I spent a couple of weeks in Armenia 6-7 years ago, at which point the ENTIRE country had a total bandwidth of something like 6mbit. There was only one state-run ISP (no competition was allowed at that time, that has changed it seems), and the company I worked for had somehow managed to get a 640kbit line from them, so we had roughly 10% of the entire country's bandwidth (for 2-300 people). At one point I stupidly did a apt-get upgrade which started downloading Evolution and lots of Gnome stuff, which in turn chocked the entire office's internet access. When I stopped the download it was running at roughly 600kbit, so at that point I was using 10% of the entire nation's bandwidth:)
The state communication monopoly also meant that I couldn't use my phone, since my provider did not have a roaming agreement. If you got really close to the Turkish border it did work though, if you could connect to a Turkish provider.
This said Armenia was incredibly beautiful, with very friendly people and great food, and I would really encourage anyone to go there!
What I find even more impressive is how NASA, ESA and others manages space probes I think, that's really extreme conditions in every way. Often huge communication delays and poor bandwidth, absolutely no chance of at least eventually fixing a problem on-site, hardware constantly being subjected to intense radiation and extreme temperature differences.
Imagine that rather unpleasant feeling you get when you reboot a remote server and you know you won't be able to go on-site any time soon to fix it if you did something wrong, then take that feeling and add the fact that you can _never_ fix it, that it costs millions or even billions to send it there, that lots of valuable science might be lost or never take place, and that you'll be guaranteed to read about your mistake in the news the following day. I guess it calls for rather extreme levels of testing before doing any changes at all.
"near-asynchronous replication" is wrong, should be "semi-synchronous replication" as stated in the article. Striving for almost having replication asynchronous sounds like a poor implementation of synchronous replication:)
I'm running Tomato, and reviews seems to indicate that it should be slightly faster than DD-WRT in some cases, but the difference would not be major in any sense. There's a year and a half old review of the two firmwares with some figures here.
None of them get close to 100 Mpbs unfortunately. Overclocking would help, but I doubt it would be enough. There's some info on overclocking DD-WRT here.
As for the RouterStation Pro there's some info on the recently completed competition to develop a Open-WRT based admin interface for it, posted in slashdot a few weeks ago, some furher details here.
I really like the WRT-routers, they're stable and cheap, but a bit too slow.
I have a WRT54GL and a 100/10 conection as well, and I can also confirm that getting above 30-40 Mbps is difficult. With some tweaking seems to be possible to reach 50 perhaps, but then the CPU simply won't handle more traffic. Enabling QoS or other features will obviously decrease this value even more. At first I thought I might have misconfigured something, but after a lot of googling this really seems to be the capacity limit of these routers.
Looking for an alternative that's quiet, low power and linux friendly I came across the Routerstation Pro http://www.ubnt.com/products/rspro.php. It runs the same linux-based firmwares as the WRT line of routers, but with a CPU clocked more than 3 times as high, more RAM and expansion possibilities etc. I have not tested it yet though, but reviews seems promising, routing 100 Mpbs should not be a problem.
Greenpeace lives on people's donations that are fed by fear of technology.
Reducing what Greenpeace does to just being fearful of technological progress seems very cynical. I'd say that in this case and most other cases as well being cautious about introducing something untested like Monsantos product to both nature and our own food supply has nothing to do with fear of technology, it's just common sense. I don't know about you, but I would be very reluctant to eat something which is surrounded by so much secrecy as MON863 seems to be, and Monsantos very poor track record on similar issues isn't exactly making me more reassured. Sad part is that most of us have probably already eaten this maize in some form without knowing it.
The pirate party is probably nothing more than a publicity stunt, however the impact that this question had on other Swedish political parties is quite substantial. This weekend the rather influential green party decided that they were pro-filesharing (although with some restrictions) and earlier representatives from other parties have said the same thing. While it probably won't have a major impact on the upcoming election in September it will none the less be an important question for some people.
Many of the services offered looks like either something google already offers or might want to offer. What are the odds that this company will be bought by google? Pretty low I'd say.
I find this whole thing very exciting and is more than happy with three good pictures at this stage. There are some more images here: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/huygens_image s_050114.html , but they're really not much to look at, so I prefer to get nicer ones later on instead of raw image data that you really cannot make anything out of anyway...
When the first Cassini images arrived I made a big thing about it at work, which was kinda stupid since the first raw data really did not look like anything of interest, so people did not really care about it at all after a couple of minutes. These three images on the other hand are really great, so I believe people will find them a lot more interesting.
You could always buy a Predator http://www.rctoys.com/predator.php and equip it with a GPS powered autopilot. Built-in wireless video camera and 1.5 hours of flight on one battery, yay!
Lycos Europe is not affected at all by this, it's an independent company controlled by Bertelsmann. Terra do own about a third of the company and is expected to sell this part as well quite soon, possibly to Bertelsmann.
A friend of a friend of mine (yeah yeah...) actually saw it a week ago, some kind of preview for journalists I believe. He had to sign a NDA so he couldn't really say anything about the plot, but he did say that he thought this one was much better than the first one. What troubles me most is that the soundtrack features Linkin Park...:)
According to the forums X-Com: Apocalypse doesn't work at all (it's not even listed in the games section), anyone knows if it is possible to run it in dosemu instead? I'd say it's one of the best games ever made, a shame that Microprose never released a patch to fix the quite serious bugs in it. Quite annoying when you after countless hours of playing discovered that all savegame files were corrupted meaning that you couldn't finish the game...
I'm not looking for a grand solution, I'm just feeling that we shouldn't worry to much about not having gone to Mars when there's millions of people dying from malnutrition and and thirst on this planet. And I do agree that exploration is natural and few things interest me more than this, but still I feel that there are more urging things to attend to.
While a mission to Mars probably would keep me glued to the TV like nothing before (well, except for MacGyver) I do agree that it probably would be more interesting for mankind to solve our problems on this planet before heading for the next one... Think where mankind could have been today if we had put the resources spent on destroying each other into something more meaningful instead.
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I spent a couple of weeks in Armenia 6-7 years ago, at which point the ENTIRE country had a total bandwidth of something like 6mbit. There was only one state-run ISP (no competition was allowed at that time, that has changed it seems), and the company I worked for had somehow managed to get a 640kbit line from them, so we had roughly 10% of the entire country's bandwidth (for 2-300 people). At one point I stupidly did a apt-get upgrade which started downloading Evolution and lots of Gnome stuff, which in turn chocked the entire office's internet access. When I stopped the download it was running at roughly 600kbit, so at that point I was using 10% of the entire nation's bandwidth :)
The state communication monopoly also meant that I couldn't use my phone, since my provider did not have a roaming agreement. If you got really close to the Turkish border it did work though, if you could connect to a Turkish provider.
This said Armenia was incredibly beautiful, with very friendly people and great food, and I would really encourage anyone to go there!
What I find even more impressive is how NASA, ESA and others manages space probes I think, that's really extreme conditions in every way. Often huge communication delays and poor bandwidth, absolutely no chance of at least eventually fixing a problem on-site, hardware constantly being subjected to intense radiation and extreme temperature differences. Imagine that rather unpleasant feeling you get when you reboot a remote server and you know you won't be able to go on-site any time soon to fix it if you did something wrong, then take that feeling and add the fact that you can _never_ fix it, that it costs millions or even billions to send it there, that lots of valuable science might be lost or never take place, and that you'll be guaranteed to read about your mistake in the news the following day. I guess it calls for rather extreme levels of testing before doing any changes at all.
"near-asynchronous replication" is wrong, should be "semi-synchronous replication" as stated in the article. Striving for almost having replication asynchronous sounds like a poor implementation of synchronous replication :)
I'm running Tomato, and reviews seems to indicate that it should be slightly faster than DD-WRT in some cases, but the difference would not be major in any sense. There's a year and a half old review of the two firmwares with some figures here.
None of them get close to 100 Mpbs unfortunately. Overclocking would help, but I doubt it would be enough. There's some info on overclocking DD-WRT here.
As for the RouterStation Pro there's some info on the recently completed competition to develop a Open-WRT based admin interface for it, posted in slashdot a few weeks ago, some furher details here.
I really like the WRT-routers, they're stable and cheap, but a bit too slow.
I have a WRT54GL and a 100/10 conection as well, and I can also confirm that getting above 30-40 Mbps is difficult. With some tweaking seems to be possible to reach 50 perhaps, but then the CPU simply won't handle more traffic. Enabling QoS or other features will obviously decrease this value even more. At first I thought I might have misconfigured something, but after a lot of googling this really seems to be the capacity limit of these routers.
Looking for an alternative that's quiet, low power and linux friendly I came across the Routerstation Pro http://www.ubnt.com/products/rspro.php. It runs the same linux-based firmwares as the WRT line of routers, but with a CPU clocked more than 3 times as high, more RAM and expansion possibilities etc. I have not tested it yet though, but reviews seems promising, routing 100 Mpbs should not be a problem.
Reducing what Greenpeace does to just being fearful of technological progress seems very cynical. I'd say that in this case and most other cases as well being cautious about introducing something untested like Monsantos product to both nature and our own food supply has nothing to do with fear of technology, it's just common sense. I don't know about you, but I would be very reluctant to eat something which is surrounded by so much secrecy as MON863 seems to be, and Monsantos very poor track record on similar issues isn't exactly making me more reassured. Sad part is that most of us have probably already eaten this maize in some form without knowing it.
Have a look at http://stats.autonomica.se/mrtg/sums/Stockholm_GE. html. The fact that the pirate bay clearly affected the total bandwidth of the entire city of Stockholm says something of how big the site is.
The pirate party is probably nothing more than a publicity stunt, however the impact that this question had on other Swedish political parties is quite substantial. This weekend the rather influential green party decided that they were pro-filesharing (although with some restrictions) and earlier representatives from other parties have said the same thing. While it probably won't have a major impact on the upcoming election in September it will none the less be an important question for some people.
Many of the services offered looks like either something google already offers or might want to offer. What are the odds that this company will be bought by google? Pretty low I'd say.
I wonder how this fits in with their cooperation with Mysql on MaxDB?
No.. That's not true at all. If you look here http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/in dex.html you'll find loads of really stunning pictures, the 3D pictures that the stereo camera captures are really superb I think.
When the first Cassini images arrived I made a big thing about it at work, which was kinda stupid since the first raw data really did not look like anything of interest, so people did not really care about it at all after a couple of minutes. These three images on the other hand are really great, so I believe people will find them a lot more interesting.
This is Lycos Europe, not lycos.com, two totally different companies that shares nothing but the name and the logo.
Actually Spray is owned by Lycos Europe, so it's the same campaign :)
You could always buy a Predator http://www.rctoys.com/predator.php and equip it with a GPS powered autopilot. Built-in wireless video camera and 1.5 hours of flight on one battery, yay!
Lycos Europe is not affected at all by this, it's an independent company controlled by Bertelsmann. Terra do own about a third of the company and is expected to sell this part as well quite soon, possibly to Bertelsmann.
Anyone tried running QNX on the IPAQ? Available here There used to be some nice screenshots as well but they seem to have disappeared.
A friend of a friend of mine (yeah yeah...) actually saw it a week ago, some kind of preview for journalists I believe. He had to sign a NDA so he couldn't really say anything about the plot, but he did say that he thought this one was much better than the first one. What troubles me most is that the soundtrack features Linkin Park... :)
According to the forums X-Com: Apocalypse doesn't work at all (it's not even listed in the games section), anyone knows if it is possible to run it in dosemu instead? I'd say it's one of the best games ever made, a shame that Microprose never released a patch to fix the quite serious bugs in it. Quite annoying when you after countless hours of playing discovered that all savegame files were corrupted meaning that you couldn't finish the game...
I'm not looking for a grand solution, I'm just feeling that we shouldn't worry to much about not having gone to Mars when there's millions of people dying from malnutrition and and thirst on this planet. And I do agree that exploration is natural and few things interest me more than this, but still I feel that there are more urging things to attend to.
While a mission to Mars probably would keep me glued to the TV like nothing before (well, except for MacGyver) I do agree that it probably would be more interesting for mankind to solve our problems on this planet before heading for the next one... Think where mankind could have been today if we had put the resources spent on destroying each other into something more meaningful instead.