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Comment Re:Single point of failure..? (Score 4, Informative) 99

Has Amazon become a single point of failure..?

AWS has only one availability zone down right now, US-EAST-1. With proper redundant design across multiple availability zones, this outage isn't an issue. All it does it show us the companies who are bad at reliability engineering.

US-EAST-1 is a REGION. AWS's global services were down. The global service outage (api/s3/cf/r53 etc) affected all regions.
Even if you had a hot/hot setup that spanned from EAST-1 to WEST-2 it would have had issues because it's a global service outage. There would be nothing routing your traffic between regions, cause it's a global services outage...

If it's anyone's fault for not having a proper redundant design it's AWS... they're too dependent on EAST-1.
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North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang 182

Posted by timothy from the not-so-horny-after-all dept.
eldavojohn writes "NPR pointed out a press release claiming that North Korean archaeologists have found a 'unicorn lair' in Pyongyang. The members of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have "reconfirmed" that this site was used for King Tongmyong's unicorn where the unicorn would concoct his unicorn schemes and do his unicorn things if anyone ventured too closely. The last line is, perhaps, the most important line of the article, 'The discovery of the unicorn lair, associated with legend about King Tongmyong, proves that Pyongyang was a capital city of Ancient Korea as well as Koguryo Kingdom.' Fear not that North Korea is surpassing the world in cryptozoology, Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, TX has claimed to have recently sequenced Bigfoot's DNA and he's part human."
Portables (Games)

New Nintendo DS to Include Camera, Music 261

Posted by CmdrTaco from the and-it-fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.
BobB-nw writes "Watch out Apple, here comes Nintendo. Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its popular DS portable gaming device with a camera and music player function, according to a report in the Sunday edition of The Nikkei Business Daily. The new version will have better wireless capability for connecting to the Internet and will cost under $189, the report said. It will be offered first in Japan, it said. The DS first went on sale in 2004, and a second version, called the DS Lite, debuted two years later in 2006. Both have sold extremely well, with worldwide sales of the DS products at 77.5 million units as of the end of June this year."
Microsoft

Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework 126

Posted by timothy from the ms-could-become-the-largest-open-source-vendor dept.
soliptic writes "The jQuery blog today announced that 'Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform.' So the open-source javascript framework will be shipped with Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft's Scott Hanselman notes: 'It's Open Source, and we'll use it and ship it via its MIT license, unchanged. If there's changes we want, we'll submit a patch just like anyone else.'" There's also a story at eWeek about the decision.
OS X

OS X On the MSI Wind 219

Posted by timothy from the os-x-doesn't-make-it-a-mac dept.
Ruler of Planets writes "PlanetX64 has just published an article on loading OS X on an MSI Wind, effectively creating a machine that is smaller and lighter than a Macbook Air. The exercise was done solely for academic purposes and doing so voids all kinds of warranties, but hey, now you can slip a Mac into a lab coat pocket!"
Media (Apple)

Software Update Makes iTunes Accessible To Blind Users 148

Posted by timothy from the rockbox-already-has-voice-guidance-note dept.
rickthewizkid writes "Recent updates to the iTunes software allow blind users to access the program without assistance. From the article: 'The new software — which transforms the written information on an iTunes-linked computer screen into speech or Braille — stemmed from an agreement between Apple, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company, the National Federation of the Blind and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.'" It's not just the actual iTunes app, though; the article notes that this update makes iTunes U useable as well.
User Journal

Journal Journal: GeekProdigy.com work..

Journal by gh0ul

Well, today was productive...sort of.. added a little info thingy to GeekProdigy.com which tells shoppers how much dough they are currently adding up in their basket.. Also changed everything to flat-rate $4.95 shipping, and free shipping on orders over $40 (tshirts, hats, buttons etc..) going to be adding ties and dress shirts soon (woop)..
User Journal

Journal Journal: Making Magnets

Journal by gh0ul

Anyone know any handy and quick methods to mass produce magnets with easy to find materials?

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