It's Just this Little Chromium Switch HereWeblogging and commentary by Chip Rosenthal.Sun's McNealy Gets It Backwards- February 28, 2008 According to a Network World article posted today: Telecommunication companies need to go beyond just providing bandwidth and look into acquiring Internet destination sites that are heavily trafficked, Sun Chairman Scott McNealy said on Friday. McNealy gets it precisely backwards. What the net needs is a complete separation between bandwidth and application. When the bandwidth provider is also the service provider, they don't have an incentive to make the network work well for anything but...http://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/506 Comcast Thwarts Public at Net Neutrality Hearing- February 27, 2008 The FCC held a recent public hearing on network neutrality, and a lot of scrutiny was placed on Comcast's degredation of peer-to-peer applications on their broadband network. This, for instance, hampers video applications and discourages Comcast subscribers from using alternatives to their cable TV services. The Save the Internet Coalition discovered that Comcast (or one of their supporters) bussed in people to fill chairs, so the public would be blocked from participating. Comcast or someone..http://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/504 Hiccups in the Linux RAID- February 26, 2008 In December, I made a RAID 1 network storage server by adding a cheap SATA controller and a couple of 500GB hard disks to chinacat. For the most part, it has worked great, but there is one hiccup. First the good news: the network storage server is working every bit as well as I had hoped and everything that I'd hope to do is falling into place. All of our media files are now consolidated in one place. All of our desktop systems are (finally!) being backed up. Plus, there are all the other...http://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/503 |