Some two and a half hours into the FF3.0 download campaign, and the toll is beginning to show.spreadfirefox.com seems to be refusing connections. While individual mirror sites seem up, it looks like the counts are going via some redirector script. getfirefox.com is however working fine.
The impact its having on mirrors seems to be quite intense. [...]
Firefox 3.0, crashes and bandwidth overload
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Applications · Networking
New Hilbert Release
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
With Nick now in Grahamstown, development on the Hilbert Curve application has progressed well. Version 4.05 has been released around a month after the 2.05 edition previously mentioned, which is heading much closer towards completion. The unix build scripts still need to be integrated, but there has been much improvement. The most [...]
Tags: Linux · Networking · Security · Vizualization
Gen3 Migration Complete
May 31st, 2008 · No Comments
After a couple of false starts, Rhodes University has finally transitioned off the older Telkom Provides Gen2 ( although for the last few months we have been using the Telkom commercial Internet Service) to the New TENET Gen3 network being serviced by Neotel, and Internet Solutions. Probably the biggest difference is that TENET now gets [...]
Tags: Networking
