Curved monitor happiness! Thanks Alienware/Dell! =)
If you haven't heard about it, Amazon had an outtage the other day with some of it's shared services. Here's a great article explaining "what up with that"http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/why_s3_failed.php Here's a quote from Amazon about what happened:Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing
elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of
our locations. While we carefully monitor our overall request volumes
and these remained within normal ranges, we had not been monitoring the
proportion of authenticated requests. Importantly, these cryptographic
requests consume more resources per call than other request types. Shortly before 4:00am PST, we began to see several other users
significantly increase...
i
can't find the video, but these guys demoed this technology about 2
years ago at some tech conference. i thought it
was pretty amazing and i didn't realize that ms had picked it up and
run with it. techcrunch has a cool video of it all now that it's released.the video will say it all. check it out.http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/29/microsoft-announces-surface-computer/
i knew they were releasing 'something' tonight at midnight that was
supposed to be some awesome new technology. i fell asleep but, as i'm
sure you can see by the early timestamp i was actually still thinking
about it in my sleep and it woke me up at like...