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I think someone up there must hate me because Linux refuses to cooperate with my
computer. I have given up on the sound ever working in 8.0, and when I tried to
reinstall 7.2 it gives me a mounting error when I partition the drives. Argh! So
I'm currently soundless with some crappy fonts on some of the apps (including
Quanta which I'm using to write
this).
I want this
case! A clear computer case would be so awesome. Then you could get neat
shots like this (which is no longer up). I
know I'd snatch one up in a second. Of course the next best thing be a window with
the light kit. Glow in the dark comptuers for those late nights would be
sweet.
There's a neat article on InformationWeek about Google's 8,000 system
server farm. It mainly talks about the scalability and structure of it,
including the petabyte (one million gigabytes) of storage that they have going
on over there. Think how many mp3's that could hold..... And of course they
mention that it runs on Linux, thus saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars
since they dont' have to pay licensing fees. Also in Google news, they have
finally put up the Deja Usenet
archive that goes back to 1995. It's too bad no one really remembers what
Usenet is anymore, and instead is just a haven of spam.
Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, is scheduled to lift off into
space early Saturday morning (EDT). I can only wait for the day when something
like this is commonplace, and there is a Hilton up in space. But given the
current situation I agree with NASA that a tourist does not belong in the ISS,
as it's more geared to research and exploration and not a paid vacation
spot.
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