{"id":1493,"date":"2006-02-09T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1493\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:27:48","slug":"1493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1493","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My XBox has arrived safely. Exactly as advertised which is perfect. The box is in a good condition &#8211; checking out the serial number I found that it was a version 1 XBox &#8211; which means very little actually. It came with a Samsung drive which is good since it reads the best collection of blank media allowing me to load Linux onto the device without too many issues. <\/p>\n<p>I tried to install the new software onto it but I could not get it to work. I think it is an issue with how I am burning things to CD. Using an ISO file correctly formatted worked first go. I am rather pleased. The one thing I have not worked out how to do is look at files on my server. It is on the other side of a firewall, but it is a different IP range and I have not quite worked that out. After all I have real work to do!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notes.co.il\/benbasat\/10991.asp\">Israel<\/a> comes news that sending data via SNAIL&#8217;s is faster than ADSL or carrier pidgeon. The campers did a test, and compared sending files via ADSL, Carrier Pidgeon and on DVD&#8217;s in the form of a rickshaw pulled by a Snail. And guess what? The SNAIL WON! I guess there are a lot of people who might be surprised by this&#8230; There was a statement a few years back that the fastest network in the USA is a 747 filled with CD-ROMS. Lets do the calculations. 100 CD&#8217;s weigh maybe 1KG. A 747 can carry maybe 100,000KG, or 10 million DVD&#8217;s. Assume 4 GBytes each (yeah, I know you can get dual layer), that becomes 40 Million GBytes, or 40,000 Terabytes. Divide this by 20,000 (the time of a cross-country flight), and you get about 2 terabytes per second across a country. That is FAST! Of course I have ignored the time to compile the DVD&#8217;s at each end, and the latency issue (which is extreme at about six hours), but It is still rather fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My XBox has arrived safely. Exactly as advertised which is perfect. The box is in a good condition &#8211; checking out the serial number I found that it was a version 1 XBox &#8211; which means very little actually. It &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1493\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-1493","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}