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Comment Google Did It (Score 1) 204

by Chikenistheman on Monday August 20, 2007 @12:05PM (#20293593) Attached to: University Taps Sewers for Internet Access

http://www.google.com/tisp/

Submission + - Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong

Submitted by

modapi

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:28PM

modapi writes: "Google's wasn't the best storage paper at FAST '07. Another, more provocative paper looking at real world results from 100,000 disk drives got the "Best Paper" award. Bianca Schroeder of CMU's Parallel Data Lab paper Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? (pdf) crushes a number of (what we now know to be) myths about disks such as:

vendor MTBF validity

"consumer" vs "enterprise" drive reliability (spoiler: no difference)

RAID 5 assumptions

A good summary of the paper's key point is at StorageMojo."

Submission + - Ballmer repeats threats against Linux

Submitted by daria42 on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:17PM

daria42 writes: Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive said the company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006, "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the open-source world."

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