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Congratulations to our friends in India

The Indian group Tata (carmaker, just bought Jaguar and LandRover) has assembled (in Pune I think) one of the worlds fastest computers... 

Future Storage and Databases

Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage Posted: October 30, 2007
Posted In: Read/Write Web (Robert does not necessarily agree with all the views expressed here.)
A few weeks ago, Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, published a long technical paper on his blog about Amazon's highly available storage system called Dynamo. The paper itself is quite complex and technical and includes a description of the architecture, algorithms and tests that Amazon has been doing with the system.
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Hi guys.

Hi folks.

We are very privileged and happy that our new hardware will arrive
soon. Mainly it's for backup but we all know that the possibilities are
almost endless. Non the less, the first goal is to get the backup
going. But since I'm not doing that everyday (setting up servers) I
thought I ask and see if you have some helpful hints for me.

I don't know whether any of you use Virtual Machines much? I have been mucking around with them for a bit and they can be great fun as you can set up a test operating system and play around with it. Most enable you to surf the net etc. I have been playing with VirtualBox and had a lot of fun.

I am researching options for doing signal transfer without running the long VGA cables. Found this a while ago, but I don't have any experience in its quality and reliability.

Hi @ all.
My notebook is not the best anymore, to say the least. It still works but honestly I'm somehow limited in what I can do. Everything what needs a little more processor power is kinda stressful for it. Even making a phone call with Skype, without video, causes the fan to run full speed all the time, which makes it louder than it already is. Watching a movie is impossible, even a clip on youtube etc is a pain.
Developing a website itsself is not that big of a deal but the small screen resolution is a limiting factor as well as having many programs running at one time. Which we all know happens quit easily, specially when you have multiple browsers to check your work etc. I thought I could use vmware for quickly checking sites on Linux as well but it takes me 10-15 minutes to boot up Linux when I don't do anything else while booting up, of course. No kidding. Once it's up everything is eextreeemmlyyy slow. That's the reason why I mainly just use vmware at home and just when I really need it at work and don't want to reboot.
All in all, I don't have a "Core 2 Duo", I know that my notebook is a bit older and was low-end at the time it was new already. But in fact it feels more like a "Core 1/3 Solo".