“Today is a very special day for Linux, for it is precisely 20 years ago on this very day Linus Torvalds sat down at his computer to share word of his ‘hobby’ operating system to users of Minix – a UNIX Operating System – on the UseNet newsgroup ‘comp.os.minix‘.”

via OMG! Ubuntu!

Happy 20th Birthday, Linux! originally appeared on ajb{log} on August 25, 2011. Tweet This

Yes you are reading that right, Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined in terms of population. Facebook has a staggering count of 150 million users according to Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook).

Country population breakdown:

Turkey – 71,892,808
Canada – 33,515,000
Australia – 21,468,700
New Zealand – 4,280,000
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Total 131,246,508*

That, my friend, is really impressive! It makes you wonder how they keep their systems running smoothly, how they scale up rapidly.

Facebook has more than 10,000 servers and leverages mostly open-source software across a distributed architecture, with thousands of MySQL instances. “It’s almost a new challenge every day,”

Jonathan Heiliger (Vice President of Technical Operations, Facebook)
CNET interview

That’s not the only thing, Facebook has more than 10 billion photos! Some additional stats:

• 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site daily
• Over one petabyte of photo storage
• Serving over 15 billion photo images per day
• Photo traffic peaks at over 300,000 images served per second

Truth is, impressive is an understatement.

*Source: Wikipedia

Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined originally appeared on ajb{log} on January 8, 2009. Tweet This

Here’s a proof of concept to steal session cookies on HTTP and HTTPS sites that do not set the Cookie secure flag.

It’s really a scary to see that even Gmail was vulnerable before to these types of attack. So, how about Yahoo Mail? And what more if you use Hotmail Live? Makes you really think if there is such thing as 100% security nowadays.

SURF JACK: Even HTTPS will not save you originally appeared on ajb{log} on August 11, 2008. Tweet This

But as soon as I read about Woopra on CenterNetworks this morning, I gave it a whirl. I logged in to my Woopra account, copy/pasted the JS snippet on Mployd. I thought it would take some time for the data to funnel to my dashboard.

And so I tried to download and install the Woopra desktop application. To my surprise, data from the site is already crunching in!

Here’s a screenshot of the Woopra desktop application on my machine after I installed it.

See that? After 10 mins I’m already getting what I need to know from our visitors. That’s really neat!

And one cool thing about it is that it sits on my desktop/system tray for quick access. Woopra integrated a lot of awesome features into the app aside from analytics. There’s just too much to list them down here.

The Woopra desktop application is currently available in beta to Windows, MacOS, and Linux (note that Java is required to run the app).

We know that Google Analytics dominates the free web analytics space. I’d say Woopra can quickly become #2 with the added innovations to the app.

I’ve tried almost every single free web analytics app out there and Woopra is a breath of fresh air. I simply love it.

–aj

Woopra is a breath of fresh air for web analytics originally appeared on ajb{log} on June 11, 2008. Tweet This

More information here

PHP Everywhere Conference Programme originally appeared on ajb{log} on November 30, 2007. Tweet This

“Not to be outdone by Murdoch and his slew of MySpace announcements, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made some pretty big announcements today at the Web 2.0 Conference, speaking on Microsoft’s plans to acquire 20 companies per year for the next five years, ranging from $50 million to $1 billion, reports Venturebeat.”

Are you one of those companies?

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Windows Live SkyDrive: Upgraded to 1GB

“These past couple of months since our last release, we asked ourselves, “What can we do to make SkyDrive even better?” The most obvious answer is something that our users have asked us to do: give out more storage. We’re excited to announce that we’re doubling everyone’s storage to 1 GB!”

MozyHome Free has 2 GB of free backup space.

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Microsoft Live Search 411

“Live Search 411 enables you to do this for free, from any phone in the US. Just call 1-800-CALL-411 (1-800-225-5411) and say where you are and what you’re looking for. You can also get text messages, maps, traffic maps, and text-based driving directions sent to your mobile phone (with a service plan that supports text messages or data access, of course!).”

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Don’t be a iPirate arrr else…

“In a bold move, the UMass Office of Information Technologies makes a stand against violating intellectual property rights by….violating intellectual property rights?”

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Rich? Got some US$ 100,000 lying around? Get a Media Wall for your room.

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GPhone is coming

“Although rumors of a possible Google Phone have been making the rounds really hard lately, any such phone will have to be amazing to grab enough end-user and media attention. Expectations are high, but since we’re dreaming, here’s Gizmodo’s wishlist.”

Marissa Mayer didn’t comment nor deny on the question “Have you seen the GPhone?” by Om Malik .

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High resolution image hints at ‘Mona Lisa’s’ eyebrows

“One day I say, if I can find only one hair, only one hair of the eyebrow, I will have definitively the proof that originally Leonardo da Vinci had painted eyelash and eyebrow,” said Cotte.

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Robot Cannon Kills, Software/Hardware to blame?

“We’re not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own.”

Remember iRobot?

Sources here and here

Other shorts

• Mac OSX Leopard set on October 26, 2007
• Microsoft Popfly Beta launches
• UBUNTU 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon is out
• Adobe eyes move to software-as-a-service
• Firefox 3 to go native in appearance
• New Flickr UI with GeoTagging is Very Impressive

–aj

Friday Madness: Early adopters roundup originally appeared on ajb{log} on October 19, 2007. Tweet This

Grooveshark also has a feature to view other friends’ music libraries and play them.

Other features includes:
* Listen to full streams of any song ever created
* Access your library from any computer, anywhere, any time
* Build playlists around your favorite music for parties, studying, or …studying parties
* Earn free songs for sharing your music and contributing to the Grooveshark community
* Receive music recommendations based on your friends, your music, and many other variables

In order to download or preview music, you need to have the Grooveshark applicaton which is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Sounds like a lot of fun!

Well, before you enjoy your weekend, check this one out.

–aj

Grooveshark: Get paid for sharing music originally appeared on ajb{log} on September 7, 2007. Tweet This

I haven’t seen even the front page yet.

–aj

Ubuntero: Social network for Ubuntu friends dugged, down originally appeared on ajb{log} on September 6, 2007. Tweet This

For the geeks out there! :)

–aj

GotoSSH: A Web Based SSH Client originally appeared on ajb{log} on August 17, 2007. Tweet This

Nigerian scammer and spammer going to jail. Dude, ready your bum. :P

If you thought that the Windows 98 BSOD tatoo, the Zune dude and ubuntu fan were cool. You might also gonna like this nintendo guy.

If Microsoft were to build a home, how would it look like?

And my favorite picture of the day is… Bad Boy Ballmer. “I am going to make your home just like that if you switch to Mac!” :P

–aj

Apple multi-touch coming, Nigerian scammer/spammer, windows home, nintendo fan and more originally appeared on ajb{log} on August 14, 2007. Tweet This