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Look at all that fibre.

From One Wilshire, a “carrier hotel” (an internet exchange) featured in NPR.

I wonder what it would take to have something like this in the Philippines. Would the Philippine OpenIX fit the bill? From what I gathered from mailing list archives (needs registration to view archive), the exchange has been planned since October 2006. There are also efforts to encourage local carriers to join in.

There is, of course, PhIX (Philippine Internet Exchange), but I hear there are major problems with that (congestion, expensive local linking, among others).

Other weird statues at Haha.nu.

Via Table of Malcontents.

Online identity verification system OpenID gains steam as prominent web companies adopt its use.

Recently, AOL announced that it will implement the OpenID system for its 63 million subscribers. In the wake of that news, Digg’s Kevin Rose announced at a web conference in London that the popularity website will accept OpenID and become an OpenID provider.

“We want to give people the freedom to move around online and this is a way to do it,” Rose said.

Yahoo! and Microsoft have also become OpenID adopters.

Users of OpenID can identify themselves using a URI that they own (a blog or home page, for example). They can then log on to OpenID-enabled sites without registering or opening a new account — they only need to sign in once to an OpenID provider. This addresses the single sign-on problem that users encounter when signing up for various web services.solves

Big-name web companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft has also addressed the SSO problem by implementing identity systems in their infrastructure.

(This is part of an ongoing series on Linux CLI shortcuts and hacks.)

After editing .bashrc and .bash_profile, you can reload the values by running

$ source ~/.bash_profile

Read on and find out how writers like Neil Gaiman come up with those amazing and wonderful stories. Oh, yeah, big Gaiman fanboy here.