links for 2006-10-18

Kaj Arnö’s blog » Blog Archive » Introducing the MySQL Community Server and the MySQL Enterprise Server

this is the news i was waiting for; more shortly

(tags: MySQL Enterprise Community editions Fedora RHEL)
Boston Red Sox – Big Papi pops in for some Wiffle Ball – The Boston Globe

“I knew he was a really good hitter,” said Stievater. “I knew he was going to hit. It was really awesome. He’s such a great guy. He missed two of them but then he hit two over the Sausage Guy.” – this is one of those times i wish i was super rich

(tags: BigPapi RedSox Wiffle charity)
LG goes crazy small with new A1 and C1 XNotes – Engadget

wow – LG’s ultraportables are sweet

(tags: LG hardware XNote ultralight)
Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog : Weblog

too bad i can’t stick one of these on my porch; i do have a water hookup out there

(tags: Schwartz Blackbox Google grid Sun sysadmin datacenter)

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By sogrady

— October 17, 2006 at 11:27 pm

http://www.michaeldolan.com Mike Dolan

I heard those blackboxes require a 60 ton water chiller… I’ll believe in this thing when I see it. It’s amazing you can take a 3 phase power hungry, heat generating box that requires water cooling and call it eco-friendly. Personally… I think they should have added a flat iron top to it for cooking pizzas/eggs/bacon. That way the Red Cross could feed the people they’re helping in those pictures
http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady stephen o’grady

AFAIK – and we asked the question – everything that sucker needs is in the box. plug in water and power and networking and you’re off and running. as for being eco-friendly, i’d be surprised if in terms of the net cost in terms of ecological cost per watt they didn’t come out ahead of your typical datacenter. significantly ahead. it’s a self-contained, self-cooled unit; to my way of thinking far more efficient in terms of processing thermal energy than a typical datacenter, which cools tons of wasted ceiling space at no benefit.
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/ Glynn Foster

Mike, from what I’ve heard, there’s nothing to stop you attaching it up to a river and disapating the heat that way. As to whether that’s eco-friendly or not, who knows!

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