Google Acquires Internet

Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet...
The deal ... was now confirmed by the company’s CEO. “This is in line with our vision to make information more accessible to end users,” says Eric Schmidt. “With the acquisition, we can increase the speed of indexing as everything will already be on our servers by the time it’s published.”... “We realized it’s not very cost-effective to buy the internet in smaller portions.” ...
Larry Page argues that privacy is improved by Google’s acquisition, explaining that “[the] main privacy issues for users today are data leaks to third parties. By eliminating all third parties, we closed this hole.”...

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Web Server like a Graph

-- Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said it. The simple truth. Many millions of words have been written and said on this topic. I have a couple of pictures. [...]
Why Windows is less secure than Linux by ZDNet's Richard Stiennon

Below are two pictures of the system calls that occur on (first) a Linux server running Apache and (second) a Windows Server running IIS:

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How many lives do you live at once ?

Long (~1hr) video about Second Life universe:



Will the Matrix have you ?

MySQL Master-Master replication manager released

The MySQL Master-Master replication is popular pattern used by many companies using MySQL for scale out. Most of the companies would have some internal scripts to handle things as automatic fallback and slave cloning but no Open Source solution was made available. Few day ago such solution was released under GPLv2 license.

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Windows Servers take over more & more ?

Three of the 10 most reliable hosters run their web sites on Windows - states December 2006 Netcraft's report.