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by bdb 15y ago
Submarine cable systems often employ repeaters (hardened EDFAs). I remember one vendor bragging that not one of their units had EVER failed in service. If you want to see what they look like: http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/nw/submarine/
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UMG Alleges Grooveshark's CEO Personally Uploaded 1,791 Infringing Tracks(news.cnet.com)
5 points by bdb 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdb 15y ago
Ooh, neat. What kind of hardware are you using? (And are you using gnuradio? Does the gr-smartnet module on CGRAN actually work?)
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What's on Philip "Pud" Kaplan's home screen?(blog.app.net)
11 points by bdb 15y ago|2 comments
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by bdb 15y ago
Using the MAC address as a unique identifier alone seems like a terrible idea(that is, without other secret, constant data included in the hash, similar to how UDIDs are generated.) Your device is literally broadcasting your unique identifi
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by bdb 15y ago
Pure speculation on my part, but given the limited suitable equipment space available in each BART station, it's likely that BART has deployed a neutral host (i.e., BART-owned, not carrier-owned) distributed antenna system[1] throughout the
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by bdb 15y ago
No source yet, but there's a demonstration VM. Unfortunately, it looks like they decided to choose to license the code under the AGPL[1], so it will probably be of little use to most of us. [1] http://hpccsystems.com/print/518
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by bdb 15y ago
Awesome. Here's a link to the actual project: http://hpccsystems.com/
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by bdb 15y ago
There have been two mentioned on HN recently: zStack and StackMob (the latter is run by a friend and former coworker of mine.) Ironically, zStack has the OP listed as their only reference customer. Er, guess that's not working out so well?
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by bdb 15y ago
Here's a link to the relevant part of the Chromium source tree: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/brows...
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by bdb 15y ago
Where is Amazon's?
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Details of Google music store/movie rental service for Android found in JS(pastebin.ca)
7 points by bdb 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdb 15y ago
A few years ago, I signed up for a Borders rewards card. Gave them an email address of borders@mydomain.com. Weeks later, began getting tons of spam to that address. So uh, I'm guessing that this Borders employee isn't the only one who know
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by bdb 15y ago
Funny, I had that exact thought.
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by bdb 15y ago
This is a pretty clear example of someone not even having a basic grasp of how a network functions, yet making a big inflammatory website about it anyway.
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by bdb 15y ago
I predict this app will be renamed within the next six months.
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by bdb 16y ago
Really interesting that your submission has to be in the form of something that can run on Native Client. I wonder if they're using this to stress-test implementations of NC.
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by bdb 16y ago
Which falls over when db01 ain't a database machine anymore. When I ran a large network, machines didn't physically move very much (at least, far less often than their logical functions changed); we had a naming scheme based on datacenter c
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by bdb 16y ago
> In short, any IPv6 transition plan involves everyone having an IPv4 address, right up until everyone has an IPv6 address, at which point we can start dropping IPv4, which means IPv6 will start being useful. Sigh, no. Not correct
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by bdb 16y ago
This plus the 4G Nexus S is going to make it really hard to hang onto my old T-Mobile/Nexus One combo. No equivalent of my T-Mobile no-contract post-paid service, though.
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HP CEO: We will build a cloud(newenterprise.allthingsd.com)
30 points by bdb 16y ago|27 comments
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by bdb 16y ago
Hercules is cool -- I last goofed around with it almost 10 years ago, but it was complete enough then to run VM/370 and MVS/370. If you're interested, start here: http://www.cbttape.org/vm6.htm and http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/
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by bdb 16y ago
If you had a truck and a bunch of free time, say, $499? http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-S-390-G5-Parallel-Enterprise-Server-... The interesting thing about mainframe hardware is that it's designed to last forever, so the "old" stuff (which really
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by bdb 16y ago
That's fine. Apple "sells" HD movie rentals (~3 GB) which are only useful for 24 hours.
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Etsy open-sources node.js/Graphite stats collector inspired by Flickr's StatsD(github.com)
2 points by bdb 16y ago|0 comments
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by bdb 16y ago
Gerrit feels so... heavy. Are any of you using it at a small-ish company? Does it get in the way of getting work done?
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by bdb 16y ago
We take for granted today that there are several fast, stable DVCS generally understood by an average engineer (in other words, the bar for using a DVCS has been lowered in the last few years and it's not a purely academic endeavor.) When
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FCC's rules to protect Internet access spark claims of violations(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by bdb 16y ago|0 comments
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by bdb 16y ago
All that fanfare and... they sent your package via USPS.
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by bdb 16y ago
Your design is great and helping people to make their web sites faster is laudable goal. Add more testing locations -- even better, write a probe that you can run on various consumer broadband connections that will report results back

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