[Year 12 IT Apps] Study design - 56Kbps modem

Fri Mar 26 08:56:38 EST 2010

I guess someone has mentioned to their students this April Fools Day RFC
about a new "IP over Pigeon" communication standard?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

In many cases pigeon-based data transfer is faster than ADSL eg
http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5240.asp ,
http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2009/09/pigeon-beats-internet-in-data-transfer.html

Ken

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Roland Gesthuizen
<rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Wow, if I tug on a piece of string I can probably transmit at the rate of 4
> bps, if I could line up 16 clones with strings in parallel, I could probably
> reach this speed. The real bottleneck is my brain that operates at about one
> flop per second (with no check digit you can expect oodles of errors) a
> system for caching the string tugs and adding a user interface with some
> empty tin cans.
>
> Regards Roland
>
>
> On 25 March 2010 11:09, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> No, I mourn the *56 bps* modem - the long-standing typographical error in
>> the past 2 study designs!  :-)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Robert <robert at yinnar.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  So sorry to see the demise of this wonderful device - I assume Mark
>>> that you meant 56Kbps, 56bps would be a tad slow even by the standards of
>>> yester-year. Gee I am getting old! How many of you "out there" started with
>>> 300bps modems?
>>>
>>> I still have the delight of using a 56Kbps modem for access when down at
>>> Yinnar. It works well although a tad slowly, especially when people send you
>>> emails with photos with file sizes of 1-4 MB.
>>>
>>> Brings up a different issue. The waste and cost to us all of sending
>>> oversize or useless data over the internet.
>>>
>>> Useless as in spam. It costs us all. Clogs up the network.
>>>
>>> Oversize as in the example of emails with photo attachments. Used to be
>>> that I would resize photos to 640x480, when that was the normal screen
>>> resolution, and save as jpg files at 70% quality to make sure that the files
>>> I sent were of a reasonable size. Not so any more. My rels take photos on
>>> their 10MB cameras and send them to me as high quality jpegs.  I can't even
>>> view them directly onscreen as they are far too  big. I don't want to print
>>> out high quality A4 prints from all these photos, so why send them to me at
>>> this size?
>>>
>>> Enough of the rantings of an aging, not yet old, fart.
>>>
>>> Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
>>> Ashwood and Traralgon
>>> robert at yinnar.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
>>> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<itapps at edulists.com.au>; Year
>>> 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:50 PM
>>> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Study design - legislation
>>>
>>> Interesting to see that the glossary extends the legislation list to now
>>> include:
>>> - sections of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006
>>> - Parts of the Spam Act 2003
>>>
>>> It's also interesting to see protocols are back in the Key Knowledge for
>>> networking after a 4 year layoff.  I'm glad.  I liked protocols.
>>> Topologies are still missing, however.
>>>
>>> Sadly, the familiar 56bps modem has been removed from the study design
>>> after an 8 year run.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark Kelly
>>> Manager - Information Systems
>>> McKinnon Secondary College
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>>
>> --
>> Mark Kelly
>> Manager - Information Systems
>> McKinnon Secondary College
>> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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>> School Phone +613 8520 9000
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>
>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
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> Mead
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Dr Ken Price MACS ACCE Professional Associate.
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