Apple’s iTunes store may still be one of the most popular sources for downloading cheap music, but you need an iOS device to take advantage, and that leaves a heck of a lot of smartphone owners out in the cold. Rather than have those users hand over…
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Most of us will never leave the Earth — but that doesn’t stop us dreaming of the stars. There are a few tools that let you explore, though — and NASA has just launched a killer.
Created from the Galactic Legacy Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (Glimpse) project, it’s the most comprehensive visual map of the Milky Way Galaxy released to date — and yet it only shows just over half of the galaxy’s stars. Stitched together from more than 2 million images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope over the course of a decade, the zoomable, 360-degree image comes in at 20 gigapixels. Since its launch in 2003, Spitzer has spent a total of 4,142 hours taking pictures of the Milky Way in infrared light.
“If we actually printed this out, we’d need a billboard as big as the Rose Bowl Stadium to display it,” Spitzer Space Science Center imaging specialist Robert Hurt said in a statement. “Instead we’ve created a… [Read more]
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It’s the first full day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which calls for celebration. Yesterday, on the equinox itself, you may have balanced eggs on end, danced in a circle with bells on your legs, or simply admired the animated horticultural Google doodle. Today, however, it is time to update your Happy Hour beverage to match the season.
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The PS4 may have commanded an early lead over the Xbox One, partly thanks to a $100 price difference, but Microsoft is quickly narrowing the gap. Now, the company might just seal the deal with a discounted Xbox One-Titanfall bundle: both Walmart and…
It’s Friday! Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy a genuinely satisfying session of Suck the Balls. Designer Niklas Roy‘s interactive installation shows just how much fun can be had with pneumatic tubes, a vacuum, and a pit of yellow plastic spheres. (Spoiler alert: lots of fun.)
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Formula One is the most advanced racing series in the world, which means the cars themselves are basically highly complex hybrid hi-tech pods with wheels. How do you pilot a machine like that? With all these buttons.
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First Microsoft used warnings and migration tools to help make Windows XP users upgrade. Now, it’s trying a different tack: bribery. In an effort to get folks to stop using the 12-year-old OS, Microsoft is offering XP hold-outs a $100 discount off…
Though the Samsung Galaxy S5 is headed to a number of Best Buy stores today, you’ll be amongst a very, very rare few if you happen to be close to … Continue reading
This article was written on November 01, 2007 by CyberNet.
Have you ever wondered what software powers sites like YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace? Wonder no more because Pingdom has the scoop! The results are located in the table above, and as you can see Linux, Apache, and MySQL are among the most popular tools. In the end this is how the stats play out:
OS: Linux 7 – Windows 2
Web server: Apache 7 – IIS 2 – Lighttpd 2
Scripting: PHP 4 – Perl 4 – ASP.NET 2 – Python 1 – Java 1
Database: MySQL 7 – SQL Server 1
The stats were compiled from a site called High Scalability who has assembled several posts relating to the architecture of large sites. Wikimedia (the platform Wikipedia runs on) is among the most impressive profiles that they’ve done in my opinion. It said that they receive 30,000 HTTP requests per second, and have upwards of 350 servers being managed by just 6 people. I knew Wikipedia was big, but that’s pretty darn insane!
PlentyofFish was another interesting profile that they did. It receives 30+ million hits everyday, and it only needs 2 web servers and 3 database servers to run smoothly. What’s even more impressive is that everything they serve up is dynamic…yep, none of it is static. Who would have thought?
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