Tako is nice
Matt Drudge
And boy she was blushing. Revealing that the plates are feeding off each other!
Tako stands high above the Volcano's base. She is my life. Tako tells me more about
the ways of life than any science student could!
Tako wants more lovers.
Finger her at finger qu...@tako.wr.usgs.gov.................
Gerard Fryer
WRONG. Tako does not want more lovers. She wants many fewer. The
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's link to the outside world is via a mere
PPP dialup to USGS Menlo Park. Here's a traceroute from my workstation
in Honolulu (the route goes from here to NASA Ames to Menlo Park, then
by phone back to HVO):
caliban% traceroute tako.wr.usgs.gov
traceroute to tako.wr.usgs.gov (130.118.88.24), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 gaea.hawaii.net (128.171.151.1) 14 ms 3 ms 2 ms
2 leslie.Hawaii.Net (128.171.3.15) 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms
3 imp.Hawaii.Net (128.171.3.20) 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms
4 132.160.249.2 (132.160.249.2) 68 ms 116 ms 171 ms
5 AMES.BARRNET.NET (192.203.230.8) 107 ms 62 ms 57 ms
6 XX3.BARRNET.NET (131.119.3.1) 83 ms 97 ms 68 ms
7 SU-CM.BARRNET.NET (192.31.48.200) 89 ms 76 ms 91 ms
8 USGS.BARRNET.NET (131.119.10.2) 79 ms 65 ms *
9 menlo-nb.wr.usgs.gov (130.118.4.88) 86 ms 96 ms 72 ms
10 hvo-nb.wr.usgs.gov (130.118.88.1) 1341 ms 1693 ms 1721 ms
11 tako.wr.usgs.gov (130.118.88.24) 536 ms 538 ms 634 ms
Notice the huge amount of time necessary for the last two steps.
All you people casually fingering qu...@tako.wr.usgs.gov often clog
the line completely and have pushed HVO's comm costs up to the point
where they approach that of a dedicated line (>$2500/month), a huge
burden on their limited budget. Why do you think HVO, alone among the
volcano observatories, does not maintain a WWW page?
I you must see earthquakes as they happen, at least finger some machine
with a direct Internet connection, like gldfs.cr.usgs.gov or
scec2.gps.caltech.edu. Please don't keep fingering poor tako unless
you have a specific interest in Big Island seismicity.
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Gerard Fryer
Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics & Planetology