Ugh, you just store it compressed with LZO. The bigger challenge isn't storing it, it's storing it securely and secure from inside threats, that's the challenge. The cryptography involved, and technology to operate natively on cipher streams is where the actually interesting stuff is done. Storage alone is trivial.

Never heard of Hadoop?

So... Node.js, chalked full of easy ways to leak memory (ie don't change default debug console, or use a crappy gzip library) but the ability to write code that runs/renders either on the server or on the client with the same code and low-level libraries to make the decision of the best place to render--ie render same code on server or client--makes JS on the server-side rather attractive. I run, Operations side, over 1000+ websites on a Node.js farm (talking 200-300 mbit/sec of sustained daily web-traffic), and it scales a lot better than PHP from both a templating side (many similar but different sites with inheritance based properties) and from the performance scaling side.

From a PLT side, yea, JS ain't the best, but it's a defacto web-rendering technology and its use on the server can simplify a lot of things, not to mention that JS in V8 is pretty quick to boot, although it does have heap limitation based around the 32-bit code V8 generates.

I leave comment readers with a wonderful link: This PLT Life

They've been working on a GPS replacement for awhile, I would be surprised if it wasn't already fielded by the military.

That's bullshit. My corporate gmail account goes back years.

There's always Node.js, which scales better for distributed systems.

In short: Yes. Gratz on getting watch-listed.

"Should we care?" is what I'm trying to figure out. Redhat has lost almost all relevance in the Cloud-arena. CloudStack is in Apache Incubation, and OpenStack Essex is already live in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Redhat's OpenStack is presumably all KVM-based as it's built on RHEL6. Does it support bare-metal Cloud instances? Granted, this feature is 'beta' on CloudStack, but it is still there to use.

It seems like a desperate play to stay relevant. With Redhat's "virtualization brain trust" posting erroneous and irrelevant FUD while moderating/rejecting all replies, it appears there's a severe lack of strategy outside of "stop all the Xen-based clones with dom0's based on our OSS distribution!" Redhat shot themselves in the foot pushing KVM down people's throats to thwart Oracle and Citrix clones.

As someone that's built Private Clouds, and runs significant amounts of infrastructure, I personally have a hard time caring. None-the-less, I'm checking it out to see if the Swift object storage part is in any way cleaner integrated. If it's just some pre-built, probably back-level RPMs, I'll be highly unimpressed.

What about Elon Musk? Who was his "alter ego?"

Wal-mart and Google to name a couple.

That's just part of the front-end. They use a lot of Java too which is byte-code. Hadoop/Hive/HBase blah blah blah. IMO: Pig > Hive, node.js > PHP

$500K was only for a portion of the company, like the domain name. The patent portfolio was sold in the 8 figure range to someone else. Digg essentially got divvied up 3 different ways, and people only quote the smaller of the transactions... Anyway, it wasn't worth anywhere near 9 figures, but let's be honest: there's been an valuation bubble going on.

This isn't a new problem... This guy was naive/careless at best for not using multifactor authentication. But hey, at least his new article is getting some traffic, not that anyone will ever take him seriously again.

id software never had the resources that Valve currently has to throw at the problem, and they aren't trying to market just a handful of games on Linux, they're trying move an entire eco-system over. id software went under Bethseda exactly so they could get more resources, where as Valve has the highest profit per employee of any company. Carmack is really smart, but he never had a billion dollars to throw at the problem.

If I use Macs and Linux servers... Should I care?