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

Sun Mar 28 10:47:35 EST 2010

There was a great spoof about this on YouTube by the ABC Hungry Beast. Apart
from some swear words, almost suitable for senior IT students and their
delicate ears.
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2bFFGM8T8

Regards Roland

On 26 March 2010 08:56, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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>>>>
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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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-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
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