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Gigabit Networking for the Home?
The Clockwork Troll asks: "I've had a whole-house audio/video distribution project on the back-burner for a while now. As gigabit networking hardware prices come down to earth, I'm tempted to jump on the 1000BaseTX bandwagon. As far as I can tell though, the current crop of consumer-priced hardware/software doesn't address a couple key issues, namely: fragmenting jumbo frames for the benefit of legacy clients - this is critical as some of the devices on my network will not tolerate the 9000+ byte Ethernet frames which are needed to get the most out of gigabit; and OS support - do Linux and Windows require much tweaking to take advantage of gigabit? Will most drivers automatically optimize themselves? A Google search didn't reveal too much consensus, especially on hardware choices. What switches and software configurations have Slashdot readers been using for home gigabit networks, in particular mixed ones (100/1000BaseTX?"
For gigabit!
Did I actually manage to get an FP?
Nope, you fail it ^^
The faster the better. No if they just take off the upload caps, I can host my own server. A dime a dosen, I guess.
Gigabit? That's the really fast one, right?
BRECKER!!!
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Michael? Brecker? jazz? sax? jazz-sax.com?
BRECKER RULES!!!!!!
all right, I'll calm down now...
True, Michael is probably the best saxophonist alive.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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It's just a troll. I know, but nonethless, it raises a great point. It's good when folks like Ashcroft draw our attention to sexually explicit material as a topic of public discussion. We should speak of these things in an open public manner to clear the air on what is right and wrong and what is harmful and dangerous and what is natural and normal.
In fact, children need to learn about sex at some point. Only a fool would disagree with this point. Now some people might protest that children are harmed by learning about sexuality through pornography. Not surprisingly, psychologists have already extensively studied this subject.
What they found was that children have commonly viewed pornography for many centuries and that it was, in fact, a normal and perhaps even essential part of developing ones sexuality.
However, this was not to conclude simply that porn was okay and parents should openly allow their kids to check our pornography. This is the subtle part.
The problems came about when parents became overly involved in their childrens sexuality either in being too open about sharing sexually explicit media or in being too harsh in attempting to totally deny their children any access to sexually explicit materials as if there were not, in fact, the products of sexuality themselves who would grow up to have their own sex lives if they were to be normal.
So, the most commonly accepted approach towards dealing with childred and pornography among psychologists is to simply for the parent to state the rule that pornography will not be accepted in the home and leave it at that knowing that the rule will be broken. This is as close to an ideal policy towards children and pornography as the psychology profession has come up with.
If you're concerned about your role as a parent, it's simple. Just make it clear that it's unacceptable. If you're obsessed with actually preventing your children from learning about sexuality, then you personally have a problem and should seek therapy for yourself before you screw up your kids.
You got 3.6TB of pron online all the time? And have access speed issues with the files?? ...OK, so you do need a fast network....slow pron is just as enjoyable, IMO!