Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
The Internet

Submission + - Facebook: hard drive failure is no cause for alarm (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Slatterz
Slatterz writes: Facebook suffered a "rare" simultaneous hard drive failure recently, potentially taking down at least some of some users' photo collections temporarily. Here's how they explained it: "During an otherwise routine software upgrade on Friday night, we ran into some problems with our photo storage and a few of the hard drives where we store photos apparently failed all at once. We're trying to fully understand what happened, since simultaneous hardware failures like this are rare." As was proven recently when Gmail went down, free Web service can and do crash. Lets hope you've got contingencies when they do.
It's funny. Laugh.

MST3K is Back, Sort Of 264

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the that's-no-asteroid-that's-a-battlestation dept.
Polar Star writes "Retrocrush reports that Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett are back making fun of crappy movies again in a new incarnation called The Film Crew. In the first of many new DVDs to be released, they take on a 1969 abomination called Hollywood After Dark which features a still-not-very-young Rue McClanahan as a down-on-her-luck actress who becomes a stripper. Needless to say, it's one of the scariest movies you'll ever see. There's plenty of funny jokes throughout, and they definitely prove themselves worthy of carrying on the MST3K tradition." Update 1925 GMT by SM: Corrected a few oversights and pointed to The Film Crew's actual website.
The Internet

Submission + - Google Flushes RoadRunner beyond Earthlink

Submitted by BaysideAli
BaysideAli writes: So it appears that while Google has always been a company of firsts (despite the obvious and infinite debate surrounding every first in the IT world), they have definitely struck gold with their latest invention. Taking advantage of the fiber optic cables most major cities have already installed throughout their main sewage systems, Google is offering free high-speed wireless internet access through these fiber-optic nodes in the sewer via your toilet. Flush the cable down, let it feed its way through and around the unnecessary feces caused by the current internet monopolies diarrhea of your revenue, and into the giant world of free high-speed internet. To think, that at the beginning of April in just 2007, Google would be able to not only crawl most of the viable web, but now offer an alternative to the choices (or if you are most people, choice) of overpriced, under serviced high-speed internet servers for free and through easy installation that anyone toilet-trained can do. Kudos to Google! Check it out at http://www.google.com/tisp/
Google

Submission + - Google introduces Gmail Paper

Submitted by
digitaldruid
digitaldruid writes: "Gmail starts today a free service that allows you to request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button. They will cover costs "with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations". The number of messages is unlimited, but don't worry about environment because "Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment"."
Google

Submission + - Google's 2007 April Fool's Hoax

Submitted by
Anirban Paul
Anirban Paul writes: "Google has embarked upon a huge internet April Fool's hoax campaign as we speak (now it is 4:15am April 1st EST -NY). google has launched an april fool hoax as a link in the main search page that it is offering broadband internet service through household toilets. they have named the service as TiSP (beta); it is well written elaborate hoax with customer support, tech support, FAQs etc. it can also be accessed at http://www.google.com/tisp/. it says the following: "Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for? Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we'll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD.""
Google

Submission + - Gmail Paper

Submitted by
irabinovitch
irabinovitch writes: "Google is offering a new service, Gmail Paper". As part of this service they will print and mail you copies of any e-mail you have received / sent at no cost. The postage / printing costs will be offset by selling ads on the back of the paper."
Robotics

Submission + - Singularity at last?

Submitted by
Bartosz
Bartosz writes: "A small software company claims to have reached a singularity with their peer-to-peer system. They announced that some kind of artificial intelligence that understands source code emerged from the collaboration of large numbers of networked computers. Kurzweil people are all over it."
Google

Submission + - Google Unveils TiSP

Submitted by
martinelli
martinelli writes: "Google has finally unveiled TiSP, a "a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines." Hopefully, this is not another Google Labs project that gets flushed down the drain. http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html"
Google

Submission + - Google introduces free wi-fi!

Submitted by Rebelgecko
Rebelgecko writes: Today, Google has introduced their new TiSp. Though unfortunately it is currently Windows only, Mac and Linux support is currently in the works. Three speeds are offered: The Trickle, Number 2, and the Royal Flush. While the Number 2 and Royal Flush are not free ($9.95 and $24.95, respectively), the "Trickle" is entirely advertisement supported. Signal is guaranteed in the bathroom which TiSP is installed in. Even more revolutionary, TiSP will be heavily integrated with Google Checkout. Any packages purchased with Google Checkout can be sent directly to your bathroom! Most of the comments on their help forum seem positive, though there seem to be occassional networking issues. It is unknown whether it assigns I.P.'s freely or not.
Google

Submission + - Google launches free TiSP broadband service

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Google has just launched its free TiSP wireless broadband service.
Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for? Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we'll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD.
The installation guide has more details. Installation only takes a couple of minutes, and you will be surfing in no time at all.
Google

Submission + - Google released free broadband access

Submitted by morcego
morcego writes: After many speculations, it is finally here. Google has released its free, ad-supported broadband services. TiSP is announced as a "Free, fast and highly reliable" services, proposed to solve the ""last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes". A press release is online, along with FAQ

Slashdot Top Deals

"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai

Close