Category: internet

wrld 2.0

free of any reason internet

rumor-1: Fox swapping myspace ofr 1/3 of Yahoo how to get 11billion out of 580. And suggested there: Yahoo giving up and giving search to google

rumor-2: Google buying Apple. The Steve not liking to come to work anymore.

rumor-3: [And I made this up]: Microsoft giving up and going open source. Nobody wanted to play with the gray elephant in the room that used to be a store.

back to 1&2: that could mean that google is the only remaining search engine. It was in a way anyway. But now it gets real tricky. Getting the enire email market could be quick second: Just funnel enough millions into the spam engine to keep the volume up, so that only people with very vast computing resources can survice in the email market. Already in todays brave new world Google could control vast amounts of spam: Just a slight tweak of a specific search quality parameter and somebody gets allot of money somewhere. Much of those funds would be reinvested in measures that come quiet expensive to counter for wannabe Google competitors.

iPhone Bandwidth

Apple internet technology

When there is no wifi the iPhone is depending on AT&Ts EDGE technology to get data over the cell phone network. Bandwidth for that is supposed to be 70Kbps to 135Kbps. In other words. It is 11 to 22 times slower than a T1 line. Download wise many consumer DSLs are around T1 speed. So people that are used to ‘high speed internet’ and expecting the same from an iPhone everywhere are in for a surprise.

Since a couple of happy months I have been using EVDO on my laptop. In the rare cases that the Bandwidth dropped below 200Kbps I stopped using the Internet. It was just too painful.

prometheus

history internet media

I don’t agee with all its points. But it has been a while since there was a ‘Barry says’ like piece.

how the internet is doing

internet technology

This is a neat little overview how the internet is doing.

Some other links that do similar things: UCI.edu Internet Traffic Report And nice cross matrix between different providers.

safari and pngs

Apple interdubs internet technology

Developing a new public site for interdubs. I am almost done. I needed a png file. Of course they looked different in Safari and Firefox. Actually, to be precise, they looked wrong in Safari. There is problem some academic reason why safari displays them with all that fancy color information rendered in. I don’t care, they are still wrong to me: I want all people to see the same image. this describes the problem I think; as I said, I am making a new site for Interdubs, I don’t have time for another science project. That site however recommends pngcrush. Problem is, that one is a real bitch to compile or install on OS X and linux. Again, I am just trying to have the same image look the same in the two most popular browsers under OS X. I can figure out which libraries to install etc etc. Just that I don’t want to. Finally I found the solutions, and it works awesom: Gamma Slamma might have an odd name, it might have a trendy logo, but it certainly works like a charm.

morph

art internet media

morphing had been around for a while.
All of these images as well. Still needed youTube to get this out:

I am not a fan of this implementation. The idea itself is great. A bit more understand of art history would have been helpful. The track I can mute, the jumps in time and obvious omissions are harder to fade out. Maybe this time the rip-off in a commercial (bank, insurance, dove soap?) will be better than the you-tube-inspiration?

this could be big

internet media technology

I hope that the people at Autonet Mobile were so smart to just put an EVDO card into a box and share it with via wifi. If they do it as simple as that, then they could be up to something. If it works as simple as it could in this design, and if they do a halfway decent job in marketing etc then they could be huge: They don’t care about content. No expensive birds. Just a quick little hardware hack. Sprint and Verizon will try to get their own boxes out, once they get it. Why they didn’t offer this in the first place? Well, croporate stupidity and ignorance has no limits I guess.

this is nice

confessions of a pixel pusher internet

of course, it has 4 million views, so chances are you saw it already:

I miss BlogsNow. I used to see this kind of thing when it had 4,000 not 4 million views. It’s nice either way.

And I can reply with ‘thank’s that’s cool’ to emails that send me nice things, instead of having to say “knew that one” over and over again.

mail fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek

internet linux malware

With a full mailbox mail might die with:

fseek: Invalid argument
panic: temporary file seek
Aborted

of course it’s all spam. That aside it seems that

mutt

can deal with these big mail boxes.

crossing the atlantic on cogent wire is like traveling on a Zeppelin

internet

traceroute.

sad traceroute:
5 pos2-0.core01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com (212.20.158.38) 375.207 ms 375.056 ms 377.128 ms
6 p4-0.core01.dus01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.177) 429.681 ms 481.387 ms 481.802 ms
7 p13-0.core01.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.125) 57.307 ms 56.128 ms 55.016 ms
8 p1-0.core01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.225) 61.937 ms 59.841 ms 56.989 ms
9 p3-0.core02.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.189) 230.387 ms * 247.512 ms
10 t3-3.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.234) 234.125 ms 230.982 ms 230.780 ms
11 t9-4.mpd01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.138) 237.025 ms 239.146 ms 237.933 ms
12 pc13.mpd01.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.146) 315.621 ms 315.980 ms 316.001 ms
13 t2-1.mpd01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.38) 319.648 ms 316.373 ms 316.045 ms
14 g9-0-0.core01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.101) 314.054 ms 317.387 ms 315.319 ms

Dear Cogent, if you don’t have the connections to do things, then please don’t pretent that you can.