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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Almost two decades ago, I worked at a network service provider who had as a customer a company that provided the technology for serving those gas pump ads.

    At each gas station they had a VSAT, a router and of course the digital signage boxes on each pump.

    They fed the ads to thousands of pumps via a single T1 to HughesNet in Atlanta. They’d multicast the ads, and have a local cache at each pump that would receive the stream, cache it and serve it.

    It was one of the most elegant setups I’ve ever seen, and should serve as a case study in multicast for efficient bandwidth utilization across an expensive data transmission medium.









  • I’d say The Inner Light is almost universally considered the greatest TNG episode, although there are other great ones.

    I in particular enjoyed The Measure of a Man, The Drumhead, The Chase, Who Watches The Watchers, Yesterday’s Enterprise, The Offspring, The Best of Both Worlds, Darmok, Chain of Command, The Pegasus, Lower Decks, and All Good Things.

    Almost certainly the worst episode is Masks (or maybe Shades of Grey)