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  1. Re:Er, well, it IS old. on Hardware Monitor/Sensor Add-on Boards? · · Score: 2
    Didn't say it wasn't slow - but they did it. Point being they are WAY over this guy's head and hacked it w/ a PPro 200 (yeah, my mistake - I 'fess).

    Never noticed it was slow - it kept up with what I had at the time (DIALUP!)

  2. Re:Er, well, it IS old. on Hardware Monitor/Sensor Add-on Boards? · · Score: 2

    Filtering packets over a slow connections (hey, even a quad set of T-1s are slow to these sometimes) doing routing, small-time DNS, etc. cdrom.com ran off of a P-200 up until about a year (?) ago - and they got some HUGE data running. Big pipe and big disks...

  3. Re:OS Preferences on MacOSX Vs BeOS ShootOut · · Score: 2
    Yes, very important.

    ./configure --help ; ./configure --options ; make ; make install

    Things can be confusing when this pattern isn't followed. Try compiling sendmail custom for your site before bitching about this. Thank you.

  4. Re:FTP already provides for this on UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers · · Score: 2

    This response was not to the article, just the others who posted info about "$PROGRAM does this!" See my other comment in this story.

  5. More commentary on UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers · · Score: 2

    It's an encoding scheme that sends you the instructions on how to build something rather than the stuff itself. Not so special as they make it sound. Saying that you get the data without it being sent to you is the biggest troll for mid-level clueless managers that want to download their "repr0ns" faster. Not that I'm even sure it will work that well....

  6. FTP already provides for this on UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just send restart at commands to many different servers, then cat the files onto each other. This is how Dowload Accelerator does it, and Fast Track is the same theory. Programs just take all the mental work out of it.

  7. Re:Kazaa does that on UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers · · Score: 2

    Yes, but in many cases it's the sending end that bottle necks. Major FTP site have some serious bandwidth, but during the day it gets split pretty rough. Get it from many sending ends, and suddenly you're pulling all you can handle.

  8. Idea on IP Allocation and Management? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Create three basic classes of IPs (or whatever number suits you). Make a database to store it. Then set up calls to search by the IP you enter and have it bring up the block showing subnet mask, primary subdomain name, location, router, what part of the primary block it's in (IE if you divide up a /19 in /24s, you'll want to note it came from that higher-up block). You will want to maintain some uniformity in the size of the blocks you assign, because having /19s-/24s with constantly varyings masks will drive you up the wall no matter how much planning you use.

  9. Re:Good thing on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 2

    Who says you should be made to speak of your code? I thought free speech was just that: free to speak, and therefore to not speak. And just where in my comment did I mention OSS?

  10. Re:REDIRECT: Good thing on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 2

    Whether the need is percieved or not, don't you deserve to be paid for the work you've done anyway if that's what you decide to do for a LIVING?

  11. Re:REDIRECT: Good thing on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Before I get flamed by the rest of the ignorant world that thinks I'm a trolling asshole:

    It's not about CEOs getting millions of dollars a month because they happen to be at the top of the ladder. It's about the programmers themselves getting money for doing what they do during the day. For them it's a job, and your paying for what they create is how they get their food every damned day. This comment was in anticipation of the BS to come. And I've got the moderation on me to prove it.

  12. Re:Oh? So then they finished the terrorist problem on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Get over it. Incidents like that are things we weren't prepared for, and realistically couldn't have been. Terrorism is a buzzword in America now. We've had one horrible incident and the world comes crashing down for us. And you can damn well bet that most of the stuff pushed through Congress was somebody's already planned agenda that just happened to be aided by the events of 9/11. Besides, they ARE after terrorists now. To make warez, you have to hack them. Hackers are now terrorists, remember?

  13. Good thing on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Open source is great, and I love free software. But man, if you spend years working on something and sink it around a company, you want to get its value worth back. And I'll be the first to agree, Microsoft overcharges. And disabling software parts intentionaly is a load of crap. But this isn't the issue. The issue is being able to recieve something back for giving someone else the benefit of your risks taken and hard labor.

  14. Re:My experiences in wiring a new house on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 1
    All the time. All the fucking time man...

    And yes, you are right about the Salamander - just most people can better relate to other examples..

  15. Re:Both? on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 2

    Kevlar is tough stuff, that's why they use it on fibre...

  16. Re:My experiences in wiring a new house on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 2
    Salamander - the symbol from Farenheit 451. Symbol for flames...

    And dot dot dot. He was correct - plenum rated cable is rated for *plenums*. Plenums are air ducts. Plenum cable will still burn. If you have cable burning in your walls, you shouldn't be around to deal with the fumes. By the time they reach you in enough concentration to cause anything beyond a gag reflex, you're probably already dead. Now, if you want to run in through your central heat/cooling ducts, that is a different story. Same with in a lot of false ceilings in office buildings. Know before you post. Admit when you're wrong, because you will be wrong at least once.

  17. Re:In ten years... on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 2
    Read The F-ing Comment: In ten years everything will be 802.11.

    Where the hell is the letter B? There is one in that sentence, and it sure isn't after the 11!
  18. Re:Forget fiber ... conduits w/ CAT5 and 802.11 on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 2

    However, before you and the rest of /. think(s) I'm an asshole for my response to your original post - yes. This is said well...

  19. Re:Forget fiber ... conduits w/ CAT5 and 802.11 on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 2

    He's in a house. He'll use multi-mode, because it's cheap(er). You aren't familiar with the equipment he'd have because he's talking gigabit - as in one, not forty. He'll use it for a LAN. And thanks for sharing all the information that was way over the top of the topic.

  20. Re:Running Ethernet With Phone Lines on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 2

    The post you replied to did NOT say that running cable near phone lines should be avoided - only that people tend to put electrical wires there, which you should avoid.

  21. Re:That's a Dual CPU Test? on Workstations For Poor 3D-artists · · Score: 2

    And run system services. Anyhow, encoding Divx and playing Divx at the same time would be a very nice use of this. Or encoding while gaming, or gaming, or anything that sucks CPU power as much as it can.

  22. Re:386/486/pentium on Workstations For Poor 3D-artists · · Score: 2

    Hey, compiling:
    #include
    void main ()
    cout "Hello World!"
    return 0;
    Can take a hell of a long time!

  23. Re:Macs on Workstations For Poor 3D-artists · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obviously an enhanced spell checker that covered grammar had nothing "too" do with it...

  24. Re:the blight is really bloat on Win95 Lifecycle Draws to a Close · · Score: 2

    Hmmm, 10 Megs for compact vs. 1.5G DEPENDING ON COMPONENTS (FULL). Bad comparison man. Besides, at least you can do SOMETHING with XP out-of-box. 95 you can't do a thing. (Not that I like either).

  25. Re:Schroedinger's Cat on Quantum Holography · · Score: 2

    What makes you think the paper wouldn't be ripped away?