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  • Collection Spotlight: Triangle Rocks

    A website that celebrates North Carolina music, trianglerock.com provides a continually growing collection of photos, audio-files (MP3), videos, and links for local bands (both current and former). (more…)

  • ibiblio.org on the move

    angled view of several identical servers as seen from the frontPardon our dust is the usual phrase to explain the disorder that comes with construction or renovations.  However, the only dust around here is what we’re wiping off old servers as we decommission them.  ibiblio.org is migrating from its current hosting provider to a data center on the UNC Chapel Hill campus.

    We’re about 30% complete but have transitioned more than half of our outbound data transfer.  The hosts for Linux distributions and software mirrors, as well as the live audio streams for WCPE, WDAV, WNCW, WXYC, and WCOM, are in shiny new virtual homes.  Outbound traffic from the new infrastructure topped 300 Mbps today.
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  • Collection Spotlight: Crocodyl

    A website for collaborative research on corporations, Crocodyl encourages research among NGOs, journalists, activists, whistle blowers, and academics worldwide to develop publicly-available profiles of the world’s most powerful corporations. (more…)