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Google File System Evolves, Hadoop To Follow 53

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 14, 2009 @06:14PM from the i-wanna-be-like-mike dept.

Christophe Bisciglia, Google's former infrastructure guru and current member of the Cloudera start-up team, has commented on Google's latest iteration on their GFS file system and deemed its features well within the evolutionary capabilities of open-source competitor Hadoop. "Details on Google's GFS2 are slim. After all, it's Google. But based on what he's read, Bisciglia calls the update 'the next logical iteration' of the original GFS, and he sees Hadoop eventually following in the (rather sketchy) footsteps left by his former employer. 'A lot of the things Google is talking about are very logical directions for Hadoop to go,' Bisciglia tells The Reg. 'One of the things I've been very happy to see repeatedly demonstrated is that Hadoop has been able to implement [new Google GFS and MapReduce] features in approximately the same order. This shows that the fundamentals of Hadoop are solid, that the fundamentals are based on the same principles that allowed Google's systems to scale over the years.'"

Comment Re:xpdf etc (Score 1) 188

by ookoi on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @12:28AM (#20752037) Attached to: Zero-day Exploit in PDF With Adobe Reader

And on windows there is FoxIt it is not open source (i think, i have not checked) but at least it is lightweight in comparison with acrobat. By the way, there is another thing totally insane with acrobat, it's the automatic updates... So now, you have to download updates for win, ff, java, adobe, each times there is an update... It's really crazy.

GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver 671

Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 07, 2007 @01:40PM from the cross-licensing dept.

NormalVisual writes "The mailing lists were buzzing recently when Michael Buesch, one of the maintainers for the GPL'd bc43xx Broadcom wireless chip driver project, called the OpenBSD folks to task for apparently including code without permission from his project in the OpenBSD bcw project, which aims to provide functionality with Broadcom wireless chips under that OS. It seems that the problem has been resolved for now with the BSD driver author totally giving up on the project and Theo De Raadt taking the position that Buesch's posts on the subject were 'inhuman.'" More commentary from the BSD community is over at undeadly.org.

The FSF, GPLv3 and DRM 388

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 10, 2006 @04:37PM from the preaching-to-the-choir dept.

whats-life-without-gpl writes "FSF has a thing against DRM. This article tries to explain why RMS isn't a DRM (Note that NewsForge is also owned by OSTG) fan and how GPLv3 is gearing up to protect against it. "

Bellagio Fountains Recreated with Mentos and Coke 220

Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 04, 2006 @08:36PM from the truly-a-worthy-expenditure-of-time dept.

Trip writes "What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes. It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas."

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