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Wishing for cake through fibre optic cables
I’ve received a letter from my Internet Service Provider, Sympatico Bell Canada, today. Frank and Gordon, Bell’s mascot beavers, have dressed up in scientist / engineer white lab coats and were welcoming me to “the next generation of consistent speed”. It has been two weeks since I demanded to have a fibre optics network installed, [...]
Computer Science enrollment trends
The relationship between the professional industry and academic choices of students has generally been a two way feedback loop. The industry outlook encourages (or discourages for that matter) students to enter a certain field, while the number of resulting graduates shape the industry itself. The Dot Com Bubble of 1995-2001 nicely accounts for the last [...]
The effective bandwidth of a speeding Toyota Matrix
CompSci.ca is moving onto a dedicated server. This means that this blog, forums, and other projects will run blazingly fast as soon as they move out of the crowded shared host. This also means that we need to start thinking about our own off-site backup system. That happens to be located in Dan’s basement, Thunder [...]
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