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Submission + - AT&T DNS outage affecting businesses (pcworld.com)

Submitted by ralphart
ralphart writes: AT&T's DNS services experienced a major outage this morning which is ongoing. As ISP nameserver caches expired, websites became unavailable to would-be site visitors.

Still no ETA on a fix from AT&T.
Cloud

Submission + - Major outage at the Amazon Web Services (amazon.com)

Submitted by ralphart
ralphart writes: The Northern Virginia datacenter for Amazon Web Services appears to be having a major outage that affects EC2 services. The Amazon Forums are full of reports of problems.

Latest update from the status page:
2:49 AM PDT We are continuing to see connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances, increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region, and increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We are also experiencing delayed launches for EBS backed EC2 instances in affected availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards resolution.
Microsoft

Submission + - Lobbyists attack UK open standards policy (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by
superglaze
superglaze writes: "The Business Software Alliance, a lobbying organisation representing the likes of Microsoft, Adobe and Apple, has laid into the UK's recently-adopted policy of mandating the use of open standards wherever possible in government IT systems.The policy describes open standards as being "publicly available at zero or low cost" and having "intellectual property made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis" The BSA said this would "inadvertently reduce choice [and] hinder innovation", and even went so far as to claim open standards would lead to higher e-government costs, but open-source advocates say the policy reflects how much the European Interoperability Framework is weighted in favour of the proprietary software companies."
Google

Submission + - Google 'finds' missing G-mails on tape (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Snippet from BBCnews.co.uk article:

"Google has apologised to customers who found their Gmail inboxes empty after accounts were accidentally wiped clean."

It goes on to mention that the accounts were backed up offline and successfully restored. The wipe is blamed on a software bug.

Comment Re:WANdisco's side (Score 4, Insightful) 85

by ralphart (#34753194) Attached to: Apache Subversion To WANdisco, Inc: Get Real

I love his summation in the second blog post:

...Could these things have been said with a little less venom? Yes, probably. But the bottom line is that WE CARE because we have a deep vested interest in this Subversion stuff.

Translation: I'm a dickhead but that's okay because I'm awesome!

....Getting out of marketing and into IT was the best career move I ever made.
Cellphones

John Carmack Not Enthused About Android Marketplace 163

Posted by Soulskill from the hit-with-a-fragmentation-grenade dept.
An anonymous reader writes "During an in-depth and informative interview, Doom creator and id Software co-founder John Carmack opines on iOS game development, the economics of mobile development vs. console development, why mobile games lend themselves to more risk-taking and greater creativity, and finally, why he's not too keen on the Android Marketplace as a money-making machine. '...I'm honestly still a little scared of the support burden and the effort that it's going to take for our products, which are very graphics-intensive.'"
Apple

Submission + - Apple's fatal weakness: iTunes (xconomy.com) 1

Submitted by waderoush
waderoush writes: On top of all the other features that it has crammed into iTunes, Apple this week added Ping, a Facebook-like social network for music discovery. It's all part of the company's plan to dominate the world of consumer media, but Xconomy argues that this time, Apple may have gone a bridge too far. iTunes, nearing its tenth birthday, started out merely as a program for ripping CDs, and has grown increasingly creaky and impenetrable as Apple has added more and more cruft, the article argues. The company won't have a stable base for its new media empire until it rebuilds iTunes from scratch — perhaps along the lines suggested by its other new product this week, the revamped Apple TV.
Role Playing (Games)

Aion Servers To Merge, XP Grind Softened 108

Posted by Soulskill from the now-only-takes-one-and-a-half-eternal-souls dept.
Massively reports that NCSoft's fantasy MMO Aion will soon be getting a round of server mergers to balance player populations and shore up in-game economies. A newsletter from Aion producer Chris Hager also brought word that character transfers will be an option starting in June, and NCSoft will be "offering them to all of our players for free for a limited time." This is happening in the lead-up to the game's 1.9 patch, due on June 2, which contains a number of measures to make the XP grind a bit less harsh (among other things; patch notes). They're creating more quests, increasing XP rewards from existing quests, and implementing a system that "grants you experience bonuses as you continue to play."
PlayStation (Games)

US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update 349

Posted by Soulskill from the sounds-like-an-act-of-terrorism-to-me dept.
tlhIngan writes "The US Air Force, having purchased PS3s for supercomputing research, is now the latest victim of Sony's removal of the Install Other OS feature. It turns out that while their PS3s don't need the firmware update, it will be impossible to replace PS3s that fail. PS3s with the Other OS feature are no longer produced since the Slim was introduced, so replacements will have to come from the existing stock of used PS3s. However, as most gamers have probably updated their PS3s, that used stock is no longer suitable for the USAF's research. In addition, smaller educational clusters using PS3s will share the same fate — unable to replace machines that die in their clusters." In related news, Sony has been hit with two more lawsuits over this issue.
Power

Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale 183

Posted by kdawson from the shocking-positively-shocking dept.
Ziest points us to NY Times piece on the battle over the site of Nicola Tesla's last failed experiment. Tesla's laboratory, called Wardenclyffe, located on Long Island, has been put up for sale by its current owner, Agfa Corp. Local residents and Tesla followers were alarmed by a real estate agent's promise that the land, listed at $1.6 million, could "be delivered fully cleared and level." Preservationists want to create a Tesla museum and education center at Wardenclyffe, anchored by the laboratory designed by Tesla's friend, Stanford White, a celebrated architect. "In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant to relay through the air not only news, stock reports and even pictures but also, unbeknown to investors such as J. Pierpont Morgan, free electricity for one and all. It was the inventor's biggest project, and his most audacious. The first tower rose on rural Long Island and, by 1903, stood more than 18 stories tall. ... But the system failed for want of money, and at least partly for scientific viability. Tesla never finished his prototype tower and was forced to abandon its adjoining laboratory."
OS X

Submission + - Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs Mac OS X Leopard (linux-mag.com)

Submitted by
walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: "Linux magazine has a decent article comparing Gutsy Gibbon to Leopard. From the article: "Linux has come a long way when it comes to ease of use, and it's definitely getting better all the time, but overall Leopard is still ahead of Ubuntu (and both are way ahead of Vista)." Of course, this is "Linux Mag" so there may be bias. On balance, I think it's a great review. Neither OS "wins" rather the strengths and weaknesses and both OSes are compared."

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