I can pretty much code to any music, as long as there are no surprises. In other words, new CDs and random settings are no good. That would be distracting.
For best results I have to get a CD with no bad songs. Something I can throw on and let go repeatedly. This drowns out external noise with no distractions of having to stop at a bad song to FF to the next song.
Matthew Good Band is the ultimate coding music. Their last two albums (Underdogs and Beautiful Midnight) are both awesome... No bad songs, no distractions (aside from some awesome riffs)
I'd hope that they will stick the standard Debian packages so you can use all of Debian's standard installation routines... Obviously tons of effort has gone into these installation routines (just look at how good apt is compared to dselect), it would be silly to throw it all out.
So hopefully if they create their own installation procedures (which the FAQ seems to indicate they will, to help newbiews out) they will at least keep the underlying formats compatible. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't -- the extra manpower to maintain every package in a different format would be huge, while.deb's are already being maintained, at no cost to Corel.
-- James To err is human, to really screw up takes a computer.
I have had my cablemodem quite a long time and you're right -- Up until a few months ago it was pretty atrocious at busy times. In my previous post I was referring to speeds recently... I'm not sure what they've done (I know they added one more outgoing pipe... Didn't know if that was the main cause of the difference or not) but it's been great recently.
They're supposed to be going to a DS-3 sometime later this year... Hopefully that'll help out as much or more than the last upgrade.
-- James To err is human, to really screw up takes a computer.
I was baffled when I saw that SaskTel was charging an extra $50 (CDN) per month for static IP with ADSL, while CableRegina will hand out multiple (I've heard up to four, don't quote me) static IPs for cable modem customers. That adds insult to injury when cable is $49.95 a month (CDN) while ADSL is $59.95 ($79.95 if you're not a SaskTel long distance customer).
I rarely notice speed differences on the cable modem at 'peak times', except perhaps when downloading large files I may drop 5-10kbytes / sec (still leaving me way higher than I ever saw with a modem).
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I can pretty much code to any music, as long as there are no surprises. In other words, new CDs and random settings are no good. That would be distracting.
For best results I have to get a CD with no bad songs. Something I can throw on and let go repeatedly. This drowns out external noise with no distractions of having to stop at a bad song to FF to the next song.
Matthew Good Band is the ultimate coding music. Their last two albums (Underdogs and Beautiful Midnight) are both awesome... No bad songs, no distractions (aside from some awesome riffs)
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Good question...
.deb's are already being maintained, at no cost to Corel.
I'd hope that they will stick the standard Debian packages so you can use all of Debian's standard installation routines... Obviously tons of effort has gone into these installation routines (just look at how good apt is compared to dselect), it would be silly to throw it all out.
So hopefully if they create their own installation procedures (which the FAQ seems to indicate they will, to help newbiews out) they will at least keep the underlying formats compatible. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't -- the extra manpower to maintain every package in a different format would be huge, while
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James
To err is human, to really screw up takes a computer.
$100/mo... Ouch.
I have had my cablemodem quite a long time and you're right -- Up until a few months ago it was pretty atrocious at busy times. In my previous post I was referring to speeds recently... I'm not sure what they've done (I know they added one more outgoing pipe... Didn't know if that was the main cause of the difference or not) but it's been great recently.
They're supposed to be going to a DS-3 sometime later this year... Hopefully that'll help out as much or more than the last upgrade.
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James
To err is human, to really screw up takes a computer.
I was baffled when I saw that SaskTel was charging an extra $50 (CDN) per month for static IP with ADSL, while CableRegina will hand out multiple (I've heard up to four, don't quote me) static IPs for cable modem customers. That adds insult to injury when cable is $49.95 a month (CDN) while ADSL is $59.95 ($79.95 if you're not a SaskTel long distance customer).
I rarely notice speed differences on the cable modem at 'peak times', except perhaps when downloading large files I may drop 5-10kbytes / sec (still leaving me way higher than I ever saw with a modem).
Also lifted straight from SaskTel's ADSL FAQ:
- transmission speeds up to 64 Kbps upload and up to 1.544 Mbps download
64kbps upstream? Ouch! I don't do massive quantities of u/l, but when I do, I want them to be at least almost as quick as a d/l!
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James
To err is human, to really screw up requires a computer.
Add another big black box to the list:
Debian 2.0
Communicator 4.5
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