Miscellaneous Tech News
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@nerdydad Current Satellite ISPs are operating at distances of tens of thousadns KM from Earth, these SpaceX sats are only a fraction of that distance away and should provide better latency at least.
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"SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX's service comparable to cable and fiber. Today's satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements."
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
"SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX's service comparable to cable and fiber. Today's satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements."
I was seeing 3000ms response time on HughesNet back in 2007-2009. Thankfully DSL became available, even at 512k/384k it was so much faster!
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
"SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX's service comparable to cable and fiber. Today's satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements."
I was seeing 3000ms response time on HughesNet back in 2007-2009. Thankfully DSL became available, even at 512k/384k it was so much faster!
That's not far off from what we saw in the Congo on Hughes a year or two later.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
the Congo
Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
the Congo
Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.
Better to ask Carmen Sandiego
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@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
the Congo
Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.
Better to ask Carmen Sandiego
Or Waldo.
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@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
the Congo
Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.
Better to ask Carmen Sandiego
Lol I used to watch that way back in the day
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
the Congo
Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.
That was Danielle that went there, not me.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
the Congo
Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.
Better to ask Carmen Sandiego
Lol I used to watch that way back in the day
Never knew it was a show. Go figger.
My girls used to play the PC game. -
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
the Congo
Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.
Better to ask Carmen Sandiego
Lol I used to watch that way back in the day
Now I've got the song stuck in my head...
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Linux 4.17 will drop some older CPU architectures.
Being dropped includes Blackfin, CRIS, FR-V, M32R, MN10300, META, and TILE. OpenRISC is on the chopping block for the near future, as well.
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@popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/
Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/
Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries
Doubtful when there's so much money in it for companies to use old existing tech.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/
Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries
Doubtful when there's so much money in it for companies to use old existing tech.
That's the problem with this system, it's so heavily designed around status quo, at almost any cost.
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GNU Mcron 1.1 released as replacement to traditional Vixie Cron.
GNU Mcron is written in GNU Guile and the Mcron 1.1 release now supports the Guile 2.2 update. The main new feature of this Mcron release is the job procedure now having a #:user keyword argument to allow specifying a different user that will run the given job.
