Tag: networking
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Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these...
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A bus lane sign with the 'e' missing, so it says "bus lan".
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The "regular" house's Internet connection finally switched-off last night, so I zipped around this morning and moved my NAS across to the Chicory House.
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Dan, a white man with a ponytail and a goatee beard, carries a large black cube-shaped computer down a staircase.
This was a challenging selfie to take. Unfortunately, Gigaclear haven't yet managed to fulfil their promise to reassign our static IP address to our new line, so this was swiftly followed by some DNS reconfiguration, sigh!
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The Lost Art of the Amusing WiFi Hotspot Name
Long ago, you could move to a new area, scan for local WiFi networks, and fully expect to see a wonderful diversity of different network names. Some named for their locations, sure, but others named for people, or fandoms, or just "fun" ones.
Has this art form died? Most residential SSIDs nowadays seem to just be the default one that comes with the basic router supplied by the ISP. Most commercial ones are just the name of the business. Sometimes you'll spot a phone configured for tethering but even that's usually just "Alice's iPhone" or similar.
I can't remember the last time I saw a "Chicken Crossed the Road to Steal Our Wifi" or a "Russian Hackers" or a "Routy McRouterface" or a "All Your Bandwidth Belong to Us" (okay, that last one's a bit dated). Has the art form died? -
Two Days Offline
This week we lost Internet access for two whole days, and it was pretty disruptive and annoying!
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Internet Services^H Provider
When you signed up with an ISP, you used to get Web space, email, shared FTP access, a nearby IRC node, newsgroups, and a software bundle. Nowadays you get a shit router, a voucher for a free month of a streaming service you didn't want, and crap customer service. Where did we go wrong?
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Icebreakers - Heraldry and Compairs
For my team meetup, I developed a couple of icebreaker games - Heraldry and Compairs - and I'd love to share them with you, if you're interested!
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From Synergy to Barrier
Disenchanted by a lack of platform support, Dan switches from Synergy to its fork, open-source competitor Barrier.
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Syncthing
This month, Dan's in love with Syncthing, software that keeps his household's data where it needs to be.
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Fox (Household NAS)
Dan builds Fox, a NAS and application server for his household, and shoots a timelapse video of the construction.
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Evolving Computer Words: "Broadband"
Dan continues to examine words whose popular meaning have diverged from their technical definition; today, he looks at "broadband".
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My hardware engineering is a little rusty, @ComputerHistory, but wouldn't signals propogate along this copper cable at "only" somewhere between 0.64c and 0.95c, not 1c as you claim?
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The network is reliable
In the spring of that year, my travels brought me upon a previously undiscovered civilization. The people called themselves Ossians, and they lived in an isolated collection of villages in a remote part of South America.
Being remote as they were, their level of technology was understandably primitive. But I was surprised by the locals' recent … -
New Computer #2 - Dana
Dana is the second of the two new computers Dan's acquired this month. She's tiny, reasonably-powerful, and uses almost no electricity.
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New Computer #1 - Tiffany2
This weekend, Dan built a new computer - Tiffany2 - to replace his aging media centre box.
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A Small World Conspiracy
Dan is contacted by somebody he met many years ago in a chance meeting, which quickly goes on to lead to an even more bizarre coincidence...