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4-5 channels is still 40-50 dollaroos per month. Cable seems the cheaper option if you compare it. In Belgium I would pay 25.90 for 75 or 83 channels (depends on what page on their website you are) So if I where inclined to choose between the two if money is the only parameter. The issue is that the reason people wll pay more is becasue there is no other way to legally watch those shows.

I have no tv since around 5-10 years or so and I absolutely do not miss it. And I do call Netflix and the like TV.

Are you kidding? Not Notepad, vi.

vi does not come with Windows. And Unix is just too easy for a real man.

Then, again, if the guy really wanted to show off, he'd have referred to MS-DOS or something. I'd be interested in reading his blog on running a Web-site on an OS, which could only maintain a single TCP-connection at a time (making even FTP very difficult). Ah, the bad old days...

Maybe for some reason you want to constrain yourself to contemporaneous tech. D-Link made parallel port Ethernet adapters meant for use with laptops. I have a DE-620 that I've successfully used with Windows 3.11 on my Compaq LTE 386.

PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND ME CHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BAMBOO AND ITS UTILIZATION POTENTIAL FOR FIBERBOARD MANUFACTURING

That was the first result of about 299,000 for the simple Google query "physical properties of bamboo." Have a nice day.

First of all the cookies is only a single part of the recommendations the EU wants Belgium to implement, so insinuating that Belgium is getting fined about cookies is false. And as a Belgian citizen I applaud the EU involvement because there are to much conflicts of interests on our political level.

Let me inform you about my country. In Belgium we have a duopoly. Belgacom (Belgian symbol) on federal level and Telenet (Flemish symbol but ironically property of the American company Liberty) which was formed to break up the monopoly of Belgacom on Flemish level.

Both companies have a lot of politicians on the payroll, in the board of directors/as 'consultants', etc And because on each level it is a symbol and the current language difficulties that dominates our politician landscape, politician turn a blind eye for the fact that those companies have a very negative impact on our region and country. When our national bank warns in a study for the negative impact of those two companies, it just gets ignored. We have a saying "who's bread you eat, who's word you speak... "

We have very high prices in comparison with our neighbors, Telenet does deep packet inspecting slowing down torrents by day for example, we have unlimited download which is a joke, they created hw monopolies, they buy companies that because of their open character of very competitive plans (like unlimited mobile plans that doesn't cost a house) to kill them or for example just go for their main supplier. They buy licenses for example 4G just to do nothing with it, just to be sure that no foreign competition would arrive. Etc

For example of one the influence they have on laws or on our politicians. We have an in-depended organisation that "tries" to regulate the telecom word on local level, BIPT. Last week they voted a new law that states that when BIPT makes changes or gives fines, the government can revoke those fines or turn back changes. So what is the point ?

Really I've read a lot of bickering about the EU and there may be a lot not right, but hey I'm happy that on some cases something like the EU exists.

And when the Flemish (I'm flemish btw) right wing party the N-VA will come in power, it will be worse because of the big love for the "flemish" symbol Telenet. Although Telenet is as flemish as a big mac these days.

I recently built my own house for that same reason. I also made most of the furniture in it as well.

Do you do this with an axe, by any chance?

did you even google your question? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ubuntu+lockdown maybe this will help you http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=456549 http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linuxkiosk/ubuntu01.htm http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-13.html.en

I'm dumbfounded that people get to ask such simple questions of /. readers. A simple Google search would have turned up many Debian-based solutions, forget about all the *nix ones out there. I used to think this kind of thing was lazy to ask at Ubuntu forums, but it's way worse here. I am seriously thinking about taking this site out of my rss feeds because I keep getting fooled by this crap. If anything, this is just more filler on a slow day for Ubuntu stories...a very cheap maneuver.

did you even google your question?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ubuntu+lockdown

maybe this will help you
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=456549
http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linuxkiosk/ubuntu01.htm
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-13.html.en

DBAN + PXE could do this for you:

http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linux/dbanbootserver.htm

They used more than 2 patch cables. 10 cables were supplied with the machine, and as of 1939, 7-10 cables were used. See e.g. here, which arrives at 10^23 practically possible encodings.

I'm more interrested in an open source command line tool, with decoding abilities.

Just so you know: most countries in the Americas use 120v. Europe used to use 120v, as well. Now, the Old World almost all use 240v. ( http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm )

Shall we standardize our electrical plug shapes, too? At least the US and most of North America has a standard shape. There are currently 13 different plugs because everyone wanted to develop their own.

That's actually the reason the ISP posted the information - they want to convince their customers (and potential customers) on cheaper slower plans that not only is the ISP capable of handling massive bandwidth consumption, but that they encourage other people to upgrade/switch to the same unlimited plans and really take advantage of the available capacity.

Its totally the reverse of what we are used to in the USA with places like comcast bitching and moaning about hogs - apparently this ISP understands that bandwidth hogs are a business opportunity to be cultivated not capped.

Although according to their website if you go over the double the average usage for people with a FUP subscription your connection is slowed. These guys are getting a free ride now because Telenet need the publicity. A couple of ISP's have switched from capped downloads to a FUP recently and I guess they are feeling the competition. Let's see how they treat these guys in a couple of months.

Indeed, but it is not that transparent anymore.
Telenet recently lowered/raised the bandwidth cap to an unknown level.
Before that I could check the bandwidth day per day, to monitor my household (2 adults and 2 teenagers). Now they employ an opaque policy that says:

• green = on average (good customer)
• orange = above average (try to keep it down, customer!)
• red = way above average (we will throttle you down to 512Kb/s!)

Whatever average means, only Telenet knows. I asked to see my bandwith use, but they do not give this information anymore.
Telenet explains it this way:
In dutch or french (might get "session expired") - Follow dutch "Online Support > Internet > Internetdiensten > Vrij downloaden":
http://onlinesupport.telenet.be/eCustomer/iq/telenet/request.do?session=%7B6eba0150-ad10-11df-e0fe-000000000000%7D&event=1&view()=c%7B55394320-8a7f-11df-cb0d-000000000000%7D&varset()=pobj:%7Bcf80cb00-843d-11df-71a8-000000000000%7D/

EQ2 has 500k players and STO has 1 million? Citation needed.

Rebuttal:
http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/150k-1m.png

I highly doubt the Latins used "Ikaros" very often. Maybe when they were referring to the Greek. Ovid certainly used "Icarus": http://users.telenet.be/daedalus/Ovid/DaedIcar.htm.

Microsoft is very effective at marketing in a fashion that gets many people interested in their products.

Windows 7 Party

Bill and Jerry in the shoe store

Now, you'll excuse me while I brush the floor off of my shoulder - evidently stuck there from the fact that I'm ROTFLMAO.

But then again, I wonder - how has Microsoft's most successful marketing worked? Ah - here it is:

Microsoft forces DELL to deliver Windows

From the article:

The Microsoft patent uses partial licenses, consisting of both a public and a private key, to provide customers with the right to decrypt the content they access over the peer-to-peer network.

So it's a combination of two things:

• Secret Splitting
• Superdistribution

And for this they have been granted a patent? *le sigh*

Eve is not a competitor at all. Nothing is even close, but if you're trying to pick a "second place", it's certainly not Eve. Eve is at least 8th: http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/CASTop10.png (from http://mmodata.net/ )

heh. i have tried to play a few games at minimum requirements before, after you finally turn off all the options and get it to stop chopping it looks like super huey

So just add some constraints to your model.

Try using a tool like drools-solver

There is one. It looks a lot prettier now than the original version I saw in the mid 90s, but the principles are the same.

There is a script to add layer effects to GIMP.
It works pretty well.

Well, you might find that extremely limited (and it is) but it isn't so strange for me. In Belgium the major ISPs (Belgacom, Telenet) allow about 10Gb quota per month, with 5 euro per 5Gb for extra quota. This is expensive! Downloading a movie or even a linux distribution DVD costs you several euros on bandwidth alone.
Minor ISPs use this a nice way into the market. (For example, mine allows me 20Gb default with a 0.25 euro cents per Gb over that upto 60Gb per month).
Offcourse, all limits are openly advertised...

An extremely faithful Enigma simulator: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmasim. htm

Something like these, maybe?
http://exent.com/Customers_and_Partners/customers_ partners.asp
http://www.atariondemand.com/
http://gamesoduser.comcast.net/gamesondemand/
http://gamezone.telenet.be/

There were several different systems, used by the Allies. For high level traffic, the US used the very secure SIGABA (never reported to be broken, back then). SIGABA was also a rotor machine, but with three different banks of rotors, each performing their special task. In the field, the US Amry used mostly the M-209 Convertor. This was the US version of the Hagelin C-38. It was a so called pin-and-lug machine. You can try out the M-209 on this website: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/m209sim.ht m

Hi, for some detailled info on how they broke Enigma, you should visit Tony Sale's website http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/ Tony is walking computer and Wartime history! There a nice section on how to break enigma: http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/anoraks/index.ht m . You also get a crash course enigma and cryptology. more links related to Enigma can be foud here: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/links.htm

Who says breaking Enigma doesn't take much time???? 4 out of 8 possible naval rotors, 26 positions, each have also 26 internal ringsetting, two different reflectors, you also need the startposition and the plugs, up to 10 pairs of 26 (only the plugboards gives us already 7,905,853,580,625 combinations). Even today, going through all possible keys is a mission impossible. That's why Stefan used the Hill Climbing Algorithm to break those messages. Pure Brute force would take far to much time. More on the Enigma key settings on NSA's http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00004.cfm. For more technical details on Enigma, read this one: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmatech .htm

Not mutch work??? There are 107,458,687,327,250,619,360,000 possible combinations! Better read first the technical details about the machine: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmatech .htm check out the mathematical description of Enigma here: http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00004.cfm

I you would like to use an Enigma machine yourself, just go to this website: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/index.htm There's an awardwinning Enigma simulation. This program is an exact simulation of the 3-rotor Wehrmacht and the famous 4-rotor Kriegmarine M4 model of the German Enigma cipher machine, used during World War II from 1939 until 1945. You can select between the two models, actually choose different rotors or 'Walzen', preset the rotor wiring positions or 'Ringstellung' and switch letters by using plugs or 'Stecker'. The internal wiring of all rotors is identical to those used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. Fully compatible with the real Enigma-machine, and you can decode original messages and make your own encoded text!

Someone's O-face?

Maybe Astronomy classes should give equal time to the Ptolemaic system. And what about Tycho Brahe's system? Copernicus Shopernicus, it's just a plot by telescope manufacterers to sell fancy schmancy equitorial mounts and clock drives.

Math classes could spend a little time working on Squaring the circle and finding a counter example to the Four color theorem. The students could even use crayons or finger paints.

This could all make school so much fun! And the students so stupid. One second thought, maybe those are really bad ideas. They could grow up to be President of the United States .

... looks a lot like the syntax of the SMEL language I created a while ago: http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier/smel

http://users.telenet.be/neral/scifi_printsttng.htm l
check out 3.24

I'm such a geek...having most of the TNG titles (and storylines and so on) committed to memory...sigh

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Grrr, keep forgetting how far behind phpBB slashcode is.

http://users.telenet.be/0074ever/Clintonfucker.mpe g
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* In Flanders, the cable was until recently provided by local governement-owned companies. There only was competition in one city, Leuven. Telenet, a communications company that provides phone and internet via the cable bought they cable system from the communities and now owns the network too. (Shortly after that they raised tv subscription prices, but that's another story).

You've got cable access from Telenet. This costs 41,95 euros/month. For this price you may connect 1 pc (a second one raises the subscription cost to 45 euro). You get a traffic quota of 10 Gb, of which 15% may be upstream (1,5 Gb). At night (from 0 am to 10 am) the traffic only counts for 50%. If you exceed this quota you are being placed on a slower-then-dialup speed until your average goes down again or you buy extra traffic blocks.
Until some months ago you *had* to connect trough the Telenet proxy, which was frequently down, and almost all inbound ports were blocked. Telenet also actively searches for servers homsted on their lines. Static IPs are not possible.

In Brussels and Wallonia you can also get broadband via cable, but I don't know how the pricing is there. I suppose it's comparable to Telenet.

* DSL: The former Belgian telecom monopoly, Belgacom, which owns the POTS network offers DSL trough a range of providers. Skynet, which is owned by Belgacom, takes the largest part of the market. One of the means they achieve is is by claiming a user is located too far from the LEX if they try to subscribe trough a competitor, but when they want to subscribe to Skynet they 'magically' are close enough. Prices vary around 39 euro / month. ADSL also has got a quota of 15 Gb, though it's not enforced as strictly as Telenet does. (Some providers don't overcharge you unless you really overuse excessively, some don't even count your traffic)

Recently Scarlet, which also offers ADSL via Skynet, has begun installing their own BAS equipment in Belgacom LEXes. Subscribers that are connected via the Scarlet BASes get higher up- and downstream speeds.

Even more recently Versatel has begun offering what they call "ADSL Light". They've got two formulas: Free ADSL and Always ADSL. The first one charges no monthly rate, but a per minute rate of 0,0425 euro and a per-session setup cost of 0,25 euro. Always ADSL costs 19,90 euro per month, for which you get a traffic quota of 250 Mb. Extra usage is charged at 5 eurocent per MB, with a maximum of 10 euro. The speeds are also somewhat slower than 'classic' Adsl offered by Belgacom.

To sum up: you can choose between two monopolies, which offer a comparable product. Static IPs or running servers are out of the question, but the prices are quite nice. According to the Internet Service Providers Association, over 55% of all residential users is connected via broadband.

I'm signed up for cable internet with telenet

Bandwidth limits are cable speeds down, and 16KB/sec up. Volume limits are 10 gig total, of which 15 percent (or 1.5 gig) up in the last 30 days. Go over the limit in a 30 day period and you get thrown on narrowband, which is about the same speed as a 33.6 modem, until the volume over the last 30 days sinks below the limits again. If for some reason you need more volume, you can rent it in 1 gig blocks for 1 euro / block / month, of which again 15 percent can be upload, up to a maximum of 20 blocks (30 gig total, 4.5 gig up).

It's a pretty fair deal, for the price. And there's no way you can be thrown off for using up more than your share. If you dl too much, it's narrowband for you, but that doesn't have any consequences for your account other than making it really slow for a while.

I don't get why all isp's don't adopt this kind of system, if they're going to impose volume limits anyway.

I've made such graphics myself too with tcpdump, perl and gnuplot: Network Graphs

Jurgen Kobierczynski

I work at belgians largest Cable ISP (Telenet. We block port 25 for our customers. This not only reduces spam but stops virusses to spread trough built in smtp engines.

Looks like my provider's url fell off. Probably a typo on my end.

My cable provider Telenet displays the same kind of behaviour when it comes to their inabillity to calculate bandwith for their networks.

We get 10Gig a month, and the speed was always very good. There's a usenetserver infrastructure with a local posting policy, so we can trade stuff at reasonable speeds without imposing too much on the network.

But recently the troubles started : They implemented a global cost increase of 13% for the home accounts. The business accounts, which are more expensive and just offer 5 or 10gigs more, did not change. It's very clear that they just expected to sell much more business accounts to the heavy downloaders.
Not only did they increase the cost, they also installed a new traffic accounting system, which doesn't reset the counters every first day of the month, but just calculates 30 days of traffic. This means that every day one days worth of traffic gets dumped from your limit. But offcourse that system wasn't really tested, and now most of the users are on smallband, and do not get automaticaly back onto broadband.

I for one, am on smallband for almost 2 weeks now, and I was supposed to be put on broadband yesterday. But no go.

And the best part of all this bullshit, is the lack of support. No free helpdesk, that one just play little games like testing you cablemodem remotely and telling you all is fine. The paying helpdesk answers vaguely and always will tell you that the problem will be fixed tomorrow. And today , their helpdesk network is down because of the flood of complaints.

How do these companies expect to force users into paying more, if they're just a bunch of amateurs that can't implement their changes efficiently, or can't even offer support for al that money they receive.
Telenet was even on a Consumer Watchdog programme because all those complaints.

I think it's time we laid a T3 in our neighbourhood and took things in our own hand ;-)