Well we’ve finally broken “ground” or… rather a few walls in the suites next door to triple the size of the existing datacenter (W00T!). We’ll be adding roughly 75-100 more cabinets, a new 1800W x 3 phase power feed, and upgrading our core switches to Foundry BigIron 40G’s (which have a backplane of around 5 Terabits per second…). I feel like a kid I’m so excited..
Pictures to follow tomorrow 🙂
-Scott
FC6 was released 2 days ago now and it is just fantastic, one thing though that I did notice is that it does not come with Firefox 2.0 as it was released on the same day so it was not included in the build. However I have created a RPM to upgrade it to 2.0 ,
available @ http://people.imagepile.net/scotth/
Enjoy folks!
-Scott
We here at Imagepile are firm believers in the opensource community and all that it represents, we run a multitude of opensource programs to power Imagepile and we thank anyone who supports or participates in the community. So.. we figured it was time to give something back, the imagepile crew has for a long time used the Fedora core distro and the previous RedHat series that came before it. That being the case in anticipation of the upcoming release of Fedora Core 6 and the lack of.. or better put, demand for mirror bandwidth to help distribute those cd’s has become incredible, when Fedora Core 5 was released the collective pool of Fedora mirrors pushed over 50Gbps for more than 2 weeks. That speak volumes about the demand for opensource software and what it brings to the table.
Anyways, we will be donating a 100Mbps server to the fedora mirror project for the upcoming release to do our part in distributing this fantastic (and free) Operating system 🙂
In other news we have successfully upgraded the imagepile forums to vBulletin 3.6.0 I think this change will bring added functionality and more community spirit to the Imagepile project.
Thanks 🙂
From Slashdot:
“Pity the Vista user with a 32-bit CPU. Senior Program Manager Steve Riley announced today at Tech.Ed Australia that full HD content shall only be played at the full resolution where only signed drivers are used — only in the 64-bit version of Vista. From the article: ‘”Any next-generation high definition content will not play in x32 at all,” said Riley. “This is a decision that the Media Player folks made because there are just too many ways right now for unsigned kernel mode code [to compromise content protection]. The media companies asked us to do this and said they don’t want any of their high definition content to play in x32 at all, because of all of the unsigned malware that runs in kernel mode can get around content protection, so we had to do this.”‘”
It seems more and more that Microsoft does not even want anyone to use their “new” operating system with all these restrictions they are putting on the normal user!
