- No Windows Tax - Firewire and USB - 802.11b built in - Radeon 7500/32MB 1024x768 @ 24bpp - "the size of an ibook" - $999 for base model - Runs Linux PPC just fine
And these days it's actually Apple, not "Mac".. ie, "Apple Laptop"... the iMac and eMac are the obvious exceptions to this, but they'll change in due course I'm sure;)
The university where I work pays 2.2c/mb wholesale to AARNET, who have a gigabit link to Gigapop in Seattle.
One of the big things that kills internet access in Australia is latency. What with the speed of light being what it is;)
But yes, Australian ISPs do have more of a reason to be concerned about data volume.. but sitll, 30Gb is more than reasonable for a consumer high speed connection, IMHO.
So you're running a public server on consumer grade high speed internet access?
Their arguement to that would be that you should be using business high speed for that, and thus your traffic use is excessive.
I feel for you, it's not commercial, but it's also not what high DSL is intended for. Thus, yours is one of a very few who is using all 30GB for legal purposes, however I'm guessing that you're still breaking their terms of use.
Competition in cable companies? What, if you don't like one you can use another? Everywhere I've been in the US only seemed to have one or two cable companies (seattle, boston) and sometimes only one of them did cable internet.
But yes, I know ours suck, but at least we're reasonable in complaining.. 1Gb/day isn't an unreasonable limit. I wish I had that.
Australia specialises on these things.. standard for ADSL is 3GB/MONTH.. many places are changing to 6GB/month, but still.. 30GB/month would be nice.
Of course, most ISPs don't charge for traffic between midnight and 6am, so their network gets slagged then, but it's not during a peak usage time for most people. And after you hit the limit, most ISPs will rate limit your DSL connection to 56/64/72k for the rest of the 30 day rolling window.
Sorry, but if you're doing more than 30GB of month at home, you're really lucky your ISP isn't just getting so pissed off that they report your downloads to the police:P How much of that 30GB+ is legal? 1GB? 2GB?
That's right.. I'd give my public keys out all over the place ("Finger me for PGP key!") but in any encryption system, there's always something that needs to be kept secret. presumably it's this box.
And if there's only been 5 of them made (Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endevour), it wouldn't surprise me too much if they were the same key (though you would really hope they weren't!)
On a related note, my vote for the name of any replacement shuttle would be Daedelus:)
From what they've said about the fuel, a bit of radiation poisoning would be better than getting in contact with it;>
The rocket broke up during re-entry, not burnt.. which means that there's quite a likelyhood that it didn't burn up all the fuel from the insides of the tanks.
hopefully they're something like IBM's weirdo crypto PCI cards that self destruct if you try to mess with them.. the chips reprogram themselves if they detect xrays.. they're in a sealed metal box, which is solid and contains all sorts of goodies to destroy the card if it's tampered with:)
Then again, there's always the good old ATM trick of filling the safe outer with small explosive charges.. gives people drilling into them a bit of a fright:)
So you'll be posting your ~/.ssh/id_dsa key and a list of all the machines it's listed as being an authorized_key for?:)
Hardware encryption devices are the same. I saw a bank datacenter once.. they were very touchy about me going near the big unmarked but very well secured metal box that linked their automatic teller network to it's host;)
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Sorry, just because it's US money doesn't mean that it's any hardier than anyone elses paper money;) Banknotes are pulp cotton. All of them. Even the american ones. And therefore they get wet and soggy, torn, frayed, dirty etc.
Most things that are going into orbit are horrendously old technology, because it works, instead of costing millions of dollars if a small part needs replacing becuase they used a bleeding edge part.
I think the Hubble is built out of 100mhz 486DXs, specially sheilded for long term exposure to space. These will probably get used in any new shuttle too.
Putting things up in space with humans is even worse.. they need to make sure that they won't emit fumes, which over time will cause decay or illness or something. The ISS has a specially made multi region DVD player for just this reason:) Plastic, Batteries, even the discs will emit fumes in the right or wrong situations.
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This powerbook belongs to Linux Kernel Hacker and IBM ozlabs employee Rusty Russell.. the pictures don't do it justice of how bad it looks. I'm surprised it still worked...
It wouldn't do you any good.. quartz/aqua isn't a window manager, it's more analagous to X11 itself.. except it doens't look like crap.
There's nothing to stop you or anyone making a Window manager that draws windows like OSX. But the minute you go to distribute it, Apple's lawyers will be, how you say.. on your ass:) It's not just the code, the Aqua interface is also a trademark.
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Ok, well they do print every year, but not very many some years;> And my theory still stands, you were just issued a note printed about 7 years ago:)
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All of Australia's banknotes are made out of plastic. Which gives them the advantage of last a sodding long time...
Australians or anyone with them.. the first two digits of the serial number are the year of manufacture. I have a $20 made in 1994 and another from 1998. I jut got some 2002 date $20s.. ei, they only need to print new $20s every 4 years:) Granted, $5s last a lot less, but it's still a whole lot better than paper (cotton pulp) notes.
Of course, they spring around like no-body's business and are absolutely frictionless, but the concept is so cool!:)
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oops ;> Hehe. Meh, if he thinks an ibook is too heavy, he should look at a zarus or something :>
- No Windows Tax
- Firewire and USB
- 802.11b built in
- Radeon 7500/32MB 1024x768 @ 24bpp
- "the size of an ibook"
- $999 for base model
- Runs Linux PPC just fine
It's a slightly concerning fact that WA has a royalcommission.wa.gov subdomain ;)
I'm more sure.. I used to go out with a girl who answered these comments ;)
As long as they don't borrow Steve Wozniak's plane, they're all good :)
:)
Just kidding Woz. Love ya work
Just my experiance.. people in the know seem to be calling Apples.. well.. Apples :) and not Macs. Probably trying to get rid of the stigma of OS9
And these days it's actually Apple, not "Mac" .. ie, "Apple Laptop" ... the iMac and eMac are the obvious exceptions to this, but they'll change in due course I'm sure ;)
The university where I work pays 2.2c/mb wholesale to AARNET, who have a gigabit link to Gigapop in Seattle.
;)
One of the big things that kills internet access in Australia is latency. What with the speed of light being what it is
But yes, Australian ISPs do have more of a reason to be concerned about data volume.. but sitll, 30Gb is more than reasonable for a consumer high speed connection, IMHO.
I think naming Edevour after the ship that "discovered" Australia is pretty cool, being Australian ;)
;)
;)
But not just the legend of Daedelus, it's also what the shuttle is called in Space Cowboys
Hey, look at why the first one was called Enterprise
Tridge doesn't ;)
;)
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So you're running a public server on consumer grade high speed internet access?
Their arguement to that would be that you should be using business high speed for that, and thus your traffic use is excessive.
I feel for you, it's not commercial, but it's also not what high DSL is intended for. Thus, yours is one of a very few who is using all 30GB for legal purposes, however I'm guessing that you're still breaking their terms of use.
Competition in cable companies? What, if you don't like one you can use another? Everywhere I've been in the US only seemed to have one or two cable companies (seattle, boston) and sometimes only one of them did cable internet.
But yes, I know ours suck, but at least we're reasonable in complaining.. 1Gb/day isn't an unreasonable limit. I wish I had that.
Australia specialises on these things.. standard for ADSL is 3GB/MONTH .. many places are changing to 6GB/month, but still.. 30GB/month would be nice.
:P How much of that 30GB+ is legal? 1GB? 2GB?
Of course, most ISPs don't charge for traffic between midnight and 6am, so their network gets slagged then, but it's not during a peak usage time for most people. And after you hit the limit, most ISPs will rate limit your DSL connection to 56/64/72k for the rest of the 30 day rolling window.
Sorry, but if you're doing more than 30GB of month at home, you're really lucky your ISP isn't just getting so pissed off that they report your downloads to the police
That's right.. I'd give my public keys out all over the place ("Finger me for PGP key!") but in any encryption system, there's always something that needs to be kept secret. presumably it's this box.
:)
And if there's only been 5 of them made (Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endevour), it wouldn't surprise me too much if they were the same key (though you would really hope they weren't!)
On a related note, my vote for the name of any replacement shuttle would be Daedelus
From what they've said about the fuel, a bit of radiation poisoning would be better than getting in contact with it ;>
The rocket broke up during re-entry, not burnt.. which means that there's quite a likelyhood that it didn't burn up all the fuel from the insides of the tanks.
hopefully they're something like IBM's weirdo crypto PCI cards that self destruct if you try to mess with them.. the chips reprogram themselves if they detect xrays.. they're in a sealed metal box, which is solid and contains all sorts of goodies to destroy the card if it's tampered with :)
:)
Then again, there's always the good old ATM trick of filling the safe outer with small explosive charges.. gives people drilling into them a bit of a fright
So you'll be posting your ~/.ssh/id_dsa key and a list of all the machines it's listed as being an authorized_key for? :)
;)
Hardware encryption devices are the same. I saw a bank datacenter once.. they were very touchy about me going near the big unmarked but very well secured metal box that linked their automatic teller network to it's host
US $1 notes last 6 months in circulation. Australian $5s last 3 - 4 years at a minimum. US $20s last 2 years, Australia's last a lot longer.
;) Banknotes are pulp cotton. All of them. Even the american ones. And therefore they get wet and soggy, torn, frayed, dirty etc.
Sorry, just because it's US money doesn't mean that it's any hardier than anyone elses paper money
Plastic can suck, but it lasts longer.
and then writes the X11 windows with WM stuff to the quartz display layer, not to the X11 layer ;)
If it was an Apple seed, I doubt they would be using the really old Tibooks..
;)
but good point
Most things that are going into orbit are horrendously old technology, because it works, instead of costing millions of dollars if a small part needs replacing becuase they used a bleeding edge part.
:) Plastic, Batteries, even the discs will emit fumes in the right or wrong situations.
I think the Hubble is built out of 100mhz 486DXs, specially sheilded for long term exposure to space. These will probably get used in any new shuttle too.
Putting things up in space with humans is even worse.. they need to make sure that they won't emit fumes, which over time will cause decay or illness or something. The ISS has a specially made multi region DVD player for just this reason
This powerbook belongs to Linux Kernel Hacker and IBM ozlabs employee Rusty Russell.. the pictures don't do it justice of how bad it looks. I'm surprised it still worked...
It wouldn't do you any good.. quartz/aqua isn't a window manager, it's more analagous to X11 itself.. except it doens't look like crap.
:) It's not just the code, the Aqua interface is also a trademark.
There's nothing to stop you or anyone making a Window manager that draws windows like OSX. But the minute you go to distribute it, Apple's lawyers will be, how you say.. on your ass
Ok, well they do print every year, but not very many some years ;> And my theory still stands, you were just issued a note printed about 7 years ago :)
All of Australia's banknotes are made out of plastic. Which gives them the advantage of last a sodding long time...
:) Granted, $5s last a lot less, but it's still a whole lot better than paper (cotton pulp) notes.
:)
Australians or anyone with them.. the first two digits of the serial number are the year of manufacture. I have a $20 made in 1994 and another from 1998. I jut got some 2002 date $20s.. ei, they only need to print new $20s every 4 years
Of course, they spring around like no-body's business and are absolutely frictionless, but the concept is so cool!
Pictures at -> http://theducks.org/notes