I remember using IE2 on NT4 in 1998 at my uni. Back then the default browser was Netscape 3.04 Gold (16 bit, to keep it compatible with the Windows 3.11 machines still in use), with 2MB of H drive space, and 1MB/day internet quota. IE2 was crap, IIRC it didn't even support the proxy authentication that the uni used, so wasn't really in use.
Did you vote for NZ to become the 7th state of Australia? There were well over 100 people who signed the petition in less than 2 hours last Saturday.:) But then a lot of people suggested Australia should become the third island of NZ...
(If you didn't see/don't get The Mole you probably don't understand)
Broadband in Australia is still expensive when you compare directly to other countries. This is the plan I'm on: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-isp.cfm?id=24&p=5574 and it is fairly good value. (Link is to Whirlpool/Broadband choice, which is a comprehensive listing of all broadband providers and plans in Australia.)
It was only a few years ago Telstra/Bigpond had a full monopoly and charged around $80/m for 512kbps and 3GB/month, 15c/MB thereafter with no limit (reports of $2000+ bills being charged to single mothers). And they charged their wholesale customers the same or more for the same port, as well as being the major bandwidth provider. Telstra controlled 10/12 things an ISP needed.
Now BP has less of a monopoly but all ADSL providers still have to deal with Telstra (either using T's DSLAM ports or paying lots to put their own DSLAM equipment into the exchanges).
Rolling out an alternative network, either BPL or wireless, is the only way to cut Telstra out of the equation, but the startup costs are higher so prices are higher to get the return on investment.
What is the ambient room temperature in both places? I mean in summer it can be 40C+ in my room, but now we're in winter it can be around 10 degrees. Most cooling only gets to X degrees above ambient, unless you have something refrigerative.
I'm in regional Australia and paying $AU60/m for 1.5M/256kbit ADSL with a 5GB (plus 5GB offpeak) limit, after which I'm shaped to 72kbps (and further shaped at 120% quota to 33kbps) and this is a fairly good deal! Since data travelling through the local IX is free I do have quota-free access to several mirrors so it's not so bad. $10/m more and I could double my quota if I needed. I also have a static IP and custom reverse DNS setup for no extra cost.:)
There's the $18.50/m I'm paying to Telstra as the minimum line rental that supports ADSL (there's a cheaper one, but apparently it's "incompatible" with ADSL). This is cheaper than the $27/m most people pay but I pay 30c per local call instead of 20c, and a few other things are more expensive. But we don't use the phone much anymore anyway.
As to the ISDN, the only ones I've seen are about $50/m for two lines of ISDN (two phone numbers, one pair of copper) plus whatever the ISP charges. Telstra used to charge local data calls at $1.10 per hour, but now offer "unlimited data calls" for $16.50 extra per month. Most decent ISPs charge about $50/m for dual-channel unlimited ISDN dialup, so you are well over $100/m for your 128kbps, or just under for 64kbps. One would only go with ISDN if ADSL is unavailable.
What is described in TFA has happened in Australia lots of times too, check out some old articles in http://whirlpool.net.au/ and you'll see. Few ISPs have their own DSLAMs (only a handful, and they mostly are in the same exchanges). The fastest ADSL offered by Telstra is what I have, and apparently they are going to hobble ADSL2 to 6M/256kbit even if the line can support full speed.
And there are still many customers on devices that stop ADSL reaching them, things like pair-gain systems or RIMs. These are being upgraded, but at the same pace as any ex-monopoly telco. Telstra operate a cable network too so they wouldn't open DSL access there much, since customers could choose an ISP that is not owned by Telstra (Bigpond).
I agree! I'm in that boat. I live in a small city (~100k pop) where there's not a lot of IT around, and I've applied at virtually all the places that do the kind of work I'm interested in, there's been a few bites but no takers yet. I'm almost completed my degree (Bachelor of IT with Networking major), but talking to others slightly ahead of me theres not much prospect here anyway. Having this would help future positions, when I finally finish and move away.
Too bad their mailman archives don't work!
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Posted by Zonk on 09:57 AM -- Saturday April 02 2005
Some woman commited suicide here on Tuesday, in the main shopping centre in my city (~100k pop). Apparently she got a chair, put it on a railing, sat on it and leant backwards. It was only a 6 metre balcony but she landed on her head so death was quick. She did it at about 9 in the morning and my sister was working at the coffee shop who owns the chair used, and now there is talk of them being in trouble for that!
It is a bit rude to do that in such a public place and in such a horrific manner. A 6 metre fall isn't even guarenteed death. Some shops in the centre closed for the day, and centre management is offering counciling.
And a business that employs teens like a pizza place might not want their employees to make toll calls
I worked at a pizza place, and sometimes it is necessary to call the customer back, and the phones that we used only allowed local calls. There is one phone in the back of the store that allows STD and mobile calls, so if is required to call back a mobile one had to write the number down to call them. Very annoying when trying to get credit card numbers off them since you had to write them down too instead of just punching them into the eftpos machine.
In Europe I would assume the country code is easier to deal with that in the US, since each country could be treated like a US state (almost). It would just be a part of the number like the '1' is a part of the US number. The US international prefix is 011 (?), while most European countries is just 00. (Trunk is 0 instead of US 1)
The US appears to be the only country without calling-party-pays for mobiles, and for them to share numbers with geographic numbers. Looking through the NPA codes it is a mess with overlays and splits and several completely different numbers used in the one area. When the NPAs are exhausted by 2035 it would be nice that the new 11 or 12 digit numbers makes this all more elegant. (Like Australia for normal numbers: 1 digit area code, 8 digit local number. And back to the pizza thing, what other country has a national number that will automatically go to the local store? These are "One3" numbers.)
(Glossary: STD: Subscriber Trunk Dialling EFTPOS: Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale NPA: Numbering Plan Area)
I wasn't aware they were limited to 1 watt, that's pretty crappy when in 'farmer' mode.
But in the US the more directional the antennas are, the more effective power you are allowed to use. With a 6dBi antenna the effective power allowed is 4 Watts (36dB). With a 24dBi antenna, must reduce that 30dBm by 6dBm (18 is the difference, divide by 3), meaning system power of (24+24) 48dB which is way higher amout of effective power. That's my reading of the laws anyway, IANAL.
Here in Australia the limit is 4W EIRP (effective ionisation radiated power) for the 2.4GHz range [and 1W for 5.8GHz], so with a 36dBi antenna the radio limit is 0dBm (1mW). With propper alignment, however, this can go several tens of kilometres.
My own wireless network has links of up to over 4km, and fog does affect it, but not enough to completely drop out. We are using modified MDS antennas, and also a few slotted waveguides. 1000 foot is ~300m so these links are far longer than what is being attempted here.
He's talking about the frequency the "wireless cable" ran on. Around here that was in the 2.3GHz range (with the highest channel just nudging 2400 MHz) So no troubled modding and using in ISM band. (FWIW that company is now fully satellite and apparently the MDS channels have been bought by another company but still no ultilisation)
You just need to tweak your TCP/IP stack. For a 10MB/s transfer over 300ms latency you need a 3MB TCP buffer (window). Most operating systems don't allow the buffer to grow that large.
24kbps can easily fit into a GPRS/UMTS connection and be streamed over a mobile phone.
That would cost me $AU1 per minute to listen to that (GPRS costs $0.0055 per kilobyte, 24kbps = 3KB/s = 180KB/min = 99c/min). You would really need to love your mobile music for that.:-)
That said, is there a Java program available for my Nokia 6800 that can receive streaming music?;-) I already use IRC and SSH from my phone. All I have to listen to is FM radio.
I've been using Opera since version 3.21 on my 486 with 4MB RAM. It was the best browser then, and still is! (IMHO, of course) Having all the windows within one window was a good idea, sicne it made it easier to group similar activities. The switchbar (ie the "tabs") appeared in v5 (IIRC) as a standard feature, but was available earlier as a plugin, Or simply in the "window" menu.
-- begin edited quote -- "Look, I've got to go to the toilet, there it is over there" I say, pointing at our George Forman grill.
"But that's a Geor..." He says, then stops. He's a beginner, and it's just possible that the company has a line of terminals that look like George Forman grills. He bites.
"Sorry" he says, smiling again "for a minute there I thought it was a Model 2!"
A reasonably good save, but it won't save him. "Huh, it's nothing like a model 2! *THAT'S* the model 2" I say, pointing to the expresso machine.
He nods and I leave, which means he's got to take the grill to bits, otherwise he knows I won't believe he's worked on it. I give him a couple of minutes to get the element exposed then wander back in.
"So how does it look?" I ask, concerned-like.
"Well, I think we could have a processor problem.." he says concentrating on prying the element up...concentrating so much that he doesn't notice me plugging the iron in.
"Shouldn't you be wearing an earthing strap?" I ask innocently.
When he thinks I can't see, he creeps his hand over to the wiring frame and says "Well, It's just as easy to hold onto earth like this"
"But what about the risk of a cross-the-body shock with no resistor in series with you?" I ask ever-so-more-innocently
"Oh, it's ok" he says "the unit's unplug..."
>clickBZZZZZZZEEERRT!clunk! -- end edited quote --
What is CB channel 19? is that the general chatter channel for the truckers?:-) I was wondering the other day what these sorts of things are in other countries, since here in Australia it's channel 40, on UHF CB (and AM too AFAIK, but that is not used as much these days).
I currently have only a handheld UHF transceiver, but that is enough to be able to talk to nearby trucks and busses.
Attempting to "hack" the system, but run into these errors:
Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: Stat failed for/home/rockstargames/balancer.rockstargames.com/cla ssics_downloads/GTA2INSTALLER.ZIP (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in D:\HTTP\RockstarNew\classics\gta2\gta2_dl.php on line 8
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Are people downloading it via PHP, instead of a normal file transfer?
they did factor in some costs related to these items.
$9k of Symantec anti-virus.
In fact, they used the exact same figure for both
They used $45k for Windows and $135k for Linux.
About the only thing that struck me was comparing GIMP to Photoshop CS. I haven't used either (much) but I read everywhere that Photoshop is much better than the GIMP.
And another TCO I would like to see is a "hybrid" solution: ie Windows with OO or Windows desktop and Linux servers. Corporate networks are not homogenious, there is bound to be a mix of different hardware and software.
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I remember using IE2 on NT4 in 1998 at my uni. Back then the default browser was Netscape 3.04 Gold (16 bit, to keep it compatible with the Windows 3.11 machines still in use), with 2MB of H drive space, and 1MB/day internet quota. IE2 was crap, IIRC it didn't even support the proxy authentication that the uni used, so wasn't really in use.
My city of 100k got our first 7-11 just a few months ago. I've been in there a few times and it's always been the same Indian-looking guy there. :)
Did you vote for NZ to become the 7th state of Australia? There were well over 100 people who signed the petition in less than 2 hours last Saturday. :) But then a lot of people suggested Australia should become the third island of NZ...
(If you didn't see/don't get The Mole you probably don't understand)
Hehe I read STD as "Subscriber Trunk Dialling" so "high STD rates" would mean "expensive to call". I probably don't get out enough...
Broadband in Australia is still expensive when you compare directly to other countries. This is the plan I'm on: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-isp.cfm?id=24&p=5574 and it is fairly good value. (Link is to Whirlpool/Broadband choice, which is a comprehensive listing of all broadband providers and plans in Australia.)
It was only a few years ago Telstra/Bigpond had a full monopoly and charged around $80/m for 512kbps and 3GB/month, 15c/MB thereafter with no limit (reports of $2000+ bills being charged to single mothers). And they charged their wholesale customers the same or more for the same port, as well as being the major bandwidth provider. Telstra controlled 10/12 things an ISP needed.
Now BP has less of a monopoly but all ADSL providers still have to deal with Telstra (either using T's DSLAM ports or paying lots to put their own DSLAM equipment into the exchanges).
Rolling out an alternative network, either BPL or wireless, is the only way to cut Telstra out of the equation, but the startup costs are higher so prices are higher to get the return on investment.
I prefer John Safran's version ("Not The Sunscreen Song"). But I doubt anyone outside Australia has heard it and/or gets most of the jokes in it. :)
What is the ambient room temperature in both places? I mean in summer it can be 40C+ in my room, but now we're in winter it can be around 10 degrees. Most cooling only gets to X degrees above ambient, unless you have something refrigerative.
I'm in regional Australia and paying $AU60/m for 1.5M/256kbit ADSL with a 5GB (plus 5GB offpeak) limit, after which I'm shaped to 72kbps (and further shaped at 120% quota to 33kbps) and this is a fairly good deal! Since data travelling through the local IX is free I do have quota-free access to several mirrors so it's not so bad. $10/m more and I could double my quota if I needed. I also have a static IP and custom reverse DNS setup for no extra cost. :)
There's the $18.50/m I'm paying to Telstra as the minimum line rental that supports ADSL (there's a cheaper one, but apparently it's "incompatible" with ADSL). This is cheaper than the $27/m most people pay but I pay 30c per local call instead of 20c, and a few other things are more expensive. But we don't use the phone much anymore anyway.
As to the ISDN, the only ones I've seen are about $50/m for two lines of ISDN (two phone numbers, one pair of copper) plus whatever the ISP charges. Telstra used to charge local data calls at $1.10 per hour, but now offer "unlimited data calls" for $16.50 extra per month. Most decent ISPs charge about $50/m for dual-channel unlimited ISDN dialup, so you are well over $100/m for your 128kbps, or just under for 64kbps. One would only go with ISDN if ADSL is unavailable.
What is described in TFA has happened in Australia lots of times too, check out some old articles in http://whirlpool.net.au/ and you'll see. Few ISPs have their own DSLAMs (only a handful, and they mostly are in the same exchanges). The fastest ADSL offered by Telstra is what I have, and apparently they are going to hobble ADSL2 to 6M/256kbit even if the line can support full speed.
And there are still many customers on devices that stop ADSL reaching them, things like pair-gain systems or RIMs. These are being upgraded, but at the same pace as any ex-monopoly telco. Telstra operate a cable network too so they wouldn't open DSL access there much, since customers could choose an ISP that is not owned by Telstra (Bigpond).
Bah! Whats all this talk about pounds etc? This is a story about Australia, you should be using the system we use! :)
FWIW I'm 200cm and 95kg.
I agree! I'm in that boat. I live in a small city (~100k pop) where there's not a lot of IT around, and I've applied at virtually all the places that do the kind of work I'm interested in, there's been a few bites but no takers yet. I'm almost completed my degree (Bachelor of IT with Networking major), but talking to others slightly ahead of me theres not much prospect here anyway. Having this would help future positions, when I finally finish and move away.
Too bad their mailman archives don't work!
How does April fools work across timezones?
/. is the fool!
Posted by Zonk on 09:57 AM -- Saturday April 02 2005
I think it means
Some woman commited suicide here on Tuesday, in the main shopping centre in my city (~100k pop). Apparently she got a chair, put it on a railing, sat on it and leant backwards. It was only a 6 metre balcony but she landed on her head so death was quick. She did it at about 9 in the morning and my sister was working at the coffee shop who owns the chair used, and now there is talk of them being in trouble for that!
It is a bit rude to do that in such a public place and in such a horrific manner. A 6 metre fall isn't even guarenteed death. Some shops in the centre closed for the day, and centre management is offering counciling.
And a business that employs teens like a pizza place might not want their employees to make toll calls
I worked at a pizza place, and sometimes it is necessary to call the customer back, and the phones that we used only allowed local calls. There is one phone in the back of the store that allows STD and mobile calls, so if is required to call back a mobile one had to write the number down to call them. Very annoying when trying to get credit card numbers off them since you had to write them down too instead of just punching them into the eftpos machine.
In Europe I would assume the country code is easier to deal with that in the US, since each country could be treated like a US state (almost). It would just be a part of the number like the '1' is a part of the US number. The US international prefix is 011 (?), while most European countries is just 00. (Trunk is 0 instead of US 1)
The US appears to be the only country without calling-party-pays for mobiles, and for them to share numbers with geographic numbers. Looking through the NPA codes it is a mess with overlays and splits and several completely different numbers used in the one area. When the NPAs are exhausted by 2035 it would be nice that the new 11 or 12 digit numbers makes this all more elegant. (Like Australia for normal numbers: 1 digit area code, 8 digit local number. And back to the pizza thing, what other country has a national number that will automatically go to the local store? These are "One3" numbers.)
(Glossary:
STD: Subscriber Trunk Dialling
EFTPOS: Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale
NPA: Numbering Plan Area)
I wasn't aware they were limited to 1 watt, that's pretty crappy when in 'farmer' mode.
But in the US the more directional the antennas are, the more effective power you are allowed to use. With a 6dBi antenna the effective power allowed is 4 Watts (36dB). With a 24dBi antenna, must reduce that 30dBm by 6dBm (18 is the difference, divide by 3), meaning system power of (24+24) 48dB which is way higher amout of effective power. That's my reading of the laws anyway, IANAL.
Here in Australia the limit is 4W EIRP (effective ionisation radiated power) for the 2.4GHz range [and 1W for 5.8GHz], so with a 36dBi antenna the radio limit is 0dBm (1mW). With propper alignment, however, this can go several tens of kilometres.
My own wireless network has links of up to over 4km, and fog does affect it, but not enough to completely drop out. We are using modified MDS antennas, and also a few slotted waveguides. 1000 foot is ~300m so these links are far longer than what is being attempted here.
He's talking about the frequency the "wireless cable" ran on. Around here that was in the 2.3GHz range (with the highest channel just nudging 2400 MHz) So no troubled modding and using in ISM band. (FWIW that company is now fully satellite and apparently the MDS channels have been bought by another company but still no ultilisation)
You just need to tweak your TCP/IP stack. For a 10MB/s transfer over 300ms latency you need a 3MB TCP buffer (window). Most operating systems don't allow the buffer to grow that large.
Why is the law called "can spam" anyway? Is "CAN" a TLA or something?
24kbps can easily fit into a GPRS/UMTS connection and be streamed over a mobile phone.
:-)
;-) I already use IRC and SSH from my phone. All I have to listen to is FM radio.
That would cost me $AU1 per minute to listen to that (GPRS costs $0.0055 per kilobyte, 24kbps = 3KB/s = 180KB/min = 99c/min). You would really need to love your mobile music for that.
That said, is there a Java program available for my Nokia 6800 that can receive streaming music?
I've been using Opera since version 3.21 on my 486 with 4MB RAM. It was the best browser then, and still is! (IMHO, of course) Having all the windows within one window was a good idea, sicne it made it easier to group similar activities. The switchbar (ie the "tabs") appeared in v5 (IIRC) as a standard feature, but was available earlier as a plugin, Or simply in the "window" menu.
All I can think about is the BOFH.
t ml
..concentrating so much that he doesn't notice me plugging the iron in.
:)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~bofh/bofh/genesis1.h
-- begin edited quote --
"Look, I've got to go to the toilet, there it is over there" I say, pointing at our George Forman grill.
"But that's a Geor..." He says, then stops. He's a beginner, and it's just possible that the company has a line of terminals that look like George Forman grills. He bites.
"Sorry" he says, smiling again "for a minute there I thought it was a Model 2!"
A reasonably good save, but it won't save him. "Huh, it's nothing like a model 2! *THAT'S* the model 2" I say, pointing to the expresso machine.
He nods and I leave, which means he's got to take the grill to bits, otherwise he knows I won't believe he's worked on it. I give him a couple of minutes to get the element exposed then wander back in.
"So how does it look?" I ask, concerned-like.
"Well, I think we could have a processor problem.." he says concentrating on prying the element up.
"Shouldn't you be wearing an earthing strap?" I ask innocently.
When he thinks I can't see, he creeps his hand over to the wiring frame and says "Well, It's just as easy to hold onto earth like this"
"But what about the risk of a cross-the-body shock with no resistor in series with you?" I ask ever-so-more-innocently
"Oh, it's ok" he says "the unit's unplug..."
>clickBZZZZZZZEEERRT!clunk!
-- end edited quote --
hehe
All I can think of is where Kusanagi takes control of the van and calculates the best route to the suspected puppetmaster. :-)
What is CB channel 19? is that the general chatter channel for the truckers? :-) I was wondering the other day what these sorts of things are in other countries, since here in Australia it's channel 40, on UHF CB (and AM too AFAIK, but that is not used as much these days).
I currently have only a handheld UHF transceiver, but that is enough to be able to talk to nearby trucks and busses.
Attempting to "hack" the system, but run into these errors:
/home/rockstargames/balancer.rockstargames.com/cla ssics_downloads/GTA2INSTALLER.ZIP (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in D:\HTTP\RockstarNew\classics\gta2\gta2_dl.php on line 8
e s.com/classics_downloads/GTA2INSTALLER.ZIP) [function.readfile]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in D:\HTTP\RockstarNew\classics\gta2\gta2_dl.php on line 28
Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: Stat failed for
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at D:\HTTP\RockstarNew\classics\gta2\gta2_dl.php:8) in D:\HTTP\RockstarNew\classics\gta2\gta2_dl.php on line 10
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Are people downloading it via PHP, instead of a normal file transfer?
they did factor in some costs related to these items.
$9k of Symantec anti-virus.
In fact, they used the exact same figure for both
They used $45k for Windows and $135k for Linux.
About the only thing that struck me was comparing GIMP to Photoshop CS. I haven't used either (much) but I read everywhere that Photoshop is much better than the GIMP.
And another TCO I would like to see is a "hybrid" solution: ie Windows with OO or Windows desktop and Linux servers. Corporate networks are not homogenious, there is bound to be a mix of different hardware and software.
RE Gimp: Haven't you seen Pulp Fiction? ;-)
"Bring out the Gimp!"