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As I predicted last week, it’s live. Courtesy EKM.

For several weeks now, I’ve been hearing reports (firsthand and otherwise) of people sighting Google’s street view fleet around the area. I just discovered this afternoon that the “Street View” button now shows up when viewing google maps of the Minneapols/St. Paul area:

Unfortunately no blue-highlighted roads are showing up yet, though, so they evidently have a bit more work to do before Street View for our area goes live.

The virtual server that I’ve been renting from Linode for several years has up until today, been using User Mode Linux (UML) for machine virtualization. Linode recently launched a beta testing program for a new Xen virtual hosting system. I signed up this evening and migrated my server over to the new Xen host. The migration went flawlessly – many kudos to Chris and the rest of the linode team. After the migration, my server booted up perfectly and almost instantly, I could feel the affects of the increased performance that Xen gives. Previously, while running on UML, there always seemed to be a bit of lag. Nothing huge, but from time to time, I could tell I was running in a virtual machine. Not any more – this thing is wicked fast. Best of all, Xen allows SMP guests, so my lowly virtual server now has 4 processors at its disposal. This is very, very cool. We’ll see how performance holds up once more guests are migrated to this machine, but I’m optimistic that things will continue to be quite snappy.

Here’s a screenshot of me compiling a new version of openssh. Note the four happy CPU graphs at the top of the screen. They make me happy :-)

Wow – slashdot’s 10th birthday was yesterday. I believe I started reading slashdot in ’98. Ahh nostalgia – CowboyNeal poll options, Russian reversals, Beowulf clusters of this and that.

Slashdot, even though you’ve been somewhat upstaged by other linklogs in the recent past, you still hold a dear place in the heart of this geek and many others.

Happy Birthday!

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