Let it snow on Firefox (3)
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For the South Hemisphere and tropical countries it is not even cold, so white Christmas happens only on TV, movies and books… … and Firefox. Here are three beautiful themes to make it snow on your desktop. Xmas, by Matt Coxwell, my current favorite. It is an experimental theme so you will need a Mozilla Add-ons account to get the cute snowy roofs. Tinseltown, another classic theme by Twister Mc. Winter Holiday Christmas, developed by ...
shell tip : identify broken symlinks (1)
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If you need to identify broken symlinks, you can do the following : find -L . -type l The -L options instructs find to follow symlinks when possible. Hence no “working symlink” will ever get returned as the targets won’t match -type l (meaning “file is a symlink”). On the other hand, find will not be able to follow broken symlinks, so the information will be taken from the symlink itself and not from the ...
‘Tis the Season for Mad Props (2)
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Love it or hate it the holidays are here again. Whether you’ll be stuffing your face with turkey and Nibblets, organic locally grown roasted butternut squash and Tofurkey, latkes and sufganiyot, candy canes and sugar plums, or a bottle of 2-buck Chuck, this next month will be filled with plenty of reason to summon your cheer face. We want to start the season of joy off on the right foot by giving you all mad ...
Reload VIMRC (1)
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You can quickly and easily reload your vimrc with the following command.:source $MYVIMRCIf you want to know what your current vimrc is, just do the following.:echo $MYVIMRC
Adding some style to the wiki on Google Code (9)
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By Nathan Ingersoll and Jason Robbins, Google CodeBased on user feedback, we added a few highly requested features to the project hosting wiki on Google Code.To improve navigation from one wiki page to another, we added side navigation across wiki pages (e.g doctype docs). You can add a 'Wiki sidebar' by specifying the wiki file that describes your side navigation in the Administration tab under Wiki settings.To help navigate a wiki page, we added the ...
How To Be More Secure With Your Data & Identity (2)
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It’s amazing how on a daily basis there’s a story about someone’s identity or data being stolen, personal info being misused, or just getting screwed via the Internet. Most of the time it’s due to a complete lack of standards regarding how people treat their digital property and identity. It’s the electronic equivalent of leaving your home and not locking the door. Anyone can come in and take what they want. Use SSL When Available ...
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Yu-Jie Lin said:
The most secure way is not to use computer.
Success! IceWM 1.2.36 and Xorg 7.3 at 100Mhz/16Mb (1)
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This isn’t my first time to put a working Linux graphical system on a true Pentium, but it is the first time I’ve done it on less than 16Mb. That’s the old Xorg version 7.3 off the Crux 2.4 CD, along with IceWM and the bulk of the WinClassic2 theme I stole from my Thinkpad setup (it was just quicker to copy it all across the network, than to start fresh ). As you can ...
PC-BSD (2)
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I tried out PC-BSD 7.0.1 under VMware Fusion on my MacBook.From the guide:PC-BSD is basically FreeBSD with [a modern version of KDE,] a nice installer, some pre-configuration, kernel tweaks, PBI package management, a couple pre-selected packages and some handy (GUI) utilities to make PC-BSD suitable for desktop use.I worked on FreeBSD GUIs (both desktop and Web user interfaces) for five years. Let me tell you, I'm thankful that PC-BSD finally happened! For some reason, FreeBSD ...
Sorting 1PB with MapReduce (190)
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At Google we are fanatical about organizing the world's information. As a result, we spend a lot of time finding better ways to sort information using MapReduce, a key component of our software infrastructure that allows us to run multiple processes simultaneously. MapReduce is a perfect solution for many of the computations we run daily, due in large part to its simplicity, applicability to a wide range of real-world computing tasks, and natural translation to ...
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Isaac said:
holy moly. there are still plenty of glorious things about working at Google.
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Mike Cannon-Brookes said:
Wow - tech jealousy. Who can compete with that?
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Rick Dillon said:
This is, without a doubt, the most interesting thing I have read in quite some time. Google's operations are so epic...48000 hard drives to sort 1 PB a data across 4000 computers in 6 hours. That is totally out of the realm of normal experience. And they said they processed 20 PB/day in January 08 - I wonder what it is now...
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Piku said:
Google experiments sorting 1PB of data
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Jorge said:
Dayamn! Google sorts a terabyte in 68 seconds and a petabyte (1,000 terabytes) in six hours!
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Steve Lacey said:
We are excited to announce we were able to sort 1TB (stored on the Google File System as 10 billion 100-byte records in uncompressed text files) on 1,000 computers in 68 seconds. By comparison, the previous 1TB sorting record is 209 seconds on 910 computers.
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harleycw said:
Now this is useful information. How to intelligently and correctly implement NAND Flash (ugh maybe in SSDs) and or RAMSAN systems for this as well. It depends on large data so really hard drives must be the optimal media of choice.
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Thomas Stromberg said:
I <3 MapReduce
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Brandon Bloom said:
Google flexes their biceps...
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Yu-Jie Lin said:
"every time we ran our sort, at least one of our disks managed to break"
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Zim said:
the only word that comes to my mind for this is "savage".
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Wesley said:
every time we ran our sort, at least one of our disks managed to break
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uob[ said:
We were writing it to 48,000 hard drives ... and every time we ran our sort, at least one of our disks managed to break" hmm, we need a more reliable HD ? I guess solid state for the win when the cost come down at the point where lifetime benefit of SSD will prevail?
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pizza said:
xbt?
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Tambu said:
POST DA LEGGERE s sei un informatico. anche se ripari PC. anche se sei un grafico. questa è pura potenza. E' osteggiare? anche, ma è la risposta alla domanda: come fanno a fare tutto quello che fanno, così velocemente e così bene?
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Paul Goggin said:
Shout out to JO. I've followed MapReduce previously, but these results are amazing.
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Devlin D said:
Impressive.
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Angus said:
We are excited to announce we were able to sort 1TB (stored on the Google File System as 10 billion 100-byte records in uncompressed text files) on 1,000 computers in 68 seconds. By comparison, the previous 1TB sorting record is 209 seconds on 910 computers.
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Jeff Gentry said:
Impressive! We live in amazing times from a technology point of view.
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kalle said:
MapReduce asså.
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Michael said:
how do we enter seymour into the competition?
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Toy said:
MapReduce is magic!!!
ABC Meme (1)
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Instructions: type the letter ‘a’ in your browser location bar and choose the first match from the dropdown. Repeat for each letter of the alphabet. Browser: Firefox 3.1 beta a: Air Mozilla b: /buildbot/steps/source.py - Buildbot - Trac c: mozilla mozilla/configure.in d: Digg / News e: Enter Bug: Core f: First National Bank of PA Personal Banking Services g: Google Quicksearch: g h: hghooks: Summary i: intranet j: mozilla mozilla/js/src/jsapi.h k: Build Log (Brief) - ...
New: Forms added to the templates gallery (15)
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We've recently added a whole new section to the templates gallery for form templates. You'll find 13 new forms that cover a wide range of uses including personal health management, improving customer satisfaction and planning a party.Here are three shining examples:Training for a marathon? Check out the 'Running Log' template below. This will make getting into shape much easier.Curious to know what your visitors think of your website? The 'Website Satisfaction and Feedback Survey' form ...
Get to Google Docs from Gmail (41)
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Are you a Gmail addict? Ever wanted quicker access to your online documents without having to leave your precious inbox? Well, we've recently launched a Google Docs gadget to give you direct access to your documents straight from Gmail.By default the gadget shows a list of your most recently accessed documents, but you can change this to documents you own, you have opened or you have starred. And let's not forget search - you can ...
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John MacAdam said:
i did not know this gadget also created links - now I do :)
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setalosas said:
hatha meg mukodne,az milyen fasza lenne, nekem a filterezese egyaltalan nem megy.
SDK 1.1.6 Released (8)
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Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team Today we released the 1.1.6 SDK. You can download it on our Google hosting project, and peruse the release notes for more details on the release. This release contains some notable new features, including several to our datastore: You can now sort and filter on an entity's key You can now delete an entity directly using its key, without fetching the Model object. If you specify a key_name ...
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Berk D. Demir said:
Aaah! Yes finally the the ability so sort and filter on datastore entity keys... Ah!, don't forget our half-ass GAE urllib. a much saner URLFetcher gets a warm welcome.
Facebook app offline (2)
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We introduced a bug into the facebook app which we are working to fix.
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Wyctim said:
LOL, már a Facebook-ban is failwhale.
XML PHP Pretty Printer (3)
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<? /** Prettifies an XML string into a human-readable and indented work of art * @param string $xml The XML as a string * @param boolean $html_output True if the output should be escaped (for use in HTML) */ function xmlpp($xml, $html_output=false) { $xml_obj = new SimpleXMLElement($xml); $level = 4; $indent = 0; // current indentation level $pretty = array(); // get an array containing each XML element $xml = explode("\n", preg_replace('/>\s*</', ">\n<", $xml_obj->asXML())); // ...
Lively no more (93)
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In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people's lives. But we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay ...
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Bryan said:
Hmm shame I didn't discover this earlier, ah well perhaps the concept is just before it's time.
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kmohr25 said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
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Judson said:
this is a big part about what makes google good.
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Charles Hudson said:
wow, that was both fast and unexpected.
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hutuworm said:
该关的就关，没有必要苟延残喘。
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Bwana said:
Well that didn't last long.
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Jorge said:
RIP Lively. Probably one of the worst Google products I ever used.
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kkt said:
What does Google killing Lively mean? We know virtual worlds have not had the ROI/explosion that we hoped for. But with gaming worlds continuing to grow, this probably is more just Google sticking to its focus and letting others who know this space better to innovate. Call me an optimist, but this is the time of opportunity for virtual worlds as platforms.
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Jigar Mehta said:
I knew it!http://friendfeed.com/e/00f520e0-37ec-ab2d-97b7-aca532e61238/Google-Rooms-the-Early-Lively/
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jon bradford said:
Now will Google take the brave move and open source the technology on which Lively was built.
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px said:
MSN had virtual chat worlds in the 90's. They didn't go anywhere either.
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Alen3000 said:
could Lively just be a very complex PR job?
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pizza said:
嘿嘿
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Cast42 said:
Good, Google takes risks. Not every project is a success.
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Luana Coelho said:
Já? Nem deu tempo de ver se era bom! =P Second Life está mesmo em baixa...
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wpbasti said:
Second live v2 also goes down. Ever wondered what the reason for lively to exist was.
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jlapenna said:
Woohoo!!!!!
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Arasmus said:
A comment by Google on virtual reality?
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Reto said:
Ouch. That has got to sting.
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b-rad said:
Ah, poor Lively... We never knew you.
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Seynaeve said:
Ca c'est le problème avec Google. Ils lancent un truc, puis plus rien. En même temps je ne vois pas quel boite peut se permettre de faire travailler leur employé 20% du temps sur des projets "lucrativement incertains" en période de croissance difficile.
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Fernando said:
that was quick
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Darko said:
It was fun to play with it for the first 3 hours...
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Carl said:
Bah... I suspect it will return in one form or another though.
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D-Arb said:
No surprises on this one eh.
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Alex said:
Wow, that was fast.
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ORB said:
good news is very rare indeed. Dear God, I wud also like to see other copy-cats going down, Thank you
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Justin said:
This feels like a good thing to me.
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