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kornholion Google OnHub Review

It looks like X doesn't have any hardware acceleration for forwarding. With 64b packets, X can only push 130k PPS while ERL should do at least 1M PPS. This doesn't matter in a home network though.

kornholion The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs

Not just FPGA tools, pretty much the whole EE industry.

Few days ago I had trouble saving results from a semiconductor analyzer. The problem? Path had spaces in it. If you have the time to display a warning that it doesn't support spaces (on windows!), you should be able to fix the issue. Just imagine how bloated their codebase that you can't fix issues like this easily.

Recently I was trying to use ModelSim (HDL simulation tool) on a Linux machine, which unfortunately was not running a 10 year old distribution. It was failing with obscure Tcl/Tk errors :). Should have known better not to waste my time. Reinstalled it on a windows machine and now it was having problems connecting to our license server so I had to use a crack from a Chinese BBS (ugh).

I really want work to be done in this area, but one of the giants will either sue you into oblivion or make an offer you can't refuse. Either way nothing productive will get done... :(

kornholion Nearly Every USGS Topo Map For Free

A lot if you want the raw data. The 10-meter (also knows as 1/3 arcsecond) national elevation dataset is somewhere around 330GB in an unprojected form. There's also the 3-meter tiles for limited areas which take up 9 times as much storage.

However, it doesn't stop there. As part of the 3DEP (3D Elevation Program)[1], Lidar/IfSAR data is being collected across CONUS. One of the products that will be available (hopefully next year) is a 1-meter DEM, which should roughly be around 35TB (100 times as much data compared to 10-meter).

[1] http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1399/pdf/circ1399.pdf

kornholion Stampede – Texas Advanced Computing Center

https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/user-guides/stampede

kornholion Icann bids to stop Iran web domain seizure

well, they can't really take away their IP space.

kornholion Founder of Tor Freedom Hosting arrested in Ireland, awaiting extradition to USA

The guy in the article has US citizenship though

kornholion The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

I'm interested in your magic as well. If you don't mind, you can reach me at kornholijo at gmail.com. Thanks!

kornholion The Five Stages of Hosting

Equinix is a little on the expensive side... Just a little bit.

kornholion World's First 128 Gb NAND Device

terabyte != terabit

kornholion Valve: Piracy Is More About Convenience Than Price

I'm pretty sure that it downloads 100% of the game in an encrypted format, and the decryption keys get sent out on release.

kornholion One Million Concurrent TCP connections

No, the pair uses the client IP which means the client can have as many connections to your server as number of ephemeral ports allowed. There is no limit on connections except ram AFAIK.

kornholion Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up

They are a global tier1 carrier which provides connectivity to other ISPs (such as Google, Comcast, etc) around the world. Not sure why it shows Tata though.

kornholion Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

also http://www.serverloft.com/