Your thingy is too long
So? Sites go down. Who cares....
Facebook has published a detailed explanation of an internal configuration flaw that left the site unavailable for around two and a half hours overnight - the social network's worst downtime in four years. The outage stemmed from a cascading series of problems involving an error correction system that feed into a feedback loop …
Each time Facebook publishes any kind of technical information, their post is plagued by hundreds of people commenting and claiming to know how to do it better or fix it. And generally they're talking absolute crap.
Facebook may not be perfect but they know what they're doing.
I'm not sure why it makes me so cross - but it does. It really does!
I'm with you. Some of the replies were so mind blowingly dumb that I first laughed, and then got angry at the ignorant arrogance of these people.
I don't mind people who aren't knowledgeable on a particular subject (there are MANY that I am clueless about), but I hate people who think they are knowledgeable when they aren't, or those that just lie and bullshit
>> but I hate people who think they are knowledgeable or those that just lie and bullshit
I can't help thinking forums, the Internet and especially blogsphere isn't a place for you to escape those you hate. I would also advise you to steer clear of any chief executives/board members of large companies
Seriously it is probably best to just ignore them
I await lots of the usual self-righteous comments, so I'll summarise them so you don't have to:
1) Who cares? It's only facebook.
2) Facebook is for saddos. No-one with a real life uses it.
3) Facebook is evil. They steal all your information and send it to advertisers
4) Anyone who uses facebook deserves all they get
5) Facebook is always going slow or breaking down.
Any I've missed?
Really? I've never used the site at all, ever and have a very good social life, thanks. I can't walk 5 yards down the street before I bump into someone I know. Every drinking establishment I frequent I always know at least 1/3 of the patrons
I think I'm doing myself a favour by not being on it but I never got into the whole Web2.0 socialising thing so no standard FB put-downs from me, it just entertains me that people *need* FB to have a life
This might explain why I was getting a security certificate error when trying to go to https://www.facebook.com - what surprised me was that the certificate was issued to an akamai.com sub domain, not www.facebook.com as expected.
I guess now I know Facebook uses Akamai's products and services.
.Facebook uses Akamai for the static files, such as photos, images, etc.
They don't use it for the main www site normally.
However, yesterday, during the outage, they changed the DNS entry for www.facebook.com to point to:
root@northway# host www.facebook.com.
www.facebook.com is an alias for sorry.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net.
sorry.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1030.g.akamai.net.
a1030.g.akamai.net has address 92.122.127.27
a1030.g.akamai.net has address 92.122.127.33
As they said, they needed to stop all traffic to fix the problem, so temporarily diverting to their network of akamai servers seemed to be way they chose to do it
they were only down for 2 and a half hours. is that a crisis?
by the way, whatever security problems there are in the new facebook alternative -
diaspora - should theoretically be easy to fix, because everyone insists that the language it uses - Ruby - is inherently secure when properly used, so I look forward to a true non-exploitative Fecebook alternative soon. As for Myspace - I think and international deployment of Drupal 7 with redundant servers is a potential replacement. Drupal 7 is still in alpha, so here's shitspace.org - up and running with drupal 6.19 and sqlite 3.22.x
no users yet!
http://shitspace.org
create an account and if you want to improve on it, as Ralph to up your privileges
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Hmm yeah real funny, it's amazing the diverse range of people on facebook actually. Sure there is a minority of trolls / saddo's on there but isn't there everywhere.
It is the one great way to keep in touch with everyone save having to write an e-mail not revealing anyone's e-mail address to anyone else, also anyone comments on it anyone else can see that too (depending on privacy settings), can't really do that with a BCC e-mail.
The groups on there are diverse as the people on it, and aren't all "saddo" groups, maybe someone should go on facebook and find some groups on say "autism" maybe they'd open your eyes slightly they did mine..