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Rack Mount Cases

By Friday, October 31, 2014 Sciences & Technology Tags: 0053, Cabinets, Hardware, Mobility Permalink 0
RackMountWeb

A rack mount cases is a transit case with provision for mounting rackmount equipment such as amplifiers, computers, displays, radios, encryption devices, and so forth. In many cases, the internal 19-inch rack is mounted to the transit case via shock absorbing mounts giving the rack sway space to attenuate shocks and bumps that might be seen during shipment and handling. One of the main standards in the design of these cases is MIL-STD-2073-1D – Standard Practice for Military Packaging. This can be linked to products of mobile data centers like Dell’s one for the military, which is based on a smaller scale than Googles 40” Shipping containers, for extra transportability. You can have an look at the product via Green (low Carbon) Data Center Blog.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_case

Occupy.Here: build a local darknet

By Thursday, October 16, 2014 Society Tags: 0048, City, Infrastructure, Makers, Mobility, Open source, Sociology Permalink 0
Occupy-Here

This system isn’t connected to the cloud. Instead, the users represent a cloud of points and this local mobile network links them together. It’s a LAN party without the cables. Anyone within range of an Occupy.here wifi router, with a web-capable smartphone or laptop, can join the network “OCCUPY.HERE,” load the locally-hosted website http://occupy.here, and use the message board to connect with other users nearby. The open source forum software offers a simple, mobile-friendly interface where users can share messages and files.

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Via Rhizome

Reblog > Floating Datacenters

By Friday, October 3, 2014 Sciences & Technology Tags: 0041, Datacenter, Engineering, Infrastructure, Sociology Permalink 0

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/10/28/the-barge-mystery-floating-data-centers/

The prototypes of the “Google Navy” have been discovered on both coasts. But are they floating data centers? Or some kind of marketing facility for Google Glass? This perspective pushes further the question of the legal borders of the physical nature of data. This refers to our research in a sociological way, and makes me think of Sealand’s Datacenter HeavenCo in international waters (even if the scale of the infrastructure is in no way simmilar).

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Via DataCenterKnowloedge

Stockholm 1982: The Hot Line

By Friday, October 3, 2014 Society Tags: 0038, Behavior, City, Hack, History, Infrastructure, Links, Social Permalink 0

http://blay.se/2012/09/17/hot-line-riot-1982/

In September 1982, the youths of Stockholm had discovered a specific way to meet each other: they used a bug in the routing of the city’s phone cabins to communicate through group calls, for free. This story is relevant as an ethnographical example of the influence of communication technologies on the behaviour of social groups, specifically through their misuse.

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Via Magnus Eriksson

Reblog > Setting up a Raspberry Pi to run bots

By Thursday, October 2, 2014 Resources, Sciences & Technology Tags: 0036, Code, Electronics, Energy, Links, Makers, Sociology Permalink 0

http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/2014/08/31/setting-up-raspberry-pi-to-run-bots/

Artist Jeff Thompson has put this comprehensive tutorial on how to run bots on a Raspberry-Pi microcomputer – including the basics of setting up the Pi to run without a screen and programming it remotely by SSH-ing into it from another computer. This is an interesting way to tap into small ressources of the cloud without necessarily consuming vast quantities of energy.

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Via Algopop

 

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