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File-Sharing Group Mulls a Floating Pirate Ship of Servers in the Sky | Popular Science - 1 views

www.popsci.com/...oating-pirate-ship-servers-sky
shared by Joris _ on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The problem: Where can servers that store data frequently seen as unsavory be kept? The solution: Hanging from a giant balloon in the sky?
  • this idea isn't totally practical, since the group has limited resources and an airborne server presents a whole host of problems
  • ther suggestions included a low-level satellite
  • Joris _ on 25 Oct 10
     
    outcome of a brainstorming, or an example of thinking out of the box ... :)
  • LeopoldS on 25 Oct 10
     
    should we try to help them :-) ?
  • Joris _ on 25 Oct 10
     
    we should propose fractionned servers with CubeSats ...
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Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech - CNET News - 0 views

news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html google servers
shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 02 Sep 09
     
    It's an article from April, now that we got Anreij's Google thing though is more actual - Unusually, the search giant designs its own servers. For the first time, Google unveils one publicly, showing a surprise built-in battery. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Business Tech.
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Schumpeter: More than just a game | The Economist - 3 views

www.economist.com/news/business/21565926-video-games-are-behind-latest-fad-management-more-just-game?fsrc=nlw|hig|11-8-2012|4090557|36947788| economics game
shared by LeopoldS on 08 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 08 Nov 12
     
    remember the discussion I tried to trigger in the team a few weeks ago ...
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  • Luís F. Simões on 09 Nov 12
     
    main quote I take from the article: "gamification is really a cover for cynically exploiting human psychology for profit"
  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Nov 12
     
    I would say that it applies to management in general :-)
  • Dario Izzo on 09 Nov 12
     
    which is exactly why it will never work .... and surprisingly "managers" fail to understand this very simple fact.
  • johannessimon81 on 09 Nov 12
     
    ... "gamification is really a cover for cynically exploiting human psychology for profit" --> "Why Are Half a Million People Poking This Giant Cube?" http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/11/curiosity/
  • pacome delva on 13 Nov 12
     
    I think the "essence" of the game is its uselessness... workers need exactly the inverse, to find a meaning in what they do !
  • LeopoldS on 13 Nov 12
     
    I love the linked article provided by Johannes! It expresses very elegantly why I still fail to understand even extremely smart and busy people in my view apparently waiting their time in playing computer games - but I recognise that there is something in games that we apparently need / gives us something we cherish .... "In fact, half a million players so far have registered to help destroy the 64 billion tiny blocks that compose that one gigantic cube, all working in tandem toward a singular goal: discovering the secret that Curiosity's creator says awaits one lucky player inside. That's right: After millions of man-hours of work, only one player will ever see the center of the cube. Curiosity is the first release from 22Cans, an independent game studio founded earlier this year by Peter Molyneux, a longtime game designer known for ambitious projects like Populous, Black & White and Fable. Players can carve important messages (or shameless self-promotion) onto the face of the cube as they whittle it to nothing. Image: Wired Molyneux is equally famous for his tendency to overpromise and under-deliver on his games. In 2008, he said that his upcoming game would be "such a significant scientific achievement that it will be on the cover of Wired." That game turned out to be Milo & Kate, a Kinect tech demo that went nowhere and was canceled. Following this, Molyneux left Microsoft to go indie and form 22Cans. Not held back by the past, the Molyneux hype train is going full speed ahead with Curiosity, which the studio grandiosely promises will be merely the first of 22 similar "experiments." Somehow, it is wildly popular. The biggest challenge facing players of Curiosity isn't how to blast through the 2,000 layers of the cube, but rather successfully connecting to 22Cans' servers. So many players are attempting to log in that the server cannot handle it. Some players go for utter efficiency, tapping rapidly to rack up combo multipliers and get more
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 16 Nov 12
     
    why are video games so much different than collecting stamps or spotting birds or planes ? One could say they are all just hobbies
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Tox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging - 5 views

tox.im
shared by LeopoldS on 02 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 02 Sep 14
     
    skype alternative - open source, no central server, encryption built in ....
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  • dejanpetkow on 04 Sep 14
     
    It's free and w/o ads. What's the business model? Their page doesn't say anything about it.
  • Thijs Versloot on 04 Sep 14
     
    To help society...
  • Ma Ru on 05 Sep 14
     
    They plan to secretly capture all communications and then sell them to NSA...
  • Paul N on 08 Sep 14
     
    probably developed by the NSA directly
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 14
     
    its open source - go check it :-)
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 14
     
    my ID: 7C53B574D888EE0E2A97FCD62B144DD14730E45C1B7158D4ED3EBCCB920CB93A68C62E6C9385
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SparkleShare - Sharing work made easy - 3 views

www.sparkleshare.org opensource INF technology collaboration sync
shared by LeopoldS on 15 Jun 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 15 Jun 10
     
    alternative to Dropbox that is fully open source and installable on own servers - looks like a nice tool for us ...
  • Francesco Biscani on 15 Jun 10
     
    .. and it's based on GIT! (the "proper geeky alternative to Subversion" thingie we are using to manage PaGMO's source code)
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Apple sending Xserve to giant server farm in the sky - 3 views

arstechnica.com/...pro-server-takes-its-place.ars apple inf
shared by Francesco Biscani on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • After more than eight years on the market, Apple is euthanizing the Xserve.
  • Francesco Biscani on 05 Nov 10
     
    YES YES YES! And good riddance! :)
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STLport: An Interview with A. Stepanov - 2 views

www.stlport.org/...StepanovUSA.html computer science
shared by Francesco Biscani on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Generic programming is a programming method that is based in finding the most abstract representations of efficient algorithms.
  • I spent several months programming in Java.
  • for the first time in my life programming in a new language did not bring me new insights
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  • it has no intellectual value whatsoever
  • Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP).
  • Francesco Biscani on 23 Mar 10
     
    One of the authors of the STL (C++'s Standard Template Library) explains generic programming and slams Java.
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  • Ma Ru on 24 Mar 10
     
    "Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP)." Exactly. And for the industry it's the money that matters. Whatever mathematicians think about it.
  • Joris _ on 24 Mar 10
     
    It is actually a good thing that it is "MOP" (even though I do not agree with this term): that is what makes it inter-operable, light and easy to learn. There is no point in writing fancy codes, if it does not bring anything to the end-user, but only for geeks to discuss incomprehensible things in forums. Anyway, I am pretty sure we can find a Java guy slamming C++ ;)
  • Francesco Biscani on 24 Mar 10
     
    Personally, I never understood what the point of Java is, given that: 1) I do not know of any developer (maybe Marek?) that uses it for intellectual pleasure/curiosity/fun whatever, given the possibility of choice - this to me speaks loudly on the objective qualities of the language more than any industrial-corporate marketing bullshit (for the record, I argue that Python is more interoperable, lighter and easier to learn than Java - which is why, e.g., Google is using it heavily); 2) I have used a software developed in Java maybe a total of 5 times on any computer/laptop I owned over 15 years. I cannot name of one single Java project that I find necessary or even useful; for my usage of computers, Java could disappear overnight without even noticing. Then of course one can argue as much as one wants about the "industry choosing Java", to which I would counterargue with examples of industry doing stupid things and making absurd choices. But I suppose it would be a kind of pointless discussion, so I'll just stop here :)
  • Joris _ on 24 Mar 10
     
    "At Google, python is one of the 3 "official languages" alongside with C++ and Java". Java runs everywhere (the byte code itself) that is I think the only reason it became famous. Python, I guess, is more heavy if it were to run on your web browser! I think every language has its pros and cons, but I agree Java is not the answer to everything... Java is used in MATLAB, some web applications, mobile phones apps, ... I would be a bit in trouble if it were to disappear today :(
  • Dario Izzo on 24 Mar 10
     
    I personally do not believe in interoperability :)
  • Ma Ru on 24 Mar 10
     
    Well, I bet you'd notice an overnight disappearance of java, because half of the internet would vanish... J2EE technologies are just omnipresent there... I'd rather not even *think* about developing a web application/webservice/web-whatever in standard C++... is it actually possible?? Perhaps with some weird Microsoft solutions... I bet your bank online services are written in Java. Certainly not in PHP+MySQL :) Industry has chosen Java not because of industrial-corporate marketing bullshit, but because of economics... it enables you develop robustly, reliably, error-prone, modular, well integrated etc... software. And the costs? Well, using java technologies you can set-up enterprise-quality web application servers, get a fully featured development environment (which is better than ANY C/C++/whatever development environment I've EVER seen) at the cost of exactly 0 (zero!) USD/GBP/EUR... Since many years now, the central issue in software development is not implementing algorithms, it's building applications. And that's where Java outperforms many other technologies. The final remark, because I may be mistakenly taken for an apostle of Java or something... I love the idea of generic programming, C++ is my favourite programming language (and I used to read Stroustroup before sleep), at leisure time I write programs in Python... But if I were to start a software development company, then, apart from some very niche applications like computer games, it most probably would use Java as main technology.
  • Francesco Biscani on 24 Mar 10
     
    "I'd rather not even *think* about developing a web application/webservice/web-whatever in standard C++... is it actually possible?? Perhaps with some weird Microsoft solutions... I bet your bank online services are written in Java. Certainly not in PHP+MySQL :)" Doing in C++ would be awesomely crazy, I agree :) But as I see it there are lots of huge websites that operate on PHP, see for instance Facebook. For the banks and the enterprise market, as a general rule I tend to take with a grain of salt whatever spin comes out from them; in the end behind every corporate IT decision there is a little smurf just trying to survive and have the back covered :) As they used to say in the old times, "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". "Industry has chosen Java not because of industrial-corporate marketing bullshit, but because of economics... it enables you develop robustly, reliably, error-prone, modular, well integrated etc... software. And the costs? Well, using java technologies you can set-up enterprise-quality web application servers, get a fully featured development environment (which is better than ANY C/C++/whatever development environment I've EVER seen) at the cost of exactly 0 (zero!) USD/GBP/EUR... Since many years now, the central issue in software development is not implementing algorithms, it's building applications. And that's where Java outperforms many other technologies." Apart from the IDE considerations (on which I cannot comment, since I'm not a IDE user myself), I do not see how Java beats the competition in this regard (again, Python and the huge software ecosystem surrounding it). My impression is that Java's success is mostly due to Sun pushing it like there is no tomorrow and bundling it with their hardware business.
  • Joris _ on 24 Mar 10
     
    OK, I think there is a bit of everything, wrong and right, but you have to acknowledge that Python is not always the simplest. For info, Facebook uses Java (if you upload picture for instance), and PHP is very limited. So definitely, in company, engineers like you and me select the language, it is not a marketing or political thing. And in the case of fb, they come up with the conclusion that PHP, and Java don't do everything but complement each other. As you say Python as many things around, but it might be too much for simple applications. Otherwise, I would seriously be interested by a study of how to implement a Python-like system on-board spacecrafts and what are the advantages over mixing C, Ada and Java.
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TinKode - Security Blog » Blog Archive » NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - F... - 0 views

tinkode27.baywords.com/space-flight-center-ftp-access fun inf
shared by Francesco Biscani on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 18 May 11
     
    The same guy that got ESRIN's server apparently got also a NASA one... An example of ESA leading the way, for once.
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iTWire - London Stock Exchange gets the facts and dumps Windows for Linux - 1 views

www.itwire.com/...1141 inf
shared by Francesco Biscani on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. Four years later the LSE has scrapped the whole system in favour of a Linux-based solution instead.
  • Francesco Biscani on 12 Oct 09
     
    Microsoft "Gets the facts".
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T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger's Servers Crashed, And They Don't Have A Backup - 0 views

www.techcrunch.com/...ed-and-they-dont-have-a-backup inf cloud computing fun
shared by Francesco Biscani on 11 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The fact that T-Mobile and/or Microsoft Danger don’t have a redundant backup is simply inexcusable, especially given the fact that the Sidekick is totally reliant on the cloud because it doesn’t store its data locally.
  • Francesco Biscani on 11 Oct 09
     
    Some foreseen dangers of cloud computing become reality...
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SUSE Studio - 0 views

www.susestudio.com INF linux
shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Create a tuned server appliance, containing your application and just enough operating system components
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OpenGoo: An Open Source Web Office - 0 views

www.opengoo.org opensource office collaboration groupware
shared by Kevin de Groote on 29 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Kevin de Groote on 29 Jul 09
     
    Like Google Docs, but hosted on your own server, which could put aside fears of privacy etc. Worth a spin on ESA intranet?
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I want to understand Ning's architecture and how it works - Ning Documentation - 0 views

docs.ning.com/...show social
shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    can we use this for our planned network and also host it on our server?? (LS)
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Managing Multiples Wikis - 0 views

www.steverumberg.com/...WikiHelp INF collaborativework
shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    How to Create Another Mediawiki on the Same Server, Using the Same Source Code, Using the Same Database, but with its own Tables
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Microsoft research project puts cloud in ocean for the first time - 0 views

phys.org/...-02-microsoft-cloud-ocean.html technology servers Natick
shared by jcunha on 08 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 08 Feb 16
     
    Microsoft project Natick deploys cloud servers inside a vessel under seawater. A cool story about crossing competences of different people around an innovative solution. "In my experience the trick to innovating is not coming up with something brand new, but connecting things we've never connected before, pairing different technology together."
  • LeopoldS on 09 Feb 16
     
    the quote could come from ACT ...
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HP Dreams of Internet Powered by Phone Chips (And Cow Chips) | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...1 INF hardware NRG energy data mining
shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • For Hewlett Packard Fellow Chandrakat Patel, there’s a “symbiotic relationship between IT and manure.”
  • Patel is an original thinker. He’s part of a group at HP Labs that has made energy an obsession. Four months ago, Patel buttonholed former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at the Aspen Ideas Festival to sell him on the idea that the joule should be the world’s global currency.
  • Data centers produce a lot of heat, but to energy connoisseurs it’s not really high quality heat. It can’t boil water or power a turbine. But one thing it can do is warm up poop. And that’s how you produce methane gas. And that’s what powers Patel’s data center. See? A symbiotic relationship.
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  • Financial house Cantor Fitzgerald is interested in Project Moonshot because it thinks HP’s servers may have just what it takes to help the company’s traders understand long-term market trends. Director of High-Frequency Trading Niall Dalton says that while the company’s flagship trading platform still needs the quick number-crunching power that comes with the powerhog chips, these low-power Project Moonshot systems could be great for analyzing lots and lots of data — taking market data from the past three years, for example, and running a simulation.
  • Luís F. Simões on 07 Nov 11
     
    of relevance to this discussion: Koomey's Law, a Moore's Law equivalent for computing's energetic efficiency http://www.economist.com/node/21531350 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/13/2148202/whither-moores-law-introducing-koomeys-law
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Randall Munroe Finally Finishes His 3,099 Panel xkcd Magnum Opus "Time" | Geekosystem - 3 views

www.geekosystem.com/xkcd-time-finished fun xkcd
shared by Marcus Maertens on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
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  • Marcus Maertens on 30 Jul 13
     
    Randall Munroe is simply the best.
  • Ma Ru on 02 Aug 13
     
    Yeah I remember this comic was tough to hack... With Click and Drag it was peanuts to download all the tiles once you figured out the file name pattern, but with this one some strange server-side event thing was used to feed the images at random time intervals... Nice to be able to see it all finally!
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Goodbye To Google Wave - 2 views

techcrunch.com/...wave-goodbye-to-google-wave INF
shared by Dario Izzo on 05 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 05 Aug 10
     
    I guess it never really was clear what it should do (everything?!) or what it was (they also developed server communications and APIs for loads of things) ... also: "Wave was one stab at tackling our information overload, at providing a central hub for all the information we need to deal with every day. And it will be back, in one form or another." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/aug/05/google-wave
  • LeopoldS on 07 Aug 10
     
    I liked the concept but it was too slow .... a pity
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Real-Life Cyborg Astrobiologists to Search for Signs of Life on Future Mars Missions - 0 views

www.dailygalaxy.com/...e-on-future-mars-missions.html technology novelty detection inf science
shared by Juxi Leitner on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • EuroGeo team developed a wearable-computer platform for testing computer-vision exploration algorithms in real-time at geological or astrobiological field sites, focusing on the concept of "uncommon mapping"  in order to identify contrasting areas in an image of a planetary surface. Recently, the system was made more ergonomic and easy to use by porting the system into a phone-cam platform connected to a remote server.
  • a second computer-vision exploration algorithm using a  neural network in order to remember aspects of previous images and to perform novelty detection
  • Juxi Leitner on 03 Nov 09
     
    well a bit misleading title...
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