From the Oxford English Dictionary: dreckdreck drek (IPA drEk). slang. Also drek. [a. Yiddish drek (G. dreck) filth, dregs, dung, f. MHG. drec:-Gmc. *rekka- repr. by OE. reax rubbish, rottenness, ONor. rekkr, OFris. threkk. Ult. origin uncertain but connection with Gr. skatoj dung, sterganoj privy, L. stercus excrement is generally accepted.] Rubbish, trash, worthless debris. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 511 Farewell. Fare thee well. Dreck! 1947 Horizon Feb. 90 The anonymous countryside littered with heterogeneous dreck. 1965 E. Lacy Double Trouble v. 58 Drek your dolls are!.. I wouldn't stick my customers with such junk! 1966 E. West Night is Time for Listening i. 13 `You are dreck,' she said. `I hope you are killed.' 1967 O. Hesky Time for Treason v. 38 Meat better than the usual drek we get.
University is claiming that games take up bandwidth dedicated for research, even though research network is on www2.
Actually, I think you will find that at most Ineternet 2 institutions, any traffic to another Internet 2 institution will go over I2. So, if you have a file transfers between Napster users at different I2 institutions, you have a sigificant amount of I2 bandwidth being sucked up.
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From the Oxford English Dictionary: dreckdreck drek (IPA drEk). slang. Also drek. [a. Yiddish drek (G. dreck) filth, dregs, dung, f. MHG. drec:-Gmc. *rekka- repr. by OE. reax rubbish, rottenness, ONor. rekkr, OFris. threkk. Ult. origin uncertain but connection with Gr. skatoj dung, sterganoj privy, L. stercus excrement is generally accepted.] Rubbish, trash, worthless debris. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 511 Farewell. Fare thee well. Dreck! 1947 Horizon Feb. 90 The anonymous countryside littered with heterogeneous dreck. 1965 E. Lacy Double Trouble v. 58 Drek your dolls are!.. I wouldn't stick my customers with such junk! 1966 E. West Night is Time for Listening i. 13 `You are dreck,' she said. `I hope you are killed.' 1967 O. Hesky Time for Treason v. 38 Meat better than the usual drek we get.
Actually, I think you will find that at most Ineternet 2 institutions, any traffic to another Internet 2 institution will go over I2. So, if you have a file transfers between Napster users at different I2 institutions, you have a sigificant amount of I2 bandwidth being sucked up.