A network analogy
As I was working on some other articles a simple analogy came to me. The folks who build roads are rarely the people who build houses. As such, the server folks who build the digital houses typically don’t build the …
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Interesting use of data center space
This has been there for about 6 months.
80GHZ microwave antenna alignment (and other mm-wave radios)
Recently we had a teaching moment for a couple of folks who had not had much experience with aligning higher frequency antennas with very tight beamwidths. This particular day we were aligning 2 foot Siklu 80GHZ antennas. One of the questions …
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Some firewall and switch work
Some dell servers going in for a client. Cisco 3063 switches, Palo Alto firewalls. The yellow and red power cables denote A and B power.
From the IoT world: Bicycles
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Google voice to do away with voicemail-to-text
As reported on Cnet Google will apparently be removing a Google Voice feature over carriers’ efforts to fight robocalls. In a message shared on Twitter by journalist Brian Krebs, the company has seemingly begun alerting users that by the end …
Defcon News: Vulnerable Windows Drivers
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Another privacy story: Facebook transcribes audio chats
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/08/13/200217/facebook-paid-contractors-to-transcribe-users-audio-chats Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the work.