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Paul Buchheit posted a link

Microsoft Enviroment video reveals datacenter server numbers and power consumption? - istartedsomething

August 15 at 3:40 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Sumit Chachra, Alex Power, xero, AlexScoble(Robert'sBro) and 13 other people liked this

Apparently Microsoft only has about 200,000 servers. (and Hotmail only 20,000) - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Apparently Gmail had more, didn't it? - Alex Kapranoff

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Who let them to take those screenshots :D ? - Harun Baris Bulut

How old is this? Who knows hows Chicago doing!?? - Jigar Mehta

It should be from Jan 2008. - Ionut

Didn't Google Calendar have just 113? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/... - Tony Ruscoe

How many does Google have? - Ian

is it really 113 ? then google receives a big WOW from me :D - Harun Baris Bulut

Even Google Reader had around 200 servers one year ago. - Ionut

@Harun: I said *had* 113. That was almost two years ago and it's wasn't confirmed. - Tony Ruscoe

If this is accurate, each server consumes ~490W on average. Also 8 machines / rack. So these are pretty conventional data centers (~30A / rack) , holding pretty big machines. - Sanjeev Singh

Erick Schonfeld posted an entry on TechCrunch

Yahoo’s Black Monday Begins With Shares Down 20 Percent.

May 5 at 7:09 am - Link

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Paul Buchheit posted a link

Dropbox: The Online Storage Solution We’ve Been Waiting For?

March 11 at 10:45 am - Link

Ranjit Mathoda, Drew Houston, Arash Ferdowsi, Cyvros/fyc and 21 other people liked this

Sounds interesting, especially the sharing options and OS integration. Private Beta :( Let's hope the invitation comes around quickly :) - Mustafa K. Isik

http://www.getdropbox.com/beta... - Shakeel Mahate

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Beta code expired :( Hopefully they'll get some more out. I'd like to try it out. Here's another one: http://www.getdropbox.com/beta... - Brandon Titus

This looks pretty good. Seems like a easy to use svn - Turker Keskinpala

Yeah, it's pretty slick. The sharing options and OS integration seem to be the major differing points. - Patrick Veverka

just as an aside MS FolderShare supports bot Windows and Mac and integrates with the OS(es) and Explorer - Steven Hodson

i prefer FolderShare which I've been using for years. It's encrypted end-to-end. dropbox says nothing about privacy - Huy Zing

If you are using Mac you can use symlinks in your ~/Dropbox folder to effectively sync everything to Dropbox. Really really nice! I need a bit more space for this to be really useful though. Damn RAW photos! - Benjamin Golub

i'm waiting for my beta invite. I'm already not a fan of the http://getdropbox.com/terms: "By utilizing and accessing the Site, Content, Services and/or Your Files, you agree not to share any information about the Site, Content or Services or our proposed business, or use such information for any purpose other than to participate in our beta test." - David Vasileff

i wonder if the example file being a picture of a platypus was just incidental :) - Karl Rosaen

@Karl: I sincerely doubt it, since the image used is the _exact_ same one as the leaked one back from 2006 - http://blogoscoped.com/archive... Plus Aston was an intern with me in MTV. I thought it was the funniest part of the video... not that the rest of the content was really meant to be funny. - Andrew Bonventre

нигде не болит posted a message on Twitter

“неделя сна ночь через ночь, сдача по четыре проекта в день, третьи сутки витрум+ноотропил+глицин, полёт нормальный”

February 28 at 12:30 pm - Link

Просто ai no kaze, haron (ничего личного), Aleksey and Alexander Minza liked this

Better living through chemistry - ***™

в каком-то сериале следователь так вычислил мать семейства, которая успевала до фига всего -- сообразил, что она нехило употребляет кокаин :) - earlyadopter

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@earlyadopter здесь более мягкий коктейль - Neta

В одной из серий второго сезона House MD (2-11) как раз похожая история, где бодрую мамочку поймали на том, что она активно пользуется риталином, который выписан для её дочери. Правда, там всё же дело оказывается не только в риталине, но сама интрига с этой «всемогущественностью» и фантастической энергией выглядит интересно. Видимо, потому сюжет и гуляет. - ***™

Точно. Никакой не следователь. Это был Хаус, разумеется. Что делать с амнезией? Мне ноотропил уже не помогает. А "воспоминание", что это был кокос -- видимо, от впечатлений живых людей, объяснявших как они работают по 80 часов в неделю. - earlyadopter

Там в серии они постоянно шутили, что тетка на коксе, пока не нашли флакон с риталином. Потому тебе и запало. Если ноотропил не помогает — в <s>ссылку</s> отпуск без интернета на две недели, туда, где ничего нет. - ***™

@urbansheep: я был в январе в отпуске. Неделю. На пляже в Мексике. Без интернета. На две в америце сложно уйти -- их всего две за год, и всегда очень хочется разбить отпуск пополам. Может, я мало ноотропила ем? 1600мг в день -- правда ведь немного. - earlyadopter

1600! Фигассе! Четыре капсулы! По-моему, это всё же перебор. :) - ***™

ноотропил можно применять вплоть по 30мг на кг массы. правда, не гарантируется вменяемость (это уже лечебная доза, если верить знакомому фармакологу) - atermath

На банке написано, что можно до 3200 -- мне просто показалось это too much. И я не сразу четыре заглатываю, а по две утром и днём. - earlyadopter

От вашего ноотропила нервы натягиваются как струна. Винкаимин наше всё, только дорогой собака - Кофе без сахара

именно от нервов излишних его и мешают с глицином и циннаризином ; в лечебных случаях и с кавинтоном. - Сун Укун

@bakava Странно как их мешать можно. По личным ощущениям время действия у них разное, обычно глицин приходилось за час-два до ноотропила принимать. - Кофе без сахара

ноотропил + циннаризин = фезам; глицин нужно рассасывать, а не глотать, и он очень медленно действует. Конечно, мешать глицин с ноотропилом в одну порцию не надо. - Сун Укун

Louis Gray posted a message on Twitter

“Elite bloggers are joining FriendFeed in droves. If you're not there, check out this list, and ask... why not? http://tinyurl.com/322mh9”

March 12 at 6:09 pm - Link

Devin Anderson, Ashton, Charles Hudson, Mike Reynolds and 17 other people liked this

Thanks, I subscribed to a few more from that list! I think I'm nearing my limit though, 150 friends - Benjamin Golub

I've honestly been kinda afraid to add a-lister types. Similar to Cordiva wondering earlier about who to follow on Twitter, I'm kind of afraid that the noise would be too much if I had the Scoble stream going on in here. Are you guys seriously finding it manageable with hundreds of friends? If so, are you doing a lot of "muting", or does it just work out ok? - Todd McKinney

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I'm subscribed to 141 people right now. I am sure that this means I miss some things as they drift off the front page, but it's just like reading RSS. Go fast, and find the important links or conversations. And I do use the Mute function, primarily for Twitter (which makes this conversation amusing in response to Twitter). And to be honest, a number of A-Listers here aren't using the site to its fullest yet. - Louis Gray

I agree with Louis here - I subscribe to just about 60 people right now, double from just about two weeks ago. If something swims by in the river, that's ok with me. If it was something great, I just have to assume that it will bubble up to the top again through comments or 'likes' - Frederic

Awesome, I think you've convinced me to do some more agressive following/friending to see how it works out. I hadn't spent too much time thinking about it 'til now, but the way the interface works means that anything actively being discussed on FF bubbles to the top of the page often. Makes FF discussions "seem" more important, no? You're right about the irony - also, if I tweeted a reply, it wouldn't be connected to the original tweet at all :( - Todd McKinney

Is FriendFeed suppose to be all about bloggers? There's a lot of people doing cool things that might not have a blog. - Chris White

@Louis - all the A-Listers are doing is using FF as a cheap repeater station for their usual dribble - Steven Hodson

@Chris White True, everything can have an alternative use, but there's no doubt that it's main attraction is to bloggers and not necessarily other niches, though it can be useful to them too. - Corvida

@Chris White You don't have to friend them =P ...though I wish I could stop other people's friends items from popping up in my stream. I understand what you're saying though, but they don't call it 'social' for entirely 'personal' reasons - Corvida

I'm trying to take a different approach with FriendFeed by keeping the number of people that I choose to follow to a minimum. I seem to have let my twitter friends list grow out of control and it's going to take me a while to unravel that mess. It seems more personal this way. Also, if I am not mistaken I don't have to follow all of the A listers as long as I follow at least one person who is following them since I see links posted by people that the people I follow follow. - Seek Ground

Hey, there's another idea for a new meta service in there - FriendFollowFollowerFeed. Cool. - Todd McKinney

@Chris White That's like saying you wouldn't trust him to considerately sort through what he would share with the rest of his friends (imho). I try to keep everyone in mind when I comment and most people that I follow overlap in interest (though I can't speak for Louis Gray). Besides, I just see him, not everyone else in his feed. - Corvida

Chris, if one of your friends is liking or commenting on too many other items, you can always use "Hide entries like this" and chose the "Stuff from Paul's friends" option. - Paul Buchheit

@Chris, in order for my FOAF posts to be a problem, I would have to aggressively "Like" and comment a bunch of stuff, and I don't think I'm overdoing that. As Steven said above, some of the name brand bloggers likely grabbed an account and left, but if you find their activity of interest, it's good to know they are there. There are a few people on FF who have a high like/substance ratio, but they are rare. Please do let me know if I cross that threshold. - Louis Gray

I don't want to get into the A-list discussion here - I already have a bad history of that. Just one point: FF, like Twitter, can be/is a different experience for everybody. As bloggers we tend to friend other bloggers, but I'm sure there are other communities on FF that use it in totally different ways. - Frederic

Sorry, but as soon as I saw the phrase "elite bloggers" I felt a twinge of annoyance and discomfort. I want my FriendFeed to contain stuff that's from friends, not from whomever happen to be the popular -- er, "elite" -- crowd discovering the next shiny thing. I want to be somewhere where there are personal conversations, not just marketing bits. As soon as this gets overrun, I can imagine it being a lot less enjoyable :(. Then again, I should quit whining and remember that (mostly) I control what I see :) - Adam Lasnik

@Adam, you do control what you see. The goal with this post was to highlight how successful FriendFeed has been in attracting the digerati, vs. some other sites. And like it or not, some of those popular bloggers are... popular, so highlighting them may gain more attention for FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

But -- while certainly well meant, I don't like that emphasis. I want a service that does an amazing job of magically surfacing info that interests me. I have no interest, actually, a disinterest in seeing this become another marketing channel for the already-popular. Sure, that may attract some folks but at risk of being mean, not the folks I'm interested in seeing here. I'm around digerati all day and I love 'em. Enough is enough! :D - Adam Lasnik

@Adam and Chris, you can think of the A-Listers themselves as Marketing vehicles for FriendFeed. How many people not already here are waiting for one of the big guys to give an endorsement, or to write about it and introduce it? This is just one tactic. - Louis Gray

"How many people not already here are waiting for one of the big guys to give an endorsement, or to write about it and introduce it?" -- I think you exactly hit upon my discomfort in this context. I want people here not because some A-Lister said "Lookie, this new shiny object is teh cool!" but rather because I (their friend) am on it & they value what I have to say or because they have something thoughtful to contribute that is not already being megacasted to 14732841 readers. - Adam Lasnik

One of our goals with FriendFeed is to make it easy for everyone to tune their experience and have a more personalized mix of news and discussion. Some people are only interested in following their close friends and family, while others enjoy hearing what various well known personalities have to say (and many prefer a combination of the two). These are both very valid and important usage patterns and we're doing our best to make both models work smoothly. - Paul Buchheit

I think if we let the list grow organically through FOAF discoveries of friendfeed, it is more enjoyqble that way - Varun Mahajan

I'm experimenting with friends and A-List'rs. I just trimmed Michael Arrington off my friendfeed branch. I'm finding more and more it's not about elite bloggers I want to subscribe too, but more about people who facilitate worthwhile conversation threads in their feed, like this one. Kinda unrelated, but I wish FF would show me what I've "like'd" in dashboard form in the stats area, would be easy to refer back to the earmarked stuff instead of digging through archives. - Karl

While I agree it doesn't really make sense to subscribe to a blogger just 'cause they're popular, I also unfortunately had to unsubscribe from a couple of people here whose streams in general I really did like... but whose Twitter messages were getting too much for me to read. But I guess that will have solved itself the day we can globally mute specific types of feeds, and as I learned it's on the Friendfeed list. - Philipp Lenssen

+1 Philipp it would be great to be able to mute twitter. Twitter client seem to better capture the back en forth of twitter conversations - Edwin Khodabakchian

Yes they are... Are all who were already here therefore considered elite? ;-) - Johnny R

@J_R, definitions of "elite" are subjective to each individual. Yours works for me. - Louis Gray

The great thing about friendfeed for me is that it has become both a place where I follow the "elite" (aka people I don't really know, but I still find their content interesting) and my personal contacts (aka people I personally know). With this distinction made my approach is to friend all my personal contacts because I will be interested in *all* of their content while I only friend a select few of the elite because their content seems to be the most repetitive while at the same time the most news like. - Ross Miller

... essentially elite == news & personal == conversation based. So pick your favorite flavor of the news via choice in "elite" & stay close to your friends by getting their updates conveniently mixed into your feed. - Ross Miller

@everyone complaining about foaf noise-- you can turn off people's foaf feeds if they are too much. Under a foaf entry: Options-->Hide entries like this-->Stuff from so-and-so's friends. You can also turn off someone's Twitter feed (or whatever) under the same menu. - Shannon Jiménez

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Sex Trade: Governor's sex scandal may jump start call girl's singing career

March 12 at 9:59 pm - Link

Chris Reed, Alexander Minza, Glenn Slaven and carlo liked this

"New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's downfall could be a good thing for the girl who serviced him. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, known to Spitzer as "Kristen, has put her songs on Amie Street, a startup that prices songs according to their popularity, were free this morning. Now they're up to 37 cents each. It's unlikely they'll hit $5,000 a pop, but it's good to know market forces play as much a role in her future career as in her old one." - Paul Buchheit

That quote is gold! Yay capitalism! - Glenn Slaven

Damn. Now that's what you call a Gold Digger! - Corvida

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