Archives for May, 2008
Lasers are our friends… even on multi-mode fiber!
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Ok, how many times have you been designing a network at a large industrial plant and you have to traverse a great distance over fiber? Then you find out that someone has designed the fiber backbone of the network with 62.5um multi-mode fiber… which is only suitable to cover a distance of 220m with a [...]
NASA Lands Phoenix on Mars
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
NASA amazes me. They just hurled a spacecraft 422 million miles… It landed on Mars today, then sent a signal to the Mars Odyssey orbiter (a satellite that orbits Mars and relays ground communications between there and here, the Mars Rovers use it as well) which then relayed the signal back here to [...]
MacBook issues are no more
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I bought a Black (Apple) MacBook back in May of ‘07. It had OS X Tiger (10.4) installed when I bought and in January of this year I upgraded the RAM and upgraded to OS X Leopard (10.5).
This is the first Apple product I’ve owned and I will say that I’m very happy with [...]
And We’re Back…
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
RantsAndStuff is back online. So… we had planned on doing this really fancy theme and really putting some work into the new site however neither of us have the time to do any of that so instead I whipped up a quick Ubuntu Linux server with an out-of-the-box WordPress (v2.5) installation with the theme that [...]