Alcatel, one of the major submarine cable builder in the world, has an interesting resource page on submarine cables like an animation on how to repair submarine cables cut. (via Ben Frankes) The animation looks easy. Detect the cut, pick up one cable, then the other and then join them back. Even considering it takes […]
Year: 2007
The Future of Learning
“The Future of Learning” Manifesto is a great read even if you are not an educator. For the educators, this definitely rings a bell: “I could memorize your facts, but I got Google for that…Are you teaching me to think? Or just to take notes?” “Playing Small Does Not Serve the World…You’ve got one choice. […]
New Media
Found this “comic” in the newspaper. It is more real then funny tho.
Predictions for 2007
I have a fun time reading various predictions for 2007, e.g. Wired, Wireless, Funny, Google and Information Week. Some sample includes: – Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent. – Google GDrive will finally be […]
IPv4 Address Usage
Happy New Year As we start on a new year, lets look at the 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report The current (jan 1st, 2007) figure for 2005 is 175.52 million addresses. Together with adjustments for earlier years, this brings the total addresses available to almost exactly 1.3 billion, down from 1468.61 million a year ago. […]