The above moderation, at the time of this writing, is (Score:0, Overrated). Proof Slashdot's moderation system is corrupt. Just because I pointed out a problem in Linux some $3 crack-smoking moderator has to mod me down.
Your comment is completely false. The Internet is transparent upon the networking medium. Take a look at RFC1011 "Official Internet Protocols". Basically, IP is used to handle getting a packet somewhere (routing et cetra), and transmission protocols like TCP/UDP are used to handle transfering of data via packets.
TCP/IP does not define any standard protocols in the OSI "Physical" layer. This is the job of the physical network medium itself. In fact, IP has a Maximum Transmission Unit field to specify the maximum transmission or receive unit of the underlying medium -- in other words, how much the given medium can send at a time. Ethernet, being the most common on the Internet, has a MTU of 1500 but this is no means the only possible networking media.
The Internet can and will adapt to any media, even something as unreliable as two cans and a tight string. TCP provides reliability services, allowing the Internet to run on anything -- even a noisy phone line.
V.92 will never take off. It's like releasing an operating system tied to the x86 architecture which will be obsolete eventually. V.92 is tied to POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service).
Last week my local central office installed DSL. I have been using it since. In fact, just about everyone I know in my city has been using DSL.
"Broadband" is the wave of the future! POTS is good for fast and easy voice transmission, but admit it: it's dead for Internet.
Lynx never impressed me. A Lynx clone, known as Links, can render tables. w3m, a HTML pager, can also render tables (and frames). Slashdot in text never looked so good.
No, actually the bug was found in the AMD 1GHz Athlon "Thunderbird" (gee, how many names do they have to give this thing?) CPU. Gateway found the glitch in AMD's devices. Here's some other stories about the same topic:
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The above moderation, at the time of this writing, is (Score:0, Overrated). Proof Slashdot's moderation system is corrupt. Just because I pointed out a problem in Linux some $3 crack-smoking moderator has to mod me down.
Your comment is completely false. The Internet is transparent upon the networking medium. Take a look at RFC1011 "Official Internet Protocols". Basically, IP is used to handle getting a packet somewhere (routing et cetra), and transmission protocols like TCP/UDP are used to handle transfering of data via packets.
TCP/IP does not define any standard protocols in the OSI "Physical" layer. This is the job of the physical network medium itself. In fact, IP has a Maximum Transmission Unit field to specify the maximum transmission or receive unit of the underlying medium -- in other words, how much the given medium can send at a time. Ethernet, being the most common on the Internet, has a MTU of 1500 but this is no means the only possible networking media.
The Internet can and will adapt to any media, even something as unreliable as two cans and a tight string. TCP provides reliability services, allowing the Internet to run on anything -- even a noisy phone line.
V.92 will never take off. It's like releasing an operating system tied to the x86 architecture which will be obsolete eventually. V.92 is tied to POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service).
Last week my local central office installed DSL. I have been using it since. In fact, just about everyone I know in my city has been using DSL.
"Broadband" is the wave of the future! POTS is good for fast and easy voice transmission, but admit it: it's dead for Internet.
True, but you can always change the console size. 80x25 is normal, but standard PCs can go up to 80x50.
Lynx never impressed me. A Lynx clone, known as Links, can render tables. w3m, a HTML pager, can also render tables (and frames). Slashdot in text never looked so good.
If you want to skip the huge image and read the article in a larger frame, use this link.
- G2News: AMD Finds Glitch in 1GHz Athlons
- Windows 95 Troubleshooting and Resource Guide
- Australian PC World
- Tom Syroid's comments on this
Interestingly enough, Athlon is also a name for controlled absorption naproxen formulation for once-daily administration. Ironic, isn't it?