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The case of the 500-mile email
"We could send email. Just not more than--" "--500 miles, yes," I finished for him, "I got that. But why didn't you call earlier?" "Well, we hadn't collected enough data to be sure of what was going on
until just now." Right. This is the chairman of *statistics*. "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--"
email  sysadmin  networking  physics  geek  history  humour 
24 days ago by milkmiruku
Ron K Jeffries - Google+ - #geeky and #OMG QUOTE: [Craig S Wright ] says: I was…
"For those who do not know, 747's are big flying Unix hosts. At the time, the engine management system on this particular airline was Solaris based. The patching was well behind and they used telnet as SSH broke the menus and the budget did not extend to fixing this. The engineers could actually access the engine management system of a 747 in route. If issues are noted, they can re-tune the engine in air."
technology  flight  scada  security  it  networking  vlan  transport  wtf  internet  telnet 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
How-To: Build a WiFi biquad dish antenna - Engadget
"We expected to get one AP, but five is even better. Looking through the info strings we were able to determine where the APs were since the WISP had named them according to the town they are in. The AP on channel 5 is the one we pointed at in town A, 2.4 miles away. The AP on channel 6 is located in town B, 8.2 miles away. The two APs on channel 1 are a bridge between town A and town C which is located 2.6 miles directly behind the dish."
wifi  hardware  internet  networking  wireless  communication  design  reference  howto  diy  cool  security  antenna  project  technology 
november 2008 by milkmiruku
Speckled Computing Website
"Specks will be minute (around 1 mm3) semiconductor grains that can sense and compute locally and communicate wirelessly. ... Thousands of specks, scattered or sprayed on the person or surfaces, will collaborate as programmable computational networks call
technology  networking  research  wireless  hardware  interesting  cool  sci-fi  speckledcomputing  computers 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
Fab Swingers: Totally free swinging site for USA and UK
"Put away your credit card! This is a completely free site."
sex  swinging  networking  social  fun  uk 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
HTTP Traffic Surpasses P2P Traffic
"Thanks to YouTube alone consuming some 10% of all internet traffic, P2P traffic is now down to only 36% of internet usage in North America."
news  p2p  internet  web  video  bittorrent  networking 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
WiFi Hopper - Overview
"WiFi Hopper is a WLAN utility that combines the features of a Network Discovery and Site Survey tool with a Connection Manager."
security  encryption  tools  networking  wireless  wifi  router  hacking  wardriving  software 
april 2007 by milkmiruku
PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall
"PortForward.com is proud to offer help setting up port forwarding on your router or firewall."
networking  howto  firewall  security  internet  reference 
october 2006 by milkmiruku

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