I am tech support for roughly 600 users, and I noticed that I was getting a large number of fried serial ports (thus, motherboard replacements) on a certain type of pc. When I checked, every pc with a failed port had a Palm on that serial port. Not all pc's w/Palms fried of course - but when, out of 600 pc's, every bad serial port has a Palm Pilot attached to it, I get suspicious. And yes, hardware-identical pc's had devices attached to the serial port and yet did not lose the port. Hmmm... To date, I have ONLY lost serial ports to Palm Pilots.
This is vapor if I've ever heard it. I don't know where these guys are going to come up with all this "existing bandwidth" that they intend to utilize. I live in AK, and there is not nearly the connectivity to support a project like this. Even assuming that the bandwidth issue is magically taken care of, there are the logistic nightmares involved in building any kind of structure on permafrost, supplying and manning said facility, impact to local communities, impact to wildlife, etc. The list continues... No way is this happening. But for the record (and for all you lower 48'ers reading this), there ARE qualified SysAdmins already living up here, and you'd probably have to pay most of us a helluva lot more to move Outside than to take a 2 on/2 off job on the Slope! (Especially if we could get our hands on all that bandwidth...)
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I am tech support for roughly 600 users, and I noticed that I was getting a large number of fried serial ports (thus, motherboard replacements) on a certain type of pc. When I checked, every pc with a failed port had a Palm on that serial port. Not all pc's w/Palms fried of course - but when, out of 600 pc's, every bad serial port has a Palm Pilot attached to it, I get suspicious. And yes, hardware-identical pc's had devices attached to the serial port and yet did not lose the port. Hmmm... To date, I have ONLY lost serial ports to Palm Pilots.
This is vapor if I've ever heard it. I don't know where these guys are going to come up with all this "existing bandwidth" that they intend to utilize. I live in AK, and there is not nearly the connectivity to support a project like this. Even assuming that the bandwidth issue is magically taken care of, there are the logistic nightmares involved in building any kind of structure on permafrost, supplying and manning said facility, impact to local communities, impact to wildlife, etc. The list continues... No way is this happening. But for the record (and for all you lower 48'ers reading this), there ARE qualified SysAdmins already living up here, and you'd probably have to pay most of us a helluva lot more to move Outside than to take a 2 on/2 off job on the Slope! (Especially if we could get our hands on all that bandwidth...)