Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Telecom XT Blues: Resolved with Directional, High Gain Antenna
December 20th, 2009Update: Tennatron Directional Antenna Works Great As anticipated, the antenna did the trick. I bought and installed Tennatron’s antenna for mobile networks in New Zealand. With the antenna installed, my XT connection hit 2.6 megabits/sec down and 1.5 megabits up. (That’s *bleeping* fantastic; considering our deep wopwops location.) More importantly, the connection is stable. I […]
22 Stories Underground: Iron Mountain’s Experimental Room 48
December 9th, 2009Definitely DO NOT miss the image gallery that goes along with this story. Via: Computerworld: Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by a high chain-link fence topped with razor wire. Cars entering the compound are […]
Senior Government Officials Killed in Russian Train Attack
November 29th, 2009Via: Guardian: Russia was tonight coming to terms with its most deadly terrorist attack in years after investigators confirmed that a powerful improvised bomb caused Friday’s devastating train crash in which at least 26 people, including several top government officials, were killed. The head of Russia’s FSB counter-terrorism agency, Alexander Bortnikov, said the bomb, hidden […]
Dubai in Deep Water as Ripples from Debt Crisis Spread
November 27th, 2009Via: Times Online: Fears of a dangerous new phase in the economic crisis swept around the globe yesterday as traders responded to the shock announcement that a debt-laden Dubai state corporation was unable to meet its interest bill. Shares plunged, weak currencies were battered and more than £14 billion was wiped from the value of […]
London Stock Exchange Halted
November 26th, 2009Mmm hmm. Via: CNBC / AP: LONDON – The London Stock Exchange PLC has halted electronic trading because of technical issues. The LSE says the break to trading on Thursday is due to connectivity issues, but it hasn’t yet determined the root cause of the problem. The exchange has placed all order-driven securities in to […]
Brazil: The Blackout in Pictures
November 11th, 2009Surreal pictures. Via: Daily Mail: Much of Brazil was plunged into darkness last night as a problem at a hydroelectric dam left millions without electricity. As these eerie pictures show, the major cities, such as Rio de Janeiro – the home of the 2016 Olympic Games – were left looking like ghost towns, with only […]
Massive Blackout in Brazil and Paraguay; Tens of Millions Were Without Power
November 11th, 2009Via: AFP: A blackout across much of southern Brazil overnight plunged tens of millions of residents in the country’s biggest cities into a state of anxiety and raised questions Wednesday over national energy security. The outage, which started at 10:15 pm Tuesday (0015 GMT Wednesday), originated at the Itaipu hydroelectric plant that straddles the border […]
60 Minutes: Sabotaging The System
November 9th, 2009Watch CBS News Videos Online
NSA Has Conspicuous Role in New Federal Cybersecurity Center
November 2nd, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Newsweek: If anything, the Obama administration, citing the threats of computer hacking and cyberterrorism, is now moving to involve the NSA more deeply in domestic security issues. The growing role of the NSA—a Defense Department agency with thousands of military personnel—in domestic matters was on semi-public display on Friday. […]
Sweden Loses its Internet Connection for an Hour
October 14th, 2009Via: Telegraph: At 9:45pm local time on Monday 12 October, every Swedish website went down, and no emails to or from Swedish domains could be received. Around 900,000 domains were affected. The problem was caused by an “incorrectly configured script” in an update of the .se domain, according to Pingdom, a Swedish web monitoring company. […]
