Abbott Internet Consultants

A fascinating insight into how Google have designed their infrastructure, right from server to datacenter.  12V batteries on each server saves them a fortune from UPS inefficiency, and the design is clearly optimised to handle airflow and still manage the density.

Stripping a load of the plastic and fittings out saves a good bit of resources as well.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html?tag=rtcol;pop

If you’re ever trying to remove a load of files from a folder that exceeds the number that can be run against a command (this is actually a compiled in memory limit on command line parameters, if you’re really keen you can recompile and increase the limit), then try this command:

find . -name "whatever*" | xargs rm

Job done.