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http://maddox.xmission.com/clu... mor clu trn 5 u

http://maddox.xmission.com/clu... relevant. probably.

This type of comment always bring to mind the fourth image on this page http://maddox.xmission.com/hat...

I'm with Comcast who are nice and quick but I truly loathe them as a company. Not sure where the 1.5Mbps figure is coming from though since they state that they provide a service at 250Mbps to 1Gbps.

You mean this NetscapeNavigator? Looks like it also uses those big touchscreen tablet/phone buttons which take up 1/3 of the window that everyone hates so passionately. Maybe your memory's a little foggy.

Make sure to check out xmission.com . They are US based, but they have a great track record of supporting free speech and customer privacy. If they're willing to host maddox and his "best page in the universe" I'm sure that they can handle a parody site that might not be popular with the parodied person/company.

Here is their transparency page: http://xmission.com/transparen...

Photos would not have the information they need. They will need to look at the Schematics for the game, and those are not exactly the best.

The Schematics are here if you want to take a look at them:
http://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF...

Hand drawn, somewhat hard to read, but at least they exist.

If they do emulate Monaco GP, that means they will have a very good understanding of how the hardware works, which will help with future repairs.

The Buzzfeed author interviewed me, then redacted all her questions. I don' know why she did it this way, but she did. I've been open about discussing that we received a FISA request since we published our first transparency report. https://transmission.xmission.com/2013/06/10/the-nsa-and-xmission

I'd like to second the parents refutation that XMission has any special connections within the church. Given that they host Maddox for free and Pete Ashdown ran as a Democrat, I doubt they have any connection with the church. Their customers might but...

Well, the issue then is that testing and unstable aren't quite stable enough for me. I want something which I can learn and set up, then leave running for years. Debian stable could do that, but neither testing nor unstable could.

However, at times I also want to play with the newest goodie from Debian Sid. I don't want to reboot, I don't want to use a VM, I just want to run a program from Sid. With Bedrock Linux, I can do that: I can have a system which is almost entirely Debian Stable, except for the packages I want from Sid when I want them. Any library compatibility issues one would normally have trying to get a .deb from Sid into Stable are non-issues with Bedrock Linux.

Add on to that that I can use Gentoo's portage to relatively easily keep a specific package customized to my specific tastes. Say I don't like dbus, but I want firefox - Debian's iceweasel is dependent on dbus. I could just get it from Gentoo with the flag set to exclude dbus. Yet everything else would be Debian.

At the same time, I am 100% library-compatible with Ubuntu, so for projects like sage mathematics, which I know provides packages for Ubuntu, I can use those with absolutely no worry that they won't work. Debian Testing cannot do that.

ftfy

http://maddox.xmission.com/

Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.

Seriously, /.? I wanted to post an ASCII image of a cat, which is what a CLI version of Google would have to return, but was denied. This will have to do instead.

http://maddox.xmission.com/ has no ads
Also, there are more free-to-play games which do NOT serve ads than you can shake a stick at.

Why? Because they're not going to cap data usage because a different cord is going into your house? Some fiber carriers are already capping: http://www.xmission.com/utopia#more

1. wget http://mirrors.xmission.com/linuxmint/iso/stable/12/linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-64bit.iso (or choose a different mirror, the KDE version, whatever)
2. apt-get install unetbootin
3. Use #2 to put #1 on USB drive
4. Reboot (assuming BIOS supports booting from USB && is configured to do so), and follow the simple install procedure.
5. Enjoy.

TIP: For a better, more familiar experience, log into MATE instead of gnome once it's installed)

http://maddox.xmission.com/

Citing Maddox:

The problem isn't this shitty bill, it's the people who sponsored it. So we protest this bill today, bang enough pots and pans to shame a few backers into not letting this bill pass, then what? Those same dipshits who wrote this legislation still have jobs. They're going to try again, and again, and again until some mutation of this legislation passes. They'll sneak it into an appropriation bill while nobody's looking during recess, because there's too much lobbyist money at stake for them not to. We defeat SOPA today, only to face it again tomorrow. It's like trying to stop a cold by blowing your nose. It's time we go after the virus.

He's right. All the anti-SOPA/PIPA efforts are defensive and basically flawed. I did a lot to participate in the anti-SOPA activities, but even I can see that it's ultimately futile - until the head of the dragon is severed.

Does the graphic include only mozilla.org, or does it include mirrors? True traffic analysis would be much more complicated. Still, over a million shortly after the word, "Go!" is impressive.

Regarding traffic analysis, Firefox is packaged for specific Linux distributions. I see that Slackware (current) is right out in front on the leading/bleeding edge. They have a 4.0 firefox binary up already. Don't tell me Slackware users are slackers!

It really doesn't work that way. The lack-of-a-login is called Anonymous Coward because absolutely the only reason to post anonymously is fear.

Yes. That's it. Fear. Fear and paranoia, those are our two main reasons for posting as ACs.
Wait, we'll come in again. /monty python.

Perhaps your only reason for posting AC is fear. It isn't mine.
My number one reason for posting AC:
1. I am too lazy to make an account and log in each time.
1. I like being anonymous online. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
1. Thanks in part to Maddox, I treat online discussions different from actual discussions.
1. Though I like correcting/explaining things (case in point: this post), I have similar views on correcting online posts.

Having said that, please feel free to commence reviling me. Just don't hold your breath waiting for me to be impressed.

The only way for an ISP to make a profit is to over-sell their bandwidth. If the ISP is profitable, their lines WILL be saturated.

You are mis-using the word "over-sell" which normally means that no, you can't have peak bandwidth all the time. That doesn't mean that ISP backbone connections are saturated all the time, due to statistical multiplexing. At a well run ISP, lines are saturated only at certain periods during the day (if that). Take a look at this page, from Xmission, one of the best ISPs around. See any saturation there?

The whole point of good network management practice (to say nothing of congestion control) is to prevent lines from being saturated, because when they do the network tends to become unusable. Congestive failure, traffic jam, skyrocketing latency, web timeouts. If you experience that _all_ the time, then yes, your connection or your ISP is probably saturated.

You mean the claims that have all been thoroughly explained and debunked as hoaxes here??

Xmission has standard residential UTOPIA bandwidths of 15 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s - up and down. The end user links are all 100 Mbit/s Ethernet (over fiber), and you can get a 100 Mbit/s "business" connection if you want.

But not in sandy.

Taken from: http://utopianet.org/service-area

UTOPIA's member cities are: Brigham City, Cedar City, Cedar Hills, Centerville, Layton, Lindon, Midvale, Murray, Orem, Payson, Perry, Riverton, Tremonton, Vineyard, Washington, and West Valley City.

These are the only areas which have access to UTOPIA. Xmission provides DSL connections to other locations (and free wireless to libraries and coffee shops), but UTOPIA access can only happen where UTOPIA is available.

...sadly.

--Jimmy

As other commenters have noted, there is no way this figure applies to Sandy City proper. Sandy does not have a UTOPIA deployment. The real problem, though, is that the Salt Lake valley has a large number of relatively small cities all served by the same local ISPs, and there is no reliable way that Akamai can tell which users are in which local cities to that level of accuracy. The IP addresses don't carry any more information than (roughly) somewhere in the Salt Lake valley. One would have to be in a different for that difference to start to be visible.

Salt Lake City proper isn't a UTOPIA city either, but there are several cities in the valley which are, notably West Valley City, Midvale, and Murray. So what appears is that Akamai estimated the coverage footprint of a local content distribution node (probably the one at Xmission) and estimated that the center of the footprint was in Sandy. Even though no one in Sandy City proper has that kind of bandwidth, people with UTOPIA connection (and there are many in the general vicinity) often do - 50 Mbit/s UTOPIA service is readily available, and inexpensively at that if you live in one of the original UTOPIA cities.

Xmission has standard residential UTOPIA bandwidths of 15 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s - up and down. The end user links are all 100 Mbit/s Ethernet (over fiber), and you can get a 100 Mbit/s "business" connection if you want.

XMission.

http://www.xmission.com/products/connections/UTOPIA/

Well, even old Nokia phones based on Symbian could do this: http://maddox.xmission.com/putty3.gif
And Linux is *much* better at this. (As I know from installing it on my PDA.)
So you can bet on it!

Unfortunately it's all dependent on how good the keyboard is. Touchscreens and even numeric keyboard are out of the question.

I used my mod points elsewhere, or I would correct the above moderation. I've been getting 15 points twice a week for a couple of weeks now; I try to follow the guidelines as best I can. Especially in regards to downmods: there's very little reason to downmod, I find. Anything that's obviously flamebait will be ignored, and while there are occasionally trolls here, I think it's usually better to post AC to point them out.

On the whole, I think the slashdot community is a good one, mods included. I suspect that people who spend most of their mod points marking things 'troll' and 'flamebait' are less likely to get mod points in the future; if not, that might be a good feature request. The only other thing I'd wish were different about the mod system would be to return to the old system of metamoderation. quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

There are a lot of things to get frustrated about with slashdot: dupes, lame memes, and zealots of every stripe. Even at that, I think this is probably the best site on the internet (though perhaps not the universe). The dialogues here are fascinating and hugely informative. Every story on biochemistry, astronomy, or optics seems to draw out people with decades of experience to give anecdotes and wisdom that I'd never find elsewhere.

I think the most consistent thing I've noticed about slashdot moderation and comments is that anything that gets modded +5 is worth reading. And as Pliny tells us, "True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read."

-Tene

you don't even link to the best page in the universe?

Actually, having met Zed once, I was surprised at how personable the guy was--I'd be surprised if there was a group he couldn't work with. I chalked it up to the Maddox Effect: Maddox writes as a bombastic douchebag, but is a pretty shy and soft-spoken dude in person.

Yes, but if a potential employer can google your Maddox Effect rants, they're not going to give you the chance to screw up a team. In other words, if you want to be a professional, be professional. Duh.

Actually, having met Zed once, I was surprised at how personable the guy was--I'd be surprised if there was a group he couldn't work with. I chalked it up to the Maddox Effect: Maddox writes as a bombastic douchebag, but is a pretty shy and soft-spoken dude in person.

No credit to Maddox?

We've had windows looking desktops for 13 years. For example

http://www.xmission.com/~sa/fvwm-themes/redxp2.png

I know that many people out there know about maddox, but I'd love to share his classic articles on PETA with anyone who hasn't. Links:

http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi#PETA

and http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill

"My advice is bathe with a member of the appropriate sex+species instead of a book, anyway."

It's true. It's a lot more exciting trying to shower when there's a cat in the shower with you.

No, I wouldn't pay it. I'd prefer my municipality create a municipal fiber network, so once they capex is covered (the fiber plant outlay), I don't get raped like I do with Comcast.

Have you heard of Utopia? Their speeds are faster than Comcast, but their transfer is more expensive:

    http://www.xmission.com/products/connections/utopia/

100GB per month, plus 0.25 per GB thereafter. It's a typical market price.

The trouble with municipal fiber is getting the initial financing. I've been eying a nearby effort and the funders they've had lined up have all backed out. They've defaulted to public bonds, and scaled back their plans. I supported the project when it was all voluntary. Now support is as low as 2% in some towns, but it looks like they're going to require the taxpayers to pay for the bonds anyway.

BTW, words mean things. Careful there.

Not to shit all over your rant, but the site is clearly satire. They list China as "Communist China" for fuck's sake! What, does something have to be Maddox level before your spoof sensors start going off?

Maddox already created the ultimate Segway killer: http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segway_more_complicated_than_it_needs_to_be

So ultimately, you could call it the "Segway killer killer", which translates to "shitty" because nothing is better than anything maddox creates.

I had similar problems. The best and easiest way to do this would be to rate-limit all TCP transmission/reception to some percentage less than your overall Internet bandwidth, say 80%. That way, all applications (FTP, BitTorrent, HTTP, etc.) won't take up all of your bandwidth, and thus kill your VoIP. The problem that you're having is that you're saturating your uplink or downlink, and that's what's delaying the VoIP packets. You only need to rate-limit TCP, since Vonage (and most VoIP out there) is UDP-based. You want to let the UDP through without touching it. By limiting TCP, you're effectively reserving UDP bandwidth for your VoIP.

You can do this with a fairly inexpensive Cisco router (buy an 800-series off ebay). You can probably do it with DD-WRT as well.

For the true gearheads out there, I worked out something similar, except that my system actually senses when a call is in process and makes appropriate TCP rate-limiting for the duration of the call. Once the call is complete, the full bandwidth becomes available for other things. It's a clever use of Snort, pfSense, and a Cisco router. I call it AATQoS or Application Aware Triggered Quality of Service.

Whatever you end up doing, just understand that your call quality is suffering due to traffic congestion, and if you can alleviate that congestion enough to let the VoIP UDP packets flow, then your call quality will sound great.

How the hell is this insightful? Apple apparently innovates by doing exactly what everyone else is doing but selling it to more people?

Well, there is a response to this, and it's (ironically) here

I had major issues with bittorrent, NNTP, and other bulk file transfer applications causing massive latency for my VoIP line. I tried a few things but nothing worked out. I ended up settling on a combination of Snort (to detect when I'm on a VoIP call), pfSense (a box to host the application on), and a Cisco router to rate limit only while I was on a call, to get flawless VoIP even with bittorrent running.

Substitute "VoIP" for online game if you wish... the concept is the same. The nice thing about this method is that 100% of the bandwidth is available for bulk file transfer when important applications are idle, but when they fire-up, rate limiting takes enough bite out of the file transfers to make the VoIP work well.

I call it Application Aware Triggered Quality of Service or AATQoS for short. Read the how-to on the webpage.

>> Neither. I'm not saying he could have gotten rich off of the proceeds of the book. I'm saying he could have founded a religion with much less hassle by avoiding the whole angel story. There were tons of restorationist congregations staring in the early 19th century, and some got rather large. Given his talents (his people skills, as you put it) he could easily have creatd one of those and lived in comfort and respectability and wealth and power all his days.

I can see how you would believe that, and I don't discount the notion completely. But looking as Smith's career, it's clear that he always thought big. His message wasn't supposed to be "a restoration", but "The Restoration", the one that had been expected for millenia, which would sweep all other religions, all other powers and principalities from the Earth. You see this as a byproduct of his divine mandate, while I see it as a sure sign of unchecked megalomania. I'm sure we'll have to agree to disagree on that point, but if you are trying to prove that Smith wasn't motivated by a desire for power, and attempting to prove it by showing other routes to the same end, then you have to at least engage with the detractors who say that Smith's personality might not have been drawn to your alternative paths.

Re: sycophants and insulation

I'm not saying that Smith was unaware of his detractors, or even that he was physically separated from them all the time. I'm talking more about the sort of separation that separates you and I. I think he put his enemies into a tiny box marked "people I don't have to respect or listen to at all", and listened primarily to those who told him he was The Lord's Prophet. It makes it easier to dismiss the accusations of your enemies that way, even when they're saying things that you need to hear, or even when they have you in their physical custody.

George Bush's insulation is enforced by the full mechanisms of the state, and therefore is much less permeable. But the effects are similar.

Re: I did not have sex with those women. You deleted the corroborating links I provided, then accused me of not showing evidence.

Had you even skimmed those links, you would see that the evidence for Joseph Smith's sexual promiscuity comes not from one embittered detractor, but from many of his polygamous wives themselves, often speaking under oath. These were not angry ex-mormons, but women who still regarded themselves as both faithful Mormons and the wives of Joseph Smith. Additional corroboration comes from the friends and relatives of these women, who attest that Smith roomed with these women some evenings. Finally, there is the letter kept by Newell K. Whitney regarding his daughter, Sarah Anne. It explains to her that, on a specific evening, they could meet without Emma's knowledge, and that he had a room all to himself.[src]. There is no indication that Whitney (who served in prominent callings until his death in 1850) kept the letter with the intention of harming the prophet.*

The evidence is overwhelming. Smith had sex with his plural wives. You claimed otherwise, but if you have a shred of rationality about you then you'd better make peace with the facts. Continue to claim that Smith wasn't motivated by lust, and that his actions were right in the sight of God, and that the fact is compatible with his role as First Prophet of the Last Dispensation. But you have to accept the fact that sex was had. By allowing that, understand that you're saying that Smith reaped benefits from polygamy as well as heartache, which undermines the entire thrust of your argument.

Another thing that I think undermines your argument: why did Smith marry so many, and usually so young? Sure, I saw some statistical analysis saying that Smith's wives weren't unusually young, given the normal age differences between partners at the time. But that's just it. The marriages from the census data were entered into precisely becau

This is why I love maddox. He tells it like it is.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish

Incidentally, she should just do with her hate mail what maddox does with his:

http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi?p=1

Maddox got it right. Large light fonts on a dark background are pleasant even in the poor lightning.

Reminds me of Maddox. I check his page almost everyday for updates and get angry every time he hasn't posted new content. I only abstain from complaining due to fear of having my email posted!

I tried to take the simple route on the design of my own site, with the inspiration mostly coming from a far more famous site. The actual coding behind it (XHTML 1.1, moderately advanced CSS) isn't as simple, but it is valid. It's all written from scratch too, so I understand what everything does.

5. Explorer improvements - more multi-threaded (less blocking) and (FINALLY) it doesn't b0rk an entire file copy job just because one file failed... now you can retry or skip the offending item. Welcome to 1993, apparently.

Maddox, is that you?

One thing people seem to misunderstand is that it doesn't matter if a law was technically broken or if Cheney or Bush were under oath or not. The Constitution gives the power to impeach to congress in order to remove executives who abuse their power.

From http://www.xmission.com/~nccs/newsletter/oct98nl.html Based, then, on the historical evidence, Professor Tucker correctly concluded:

"The words "high crimes and misdemeanors" cannot be confined to crimes created and defined by a statute of the United States. (emphasis added)

"In fact, Justice Story believed that any such interpretation was preposterous:

"What are to be deemed "high crimes and misdemeanors"? ... No one has as yet been bold enough to assert that the power of impeachment is limited to offenses positively defined in the statute book of the Union as impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors.

"Story then emphatically punctuated his conclusions by summarizing the history of impeachments:

"Congress has unhesitatingly adopted the conclusion that no previous statute is necessary to authorize an impeachment for any official misconduct.... In the few cases of impeachment which have hitherto been tried, not one of the charges has rested upon any statutable misdemeanors." (emphasis added)

"Indeed, the history of every impeachment case brought before Congress to that point proved the correctness of Justice Story's conclusion. For example, in 1797, William Blount was impeached for seeking to violate American neutrality 16 (as explained by justice Story, "The offense charged was not defined by any statute of the United States. It was for an attempt to seduce an United States' Indian interpreter from his duty and to alienate the affections and confidence of the Indians from the public officers residing among them." 17); in 1803, federal judge John Pickering was impeached for issuing an order which contradicted an act of Congress, for Judicial high-handedness, and for drunkenness and blasphemy; "in 1804, Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase was impeached for judicial high-handedness and for excluding evidence from a trial; " and in 1830, federal judge James H. Peck was also impeached for judicial hi -handedness.' (Ibid. pp. 22-23)



Impeachment is not done often enough, in my opinion. The president and vice president should not think for a minute that they can screw people over, cause thousands of deaths and not be held accountable because they may not have technically broken a law. That's simply ridiculous and gives far too much power to those who would abuse it.

Mismanagement is enough. Brazen war mongering, profiteering and trampling of the rights of citizens should result in swift and unanimous impeachment and removal every time a president tries it.

he might also try this list: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listin fo/math-fun

We will be closely monitoring dsl statistics reports and those who go over their bandwidth quota, as mentioned above, will be sent a warning, then restricted.