SSL session resumption is essential : something worth checking if you admin an SSL site; “Session ID Length” == 0 is the tell-tale
(tags: sessions tls ssl https sysadmin)kids are starting to prefer MP3s to artifact-free music : ‘Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford [.. notes that] students [..] prefer “sizzle sounds” that MP3s bring to music. It is a sound they are familiar with.’
(tags: music mp3 sound compression audio students psychology quality perception artifacts via:slashdot)Building a 1.8 exabyte data center : ‘Building an exabyte data center is feasible. All it takes is money – $400 million with all the goodies – and power. Time to readjust the mental model of storage possibility. Other than the NSA’s acres of disk at Fort Meade though, I’m not aware of any exabyte data centers.’
(tags: ouch exabyte datacenters storage disk hardware provisioning nsa racks planning petabytes)