static void Host_Crash_f( void )
{
*(volatile int *)0 = 0xffffffff;
}
Cmd_AddRestrictedCommand ( "crash", Host_Crash_f,
"a way to force a bus error for development reasons");
Why is naming my servers so difficult?? I name them all after pokemon and now I need one for a server with a lot of storage for downloads and backups… what to call it!
So we are discussing the joke that IPoAC is still faster than @DefaultAlex’s internet connection. This got us all thinking about how useful a Pigeon would be for transfering data.
So, how would we attach data to a pigeon? MicroSD cards!
Straight up asking your popular search engine this question returns pretty much nothing so we thought we’d actually calculate it. How hard could it be??
A typical pigeon can carry about 10% of it’s weight safely. The average pigeon is 300-500 grams which means we have a range of 30-50 grams of weight capacity.
A MicroSD card weighs in at about 0.25g so in the best case senario, we can get 120-200 MicroSD cards attached to a pigeon. If we go with 512GB cards, we’re talking 60-100TB of raw capacity.
We don’t want to loose any of this data so we would probably need a RAID6 setup. So we’re down to 59-99TB of raw capacity. That’s still a lot though!
So this poses a few new questions…
How would we calculate the bandwidth of the connection?How do we protect the data?Would we need to make a RAID array of pigeons to ensure no packet loss? If so, how the hell do you RAID6 a pigeon?Does bird flu impact the transfer rate? If so, would that technically be a computer virus now?What’s the packet loss of a pigeon?
Next Week: We discuss sending encryption keys via Foxes.
Story Time!
So we are discussing the joke that IPoAC is still faster than @DefaultAlex’s internet connection. This got us all thinking about how useful a Pigeon would be for transfering data.
So, how would we attach data to a pigeon? MicroSD cards!
Straight up asking your popular search engine this question returns pretty much nothing so we thought we’d actually calculate it. How hard could it be??