| Startup plans floating data centres
A STARTUP is planning to build floating data centres on knackered cargo ships. San Francisco Bay Area company International Data Security (IDS) envisions it will have up to 50 decommissioned container ships housing data server farms, moored in various ports around the world including 22 in North American cities. IDS believes using cargo ships will give it flexibility and enable expansion limited only by the availability of ships and port space instead of real estate constraints. Its first location will be available at Pier 50 in San Francisco starting in April and it already has, ahem, anchor tenants signed, a source close to the company said. Shipboard cargo spaces will be built out as data center floors and deck space will be used to stack modular data centers in standard shipping containers.
LI KIDS: Hooked on books
But girls like to be inside a character's head, so they enjoy fiction. Letting boys and girls choose the type of book they want to read empowers them and doesn't feel like something they have to do. The book doesn't have to be your favorite thing."
In fact, if your child is resisting reading, try avoiding any judgments about their reading choices, says Renee McGrath, youth services manager for the Nassau Library System.
"Here's where you can try series books like 'Gossip Girl,' James Patterson's 'Maximum Ride' or 'Net Force' by Tom Clancy. Biographies about notorious criminals and killers, problem [or issue] novels and slim books about sports figures and celebrities may work as well," she says. "These books have the power to engage and excite teens who would otherwise not read anything."
Expand the definition
Scieszka believes the traditional definition of reading needs to be expanded to include nonfiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure and Web content.
Web site serves up mayhem near club
When it didn't stop, she used her still camera to document what she could. But when her front window was smashed in 2005, Kozan got a little more active. Mostly out of fear for her life, she put video cameras in her front window. "I figure what goes on inside their doors is their business," said Kozan, who described herself as part of the hippie generation. "But when something is happening in the street, that's a whole different thing." What she caught on tape has since become Lakeandhalsted.com, a slick Web site dedicated to "documenting Chicago's Lake & Halsted neighborhood." The sights and sounds of the fights and scuffles -- with a warning about offensive language and violence -- are all captured. It's an urban journal of sorts, with dates and entries like "Gang Street Fight" and "Girls and Guys Fighting." .
NYSE Updates Server Farm to Keep Pace
Improvements allow NYSE customers to trade up to 1 million shares per order online, keeping pace with the demands of new investor strategies.The New York Stock Exchange has switched the backbone of its NYSE Hybrid Market online stock trading system to Hewlett-Packard ProLiant servers, the company announced Dec. 11, and expects the step to increase the speed and accuracy of its online transactions. NYSE upgraded to ProLiant from a bank of HP NonStop and HP-UX and Midrange servers to take advantage of the power in the new equipment, especially processor speeds, NYSE officials told eWEEK. The HP DL585 and DL685c have improved I/O, memory footprint, power and cooling, and management, as well as dual-core AMD Opteron chips, an HP representative said. "The NYSE is really under pressure from its evolving client base and regulations, and also going through a huge change with mergers and acquisitions," said Simon Freeman, worldwide director of financial markets for HP Financial Services Industry.
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