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Egypt Shuts Down Internet

Posted on January 28th, 2011 by Victoria Pal in Tech

The situation in Egypt now seems to have taken a new turn. First, it was Twitter, Facebook followed shortly after and now it's the whole Internet communication. After the hack attack launched on their websites yesterday, the government has now cut off internet access and mobile coverage in the country.

Customers of Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, and Etisalat Misr are suffering from a massive Internet and SMS blackout. The orchestrated plug-pulling happened around 12.30 am (Egypt time) and our monitoring system immediately detected the blockage of the government sites.

According to a BGPMon report as much as 88 percent of the traffic was successfully shut down leaving the country without external communications. Still, as Mashable reports, mostly on-the-ground news outlets have still found ways to upload images and videos of the escalating violence that is shaking the nation all over.

The government is facing its hardest test today as mass protests are expected all over the country after Friday prayer and the Egyptian army now patrols the streets of Cairo with armored personnel carriers, CNN reports

We will continue to follow the situation closely.

To see how the Internet blackout looks like, you can find an interesting graph here - www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/28/this-is-what-egypts-cutoff-from-the-net-looks-like_n_815335.html.

Egypt blocks Twitter, Anonymous Prepare To Strike Back

Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Victoria Pal in Tech

Apparently, the problems in Egypt have escalated to the point of online censorship now. Various sources report that Twitter and Facebook have been blocked in order to prevent videos, photos and other information about the protest from becoming public.

Twitter officially confirmed the block yesterday. Today Facebook is also consistently reported to be blocked.

GPU Computing

Posted on January 20th, 2011 by Victoria Pal in Tech

GPU Computing is “the new thing” that is gaining popularity amongst all areas of computing. Graphic cards are now increasing the power of modern data centers, bringing super computer performance to workstations and even aiding tasks on regular desktop computers.

This is important. We fit greater performance in the same physical, while cutting back on utility bills space, thus increasing the efficiency of our hardware. An Australian super computer is now considered the greenest one in the country, only because of its efficiency - 555.5MFlops/Watt. Increasing efficiency in one way to lower the carbon footprint and it looks like it works for them.

WordPress – Outgrowing Its Shoes

Posted on January 12th, 2011 by Victoria Pal in Tech

Wordpress

WordPress only used to be a blog platform. It is evolving past that and is becoming the CMS of choice for a lot of small business projects and personal sites. Once installed, it will rarely cause your site to go down because of unexpected software related errors.