Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
the net
The Bard network features a Gigabit backbone with 100MB desktop speeds that link College facilities and give students, faculty, and staff access to Internet services, e-mail, and the World Wide Web from classrooms, residence hall rooms, offices, and public areas. Bard provides high-speed ethernet access to the Internet and campus computing resources via fiber-optic cabling to all student residence halls and 802.11b(g) wireless networking in several areas around the campus...Students wishing to use wireless networking will need to purchase compatible wireless network interface.
Identity Theft circa 1995
internet as spermoid penetration fantasy, a journey through the cybernetic womb
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Long Shots from the Powerhouse
The Hub at 32 Avenue of the Americas, "The Ultimate Meet-Point for Global Communications"
The Roof
| "These two 150’ towers provide line of sight to thousands of buildings in Midtown, Downtown, Jersey City, Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. The ringed support structure is designed to accommodate a wide variety of antennas. Wireless connectivity from these towers extends down to The Hub and the meet me point on the 24th floor, thus allowing for the convergence of the wireless to the wireline." | ||
 Northern View |  Southern View |  Eastern View |
 Western View |  South-Eastern View |  North-Western View |
2. The Internet in the Cage//The Meet-Me Room//Fiberoptic Real Estate//Interconnectivity in the Free Market:
I wish these segments could upload as one, uncompressed, and sporting its original quality. But Freedom ain't free, providers like Blogger and Youtube are not as interested in High-Definition feeds and signal authenticity as the Telco Hotel. Free information-networking comes with its imbedded cost of quality, time, and space. The Internet's not infinite?
SOON TO COME: Parts 3-6, the rest of the documentation from last week's meeting with Patrick Shelley, the General Manager of the Hub.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Caffeine and the Information Age
Most people know that caffeine can help you overcome fatigue and keep you alert. However, did you know that some scientists believe that caffeine's mental boost can also actually help you to think better and perform certain tasks more accurately?
Leaders in the computer industry tell us that caffeine helped fuel the computer revolutions and continues to drive the software industry today. This is due in part to caffeine's ability to help give us the energy we need to complete our work. Computer professionals often rely on caffeine to stay alert during the long hours required to develop a new software system and to answer the calls to rescue the system when it crashes (which usually happens in the middle of the night!). However, caffeine's popularity in the computer industry may also be due to the special mental boost caffeine confers, which helps improve accuracy and speed in completing certain tasks, including writing computer programs and operating computer systems.
Experiments have confirmed the common experience that, especially when prolonged efforts are required, caffeine improves performance in work relying on the use of short-term memory, simple mathematical calculations, or carrying out repetitive tasks. Many scientists think that the mental boost caffeine provides can also help us process certain types of information better and thereby perform these tasks more accurately and rapidly, whether we are tired or not.
Whether you write computer programs, or just use them on the job or in your studies, you will be happy to know that a single VIVARIN tablet, containing the caffeine found in two cups of coffee of four cups of tea, can give you the boost you need to complete work, anytime and anyplace.
(provided by www.vivarin.com)
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Email Correspondence
[email from Sales Rep. at tel-x/60 Hudson. Five minutes later he called me back after hearing from his manager and temporarily de-invited me. Security protocol, of course. Every student needs an onslaught of collegiate stationary to get through these info-detectors. ]
RE: site tour of 60 Hudson
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Hi Saralee,
It was nice speaking with you a few minutes ago.
I will be give a tour next Wednesday, 5/7/2008 at 1:30PM for customer. You may join us if you like. We can meet on W. Broadway entrance between Worth St and Thomas Street. Please see the link below:
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f
Here is my blackberry number: 646.300.2034 in case you need to reach me. By the way, you will need a photo ID for access.
If you have questions during the tour, please ask me after the tour -- I will be happy to answer any questions for you then. Also, would it be possible to get a copy of your research paper once you are done? We would be interested learning your findings.
Thank you,
Gazi Sher
Inside Sales Executive
1 State Street, 21st floor
New York, NY 10004
Tel: 212.480.3300, x2014
Direct Dial: 347.562.0234
Cell: 646.300.2034
telx
The Interconnection Company
The Host of NANOG43 in New York and the CBX! June 1-5, 2008
"Gotta Catch 'em All"
re:re:constant access, i got in to the hub on the 24th floor and roof of the former AT&T building at 32 Ave. of the Americas with digital audio recorder and a Hi-Def camera, sucker.
video/audio tour coming soon!Re: [contact] Telecom Hotels
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How great to hear from you!
I'm afraid that I don't have any information on how to gain access to these places. Frankly speaking, my own status doesn't really get me into them either, all the time. I haven't tried any of the centers in New York. Probably your best bet would be to find someone with connections to someone in a small telecoms company who can get you in there.
At present the NetLab isn't available for viewing although maybe later in the year. I would warn you however, that we don't have any exciting hardware or anything. We just do analysis so it's laptops, monitors, and us. Plus a really nice view of the Empire State Building.
All my best,
Kazys Varnelis
Kazys Varnelis [kazys.varnelis.net]
Director, Network Architecture Lab [netlab.audc.org]
Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture
Preservation, and Planning
Co-Founder, AUDC [audc.org]
Studio-X
Suite 1610
180 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
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