Diverting Idle Hands (and Feet)
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- Diverting Idle Hands (and Feet)
- Retired Web pages move into new mobile home
- Lawless Somalia draws influx of foreign fighters
- Ecoterra ‘” Somali Marine & Coastal Monitor – Part VIII. Gas-tanker …
Diverting Idle Hands (and Feet)
New York Times
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Retired Web pages move into new mobile home
Good Morning Silicon Valley
As you would imagine both the collection and the haul brought in by each new sweep have grown rapidly. The library now holds about 151 billion archived Web pages in a 3 petabyte (that’s 3 million gigabytes) database that is expected to expand at the rate of 100 terabytes a month (that’s 100000 gigabytes). That database is tapped up to 500 times a second by some 200000 visitors a day. Its mission guarantees that the archive always needs more closet space and processing power and that has meant adding to a traditional data center building that at last count housed 800 Linux servers with four hard drives each. But with issues of expense energy consumption and scalability all looming larger the archive has now moved its holdings to equipment that offers advantages in all those areas.
Lawless Somalia draws influx of foreign fighters
AFP
Somalia now shelters an estimated 450 foreign fighters who are working with the Shebab a home-grown hardline Islamist group that has spearheaded a bloody insurgency since 2006. While foreign fighters wanted for links to Al-Qaeda have long used Somalia as a backyard their numbers have swollen dramatically in 2009 experts say. “There were maybe 100 foreigners last year but now our estimate is up to 450″ said Ismail Haji Noor a former Somali security official who has established a secular militia bent on rooting out the Shebab and their foreign allies. Noor said the foreign jihadists come from the United States Europe the Middle East and Asia and often enter the country on regular airlines from the northern semi-autonomous state of Somaliland. Most of them are concentrated in Garowe in the northern breakaway state of Puntland and the southern towns of Baidoa Merka and Kismayo.
Ecoterra ‘” Somali Marine & Coastal Monitor – Part VIII. Gas-tanker …
American Chronicle
No real peace in sight yet Egged on by sama bin Laden and drawn in by Ethiopia’s pullout foreign jihadists have flocked to Somalia in recent months joining forces with local fighters to turn the country into an Al-Qaeda haven. Somalia now shelters an estimated 450 foreign fighters who are working with the Shebab a home-grown hard line Islamist group that has spearheaded a bloody insurgency since 2006 reports AFP. While foreign fighters wanted for links to Al-Qaeda have long used Somalia as a backyard their numbers have swollen dramatically in 2009 experts say. “There were maybe 100 foreigners last year but now our estimate is up to 450″ said Ismail Haji Noor a former Somali security official who has established a secular militia bent on rooting out the Shebab and their foreign allies. Noor said the foreign jihadists come from the United States Europe the Middle East and Asia and often enter the country on regular airlines from the northern semi-autonomous state of Somaliland. Most of them are concentrated in Garowe in the northern breakaway state of Puntland and the southern towns of Baidoa Merka and Kismayo.