As it turns out, I can easily generate more data in an evening than I can upload in a day. Now that I have a fast connection at work, I'm going to have to put together an automated procedure for dragging updates in to work by sneakernet.

Sun's Project Blackbox -- datacenter in a container - EngadgetWe're typically not of the ilk to bust out a post on a Sun datacenter solution or yet another clustered supercomputer, but technically Sun's Project Blackbox is portable -- if you consider a shipping container portable. We wouldn't believe it if it were anyone else, but the gimmick here ( Read more... )

Remember what I've been saying about the relative growth rates of storage and network bandwidth?

As I mentioned recently in a comment to a post on Groklaw, the bandwidth of a carrier pigeon is nothing to sneeze ( Read more... )