If you had to store three petabytes of data and keep it online for the entire Internet community, and you wanted to save space and energy, what would you do? For the Internet Archive, the answer was simple: Put the data in a Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) equipped with Sun’s Open Storage technology.
Some ideas are too simple and too good to be true. 3D in web pages could finally become a reality if Mozilla can include in a sorta-JavaScript way. And looking at how slow IE is, that could be a big nail in the browser’s coffin.
AmigaOS, CP/M, OS/2, DOS — which OS do you miss the most? Today we want to honor a handful of the most memorable operating systems and interfaces that have graced our desktops over the years. Some of them lasted for years. Some of them had remarkably short lives but inspired trends that we are benefiting from to this day.
The £2m home of the UK head of Google, the internet search engine, is not visible in the Google UK’s Street View service. Google say the house was not included because it was on a private road.
Thelasko writes “In an effort to knock Buster’s socks off, the Mythbusters accidentally created an explosion so large it shattered windows in a small town over a mile from the blast site. The Mythbusters had the broken windows replaced the very same day. The Esparto, California fire chief says that several firefighters were on hand for the blast, but he didn’t notify residents because, “Mythbusters is supposed to be a really popular show. Everybody would have been out there. We would have had to cancel it because it would have been too dangerous.””
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theatrecade was one of a few folks to note that Google Labs has added the five second rule to email. Once upon a time this rule only applied to delicious food stuffs dropped on the floor, but at long last you can change your mind on that email to your boss or ex. We shall see peace in our lifetimes.
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brumgrunt writes “Last year, Marvel said that R-rated comic book superhero movies weren’t in its future plans. Now, in the light of Watchmen’s box office performance, Warner Bros is going the same way, meaning high-profile comic book superhero films will be restricted to the PG-13 rating at most. But is this a bad thing, and should we fear the end of the R-rated superhero movie?”
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MojoKid writes “Netflix isn’t the only company that sees that streaming is the future of movie rental distribution. Blockbuster, which always seems to be playing catch-up with Netflix, will start making its on-demand rental and purchase content available on TiVo DVRs. Blockbuster OnDemand has only been available as a streaming service on Windows PCs or streaming to TVs via the 2Wire MediaPoint device. Meanwhile, Netflix streaming is available on far more platforms, such as on Windows and Mac computers, TiVo, the Roku Digital Video Player, LG and Samsung Blu-ray players, the Xbox 360, as well as a number of video portal software applications, like Boxee and ZeeVee’s Zinc. Blockbuster’s partnership with TiVo is yet another indication of the coming revolution of on-demand media available to TVs — that is, if the revolution hasn’t already started.”
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As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I like to play around and install applications on my Mac. In the following list I share some of the free Mac apps that make my life easier. I also own a PC, so I give my readers who use a PC an alternative for each app.
We reported yesterday about Apple’s alleged delay in payments to iPhone app developers, but there is more alarming news from iPhone developers about Apple’s refund policies.
