Statistically a person who uses VPN (normally to connect to a very highly bandwidth intensive application like windows file sharing or thin clients) uses many times more bandwidth in a month than someone who surfs the web and picks up their personal e-mail once in a while.
The phone co.s have always charged businesses higher rates for POTS lines than residential customers because of this very same reason, businesses tie up the lines more than residential customers.
Well, If you want the whole pipe call up your phone company and order one....ask for a T1, not a DSL or fractional T1, those are part pipes too.
T1 isn't a wide enough pipe?ok ask for a T3... then bitch when you can't use the whole pipe.
When you're paying the hundreds/thousands per month then you have the right to bitch.
Am I the only one who sees why @ home went bankrupt and all the other providers are increasing prices?
Don't forget your cable co is paying someone for T1s and T3s at hundreds or thousands per month.. if every user used say the equiv of a T1 at a constant rate and the T1 cost $500/month and the user only payed $50/month the cable co would lose $450/month per customer.
I'm no accountant, but that looks like a bad investment to me. Personally I prefer the bandwidth monitor approach, where the cable co keeps track of how much you actually use and bills you accordingly.
That depends on if your contract says you are not to resell or share the services they provided to you. If you are lucky enough to have a contract that missed that, then no you aren't doing anything illegal, but I'd put money on there being a clause like that, and if there is you are in breech of your contract with the provider and therefore yes, it is illegal.
Hmm, usually it's the other way around. I wait a day or two after each new release so I can be sure there will be RPMs up and a lower load on the server. tars usually go up first
I agree.
i stopped using Gif except where I needed transparency (and considering gif's lousy attempt at transparency that wasn't often) several years ago, as soon as IE started to work properly with PNG I abandoned GIF alltogether.
There are still lots of people who haven't heard of PNG, even in the web design and graphic arts fields, but for at least the artists just mentioning PNG's transparency abilities is enough to convert them.
(I really can't believe we put up with GIF as long as we did)
In the world of cable modems there are generally 3 types of "techs"
1. the Customer Service/Tech Support person
2. the Cable T.V./Internet installer tech
3. the Computer/Network tech
If you get one of the first 2 you are most likely to have trouble getting beyond a script or simple proceedures that they have learned. These techs do not understand how computer systems and networks work, they only know how to do certain tasks that solve most problems. #3 is the guy who will be able to solve almost any problem.... the drawback is in order to get to #3 you usually have to go through one or both of the first 2, and there is good reason for that, techs of type 3 are in short supply and VERY busy.
...this is why as a cable company grows the tech support, if not taken care of properly goes to shit. in the early days the computer tech takes care of or oversees everything to do with computers, but eventually parts of that job get doled out to the installers and CSRs....big companies trying to save $$ often hire out some of the Telephone support to call centers, these callcenters don't always send their personnell for training, but just give them scripts to follow "if problem=a try b..."
Just out of curiousity... what in the world do @home techs need msconfig for? I can understand winipcfg, but why whould they need to edit the startup configuration?
if a virus is terrorism, then just like the deal with Osama and the Taliban, Good ole Dubya should declare war not only on the virus writers, but those who supply and harbor them. (MS)
Am I the only one here who thinks optical fibre on the motherboard is a waste?
Think of the cost of fibres and lasers/leds.
Think of the EXTRA heat it would create....thats right EXTRA heat, from the light sources, and for every connection beween 2 points you need 2 light sources. I don't get how this is supposed to help heat problems.
Couldn't we find more efficient ways of doing things?
I'm not sure what you mean by "full routing", but if you want to be able to do BGP style multi-homing forget about it.
In order to do BGP you need your own ARIN assigned IP numbers (not ones issued by the ISP) To get a block of numbers from ARIN you have to already have 16/24 blocks from your ISP (that's 16 Class C networks in oldfashioned terms)
I'd love to be able to use BGP for my small Cable system (serves 2 rural towns, a total of 800 odd customers) but we aren't big enough. Your home network most certainly is not big enough.
What part of the above mentioned code allows them to do this now? I see where it allows law enforcemnt officials to be exempt, but not copyright holders.
"Just curious tho - I'm assuming anything developed like this would be without any kind of windows gui, no? Forgive my ignorance, but what kind of applications would be good candidates for this development model?"
Mozilla (Netscape 6.x) was developed this way.
Netscape 6.x has it's own set of problems but most of those are due to the fact that Mozilla isn't finished yet and AOL got impatient and released it as Netscape 6 anyway, not that it was written mainly in Linux to be used in Windows, in fact at tiems during the develpoment the Windows version ran better than the Linux version.
...that and Mozilla was one big experiment in large scale co-operative programming efforts...but that's a story for another thread
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That's why you have a backup.
You do have a back up don't you?
But how do you CREATE a zip file with explorer? I still haven't figured that one out.
Statistically a person who uses VPN (normally to connect to a very highly bandwidth intensive application like windows file sharing or thin clients) uses many times more bandwidth in a month than someone who surfs the web and picks up their personal e-mail once in a while.
The phone co.s have always charged businesses higher rates for POTS lines than residential customers because of this very same reason, businesses tie up the lines more than residential customers.
Well here in Ontario breech of contract is illegal, not criminal, so you're right no arrest, but still against the law.
...I didn't ever say it was criminal. :)
It's a matter of civil law not criminal law.
"We all should resell our unused bandwidth to our neighbors, this way, we get are truly using what we pay for."
...then you better truly pay for what you get, do have any idea what a 10Mb/s really costs?
Well, If you want the whole pipe call up your phone company and order one. ...ask for a T1, not a DSL or fractional T1, those are part pipes too.
T1 isn't a wide enough pipe?ok ask for a T3... then bitch when you can't use the whole pipe.
When you're paying the hundreds/thousands per month then you have the right to bitch.
Am I the only one who sees why @ home went bankrupt and all the other providers are increasing prices?
Don't forget your cable co is paying someone for T1s and T3s at hundreds or thousands per month.. if every user used say the equiv of a T1 at a constant rate and the T1 cost $500/month and the user only payed $50/month the cable co would lose $450/month per customer.
I'm no accountant, but that looks like a bad investment to me. Personally I prefer the bandwidth monitor approach, where the cable co keeps track of how much you actually use and bills you accordingly.
That depends on if your contract says you are not to resell or share the services they provided to you. If you are lucky enough to have a contract that missed that, then no you aren't doing anything illegal, but I'd put money on there being a clause like that, and if there is you are in breech of your contract with the provider and therefore yes, it is illegal.
Hmm, usually it's the other way around. I wait a day or two after each new release so I can be sure there will be RPMs up and a lower load on the server. tars usually go up first
IE was LAST to pick up PNG of the major browsers
I agree.
i stopped using Gif except where I needed transparency (and considering gif's lousy attempt at transparency that wasn't often) several years ago, as soon as IE started to work properly with PNG I abandoned GIF alltogether.
There are still lots of people who haven't heard of PNG, even in the web design and graphic arts fields, but for at least the artists just mentioning PNG's transparency abilities is enough to convert them.
(I really can't believe we put up with GIF as long as we did)
I thought it was that C# programmers don't know what IRC is.. "so it's kinda like MSN?"
Wow, you're the first person I've met with the same oddball combo of Maj. Hist. Min. CS
Actually you should go a step further. Set up a mixed unix environment, get one each of linux, BSD and solaris. (all quite cheap)
And seek out a Linux/Unix user group in your area.
History and Computer Science here.
MCSE got me a job as a Linux Admin, go figure.
In the world of cable modems there are generally 3 types of "techs"
...big companies trying to save $$ often hire out some of the Telephone support to call centers, these callcenters don't always send their personnell for training, but just give them scripts to follow "if problem=a try b..."
1. the Customer Service/Tech Support person
2. the Cable T.V./Internet installer tech
3. the Computer/Network tech
If you get one of the first 2 you are most likely to have trouble getting beyond a script or simple proceedures that they have learned. These techs do not understand how computer systems and networks work, they only know how to do certain tasks that solve most problems. #3 is the guy who will be able to solve almost any problem.... the drawback is in order to get to #3 you usually have to go through one or both of the first 2, and there is good reason for that, techs of type 3 are in short supply and VERY busy.
...this is why as a cable company grows the tech support, if not taken care of properly goes to shit. in the early days the computer tech takes care of or oversees everything to do with computers, but eventually parts of that job get doled out to the installers and CSRs.
Just out of curiousity... what in the world do @home techs need msconfig for? I can understand winipcfg, but why whould they need to edit the startup configuration?
if a virus is terrorism, then just like the deal with Osama and the Taliban, Good ole Dubya should declare war not only on the virus writers, but those who supply and harbor them. (MS)
Ext3 is the new journaled version of the Ext filesystem. Ext2 was the old standard file system.
Am I the only one here who thinks optical fibre on the motherboard is a waste? ...thats right EXTRA heat, from the light sources, and for every connection beween 2 points you need 2 light sources. I don't get how this is supposed to help heat problems.
Think of the cost of fibres and lasers/leds.
Think of the EXTRA heat it would create.
Couldn't we find more efficient ways of doing things?
I'm not sure what you mean by "full routing", but if you want to be able to do BGP style multi-homing forget about it.
/24 blocks from your ISP (that's 16 Class C networks in oldfashioned terms)
In order to do BGP you need your own ARIN assigned IP numbers (not ones issued by the ISP) To get a block of numbers from ARIN you have to already have 16
I'd love to be able to use BGP for my small Cable system (serves 2 rural towns, a total of 800 odd customers) but we aren't big enough. Your home network most certainly is not big enough.
What part of the above mentioned code allows them to do this now? I see where it allows law enforcemnt officials to be exempt, but not copyright holders.
How do you get it to work at all on a TP770?
I installed Mandrak 7.2 and the install went fine, but when I try to boot up in Linux it stalls on the power management.
"Just curious tho - I'm assuming anything developed like this would be without any kind of windows gui, no? Forgive my ignorance, but what kind of applications would be good candidates for this development model?"
Mozilla (Netscape 6.x) was developed this way.
Netscape 6.x has it's own set of problems but most of those are due to the fact that Mozilla isn't finished yet and AOL got impatient and released it as Netscape 6 anyway, not that it was written mainly in Linux to be used in Windows, in fact at tiems during the develpoment the Windows version ran better than the Linux version.
...that and Mozilla was one big experiment in large scale co-operative programming efforts...but that's a story for another thread
I hope you started asking to keep the "junk" cards when you discovered that was what they were doing.