ILamp

"What is that?", you asked. Is that a paper? is that some kind of weird snake? or simply just an alien invading your home? No, that's a lamp. HOLY SCIENCE!


Alas, it's still in the concept stage, but you can't deny its awesomeness. This baby gadget is still being developed at the moment by Systemdesignstudio, a coorporation from the uncle sam. 


This lamp has a flexible body so you can twist it whichever you want. So you can put it on your table and form it like a snake and scare the heck of your little sister when she sees it.

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The beginning of 'google'

  Google's very first Production Server

Stanford University's students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, made it for their Ph. D. Research. After completing the creation of this search engine, they decided to sell this searching technique to some big company like Yahoo, etc. As there was no one available to buy this, a company with the name 'Google' was started in 1998.

In November 1998, the Google web site started showing its face for the first time. At first, it was not possible for them to earn any significant amount of money. Sun and IBM gave a few Sun Ultra II, F50 IBM RS/6000 Servers as free donations. In 2001, Yahoo was bargaining with Google to buy it. Yahoo, without knowing the strength of a search engine, withdrew from this bargain as it thought that $5 Billion is too much money to buy a search engine.

When Google shares were released in 2004, all wondered how a web site with an empty home page having no advertisement in it was going to make money. In the first half of that year alone, Google earned $1.4 billion. Today, it is a $6.1 billion company.

Data center of this company has 450,000 servers.

Many kinds of servers are there from 533 MHz Intel Celeron to dual 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III.

Locations: Mountain View, California, Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia, Dublin and Ireland. Finally, in 2006, a very big and very new one was established at The Dallas, Oregon.

In 2005, Google has tabulated 8 billion pages.

They run all their programs in thousands of x86 servers, in their own Linux and in their own web server. The name of their web server is GWS/2.1. That is, Google Web Server, current Version 2.1. That is, Apache's Google version.

And, here is another interesting information.

It is said that 20 megawatt electricity is needed for running all 450,000 servers. That is, Google's monthly electricity bill is $2 million.
Amazing!!!

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Kabel Fiber 7.68tbps Google Ke Asia Hampir Selesai

Rencana Google menyediakan layanan Internet semakin meluas. Baru-baru ini dikabarkan Google dengan partner telekomunikasinya tengah membuat jalur kabel bawah laut yang melintasi Samudra Pasifik dan membentang dari Amerika ke Jepang, sehingga Google akan memiliki koneksi langsung ke Asia. Proyek gabungan konsorsium antara Google, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI, Pacnet, dan Singtel ini mengadakan proyek senilai 300jt dolar untuk menyambungkan kabel fiber optik ke Jepang melalui jalur bawah laut. Beberapa bulan lagi, pengguna Asia akan segera merasakan peningkatan kecepatan internet dengan adanya kabel baru dari Google ini. Lalu berapa koneksi internet yang sanggup dilalui kabel ini? Potensi koneksi yang disalurkan kabel ini akan mencapai hingga 7.68Tbps (Terabit per detik).

Dengan adanya kabel yang menghubungkan bandwidth Google di Amerika ke Jepang, tidak tertutup kemungkinan pengguna internet Asia akan merasakan kecepatan internet yang lebih cepat dan lebih murah dari sekarang. Ini merupakan sebuah langkah awal Google untuk dapat memasarkan "Fiber To Home" di Asia. Fiber to Home kini tengah diuji coba di Amerika. Google Mengklaim bahwa koneksi Fiber To Home di Amerika nanti akan memberikan akses internet 100x lebih cepat dari yang dirasakan pengguna internet Amerika saat ini.

Pihak Google juga mengatakan bahwa Google ingin berinvestasi jangka panjang di Asia dengan memberikan kebijaksanaan pembelian koneksi bandwidth Internet ke setiap provider Internet di Asia. Provider internet hanya cukup sekali membayar layanan internet "Fiber", dan menjadi milik mereka selamanya. Ini mirip dengan membeli sebuah satelit.

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