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aktiom.net is offering linux server colocation, with 40 GB of traffic, for $75 a month. How do they do it?
A common question concerns how we're able to provide such a high-quality service for $75/month. By using powerful hardware combined with a specialized Linux kernel, we can put multiple client servers on one physical machine. This is unlike virtual webhosting in a few ways:I wonder how this works out? Price is right.This is also different from a FreeBSD
- • you have full root access to your Linux system
- • other Aktiom Networks clients are completely partitioned from your data and network traffic
- • you have full access to available hardware resources (i.e. RAM/CPU limits aren't placed on you)
jail()configuration. Users inside a FreeBSD jail are unable to use tools such as ping, traceroute, and tcpdump (they require access to raw sockets), and are limited to one IP address. None of these limitations appear in our solution. Security-conscious people might be wary of allowing tcpdump, but please remember that other server instances are completely partitioned away from your data and network traffic.
The U.S. government has appointed the former head of privacy at Doubleclick - the dot com company with the most sinister privacy track record - as the Department of Homeland Security's first privacy czar.
Don't they even try to convince anyone they are not evil anymore? This would be like hiring the former head of the KGB to advise the department on monitoring U.S. citizens. Oh wait, they already did that.
The second public beta of Apple's new browser Safari is now available. This is v.73 if you're keeping track. I'm not sure why they are still calling it a beta, but whatever. I'm very happy with it as my main browser (but I was happy with v.67, so this is to be expected.)
My very small gripes are as follows: spell checking (finally, yay!) has to be enabled in every new textarea (why not gloabally on? Boo!) and, of even less concern, but still, there is no way to force links from external programs to open in a new tab (rather than a new window.) Camino could do this.
Otherwise, perfect.
Looks like Rys McCusker will be leaving the Chandler project. Sounds like everyone is on good terms. Unclear what this will mean for the project. Hopefully, for Rys, it will mean more time to blog.
Mark's new page of news clips pertaining to the U.S. / Syria situation is really well done. If you have an account you can add it to your front page here.
I hope this style becomes a trend. It seems important that we try to remember what these people actually say leading up to an event, because afterwards there is so much spin it is very easy to become confused. WMD? Regime change? Liberation? Why did we start this war again?
This same style would be great for the coming election season. I wish I had one with all the juicy GWB quotes made during the last campaign. The distance his policies (especially foreign) have come since then is amazing. Or disturbing. Maybe this type of exhaustive record keeping could help hold people to account.
And I also have to mention Bruno's weblog ruminatrix. This is my new first stop on the daily round of global political analysis pages. It's really great to have him writing.
Of course Dave and Tom (despite sporadic attempts to actually run an art page ;-) are still going strong, but you already knew that...
David Reed is worried about the Total Information Awarness program. And he has some advice for building arguments against it.
In fact, the privacy and liberty folks, by expressing concern in the form of risks to "privacy" tend to reinforce the belief that there is any real investigatory information that can be extracted by inference from a very noisy and randomly selected pile of information.This is interesting, and strikes me as being true. Probably it is better to argue that there is no useful information to be had from Poindexter's method, rather than arguing that the cost to privacy of extracting the information is too high. I believe the math is on Reed's side, but he has to unpack his thoughts a bit more if he wants someone like me to really get what he's saying.
Waxy.org says that loading this page will cause your CD drive to eject if you are using IE on Windows. Is it true?
Really interesting Paul Graham article on designing a programming language of the future. I love stuff like this. (via HTP)
Apple in talks to buy Universal Music Group. Wow.
Unconfirmed report:
Up to now, all PowerPC 970 processors manufactured have been prototypes, made for testing purposes. The 970 is now considered completely bug-free and ready for production. Yesterday, Peter Sandon - father of the 970 - gave the green light.This will be Apple's new high end chip. You don't know how much effort I've had to expend to restrain myself from posting any 970 related info before this bit. It's almost a year now that I've been watching this story. Now it finally seems like it is near. And not a moment too soon. It's do or die time at 1 Infinite Loop (that's Apple headquarters street address. I swear.)
As of April 15, the 970 will be manufactured in quantity in IBM factories. Starting the end of June, the chips will be integrated in IBM Blade servers and in Apple systems.