How Facebook Threatens HP, Cisco, and More With Its “Vanity Free” Servers

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July 2, 2013

A test rack in Facebook’s hardware electrical test lab filled with Facebook DIY hardware.

Sean Gallagher

MENLO PARK, CA—Building 17 of Facebook’s headquarters sits on what was once a Sun Microsystems campus known fondly as “Sun Quentin.” It now houses a team of Facebook engineers in the company’s electrical lab. Everyday, they push forward the company vision of how data center hardware should be built. These engineers constantly bench-test designs for their built-in-house server hardware—essentially putting an end to server hardware as we know it.

Ars recently visited Facebook’s campus to get a tour of the server lab from Senior Manager of Hardware Engineering Matt Corddry, leader of Facebook’s server hardware design team. What’s happening at Facebook’s lab isn’t just affecting the company’s data centers, it’s part of Facebook’s contribution to the Open Compute Project (OCP), an effort that hopes to bring open-source design to data center server and storage hardware, infrastructure, and management interfaces across the world.

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Concurrent’s Chris Wensel: The Open Source Path Is a Rocky Road

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July 2, 2013

Big Data and open source software may be the next great unholy alliance in computing’s current promised land, but open source is a broken business model that needs a better vehicle for supporting projects such as programming suites that build database applications. So argues Chris Wensel, founder and CTO of Concurrent. Wensel started the company in 2008 to focus on the open-source Cascading Project, a framework that he created to better work with Big Data applications.

Canonical’s Charm Contest Commences

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The H

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July 2, 2013

Looking for Juju Charms that implement High Availability, Data Mining or Monitoring services in the cloud? Canonical is and is offering $10,000 in each category for the best developer offerings.

New Algorithm for Graph Editor yEd

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July 2, 2013

The new version 3.11 of graph editor yEd includes a new algorithm that can automatically place nodes in concentric circles. Importing Excel files has also been improved.

High-Tech Car Trend Sparks Developer Boom in Detroit

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The Verge

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July 2, 2013

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As Detroit’s automakers continue to produce new vehicles with advanced in-car technology, demand for software developers and IT specialists is helping to boost the local economy and bring talent back to the city. The New York Times reports that General Motors, Ford, and the Chrysler Group are spending big money to secure the services of developers capable of creating apps for the next generation of connected vehicles. It’s not an easy task; Detroit is a city on the brink of bankruptcy and isn’t able to offer much to young professionals, while defense contractors and medical businesses compete for a limited pool of talent as they ramp up their app development efforts. However, Detroit boasts a lower cost of living and salaries are high…

Create Multiple IP Addresses to One Single Network Interface

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Tecmint

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July 2, 2013

The concept of creating or configuring multiple IP addresses on a single network interface is called IP aliasing. IP aliasing is very useful for setting up multiple virtual sites on Apache using one single network interface with different IP addresses on a single subnet network. The main advantage…

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AMD Radeon HD 8670D Preview On Linux

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Phoronix

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July 2, 2013

This past weekend I delivered benchmarks of the AMD A10-6800K Richland APU under Ubuntu Linux. This mild upgrade over AMD’s Trinity APU ran faster on the CPU side and overclocked well, but how do the graphics performance under Linux? In this article are benchmarks of the Radeon HD 8670D running the Catalyst Linux driver on Ubuntu and compared to the previous-generation Radeon HD 7660D APU graphics.

Android 4.3 Has New Notification Service Under The Hood

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Muktware

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July 2, 2013

Android 4.3 deals with more powerful and robust notification system

Startup Unleashes Low-Cost, Secure, IoT Cloud Service

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LinuxGizmos

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July 2, 2013

Ayla Networks announced a partnership with USI to develop wireless modules enabled with Ayla’s “Internet of Things” connectivity platform. The Ayla Platform, unveiled last month, offers a cost-effective way to implement secure device-to-device communications via an embedded software or hardware component, and provides end-user access to Ayla-enabled devices via Android and iOS mobile apps. Announced […]

ALT Linux 7.0 Enterprise and Workstation Arrive

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OStatic

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July 2, 2013

ALT Linux has been around for quite some time, yet we rarely hear of it anymore. Some of my first impressions were of a nice desktop system that needed a bit of polish. Later ALT became available in desktop and enterprise editions. After nearly two years, today brought a new ALT Linux release.

Alt Linux hails from Russia and commonly features KDE and other popular desktops. The latest versions announced today ship in MATE and Xfce variants. The two editions are “Centaurus,” which is suited for small businesses and home office servers featuring the MATE desktop, and “Simply,” designed for workstations and home desktops with Xfce. The announcement and a lot of the ALT Website are in Russian, so if a KDE version is coming it’ll be a surprise to me too. Images are available in either Russian or one with a few languages choices, live or install systems, and 32-bit and 64-bit versions. ALT Linux 7.0 features Linux 3.8.13, Xorg X Server 1.14.1, GCC 4.7.2, Firefox 21.0, GIMP 2.8.4, MySQL 5.5.30, NVIDIA 319.32, and systemd 201.