18. 02. 12
Computer Installation at SRL
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Computer Installation at SRL
South Regional Library Computer Installation – Wiring cleanup is still a work in progress.
Archive for the Specialtyservices category
08. 02. 12
Cool Computers & Networking images
Some cool computers & networking images:
Shorelink Library Network launch, 1984
How do you see your library in the future?
Shorelink network will push libraries towards the future
Five Public Libraries on Sydney’s lower North Shore will take a giant step into the future this week by installing the first batch of computer equipment worth 0,000 that will integrate and automate their services.
The network, called Shorelink, points the way to the development of libraries as information centres rather than recreational reading facilities and sets a lead for automation of Australia’s 800 other Public Libraries.
Borrowers at the North Sydney, Manly, Mosman, Willoughby and Lane Cove Council Libraries will be able to consult video display terminals and see instantly if a book they want is available at any of them.
NCR Australia and Stowe Computer Consultants [...] are now installing an NCR 9300 mainframe at the Lane Cove site. By March the system is due to support 66 terminals.
The NCR system has three megabytes of memory and 567 megabytes of disc storage.
- The Australian, 29 November 1983
Shorelink Library Network launch, 1984
How do you see your library in the future?
Shorelink network will push libraries towards the future
Five Public Libraries on Sydney’s lower North Shore will take a giant step into the future this week by installing the first batch of computer equipment worth 0,000 that will integrate and automate their services.
The network, called Shorelink, points the way to the development of libraries as information centres rather than recreational reading facilities and sets a lead for automation of Australia’s 800 other Public Libraries.
Borrowers at the North Sydney, Manly, Mosman, Willoughby and Lane Cove Council Libraries will be able to consult video display terminals and see instantly if a book they want is available at any of them.
NCR Australia and Stowe Computer Consultants [...] are now installing an NCR 9300 mainframe at the Lane Cove site. By March the system is due to support 66 terminals.
The NCR system has three megabytes of memory and 567 megabytes of disc storage.
- The Australian, 29 November 1983
25. 01. 12
Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji : Coal Fired Computers (2010)
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Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji : Coal Fired Computers (2010)
Graham Harwood (UK), Matsuko Yokokoji (JP).
A coal-fired boiler powers a network of computers exploring the relationships between power and media. Coal Fired Computers explores the ecologies that have created and maintained power, and the subsequent health residues and crisis of fuelling that power. The work responds to the displacement of coal production to distant India, China or Vietnam and our industrial heritage, in particular the work of Charles Parsons whose steam turbine is used to produce 40% of today’s electricity. In many countries this rate is much higher (more than 70% in India and China).
According to the World Health Organization, 318.000 deaths occur annually from chronic bronchitis and emphysema caused by exposure to coal dust. The common perception is that wealthy countries have put this all behind them, displacing coal dust into the lungs of unrecorded, unknown miners in distant lands, coal returning in our lives in the form of cheap and apparently clean goods we consume.
Coal fired energy not only powers our computers here in Europe, but is integral to the production of the 300.000.000 computers made each year. 81% of the energy used in a computer’s life cycle is expended in the manufacturing process, now taking place in countries with high levels of coal consumption.
www.artefact-festival.be/2011/
Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji : Coal Fired Computers (2010)
Graham Harwood (UK), Matsuko Yokokoji (JP).
A coal-fired boiler powers a network of computers exploring the relationships between power and media. Coal Fired Computers explores the ecologies that have created and maintained power, and the subsequent health residues and crisis of fuelling that power. The work responds to the displacement of coal production to distant India, China or Vietnam and our industrial heritage, in particular the work of Charles Parsons whose steam turbine is used to produce 40% of today’s electricity. In many countries this rate is much higher (more than 70% in India and China).
According to the World Health Organization, 318.000 deaths occur annually from chronic bronchitis and emphysema caused by exposure to coal dust. The common perception is that wealthy countries have put this all behind them, displacing coal dust into the lungs of unrecorded, unknown miners in distant lands, coal returning in our lives in the form of cheap and apparently clean goods we consume.
Coal fired energy not only powers our computers here in Europe, but is integral to the production of the 300.000.000 computers made each year. 81% of the energy used in a computer’s life cycle is expended in the manufacturing process, now taking place in countries with high levels of coal consumption.
www.artefact-festival.be/2011/
Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji : Coal Fired Computers (2010)
Graham Harwood (UK), Matsuko Yokokoji (JP).
A coal-fired boiler powers a network of computers exploring the relationships between power and media. Coal Fired Computers explores the ecologies that have created and maintained power, and the subsequent health residues and crisis of fuelling that power. The work responds to the displacement of coal production to distant India, China or Vietnam and our industrial heritage, in particular the work of Charles Parsons whose steam turbine is used to produce 40% of today’s electricity. In many countries this rate is much higher (more than 70% in India and China).
According to the World Health Organization, 318.000 deaths occur annually from chronic bronchitis and emphysema caused by exposure to coal dust. The common perception is that wealthy countries have put this all behind them, displacing coal dust into the lungs of unrecorded, unknown miners in distant lands, coal returning in our lives in the form of cheap and apparently clean goods we consume.
Coal fired energy not only powers our computers here in Europe, but is integral to the production of the 300.000.000 computers made each year. 81% of the energy used in a computer’s life cycle is expended in the manufacturing process, now taking place in countries with high levels of coal consumption.
www.artefact-festival.be/2011/
13. 01. 12
Cool Computers & Networking images
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Session on Focussing on Users and Audiences”
Presentation by Tim Svenonious (SFMOMA) and Rob Stein (IMA)
12. 01. 12
Nice Computers & Networking photos
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1992 MCN conference autographed program
Bill Clinton was being interviewed at the hotel — I asked him to sign the program, and we auctioned it for 5 at the silent auction. I think Kathy Jones bought it.
1992 MCN conference Halloween party
??, Mark Ferguson, and Chuck Patch
16. 12. 11
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Pern, Finished
New gateway and firewall, finished. The little nameplate says "386" but it’s actually a 486DX2-66.
Minbar
Minbar is my main workstation where I do my web work, E-mail, and so forth. It’s a dual 500 MHz Intel Pentium III, and it runs Debian GNU/Linux 3.0.
Trantor
Under Arrakis is Trantor, a 233 MHz dual Intel Pentium II. It’s a file server and a print server, and I plan to expand its duties later.
15. 12. 11
Computers Monitor
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Computers Monitor
Monitor of the new computers in the school lab.
Maryland Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Program to Find Patterns in Social Networks
Newsdesk Release: newsdesk.umd.edu/bigissues/release.cfm?ArticleID=2187
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – As social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and Twitter increasingly make it possible to access appropriate information within their networks, a whole host of new applications become possible. For individuals, search engines could better differentiate "friends" and suggest groups with more closely matched interests or concerns. Businesses could search allowed information to offer products or services better matched to customers. And national security and counter-terror analysts, with appropriate court authorization, could look for "groups” of people within social networks that match certain characteristics.
However, a technical obstacle to all of these is the difficulty inherent in being able to find all parts of the social network that match a given query network pattern. This essential first step (called the "subgraph matching" step by computer scientists) is often succeeded by many other application-specific steps. The subgraph matching problem is enormously challenging and has long been known to be computationally very difficult, rising exponentially in complexity with the size of the network increases.
University of Maryland grad student Matthias Broecheler working with Computer Science Professor V.S. Subrahmanian and University of Calabria (Italy) Professor Andrea Pugliese have recently unveiled a new mathematically-based computer program, or algorithm, called COSI (short for "Cloud Oriented Subgraph Identification”) that will support subgraph pattern matching in very large social networks containing hundreds of millions, even billions, of links.
In a paper that has been accepted for presentation at the 2010 Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining conference to be held in Denmark in August, Broecheler, Pugliese and Subrahmanian leveraged a key insight – it is possible to split the social network into a set of almost independent, relatively small sub-networks, each of which is stored on a computer in a cloud computing cluster in such a way that the probability that a query pattern will need to access two nodes is kept as small as possible. Using knowledge of past queries and a complex set of calculations to compute these probabilities, their paper reports algorithms and experiments to answer social network subgraph pattern matching queries on real-world social network data with 778 million edges (which may denote relationships or connections between individuals) in less than one second. More recent results not contained in the paper are able to efficiently answer queries to social network databases containing over a billion edges.
"These new algorithms for subgraph matching make it practical for the first time to implement many desirable functionalities previously only practical for small networks," said Anil Nerode, who is Goldwin-Smith professor of mathematics and computer science and former director of the Mathematical Sciences Institute at Cornell University. "We can expect a profound influence of these algorithms on extending the capabilities of social networks," said Nerode, who is not involved in the work.
Professor Subrahmanian, one of the inventors, said: "An innovative mix of cloud computing and smart thinking, COSI shows how exact social network pattern matching on complex query patterns can be efficiently implemented. It is a significant advance, not only in answering complex queries over large social networks, but also for answering queries over the Semantic Web. This advance could have a significant impact for individual users of social networks as well as for the national security and business communities and is yet another innovative mix of cloud computing and smart thinking.
"The next challenge for COSI will be to perform matching of similar, but not exact, patterns," he said.
More information about this work can be found at www.umiacs.umd.edu/research/LCCD/projects/COSI.jsp
Lee Tune
Associate Director
University Communications
University of Maryland
301-405-4679
ltune@umd.edu
For experts and the latest UM news, go to Newsdesk, www.newsdesk.umd.edu/
03. 12. 11
Cool Computers & Networking images
A few nice computers & networking images I found:
Fiber Optics Networking
The William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory’s computer networks are implemented with over 200 miles of fiber optic cabling, providing dedicated ethernet to each office, 155Mbps ATM, and Gigabit networking capacities to laboratories. All management of patching and electronics is accomplished in one central facility, providing a very cost-effective networking solution. This is the first facility of its size to provide both multi/single mode fiber to the desktop!
For more information, visit www.pnl.gov/news/
Shorelink Library Network launch, 1984
How do you see your library in the future?
Shorelink network will push libraries towards the future
Five Public Libraries on Sydney’s lower North Shore will take a giant step into the future this week by installing the first batch of computer equipment worth 0,000 that will integrate and automate their services.
The network, called Shorelink, points the way to the development of libraries as information centres rather than recreational reading facilities and sets a lead for automation of Australia’s 800 other Public Libraries.
Borrowers at the North Sydney, Manly, Mosman, Willoughby and Lane Cove Council Libraries will be able to consult video display terminals and see instantly if a book they want is available at any of them.
NCR Australia and Stowe Computer Consultants [...] are now installing an NCR 9300 mainframe at the Lane Cove site. By March the system is due to support 66 terminals.
The NCR system has three megabytes of memory and 567 megabytes of disc storage.
- The Australian, 29 November 1983
Blinds
Guess what’s hanging from the cable! My USB WiFi stick. I was leeching off the neighbor’s WiFi, and I could only get a signal with the WiFi adaptor out the window!
30. 10. 11
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A few nice computers & networking images I found:
The Internet goes here
Our main distro switch with what looks like bad wiring, but I swear it’s not that bad. Really. I swear.
19. 10. 11
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Network Closet
Not exactly- but I have the DSL modem (connection to the Airport wireless router not seen), and two external drives used for archiving and backups (400 Gb OWC Mercury, left) and 300 Mb Lacie used for video digitizing
MCN Spectra
I am now the proud owner of an incomplete and spotty run of MCN’s Spectra from 1979-1985.
MCN 1999 reception
Susanne Warren and Diane Zorich