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POPSSweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center
When asked the motivation behind Pionen, Jon Karlung, CEO of Bahnhof said “Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus. Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans that are supposed to work with the stuff.” “Since we got hold of this unique nuclear bunker in central Stockholm deep below the rock, we just couldn't’t build it like a traditional – more boring – hosting center,” he said. “We wanted to make something different. The place itself needed something far out in design and science fiction was the natural source of inspiration in this case – plus of course some solid experience from having been a hosting provider for more than a decade.” Regarding the design of the facility, he said “I’m personally a big fan of old science fiction movies. Especially ones from the 70s like Logan’s Run, Silent Running, Star Wars...
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POPSAnother ISP Snoop Bites the Dust Sorry, American ISPs. The possibilities of selling your heaps of lucrative data have now officially dried up. Overseas ISPs, however, (even British ones) seem likely to get away with this.
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POPSIS GOOGLING THIS, GETTING YOU GOOGLED BY THAT ? Google going for it's master's in proctology and we are part of it's finials ,so lets all do are part and bend over backwards to give google that brown eye full it so desires. Google's motto "No problem we can't FINGER out !"
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POPSOpenDNS for the non-technically inclined When I mistype a URL in the location bar, Verizon hijacks my request and sends me to a B.S. "search results" page (full of ads and spam). This post is a little starter for how to circumvent your ISP's DNS server with OpenDNS.
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POPSInvincible Sword Princess must... From a thread on methods a Sidereal might use to kill (or neutralise) an Invincible Sword Princess. The Gabrielle Emulation Technique is to pose as her bumbling comedy sidekick.
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POPSThe Pirate Bay to sue anti-piracy agencies? The Pirate Bay showed that emails leaked from media defenders servers clearly showed that the company had launched illegal denial of service attack on the pirate bay’s servers, engaged in illegal hacking and repeatedly flooded them with spam. Funny ???