Trying to get the new Dell Inspiron 1012 with Intel 6250 to work on Sprint’s WiMAX (4G). CDMA worked fine and normal wireless LAN functioned perfectly, yet 4G was elusive.
Then I found http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1508183
cd wlwifi-6050-ucode-9.201.4.1
sudo cp iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode /lib/firmware
sudo chmod 644 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi*
sudo chown root:root /lib/firmware/iwlwifi*
sudo rmmod -f iwlagn
sudo modprobe iwlagn
Wikileaks new home is a Swedish data center that once served as a fallout shelter built to survive a nuclear winter.
Details below, via pingdom.com.
Originally a nuclear bunker: The data center is housed in what was originally a military bunker and nuclear shelter during the Cold War era. The facility still has the code name from its military days: Pionen White Mountains.
Located in central Stockholm below 30 meters (almost 100 ft) of bedrock: The facility has 1110 sqm (11950 sq ft) of space and is located below 30 meters of solid bedrock (granite) right inside the city.
Fully redesigned in 2007-2008: Pionen was completely redesigned in 2007-2008 to become the data center that it is today. More than 4,000 cubic meters (141,300 cubic ft) of solid rock was blasted away to make more room.
Can withstand a hydrogen bomb: The bunker was designed to be able to withstand a near hit by a hydrogen bomb.
Houses the Network Operations Center for one of Sweden’s largest ISPs: The bunker houses the NOC for all of Bahnhof’s operations. They have five data centers in Sweden, Pionen being the largest. The facility also acts as a co-location hosting center, so you can actually put your own servers here.
German submarine engines for backup power: Backup power is handled by two Maybach MTU diesel engines producing 1.5 Megawatt of power. The engines were originally designed for submarines, and just for fun the people at Pionen have also installed the warning system (sound horns) from the original German submarine.
1.5 megawatt of cooling for the servers: Cooling is handled by Baltimore Aircoil fans producing a cooling effect of 1.5 megawatt, enough for several hundred rack-mounted units.
Triple redundancy Internet backbone access: The network has full redundancy with both fiber optics and extra copper lines with three different physical ways into the mountain. Pionen is one the best-connected places in northern Europe.
Work environment with simulated daylight and greenhouses: For a pleasant working environment the data center has simulated daylight, greenhouses, waterfalls and a huge 2600-liter salt water fish tank.
Staff: 15 employees, only senior technical staff, work full time in Pionen.
via Royal Pingdom » The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain.
The 404 on Github is adorable. It consists of an image of an “octocat” – a cross between an eight-armed mollusk and an adorable smiling feline. The wide-eyed, anime-style illustration is a pleasant way of telling the user that the page, much like the animal, doesn’t exist.
Early 1980s intercontinental internet traffic followed (geographically) the same basic infrastructure that had existed for much of the previous century. The image above illustrates early submarine telecommunications lines.
This is from 2007 but I think it’s fascinating and just as relevant as ever. There are a couple still from this talk that have become an internet meme. I’ll include some in a follow up post.
I’ve been getting a Flash issue in IE. The problem only appeared in IE (all versions) and not in any of the other browsers. I’m not sure if this is because Microsoft’s jScript engine is super-compliant or super-buggy. But we figured out what the problem was.
The issue we were having dealt with the HTML we used to instantiate the Flash file as an object in the DOM. We wrap an embed element in an object element, becuase IE likes one and most other broswers like the other.
The fix was simple. Without getting into too much detail, just make sure that your object and embed tags have unique and valid id attributes. There is some hidden JavaScript that the Flash player calls and if you don’t have these attributes IE chokes when it tries to call these “secret” JavaScript libraries.
Kyle Hayes
My friend Kyle has a blog. Kyle is The Master.
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