There were lots of third party compression utilities before DOS 6.
I used to use one called diet. It would intercept calls to read from files, and check to see if it had compressed them. If it had, it would unpack them to another location (I used a resizable ramdisk) and redirect the read to the uncompressed copy.
When the file was closed, it would delete the decompressed copy.
It would only work on read only files, but it worked pretty well. In the days before disk caching, uncompressing to the ramdisk actually made things faster despite the overhead of the decompression.
Looking at the stats on my router, last month I used 230.60 GB.
This month I've used 139.38 GB so far.
Where was the bandwidth used?
Downloading videos of university lectures -
Video for a entire class tends to run about 20G~25G. I'm interested in lots of things, so I tend to download a lot of them.
Offsite Backups - My disk array syncs with a disk array at my parents house, and theirs syncs with mine. This way we both keep all of our data safe.
VPN connection to work - I tend to leave my VPN connected all the time, which means that updates are being pushed, remote scans are being done to take an inventory of the software on my laptop, etc
None of this has a very high peak, but the fact that it is nearly constant adds up over time.
Back in 1998, when I was on tci-mets for cable modem service, they had a handy website you could check to see how much data you had received/sent in the previous month.
There wasn't any cap - they had all of the modems uncapped, and encouraged people to use as much bandwidth as they could. METS was their testbed network, and they wanted it under a heavy load.
10 years ago, I had a faster, cheaper connection than I can get at home today.
More and more collages are putting lectures online. For example, Stanford has a very interesting looking Machine Learning class which comes in at about 25G for the lecture videos.
A few classes like that can eat up a 250G limit rather quickly.
I've played with i2p a bit; the focus is different than that of TOR.
Whereas TOR aims at anonymity in accessing the internet at large, i2p aims at a double blind internal network. You and a site can communicate, but neither of you knows the identity of the other; you only know each other's public keys.
There are a few gateways between i2p and the internet (in both directions), but that doesn't appear to be the intended focus.
InDesign/PageMaker are designed for short documents, doing layout a single page at a time.
FrameMaker is designed for huge documents, where you define the rules it should use to typeset the text, and let it do most of the actual layout for you.
Then think of it as a screen saver that allows anyone walking by your workstation to post to twitter for you.
It will save you time, as you won't have to think of new inane things to "tweet" about, and you will meet new people, as they come by to take you up on the "Free cake to first person to stop by" offer your account posted,
Also the on-line publishing maps need to go through a âencryptionâ(TM) process whereby map coordinates are transformed to an unknown coordinate system (not in Lat/Long).
Not good enough - A non functioning camera is still a camera.
As far as security was concerned, it may have been working earlier that day, and it was disabled before leaving the building, If they found that in one of the random searches, it would likely have been treated the same as a functional camera.
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It seemed pretty straightforward to me:
It looked to me like I had melted into a puddle; as if I had been hit by a plasma rifle.
So many possibilities wasted; ghoulification for one.
So if that gun is a Class I medical device, does that mean that the TSA will have to allow them to be carried on aircraft?
There were lots of third party compression utilities before DOS 6.
I used to use one called diet. It would intercept calls to read from files, and check to see if it had compressed them. If it had, it would unpack them to another location (I used a resizable ramdisk) and redirect the read to the uncompressed copy.
When the file was closed, it would delete the decompressed copy.
It would only work on read only files, but it worked pretty well. In the days before disk caching, uncompressing to the ramdisk actually made things faster despite the overhead of the decompression.
Ahh - but who watches Ceiling Cat while Ceiling Cat is watching you?
/b/.
Actually I'd probably be better off not knowing - it's probably someone from
Heh - I have similar memories of a high school Pascal class as well.
.. linked to.
I remember having lots of fun with directories; making infinitely deep nested structures, or playing with where . and
Most of the Pascal coding I did was writing TSR programs to do annoying things after a few minutes had passed.
Which item is not following the trend?
Offsite backups.
My disk array syncs to a disk array about 2000 miles away, and that one syncs to mine.
I used about 230G last month, and that was the largest part.
The next largest component was torrents of lectures (such as this machine learning class offered by Stanford).
The types defined in the RFC are:
I believe an extension also had a "maximize security" option as well.
Alas, almost nothing supports these flags, and I believe a later RFC has proposed reusing the QOS bits in the IP header for an incompatible use.
Looking at the stats on my router, last month I used 230.60 GB.
This month I've used 139.38 GB so far.
Where was the bandwidth used?
None of this has a very high peak, but the fact that it is nearly constant adds up over time.
Back in 1998, when I was on tci-mets for cable modem service, they had a handy website you could check to see how much data you had received/sent in the previous month.
There wasn't any cap - they had all of the modems uncapped, and encouraged people to use as much bandwidth as they could. METS was their testbed network, and they wanted it under a heavy load.
10 years ago, I had a faster, cheaper connection than I can get at home today.
More and more collages are putting lectures online.
For example, Stanford has a very interesting looking Machine Learning class which comes in at about 25G for the lecture videos.
A few classes like that can eat up a 250G limit rather quickly.
So, you want fast booting?
Get FreeDOS and one of the text editors from here.
I can't think of anything that will boot faster, although EMACS will likely be the friendliest editor available.
I've only played with i2p a bit, but I know you shouldn't try to download from dev.i2p.net.
I think the box crashed locking everyone out, and no one knows who has access to it.
Look at http://www.i2p2.de/download.html
I've played with i2p a bit; the focus is different than that of TOR.
Whereas TOR aims at anonymity in accessing the internet at large, i2p aims at a double blind internal network. You and a site can communicate, but neither of you knows the identity of the other; you only know each other's public keys.
There are a few gateways between i2p and the internet (in both directions), but that doesn't appear to be the intended focus.
SF's BART system has a workaround for this technique.
If you exit and leave the same station, it charges you an "Excursion Fare", which is $4.65.
It's about 50% of the maximum one way fare you can incur.
InDesign/PageMaker are designed for short documents, doing layout a single page at a time.
FrameMaker is designed for huge documents, where you define the rules it should use to typeset the text, and let it do most of the actual layout for you.
The two products are nothing alike.
What term would you use for the ions in the junction of two different metals than "heterojunction ions"?
Seems perfectly clear to me.
They are amusing when they pop up from time to time.
If you set the OpenFirmware password, then clients connecting via FireWire are blocked from doing direct memory access.
Then think of it as a screen saver that allows anyone walking by your workstation to post to twitter for you.
It will save you time, as you won't have to think of new inane things to "tweet" about, and you will meet new people, as they come by to take you up on the "Free cake to first person to stop by" offer your account posted,
Didn't that kitchen fire they had a while ago pretty much render the platform unusable?
I don't remember ever needing to hold down START to boot from a disk.
Disks would boot by themselves, but usually you had to turn off BASIC to make more memory by holding down OPTION.
SELECT I think was to boot from a tape.
Not good enough - A non functioning camera is still a camera.
As far as security was concerned, it may have been working earlier that day, and it was disabled before leaving the building, If they found that in one of the random searches, it would likely have been treated the same as a functional camera.