Wow - thanks for pointing this out. After a few minutes I can do both techniques. Basically, one is looking beyond the image and the other is looking in front of the image.
Looking beyond however seems MUCH easier as your eyes don't cross nearly as much, though.
Yes, they definitely use BGP, however at that level, you don't necessarily have a "transit" (internet) provider, like normal ISPs do. You just peer with all the tier1s.
So, when Sprint (AS1239) depeers with Cogent (AS174), unless Cogent has a TRANSIT link with ATT / Savvis / Qwest / Level3 / GX, etc, the traffic will not flow.
Yes, you'd think they would have a transit link worked out just in case an entire AS blinked out of existence, especially when you expect it could happen, but they apparently didn't. That or their BGP filters on the transit linked filtered out anything for Sprint/AS1239 because of the peering link with Sprint. *shrug* Yes it shouldn't have happened the way it did - but there's many reasons why it could have.
Sorry, I over-looked something.
They're saying they used low-frequency laser beams, which would imply ~850nm technology.
I misread low-frequency as lower-frequency, as in lower than 100GHz which would indeed be outside the range of a laser.
They "modulated data on two low-frequency laser beams" to create a 100GHz (3mm) interference pattern, but doesn't specify what frequency those laser beams were at.
It says they use "off-the-shelf optical telecommunication components" which normally operates from 850nm - 1550nm or 193THz - 352THz (IR).
If that's truly the case, perhaps the article is mistaken and they used two higher frequency lasers to create a lower frequency wave/interference that can more easily traverse a medium such as open air?
Not many people know that Tool's Lateralus actually follwos the Fibonacci sequence.
Black, (1)
and (1)
White are, (2)
all I see, (3)
in my infancy. (5)
Red and yellow then came to be (8)
reaching out to me (5)
lets me see (3)
# dpkg -i sk98lin-8.13-1-deb3.1-2.6.8-2-386.i386.deb Select ing previously deselected package sk98lin. (Reading database... 84296 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking sk98lin (from sk98lin-8.13-1-deb3.1-2.6.8-2-386.i386.deb)... Setting up sk98lin (8.13-1)... running depmod
The kernel this binary deb was installed against is 2.6.8/i386, Debian 3.1.
The actual download is pretty silly. You download a tar.gz file. This unzips into a total of 1 file (so why the.tar?). The format? ISO. To mount this, just use `mount -o loop file.iso/mount/point`
Here's a general feel for the unusual install.
blaze:~/intel# ls INTEL(R)_QSK_VER_1_3_DEBIAN.TAR.GZ blaze:~/in tel# tar -zxvf INTEL\(R\)_QSK_VER_1_3_DEBIAN.TAR.GZ Intel_Quick_ Start_Kit_v1_3_Debian.ISO blaze:~/intel# mount -o loop Intel_Quick_Start_Kit_v1_3_Debian.ISO/cdrom blaze:~/intel# cd/cdrom blaze:/cdrom# ls autorun autorun.inf docs drivers install license.txt blaze:/cdrom# cd drivers/ blaze:/cdrom/drivers# ls Debian sources blaze:/cdrom/drivers# cd Debian/ blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian# ls DEB_3.1 blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian# cd DEB_3.1/ blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1# ls audio graphics network blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1# cd network/ blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1/netw ork# ls e100 e1000 sk98lin blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1/netwo rk# cd e100 blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1/network/ e100# ls blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1/network/e1 00# cd.. blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1/network# cd sk98lin/ blaze:/cdrom/drivers/Debian/DEB_3.1/netw ork/sk98lin# ls md5sum.txt sk98lin-8.13-1-deb3.1-2.6.8-2-386.i386.deb
Keep in mind, the engine power % you mention is to keep the laser ON -indefinitly-. The laser will only need that 1.1% of engine power for less than a second to power one pulse from the laser. So, as you can imagine, this laser could be kept on indefinitly with no considerable loss of engine power for flight.
Here at work, we have an bt878 card in one of the windows machines in the NOC to watch TV.
I'd love to be able to run some type of PVR software on here. I tried BeyondTV however after registering for a trial account it never lets me log in so I can never download the programming for my area.
As far as MythTV. It looks great...too bad my TV tuner is on a windows box.
Regardless of if its to the home or business it rides over the same SONET network.
You say they don't use SONET rings for FTTH, but that is wrong. Maybe the local loop to the home may not be SONET but the fiber ring most definitly is.
Like I said, I work for a company that stands to make millions off of the LUS fiber deal in Lafayette, LA, yet I still oppose it.
Sympathetic to the bells? What motive could I have to be overly-sympathetic? Also I support the parent of the parent very very much. He knows what hes talking about and makes some excellent points that are commonly neglected by the masses who just want a ph4t p1p3 for little to nothing.
You're clearly sympathetic to the Bells, but your details on how they do fiber to the home (FTTH) are wrong. They don't use SONET rings for FTTH, and if they did, they wouldn't assign a slot per home, but would do something on demand.
I work for the company that helps maintain this fiber ring as well as work with LUS on a daily basis. We also have an OC3 drop directly into our building and we are a reseller for LUS in which we sell "Secure Business Internet" to provide 10mb/s internet service and managed IDS/VPN service to local businesses. So needless to say, I have hands on experience with this netowrk.
It's 100% Cisco SONET and is maintained using Cisco Transport Controller.
Please research before posting completely incorrect comments.
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If your looking for a SONET box, that would be the cisco ONS systems (I've got an ONS15454 sitting about 10ft away from me, running the OC3 link im on) however, if your going to be looking at equiv of say, the old 7200 routers, inside the presentation they have the 7200 equiv for this day and age documented in there and so this presentation is still relevant for *most* corporate and enterprise use.
Cisco ONS devices would be on your tier1/2 providers that actually jack into the fiber ring via direct STS signaling. You can slide in anything from a DS1 card to an OC192 card and have it MUX/DEMUX straight into/out-of the SONET ring. If this is what were talking about, then no, the presentation is not relevant.
Either way - the new ISR routers kick ass and I got to do minor load testing of my server/bandwidth by tossing a 6MB link on slashdot 8P.
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Post your thoughts of this presentation and the new features of the routers. I think these new routers are AMAZING. Check the presentation and let me know what you think of these upcoming ISRs.
I'll try to answer any questions the best I can. Sadly, I do not have any 2800's to play with yet as they are still on order for our lab.
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If you guys are interested in the next-generation of routers from Cisco, be sure to check out this presentation Cisco came to the office and gave regarding all the new bells and whistle of their new line of routers.
I think the coolest thing to come out with these is going to be the GUI router and PIX config. You can see some screenshots of it in the presentation, its mind-boggling and worth drooling over.
These routers also have specialized processors on them for everything they do. They have crypto chips to encrypt/decrypt things, they have DSP cards to decode voice, VPN accelerator chips, chips to process ACLs etc. They also have some badass modules for them including Unity (voice-mail) module for the router itself! A module with full voice-mail capability including a 10GB hard disk to store the messages along with 4+ DSPs on the card to decode the voice traffic going to/from that card. This takes a hell of alot of load of the CPU for more generic tasks.
Transfer rate "records" can be a little fuzzy, because you have differant types of transmission methods and physical link layers which are designed for differant situations and each may break a record in its respective area (i.e. X GB/s transfered over 200 miles with no amplification/repeaters)
On a side note, your standard fiber OC-192 is 10-Gbit/s. And your OC-48 is 2.45Gbit/s. While your OC-192s are definitly not common, its not unheard of for service providers with big ONS SONET networks to have them.
HP OpenView is what we use to manage thousands of network nodes/hubs. Everything is displayed in a hub/spoke fashion and it easily intigrates with all your equiptment using the SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). Not open source, however this tool would be easily adopted by any *nix lover. Everything is easily scriptable, and the GUI is based 100% off command-line apps. So, anything you can do in the GUI can be scripted and alarms can be HIGHLY customized, reports generated on site statistic, you can even view real-time graphs of performance, packet-rate, utilization, etc of any single interface, or multiple interfaces on the same graph.
Another tool of use is the Cisco Transport Controller...we use this to monitor a fiber network up in MA.
While I can't see any practical uses when considered in relation to phones, I definitly see a use for these in psychedelic trips.
Nothing better than complete sensory deprivation (even cutting of the sense of gravity) when taking a large amount of LSD/psilocybin mushrooms/DMT/etc. For those who wish to experience an amazing 'inner journey' - this would be perfect. Your mind's imagination will be the only thing that will feed the sensory parts of the brain.
Now for THAT use, I can *definitly* see a small market. For proof of concept, we can take a look at Alex Grey's Mindfold.
Even good old George Bush owns one!
No its not obsolete. I don't believe its made to be able to play badass new 3d games, but to get AWAY from that for a second. To go back to the past where young hackers had a very imtimate understanding of all the low-level details of any given system they were working on. I don't even think this is really ideal for future game developers as much as its for future hardware/software engineers.
This is definitly made to be used almost exclusivly in the educational setting, although - not necessariy the class room.
I am a second year computer engineering student. This little XGameStation seems like a godsend. I am not buying it because of its game development ability. I am buying it for its ability to be an example to new & upcoming hardware engineers.
With this XGameStation it seems I am pretty limitless when wanting to modify the hardware. Every design & implementation detail is documented, thereby creating one AMAZING learnign experience.
I believe because of this, they aren't going ot focus on making it a fun & modern gaming system to program for because modern gaming systems do not require as intimate of an understanding of the hardware and software.
I believe making the games may only be a VERY small part of what hackers will be doing on it. I dont see myself programming any games, however I do see myself hacking on the kernel or hacking on the hardware itself. My main concern is how all the low level software & hardware details all fit together.
Thats where this project fills its niche. I can't think of another system like it where all documentation is out in the open and is specificly made for those who wish to hack on it. Nothing like turining a whole bunch of conductive/non-conductive material into a complete working computer system AND knowing how it ALL works together and why:)
i just wonder how successful this product will be, and i think a large factor to that will be the cost, which i cant see being cheap since its sales probably wont be that high.
Having said all that, I expected to see this system at around $250...again, not because of its gaming ability but its educational abilities.
However, this product is priced VERY nicely at a mere $99 for all necessary equiptment & software to get goin!
I'm not sure if its exactly what you are looking for, but there are -tons- of topics, and I live in a relativly small city, and there are a few local meetups in the area of differant interests. It's a pretty cool service, and looks like it could grow into something quite cool.
If you want to test CPU performance, try a differant benchmark program. While your friends may have had a slower CPU, they most likely had a much better video card than you have. I'm sure you could find a rather decent card for cheap if your not *too* concerned with the latest/greatest. I'm chugging along on a GeForce2 TI, and its still serving me very nicely. [I paid quite a bit for it back in the day:\]
If your not concerned with 3D performance, 3DMark isnt a good program to base your judgements.
I'm not sure how it works, but my guess would be that rental places (Blockbuster, Holywood, etc) pay a large fee to the video game makers (buy the games for $1000 each or something) and the maker gives them the right to rent it out. Going and buying a game at Toys 'R' Us and renting it out is illegal.
I worked at blockbuster for quite a while.:\ They pay about $60-160 per VHS/DVD to rent, as for video games, I am not quite sure, however I don't think it was that far off.
Your best bet is to get a buisness license, find out the organization that Blockbuster is ordering thier movies/games from, then ask them if you could apply for a reseller account.
This seems like a good idea initially, but if people can continue using MS Office to communicate with users of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, then what encouragement do they have to use the free/less expensive alternatives? I think that, while this might encourage a standard document format, it has the negative effect of encouraging MS Office use.
I hate to say this, but I think in this case the wise choice is to use MS's tactics against itself.
Please stop your lame anti-MS FUD. The problem is not that a lot of people are using MS Office and we want them to use OpenOffice/KWord/etc. It is that we want all the offices to be able to open/save documents in a common format.
In fact, last week, I forgot to put my name on my paper when I saved it. So, when I was at school, I got on my ftp then realized I had saved it as a native OpenOffice document, so I was unable to add my name - and I lost points. Something like this can easily be avoided by all office programs being able to easily comply with AT LEAST one open format.
I especially dont think we should use MS's tactics against MS. We don't like MS simply *because* of its tactics. I could care less if they made a shitty OS - but, its thier tactics that make it so widespread and monopolized.
Again, I repeat -- I am not concerned with other peoples choice of office software, as long as it suits them, but it would be better for the masses if each office suite shared a nice file format.
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950.
So what the hell was that god Apollo about?
I have two WD200BD (Western Digital EIDE Protege 20GB) drives which I bought for cheap two years ago. Each drive is 20GB, turns at 7200RPMs, and has a 2MB cache.
I used a Abit KT7-RAID (HighPoint HPT370 RAID controller) motherboard and set the drives up in a RAID-0 array. I was running in PIO (eww) until I ran some benchmarks which rated my drives at around 4-5MB/sec - I changed into UDMA 5 (ATA100) and I got the following results with Nbench.
Disk Performance, MBytes/sec File size: 100.0 MBytes
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Wow - thanks for pointing this out. After a few minutes I can do both techniques. Basically, one is looking beyond the image and the other is looking in front of the image. Looking beyond however seems MUCH easier as your eyes don't cross nearly as much, though.
So, when Sprint (AS1239) depeers with Cogent (AS174), unless Cogent has a TRANSIT link with ATT / Savvis / Qwest / Level3 / GX, etc, the traffic will not flow.
Yes, you'd think they would have a transit link worked out just in case an entire AS blinked out of existence, especially when you expect it could happen, but they apparently didn't. That or their BGP filters on the transit linked filtered out anything for Sprint/AS1239 because of the peering link with Sprint. *shrug* Yes it shouldn't have happened the way it did - but there's many reasons why it could have.
Sorry, I over-looked something. They're saying they used low-frequency laser beams, which would imply ~850nm technology. I misread low-frequency as lower-frequency, as in lower than 100GHz which would indeed be outside the range of a laser.
They "modulated data on two low-frequency laser beams" to create a 100GHz (3mm) interference pattern, but doesn't specify what frequency those laser beams were at.
It says they use "off-the-shelf optical telecommunication components" which normally operates from 850nm - 1550nm or 193THz - 352THz (IR). If that's truly the case, perhaps the article is mistaken and they used two higher frequency lasers to create a lower frequency wave/interference that can more easily traverse a medium such as open air?
Not many people know that Tool's Lateralus actually follwos the Fibonacci sequence. Black, (1) and (1) White are, (2) all I see, (3) in my infancy. (5) Red and yellow then came to be (8) reaching out to me (5) lets me see (3)
The kernel this binary deb was installed against is 2.6.8/i386, Debian 3.1.
The actual download is pretty silly. You download a tar.gz file. This unzips into a total of 1 file (so why the .tar?). The format? ISO. To mount this, just use `mount -o loop file.iso /mount/point`
Here's a general feel for the unusual install.
Keep in mind, the engine power % you mention is to keep the laser ON -indefinitly-. The laser will only need that 1.1% of engine power for less than a second to power one pulse from the laser. So, as you can imagine, this laser could be kept on indefinitly with no considerable loss of engine power for flight.
I'd love to be able to run some type of PVR software on here. I tried BeyondTV however after registering for a trial account it never lets me log in so I can never download the programming for my area.
As far as MythTV. It looks great...too bad my TV tuner is on a windows box.
What a coincidence!
You say they don't use SONET rings for FTTH, but that is wrong. Maybe the local loop to the home may not be SONET but the fiber ring most definitly is.
Like I said, I work for a company that stands to make millions off of the LUS fiber deal in Lafayette, LA, yet I still oppose it.
Sympathetic to the bells? What motive could I have to be overly-sympathetic? Also I support the parent of the parent very very much. He knows what hes talking about and makes some excellent points that are commonly neglected by the masses who just want a ph4t p1p3 for little to nothing.
I work for the company that helps maintain this fiber ring as well as work with LUS on a daily basis. We also have an OC3 drop directly into our building and we are a reseller for LUS in which we sell "Secure Business Internet" to provide 10mb/s internet service and managed IDS/VPN service to local businesses. So needless to say, I have hands on experience with this netowrk.
It's 100% Cisco SONET and is maintained using Cisco Transport Controller.
Please research before posting completely incorrect comments.
Cisco ONS devices would be on your tier1/2 providers that actually jack into the fiber ring via direct STS signaling. You can slide in anything from a DS1 card to an OC192 card and have it MUX/DEMUX straight into/out-of the SONET ring. If this is what were talking about, then no, the presentation is not relevant.
Either way - the new ISR routers kick ass and I got to do minor load testing of my server/bandwidth by tossing a 6MB link on slashdot 8P.
Post your thoughts of this presentation and the new features of the routers. I think these new routers are AMAZING. Check the presentation and let me know what you think of these upcoming ISRs. I'll try to answer any questions the best I can. Sadly, I do not have any 2800's to play with yet as they are still on order for our lab.
Link to power-point presentation (Works great in OO.org): New Cisco Router presentation
I think the coolest thing to come out with these is going to be the GUI router and PIX config. You can see some screenshots of it in the presentation, its mind-boggling and worth drooling over.
These routers also have specialized processors on them for everything they do. They have crypto chips to encrypt/decrypt things, they have DSP cards to decode voice, VPN accelerator chips, chips to process ACLs etc. They also have some badass modules for them including Unity (voice-mail) module for the router itself! A module with full voice-mail capability including a 10GB hard disk to store the messages along with 4+ DSPs on the card to decode the voice traffic going to/from that card. This takes a hell of alot of load of the CPU for more generic tasks.
Anyway, the link again is http://blaze.topside.org/~topside/isr.ppt
On a side note, your standard fiber OC-192 is 10-Gbit/s. And your OC-48 is 2.45Gbit/s. While your OC-192s are definitly not common, its not unheard of for service providers with big ONS SONET networks to have them.
Another tool of use is the Cisco Transport Controller...we use this to monitor a fiber network up in MA.
Nothing better than complete sensory deprivation (even cutting of the sense of gravity) when taking a large amount of LSD/psilocybin mushrooms/DMT/etc. For those who wish to experience an amazing 'inner journey' - this would be perfect. Your mind's imagination will be the only thing that will feed the sensory parts of the brain.
Now for THAT use, I can *definitly* see a small market. For proof of concept, we can take a look at Alex Grey's Mindfold. Even good old George Bush owns one!
This is definitly made to be used almost exclusivly in the educational setting, although - not necessariy the class room.
I am a second year computer engineering student. This little XGameStation seems like a godsend. I am not buying it because of its game development ability. I am buying it for its ability to be an example to new & upcoming hardware engineers.
With this XGameStation it seems I am pretty limitless when wanting to modify the hardware. Every design & implementation detail is documented, thereby creating one AMAZING learnign experience.
I believe because of this, they aren't going ot focus on making it a fun & modern gaming system to program for because modern gaming systems do not require as intimate of an understanding of the hardware and software.
I believe making the games may only be a VERY small part of what hackers will be doing on it. I dont see myself programming any games, however I do see myself hacking on the kernel or hacking on the hardware itself. My main concern is how all the low level software & hardware details all fit together.
Thats where this project fills its niche. I can't think of another system like it where all documentation is out in the open and is specificly made for those who wish to hack on it. Nothing like turining a whole bunch of conductive/non-conductive material into a complete working computer system AND knowing how it ALL works together and why :)
i just wonder how successful this product will be, and i think a large factor to that will be the cost, which i cant see being cheap since its sales probably wont be that high.
Having said all that, I expected to see this system at around $250...again, not because of its gaming ability but its educational abilities.
However, this product is priced VERY nicely at a mere $99 for all necessary equiptment & software to get goin!
I'm not sure if its exactly what you are looking for, but there are -tons- of topics, and I live in a relativly small city, and there are a few local meetups in the area of differant interests. It's a pretty cool service, and looks like it could grow into something quite cool.
If your not concerned with 3D performance, 3DMark isnt a good program to base your judgements.
I worked at blockbuster for quite a while. :\ They pay about $60-160 per VHS/DVD to rent, as for video games, I am not quite sure, however I don't think it was that far off.
Your best bet is to get a buisness license, find out the organization that Blockbuster is ordering thier movies/games from, then ask them if you could apply for a reseller account.
Hope this helps..
Please stop your lame anti-MS FUD. The problem is not that a lot of people are using MS Office and we want them to use OpenOffice/KWord/etc. It is that we want all the offices to be able to open/save documents in a common format.
In fact, last week, I forgot to put my name on my paper when I saved it. So, when I was at school, I got on my ftp then realized I had saved it as a native OpenOffice document, so I was unable to add my name - and I lost points. Something like this can easily be avoided by all office programs being able to easily comply with AT LEAST one open format.
I especially dont think we should use MS's tactics against MS. We don't like MS simply *because* of its tactics. I could care less if they made a shitty OS - but, its thier tactics that make it so widespread and monopolized.
Again, I repeat -- I am not concerned with other peoples choice of office software, as long as it suits them, but it would be better for the masses if each office suite shared a nice file format.
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. So what the hell was that god Apollo about?
I used a Abit KT7-RAID (HighPoint HPT370 RAID controller) motherboard and set the drives up in a RAID-0 array. I was running in PIO (eww) until I ran some benchmarks which rated my drives at around 4-5MB/sec - I changed into UDMA 5 (ATA100) and I got the following results with Nbench.