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Jimmy Wales announced today that Yahoo! has ordered 23 HP servers for the Wikimedia Foundation. The three database servers are model DL 385, and will come with dual Athlons, 8GB of RAM, and 6x 146GB 15K RPM drives each. They will also provide rackspace and bandwidth. The announcement comes four months after Google’s announcement of support, and two months after Yahoo’s own. Google has not yet made their intentions clear. You can read more about the specifications of what will soon be a 100+ server cluster at the Wikimedia Servers wiki article.
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A spectacular, luminous ring offers the best evidence yet that a nearby star is circled by a newly formed solar system.
The ring is composed of dust particles in orbit around Fomalhaut, a bright star located just 25 light years away in the constellation Pisces Austalis – or the Southern Fish. A recent image captured with the Hubble Space Telescope - which makes the system look uncannily like the Great Eye of Sauron from the blockbusting Lord of the Rings trilogy - confirms that Fomalhaut’s ring is curiously offset with respect to the star.
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I only bring this up because I have four tattoos, and I find tattoos very addictive. I haven’t gotten a new one in about four years, but I’m considering getting a new one very soon.
I’m not going to evangelize Linux usage or OpenBSD usage. Both Open Source operating systems have their merits. They are neither both good at everything, but to call the entire community of Linux users losers is a bit harsh and unnesessary. Theo De Raadt tends to be a little over zealous at times. That’s why he was booted from the NetBSD project years ago.
“It’s terrible,” De Raadt says. “Everyone is using it, and they don’t realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, ‘This is garbage and we should fix it.’”
I use both OpenBSD and Linux. Why? Because both OSs have they things they do better than others. Last time I checked, OpenBSD did not have SMP support. I use a Linux-based SMTP relay at work for email filtering and it has two processors. OpenBSD wouldn’t have fit the bill in that situation. My SMTP relay is a Dell PowerEdge server. Dell supports Linux on their servers, yet another reason to stay with Linux on that server. I have in the past used OpenBSD for other projects such as firewalls, VPN gateways, or RADIUS authentication servers, but those are the kinds of projects that OpenBSD is best suited for in my opinion.
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I was donating my gmail invites to isnoop.net for a long while, but gmail shut it down. I still get about 50 invites every couple of days, so if you need one please ask. They are here for you.
