The static IP package, however, is pretty absurd. $15/month for one static address. The website said two for that price so I'm pretty confused, really. I think I am going to have to give them a call and find out what that is about.
It's two static IPs, but we only give one unless you ask for the second. You need to call and you get the second at no extra cost.
To my knowledge, my connection runs to the station here, then to Regina, SK. I live in Moose Jaw.
If you live within 900m cable distance to the CO in Moose Jaw (There are two that carry Moose Jaw numbers, but I think only one is actually in Moose Jaw) then it goes to the Moose Jaw CO, then to Regina. If not, it's FTTN (Fibre to the Node) somewhere in between your place and the CO, then fibre to the CO, then to Regina. We just completed a huge infrastructure program in 2006, putting every home in Saskatchewan in a city of mentionable size within 900m of a DSLAM. There are no loops in the province more than 2.4km long that are considered good for DSL.
I've never had any drag or downtime since I moved into my latest apartment. I've only been here about 7 months now, though. Still, so far it's been great! Anywho... just my input.:-)
Good to hear you like it. I'm considering getting the 10m service, but it still only has about 700k up. I like the 5m, and i rarely pin it, so I'd upgrade if I could get faster upstream.
I went to school in Saskatchewan (where we call the schools that teach grades 9 through 12 Collegiates in the public system and High School in the Catholic system). Here we need Math 20 to graduate, which is technically a grade 11 class, but everyone at my school who went on to university took it in grade 10. Our courses are numbers as follows: grade 9 is XXX 9, grade 10 is XXX 10, grade 11 is XXX 20, and grade 12 is XXX 30, where XXX is the course title. So we have Math 10, Biology 20, etc.
We also had four Math 30 courses. A, B, and C 30 and Calculus 30. And every university I applied to required at least Math A30.
This is where raw statistics gets a bit misleading because of the distribution issue I mentioned above - Canada is bigger (in land area) and smaller (in population), but the key factor in the broadband penetration issue that that 90% of Canada's population lives on a tiny fraction of it's land, I.E. a long narrow strip within (IIRC) 20 miles of the US border. Tilting the scales even further - if you are a Canadian living along that strip, you are far more likely to live in an urban metroplex (like Greater Vancouver or Toronto) than in a rural area.
It's not 20 miles, it's closer to 150, and it's also only 75%.
Anyway, where I live (a city of 210 000), 500 km from the US border I can get cheap 10mb broadband without too much effort. My cousin who lives on a farm over 100km from a city of 100 000 or more can get 2mb broadband. The closest town has a population of 230, and it can get 5mb broadband. Why do I hear people complaining about not being able to get it in bigish cities in the US? Has this changed recently?
OTOH, the US population is much more spread out with a higher proportion of them living in smaller cities and towns.
Greater Toronto and Vancouver are big, yes. Together they only have 7 million people, which is about 1/4 of Canada's population. But there are huge swaths of land with a lot of people. Calgary and Edmonton are both more than 150 km from the US. So are Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon. That's roughly 3 million people, all have broadband. Many farms in Saskatchewan have at least access to broadband, and if your town has a school or hospital you can get it too. There's more to this than just everybody living in big cities.
Oh, and when Telstra tell you that the DSLAM in your exchange can't do ADSL2+ ? More bullshit - they've been capable of it from day one, but Telstra won't roll out the firmware to enable the higher speed, keep telling people "We have to upgrade the DSLAM for you to get ADSL2+" and try to sell you on their NextG cell network - all the while knowing that those DSLAMs have been capable of 8Mb ADSL1 from day one, and a firmware upgrade would give you ADSL2+ tomorrow...
I don't know about Telstra, but my job over the last year was upgrading SaskTel's Lucent Stinger DSLAMS, which could do ADSL1 at 8mbps, to Alcatel ISAMS, which can do ADSL2+ with a firmware upgrade. But project, to get HDTV over IP working. Many people thought it couldn't be done, but it's working now:P
Anyway, it's entirely possible that their DSLAMs can't do ADSL2+. Do you know what kind they are?
I've been running Vista 64bit Ultimate since Feb 8. It has crashed on me a total of 8 times. The first few I traced back to the SPTD driver that is installed with DaemonTools. I uninstalled Daemontools and that crashing stopped.
The others seem to do with bad virtual memory. I'll have to run a test sometime when I'm home long enough. The latest crash (last night) was caused by a page fault in an interrupt handler. Maybe Vista would be more stable with a uniprocessor or different memory timings. I don't know.
That being said, XP was pretty stable on the same hardware. If I had retail Vista I would try the 32 bit version. 2000 was very stable too.
3: Check for obvious rootkitting while being run. For example, if an unsigned program has hooked the keyboard interrupt. If its a signed program, no biggie. Otherwise, post a dialog, and have an option to ignore the issue in the future.
Windows x64 already does this. It's one of the things that anti-virus companies are complaining about, they can't patch the kernel interrupt table at all.
4: Offer functionality to "vet" install media, so a CD/DVD of a VLK install can be scanned to check if it has not been modified to install malware. This is important, because a lot of install media comes from downloaded images, not physical CD or DVDs.
Not to mention slipstreaming service packs and hotfixes.
The last one might be questionable. I'd say that storming Parliament and beheading the Prime Minister qualifies as "uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province".
Now, you Americans might be wondering why killing the Prime Minister isn't treason in itself. The Prime Minister isn't special, he's just a guy. The only one who is special in Canada is the Queen. Causing her harm is High Treason.
As subjects of the Queen, couldn't he also be knighted?
Legally, yes, but the Queen (in right of Canada) doesn't do that anymore unless the CANADIAN government allows it. It's been against government policy since the 40s.
Well, drat. That looks like it's a winprinter (host based printer language). The C5400 looks like it'd work with an expansion card. That's too bad, unless OKi decides to support it.
I generally look for PS in printers I buy. Partly because they work with UNIXy systems like Linux or Mac OS X, but also because they'll continue to work even with the newest version of Windows. My Photosmart P1000 is now a paperweight with x64 Vista, so it's going to my sister who uses an iBook exclusively.
Well, I live in Saskatchewan. Judging by http://www.comparecellular.com/ Rogers is unacceptable for anybody who does any kind of travelling in the rural areas. I like my cell phone to work when I'm driving north of Prince Albert or in between Swift Current and Rosetown. I have family there, winter roads treacherous, even with a reliable car you can still wind up in the ditch with nobody coming by for the next 12 hours.
My question is can I use it outside the city? Rogers has famously bad rural coverage, the last thing I want is to be stuck with no cell coverage with an immobile car in the middle of winter.
That might be true. I have no idea, not my department:)
But I do know that there's a toll free number one can call to get a free location service by the phone company, the power company, and the gas company. It's pretty easy to do things like that when all three are owned by the provincial government.
Last summer I worked for the local phone company. The city was busy with a significant road infrastructure upgrade in the middle of downtown, about two blocks from our main exchange building. Some asshat with a directional drill decided to not look up where the utilities ran, and bored a hole straight through a 3600 pair cable. Carried on this cable were most of the businesses downtown, a lot of residential customers, and to top it off, one of our competitor's cellular service's connection to our exchange. So, we had businesses potentially losing money (and blaming us), customers unable to dial 911 if need be, a competetor complaining to the CRTC, and a week's worth of overtime to pay to cablemen to fix this mess. But I did learn a lot about how the cables ran and how to identify them leaving the MDF. Kind of neat for me, but not so good for the company or the city.
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The only drawback is Virgin are CDMA, so my fancy Motorola Linux GSM phone is no use to me any more..
Of course Virgin uses CDMA. Virgin is just a Bell reseller, so they use whatever network bell would roam onto.
I don't think he meant it to be a replacement for USB. USB has its place, just DV and drives aren't it. Firewire and eSATA are much better for that.
Disclaimer: I work for SaskTel.
:-)
The static IP package, however, is pretty absurd. $15/month for one static address. The website said two for that price so I'm pretty confused, really. I think I am going to have to give them a call and find out what that is about.
It's two static IPs, but we only give one unless you ask for the second. You need to call and you get the second at no extra cost.
To my knowledge, my connection runs to the station here, then to Regina, SK. I live in Moose Jaw.
If you live within 900m cable distance to the CO in Moose Jaw (There are two that carry Moose Jaw numbers, but I think only one is actually in Moose Jaw) then it goes to the Moose Jaw CO, then to Regina. If not, it's FTTN (Fibre to the Node) somewhere in between your place and the CO, then fibre to the CO, then to Regina. We just completed a huge infrastructure program in 2006, putting every home in Saskatchewan in a city of mentionable size within 900m of a DSLAM. There are no loops in the province more than 2.4km long that are considered good for DSL.
I've never had any drag or downtime since I moved into my latest apartment. I've only been here about 7 months now, though. Still, so far it's been great!
Anywho... just my input.
Good to hear you like it. I'm considering getting the 10m service, but it still only has about 700k up. I like the 5m, and i rarely pin it, so I'd upgrade if I could get faster upstream.
I went to school in Saskatchewan (where we call the schools that teach grades 9 through 12 Collegiates in the public system and High School in the Catholic system). Here we need Math 20 to graduate, which is technically a grade 11 class, but everyone at my school who went on to university took it in grade 10. Our courses are numbers as follows: grade 9 is XXX 9, grade 10 is XXX 10, grade 11 is XXX 20, and grade 12 is XXX 30, where XXX is the course title. So we have Math 10, Biology 20, etc.
We also had four Math 30 courses. A, B, and C 30 and Calculus 30. And every university I applied to required at least Math A30.
Here is one. I have an older version that only has FW800 and FW400 on it.
Seems it has two firewire 800 ports, one firewire 800, one USB2 and one eSATA. It is bloody expensive, though.
It's pretty complex on hardware that doesn't have support for it in its MMU.
They were pushing under Martin, too.
Funny. At my engineering school we used the pound and pound force for measuring mass and weight.
This is where raw statistics gets a bit misleading because of the distribution issue I mentioned above - Canada is bigger (in land area) and smaller (in population), but the key factor in the broadband penetration issue that that 90% of Canada's population lives on a tiny fraction of it's land, I.E. a long narrow strip within (IIRC) 20 miles of the US border. Tilting the scales even further - if you are a Canadian living along that strip, you are far more likely to live in an urban metroplex (like Greater Vancouver or Toronto) than in a rural area.
It's not 20 miles, it's closer to 150, and it's also only 75%.
Anyway, where I live (a city of 210 000), 500 km from the US border I can get cheap 10mb broadband without too much effort. My cousin who lives on a farm over 100km from a city of 100 000 or more can get 2mb broadband. The closest town has a population of 230, and it can get 5mb broadband. Why do I hear people complaining about not being able to get it in bigish cities in the US? Has this changed recently?
OTOH, the US population is much more spread out with a higher proportion of them living in smaller cities and towns.
Greater Toronto and Vancouver are big, yes. Together they only have 7 million people, which is about 1/4 of Canada's population. But there are huge swaths of land with a lot of people. Calgary and Edmonton are both more than 150 km from the US. So are Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon. That's roughly 3 million people, all have broadband. Many farms in Saskatchewan have at least access to broadband, and if your town has a school or hospital you can get it too. There's more to this than just everybody living in big cities.
SaskTel offeres HDTV over their IPTV service, Max.
It wouldn't surprise me if AT&T can do that too.
Oh, and when Telstra tell you that the DSLAM in your exchange can't do ADSL2+ ? More bullshit - they've been capable of it from day one, but Telstra won't roll out the firmware to enable the higher speed, keep telling people "We have to upgrade the DSLAM for you to get ADSL2+" and try to sell you on their NextG cell network - all the while knowing that those DSLAMs have been capable of 8Mb ADSL1 from day one, and a firmware upgrade would give you ADSL2+ tomorrow...
:P
I don't know about Telstra, but my job over the last year was upgrading SaskTel's Lucent Stinger DSLAMS, which could do ADSL1 at 8mbps, to Alcatel ISAMS, which can do ADSL2+ with a firmware upgrade. But project, to get HDTV over IP working. Many people thought it couldn't be done, but it's working now
Anyway, it's entirely possible that their DSLAMs can't do ADSL2+. Do you know what kind they are?
UNIX File System (EXT2?)
Nope, it's actually very similar to FFS, the default filesystem of {Free,Net,Open}BSD. Wikipedia will tell you more.
I've been running Vista 64bit Ultimate since Feb 8. It has crashed on me a total of 8 times. The first few I traced back to the SPTD driver that is installed with DaemonTools. I uninstalled Daemontools and that crashing stopped.
The others seem to do with bad virtual memory. I'll have to run a test sometime when I'm home long enough. The latest crash (last night) was caused by a page fault in an interrupt handler. Maybe Vista would be more stable with a uniprocessor or different memory timings. I don't know.
That being said, XP was pretty stable on the same hardware. If I had retail Vista I would try the 32 bit version. 2000 was very stable too.
3: Check for obvious rootkitting while being run. For example, if an unsigned program has hooked the keyboard interrupt. If its a signed program, no biggie. Otherwise, post a dialog, and have an option to ignore the issue in the future.
Windows x64 already does this. It's one of the things that anti-virus companies are complaining about, they can't patch the kernel interrupt table at all.
4: Offer functionality to "vet" install media, so a CD/DVD of a VLK install can be scanned to check if it has not been modified to install malware. This is important, because a lot of install media comes from downloaded images, not physical CD or DVDs.
Not to mention slipstreaming service packs and hotfixes.
I'm sure he meant Indians from India, not Indians from Saskatchewan.
There are several laws against that already:
Homicide
Murder
Treason
The last one might be questionable. I'd say that storming Parliament and beheading the Prime Minister qualifies as "uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province".
Now, you Americans might be wondering why killing the Prime Minister isn't treason in itself. The Prime Minister isn't special, he's just a guy. The only one who is special in Canada is the Queen. Causing her harm is High Treason.
As subjects of the Queen, couldn't he also be knighted?
Legally, yes, but the Queen (in right of Canada) doesn't do that anymore unless the CANADIAN government allows it. It's been against government policy since the 40s.
Who's the head of state of Canada?
Um... The Queen of Canada.
Where are mod points when you need them?
Well, drat. That looks like it's a winprinter (host based printer language). The C5400 looks like it'd work with an expansion card. That's too bad, unless OKi decides to support it.
I generally look for PS in printers I buy. Partly because they work with UNIXy systems like Linux or Mac OS X, but also because they'll continue to work even with the newest version of Windows. My Photosmart P1000 is now a paperweight with x64 Vista, so it's going to my sister who uses an iBook exclusively.
Did you try Google? http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recn um=Okidata-C5300
c id=135&chid=10&pdflag=&prid=407&OSId=5&languageId= 1
It's a postscript printer, you shouldn't need drivers. You do need a custom PPD file, though: http://europe.oki.com/fcgi-bin/public.fcgi?pid=6&
Both of those came from the printer's page on linux-printing.
Well, I live in Saskatchewan. Judging by http://www.comparecellular.com/ Rogers is unacceptable for anybody who does any kind of travelling in the rural areas. I like my cell phone to work when I'm driving north of Prince Albert or in between Swift Current and Rosetown. I have family there, winter roads treacherous, even with a reliable car you can still wind up in the ditch with nobody coming by for the next 12 hours.
Southern Ontario looks acceptable, though.
My question is can I use it outside the city? Rogers has famously bad rural coverage, the last thing I want is to be stuck with no cell coverage with an immobile car in the middle of winter.
That might be true. I have no idea, not my department :)
But I do know that there's a toll free number one can call to get a free location service by the phone company, the power company, and the gas company. It's pretty easy to do things like that when all three are owned by the provincial government.
Last summer I worked for the local phone company. The city was busy with a significant road infrastructure upgrade in the middle of downtown, about two blocks from our main exchange building. Some asshat with a directional drill decided to not look up where the utilities ran, and bored a hole straight through a 3600 pair cable. Carried on this cable were most of the businesses downtown, a lot of residential customers, and to top it off, one of our competitor's cellular service's connection to our exchange. So, we had businesses potentially losing money (and blaming us), customers unable to dial 911 if need be, a competetor complaining to the CRTC, and a week's worth of overtime to pay to cablemen to fix this mess. But I did learn a lot about how the cables ran and how to identify them leaving the MDF. Kind of neat for me, but not so good for the company or the city.