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Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design 111

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @11:40PM from the almighty-buck-buck dept.

1sockchuck writes "Yahoo has come up with a data center design called the Yahoo Computing Coop, which it says will make its new data center in Lockport, NY one of the most efficient on earth. The design features 120-foot by 60-foot metal prefabricated facilities with louvers on the side to support free cooling, and a peaked roof to manage the release of waste heat from the hot aisle. Chief Yahoo David Filo said the name was adopted 'because it looks like something chickens live in.' The $150 million data center in Western New York, which was announced earlier today, will run on cheap hydro power from the Niagara River."

One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong 538

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @07:32PM from the killed-the-wrong-one dept.

snydeq writes "Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP a year ago today, no longer selling new copies in most venues. Yet according to a report from InfoWorld, various downgrade paths to XP are keeping the operating system very much alive, particularly among businesses. In fact, despite Microsoft trumpeting Vista as the most successful version of Windows ever sold, more than half of business PCs have subsequently downgraded Vista-based machines to XP, according to data provided by community-based performance-monitoring network of PCs. Microsoft recently planned to further limit the ability to downgrade to XP now that Windows 7 is in the pipeline, but backlash against the licensing scheme prompted the company to change course, extending downgrade rights on new PCs from April 2010 to April 2011."

Comment Re:MythTV? (Score 1) 140

by GaidinTS on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @02:49PM (#25207789) Attached to: Roku To Go Open Source

Yes, but only through virtualization of windows. The benefit I see to open roku is that we might be able to use the software to stream netflix natively.

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