There are two cable company trials, cooperating with 3rd-party ISPs, going on in Canada. Both are using "policy-based routing" as implemented by Cisco routers, to send subscriber packets to the appropiate ISP.
They are not using PPPoE, as Bell Canada is currently using for their ADSL service.
Details of the Videotron/UUNET setup at: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/PROC_REP/TELECOM/1998/ 8638/C12-17.html
"The AMD K6 (at least the ones without 3DNow!) was never designed to be a games machine. In fact, getting a Pentium of a _lower_ chip speed will often help you. But of course, other things (remember the K6 series has been optimized for business applications, just like the Cyrixes) will be slower."
Pentiums were never "designed to be a games machine" either.
Nothing wrong with the AMD chips. However many games are optimized for the way the Pentium FPU works, which hurts performance on non-Intel.
AMD would have to *exactly* clone the Intel FPU to take advantage of the same optimizations, which they cannot do.
The 3DNow! instructions were an attempt at an end-run around this business problem.
"You need to have the hostname of your computer set to some ridiculous code they give you otherwise the service won't function. Bleah. But not a big deal to me."
If you are using dhcpcd, you can use the "-I" switch (DHCP Client Identifier) instead of the "-h" switch.
Using the "-I" switch you can retain your hostname.
"They use DHCP, and like most cable companies probably most people you talk to on the tech support side won't have a fargin' clue what your talking about if you ask about static IP's."
Usually just setting up a static IP works with an @Home account. They use DHCP to simplify setup for naive Windows users, not to establish dynamic IP addresses.
>So, your DSL equipment has to be at the telco Central Office (a >considerable expense for non-telco's to co-locate equipment), your >phone line (actual copper wire) has to be rewired to hit the DSL >equipment and then split off from there into the switch, and because >the switches can't handle the frequency response (and bandwidth) it >can't be "switched" meaning you can't place calls on DSL...really...in >the telco world, this seriously limits the usefulness of DSL. Even in >the ISP world its somewhat limiting...if you are using one ISP for >your DSL, you can't hang up and dial another DSL provider...you'd have >to have a completely seperate DSL line in from that second provider to >use that...kinda sucks.
The way they handle this in Canada, is the phone company *is* the ISP. i.e. Bell = Sympatico
Bell/Sympatico uses Nortel "1-Meg" modems and Nortel xDSL line cards/racks.
Rates are $40 Canadian/month (~$25 US) for 1.5Mbps xDSL!
Likewise with the local cable companies and @Home being the only ISP choice. I wonder if other ISP's have a chance, in the long term...
>The specific machines will mimic the A500/A2000 >marketing system (cheap home machine (which is >very much missing from the market you must >agree) and a desktop).
A cheap home machine... How about a econo-box Celeron 300A with i740 video card? How much does that cost in your neighbourhood? Less in today's dollars than that old A500!
Hard disks, memory modules, and monitors are going to cost the same, no matter how you're using them.
I surely don't want to see those all-in-one-inside-the-keyboard abominations again...
Many just download pppd for Solaris x86, and use that. Works well.
Richard
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That *was* a good read.
However I think NAT & port translation is here to stay.
Now that Win98 SE includes a NAT service, everybody & their dog can easily share an Internet connection with their private network, without having to crack a HOWTO...
All we really care about is if the end-to-end connection is transparent to Quake3A! : )
>My wife uses Excel on a mac and pc. Exel never can completely >read from pc to mac or vice versa. I don't want those kind of >nightmares. Universal file formats are the only way to go!
It does work..
...providing you don't use tables, graphics, outlines, etc...
However, if you keep your documents "vanilla", then there is not much point buying new versions of MS Office.
"The Playstation 2's CPU, jointly developed by Toshiba and SCE, is an enhanced version of the device described at ISSCC. The device has floating-point performance of 6.2 Gflops..." http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990302S0026
Compare that to:
"Intel said Merced would achieve 3-Gflops extended-precision floating-point performance and 6-Gflops single-precision performance." http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990226S0012
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There are two cable company trials, cooperating with 3rd-party ISPs, going on in Canada. Both are using "policy-based routing" as implemented by Cisco routers, to send subscriber packets to the appropiate ISP.
/ 8638/C12-17.html
They are not using PPPoE, as Bell Canada is currently using for their ADSL service.
Details of the Videotron/UUNET setup at:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/PROC_REP/TELECOM/1998
(in particular see the file 980208.zip)
Richard
I would like to know this as well... This
would remove one of the reasons for booting into
Windows.
The solution taken by the The OpenDWG Alliance is interesting.
Perhaps we need a OpenDOC Alliance?
There is a background paper here:
http://www.opendwg.org/bac kground/wtpaprs/allwtpapr.html
"I never got the F10 thing."
This is because the special Compaq partition was not present.
You have to install this (from the Compaq floppy) before you setup your hard disk.
However, you can always use the floppy to get into the BIOS setup. Don't expect much though...
Richard
Pentiums were never "designed to be a games machine" either.
Nothing wrong with the AMD chips. However many games are optimized for the way the Pentium FPU works, which hurts performance on non-Intel.
AMD would have to *exactly* clone the Intel FPU to take advantage of the same optimizations, which they cannot do.
The 3DNow! instructions were an attempt at an end-run around this business problem.
Richard
If you are using dhcpcd, you can use the "-I" switch (DHCP Client Identifier) instead of the "-h" switch.
Using the "-I" switch you can retain your hostname.
Usually just setting up a static IP works with an @Home account. They use DHCP to simplify setup for naive Windows users, not to establish dynamic IP addresses.
Richard
"-- One machine only. You are not allowed to put multiple machines on the segment. You are not allowed to run NAT."
I didn't think a private network behind a NAT gateway be detected...?
If not, then that rule is unenforceable.
Also, once Win98SE comes out (which includes a NAT service), even "Windows-only" people will be wanting to do this.
Richard
>So, your DSL equipment has to be at the telco Central Office (a
>considerable expense for non-telco's to co-locate equipment), your
>phone line (actual copper wire) has to be rewired to hit the DSL
>equipment and then split off from there into the switch, and because
>the switches can't handle the frequency response (and bandwidth) it
>can't be "switched" meaning you can't place calls on DSL...really...in
>the telco world, this seriously limits the usefulness of DSL. Even in
>the ISP world its somewhat limiting...if you are using one ISP for
>your DSL, you can't hang up and dial another DSL provider...you'd have
>to have a completely seperate DSL line in from that second provider to
>use that...kinda sucks.
The way they handle this in Canada, is the phone company *is* the ISP.
i.e. Bell = Sympatico
Bell/Sympatico uses Nortel "1-Meg" modems and Nortel xDSL line cards/racks.
Rates are $40 Canadian/month (~$25 US) for 1.5Mbps xDSL!
Likewise with the local cable companies and @Home being the only ISP choice. I wonder if other ISP's have a chance, in the long term...
Richard
>The specific machines will mimic the A500/A2000
>marketing system (cheap home machine (which is
>very much missing from the market you must
>agree) and a desktop).
A cheap home machine... How about a econo-box Celeron 300A with i740 video card? How much does that cost in your neighbourhood? Less in today's dollars than that old A500!
Hard disks, memory modules, and monitors are going to cost the same, no matter how you're using them.
I surely don't want to see those all-in-one-inside-the-keyboard abominations again...
Many just download pppd for Solaris x86, and use that. Works well.
Richard
That *was* a good read.
However I think NAT & port translation is here to stay.
Now that Win98 SE includes a NAT service, everybody & their dog can easily share an Internet connection with their private network, without having to crack a HOWTO...
All we really care about is if the end-to-end connection is transparent to Quake3A! : )
Netscape does no good for connecting to Exchange
servers, if neither IMAP or POP3 is enabled.
Linux needs a MAPI client...
Richard
This will slow down the roll-out of DVD-Audio.
Sony and Matsushita will settle with a patent-sharing, compromise solution that includes both standards.
Business goes on. Everybody involved makes tons of moola selling consumer electronics to teenagers...
>My wife uses Excel on a mac and pc. Exel never can completely
>read from pc to mac or vice versa. I don't want those kind of
>nightmares. Universal file formats are the only way to go!
It does work..
...providing you don't use tables, graphics, outlines, etc...
However, if you keep your documents "vanilla", then there is not much point buying new versions of MS Office.
Bill's nightmare is that no one upgrades.
Richard
Solaris x86 offers the user a choice at login, between CDE and OpenWindows.
Would it be practical to offer a similar choice between KDE and GNOME?
Richard
The great advantage of consoles is that they get to start with a clean sheet design, with every new generation.
Your PC hardware has a lot of 1970's tech imbedded into its design.
Using the old Playstation cpu as an I/O processor and for compatibility was a nice touch!
(I guess the Amiga 68k/PowerUp! situation was similar)
Regards,
Richard
"The Playstation 2's CPU, jointly developed by Toshiba and SCE, is an enhanced version of the device described at ISSCC. The device has floating-point performance of 6.2 Gflops..."
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990302S0026
Compare that to:
"Intel said Merced would achieve 3-Gflops extended-precision floating-point performance and 6-Gflops single-precision performance."
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990226S0012
Richard
These situations aren't parallel, 'cause Intel doesn't
do the OS.
It's interesting to see how AMD and Intel have made
a big deal of these "new" SIMD instructions, which
appeared on MIPS and UltraSparc years ago.
Richard