New 10Gbase-T switch from Extreme networks
New switches from Extreme networks are bringing 10Gb switching to the masses for an estimated $25k list per switch.
At long last a device with 10Gbase-t UTP ports allowing the cost of populating the XFP ports to be eliminated and at $4k each that soon mounts up to a lot of money on a high capacity switch.
Extreme has also made the great step of allowing these units to be stacked, creating a single virtual switch out of up to 8 x 1U devices, now I just need to get a freebee....
http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/summit-X650.aspx
Posted at 01:23PM May 21, 2008 by Simon Bullen in Networking | Comments[2]
British cyclist dominate the world indoor track championships
A huge congratulations to the British cycling team who dominated the world indoor track championships again beating last years amazing tally of 7 golds with 9 this year and breaking 3 world records on the way.
Its amazing we do so well at this sport with the limited facilities available to train, there are only 3 velodromes in the whole of the UK, OK manchester is a world class facility but its location will limit the number of people who can have access on a regular basis.
Lets hope we do this well in China !!
Posted at 09:38AM Mar 31, 2008 by Simon Bullen in Cycling | Comments[4]
Tata purchase Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford
What is the world coming to, Tata have taken ownership of two more British icons, Jaguar and Land Rover. The last time Tata entered the UK motoring market was with Rover and that awful City car. To show the current standard of Tata's cars they have just released the worlds cheapest car,the Tata Nano. Naming it after an Ipod will not make this car cool in any shape or form and its not exactly in the same league as the Jag or Range Rover....
The way forward for both of these marques will be interesting and I hope Tata have done a deal with Ford to continue to supply parts for most of the current models. Items such as the defender engine is from a transit and the latest Jags are re-incarnated Aston Martins
(Dave Walker will hate me for saying that)
But all I have to say is it would have been nice for the UK to retain some part of its historical car industry, at least Tata will have a good supply of steel as they also own Corus ( ex British steel)
Posted at 02:37PM Mar 28, 2008 by Simon Bullen in land rover | Comments[4]
Speedcabling "sport"
According to the BBC, a new 'sport' has taken off in a big way during the last month which sees IT professionals competing to unravel the mass of wires typically found beneath computer desks in offices the world over. 'Speedcabling' sees contestants faced with a tangled mass of up to twelve Ethernet cables of various lengths up to 25 feet which they must separate in the fastest time. To replicate the conditions of the wires in the wild, the networking spaghetti is tied in complex figures of eight then cycled in a tumble dryer. "After that, they're pretty much how they appear in nature," confirmed eccentric Speedcabling founder Steven Schkolne. The first Speedcabling competition took place in an art gallery in Los Angeles and was won by LA-based web developer Matthew Howell. Read More
Posted at 02:51PM Feb 27, 2008 by Simon Bullen in Networking | Comments[0]
What’s smug and deserves to be decapitated?
From The Times December 27, 2007
What’s smug and deserves to be decapitated?
Matthew Parris: My Week
A festive custom we could do worse than foster would be stringing piano wire across country lanes to decapitate cyclists. It’s not just the Lycra, though Heaven knows this atrocity alone should be a capital offence; nor the helmets, though these ludicrous items of headgear are designed to protect the only part of a cyclist that is not usefully employed; nor the self-righteousness, though a small band of sports cyclists on winter’s morning emits more of that than a cathedral at evensong; nor even the brutish disregard for all other road users, though the lynching of a cyclist by a mob of mothers with pushchairs would be a joy to witness.
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Posted at 09:41PM Jan 10, 2008 by Simon Bullen in Cycling | Comments[1]
Cycle lights - review
Blimey winter is here again, the days are short and cold, well it was cold this morning.
Anyway found this great article regarding front lights with prices ranging from £30 to £430 pounds, the good news for me is that the Hope lights I purchased last year are still rated as one of the best on the market, money well spent if you ask me.
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Posted at 09:02AM Nov 12, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Cycling | Comments[1]
Cisco stole my idea !
In November 2006 I wrote "So why not combine the features of a stacking switch with the capacity of a chassis ?"
http://blogs.sun.com/sbullen/entry/stacking_chassis_switches
Now it seems that Cisco have embrased the idea on their upgraded 4500 and 6500 switches
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switch System (VSS) 1440, which is enabled by the Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gig E. Essentially, the system combines several Catalyst 6500 switches into one. The VSS 1440 scales system bandwidth capacity to as much as 1.44 terabits per second (Tbps). According to Cisco, it also simplifies operation management by allowing multiple Catalyst 6500 Series switches to share a single point of management, single routing instance and single IP address, while also eliminating the need for Spanning Tree and first-hop redundancy protocols like Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
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Posted at 10:13AM Nov 08, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Networking | Comments[0]
New Nvidia drivers for Crysis
For anyone who has downloaded the new Crysis demo and found it doesn't run as good as it should nvidia have released some new beta drivers to help you.
This is a very power hungry game !
windows XP drivers
windows Vista 32bit drivers
windows Vista 64bit drivers
Posted at 12:15PM Oct 29, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Gaming | Comments[0]
Why have the dutch got it right ?
I was in Holland last week and the number of cyclist was outstanding, and this wasn't a large city such as Amsterdam, it was on the outskirts of Breda.
Also the lack of need for major security, most bikes just have a lock on the rear wheel to stop them being cycled away, no need for lockers or padlocking to fixed lock points.
I did note that most of the bikes weren't worth stealing but this doesn't normally stop a thief in the UK.
Posted at 11:17AM Oct 29, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Cycling | Comments[3]
World Post Day
The UN celerbrated World Post Day yesterday.
What were the british postal workers doing ? They were on strike.
Event Type: Observances
Event Name: World Post Day
Event Description: Since 1969, member countries of the Universal Postal Union celebrate World Post Day.
Location: Worldwide
UN Sponsor: Universal Postal Union (UPU)
Activities: Posts celebrate World Post Day in a variety of ways, including the introduction of new products and services, as well as stamps, and holding public events and manifestations.
Event URL: http://www.upu.int/world_post_day/en/index.shtml
Date & Time:
Posted at 12:16PM Oct 10, 2007 by Simon Bullen in General | Comments[0]
Network world rates Sun bloggers
Sun shines, IBM lets loose, Microsoft disappoints, Apple is a no-show
The good
Corporate bloggers are often at their most interesting when they write about broad issues that face IT executives.
For example, Cisco employees write a high-tech policy blog examining how government decisions affect technology. IBM master inventor Barry Whyte blogs extensively about storage virtualization.
Sun hosts dozens of blogs on Blogs.sun.com, a space the company says "is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything."
The bad
Massive Microsoft has just five blogs. Apple doesn't have a blog, unless you count one written by students. The list of blogless vendors includes Avaya and Juniper Networks. Juniper says it plans to launch one soon.
The ugly
Out of the 15 blogs we surveyed, the worst by far is maintained by Foundry Networks.
Click here for more
Posted at 03:31PM Oct 08, 2007 by Simon Bullen in General | Comments[0]
Jobs apologises for dropping $200 off the iphone
Letter posted on Apple's website:-
To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to 'go for it' this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone 'tent'. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.
Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.
Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.
Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned.
We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.
Steve Jobs
Apple CEO
Posted at 09:41AM Sep 07, 2007 by Simon Bullen in General | Comments[1]
Shimano launches carbon Dura-Ace crankset
Shimano have officially launched the new Dura-Ace crankset FC-7800C.
Surprisingly, the crankset actually hides an alloy core. The alloy frame provides the structural rigidity; the interlaced and wrapped carbon keeps the weight down. The reason Shimano haven't gone down a complete carbon route is that they constantly found that although weight decreases with the use of carbon, so does the rigidity.
The halfway house certainly hasn't had a detrimental effect to the weight. Analysing the numbers, Shimano are claiming 709g for the complete crankset including the bottom bracket. SRAM's recently launched RED crankset tips the scales at a claimed 780g (including bottom bracket
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Posted at 06:03PM Aug 30, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Cycling | Comments[2]
New iPod from Apple ?
Interesting gossip going around in the states at the moment about Apple launching a new iPod next month.
The new unit is said to be more like the iPhone with a full touch screen and an inch shorter that the current iPod. No news on capacity but it is bound to look the business.
Apple are hoping that the new iPod will become this years Christmas best seller, put it this way, I will not bet against that happening !
Posted at 04:33PM Aug 30, 2007 by Simon Bullen in General | Comments[0]
Private network for online gaming bypasses Internet bottlenecks
A Missouri startup called GameRail feels the pain of latency-challenged online video gamers, and has developed a private network that routes game traffic from PCs to about 10,000 servers hosted by online gaming companies. Essentially, it allows online gamers to bypass the Internet, the company claims.
For players of first-person shooter games, GameRail’s target market, “the higher the latency the slower the bullets and you can’t dodge out of the way,” says John Alden, vice president of business development. “With lower latency, you can shoot better, faster, and react faster.”
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Posted at 04:49PM Aug 29, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Gaming | Comments[1]
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