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Comment: Frequency and trend study (Score 1) 272

by figona on Friday December 18 2009, @01:14AM (#30484064) Attached to: Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex

current frequency .008 Hz, Amplitude 3 inches
Study reveals that amplitude is inversely proportional to frequency

Iran launches its first satellite 0

Submitted by figona on Tuesday February 03 2009, @06:34AM

figona writes "The launch of the Omid (Hope) satellite had been expected and was clearly timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, says the BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the satellite was launched to spread "monotheism, peace and justice" in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7866357.stm But the launch could cause alarm in the West because of fears the technology could be used to make a long-range missile, possibly with a nuclear warhead."

Home grown data center, anyone ? 0

Submitted by figona on Friday January 16 2009, @05:13AM

figona writes "I have a quad core (AMD), 2TB disk space , 8 GB RAM , Fedora 8 machine running few services like mysql, jboss and other proprietary services. The intent is to make the system usable over internet and hence I have a static IP from my ISP, with a reasonably reliable link. I want to know that apart from power back up and application availability/reliability, what all should I be worried about to match conditions which I would get if I place the same in a commercial data centre. I understand cooling and power requirement of commercial datacenter should not be required here as I am looking at only couple of machines (at max 4). One problem that I see upfront is internet reliability. Is there a high availability solution using router where I can use two internet connections and still maintain same external ip address? Any other experiences, pointers on home grown data centers?"