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（TechDaily电子报7月20日吉隆坡报道）不仅购物商场高喊大减价，现在就连大马域名“.my”也推行半价大促销！
大马域名注册局（.my DOMAIN REGISTRY）宣布从即日起推行一项促销运动，所有注册及更新“.my”域名者。一律给予50％折扣。
这项优惠行动将从7月20日至9月4日，主要是配合由大马电脑及多媒体工业协会（PIKOM）与科学、工艺及革新部（Mosti）联办的全国资讯、通讯及科技月（National ICT Month 2009，简称NIM），以及即将到来的国庆日。
不过，任何更新域名者，其折扣费用仅以一年为期限。
大马域名注册局前称为MYNIC，也是科学、工艺及革新部所属单位，负责处理所有网址结尾为“.my”的注册及行政事务。
欲知更多详情，可浏览www.domainregistry.my。
原文转载：http://www.techdaily.com.my/2009/0713/175.html
本人强力推荐 http://www.techdaily.com.my 大马资讯科技网站
这项被视为本区域最大型的架构师区域大会将于7月16日至17日，在吉隆坡丽景酒店（Legend Hotel）举行，将进一步探讨今日软件架构师所面对的挑战及需求。
30场软件架构讲座会
这场软件界“武林大会”上将有超过30场软件架构相关讲座会，所讨论三大课题包括绿色电脑（Green Computing）、云端运算（Cloud Computing）及软件架构基本面（Fundamental IT Architecture）的热门科技趋势。
在此之前，多媒体发展机构（MeDC）执长行拿督巴里山指出，这项大会将在资讯、通讯与科技(Information communication technology ,ICT)及商业目标之间取得有效的平衡。
他说，如果大马要实现知识社会的目标，并成为传递高价值服务的全球领导者，这项平衡是必要的。
IASA大马分会主席哈山干尼表示，ITARC大会不仅可让IT专才了解软件架构最新资讯，同时也提供我国独立软件架构师提供一个交流论坛。
软件架构师新兴职业
软件架构师（software Architect）是软件行业中一种新兴职业，工作职责是在一个软件项目开发过程中，将客户的需求转换为规范的开发计划及文本，并制定这个项目的总体架构，指导整个开发团队完成这个计划。
架构师的主要任务不是从事具体的软件程序的编写，而是从事更高层次的开发构架工作。他必须对开发技术非常了解，并且需要有良好的组织管理能力。
可以这样说，一个架构师工作的好坏决定了整个软件开发项目的成败。在微软（Microsoft），这家世界最大的软件企业，其创办人比尔·盖茨在退休前，一直是该公司的首席软件架构师。
软件架构师犹如高楼大厦的设计人员，通常一座大厦在建之前，都先由设计师将蓝图描绘出来，包括其形状、结构、尺寸、材料等等，然后建筑工程师带领工人们按照蓝图将大厦一层一层地建起来。
◎亚太国际软件架构师协会网站：http://www.iasahome.org/
◎5届IT架构师区域大会网站：http://iasahome.org/web/malaysia
The technology behind Google’s great results
As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.
Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.
Why Google’s patented PigeonRank™ works so well
PigeonRank’s success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. The common gray pigeon can easily distinguish among items displaying only the minutest differences, an ability that enables it to select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages.
By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.
When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks, are returned at the top of the user’s results page with the other results displayed in pecking order.
Integrity
Google’s pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult. While some unscrupulous websites have tried to boost their ranking by including images on their pages of bread crumbs, bird seed and parrots posing seductively in resplendent plumage, Google’s PigeonRank technology cannot be deceived by these techniques. A Google search is an easy, honest and objective way to find high-quality websites with information relevant to your search.
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PigeonRank Frequently Asked Questions
How was PigeonRank developed?
The ease of training pigeons was documented early in the annals of science and fully explored by noted psychologist B.F. Skinner, who demonstrated that with only minor incentives, pigeons could be trained to execute complex tasks such as playing ping pong, piloting bombs or revising the Abatements, Credits and Refunds section of the national tax code.
Brin and Page were the first to recognize that this adaptability could be harnessed through massively parallel pecking to solve complex problems, such as ordering large datasets or ordering pizza for large groups of engineers. Page and Brin experimented with numerous avian motivators before settling on a combination of linseed and flax (lin/ax) that not only offered superior performance, but could be gathered at no cost from nearby open space preserves. This open space lin/ax powers Google’s operations to this day, and a visit to the data coop reveals pigeons happily pecking away at lin/ax kernels and seeds.
What are the challenges of operating so many pigeon clusters (PCs)?
Pigeons naturally operate in dense populations, as anyone holding a pack of peanuts in an urban plaza is aware. This compactability enables Google to pack enormous numbers of processors into small spaces, with rack after rack stacked up in our data coops. While this is optimal from the standpoint of space conservation and pigeon contentment, it does create issues during molting season, when large fans must be brought in to blow feathers out of the data coop. Removal of other pigeon byproducts was a greater challenge, until Page and Brin developed groundbreaking technology for converting poop to pixels, the tiny dots that make up a monitor’s display. The clean white background of Google’s home page is powered by this renewable process.
Aren’t pigeons really stupid? How do they do this?
While no pigeon has actually been confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court, pigeons are surprisingly adept at making instant judgments when confronted with difficult choices. This makes them suitable for any job requiring accurate and authoritative decision-making under pressure. Among the positions in which pigeons have served capably are replacement air traffic controllers, butterfly ballot counters and pro football referees during the "no-instant replay" years.
Where does Google get its pigeons? Some special breeding lab?
Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters. Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google’s pack of more than 50 Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data coop.
Isn’t it cruel to keep pigeons penned up in tiny data coops?
Google exceeds all international standards for the ethical treatment of its pigeon personnel. Not only are they given free range of the coop and its window ledges, special break rooms have been set up for their convenience. These rooms are stocked with an assortment of delectable seeds and grains and feature the finest in European statuary for roosting.
What’s the future of pigeon computing?
Google continues to explore new applications for PigeonRank and affiliated technologies. One of the most promising projects in development involves harnessing millions of pigeons worldwide to work on complex scientific challenges. For the latest developments on Google’s distributed cooing initiative, please consider signing up for our Google Friends newsletter.
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Google is experimenting with a search feature that allows users to tailor their searches by creating a list of sites they would like to appear most in search results.
Preferred Sites will suggest frequently visited sites based on search history when it’s relevant, but users can also add and delete sites, according to the new feature’s help page:
The preferred sites feature lets you set your Google Web Search preferences so that your search results match your unique tastes and needs. Fill in the sites you rely on the most, and results from your preferred sites will show up more often when they’re relevant to your search query.
Google said that Preferred Sites could also have an impact on everyone’s searches:
If the feature goes live to everyone, people will be able to pick a list of authoritative sites and influence all search results.
Preferred Sites is an extension of Google SearchWiki, which lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results. It is activated only while the user is logged in to their Google account, and users’ preferred sites and search results are private.
Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. Before joining CNET News in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers. E-mail Steven.