via friendfeed
Here is a link to youtube if you want to watch the video there.
Update: Just wanted to note how refreshing it is to see an internet company actually work to extend/improve the internet, instead of introducing a service that locks you in to their platform.
I recently did a search on Google for “terminator 4 release date”. Doing the same search on Wolfram Alpha had results displayed far better than I expected!
Update: FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit lets everyone know (appropriately on Twitter), “The entire svcolo datacenter lost power. They expect to have it restored in 10min, but it will take at bit to bring up all systems.”
via techcrunch
I love friendfeed, its fast and it barely ever goes down. So I was surprised when I couldn’t reach it today. This downtime is not like twitters, where twitter has issues with its own code, or database or scale or what have you. Twitter is able to show the fail whale because their servers are generally still up.
In this case, it seems friendfeeds datacenter has lost power. The datacenter should have had a primary and secondary power source. The datacenter should also have had backup generators. Since they have been down for a while, I guess those all failed. If not, friendfeed servers take an awful long time to boot up!
Since no servers are running, no fail whale from friendfeed. Its hard when everything fails at the same time, but that's generally what happens. Its a good idea to distribute your servers in different data centers, preferably across the country. If you can afford it, that is.
Update: For those worried about Scoble, I noticed him logging in and out of skype… so he should be ok! :)
Update: Friendfeed servers are up but showing an Internal Server Error… uhoh!
I have a Dell Mini 12 netbook. It has a 1.66 Ghz Atom processor, 1 GB RAM, Intel GMA 500 Graphics and a 60 GB (4200 rpm) pata hard drive. Its a slow netbook.
Windows 7 with Aero is slow on the machine. I find that the system gets more usable if you disable Aero, and the theme engine.
I bought this netbook with Ubuntu, which turned out to be the Ubuntu netbook remix. I wanted Ubuntu, which resulted in me trying to install Ubuntu (8.04, 8.10, and 9.04). I couldn’t get X to give me the 1280x800 resolution. The system has an Intel GMA 500 (like the Dell Mini 10) which has an X driver, but its broken.
Until that gets fixed, I’m stuck with Windows, and its almost usable with Aero turned off.
