2006-09-02

The CS system (6809)

At last I found a reference to the group around the CS system, a SWTPc clone designed by Cees Schoenmaker.

The group frequently met at the monthly Delft Hobby Computer Club meetings in the cellars the Department of Electrical Engineering of Delft University in the early 80s.

2006-09-01

server3.fastmail.fm has been down all day

I can't get to my private mail.

Otherwise, the fastmail.fm service is pretty nice and reliable. Not today.

A typical case of Fsck You
Time to switch to Solaris/ZFS




















Bits form bytes

Bytes form packets

Without packets no digital networks

For traffic monitoring I prefer bar-charts

Bandwidth is a lovely vague word

You cannot change the speed of light

Every transaction requires one synchronous event