Monthly Archive for August, 2006

Google’s MapReduce

This is a quite interesting read for everyone who is interested in how Google processes large amounts of data in their distributed environment.

Data Recovery

Today I had to help a friend who has deleted all his photos from an SD card by mistake. He was quite impressed as we could restore all the photos :-) There are quite a lot of programs on the internet. I used smart recovery.

Airline Safety Ranking

End of october me and my girl-friend are planning to go for holiday to Vietnam. Currently we are looking for a cheap flight. And that’s not easy at all. Finally we got a cheap flight from China Airlines, but were wondering how safe they are. Because of that, I was looking for a airline safety ranking on the internet. I found two sources…

PlaneCrashInfo: Airline Accident Rates

AirDisaster: Accident Rates

…and not really to my suprise - China Airlines was not one of the best. But what shall we do now?!

Update July, 2009: I found one more source…
AirFleets: Accidents by operator