'Black holes’ charted on the Internet
 

Someone sent me this link.It made me laugh at the title but can anyone really see a use for this application? :erm:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24067737/_

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Apart from a very easy way to get grants for research - nope.

However, looking at the screenshot map. Ley lines spring to mind - now where is that grant application form:)

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Detecting and resolving network issues.

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Do you think that ISP's would buy such software?

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Microsoft is putting some sort of black hole software in the next update to windows xp. I'm assuming its the same "black hole".

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http://hubble.cs.washington.edu/

Could explain intermittent problems with things like Newsgroups i guess.

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You know what the problem is there? People are using IE and it's so god damn slow that it just stops its operation, hence messages not being received.

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Open your max server connections up from 2 in IE and it's actually pretty speedy. Have mine at 4 now. (Trying not to upset site owners, otherwise i'd be going for 8). I have a feeling however my Firefox makes twice that amount of requests anyway...

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Defiantly interesting for researching purposes.

Although due to the design of the internet its not all that important. I suppose it could useful in tracking technical issues quicker. Although it would be up the the people in charge of the specific node to sort the problem out once detected.