Off you go… into the purple yonder!

The above screenshot was taken at a colocation facility.
… unfortunately this kind of speed is totally unaffordable at home, at least in this country. Thanks so much, dear politicians and FCC - your deregulation policies and over $200 billion worth of subsidies to the big telcos have brought us… ‘broadband’ that is slow and [...]

My laptop died a couple weeks ago - an almost 4 years old Inspiron 5150 which despite all its overheating problems was quite reliable. Of course it came with Windows XP, but I only ever ran Debian and Ubuntu on it,
Fast-forward to 2007, and now laptops with GNU/Linux preloaded are available.
Of course the perfect [...]

I got a ViewSonic VP2030b today, and given all the recent commotion about blackle.com, I figured I would verify the claims in Google’s blogpost.

Description

Brightness

Power consumption

Sleep mode (no signal, orange light) or switched ‘off’ with the front switch

N/A

0.01A at 120V

Google.com (1024×768)

100%

0.69A at 120V

Blackle.com (1024×768)

100%

0.68A at 120V

Google.com (1024×768)

50%

0.58A at 120V

Blackle.com (1024×768)

50%

0.58A at 120V

Google.com (1600×1200)

100%

0.71A at 120V

Blackle.com (1600×1200)

100%

0.69A [...]

After the T1, Sun has now also pledged to release the core design files and test suites for the UltraSPARC T2 chip under the GPL. Way to go Sun! The T2 specs are quite impressive - 8 cores with 8 threads each; dual 10Gb embedded NICs; PCI-E embedded; etc - and a power consumption of [...]

Sometimes internet routing goes seriously haywire. The routing for AS13127 (Versatel, a subsidiary of Tele-2 in Europe) seems to be completely messed up for (some) traffic that originates from outside of Europe. Here’s what that looks like from Boston (screenshot from this morning):

The traffic gets lost on teleglobe’s backbone in Amsterdam.
I got the first problem [...]