2001-03-26 11:11:11
(No the time isn't correct, but I'm not quite sure exactly when I was born, but I figured there wouldn't be many entries on that date, so my chances would be ok)
Well, apparently most of the readers. And that's cool.
But where are the European, Asian, African, and what not other regions that ICANN has?
I do not have a clue yet who to vote for, and the only resource I got is the ICANN webpages.
It would be nice if/. included other readers besides the north american kind.
ADSL is slowly making it's way here. And it's doing a lot better than in the states by the sound of things.
KPN, our monopolistic telecom provider, is offering ADSL in a few select cities, at only 512 or 1024 Kbit/s. All, ofcourse, for outrageous prices.
Recently Cistron, an ISP, started moving into telecom to directly compete with KPN. (The first, by my knowledge, company to offer telco services besides KPN) They offer ADSL for half the connection fee (about same monthly fee) BUT:
- They become your telco. (Ironically, they have to pay MORE than the end user for leasing the copper line from KPN, which means being a telco is a slight loss for them, causing their ADSL monthly fee to increase slightly) - They offer better call rates than KPN (esp. international) - They offer between 2 and 8Mbit connection (although they, quite honestly, state on their website that 8Mbit is not possible unless you're actually IN the phone exchange) Friends of mine who have cistron ADSL though, get 400KByte downstream and 80KByte upstream. (4Mbit/500Kbit up/down)) - In attaining their monopoly, KPN will not reveal the location of the phone exchanges. Cistron has to guess, and deduce where they are.
So, ADSL is prevented a lot by our telco, KPN, but with the help of cistron, maybe this will all change soon (Like fixed price local calls, lower call rates, and all the other fun stuff you get when the phone company suddenly realises it's losing hold of it's monopoly)
Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I was 500Mb into d/l redhat 6.1. What happens that sunday when I want to continue the d/l. Redhat 6.2. Happy d/l.
At work I got a Compaq 1610 (16" by 10") and running at 1600 it looks great (though it flickers a bit at 76Hz refresh). Yes, when booting and looking at a standard dos window, or 640 resolution it looks stretched. But at 1600, you hardly notice anymore. I have 4 windows open at once (slashdot, outlook, explorer, and whatever else I work on at the moment)
Blocking can be very wrong most of the time. The blocker we use regularly blocks/.! It did again today. It didn't say why though.. Just "Page blocked: sex". I'm guessing it's because of the suck.com refference. It happened about 3 weeks ago too. I still have no clue why. The problem is, being in Holland (The Netherlands this time.. not Michigan (sp?)) onyl ENGLISH words are banned.. When I go to any sites containing dutch vulgar language, it goes through perfect. (Maybe if they made a dutch babelfish, I could read/. without trouble?)
Maybe I should go talk to sysadmin about the blocking.. Maybe I should just let it slide and read/. at home.
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2001-03-26 11:11:11 (No the time isn't correct, but I'm not quite sure exactly when I was born, but I figured there wouldn't be many entries on that date, so my chances would be ok)
Didn't Yahoo recently switch to Google?
Well, apparently most of the readers. And that's cool. /. included other readers besides the north american kind.
But where are the European, Asian, African, and what not other regions that ICANN has?
I do not have a clue yet who to vote for, and the only resource I got is the ICANN webpages.
It would be nice if
ADSL is slowly making it's way here. And it's doing a lot better than in the states by the sound of things.
KPN, our monopolistic telecom provider, is offering ADSL in a few select cities, at only 512 or 1024 Kbit/s. All, ofcourse, for outrageous prices.
Recently Cistron, an ISP, started moving into telecom to directly compete with KPN. (The first, by my knowledge, company to offer telco services besides KPN) They offer ADSL for half the connection fee (about same monthly fee) BUT:
- They become your telco. (Ironically, they have to pay MORE than the end user for leasing the copper line from KPN, which means being a telco is a slight loss for them, causing their ADSL monthly fee to increase slightly)
- They offer better call rates than KPN (esp. international)
- They offer between 2 and 8Mbit connection (although they, quite honestly, state on their website that 8Mbit is not possible unless you're actually IN the phone exchange) Friends of mine who have cistron ADSL though, get 400KByte downstream and 80KByte upstream. (4Mbit/500Kbit up/down))
- In attaining their monopoly, KPN will not reveal the location of the phone exchanges. Cistron has to guess, and deduce where they are.
So, ADSL is prevented a lot by our telco, KPN, but with the help of cistron, maybe this will all change soon (Like fixed price local calls, lower call rates, and all the other fun stuff you get when the phone company suddenly realises it's losing hold of it's monopoly)
Canth
Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I was 500Mb into d/l redhat 6.1. What happens that sunday when I want to continue the d/l. Redhat 6.2. Happy d/l.
At work I got a Compaq 1610 (16" by 10") and running at 1600 it looks great (though it flickers a bit at 76Hz refresh).
Yes, when booting and looking at a standard dos window, or 640 resolution it looks stretched. But at 1600, you hardly notice anymore.
I have 4 windows open at once (slashdot, outlook, explorer, and whatever else I work on at the moment)
Blocking can be very wrong most of the time. /.! /. without trouble?)
/. at home.
The blocker we use regularly blocks
It did again today. It didn't say why though.. Just "Page blocked: sex". I'm guessing it's because of the suck.com refference.
It happened about 3 weeks ago too. I still have no clue why.
The problem is, being in Holland (The Netherlands this time.. not Michigan (sp?)) onyl ENGLISH words are banned.. When I go to any sites containing dutch vulgar language, it goes through perfect. (Maybe if they made a dutch babelfish, I could read
Maybe I should go talk to sysadmin about the blocking..
Maybe I should just let it slide and read