Comment Re:Those were the days (Score 1) 726
Hey, I just retrieved my ICQ UIN from my settings here!
Comment Those were the days (Score 1) 726
I must admint that it's been a while since i logged in. I usually only read, and you can do that without.
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Comment Quantum cryptography implications (Score 1) 210
Someone enlighten me: Have we just cracked quantum cryptography?
Comment Pentium Pro (Score 1) 622
My Gateway / Webserver / Fileserver is a Dual Pentium Pro running FreeBSD. I recently bought another of these machines (Compaq Proliant 2500r) for spare parts, because the voltage converter (VRM Modul Spare Part 225529-001) gave up. Again.
I have no clue how old these systems are, but they sure look old. And big.
I'll probably replace it with something more powerful, this year. Like a EeePC 700 or so...
Comment Re:Where do they store 4.5TB off site (Score 1) 235
could someone with experiance in such matters shed a little insight into the logistics of backing up such a vast system
The secrets of backups in a datacenter that big is: You don't. Backup, that is.
A simple calulation shows, that a full backup would basically never end, and incremental backups only help you if you if you had something to increment from. And a restore would never end as well.
Instead you make damn sure, you have redundancy in everything. DRBD is your friend. RAID controllers are, too.
If you have the money, integrate with the big ones (EMC, HP, SUN). If you don't, use a clever solution (Caringo).
Comment Google (Score 1) 204
They could always ask Google. Thanks to Google, whatever is in the Internet, stays in the Internet.
Comment Google collecting data?! (Score 3, Funny) 111
Really?! Does that mean I have to remove all my mail from GMail?!
Comment Name for the bat (Re:119V-0080) (Score 2, Funny) 422
Poor bat. Can we come up with a better name for him (or her) than 119V-0080? We're talking about the highest- and fastest-flying bat of all time, probably. A real name is definitely in order.
Bruce Wayne?!
Comment Micropayments. (Score 2, Interesting) 267
I wish that mobile- and micropayments would gain bigger focus in the intustry. There are first pilots going on here in Europe.
OTOH: some countries (South Asia, mostly) already have problems with malware on their phone "stealing" money by sending text messages...
Submission + - The Dark Side of Iapetus 1
Hugh Pickens writes: "The difference in coloring between Iapetus' leading and trailing hemispheres is striking. NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs has just released a report on a bizarre "runaway" process that may explain the strange and dramatically two-toned appearance recently revealed in images collected during a close flyby by the Cassini spacecraft. Scientists believe that initially dark material on one side of Iapetus may have come from other moons orbiting Saturn in the opposite direction. Since Iapetus is locked in synchronous rotation about Saturn, as dusty material from the outer moons spiraled in and hit Iapetus head-on, the forward-facing side began to look different. Once the forward side began to darken, it absorbed more sunlight, its surface water evaporated, and vapor was transported from the dark side to the white side of Iapetus. Thermal segregation then proceeded in a runaway process as the the dark side lost its surface ice and got darker."
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