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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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The Atlantic article:
Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Nick's new book:
"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting stuff" -New York Post
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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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