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Facebook Maxes Out Its Data Center Space-> 0

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1sockchuck

on Sunday December 23 2007, @09:50PM

1sockchuck writes "Facebook is adding 2 million new users a week, and recently maxed out the data center space at its California facilities. The load on the company's servers "continues to increase at a pretty astounding rate," says Facebook engineer Jason Sobel, who said the fast-growing social networking service has added a data center in Virginia, which is now serving 30 percent of its traffic. Sobel also discusses how Facebook sorts out which data gets stored on the East Coast and West Coast, which has meant some fine-tuning of its MySQL code to properly update Memcached."
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Google Reader shares private data, ruins Christmas-> 0

Submitted by Felipe Hoffa on Sunday December 23 2007, @08:49PM

Felipe Hoffa writes "One week ago Google Reader's team decided showing your private data to all your GMail contacts. No need to opt-in, no way to opt-out. Complaints haven't been answered. Some users share their problems, including one family that won't be able to enjoy this Christmas due to this "feature". Will this start happening with all Google products?

You can check a summary of complaints or the whole thread."
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OLPC a hit in remote Peruvian village-> 0

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mrcgran

on Sunday December 23 2007, @08:20PM

mrcgran writes "Chicago Tribune is running a story about the effects of OLPC on a remote village in Peru: "Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. At breakfast, they're already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night, they're dozing off in front of them — if they've managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines. Peru made the single biggest order to date — more than 272,000 machines — in its quest to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed." A detailed log has been kept and a youtube video is also available."
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Palau looking into satellite power in next decade 0

Submitted by davidwr on Sunday December 23 2007, @07:55PM

davidwr writes "The island nation of Palau is looking into creating a satellite-to-ground power transmission system. The system will use low-orbit satellites to transmit power to a receiver in bursts, unlike some other plans which rely on geostationary satellites. The initial 1MW project is supposed to go online "as early as" 2012 for a cost of $0.8B. Time will tell if this is cost-effective compared to traditional solar or other sources of power."

Network technician checklist; it goes to eleven.-> 0

Submitted by Sak on Sunday December 23 2007, @06:18PM

Sak writes "For those of you wondering how to make it as a sysadmin in the world, Bootslack has posted an entertaining checklist on his blog discussing how a network technician can survive their day to day routine, and ultimately ensure job security."
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Fake Steve Jobs getting sued by Apple is a HOAX-> 0

Submitted by themurph2099 on Sunday December 23 2007, @05:42PM

themurph2099 writes "Earlier today both Slashdot and Digg have had articles promoted to their front pages that cover the story of the Fake Steve Jobs being threatened by Apple over "trade secrets". There have been several posts on Fake Steve's blog, and the entire thing has been played out like it is real. There's only one problem...it's not."
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What are the best network monitoring programs? 1

Submitted by Ace on Sunday December 23 2007, @05:08PM

Ace writes "What are the best programs to keep track of all the IP addresses of incoming and outgoing connections that are connecting to your computer? I've been using firewall software but lately I've discovered strange anomolous connections to .ru sites that I can't explan (and I've run virus scan, have firewall, etc). I'd really like to find a package that logs a list of all sites, their IP's, etc (incoming and outgoing) and which program is doing it. I'd like not to have to reformat but it's looking likely."

Tens of Thousands of Adult Website Accounts Hacked-> 3

Submitted by

Keith

on Sunday December 23 2007, @04:02PM

Keith writes "Tens of thousands — or maybe more — accounts to adult websites were recently declared compromised and apparently have been that way since sometime in October, 2007. The issue occurred when the NATS software used to track and manage sales and affiliate revenues was accessed by an intruder, who apparently discovered a list of admin passwords residing on an unsecured office server at Too Much Media, which makes and maintains NATS installations for adult companies. It would appear that Too Much Media knew of the exploit back in October, and rather than fixing the issue tried to bury it by threatening to sue anyone in the adult industry who talked about it."
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Mystery Company recruiting puzzle solved! 1

Submitted by

srealm

on Sunday December 23 2007, @02:46PM

srealm writes "Less than 24 hours from posting, the Mystery Company job posting has been cracked! With the collaboration of people at the Google Group setup specifically for cracking this puzzle, the three 'challenges' have been solved, and the company un-masked as N-Brain, Inc in Boulder, CO. The date in question is the release date for their flagship UNA product, meant to promote collaborative development."

FSFE Supports Microsoft Antitrust Investigation-> 0

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on Sunday December 23 2007, @01:38PM

An anonymous reader writes ""Microsoft should be required openly, fully and faithfully to implement free and open industry standards," is the message of a letter by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) to European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. To help achieve this goal, FSFE offered its support for a possible antitrust investigation based on the complaint of Opera Software against Microsoft. The complaint was based on anti-competitive behaviour in the web browser market.

"Although Opera Software does not produce Free Software, we largely share their assessment and concerns regarding the present situation in the Internet browser market", FSFE president Georg Greve writes in the letter."
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