Yep. and the gov't didn't like Tesla too much, so they got rid of him and his facilities.
You know, Tesla came to the USA to harness the hydroelectric power (as we know it now) at Niagra Falls. He was the first, afaik, to output AC power from a hydro source as great as the Falls.
it's about time Micro$oft got put in their place about stealing other peoples stuff.
Forseen problems, and a little "junk"
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Yeah, that's all we need is more space debris!
On a serious note:
It will be interesting to see how these webservers are going to handle connections from earth and to see what type of bandwidth they can handle, collectively.
One problem I see is that the satellites, er, MACs, I assume, are going to be put into LEO (Low Earth Orbit) to maximize the data throughput. The disadvantage of LEO is that one satellite will only have about a 10-15 minute (sometimes less) "talk-time" to a single spot on earth, since they are not geostationary.
Seeing how there will be such short time for one to communicate to a single satellite, they will have to devise a scheme to pass a user onto the next visible satellite when the one they're on goes over the horizon. This may prove to be the simple part!
For those of us who run multi-server web sites, we know the problem with passing a user from one server to the next and maintaining "persistance". By persistance I mean applications that need to be started and finished on the same webserver -- shopping carts, credit card authorizations, etc, etc. If they plan to offer high-end web services such as these on the satellites, they will have to come up with a pretty sophisticated load-balancing scheme that will allow them to keep persistant connections persistant.
Seems this will be doing something like PortSentury (sp) does. Automatically detect port scans and firewall the host. Of course, this will be on a much larger scale. Will be interesting to see if this software really works well and how it was written.
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Yep. I was thinking that same thing. FB is not the fastest thing to render graphics over. It will be interesting to see how quick this GTK "port" is on a FB.
Make sure you get one that outputs a synchable
time string. Most of the GSPs used to sync clocks with put out a voltage every second by which your clocker program will sync.
Whoa, where have you been? This is old news - the confluence project has been around for a while now. I'm actively involved with it on 31N, so far have been able to get to 4 confluences, one of which was in the middle of a damn swamp!
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cingular commercials SUCKED, come on!
Now, the Pepsi commercials were hilarious, and the Budweiser commercials.
Yep. and the gov't didn't like Tesla too much, so they got rid of him and his facilities.
You know, Tesla came to the USA to harness the hydroelectric power (as we know it now) at Niagra Falls. He was the first, afaik, to output AC power from a hydro source as great as the Falls.
But hey, I'm just rambling.
it's about time Micro$oft got put in their place about stealing other peoples stuff.
Yeah, that's all we need is more space debris!
On a serious note:
It will be interesting to see how these webservers are going to handle connections from earth and to see what type of bandwidth they can handle, collectively.
One problem I see is that the satellites, er, MACs, I assume, are going to be put into LEO (Low Earth Orbit) to maximize the data throughput. The disadvantage of LEO is that one satellite will only have about a 10-15 minute (sometimes less) "talk-time" to a single spot on earth, since they are not geostationary.
Seeing how there will be such short time for one to communicate to a single satellite, they will have to devise a scheme to pass a user onto the next visible satellite when the one they're on goes over the horizon. This may prove to be the simple part!
For those of us who run multi-server web sites, we know the problem with passing a user from one server to the next and maintaining "persistance". By persistance I mean applications that need to be started and finished on the same webserver -- shopping carts, credit card authorizations, etc, etc. If they plan to offer high-end web services such as these on the satellites, they will have to come up with a pretty sophisticated load-balancing scheme that will allow them to keep persistant connections persistant.
Cheers,
Dan
Seems this will be doing something like PortSentury (sp) does. Automatically detect port scans and firewall the host. Of course, this will be on a much larger scale. Will be interesting to see if this software really works well and how it was written.
Yep. I was thinking that same thing. FB is not the fastest thing to render graphics over. It will be interesting to see how quick this GTK "port" is on a FB.
I think I'll stick with X though.
Yeah yeah, sounds just like the government talking here. "Nice monolith, but uh, your in a bird sanctuary! $4000 fine please!"
We will :) You have to take a picture of your
GPS unit showing the coords when you submit it to
the conflucene folks.
YEah yeah, you *could* alter the pic of your GPS in gimp or what have you, but what's the point.
Make sure you get one that outputs a synchable
time string. Most of the GSPs used to sync clocks with put out a voltage every second by which your clocker program will sync.
Whoa, where have you been? This is old news - the confluence project has been around for a while now. I'm actively involved with it on 31N, so far have been able to get to 4 confluences, one of which was in the middle of a damn swamp!
Just imagine what this would do to help the porn sites. MMMMM *THINKS*
Worlds Largest supercomputer? Largest as in
processing power, or number of boxes? I thought
Google had the largest cluster!