Daily Links: Pirate Bay Shutting Down Tracker, and Cuban’s plan to kill Google.
Pirate Bay has decided to shut down it’s tracker server, preferring instead to use “trackerless” BitTorrent formats. Like the move from the centralized Napster to peer-to-peer solutions that didn’t require centralized tracking servers, the Pirate Bay now just becomes a search engine for torrents, not a host for torrent indexes. It just goes to show [...]
IRC on Numb3rs
One of the big problems with trying to communicate with people outside of IT is that – well, people have misconceptions about what computers are and what you can do with them. From the technical support people who are supposed to “see your screen” to the idea that computers can read your thoughts… well, to [...]
The “Real Life” consequences of network performance.
Just going to write up something quick because I was spending most of the day out with the rest of the marketing dept. working on something fun, but I wanted to draw your attention to today’s strip of “Real Life,” a comic written by gaming geek (and trained chef) Greg Dean, the premise, of course, [...]
WhereFi, WhenFi, and WiFi.
Sergey Claus and his helpers, (known collectively as Google Inc.), are planning to give out a few presents to travelers until after the new year – free WiFi at 47 airports. Which has me wondering – why isn’t WiFi free at all airports, all the time? I understand that there’s certainly profit to be made [...]
Ciscollaboration
Cisco released a slew of collaboration products this week. First, of course, there’s Cisco’s WebEx Mail, a replacement for MS Exchange that integrates with Outlook. There’s the Enterprise Collaboration Platform, essentially a social-networking/company portal kind of thingy that competes with MS Sharepoint. And Enterprise Collaboration Platform is an alternative to IBM’s Lotus Connections. There are [...]
Nomencloudture
Jon on Tech writes about how “The Cloud” is a crock of—well, actually, I’m specifically prohibited from using that kind of language in this blog. And, to a certain limited extent, he’s right. “Cloud computing” has been defined and redefined to be almost meaningless. Anything you can refer to as “the cloud” also has other [...]
Listen to the Wombat.
We’ve been giving out a bunch of advice on how to present information to C-level executives; the overriding points we’ve been hammering are: Know your audience and give them summarized, not simplified, information. Do not be afraid to make educated guesses when explaining trends, as overall meaning is more important to the C-level executive than [...]
Small Scale QoS
I have a new respect for the guy that has to decide QoS policies for the enterprise. Not that I didn’t before, but recently I had to start worrying about QoS policies at home. Allow me to explain. Earlier this year, Time Warner Cable decided it was going to roll out caps on broadband in [...]
Can you tell me how to interpret… how to interpret this networking data?
Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary today, and the Os in Google’s Logo are the distinctive eyes of Sesame Street’s greatest gourmand, Cookie Monster. Since its beginnings, Sesame Street’s main purpose has been to use Madison-avenue style techniques to give kids the information that they need in a manner that they can understand. The [...]
SimCisco
Cisco has had success promoting it’s ASR routers through the “Cisco Edge Quest” games – the first one being a 3D “shoot-em-up” without the shooting, and the second one being a rail racer much like AudioSurf. But Cisco’s released a new game called “myPlanNet” which is essentially a SimCity clone based around Cisco technology… a… [...]
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Why Traffic (as in motor traffic) jams happen for no apparent reason.
From the University of Nagoya, in Negoya, Japan comes an interesting experiment that NewScientist released to video: a simulation of a traffic jam. The University simply told 22 drivers to cruise around at a constant 30 kmph, in a circle. At first, the cars were both equidistant and moving constantly. They found, however, that little [...]