Posts tagged Rare
Video: Google Offers Rare Glimpse Into its Data Centers
Apr 23rd
Google is famously secretive about its data centers, so a new video on its enterprise blog that gives a glimpse into the inner workings of its facilities is a rare treat. The video emphasizes security and environmental best practices. You can watch it after the jump.
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Earlier this month Facebook “open-sourced” its data center architecture by publishing the specs and other information for its Prineville, Or. data center to the Open Computer Project. Facebook emphasized energy efficiency and environmental friendliness, possibly in response to pressure from Greenpeace (though the company denies it). Google’s move to open its data centers and highlight its energy practices may be influenced by Facebook.
Some highlights from the video:
- Google builds its own customer servers.
- Google uses its own custom, stripped down version of Linux. It uses only a minimum set of packages.
- The facilities are hypersecure – vehicles can’t enter without authorization, and iris scanners are used at some locations.
- Google rigorously tracks all hard drives that come into the facility.
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Rare Huge-Format Koran Digitized for Study
Jan 19th
The John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester in England is digitizing one of the largest and most important Korans in existence, one that could previously be studied by few due to its size, weight and fragility. Funded by the non-profit Islamic Manuscript Association, the project will take just under 1,000 images of the 500 year old book.
The “Rylands Koran of Kansuh al-Ghuri,” with pages that measure three feet by two feet, is believe to have originated in Cairo from the library of Kansuh al-Ghuri, one of the last Mamluk Sultans of Egypt.
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Each 100 MB scan has a maximum resolution of 60.5 million pixels and is captured using a PhaseOne P65+ digital camera attached to a Macbook Pro.
The digital artifact will be freely available on a dedicated website using Turning the Pages, a book viewing technology pioneered by the British Library.
What does the study of a specific book, especially an iteration of one of the world’s great religious texts (not exactly in short supply) teach us? Among other things, the study of a lush example can give us access to attitudes toward art, calligraphy and ornamentation. Those in turn can give us a window into attitudes toward life in general and religion in specific.
Two leaves that were missing from the Koran were later found at Ireland’s Chester Beatty Library. The scanning program will allow those leaves to digitally relaid into the book.
The entire project is being chronicled on the blog Gateway to the Koran of Kansuh Al-Ghuri.
Scanning photo from Gateway | other sources: Daily Mail, ResourceBlog
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Chicago Real Estate Agencies Get Rare Glimpse At SEO Secrets – Emailwire (press release) (blog)
Sep 7th
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Chicago Real Estate Agencies Get Rare Glimpse At SEO Secrets
Emailwire (press release) (blog) Real estate SEO course shows Chicago real estate agencies how to gain top Google spots and gain interpersonal customer skills. (EMAILWIRE. … |
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