The story is thus a bit more complicated than just TTL's and latency. Quality and Speed of the Peer's connection also come into play. This is all information that the torrent client has or can get easily. The client can monitor rolling averages for speed and do periodic latency tests. The client could also send the TTL it is sending with in the TCP packet so that the receiving client can calculate the distance.
You don't need to build an external database to look this stuff up.
I've found out the hard way that increasing the mouse sensitivity increased the pain in my wrist.
My orginal thought was that it would improve my efficiency however it ended up stressing the smaller muscles in my hand. I reduced the sensitity so that from corner to corner on the screen is about 10cm-15cm on the desk and my pain went away in a couple of days. So now my larger shoulder and forarm muscles are used which can handle more stress.
I just wish it didn't take me two weeks to figure it out.
Forget uses for NASA, how about create some nano machines that can create crude oil from garbage! All they need to do is rearrage the garabage molecules into crude oil or maybe hydrogen. Then the we can support our retarded "throw-away" society.
I used to use Exceed and Reflection X, but once I found out about VNC I switched and never looked back. VNC has the added benefit of leaving my stuff where I left it on my linux box when my windows machine needs a reboot.
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This thing is alost a flying broom so I say we start the NQL, National Quiditch League.
Maybe Nasa should up the ante for the xprize with the condition that they get the plans and such on the winning vechicle. Then maybe the teams would have more insentive to get on with it.
9 out of 10 people say Statistics can be made to mean anything you want.
2 out of 13 people don't understand statistics.
45 out of 51 statistics are made up on the spot.
3 out of 4 people don't know how to spell Statistics.
Thanks to people like him Internet traffic is going through the roof. If I use napster to get a song I want and don't get it I'm going to get it again off someone else. Thus doubling my networking traffic.
I'm running a standard RedHat box for IP_MASQ in my house with an 8 port hub and it works no problem. I had to install PPPoE stuff too.
Only major problem I have is every now and then (every couple of days) it drops my connection for no apparent reason. This was easily fixable with a cron job running every hour to check the connection.
"Geeks in Space" is a weekly audio show hosted by Rob "Commander Taco" Malda, Jeff "Hemos" Bates, Nate "Mix Master" Oostendorp and "CowboyNeal" Pater of Slashdot about "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". Drawing from the stories and discussions on the Slashdot site, the dynamic hosts discuss Linux, open-source, and cool technology.
Most of the Radio Interference from your PC comes from your fans. As all the Fans in your computer (Power Supply Fan, CPU Fan, Case Fan) are all DC motors they are extremly noisy (in Radio Frequencies as well as sound frequences). You should move your case away from your RF mouse. (:
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You don't need to build an external database to look this stuff up.
Can't the torrent clients simply check the TTL value and then prefer closer peers?
Man talk about re-invent the wheel.
DBAN is the best I've seen.
I've found out the hard way that increasing the mouse sensitivity increased the pain in my wrist.
My orginal thought was that it would improve my efficiency however it ended up stressing the smaller muscles in my hand. I reduced the sensitity so that from corner to corner on the screen is about 10cm-15cm on the desk and my pain went away in a couple of days. So now my larger shoulder and forarm muscles are used which can handle more stress.
I just wish it didn't take me two weeks to figure it out.
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Forget uses for NASA, how about create some nano machines that can create crude oil from garbage! All they need to do is rearrage the garabage molecules into crude oil or maybe hydrogen. Then the we can support our retarded "throw-away" society.
model 01 ultra personal computer
1 GHz processor, 20GB HD, 256MB RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, FireWire, audio, thumb keyboard, 800x480 indoor/outdoor readable LCD (ships with: removable lithium polymer battery, docking cable, desktop stand, power supply, carrying sleeve, and digital pen.)
Windows XP Home $1899.00
Windows XP Pro $1999.00
Microsoft Office Small Business Edition Pre-installed $300.00
I believe prices are USD.
I used to use Exceed and Reflection X, but once I found out about VNC I switched and never looked back. VNC has the added benefit of leaving my stuff where I left it on my linux box when my windows machine needs a reboot.
This thing is alost a flying broom so I say we start the NQL, National Quiditch League.
Maybe Nasa should up the ante for the xprize with the condition that they get the plans and such on the winning vechicle. Then maybe the teams would have more insentive to get on with it.
...they could only nail down that hof bug with the blank most active poll.
I hope iot plays all my old games.
Now if I can just find that atari box in the attic.
9 out of 10 people say Statistics can be made to mean anything you want.
2 out of 13 people don't understand statistics.
45 out of 51 statistics are made up on the spot.
3 out of 4 people don't know how to spell Statistics.
Just when there wasn't enough space junk in orbit. Now we can drag around a 5km wire. This should make it even harder for Seti to pick up anything.
Thanks to people like him Internet traffic is going through the roof. If I use napster to get a song I want and don't get it I'm going to get it again off someone else. Thus doubling my networking traffic.
Good work moron!
I'm running a standard RedHat box for IP_MASQ in my house with an 8 port hub and it works no problem. I had to install PPPoE stuff too.
Only major problem I have is every now and then (every couple of days) it drops my connection for no apparent reason. This was easily fixable with a cron job running every hour to check the connection.
There's some great resources at linux.org
Does this now mean that we'll be seeing Office and IE for Linux???
Check it now everybody. on the sync episode 29!!! I guess this is the negative first post!!!
Doh, I was hoping for another episode.
Why does The Sync still say:
"Geeks in Space" is a weekly audio show hosted by Rob "Commander Taco" Malda, Jeff "Hemos" Bates, Nate "Mix Master" Oostendorp and "CowboyNeal" Pater of Slashdot about "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". Drawing from the stories and discussions on the Slashdot site, the dynamic hosts discuss Linux, open-source, and cool technology.
It's been 11 days guys.
I was tring to post a message like this last Thursday but at the time slashdot was down...
Man, Those are some pretty bad quickies. I did throughly enjoy the 16 days of meat though.
Most of the Radio Interference from your PC comes from your fans. As all the Fans in your computer (Power Supply Fan, CPU Fan, Case Fan) are all DC motors they are extremly noisy (in Radio Frequencies as well as sound frequences). You should move your case away from your RF mouse. (: