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Check out their new B/W caps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Yahoo!_Hi-Speed_Internet

http://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.portal?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=internetLanding_1_1&internetLanding_1_1_actionOverride=%2Fportlets%2Fconsumer%2Finternet%2FinternetLanding%2FcheckServiceabilityPostalCode

Canada is slowly getting better though. It wasn't that long ago that a $100 data plan with Rogers earned you only 100mb of wireless downloads. Now with the newly unveiled Flexrate data plans (mainly intended for their hsdpa laptop data card users) you can get 5gb of downloads for $100. That's definitely not garnished with an 'unlimited' label, but they're definitely getting closer. (more info: http://your.rogers.com/business/wireless/plans_services/business_plans.asp?plan=flexrate )

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Are you sure it wasn't simply the case that they're out of money and/or nobody will distribute the documentary for them?

Or maybe they're just clever and realise they can get lots of free publicity on sites like /. by releasing the programme as a torrent. Don't think we'll ever know, but you're reading this article aren't you?

Unfortunately am in Canada and Bittorrent has been banned by the Internet Police over here, so we're not allowed to download files.

Since users of "Canadian" ISPs are sent warning letters about their uploading behaviour citing the American DMCA already, what would be the point of having a domestic version? Just so it could be bilingual?

But rest assured, the traffic analysis is child's play. If ISPs want to stop BT traffic, encryption won't present any impediments.

Ding ding ding. Rogers just started blocking encrypted traffic about a month ago. I'm waiting for the class-action suit.

I think you're confused. Bell Sympatico is not a monopoly. It is just another ISP of the many available out there (Cogeco, Rogers, AOL, and so forth) to Canadians.

Bell Canada, however, used to be a government-granted monopoly for regular phone systems. The monopoly ceased in 1997.

At least one of the major Canadian ISPs (Rogers) traffic shapes BitTorrent traffic. I tried grabbing the latest Fedora Core release from a very well-stocked torrent when it was released and got a max of around 2-12Kbytes/sec.

Compare that to the 600K/sec I got downloading it via http from a mirror. Yay Rogers.

I'm just glad I had an alternative for that particular data set.

My ISP's good to bad route:

a) provided Usenet services through their own servers. Full bandwidth (at the time, I think it was 1.5Mbps) ? concurrent connections. Good retenation of posts.
b) outsourced Usenet services to some other place. 32-40kBps maximum, 2 concurrent connections. Good retenation of posts.
c) removed Usenet services.

I'm certainly not going to dish out money to pay for Usenet services when I can do free BT. So what's next?

I use Canadian cable ISP Rogers. They do packet filtering whenever they detect a download coming from multiple sources -- including BitTorrent, podcasts, and several other types of "shotgun" downloads. They also have a digital phone service, which always goes through port 1720, which they cannot filter lest they affect their VoIP customers. Combine the two and you find that any BitTorrent download going through port 1720 goes at full speed.

It's just a matter of time before they find a way around this to filter all multiple-connection downloads though, and that scares me, considering that we really only have two high-speed ISPs here, Rogers and Sympatico DSL. Everyone else uses their lines, and thus their filtering. Hopefully we'll have more effective header encryption by then.

It will be interesting to see Yahoo!'s new AJAX mail client. I may switch to them then - especially since they have great calendering as well.

Rogers High Speed Internet (http://www.rogers.com/ is already doing the following:

- Throttling back Bittorrent speed to the point that it as well as some other P2P services are unusable (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15033490). As a side effect, it's affected iTunes (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14747626) and XBox Live (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15038493) usage.

- Killing off their Newsgroup servers as of the 15th of this month (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14769820)

- Creating and enforcing bandwidth limits(http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,1448 8371) although they do so selectively.

And all of this without letting their users know up front. Lovely. This is what you Americans have to look forward to.

Yep. I'm not sure if I was on some kind of blacklist, but Roger's would drop about 10% of the my openvpn UPD packets and bittorrent downloads were severly hampered too. This caused my VoIP conenction running over the VPN to continually drop packets causing enough audio problems that the service was unusable.

Roger's is evil for doing this. They are controlling who their customers can connect to, much the same as if they blocked or distorted telephone calls to Telus.

Rogers Wireless in Canada offers a music store http://rogers.com/musicstore/, the Rogers MusicStore, which allows you to purchase songs that you can download onto your computer, and onto your phone, provided you use a Nokia 6620 with the MusicStore client installed. Track costs range from $1.25 and up last time I checked, with $1.00 for the cost of the data transfer of the track you purchase.

You're thinking Rogers Cable, which is only a subsiduary of Rogers Communications (the company mentioned in TFA). Rogers Wireless and Rogers Video both operate in BC, and Rogers Media owns a few radio stations there as well. Bell Canada also offers their wireless service and satellite TV in BC. I'm guessing it's mainly their wireless services that are involved in this venture anyway.

You're thinking Rogers Cable, which is only a subsiduary of Rogers Communications (the company mentioned in TFA). Rogers Wireless and Rogers Video both operate in BC, and Rogers Media owns a few radio stations there as well. Bell Canada also offers their wireless service and satellite TV in BC. I'm guessing it's mainly their wireless services that are involved in this venture anyway.

I'm running on the GPRS package from rogers with a Lite Data plan.

Rogers Data Plans

Rogers System PDF

This allows me to get around 56k connection, of course this is the optimum connection speed.

Since I only use this for checking my email, surfing the web, and sshing into my home system, this works pretty good. Just a warning though, it can get a bit expensive if your going to do alot of downloading.

Rogers located in Canada is one of these vertical monopolies. I've had a few issues with some of their services (related to billing), but overall they are a lot better than telus (my old wireless provider), Golden Triangle (my old DSL provider), and Bell Expressvu (Old Sat tv provider).

Rogers in Canada already has all of this. They have cable, home phone service, VOIP and a wireless division that brings in a huge chunk of their profits and includes a couple of different wireless data networks. http://www.rogers.com/

Not at all new. Fido (aka Microcell) now part of the Rogers family launched '#DJ' service last year around this time.

I am not sure there actually is another cable service provider in Canada

Among others, there is Videotron in Quebec, and Rogers Cable - and be glad you don't have to deal with them.

Also, the source of these three test images is described as "I used my Nikon Coolpix 3MP digital camera to generate JPEG files..." However, the pictures are from Canada, the US, and Japan. It's not like he went out and took three random photos. While he doesn't mention the specific model used, the coolpix cameras appear to be your average consumer models, so the wording is quite suspect. As the total compression times are under a minute, why were only these three pictures chosen? Perhaps they compress better than average? Why can't we download the original .JPG files? There is no way to reproduce this test.

Lastly, the article consistently says 30%, but the average actual compression is 25.53333%. That's 17.5% bull puck.

So, the reviewer isn't objective, the picture sources are suspect, and the numbers are suspect. This sounds like a slashdot-sponsored spin machine to me.

If Stuffit really wanted to prove themselves, they'd put a link on their website to compress/decompress images and have it only work for a week or so. Then they could publicly demonstrate things without giving away an executable to be leaked.

Instead they give a full, working EXE to some guy who's home page is linked to only 83 times (most [all?] of which are junk/link farms). Don't believe everything you read. Especially not on the Internet, and especially not this junk.

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As stated above, this website effectively has no google presence. How did it survive the slashdot effect with pictures? It appears to be hosted by Roger's Cable in Toronto. Who is paying (presumably) big bucks for bandwidth for an otherwise unremarkable site?

Why does he first describe "The test computer used", then go on to mention "Machine A" and "Machine B"? Also, why is a compression expert using such wimpy hardware? Some quick research on the author only shows how unremarkable it all is for such an important announcement.

Of course, you also have to wonder how Kris_J (apparently from Australia) found out about the story to post it to begin with, since it's so obscure. (No offence Kris_J, I'm just in ultra-skeptic mode here)

</tinfoil hat>

except prepaid minutes expire.

So yeah, you could shell out 120$ to get a "years worth" [going by the OP] of service but the time expires often in under three months.

Cell phones are largely just a huge scam. Rogers [in ontario they're a big comms provider] reported around 700 million dollars in PROFIT linky linky.

That's because they rip you off seven ways from sunday.

You have the

- service plan
- service fee
- license fee
- 911 access fee
- roaming fee
- text msg roaming fee
- long distance call fee [isn't that roaming?]
- data rate fee [of 0.15$ per KB...]
- ...

And they invent charges too. My replacement phone was file as a "technology upgrade" and they charged me 35$ for "activation" even though I already had an account with them.

The problem is like all other businesses they assume they should keep making profits even if they don't give the customer what they actually want [a simple phone service without frills].

I ranted about this before. Like the scam on quadband phones. The only quadband GSM my provider offers comes crammed with useless crap like java, cameras, mp3 playback, etc... So they get away with charging an arm and leg for it [though I'm sure motorola had a hand in limiting the selection].

Tom

You had 4K RAM?

Why, in my day....

Seriously, though, the first computer I remember working on was a little home-built called the KIM-1 that my dad bought when I was eight. It came with no storage device at all (not even an audio cassette deck, which our later trash-80s had), 256 whopping bytes of memory (expandable to 1k), and a MOS 6502 processor.

I just did a little googling and found some more information about it, by someone else who had (has?) one. I guess the thing did have a port for a tape deck, I just don't remember ours having one.

most if not all DSL providers here in ontario offer either 3.0mbps or 4.0mbps down and 400-800kbps up. for a range of $35ish-$70ish canadian if you own a modem. rogers offers there HS and HS extreme 3000/384 and 5000/800 respectively, for $45 the later requires a one time $80 fee to buy a docsis 2.0 modem but i the case of my significant others area are really sucking at upgrading their equipment to support their new docsis 2.0 stuff and the speed is really bad. plus 10-20% packet loss. yes rogers sucks.

most of the projector projects i've seen start here.. not all DIY projectors are as big as toms
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s= 3548cff8095fb76feede9ad32dab91af&forumid=12

also my own DIY projector, build with a 7 inch automotive roofmount LCD, its certainly not XGA, but it gets the job done
http://members.rogers.com/machs_fuel/projector/
probably cost around ~300 CND dollars

Here's the How-To:
http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.htm l

Next, if you so desire, you can dist-upgrade your Knoppix HD install to Sid or Sarge or even Woody if you're the conservative type. The author of this document:

http://members.rogers.com/ctmlinux/knoppix2debian. html

suggests that Sid is the best choice for a desktop machine because of the newness of the packages. The author also gives a how-to about removing Knoppix packages that are in there for completeness' sake but are not always necessary. However, the most important part of the upgrade to canonical Debian is these three steps:

1.) Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include more standard Debian sources.

2.) Go into a shell, su to root, and type in:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

Then wait for each one of those commands to finish. Presto! You have a canonical Debian system.

The instructions in the second referenced document also work for getting rid of Linspire/Lindows-isms on a Linspire/Lindows preinstalled machine. Click'n'run? We don't need no stinkin' Click'n'run!

This is the same police force who investigated the Raging Grannies as a subversive group.

Yup, and both of Canada's largest ISPs -- Rogers and Bell Sympatico -- are advertising 2GB of email storage when you sign-up to one of their plans.

Personally, I'd much rather use that storage space for backups or remote file storage than for webmail. Maybe I should sign up and start emailing myself all my backups as email attachments ...

You can get a small microcontroller (such as an 8-pin AVR AT90S2323) and create a firmware that speaks enough of the PS/2 protocol to be recognized as a keyboard. The parts count should be fairly low, probably just the PS/2 plug, the microcontroller, and a ceramic resonator. The micrcontroller I mentioned has an internal I/O pullups.

You're likely to end up with a spare I/O port on that 8-pin microcontroller, so you could expand the design to include a button that sends ctrl+alt+del (or, for linux, alt+sysrq sequences to unmount and reboot), or an LED caps-lock indicator that you could control from software on the PC. With the AT90S2343 you would get rid of the external clock and get 2 additional I/O ports

Here's an existing project with source (license unclear) that uses AVR and emulates the PS2 keyboard protocol:

http://www.avrfreaks.net/Freaks/freakshow.php?keyw ord_is_id=1&keywords=46

http://members.rogers.com/nlange/avrStuff.html

AVR microcontrollers are great. Few external parts, lots of documentation, develop with the GNU toolchain (including a fairly complete C library), and easy-to-build "SPI" programming hardware

What they're doing looks similar to what Bell Canada is doing in some of their downtown markets. Bell Canada has been rolling out VDSL services by installing hardware into condos in Toronto. They aren't using this to give people superfast broadband though (I mean beyond the 4mbps they already have available), but instead to offer their version of Digital TV to compete with the likes of Rogers Cable. Bell is eventually migrating away from their sattelite based ExpressVu service to an ExpressVu service based on VDSL. Check out Bell's ExpressVu site, and also another site with info.

Man, was this hard to read. =(

I use WMP, because it tucks into the Task Bar, which is nicer than the System Tray.

Winamp can be configured to minimize as a taskbar button, a tray icon, both, or neither.

However, how Winamp sticks to the sides and how the bits stick to each other is a great feature.

allSnap is an awesome little program that makes all of your Windows programs snap to each other, snap to the screen borders, snap while resizing, etc. Very useful app.

Is there a truly compelling reason to download and install Winamp, instead of using the Windows Media Player that's installed? I imagine that anybody who's asking that question would be served equally well by either program, as they'd just be playing MP3s and short video clips and such. However, if you're looking for more advanced features, extensibility (via plugins), cool skins, and basically anything else, then you'll want to go with Winamp over WMP/RealPlayer/QuickTime and the like.

Come on, every day I see people talking with incorrect grammar and spelling. The classic "u r so kewl" type of junk.

nmourtos@rogers.com

Whoever was responsible in portraying the capture of an Enigma machine as the work of the USA, when it was in fact done by Brits aboard HMS Aubretia, should be shot

Well, I wouldn't go *that* far, the winners of any war get to decide what the history books say. The US has a glorified opinion of itself (not entirely without reason) but it also has a bad memory.

As someone else has mentioned, the Poles played a huge part as well.

The Canucks were also involved pre-1941 (via Britain proxy) by providing materials via convoys and training spys to be inserted into German-occupied territories.

The massive bombings by the US air power and the ability to provide 5 Sherman tanks to counter each Tiger/Panther sealed Germany's fate.

I'd say the worst example is Spot Goes To Hollywood the game featuring the 7-Up icon...

I'l see that, and raise you "Yo! Noid!" starring the Dominoes Pizza Noid

Thanks I needed that. Seltzer for breakfast - num num. Anyone know what time is it?

Bung!

all that nasty filth and become involved in the /. community. Stop taking and give a bit. Snoopy bastich.

Bung!

Rats! Bung!

ill be nice (just this once) and save you from a lengthy littigation try This and This first. you might also want to try reading This site as well

If that ... not-so-honourable name goes here ... gets in as Prime Minister, I'm leaving. As if the Liberal party isn't uselessly mired in trivial issues already, check out some of the amazing stuff that the wonderful Ms. Copps has done for us:

• Unilaterally deciding to close the only emergency landing airport in the Rockies. For our own safety.
• She is not only obsessed with flags she also lies about them

She is some sort of hybrid of fanatical patriotism and rabid neo-hippie 'save the animals, save the children, save everyone from themselves' bullshit. Having her lead the government seems like a ridiculous idea.

I consider her proof that something is in fact wrong with the air in Hamilton. (not only directly, but also in the fact that everyone there keeps re-electing her). Try driving over the Burlington Skyway sometime with your windows down. You'll see what I mean.

The Society for Pointless Debates Revolving Around Semantics and Nomenclature or SPDRASN

Sorry, that name is already taken, by the Libertarian Party. Of course, you must be 50+ to be a Spud Raisin; hence the attraction. Younger folk are more interested in spud raising, and teens of course are totally into spud racing. The best thing about spud racing is that the only thing stolen is the speed over the posted limit, and many have claimed that exceeding the speed limit is neither theft nor a copyright violation.

I like this better than any Pooh book or cartoon ever! Had to wait until I was well over 30 before it discovered me too :(

Another of his auctions has a URL reference to an index of one of the CD volumes he is selling, and it's at http://members.rogers.com/techtraining/

Anyone know the right procedure to ask for the identity of a given Rogers user?

SuperUTL is a damn useful CD. It features: bootable DOS with NTFS support, boot to partition magic, drive image, ERD commander (reset a lost password), Ghost, Norton SystemWorks, SpinRite, tomsrtbt, ...
On the CD, you can also find the Winternals Administrator's pack, recoverNT/98, tweakUI, 4dos, and MANY other small useful apps.

The author of that disc, Michael K.H. Au-Yeung has plenty of details on his site about the way to create such many-boot CDs. Definitely worth a look.

Note that the CD image is not available on his website, only the way to build it from YOUR version of the applications. Of course, I'm sure it's crawling around the P2P networks. And no, I don't have it.

Of course, Knoppix is your other best friend as it'll bring you your beloved Linux system in no time.

SuperUTL is a damn useful CD. It features: bootable DOS with NTFS support, boot to partition magic, drive image, ERD commander (reset a lost password), Ghost, Norton SystemWorks, SpinRite, tomsrtbt, ...
On the CD, you can also find the Winternals Administrator's pack, recoverNT/98, tweakUI, 4dos, and MANY other small useful apps.

The author of that disc, Michael K.H. Au-Yeung has plenty of details on his site about the way to create such many-boot CDs. Definitely worth a look.

Note that the CD image is not available on his website, only the way to build it from YOUR version of the applications. Of course, I'm sure it's crawling around the P2P networks. And no, I don't have it.

Of course, Knoppix is your other best friend as it'll bring you your beloved Linux system in no time.

It is indeed possible to create a multi-bootable Win2000 or XP CD with your own utilities on it. I followed the general instructions at this site to make my own Windows 2000 SP3 integrated Pro/Srv/AdvSrv CD, with bootable menu. The CD boots up and I can choose to install any version of Windows 2000, or I can choose the Win98 bootable floppy image to work with Dos utils. I include on the CD the floppy copies of Norton Ghost, Partition Magic, NTFSDos, McAfee, SpinRite, and a few other small utils. It's also got menu options to boot the floppy image of Tom's Most Boot (linux boot disk mentioned in an earlier post) or to simply boot from the HDD. I do the same thing with Windows XP.

It's a *very* complex process but if you put the effort in it's well worth it. The secret to making Win2000/XP do an unattended install is to make your unattended file name winnt.sif and put it in your i386 directory. No floppy needed like MS would have you believe. I do this mostly so I don't have to type that $@^# cd key every time I want to install a copy of Windows.

I haven't tried it yet but if you cut out the crap you don't need from Win2000 and WinXP (language files etc) you might be able to combine both those into a massive everything-in-1 CD.

On expensive portable items, if you plan to use them a lot. I've already ruined one keyboard on my laptop, and was happy to not pay $300 (or so) to have it fixed. Same thing with my phone. My Motorola V-BOX POS finally busted a few months ago and they were happy to replace it with a Nokia 8390. And then the power button on that busted, so I got a third phone (which I had to unlock manually because Rogers are stupid).

I doubt I'd get coverage like that without a warranty.

Anything else is probably a waste of money. And while they say the warranty doesn't cover abuse, it takes some really obvious abuse (like running over your laptop with a car [happened to me]) before the customer service guys will care. I'll let you guess how my keyboard broke, just like I let them guess. :-)

A Psychologist should be talking to this poor bastard!

Yikes, I feel for support guy who took that call. 8^)