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How to install a Blackbox
July 18, 2007
So what have I been doing this summer while I haven't been blogging? One thing I've been doing is overseeing the installation of one of those Sun Blackbox trailer computers behind my garage. Here's the nifty time-lapse video.
Okay, I lied. The Blackbox was actually installed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, which is the first customer to put the data-center-in-a-box into operation.
Speaking of lying, check out the color of that Blackbox.
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Nick's next book:
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"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting stuff" -New York Post
Greatest hits
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
Flight of the wingless coffin fly
Other writing
The end of corporate computing
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