Books Catch Up

I’ve read quite a few books in the last few days. I seem to be read­ing exclus­ively children’s books. Mainly because I can’t decide which of my own books to read next.
The last few I have read are: Vampire’s Assist­ant by Dar­ren Shan, Sav­age Stone Age by Terry Deary and Mar­tin Brown, Har­vey Angell by Diana Hendry, and I’nm cur­rently read­ing The Prin­cess Diar­ies by Meg Cabot. Con­tinue read­ing

Net speed record smashed

From the BBC Tech News this morn­ing; Net speed record smashed.

Sci­ent­ists have set a new inter­net speed record by trans­fer­ring 6.7 giga­bytes of data across 10,978 kilo­metres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Ams­ter­dam in Hol­land, in less than one minute.

Cool! :cool: I could use me some of that band­width :-)

The motiv­a­tion for the record was the need to trans­fer and ana­lyse the vast amounts of data pro­duced by particle phys­i­cists study­ing the fun­da­mental build­ing blocks of mat­ter…
Dur­ing its research, Slac has accu­mu­lated the largest known data­base in the world, which grows at one tera­byte per day.