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Richard Davey
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Posted: 20th May 2005 05:21
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Just watched the first few hours of this live webcast from Google HQ - fascinating stuff.

They've gone to lunch now but are back in an hour with some more tech stuff.

http://www.google.com/press/factorytour.html

Some guy asked how many servers they had They wouldn't say, but they have 4 CPU servers (with LARGE amounts of ram), 20 servers per rack, and the last released figure (a few years old) was that they had over 10,000 racks - the most interesting part they announced in the webcast was that they self-build every single one!

Anyway am going back on in an hour to see the rest of the talk, it's way cool - if you try it pick the low-res version regardless what connection you have, there are so many people viewing it the high res one breaks out loads.

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Posted: 20th May 2005 05:25
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Damn.. it must be the break!

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Posted: 20th May 2005 05:28
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Quote: " Damn.. it must be the break!
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Quote: "
They've gone to lunch now but are back in an hour with some more tech stuff.
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C'mon Rich, you've been watching for a few hours and are just now telling us?


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Posted: 20th May 2005 05:31
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Yeah... as you can tell - didnt read the post fully

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Posted: 20th May 2005 05:38
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by the way...i am looking at the agenda, and if it is my time or GMT, it would be over. So what time is the agenda set on?


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Posted: 20th May 2005 05:39
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Definately not GMT! Its 8:38pm here!

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Posted: 20th May 2005 05:47
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Ladies and Gentlemen, please make your way back to your seat...our program is about to begin.


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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:05
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The times are Pacific Standard Time which is GMT -8 I think.

I just tuned back in and they're on a break so I guess it should be the Future Directions talks next which are the ones I want to see the most, especially Sergy Brin and the QA session with him and Eric after that - they'll be the most fascinating parts, I sure hope I didn't miss them.

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:09
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yep still break...

sweeeet music

(well...yyyeeaahhh.... )

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:13 Edited at: 20th May 2005 07:20
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IT STARTED!!!

(caps lock off)

or maybe not....he did say to go back to our seats but nothings happened yet...

ok now it started!

[edit] heehee 42

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:21
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Finally payback for all the times I get messed up with GMT.

Thanks for the heads-up Rich. It was very interesting, and helped pass the time at work today.

I liked the gmail segment. Althugh I'm still nervous about the fact they they can parse through all of your e-mail in order to advertise to you. There are definately some friends of mine who I can not give my gmail account to.

Heaven only knows what Google would think I am interested in??????

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:28
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Excellent - the Future Directions part has started all about translations at the moment.. it's well fascinating.

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Speaking of Gmail...this presentation has inspired me to check it out once and for all(yes, I have been avoiding it), anyone got an extra gmail invite thingy?(everyone does right?)


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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:39
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mailed

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:40
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Ah, thank you Mr. Fish.


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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:48
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SWEET they have like a 3D model of the earth!!

freakin awesome!

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:50
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Quote: " SWEET they have like a 3D model of the earth!!"


That is so cool! Absolutely amazing. I missed the first part, so is it online? free? i didn't hear about that stuff.


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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:50
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HAHA they lost their connection!

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:52 Edited at: 20th May 2005 07:55
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i can't wait till that comes out to see my house

[edit] heehee..coming in only a matter of weeks
here comes super secretness

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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:53
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me too...mapquest doesn't have my house and it has been here for about 7 years...and its not on mapquest!


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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:55 Edited at: 20th May 2005 07:58
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Personal Homepages... they're a little bit behind this one aren't they?


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Posted: 20th May 2005 07:57
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no...they've just waited to add it till they could do it good

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Posted: 20th May 2005 08:11
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I just tested out the personal homepages.. works quite nicely.. it's not earth shattering, but it won't hurt to have it appear under my search box without taking over the whole damn page.. cool.

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Posted: 20th May 2005 08:13 Edited at: 20th May 2005 08:40
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They said it had some drag and drop feature...but when I tried it out, I saw nothing of the sort. What did I miss?

hmm...i got FF too, do I have to activate it(google desktop) somehow?


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Posted: 20th May 2005 08:22
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God knows.. works fine here with drag 'n drop (using FF).

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Posted: 21st May 2005 00:06
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Drags and Drops fine for me to

I like it...it doesn't fill up the entire screen with junk...and lets you choose how much stuff you want...i only put the "quote of the day" there

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