafo writes:
Last Sunday was the day Netflix was supposed to be sending out the "you have one month to win a million dollars" e-mail. I haven't seen that, but the Netflix Prize Leaderboard is not looking good for someone getting a million dollars. However, there are lots of teams that have far surpassed the requirement for the "progress prize". BellKor is currently the leader with an 8.26% improvement over Netflix's own engine. One contender that I've been watching, Simon Funk has slipped down to 29th, but he's been interesting because he's already revealed the algorithms he's used. It'll be interesting to if there's a burst of activity in the last month, or if revelations made after October 2 help get things motivated to move forward again.