Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Boot-up: Facebook's MySQL meltdown, tech giants and patents and more

The Anonymous hackers targeted the CIA? s Web page in a number of high-profile cyber-attacks. Photo: Getty Images
Quickly to chew over, as picked by the technology team burst of 8 links for you
: Indictment members of anonymous > Scribd
Service of judicial documents is not sealed.
Nathan Myhrvold: Tech giant discover use of patents > Bloomberg
Former Microsoftie technologist Myhrvold has a number of patents.
Will you hear Steve jobs? > open abroad
An Apple retail store in China? No, fake: "I know you guys are laughing: an Apple store in Kunming?" Nobody who know me personally not ever of Kunming plans belongs. Kunming is the end of the Earth. It is true - everything but in earnest, China distorts your mind to believe that anything is possible if you stay here long enough. As we back to this store went 5 days later and could not find him, have exceeded by two blocks, I seriously thought that it had simply demolished and replaced with a bank in the meantime - hey, it's China. That could happen.
"You have already guessed the punch line, of course: this was a total Apple store ripoff." A beautiful ripoff - a brilliant one - the best ripoff stores we had ever seen (and we see them every day). But some things were just not right: the stairs were made bad. The walls had not been properly painted.
"Apple never writes" Apple store "is on it - it is just brilliant, iconic fruit."
Apple, Microsoft and the divergence of the PC market > GeekWire
"As the PC market, Windows is so." "Economic uncertainty and alternative device-including Apple iPad-- are in sales of traditional PCs cut."
Note that Apple's Mac sales growth been faster than Windows PC market growth for 16 quarters. This is no chance. Question is why.
Baidu browser pointed to Hat copied old Steve Jobs quote special chrome sauce > Engadget
Possibly chrome, Baidu - that is the huge in China search engine - by fork has an own browser that looks rather like chrome now. Live from the open, get forked through the open.
Microsoft and Apple, blah, blah, blah. Will someone please talk about Google's role in all this? ≫ the small waves.
Good point: Microsoft model licensing, Apple is not licensing and their approaches to Android reflect this.
Nokia Sea Ray again caught on video, > right mobile
That October introduction systematically examined.
Facebook caught in 'Fate worse than death' MySQL > GigaOM
""After database pioneer Michael Stonebraker Facebook a large, complex MySQL implementation follows active is"a fate worse than death," and the only way out is "bite the bullet and write everything."
"Not that it necessarily Facebook error, although is." Stonebraker says that the social network's predicament all too common among Web startups that start small and grow to epic proportions.
"During an interview of this week, Stonebraker told me that Facebook your MySQL database is divided into 4,000 fragments to the Web site handle massive data volume and is running, the database has must serve to keep the number of transactions the 9,000 instances of memcached." "I am testing with Facebook to check accuracy of these figures, but Facebook's history with MySQL is no secret."
She would not really worry that you might be the world's largest social network, if you first typed "create database..."
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