What might the outer limit for modular data centers look like? It could resemble the micro data center prototype unveiled this week by AOL. The rack-sized enclosure, which will live outdoors, is the first step in AOL’s ambitious plan to reshape its infrastructure using small, unmanned IT facilities that can be managed remotely.
via AOL Gets Small With Outdoor Micro Data Centers » Data Center Knowledge.
The French firm OVH is one of the world’s largest hosting companies, with more than 120,000 servers. It has also earned a reputation for its innovative data center designs. DCK readers may be familiar with OVH for the innovative Cube-shaped data center it opened last year in Roubaix, France, which houses servers in an exterior corridor built around an open center, allowing for easy airflow through the facility.
via OVH Deploys “Container Cube” Data Center » Data Center Knowledge.
The board looks very similar to the Model B, but is obviously missing a few components. The good news is the board looks to have the same layout otherwise, so the same cases should work. They will just have a few unfilled holes in them.
A cyberlocker being sued for $34.8 million by an adult studio agreed in principle to a remarkable set of demands to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit. TorrentFreak has learned that file-hosting service Oron said it would turn over the IP addresses, banking details and email addresses of users alleged to have infringed copyright. The troubled cyberlocker then offered to assist plaintiff Liberty Media in civil prosecutions against its own customers.
via Cyberlocker Offered To Help Prosecute Users To Settle $34.8m Copyright Suit | TorrentFreak.
Telefonica has shown a prototype phone using Firefox OS, the new open HTML5-based operating system from Mozilla, and explained its reasons for adopting a fledgling OS in the face of huge competition from iPhone and Android.
Firefox OS will let the operator balance its “strategic dependence on Android” and allow for the creation of cheaper devices that offer the same user experience, claimed Telefonica Digital chairman and CEO Matthew Key, at an event in London.
via Telefonica Shows Off Firefox OS Prototype, Reveals Plans | TechWeekEurope UK.
NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning.
via Natural Language Toolkit — NLTK 2.0 documentation.
From: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/03/natural-language-processing-with-hadoop-and-python/
NLP is a highly interdisciplinary field of study comprising of concepts and ideas from Mathematics, Computer Science and Linguistics. Naturally occurring instances of human language, be it text or speech, are growing at an exponential rate given the popularity of the Web and social media. In addition, people are increasingly becoming more and more reliant on internet services to search, filter, process and, in some cases, even understand the subset of such instances they encounter in their daily lives.
NLP = Natural Language Processing
That’s no longer the case with Windows Server 2012. Both Standard and Datacenter editions will support the same set of features and the same hardware limits. Both will require CALs for authenticated server access. Both will be licensed on a per-socket-pair basis. The only difference will be in virtualization rights: Standard edition can be run in up to two virtual machines (in addition to the host operating system); Datacenter edition can be run in an unlimited number of virtual machines.
via New Windows Server 2012 puts virtualization front and center | Ars Technica.
The manifesto, obtained yesterday by BuzzFeed, is titled “The Technology Revolution” and lays out an argument — in doomsday tones —for keeping the government entirely out of regulating anything online, and for leaving the private sector to shape the new online space.
via The Pauls’ New Crusade: “Internet Freedom”.
Let’s see here, the government gives away public rights of ways to run wires and fibre to large telecoms yet should have no say in making sure those public resources aren’t used to exploit the public through monopolistic practices?
Who paid off Ron Paul?
Apple’s shift to iCloud continues with all due haste. On the heels of shutting down MobileMe, its previous-generation cloud platform, the company has announced that the iWork.com public beta will end on July 31, 2012.
As of that date, “you will no longer be able to access your documents on the iWork.com site or view them on the Web,” reads Apple’s note on the matter, followed by a recommendation that anyone with documents on iWork download them to the desktop. Apple, ever conscious of those tiny details, also included a link in the note to a support article titled, “How to save your documents to a computer.”
The judge ruled that HTC had not infringed four technologies that Apple had claimed as its own.
via BBC News – HTC defeats Apple in swipe-to-unlock patent dispute.