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Monday, 19 November 2007
Late last week, I visited fellow DD Tim Cutts at the Sanger Institute just south of Cambridge. I dropped off a couple more machines that the BOFHs there have kindly offered to host for Debian, and Tim offered me a quick look around their facility. Sanger plays host to a massive set of computers used for genetic sequencing and related tasks. They have a very impressive setup with thousands of machines in multiple machine rooms, connected via huge amounts of (very neatly laid!) power and networking. Oh, and multiple petabytes of disk storage, with terabytes more data generated every day.
The coolest thing? Tim told me that the majority of their machines are running Debian, mostly stock installations with no special tweaks needed. Yay!
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Wow, time flies when you're not paying much attention. It seems that the Open Rights Group is two years old. I was one of the original thousand people who pledged to support ORG financially (a fiver per month), hoping that they would help us stand up for our digital rights in the UK in much the same way as the EFF do in the US. The group have done a good job so far, facing off against the big corporates and the government on key subjects like DRM, electronic voting, ID cards and data protection.
Unfortunately, it seems that there are more and more of these fights coming and they are gaining in importance as more and more of our lives are lived online. ORG are always looking for more support; please help if you can.
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