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Comment #3475757
I'm pretty sure there are other search engines that would still be available.
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Comment #3385666
Of course it can, given how many useful open source solutions are available nowadays. Considering the total cost of 6000$ for a single server, you would be dropping 12k from the ge…
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Comment #3385094
Building your own storage can provide the same redundancy and reliability. You can still use a CDN as well.
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Comment #3274590
Got J.R.R. Tolkien, pleasantly surprised.
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Comment #2747616
I'm not entirely too sure how good EyeNetra is compared to the equipment found in your optometrist's office, as well as how accurate it is.
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Comment #2689096
> Or, is it simply that people don't choose random, long passwords? That's always part of the problem.
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Comment #2541425
The same assumed fate?
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Comment #2291613
So I get huge speeds, virtually no i/o wait and when I delete something I can be sure it's gone forever? The only problem left to solve is huge capacities for these devices at rela…
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Comment #2236793
32GB per node and only two SATA drives in RAID-1? Sounds like IO wait might be pretty high on nodes that are filled up.
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Comment #2008610
Google has set a maximum contribution of $1,000,000 associated with the Google Chrome for a Cause extension. You agree Google may change this maximum contribution at its sole discr…
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Comment #1997086
Since UK2 doesn't really have a CDN product themselves, as they resell HighWinds and Level3, their interest is a bit lower as opposed to SoftLayer which has million dollar contract…
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Comment #1954796
It's wrong to assume that Comcast does not send a lot of upstream traffic. They actually sell IP transit at relatively small prices.
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Comment #1607532
This doesn't really work all the time, as some of them are skimming through the description for this sort of stuff.
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Comment #1565176
If it really needs to scale: AWS EC2 For DNS: Dnsmadeeasy. For low latency content delivery: Akamai For dirt cheap makeshift content delivery: several servers from 478east For serv…
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Comment #1448414
I found that a small apartment in NY was around 2500 or more, and in roughly the same area airbnb had something for 1800, plus the whole social experience if you're into that.
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Comment #1384893
The charges were for copyright violations. It was merely a way to tell them to stop, as Blizzard has done this in the past, having lawyers show up to the doors of people making or …
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Comment #1384739
Their progress was hindered http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100197-Blizzard-Su... . The costs of a lawyer will likely stop anyone from continuing to crack it, since I'm g…
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Comment #1352880
I thought it was the Latin term for Curriculum Vitae.
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Comment #1331850
No, you're not.
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Comment #1304649
I've jumped to the conclusions on the article and this puzzled me: "The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no l…
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Comment #1295085
To give people a rough idea, the 1055T X6 scores 5960 points on average in the PassMark benchmark while the i7 980X scores 10165. As always, benchmarks are not useful for deciding …
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Comment #1277062
Some notes: 1. This pricing subject to a 24 month contract and an installation fee. 2. They only guarantee this speed locally(read: within the network), so they're not getting 1000…
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Comment #1276600
If it was a secure page it would be a-okay, right?
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Comment #1255593
A word of warning: their servers are in Europe, so if you happen to be far from the Netherlands, it might be slow.