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Facebook these days is doing everything in its power to imitate Google, recruiting the search giant’s sales people, poaching its senior executives and — most importantly — using infrastructure as a competitive advantage. Like Google, Facebook has figured out that the right web infrastructure is the difference between user delight and dismay. And like Google, Facebook is finding out that it isn’t cheap. I’ve been trying to get a handle on Facebook’s infrastructure for some time, but so far have been unable to get the company to open up. The last time I reached out to them, back in January, I was hearing that they had between 1,200 and 1,500 servers, along with storage and switches from EMC Corp. and Force 10 Networks respectively. As it turns out, those server numbers weren’t even close to the total servers used by them. The company is running around 10,000 servers, according to Data Center Knowledge , citing comments made by Facebook VP of technology, Jeff Rothschild, at a re...

Alan sez, "A Japanese company is producing gramophones with natural touches such as bamboo needles."

I think its fair to say its been a strange Australian Open thus far. We’ve had player/fan fights , arrests, F-bombs , and of course underwear-gate. So although we’re only in Day 4, here is a photo essay of some of the weird, odd, and perhaps voyeuristic scenes from this year’s Australian Open. Are there slits in that thing to breathe?