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Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by stordoff »

williamscales wrote: post #40
shklnrj wrote: post #18

This reminds of the LAN we had in college. We used to use the software DC++ and then students shared the files that they had downloaded. You could access almost any file at 100MBPS.Someone was sure to download the latest episode of what you wanted to watch. If someone did not, then you went on the internet. Sometimes it was fast to download the file via LAN, than to transfer a file from pen drive to the computer. Thi…

We had this going at UBC as well. Since it was all internal LAN traffic, it didn't count against the 7 GB / day upload / download quota which was really tight if you like HD content.

There was one at Cambridge as well. Never bothering using it, but I could see the appeal:

* My college limited external traffic to 8GB per 10 day period (this was after we negotiated an increase in 2011). After that, it was a £0.25/GB charge plus throttling (* Having an IP address with the reverse DNS entry of ..cam.ac.uk made P2P for TV/movies etc. a poor idea (services like MegaUpload were popular though, as was the ad-hoc sharing of files locally)

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by sjwright »

yandrypozo wrote: post #55
justratsinacoat wrote: post #14

Awesome article! Does anyone have any further information? A few things stick in my mind: 1. FTA: "You'd need to be downloading at over 11Mbps 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to get the equivalent of El Paquete" 2. The AV update is 4 days old, the offline copy of Revolico is 3 days old 3. The article as a whole implies that El Paquete Semanal is a regularly distributed, ~850GB weekly curated samizdata Thus: what the fu…

"... at 851GB ... 11Mbps 24 hours a day" I'm from Cuba and I can say that weekly package (el paquete) always contains files from previous weeks, so what's real new each week is up to 200 GB, those guy store all that information in a lot of common hard drives and distribute the package just coping from a portable hard drive to another one, that's the "cloud" for Cubans :( this article should be named as 'The Cuban CDN…

Hopefully the people performing the distribution know about rsync/robocopy.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by toomuchtodo »

walrus01 wrote: post #19
eastdakota wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fact, it's quite probable. Doubt it'll happen in 2016, but bet it will by the end of 2017.

One of the major things we should watch for is a Miami to Cuba submarine cable. The Miami area (and the Terremark/Verizon "NAP of the Americas" IX point/datacenter) is already the landing station for a ton of submarine cables going to latin america. At present there are challenges at OSI layer 1 getting data into/out of Cuba, not including any government regulation/interference, just due to the lack of pipes. There's…

I did networking in another life, and I'd love to take some vacation time from my current gig to finagle networking in Cuba or Caracas.

Dangerous? Of course. Where would the fun be if it wasn't.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by digi_owl »

vidarh wrote: post #102
digi_owl wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still recall people bringing duffel bags packed with CDRs to LAN parties.

For me it was people bringing boxes full of 5.25" floppies and multiple external floppy drives... The fun thing, though was the postal swapping, which developed into an art-form involving defrauding the postal service (wax over the stamps etc. to let you scrape off the post mark and reuse the stamp), and dropping the envelope entirely (affixing address labels and stamps straight onto the floppies and just tape a flop…

And here i thought i was the graybeard of the party.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by digi_owl »

themartorana wrote: post #107
1propionyl wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because alcohol laws don't tend to get enforced unless there's a problem, because most of Southern Europe operates on a "village and neighboring villages" field of view and it would be socially uncouth. Weed on the other hand is very strictly enforced for the most part, except in more touristy and "Americanized" places.

Is the illegalization (made up a word) of weed in Europe at all a USA export as well? Or did they come to it on their own?

Hard to say. The history is murky and involve a whole mess of international conventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...

Seems to be the convention that brought cannabis into the fold.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by eastdakota »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #113
walrus01 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the major things we should watch for is a Miami to Cuba submarine cable. The Miami area (and the Terremark/Verizon "NAP of the Americas" IX point/datacenter) is already the landing station for a ton of submarine cables going to latin america. At present there are challenges at OSI layer 1 getting data into/out of Cuba, not including any government regulation/interference, just due to the lack of pipes. There's…

I did networking in another life, and I'd love to take some vacation time from my current gig to finagle networking in Cuba or Caracas. Dangerous? Of course. Where would the fun be if it wasn't.

https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team/

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by mercer »

melvinmt wrote: post #46

This brings back memories to the Twilight CD-ROMs [1] we had in the Netherlands in the late nineties that came out every month and had all the latest (cracked) games and applications on it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(CD-ROM)

Oh man, that's some nostalgia. I grew up without internet access, but every once in a while a visitor would bring a bunch of computer magazines (Computer!Totaal was my favorite) that usually came with CD-ROMs full of stuff.

In fact, my first experience with porn was because of one of these CD's. One day I found a hidden folder that wasn't accessible through the (godawful) interface, and it was filled with high-res porn images and a few low-res GIFs.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by eriknstr »

fiatjaf wrote: post #108
jdietrich wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just mixed economies: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

US is a mixed economy too :P

The U.S. Embassy in Germany agrees with you.

>The United States is said to have a mixed economy because privately owned businesses and government both play important roles.

http://usa.usembassy.de/economy-conditions.htm

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by theAnonMe »

stavros wrote: post #91
emilsedgh wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That reminds me of a funny story. I used to live on Tehran, Iran. All restaurants, stores and businesses must be closed after 12:00 AM in Tehran. So one night me and a friend were driving around the town in midnight and we were quite hungry. So we found a nice guy selling tea in the winter and there were other people around. We asked them if we can find food anywhere in town in this hour. One of them gave us an addre…

Similar story, I was in Barcelona, and if you walk around the beach at night, you see dodgy-looking immigrants that will approach you and quietly ask if you want a cold beer. See, it's illegal for stores to sell alcohol past a certain hour, so these guys provide a valuable service. However, I was with a friend who wanted to smoke some weed instead, so he went and asked one of the guys "do you have any weed?" The guy…

There are cannabis clubs all over Barcelona now, hard not to find.
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