Luke Psywalker - Slashdot User

Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister 419

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 24 2010, @12:27AM
from the sheila-in-chief dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Julia Gillard has been elected unopposed to the Labor leadership, seizing power in a bloodless Parliament House coup after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd decided not to contest this morning's leadership ballot. Ms. Gillard will now be sworn in as Australia's first female prime minister. Emerging from this morning's meeting, she said she felt 'very honored' and said she would be making a statement shortly. Treasurer Wayne Swan now steps up as deputy prime minister. He was also elected unopposed."

Comment: TPS (Score 4, Interesting) 197

by Luke Psywalker on Monday February 08 2010, @03:06AM (#31058644) Attached to: Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta

Funny, I first read about ROR on Slashdot 3 years ago, back around the 1.0 release. The only negative things anyone said back then were quips about DHH's Danish accent. Now it's matured into the finest open source development web development stack available, powering many successful web apps and all I see here are the people who should be supporting it on principles alone talking smack about it.

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 04 2010, @03:11PM
from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.

Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

Data center Disaster 1

Submitted by TheOneBiscuit on Tuesday November 17 2009, @01:29AM

TheOneBiscuit writes "We recently had a failure in condensed water flow to our process coolers. The environmental warning systems failed to alert us to this issue and the coolers did not turn back on.
The first sign we received that there was a problem was when the servers started shutting themselves down due to high temperature and our external monitoring systems started flagging our systems as being inaccessible. The room peaked at 55 degrees (131F for the Americans) and the coolers had been off for 24hours. Has anyone had any experience with a situation like this? What can I expect from the hardware subjected to these temperatures, how severely would this affect their lifespan? How do I approach the company responsible for potential future costs? What backup systems have you used in the case of PCU failures?"

Comment: Re:Halo's popularity (Score 1) 379

by Luke Psywalker on Monday May 14 2007, @09:29PM (#19124519) Attached to: Bungie Vs. Miyamoto - Fight!

I think the really telling statistic is that globally Halo 2 is the 31st best selling game in history with 7.89 million units shipped, a long way off Super Mario Brothers' 40.24 million.