Daily Archive: November 5, 2006

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Scale Not Free

Having worked previously on distributed systems for massive online games, simulations and predictive systems, I was amused to read this little aside: “Second Life” currently runs on 2,579 servers that use the dual-core Opteron...

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Bye Bye Saddam, We Hardly Knew Ye

In the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years … his first contacts with U.S. officials...