Michael Bessolov :: Blog

Google Acquires Internet

2007-04-14T09:20:00.000-07:00

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.”...

Read more from “Google Acquires Internet (May ...” by Philipp Lenssen at "Google Blogoscoped"

Web Server like a Graph

2007-04-07T13:48:00.000-07:00

-- 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 ?

2007-04-07T13:27:00.000-07:00

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

Will the Matrix have you ?

MySQL Master-Master replication manager released

2007-04-06T19:52:00.001-07:00

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.

read more at "MySQL Performance Blog" | digg story

Windows Servers take over more & more ?

2007-02-03T18:09:00.000-08:00

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

Does Google intend to become a "SkyNet" ?

2007-02-03T17:47:00.000-08:00

Do you really want to upload your Genome to Google ?

“From the beginning money was not important to the founders of Google; they wanted to make the world a better place...” - watch & read more

What "SkyNet" I'm talking about

Netcraft's "Most Reliable Hoster in May"

2006-06-21T13:24:00.000-07:00

Six hosting companies share the top spot this month, with INetU, Hostway, IPower, New York Internet, Pair Networks and Tiscali all sharing the top spot as the most reliable hosting company site this month (May 2006), four of whom (INetU, iPowerWeb, NY Internet and Pair Networks) are hosting their homepage on FreeBSD.
See full text at news.netcraft.com

P.S. It was amazing to see in the Netcraft's fifty leading hosting providers' sites list Verio and Cable and Wireless hosting their homepages on Solaris 8 ! (Deutsche Telekom and Demon Internet have upgraded theirs to Solaris 9/10).

All you need to know to start OpenSolaris

2006-06-19T13:17:00.000-07:00

The Blog of Ben Rockwood - How to get the Code, how to get and install a full OS and a number of resource links.

Just a photo for my profile

2006-06-13T01:00:00.000-07:00

It's my old photo.
It was taken in summer 3 or 4 years ago, I don't remember definite date.