No more "bandwith exceeded" messages
As I've been quite disconected from the world for some time I'm getting lots of "Monthly Bandwith exceeded" messages, specially when trying to get a video. So I've decided to make a comment about a couple of handy and free online services that will free a lot of our upstream using them as cache.

The first of them is Coral, a project developed by the NYU Secure Computer Systems

To use CoralCDN, a content publisher---or someone posting a link to a high-traffic portal---simply appends .nyud.net:8090 to the hostname in a URL. Through DNS redirection, oblivious clients with unmodified web browsers are transparently redirected to nearby Coral web caches. These caches cooperate to transfer data from nearby peers whenever possible, minimizing both the load on the origin web server and the end-to-end latency experienced by browsers

Do you still wonder how can you -as webmaster- can use this service to save some of your bandwith using these services? It's easy, you just have to place the 'cached' link as a primary download site and the original link as secondary.

Example of download links using Coral:

Primary download: http://streamreal.org.nyud.net:8090/stream/w004-mamaseznowar.mov
Secondary download: http://streamreal.org/stream/w004-mamaseznowar.mov

Notice that I only had to add that string in red after the servers url (not at the end).


Another service you can use is Freecache, a project developed by The Internet Archive. For the final user it works as Coral although it's slightly different.

To create a Freecache link you only have to add http://freecache.org/ at the beginning of your link.

You must notice that Freecache service is often down, but don't worry because when it's down it redirects the connection to the original link.

Creative boards to express our opinion

Americans have a nice protest weapon undercovered as mail stamps. Photo-Stamps is a company that allows you to create real stamps using whatever image you want (except porno pics), I wonder how many people will use this system as a weapon to show they're disagreement with the system.
I hope it will someday arrive to Spain. Until then we will have to keep on making our own or writing messages in banknotes.

Cameraman kiled by US tank has been oficially labeled as a "victim of terrorism"

Jose Couso Cameraman Telecinco was killed in Baghdad when a U.S. tank fired a shell at the media hotel where they were working, April 8, 2003. Credited Spanish and foreign journalists in the place of the facts have contradicted the version of the Pentagon, that has justified the action by the presence of snipers in the high part of the building.

The U.S.A. has shell of artillery the hotel in which they lodge most of the international journalists who cover the information with the war in Iraq. The camera of Tele 5 Jose Couso and the Ucranian camera of Reuters Taras Protsyuk have died. Other three journalists of this agency have been hurt.

Quoted from: Fotoartmagazine

Well, it seems the young Spanish government has declared this journalist 'victim of terrorism'. This will allow his family to get economic aid from the government. Maybe the first step to consider this murder as an American State Terrorist attack. I hope so.
Via: El Mundo

When lasagna looks like CNN's stats

I haven't check the blog for a while, so I didn't notice the Blogger navbar that now appears on top, so I've been playing a bit with it and have landed in the most strange recipe web I've ever browsed. It's called Cooking for Engineers and explains several recipes in an eye-catching way that makes recipes even easier to remember.
Give it a try.

Back to life
Hi rss readers, as I suppose you will be the first to know the blog is online again.
I write this after a long summer that I hope you've enjoyed as much as I've done so, for those who are reading this: hi again