August 2009
The Twitter-Facebook-RSS single point of failure
Submitted by mike on Thu, 2009-08-06 15:39So Twitter and Facebook got hit by DDOS attacks today.
Then I read that reports are pointing to problems between Russia and Georgia as the source of the problem? Yikes. I guess even the locals there need their Twitt-FB time.
Single Point Of Failure?
Virtualize Me Part 2
Submitted by mike on Sat, 2009-08-01 10:52So how else then has virtualization changed my life? Well for starters consider this:
On the front end right now I am writing this blog using
Firefox 3.5, which is running on
Ubuntu 9, which is itself running on
VMWare Workstation 6.5, which in turn running on
Microsoft Windows XP SP3, which is itself running on a
Dell D800 laptop with 2GB of RAM.
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