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Submission + - Superfund365, A Site A Day (turbulence.org)

Submitted by on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @11:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/superfund/

"Superfund365, A Site-A-Day" is an online data visualization application with an accompanying RSS-feed and email alert system. Each day for a year "Superfund365" will visit one toxic site currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They begin the journey in the New York City area and work their way across the country, ending in Hawaii.

I frequently bike past the first site they visit in NJ — and I had no idea... chilling.

Submission + - Sony trashes Halo 3 on Wikipedia (teamxbox.com)

Submitted by

scottyatari

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @10:57PM

scottyatari writes: "First the CIA and the Pope, and now Sony edits wikipedia. http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/14404/Sony-Trashes-H alo-3-on-Wikipedia/"

Submission + - Pentagon e-mail system breached (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by

Polar Star

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @10:50PM

Polar Star writes: "The Washington Post reports that computer hackers gained access to an unclassified e-mail system in the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but declined comment on a report that the Chinese army was responsible."

Submission + - How to turn lots of small machines into storage? 1

Submitted by cyber-dragon.net on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @10:49PM

cyber-dragon.net writes: I am trying to build a storage system which will accommodate the throughput of running about 400 VMWare ESX images without the cost of a SAN or NAS. I know... insert comments about PHBs and budgets.

What I DO have access to is LOTS of appliance level machines which are Linux capable that are small enough I can put two per 1U. They have 80Gb drives or thereabouts and Celeron processors as well as gigabit nics. As I researched storage I kept running across articles about how Google uses tons of small machines for fast access and thought there was a chance this could work for me . Yes I know their requirements are different and that style of array is not what I need but something using the same concepts might work.

The main problems to overcome:

Data redundancy... if I loose one box I want to be able to just plug another one in

Access speed... needs to be fast enough to support 400 running virtual machines so would likely have to span the data across several since each individual HD is not fast enough to support more than one.
Data point on this... a pair of 10k RPM SCSI drives in RAID 0 runs 12 of these just fine.

Adding space... would love to be able to just plug another one in and get more space

Perhaps this is not feasible as I have not come up with a way yet... but I figured if this crowd could not find a way I should move on to begging for a real SAN budget.

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