there is a big problem with this whole issue: under their current pricing scheme, it it impossible to watch more than 1 hour of tv per month.
they charge about 5 cent per MB for downloads above their limit of 1 GB/month.
if they would introduce a fair pricing scheme, some people would be able to use broadband technology is a meaningful way.
in austria, alternative providers are only slowly gaining ground.
here is revolutionary new idea, that might chance the software industry radically:
instead of pushing software developement cost in astronomical heights, consoder the following:
software might be good enough for most jobs, even if it contains a sort of...umm.. minor imperfections, not visible to the human eye, just one in, say 2 million bytes.
so why don't we ship software in this form?
please forvige me if am am ignorant. the main reason for me i keep writing apps in java (server) and dhtml (client) and swing is, that i do not know what XUL my do better.
dhtml has quite good cross-browser support for my needs and anything more comlex than picture-swapping and layer moving is done on the server side, anyways.
i dont't think a majority of the browers will have xul enabled soon.
i never tried out qemu, but i suspect it to be substantially slower than a native knoppix boot. on top of qemu comes the fact, that the whole system runs from a cd, which by itself has bad seek times.
i hope that people won't get false implessions, because they will get that 'linux runs slower than windows' feeling.
i think they are trying to puch the commercial skype platform in favor of an open standard, like enum. the great ease-of-use combined with well-thought technology (nat traversal, codec) may very well succeed, if there is no open source alternative established with the same features.
they don't have a generic database which performs this well. they just take a specific problem, and write a custom-made application which produces new output as soon as there is enough new data aviable.
Internet Speed Quadrupled by International Team During 2004 Bandwidth Challenge
PITTSBURGH, Pa.--For the second consecutive year, the "High Energy Physics" team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers have won the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge with a sustained data transfer of 101 gigabits per second (Gbps) between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. This is more than four times faster than last year's record of 23.2 gigabits per second, which was set by the same team.
The team hopes this new demonstration will encourage scientists and engineers in many sectors of society to develop and deploy a new generation of revolutionary Internet applications.
The international team is led by the California Institute of Technology and includes as partners the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Fermilab, CERN, the University of Florida, the University of Manchester, University College London (UCL) and the organization UKLight, Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), the state universities of São Paulo (USP and UNESP), the Kyungpook National University, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). The group's "High-Speed TeraByte Transfers for Physics" record data transfer speed is equivalent to downloading three full DVD movies per second, or transmitting all of the content of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes, and it corresponds to approximately 5% of the rate that all forms of digital content were produced on Earth during the test.
The new mark, according to Bandwidth Challenge (BWC) sponsor Wesley Kaplow, vice president of engineering and operations for Qwest Government Services exceeded the sum of all the throughput marks submitted in the present and previous years by other BWC entrants. The extraordinary achieved bandwidth was made possible in part through the use of the FAST TCP protocol developed by Professor Steven Low and his Caltech Netlab team. It was achieved through the use of seven 10 Gbps links to Cisco 7600 and 6500 series switch-routers provided by Cisco Systems at the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing (CACR) booth, and three 10 Gbps links to the SLAC/Fermilab booth. The external network connections included four dedicated wavelengths of National LambdaRail, between the SC2004 show floor in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles (two waves), Chicago, and Jacksonville, as well as three 10 Gbps connections across the Scinet network infrastructure at SC2004 with Qwest-provided wavelengths to the Internet2 Abilene Network (two 10 Gbps links), the TeraGrid (three 10 Gbps links) and ESnet. 10 gigabit ethernet (10 GbE) interfaces provided by S2io were used on servers running FAST at the Caltech/CACR booth, and interfaces from Chelsio equipped with transport offload engines (TOE) running standard TCP were used at the SLAC/FNAL booth. During the test, the network links over both the Abilene and National Lambda Rail networks were shown to operate successfully at up to 99 percent of full capacity.
The Bandwidth Challenge allowed the scientists and engineers involved to preview the globally distributed grid system that is now being developed in the US and Europe in preparation for the next generation of high-energy physics experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operation in 2007. Physicists at the LHC will search for the Higgs particles thought to be responsible for mass in the universe and for supersymmetry and other fundamentally new phenomena bearing on the nature of matter and spacetime, in an energy range made accessible by the LHC for the first time.
The largest physics collaborations at the LHC, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), and the Toroidal Large Hadron Collider Apparatus (ATLAS), each encompass more than 2000 physicists and engineers from 160 universities and laboratories spread around the globe. In order to fully exploit the potential for scientific discoveries, many petabytes of data will have to be processed, distributed, and analyzed. The key to discovery is the analysis phase, where i
a scalable routing protocol. the current implementations are well suited for about 10-15 nodes, more than that is just painful. the future: HSLS protocol with a multipath routing that converges to a wardrop equilibrium.
self-interference of wireless signals. the bandwidth halves on every hop, unless they use a plethora of wired backbone links.
getting this system to work on every platform, keeping mobile customers connected, even if they move from one access point to another. (they will have to install the routing software on every mobile node)
but i suppose some of this issues will be solved with that buget. and i hope the outcomings of this work will be released as OSS.
would you seriously consider running a closed-source application, that is
a) cosuming your entire cpu resources
b) recieves instructions from the internet
c) sends back information gathered at your computer
d) has not provided any scientific value (a la seti@home) ..
this program could do anything! this looks like a perfect and cheap way for intelligence services to crack all those rsa keys they ever wanted.
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there is a big problem with this whole issue: under their current pricing scheme, it it impossible to watch more than 1 hour of tv per month.
they charge about 5 cent per MB for downloads above their limit of 1 GB/month.
if they would introduce a fair pricing scheme, some people would be able to use broadband technology is a meaningful way.
in austria, alternative providers are only slowly gaining ground.
here is revolutionary new idea, that might chance the software industry radically:
...umm.. minor imperfections, not visible to the human eye, just one in, say 2 million bytes.
instead of pushing software developement cost in astronomical heights, consoder the following:
software might be good enough for most jobs, even if it contains a sort of
so why don't we ship software in this form?
please forvige me if am am ignorant. the main reason for me i keep writing apps in java (server) and dhtml (client) and swing is, that i do not know what XUL my do better.
dhtml has quite good cross-browser support for my needs and anything more comlex than picture-swapping and layer moving is done on the server side, anyways.
i dont't think a majority of the browers will have xul enabled soon.
i never tried out qemu, but i suspect it to be substantially slower than a native knoppix boot.
on top of qemu comes the fact, that the whole system runs from a cd, which by itself has bad seek times.
i hope that people won't get false implessions, because they will get that 'linux runs slower than windows' feeling.
i think they are trying to puch the commercial skype platform in favor of an open standard, like enum. the great ease-of-use combined with well-thought technology (nat traversal, codec) may very well succeed, if there is no open source alternative established with the same features.
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the coral p2p cache seems to have its limits, too:
when loading the page http://typogenerator.net.nyud.net:8090/, the following message comes:
Error: 403 Forbidden
Error when attempting to use the Coral Content Distribution Network (http://www.coralcdn.org/).
The hostname specified in the Coralized URL is currently over its hourly quota. Please try back later.
Server CoralWebPrx/0.1.12 (See http://coralcdn.org/) at 130.37.198.243:8090
they don't have a generic database which performs this well.
they just take a specific problem, and write a custom-made application which produces new output as soon as there is enough new data aviable.
i would say it is a rotton brain from one of the mars-robot-aliens. this will make a great plot for a trash movie.
i clicked on a link that said: "install spyware"
if you want to read TFA, i was lucky i yould grab it early enough.
/home/httpd/vhosts/pocketpcaddict.com/httpdocs/db/ db.php on line 88
it reads as follows:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in
the will all be replaced by shell scipts of varying length.
Internet Speed Quadrupled by International Team During 2004 Bandwidth Challenge
PITTSBURGH, Pa.--For the second consecutive year, the "High Energy Physics" team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers have won the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge with a sustained data transfer of 101 gigabits per second (Gbps) between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. This is more than four times faster than last year's record of 23.2 gigabits per second, which was set by the same team.
The team hopes this new demonstration will encourage scientists and engineers in many sectors of society to develop and deploy a new generation of revolutionary Internet applications.
The international team is led by the California Institute of Technology and includes as partners the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Fermilab, CERN, the University of Florida, the University of Manchester, University College London (UCL) and the organization UKLight, Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), the state universities of São Paulo (USP and UNESP), the Kyungpook National University, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). The group's "High-Speed TeraByte Transfers for Physics" record data transfer speed is equivalent to downloading three full DVD movies per second, or transmitting all of the content of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes, and it corresponds to approximately 5% of the rate that all forms of digital content were produced on Earth during the test.
The new mark, according to Bandwidth Challenge (BWC) sponsor Wesley Kaplow, vice president of engineering and operations for Qwest Government Services exceeded the sum of all the throughput marks submitted in the present and previous years by other BWC entrants. The extraordinary achieved bandwidth was made possible in part through the use of the FAST TCP protocol developed by Professor Steven Low and his Caltech Netlab team. It was achieved through the use of seven 10 Gbps links to Cisco 7600 and 6500 series switch-routers provided by Cisco Systems at the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing (CACR) booth, and three 10 Gbps links to the SLAC/Fermilab booth. The external network connections included four dedicated wavelengths of National LambdaRail, between the SC2004 show floor in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles (two waves), Chicago, and Jacksonville, as well as three 10 Gbps connections across the Scinet network infrastructure at SC2004 with Qwest-provided wavelengths to the Internet2 Abilene Network (two 10 Gbps links), the TeraGrid (three 10 Gbps links) and ESnet. 10 gigabit ethernet (10 GbE) interfaces provided by S2io were used on servers running FAST at the Caltech/CACR booth, and interfaces from Chelsio equipped with transport offload engines (TOE) running standard TCP were used at the SLAC/FNAL booth. During the test, the network links over both the Abilene and National Lambda Rail networks were shown to operate successfully at up to 99 percent of full capacity.
The Bandwidth Challenge allowed the scientists and engineers involved to preview the globally distributed grid system that is now being developed in the US and Europe in preparation for the next generation of high-energy physics experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operation in 2007. Physicists at the LHC will search for the Higgs particles thought to be responsible for mass in the universe and for supersymmetry and other fundamentally new phenomena bearing on the nature of matter and spacetime, in an energy range made accessible by the LHC for the first time.
The largest physics collaborations at the LHC, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), and the Toroidal Large Hadron Collider Apparatus (ATLAS), each encompass more than 2000 physicists and engineers from 160 universities and laboratories spread around the globe. In order to fully exploit the potential for scientific discoveries, many petabytes of data will have to be processed, distributed, and analyzed. The key to discovery is the analysis phase, where i
but i suppose some of this issues will be solved with that buget. and i hope the outcomings of this work will be released as OSS.
microsoft the good guy? i'm out. this is a brain-strech that is too far-catched for me.
would you seriously consider running a closed-source application, that is
..
a) cosuming your entire cpu resources
b) recieves instructions from the internet
c) sends back information gathered at your computer
d) has not provided any scientific value (a la seti@home)
this program could do anything! this looks like a perfect and cheap way for intelligence services to crack all those rsa keys they ever wanted.
does anyone know on which frequencies wimax operates? is there any chance it won't interfere with my current 4 km 802.11g link?
did anyone actually find out what happened to beagle 2? was there any official explanation?
now they are taken appart by law enforcement agencys, but on top of that, their servers are being slashdotted
what kind of operation system runs on this beast?
did they write something froms scratch or did they just write some kernel patches
insmod torus_cpu.o
a kind of software like this should work like a spell checker, and highlight the chrunchy parts.
i wonder if they made any preperations for his return. or was that supposed to be a one-way ticket? (like the proposed manned mars missions)
From TFA - "Unless you have a lot of experience, don't try to invent your own security system, it will just be broken"
instead, just bindly trust that handy cryphography API that came with your operating system
- (c) by the NSA
there is a feature i am missing for apache 2.x:
can i throttle to montly amount of traffic per virtual site?
there was a mod in apache 1.x but i know none for 2.x