Out of curiousity (II)

My boss told us that we upgraded our Internet connection speed. So as usual, I decided to test the throughput for a metro connection:

DUDE! Pure awesomeness. To make comparisons fair with my previous speed test (http://blog.ashytized.net/2009/06/out-of-curiousity.html), I tried with the same server location in California, USA:

Still quite impressive. Though its clear the bottleneck is with the Pacific link to the US. 

Other stats:

Singapore =)

Tokyo =)

Melbourne =)

London =(

Look at the latency for London. Did a quick trace route to a UK website and observed some high pings along the way via the FLAG optical link (four hops!).

snap! there goes $100

Actually, more like RM 390 (or $114). I've managed to procure the D-Link DCS 2102 IP camera. Its larger than I thought! Did a few tests and image quality was alright, though I probably need a lot more tweaking before setting it up properly. The video frame rate over the local LAN and WiFi was also decent and I realized I should have picked up a NAS storage for the continuous recording feature.

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EXRRIG and HAN update

Well, I've been planning this build for so long, continuously changing its specs as time goes by. Check out my initial post in 2008: http://blog.ashytized.net/2008/09/need-new-engineering-rig-enter-exrrig.html

The next PC Fair in KL for 2010 is from 16 - 18 April. That would probably be the time I'll start buying the components. So far, I'm leaning towards the AMD Athlon II X4 620, considering its great with multi-threaded applications.

For the Home Area Network project, here is a basic network layout (click to enlarge):

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*yawns*

Finally, my night shift week is over for now. I'll be off for the weekend and back to work on morning shifts for next week. Its weird to reach the office at the dark of the night, then be blinded by the morning light as you leave and drive (or try driving sanely) in brightness.

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What the heck is that sound? and a tinge of nostalgia.

Its 7am, and I still hear these weird shuffles in my office. Not sure if I'm hallucinating, but given I'm on my third straight night shift (2am-10am), who knows what the heck I'm experiencing.

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Resisting the art of sulking

In Malay language, we have a popular word, merajuk, which means sulking.Usually when someone received some scathing scolding and goes off to sulk with a bad mood, we say "dia merajuk". Any attempts to converse with them results in a silent response. But funnily enough.. when we claim someone is sulking, they deny it and become more sulked. So its better to leave them be rather than to escalate the issue.

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Strange eh?

For someone employed in a netcentric workplace, I don't seem to find time to blog often. Am on the evening shift this week, but today there will be a final training session in the afternoon. As expected, work is getting tough. It was probably unintended hindsight that I went from one stressful period (of uni projects) into another, making it somewhat of an easy transition. Then again, humans do need a brief respite!

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Enough of 2k9? Bringing in the next decade

The New Year came and went it seems. As we monitored and configured the VoIP systems at work, the phase into 2010 was just like any other night. Perhaps it was my mistake to have missed the significance of Awal Muharram a few weeks back, which would have place a more important meaning.

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