Undersea fiber optics
Posted on January 17th, 2009
Check out this Discovery Channel episode. One of Tyco Telecommunications Reliant Class fleet ships, Cable ship Tyco Resolute was laying a new fibre optic cable to connect Costa Rica. Lay new cable under the sea floor and cut and splice the PAC1 undersea cable. West side connecting North to South America http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/World_Map_2007_LR.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_submarine_communications_cables On […]
Stupid BASH Tricks
Posted on January 13th, 2009
Tired of your bland old BASH shell? sick of typing in lines and lines of cryptic commands? Arch Linux’s “pacman” still confusing you with it’s less than intuitive command switches? Fear not, true believers…for I come to you bearing gifts of Stupid BASH Tricks! One thing I hate, is when ls doesn’t display things in […]
GNU Screen Cheat Sheet
Posted on January 4th, 2009
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ISO 6429 (ECMA 48, ANSI X3.64) and ISO 2022 stan-dards (e.g. insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). […]