FedEx still faster than the internet

When you need to transfer very large amounts of data over the internet, sooner or later you will hit a limit where it will actually be faster to send that data on disks over regular mail (often called sneakernet). Internet transfer rates are simply not enough for large data sets.

Imagine a company with two offices in different cities, perhaps even in different countries. Each office has a 100 megabit internet connection. If the company needs to send a large amount of data from one office to the other, theoretically a 100 megabit connection can muster about 45 gigabyte in one hour if there are no bottlenecks on the way. This ends up being just over one terabyte of data in 24 hours.

In other words, for anything larger than one terabyte, it would be faster for this company to just send the data on disks for over-night delivery.

What does Google do?
Google’s initiative to transfer all the Hubble space telescope data is a good case study. The Hubble data takes up 120 terabyte (120,000,000,000,000 byte). How does Google transfer it? Not over the internet. Instead they send actual physical disk arrays via regular mail, something they have dubbed, for fun, FedExNet. This allows them to get the data within 24 hours.
To transfer the same amount over the internet in 24 hours, Google would have to be able to achieve transfer rates of more than 11 gigabit/s running constantly maxed out. On a regular 100 megabit connection, transferring 120 terabyte of data would take almost four months (111 days).

Is Internet 2 the answer?
The basic point here is that the internet still needs a lot more capacity. How soon can we reach such massive transfer rates? There is hope at the horizon, but FedEx probably hopes the answer is “never.”

How to Use a Different Outgoing Email Address on Gmail
I believe many of you have forwarded your email from other email account to your Gmail account for convenience purpose. But do you know that you actually can reply the forwarded email with the same email address the message was sent to?

If you’d like your outgoing Gmail messages to display your another email address in the “From:” field (instead of your Gmail address), just follow these easy steps:

Step 1: Log in to your Gmail account.

Step 2: Click Settings on the top of the page.

Step 3: Select Accounts tab. Then click Add another email address in the Send mail as: section.

Step 4: Enter your Name and the Email address you’d like to use in the “Form” field. You can specify a different email address for “reply-to” address if you’d like email replies to be delivered to other email account, such as Gmail.

Step 5: Click Next Step » and then click Send Verification to complete the process. Gmail will send a verification message to your other email address to confirm that you’d like to add it to your Gmail account.

You’ll need to click the link in the verification email or key in the verify code in order to verify you’re the owner of the email address.

Step 6: Once you have verified that you are the owner of the email address, you can customize your email address in the From: field whenever you want to compose an email.

Stylish Metal Phone - LG Shine (KE970) Cell Phone

LG Shine has a large 2.2 inch wide mirror LCD screen. On the panel, there is a multi functional scroll key and two blue eyes (blue color LED). The phone is equipped with 2 megapixels digital camera. It is not a 3G phone. LG Shine has 50MB internal memory and support external memory (Micro SD). For connectivity, LG Shine supports USB and Bluetooth. This phone surely will grab your attention.. Reference price for this phone is around RM 1315-1395.

Key Features:

• Stylish all metal design with mirror finish display


• QVGA display resolution


• 2 megapixel autofocus camera with Schneider-Kreuznach lens


• Scroller navigation


• microSD memory card slot


• Office documents viewer

Main Disadvantages:

• Problematic scroller response


• Shoots video in QCIF resolution only


• Fingerprint magnet

Introducing of Apple iPhone ^_^

Heads exploded around the tech world today after Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally announced the long-awaited Apple iPhone during his Macworld 2007 keynote in San Francisco.

The 4GB model will cost $499 with a two-year contract ,and the 8GB version will cost $599. If without any contract, it will be sold around $3000 US Dollar. Converting into Malaysia money, will be 10k.. Woh... -_-.. Not a price that most of the people can afford..

The specification of iPhone is as below:

General:
Cellular technology : GSM
Dimensions (W x D x H) : 2.4 in x 0.7 in x 4.5 in
Band / mode : GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband)
Weight : 4.8 oz
Wireless Interface : IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
OS provided : OS X
Combined with: With digital camera / digital player

Phone:

Speakerphone: Yes

Messaging / Data Services:

Voice Mail Capability: Yes
Short Messaging Service (SMS) : Yes
Internet Browser: Yes
Messaging / Data Features: Text messages

Power:

Talk time:Up to 480 min

Audible Battery Alert: Yes

Cellular:
Phone style: Candy bar
Automatic Redial: Yes
Call Divert: Yes
Call Hold: Yes
Call Timer: Yes
Caller ID: Yes
Call Waiting: Yes
Volume Control: Yes
Ringer Control: Yes
Conference Call Capability: Yes
Computer Link: Yes
Call Transfer: Yes

Physical Characteristics:
Width: 2.4 in
Depth: 0.7 in
Height: 4.5 in
Antenna: Integrated

First Blog

Heard about blog long long time ago... Only until today (few minutes ago..) i decide to create a blog. Because see many people writing blog, make me have a desire to create my "OWN" blog too :-p. Still thinking what i can write in my blog, may be write about my lifestyle, job, family and many many things...

May be let introduce myself a bit. I am a 28 years old guy, living at a small town in Malaysia, called Ipoh. Ipoh lifestyle is peaceful and slow and steady..

I currently enrolled in IT industry. Helping company customizing the ERP System. At the same time, also doing computer hardware and networking maintainence too. In chinese words, called "One Leg Kick" ^_^.. Every things i also need to do..

In future, i try to write something about IT.. Hope some of my experience in IT can help others to solve some computer related problems..