now he may not always reply quite so quickly but what are the odds I'd have been able to get a conversation going with a RIAA artist? Slim to none, since RIAA artists are usually too busy making money from their music to chit-chat with fans via email.
Yes. There are people like you and then there are the other million or so slashdot users who think they are a the shit because they managed to fix their screen resolution by editing xorg.conf with nano.
My personal definition of "boot" is the time it takes from the BIOS post until Firefox is open and waiting for input. Like I said, I've seen modern hardware "boot" XP in 15 seconds, while my aging computer at work takes 5 minutes to "boot" Vista. My Vista machine is a member of a domain which ads a lot of time to the boot process, so I imagine it would be a minute or so faster if it were a non-domain machine.
XP can boot much faster than 40 seconds on modern hardware. I've seen it boot in less than 15 seconds on PC hardware that is semi-equivalent (modern CPU, > 1GB RAM, fast SATA HD) to your mac pro. I've also seen it take over a minute. Boot times are heavily dependent on the drivers that load. Some drivers have a habit of sitting around and doing nothing while initializing, which holds up the entire boot process.
And 1:30 for Vista? Well that would be nice. I've only run Vista on my work PC which is an Athlon64 3000. It takes FIVE MINUTES to boot.
Wow. Sounds like a shitty phone company to me. Which one was it?
FYI, there is a ~15-20% ATM overhead on DSL connections, so if your downstream speed is 1.5 megabits, then your maximum download speed would be around 146-155 KB per second.
Here is quick formula to convert your modem's (Around 1500000 in your case) sync speed into the bandwidth in bytes that you should be getting: ((1500000/8192) *.85) = 155.xxx kBps
With AT&T I have the 3000/512 connection and in three years have always gotten my 312 kBps download and 52Kbps upload speed. The prices I have paid over the years have been $39.99, $29.99, and now $24.95 (with no contract now..yay!).
I believe you when you say DSL sucks where you live, as my Dad was in a similar situation with Embarq in Nevada. I jsut take exception to blanket "DSL sucks" statements, as it really does vary by area. Cable in my town was such a joke that Comcast stopped offering it when they bought out the local cable co. My guess is that there were way to many houses per node, and comcast didn't want to invest the money into upgrading the infrastructure. I had (384/128 for $39.99 a month!) cable here for a time before SBC started offeing DSL and the evening slowdowns were so bad, it was worse than dialup.
The "make believe world" I live in is called "Central California". In this fantasy land, the local telco is called "At&T (aka, SBC)". In this fake ISP's ToS, there is are no restrictions on running servers, and there are no bandwidth caps. Back when I used to participate in pretend live music trading at a pretend website called etree, I would push 100GB per month for months on end and never had an issue.
I'm sorry if DSL is crap in your area. It's not in mine.
I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say.
Probably because it's not the heart of all these problems. The heart of all these problems is that a billion security-unaware people operate computers that are connected to the internet.
Do you honestly think everyone switching to a different OS would solve the problem?
Those damn budging capacitors screwed over millions of products, from modems like yours to a number of different motherboards shipped in PCs by large vendors like Gateway and Dell.
Slashdot Mirror
....troll/insightful/informative/flamebait
AKA, 'trollsiformabait'
How about faith based launches?
I hear Bush will fund those.
Yes. There are people like you and then there are the other million or so slashdot users who think they are a the shit because they managed to fix their screen resolution by editing xorg.conf with nano.
You sound very bitter. Did an MCSE take your job?
My personal definition of "boot" is the time it takes from the BIOS post until Firefox is open and waiting for input. Like I said, I've seen modern hardware "boot" XP in 15 seconds, while my aging computer at work takes 5 minutes to "boot" Vista. My Vista machine is a member of a domain which ads a lot of time to the boot process, so I imagine it would be a minute or so faster if it were a non-domain machine.
XP can boot much faster than 40 seconds on modern hardware. I've seen it boot in less than 15 seconds on PC hardware that is semi-equivalent (modern CPU, > 1GB RAM, fast SATA HD) to your mac pro. I've also seen it take over a minute. Boot times are heavily dependent on the drivers that load. Some drivers have a habit of sitting around and doing nothing while initializing, which holds up the entire boot process.
And 1:30 for Vista? Well that would be nice. I've only run Vista on my work PC which is an Athlon64 3000. It takes FIVE MINUTES to boot.
Anyone who says "Aye" is a Nazi!
SBC/AT&T ("AT&T Yahoo")
I just checked it again. There is no provision against running servers in my ToS.
Must be Bellsouth thing.
http://edit.client.yahoo.com/cspcommon/static?page=tos
Wow. Sounds like a shitty phone company to me. Which one was it?
.85) = 155.xxx kBps
FYI, there is a ~15-20% ATM overhead on DSL connections, so if your downstream speed is 1.5 megabits, then your maximum download speed would be around 146-155 KB per second.
Here is quick formula to convert your modem's (Around 1500000 in your case) sync speed into the bandwidth in bytes that you should be getting:
((1500000/8192) *
With AT&T I have the 3000/512 connection and in three years have always gotten my 312 kBps download and 52Kbps upload speed. The prices I have paid over the years have been $39.99, $29.99, and now $24.95 (with no contract now..yay!).
I believe you when you say DSL sucks where you live, as my Dad was in a similar situation with Embarq in Nevada. I jsut take exception to blanket "DSL sucks" statements, as it really does vary by area. Cable in my town was such a joke that Comcast stopped offering it when they bought out the local cable co. My guess is that there were way to many houses per node, and comcast didn't want to invest the money into upgrading the infrastructure. I had (384/128 for $39.99 a month!) cable here for a time before SBC started offeing DSL and the evening slowdowns were so bad, it was worse than dialup.
The "make believe world" I live in is called "Central California". In this fantasy land, the local telco is called "At&T (aka, SBC)". In this fake ISP's ToS, there is are no restrictions on running servers, and there are no bandwidth caps. Back when I used to participate in pretend live music trading at a pretend website called etree, I would push 100GB per month for months on end and never had an issue.
I'm sorry if DSL is crap in your area. It's not in mine.
It varies by area, but if you did a sampling of DSL users over many areas I think you find that DSL is more reliable than cable.
"The only alternative is DSL and we all know what thats like..."
Reliable?
Stable? (No "slowdowns")
Cap free?
No restrictions on running server?
Yeah I know. Who would want DSL. It's like have the real internet.
Your post made me snicker.
[i]"WormBait such as MSSQL"[/i]
The last vulnerability discovered for MSSQL that could lead to a worm was many years ago. You must be confusing SQL with Oracle.
Why the hell would we want Xorg and KDE in Windows?
I fully expected to get modded down for that.
Shows what I know.
I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say.
You might want to try Opera Mini. Version four which zooms in and out just like the Safari on Iphone just came out of BETA and it's free.
Probably because it's not the heart of all these problems. The heart of all these problems is that a billion security-unaware people operate computers that are connected to the internet.
Do you honestly think everyone switching to a different OS would solve the problem?
Those damn budging capacitors screwed over millions of products, from modems like yours to a number of different motherboards shipped in PCs by large vendors like Gateway and Dell.
"Whenever you want information on the net, don't ask a question. Just post a wrong answer."
-- Cancer Omega