If you browse some Internet services websites regularly, you should recognise this lady. We call her the “datacenter lady” or the “Ensim lady.” This picture is in some royalty-free image banks. She is being used (and abused) on many websites.
GNS3 is a great front-end for Dynamips, a Cisco IOS emulator. Unlike other software, Dynamips runs on real IOS image. It’s the most real you can get apart from buying the hardware. It can run several instances and link them virtually. This is a great achievement in reverse engineering.
In my test, I fired up four routers and linked them up with FastEthernet. I then configured OSPF on them and was able to see that the routes are being distributed on all routers.
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Google switched off the lights. There was a stupid article the other day claiming that would save a lot of energy (750MWh) if Google used a black background.Well, let’s see now. As for the Earth hour, you will see that the energy usage will drop well before 8pm mark if people anticipate it or there will be no effect at all.
Google Docs is not good enough for me. I guess I’ll stay with OpenOffice. It’s slow for large set of data.
$ ping -c 5 spreadsheet.google.com
PING spreadsheets.l.google.com (66.102.1.136) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=27.3 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=33.5 ms
64 bytes from he-in-f136.google.com (66.102.1.136): icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=24.3 ms
— spreadsheets.l.google.com ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 24.360/28.158/33.574/2.997 ms, pipe 2
It’s not that the connection is bad. It’s the app.