It started with all our SBG servers going down simultaneously. Approximately 1h later all our RBX servers went down as well including the OVH status page and all other OVH web applications. Either their SBG and RBX data centers are somehow connected or those are indeed two independent incidents.
SBG was a power failure, followed by a generator failure. Not sure if they set up their network infrastructure in a way that this could spread but I find it hard to imagine that the outage in SBG triggered RBX going completely black. Unless of course they store their configuration files in SBG.
Very nice library. It would be nice to add the ability to generate random values based on a distribution, e.g. the values are random but correspond to a normal distribution with a given mean and standard deviation. This would be very useful for testing statistical libraries and applications.
Which attributes would you sample from a normal distribution here? I don't see any numerical attributes where this would make sense. One could add weight, height, age etc. and sample from the relevant geographical/gender distributions?
An example would be the processing of automatically acquired measurement data. Such data usually shows some kind of distribution (binominal, normal, geometric, etc...) that needs to be taken into account when validating such a tool.
Google Now will remind you when to leave in order to arrive to an appointment on time (as long as you are using Google Calendar) taking into account the local traffic situation. This one helped me already a few times not to miss a meeting.
I actually had an OpenTable confirmation in my gmail that wasn't added to my calendar, and Google Now still alerted me when it was time to leave. That one creeped me out until I realized it had scanned my email (still kinda creeps me out).
Cliperz (https://github.com/clipperz/password-manager) is another alternative for an open source online password manager. A key feature is that it encrypts all information locally via javascript so the master key is never send over the wire.
You could add links to the other chapters at the beginning of each article. This way it will be much easier for readers to navigate through the series.
A few improvement suggestions:
Using Chrome the entries of the File Menu are not readable
The Bold and Italic buttons should change their state if the selected text is bold or italic
It would be nice if the size of a text field can be changed by resizing the box
