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  1. That's nothing compared to the Cubatron by neuro.slug · · Score: 5, Informative · on A Giant DIY LED Display

    The Big Round Cubatron is a much bigger, much cooler DIY LED display. It was the cool thing at this year's Burning Man.

    Videos here, here, here, ...well, you get the idea.

  2. Re:Disturbing... by dragons_flight · · Score: 1 · on U.S. Calls For Public Meeting on ICANN Replacement

    One could just as easily argue the converse. Dump the country codes and have everyone use location neutral identifiers; after all com, net, edu, and org already account for more than 60% of all hosts.

    But the truth is that neither proposal will fly. There are too many existing websites to demand that billions (trillions?) of href's be changed to accomodate major architectural deletions to the existing DNS system. And that is to say nothing of the staunchly entrenched national interests in support of the existing TLDs.

  3. Re:IPv6 Business Case by VGPowerlord · · Score: 3, Informative · on IPv6 Readiness Report
    There was no business case for the transition from ARPANET's old NCP protocol to TCP/IPv4 in the 1980s - but there were technically compelling reasons. Luckily the ARPANET pioneers realized that a new protocol was needed to easily integrate the new services and applications they were thinking of deploying.

    To be exact, ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 1983. NCP had a few shortcomings

    • Like UDP, NCP had no way of handling lost packets. TCP introduced packet acknowledgement to fix this.
    • NCP had no real routing. TCP/IP introduced the concept of gateways, routers, and independant networks/subnets.

    The difference between IPv4 and IPv6? The size of the address space and the human representation of the addresses (hexadecimal instead of decimal).

    While we're on the subject, it took over 8 years from the publication of Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn's A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection (May 1974), which described TCP, for ARPANET to incorporate TCP/IP.

    It's also important to note that the size of the Internet in the 1980s was nothing like it is today. The Internet only had 562 hosts in August 1983, 8 months after the changeover. The same source states that the Internet had 353,284,187 hosts in July 2005. (Source: Hobbes' Internet Timeline, with data taken from Mark Lottor's zone program reports, and the ISC)

  4. Re:Oh boy. I wish I had that excuse by cr0sh · · Score: 1 · on A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning Man Desert

    I don't know if I love these walls of color more or less than the "cube" voxel-display art piece that was on the Playa (IIRC, somewhere around 4:30 or so, not to far out toward the man from the Esplanade), called the Cubatron by Mark Lottor...

  5. The WizTemp may be a clue by netringer · · Score: 1 · on Using Joystick Ports to Measure Case Temperature?

    Network Wizards, the first site that kept Internet census numbers, had a product called the WizTemp that connected to an RS-232 port on a *nux machine. I used a bunch of them on a Sun/Solaris. It was a thermistor in mini-phone plug that plugged directly into a RS-232 connector. It included a script that would monitor the temperature and log it and take actual- send an email - on high temperatures.

    Alas, the site site says the WizTemp product is no longer available, but you may want to email him to get the details on what he used and how it worked.

  6. The WizTemp may be a clue by netringer · · Score: 1 · on Using Joystick Ports to Measure Case Temperature?

    Network Wizards, the first site that kept Internet census numbers, had a product called the WizTemp that connected to an RS-232 port on a *nux machine. I used a bunch of them on a Sun/Solaris. It was a thermistor in mini-phone plug that plugged directly into a RS-232 connector. It included a script that would monitor the temperature and log it and take actual- send an email - on high temperatures.

    Alas, the site site says the WizTemp product is no longer available, but you may want to email him to get the details on what he used and how it worked.