Private line stuff I guess. Probably GigE fiber or better. I went on Savvis.com website a few years ago and they mentioned ultra fast stuff for Wall Street. I just dismissed it as low latency Internet - sounds like I may be wrong.
You could be right - I just find the 1U and 2U stuff extra noisy - even if there are no hard drives and even if the room is 'cold' (keeping the RPM of the fans lower). Been in many data centers and I've never considered them to be quiet. Thanks for your insight.
My goodness - how embarrassing - thank you for pointing this out to me. I'd like to blame it on a typographical error, but the truth is that the error is a hybrid between a 'muscle memory' effect and me being an non proof reading mental case. Thanks for pointing this out. Don't apologize - I couldn't agree with you more here. Sorry!
In the 60 minute video, he goes on about saying something about how quite the machines are (exception being the air conditioning). Is there something I'm missing? I've been in plenty of server rooms and servers always seem to be noisy. Is he trying to contrast a traditional trading floor with the server room (being quite)?
OR
Are these some type of super new server that doesn't make any noise that I'm simply not aware of?
The other thing I'm wondering about is the 65 micro (not milli) second times. What permits this incredibly fast trip time? Are they dealing with simply ethernet here or something else? Otherwise looks like a typical data centre - far more tidy that I normally encounter however.
Wow/. is a tough crowd (Score:0 Troll) - the masses interpret things in the negative for the most part. "BYTE ME" could have easily meant "I like Byte, sign me up" - I can see why that would score me a zero, but I'm a little surprised considering folks on here love to be so witty. Wasn't meant to read 'bite me'. Merry Christmas! and lighten up!!!:) (not a troll)
Providing the same shit service they give to anyone who buys a new car and has trouble with them. They sell you a warranty that doesn't cover anything. Purchased 3 GM's (2 brand new - all, 'high end' GM) - always problems with the dealership doing a poor job on repairs/warranty work/etc. I'm done buying anything GM.
Is there anyway to setup a faraday cage with a cell phone inside it with some passive antenna repeater? That way you could isolate the testing to a small group of phones. Just an idea.
This is pure genius. Goes to show they'll put anything on the air at times with out checking their sources. For instance, CNN has an 'authority' on the topics at hand over the telephone, only to find out it's a prankster that's a fan of Howard Stern - I love when stuff like this happens. The guy is so good at keeping a straight face - that's the tricky part.
I was about to leave a comment saying "Getting Started in Eletronics" - you beat me to it. Best thing I could ever recommend to anyone just starting out. Amazing book. My book was getting old so I scanned all the pages into a PDF, only to find on BitTorrent that someone beat me to it!!!
Im relatively young, and I've had a license for about 10 years now. I've noticed a decline of activity certainly on the repeaters and APRS traffic. Many of the HAM/Amateur resources have declined on the net as well. I understand that HAM is not all about 2m repeaters/FM voice - but that is the basic internet eqv of a
"ping". For instance, ATV (amateur TV) should be SO easy to get into, but I have never experienced a downlink from anyone ever broadcasting a signal, and it's ridiculously simply for anyone to receive an ATV broadcast using an old TV set. I mean, sending a TV signal thru the air, how cool would that be? Yes, there are a lot of experimental potential of the bands, but few are doing anything with it.
I am not trying to be a snarky person - but this is my observation. I'm certain there are the odd folks spread across doing a few cool things, but not enough of them to really notice.
Other problem is there are a lot of 'uncool' old farts on the air. I don't mean anyone who happens to be well seasoned or older, I mean folks who are downright nasty and don't encourage the young to experiment. They have this elitest attitute which keeps people uninterested in participating - or when people are 'rag chewing' it's always incredibly boring. Nothing of interest, if you start you own conversation you inevitably get someone on the air breaking in, giving you a hard time about whatever they can think of.
I love the idea of HAM radio, and I really hope the FCC doesn't get any ideas to release airspace for commercial interest, but we need more innovation and more lax attitudes about protocol to keep things social and to keep things growing.
There are just so many useful, fun and interesting things that can be done with the spectrum, and the amateur community has had years to work on things, but nothing materializes. Reminds me of open source projects that get abondoned. Very sad. Internet definately was a major blow to HAM radio. I remember witnessing (didn't have the license then) accessing HAM BBS's over the airwaves at 9600 baud - was so cool. I eventually got the license and there was only one reachable HAM BBS and it was about 80 kms away - then it went off the air forever.
By the way, I just purchased an ICOM IC-7000 - awesome radio, just wish a TNC was built into it!
I couldn't agree with you more - seems a good few of the/. linux user base has 'something to prove' quite often. It gets old real quick. I just wish it would end.
Ah, NASA already put someone on the moon - WITHOUT CAD SOFTWARE. Please, the costs of putting someone on the moon far exceed the cost of AutoCAD. Splurge a little.
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Refreshing to see when tech is being used for good. I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but this elevates my opinion of the legitimate use of the website.
Yes, I thought this as well. I still think the CPU's and power supplies fans would be noisy (ac or dc). Good call on RAM and SSD.
Private line stuff I guess. Probably GigE fiber or better. I went on Savvis.com website a few years ago and they mentioned ultra fast stuff for Wall Street. I just dismissed it as low latency Internet - sounds like I may be wrong.
You could be right - I just find the 1U and 2U stuff extra noisy - even if there are no hard drives and even if the room is 'cold' (keeping the RPM of the fans lower). Been in many data centers and I've never considered them to be quiet. Thanks for your insight.
My goodness - how embarrassing - thank you for pointing this out to me. I'd like to blame it on a typographical error, but the truth is that the error is a hybrid between a 'muscle memory' effect and me being an non proof reading mental case. Thanks for pointing this out. Don't apologize - I couldn't agree with you more here. Sorry!
In the 60 minute video, he goes on about saying something about how quite the machines are (exception being the air conditioning). Is there something I'm missing? I've been in plenty of server rooms and servers always seem to be noisy. Is he trying to contrast a traditional trading floor with the server room (being quite)? OR Are these some type of super new server that doesn't make any noise that I'm simply not aware of? The other thing I'm wondering about is the 65 micro (not milli) second times. What permits this incredibly fast trip time? Are they dealing with simply ethernet here or something else? Otherwise looks like a typical data centre - far more tidy that I normally encounter however.
Wow /. is a tough crowd (Score:0 Troll) - the masses interpret things in the negative for the most part. "BYTE ME" could have easily meant "I like Byte, sign me up" - I can see why that would score me a zero, but I'm a little surprised considering folks on here love to be so witty. Wasn't meant to read 'bite me'. Merry Christmas! and lighten up!!! :) (not a troll)
4 is better than 0 any day
BYTE ME!
Providing the same shit service they give to anyone who buys a new car and has trouble with them. They sell you a warranty that doesn't cover anything. Purchased 3 GM's (2 brand new - all, 'high end' GM) - always problems with the dealership doing a poor job on repairs/warranty work/etc. I'm done buying anything GM.
Electric eels.
Is there anyway to setup a faraday cage with a cell phone inside it with some passive antenna repeater? That way you could isolate the testing to a small group of phones. Just an idea.
That's like Paramount tell apple to stop making the iPad because it looks like the PADD's on the Star Trek series
Not trying to troll, but this is the wrong 'solution' for so many reasons. If SMS's can make the connection, so can other forms of packet radio.
Slashdotters would be having a complete shit fit.
This is pure genius. Goes to show they'll put anything on the air at times with out checking their sources. For instance, CNN has an 'authority' on the topics at hand over the telephone, only to find out it's a prankster that's a fan of Howard Stern - I love when stuff like this happens. The guy is so good at keeping a straight face - that's the tricky part.
A lot of embedded devices (example, ThinClients) won't allow you to upgrade to a later version of IE. That could be a small part of the reason.
I was about to leave a comment saying "Getting Started in Eletronics" - you beat me to it. Best thing I could ever recommend to anyone just starting out. Amazing book. My book was getting old so I scanned all the pages into a PDF, only to find on BitTorrent that someone beat me to it!!!
Ah, ARIN does NOT need IP addresses data to be published for individuals/residential - So, as a residential subscriber, you're 'shielded' by your ISP
Thanks for that info - I will check it out
I've been waiting for the day where I can finally congest a road and a 3G network simultaneously!
I am not trying to be a snarky person - but this is my observation. I'm certain there are the odd folks spread across doing a few cool things, but not enough of them to really notice.
Other problem is there are a lot of 'uncool' old farts on the air. I don't mean anyone who happens to be well seasoned or older, I mean folks who are downright nasty and don't encourage the young to experiment. They have this elitest attitute which keeps people uninterested in participating - or when people are 'rag chewing' it's always incredibly boring. Nothing of interest, if you start you own conversation you inevitably get someone on the air breaking in, giving you a hard time about whatever they can think of.
I love the idea of HAM radio, and I really hope the FCC doesn't get any ideas to release airspace for commercial interest, but we need more innovation and more lax attitudes about protocol to keep things social and to keep things growing.
There are just so many useful, fun and interesting things that can be done with the spectrum, and the amateur community has had years to work on things, but nothing materializes. Reminds me of open source projects that get abondoned. Very sad. Internet definately was a major blow to HAM radio. I remember witnessing (didn't have the license then) accessing HAM BBS's over the airwaves at 9600 baud - was so cool. I eventually got the license and there was only one reachable HAM BBS and it was about 80 kms away - then it went off the air forever.
By the way, I just purchased an ICOM IC-7000 - awesome radio, just wish a TNC was built into it!
I guess that wasn't too soon.
I couldn't agree with you more - seems a good few of the /. linux user base has 'something to prove' quite often. It gets old real quick. I just wish it would end.
Ah, NASA already put someone on the moon - WITHOUT CAD SOFTWARE. Please, the costs of putting someone on the moon far exceed the cost of AutoCAD. Splurge a little.