hmmm...actually it means the source PR release that was linked to at the beginning had it wrong -- http://sev.prnewswire.com/banking-financial-services/20090811/DA6039911082009-1.html cut and paste never fails.....

So what does t mean that the patent in question has been withdrawn? http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5787499.html

I had trouble finding the place... ba-dum-bump...:-) I'll be here all night folks -- try the veal!

50,000 -- that's peanuts compared to the likes of Google or Yahoo etc... Here's a short article on the data center that Google is building (has built??) in Oregon.. http://harpers.org/media/slideshow/annot/2008-03/index.html

Clearly, he is using imaginary numbers!

Dude -- remember this is /. -- there's no hot girl....

After some google searching, at least some of these issues may be attributable to a bug in the Linux code that handles the leap second. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/3/103 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=746976a301ac9c9aa10d7d42454f8d6cdad8ff2b

Definitely saw some funky behaviour last night...wonderful way to start the new year... Both of our UK-based DNS servers crashed about 2-3 seconds prior to midnight GMT time. Both of these systems are running Linux kernel 2.6.21 on older Dell 1850's. Our other DNS servers (US and Australia) all run 2.6.21 on newer Dell equipment (1950/2950), but none of them crashed. Both UK systems had to be power cycled, but afterwards they came up OK.