You are right - Caps limit broadband usage - That's what they are there for. As mentioned in my other post, ISP's don't have the infrastructure or cash,to supply a cheap, guaranteed X Mbit pipe to your door. Someone has to pay for the bandwidth somewhere.
Sure, a few of you only "surf" a couple hours a day, but if that's all I can do, sell me a "WWW" connection, not an Internet connection.
It's not really just a "few of you", it's about 95% who only surf a couple hours a day. And why should the 95% subsidise the 5% that use the bulk of the bandwidth? Perhaps they should sell you a real, honest-to-goodness,T1 (or T3!) . Better break out the chequebook though, you're gonna need it.
Anyway, there are other options - one of the ADSL ISP's in.au has an "Off-Peak" plan where everything in the 11pm - 6am bracket is not charged. Perhaps a model like that wouldn't be too restrictive. Or maybe the sliding rate-limiting setup where you end up with a 56k connection if you go 5GB over your cap.
I guess in the long run what we will get is what 95% of users will comfortably bear.
I have a 1 GB cap at home, and I surf for a few hours daily, and don't reach it. I admin a system with a 5GB cap at work (1500kbps down) and so far this month we've transferred 715MB, between 10 of us.
Capping is fine , as long as there's a local mirror of something that I want, for free. Eg. I'm with Telstra - they have a area for a lot of online games - they then have a file area for files required for games etc. All this (being on a local Telstra server) is free. Now,the file area also gets used quite a lot for other software, for example, linux ISO's (I Dl'd RedHat 7.3 from there), Staroffice and other big downloads. People can request files to be put on there. It's not the Whole-Internet-For-Download(tm) but it's ok.
So, If they drop a SimTel (or whatever) mirror in locally and don't charge, then the only people who'll *really* suffer are the P2P crowd.
Yes , it limits other uses of the internet , such as video-on-demand etc... but the infrastructure still isn't there for everyone to have a cheap, guaranteed X Mbit pipe to their door.
I had a logitech ScanMan color - one of those sheet feeding scanners - it was great. One day , though I noticed it had a trail of ants going to it... sure enough it was full of ants , nesting. They had completely covered the inside of the scanner window and were having a great time. Solution? I unplugged it and took it outside and left it in the sun for a few hours (this was in summer, so it was about 30 degrees C). I just left it out on the grass in the sun. The ants decided that roasting in a scanner wasn't good, so they packed up house and moved out. They did a pretty good job of tidying up, I just had to clean the optical path a bit, but all the eggs (and ants) were gone. Beat the hell out cleaning a bunch angry (or dead, after spraying) ants out of inaccessible scanner insides.
Why is Earth's Luna the only satellite that does not reveal its dark side to the planet? It's tidally locked to the earth (grossly oversimplyfying - slightly heavier bit on one side of moon is drawn to awlays face earth, eventually rotation of moon is locked to orbital period.)
Why is the apparent size of the sun and the moon nearly exactly the same? They're not exactly the same, only good enough for a few lucky people in the direct path of the umbra, only about 150km wide. I'd have to call it chance, seeing the enormity of "someone" engineering it, only to terrorise a few people in a very specific area every 15-20 years or so. Anyway, not too many planets that we know about have a moon the size of earth's (relatively speaking), so it's pretty hard to judge.
Why is the synodic period of the moon exactly the length of the menstrual cycle? Mammals are strange creatures. Lots of animals are synchronised to lunar cycles, a biologist could tell you some more.
Hang on - Hot dock? As in plug it in when the power's on and watch it go? Or am I getting your meaning wrong and you're implying laptop-type expansion unit docking?
Anyway to respond to your implied meaning (Can't hot-dock devices via USB or 1394) -
USB for linux does that (and pretty much always has). Eg my compactflash reader - plug it into my usb port and - oh look! there it is on/dev/sda! Plug in my usb camera - it appears as/dev/video0.
I can't tell you about the firewire side of things but I'm pretty sure they're the same.
VET also has one as well - their distribution CD that gets mailed out quarterly is a bootable linux cd with a linux version of their scanner on it. Pretty good if your system's hosed.
85dB for 8 hours is the current occupational health and safety limit in Australia - any more than that and you risk hearing damage.
If your computer is 85dB or louder, you would most certainly have noticed it by now. For example:
With my noisemeter on in my loungeroom with the TV going at a 'normal' volume , it's 72dB. In the car , stereo up loud , it's about 90-95dB At work, around some operating crushers (loud enough to make you go "ow!" and out fingers in ears) it's around 105-110 dB.
It only takes a few hours of 90+ dB noise/music to damage your hearing permanently (or at least 'stun' it for a few days afterwards)
Think about it when you've got the headphones on and up LOUD.
Re:I can think of one idea to get even cooler
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R134A is good except that it boils at -30 deg C, and its pressure to stay liquid at room / processor temp is about 70psi. It won't short your board out if it leaks, but the frost that'll be generated if you get leak liquid R134A out will.
I may have been exaggerating the point a little for your education, so I'll refer you to this web page that I googled to in less than 30 seconds instead which has a photo showing it: Photo of leonids meteor shower
In inland Central Queensland (Australia) they use a 25kV AC overhead traction system on about 700km of track. This is used to haul coal from the inland mines to ports on the coast. Trains travel at up to 100km/h - and when you've got a train weighing 14 THOUSAND TONS, it takes a whole lot of energy to push it around. They use three loco's at the front and two more in the middle of the train, remote controlled from the front. Rumour has it it's about 12,000kW/hr to get one up to speed.
Anyway, Cost for 700km and about 30 trains? In 1984 dollars it was about $12.00 per freight ton... and about 14Mt in '84 so that's $170 million 1984 dollars for 700km of track.
Fast - forward that to 2002 dollars and (say) 5000km more track... and you'd probably not only have to not build a few carriers, you'd probably need to sell a few of the ones you have already. Not to worry though -I hear quite a few nation-states are in the market for military hardware these days;-)
You're not thinking big enough. Some would miss the planet entirely. Some would graze the edges - these are the ones that look like they are going in different directions to an observer placed centrally on the planet. Very few would hit you precisely head on.
Actually there is a term called the 'radiant' when discussing meteor showers - all the meteors in a particular stream will appear to come from the same patch of sky, radiating outwards.
It's similar to bugs heading towards your windscreen - they all appear to originate from one point (ahead on the highway) but as they get closer they radiate out and hit different parts of the windscreen from your perspective.
I presume that at this time the radiant was close to 90 degrees overhead - then they would appear to be heading in different directions.
How is the second motherboard "running" if its BIOS socket is empty? How can you plug another flash chip in if the socket is already occupied?
You boot the second motherboard, yank the chip and plug in the erased one. You can then reprogram the chip as per usual. The BIOS on a system is pretty much non-functional after boot. Just as long as it's not one of thos PLCC chips that sit flush inside their socket they are a pain to get out without shorting something if you don't have the proper tools.
I *did* do this once with a Compaq Smart Array RAID controller, which got it's bios scrambled from a buggy upgrade released by Compaq - with the card in it's slot, the server wouldn't boot. Ring Compaq - "Hmmm. Better send that card in for repair. Oh, hangon - it's two months out of warranty - that'll be $500"
Needless to say, you don't use your $10,000 server to do stunts like this - in my case I had another (faulty but bootable) RAID card and another (old) PC to plug it into.
So, how many Verizon users would have a P2P client? Are they crapping themselves, or what?
Hey, Anonymous Verizon User with a P2P client - are you worried yet? Nothing like watching a game of whack-a-mole and suddenly realising you're one of the moles. *whack*
Re:Recycle Bins - don't you just hate them?
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Of course, the best way to handle it would be to have a key combination for rename
In windows, pressing F2 when a file is highlighted will rename that file. Well, it'll go into the 'edit' mode on the filename, you actually have to rename it yourself. Enjoy;-)
Don't laugh about it - one of GMH's vehicles (with an automatic transimission), if you do a sequence like "Ign on - select 1st - Ign off - select Drive - Ign on" it will default to a particular transmission mode that you can't get by pressing any of the knobs or buttons in the car.
Thats the only real thing that bugs me about it. You can assign any sound to that action , anything, a little whoosh, a nerdy rapid bunch of computer bleeps a-la Star Trek, and the default sound is a "click". Way to innovate, Microsoft.
And what the fuck is the go with the "click" sound in internet explorer? My mouse, it has plenty of audible and tactile feedback when a button is pressed. I don't need a "click" from my speakers when I click with my mouse. Not to mention the fact that even on my 1.7 GIGAHERTZ machine, the "Start Navigation" click is often a good half-second behind my real finger-on-the-button click.
Fucking clicks from your speakers when you press a mouse button. If that isn't redundant fucking bloatware, than I don't know what is. What the fuck were they on when they thought that up? Fuck Microsoft. Fuck them with the rough end of a pineapple for shit like that.
I've only ever gotten one piece of spam on my phone in Australia.
Telstra (an.au phone co.) got into some trouble when they sent a pre-recorded voice message to all their customers about some crap new network feature they added... it wouldn't have been too interesting, except they also *charge* you for using the voicemail service.
So, about 800,000 people get a voicemail message, and spend 20c individually to get it , only to find out it's just spam from the damn phone company. 800,000 people grumbling, "f***ing sleazy ripoff telstra!", had quite an effect. Made it into the TV news a few days in a row, and Telstra got a smack and a fine from the ACCC (.au's consumer watchdog) and was forced to issue grovelling apologies and a refund.
First and last case of Phone spam in Australia it seems.
Yes , this is a little off-topic, and probably only applies if you get charged for receiving messages (CompuServe, anyone?) , but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
Thats like saying if you cant read my code, then it cant be very good code, never mind the fact that mabey your arnt a programmer.....
You seem to be looking at it the wrong way, so I'll try to explain using your code metaphor:
In this case the code is "English", and your compiler is your teacher. You are trying to program in "English". If your compiler is an ANSI compiler with set standards and it can't understand your code, you're screwed. It's just not going to compile. And it's not just a case of changing your compiler, because a good portion of the systems you will interact with require the use of the proper ANSI compiler to operate correctly.
And yes, you could write and use your own compiler, but then you would belong to a relatively small subset of people who have that compiler, and when you try to give your code (which could be excellent, don't get me wrong) to someone without that compiler, you're screwed again.
When you are using your code to perform basic important functions with other people such as "Income Tax Form", or "Angry letter to Bank", or, God forbid, "Job Application", then ANSI code is the only way to go.
Quote by the RIAA: "They (the ISP's) are trying to avoid the cost of identifying infringers as provided for in the DMCA by imposing unrealistic and burdensome obligations on copyright owners instead."
What?? You mean they are suggesting the RIAA use the law like everyone else has to? The nerve of those ISP's! I'm pretty sure that it's the obligation of the copyright owner to preserve their copyright.
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If you'd bothered to look, id have had a Linux binary for q1,2 &3 for ages.
also Return to Castle Wolfenstein
The 'no games run on linux' argument is dead.
Replaced by a 'four games run on linux' argument instead. Hardly a real improvement
(ducks and runs for cover)
You are right - Caps limit broadband usage -
.au has an "Off-Peak" plan where everything in the 11pm - 6am bracket is not charged. Perhaps a model like that wouldn't be too restrictive. Or maybe the sliding rate-limiting setup where you end up with a 56k connection if you go 5GB over your cap.
That's what they are there for. As mentioned in my other post, ISP's don't have the infrastructure or cash,to supply a cheap, guaranteed X Mbit pipe to your door. Someone has to pay for the bandwidth somewhere.
Sure, a few of you only "surf" a couple hours a day, but if that's all I can do, sell me a "WWW" connection, not an Internet connection.
It's not really just a "few of you", it's about 95% who only surf a couple hours a day. And why should the 95% subsidise the 5% that use the bulk of the bandwidth? Perhaps they should sell you a real, honest-to-goodness,T1 (or T3!)
. Better break out the chequebook though, you're gonna need it.
Anyway, there are other options - one of the ADSL ISP's in
I guess in the long run what we will get is what 95% of users will comfortably bear.
I have a 1 GB cap at home, and I surf for a few hours daily, and don't reach it.
,the file area also gets used quite a lot for other software, for example, linux ISO's (I Dl'd RedHat 7.3 from there), Staroffice and other big downloads. People can request files to be put on there. It's not the Whole-Internet-For-Download(tm) but it's ok.
I admin a system with a 5GB cap at work (1500kbps down) and so far this month we've transferred 715MB, between 10 of us.
Capping is fine , as long as there's a local mirror of something that I want, for free.
Eg. I'm with Telstra - they have a area for a lot of online games - they then have a file area for files required for games etc. All this (being on a local Telstra server) is free. Now
So, If they drop a SimTel (or whatever) mirror in locally and don't charge, then the only people who'll *really* suffer are the P2P crowd.
Yes , it limits other uses of the internet , such as video-on-demand etc... but the infrastructure still isn't there for everyone to have a cheap, guaranteed X Mbit pipe to their door.
I had a logitech ScanMan color - one of those sheet feeding scanners - it was great.
One day , though I noticed it had a trail of ants going to it... sure enough it was full of ants , nesting. They had completely covered the inside of the scanner window and were having a great time.
Solution? I unplugged it and took it outside and left it in the sun for a few hours (this was in summer, so it was about 30 degrees C). I just left it out on the grass in the sun.
The ants decided that roasting in a scanner wasn't good, so they packed up house and moved out. They did a pretty good job of tidying up, I just had to clean the optical path a bit, but all the eggs (and ants) were gone. Beat the hell out cleaning a bunch angry (or dead, after spraying) ants out of inaccessible scanner insides.
Why is Earth's Luna the only satellite that does not reveal its dark side to the planet?
It's tidally locked to the earth (grossly oversimplyfying - slightly heavier bit on one side of moon is drawn to awlays face earth, eventually rotation of moon is locked to orbital period.)
Why is the apparent size of the sun and the moon nearly exactly the same? They're not exactly the same, only good enough for a few lucky people in the direct path of the umbra, only about 150km wide. I'd have to call it chance, seeing the enormity of "someone" engineering it, only to terrorise a few people in a very specific area every 15-20 years or so. Anyway, not too many planets that we know about have a moon the size of earth's (relatively speaking), so it's pretty hard to judge.
Why is the synodic period of the moon exactly the length of the menstrual cycle? Mammals are strange creatures. Lots of animals are synchronised to lunar cycles, a biologist could tell you some more.
Hang on - Hot dock? As in plug it in when the power's on and watch it go? Or am I getting your meaning wrong and you're implying laptop-type expansion unit docking?
/dev/sda! Plug in my usb camera - it appears as /dev/video0.
Anyway to respond to your implied meaning (Can't hot-dock devices via USB or 1394) -
USB for linux does that (and pretty much always has). Eg my compactflash reader - plug it into my usb port and - oh look! there it is on
I can't tell you about the firewire side of things but I'm pretty sure they're the same.
CompactFlash already has an IDE interface - the adaptor is merely to convert teeny-CompactFlash-pins to your normal 40 pin IDE
The reason that CF-based IDE drives are so expensive is that Flash memory is expensive to manufacture.
VET also has one as well - their distribution CD that gets mailed out quarterly is a bootable linux cd with a linux version of their scanner on it. Pretty good if your system's hosed.
85dB for 8 hours is the current occupational health and safety limit in Australia - any more than that and you risk hearing damage.
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If your computer is 85dB or louder, you would most certainly have noticed it by now. For example
With my noisemeter on in my loungeroom with the TV going at a 'normal' volume , it's 72dB.
In the car , stereo up loud , it's about 90-95dB
At work, around some operating crushers (loud enough to make you go "ow!" and out fingers in ears) it's around 105-110 dB.
It only takes a few hours of 90+ dB noise/music to damage your hearing permanently (or at least 'stun' it for a few days afterwards)
Think about it when you've got the headphones on and up LOUD.
R134A is good except that it boils at -30 deg C, and its pressure to stay liquid at room / processor temp is about 70psi. It won't short your board out if it leaks, but the frost that'll be generated if you get leak liquid R134A out will.
I may have been exaggerating the point a little for your education, so I'll refer you to this web page that I googled to in less than 30 seconds instead which has a photo showing it:
Photo of leonids meteor shower
In inland Central Queensland (Australia) they use a 25kV AC overhead traction system on about 700km of track. This is used to haul coal from the inland mines to ports on the coast. Trains travel at up to 100km/h - and when you've got a train weighing 14 THOUSAND TONS, it takes a whole lot of energy to push it around. They use three loco's at the front and two more in the middle of the train, remote controlled from the front. Rumour has it it's about 12,000kW/hr to get one up to speed.
;-)
Anyway, Cost for 700km and about 30 trains? In 1984 dollars it was about $12.00 per freight ton... and about 14Mt in '84 so that's $170 million 1984 dollars for 700km of track.
Fast - forward that to 2002 dollars and (say) 5000km more track... and you'd probably not only have to not build a few carriers, you'd probably need to sell a few of the ones you have already.
Not to worry though -I hear quite a few nation-states are in the market for military hardware these days
You're not thinking big enough.
Some would miss the planet entirely.
Some would graze the edges - these are the ones that look like they are going in different directions to an observer placed centrally on the planet.
Very few would hit you precisely head on.
Actually there is a term called the 'radiant' when discussing meteor showers - all the meteors in a particular stream will appear to come from the same patch of sky, radiating outwards.
It's similar to bugs heading towards your windscreen - they all appear to originate from one point (ahead on the highway) but as they get closer they radiate out and hit different parts of the windscreen from your perspective.
I presume that at this time the radiant was close to 90 degrees overhead - then they would appear to be heading in different directions.
How is the second motherboard "running" if its BIOS socket is empty? How can you plug another flash chip in if the socket is already occupied?
You boot the second motherboard, yank the chip and plug in the erased one. You can then reprogram the chip as per usual. The BIOS on a system is pretty much non-functional after boot.
Just as long as it's not one of thos PLCC chips that sit flush inside their socket they are a pain to get out without shorting something if you don't have the proper tools.
I *did* do this once with a Compaq Smart Array RAID controller, which got it's bios scrambled from a buggy upgrade released by Compaq - with the card in it's slot, the server wouldn't boot. Ring Compaq - "Hmmm. Better send that card in for repair. Oh, hangon - it's two months out of warranty - that'll be $500"
Needless to say, you don't use your $10,000 server to do stunts like this - in my case I had another (faulty but bootable) RAID card and another (old) PC to plug it into.
So, how many Verizon users would have a P2P client? Are they crapping themselves, or what?
Hey, Anonymous Verizon User with a P2P client - are you worried yet? Nothing like watching a game of whack-a-mole and suddenly realising you're one of the moles. *whack*
Of course, the best way to handle it would be to have a key combination for rename
;-)
In windows, pressing F2 when a file is highlighted will rename that file.
Well, it'll go into the 'edit' mode on the filename, you actually have to rename it yourself.
Enjoy
Don't laugh about it - one of GMH's vehicles (with an automatic transimission), if you do a sequence like "Ign on - select 1st - Ign off - select Drive - Ign on" it will default to a particular transmission mode that you can't get by pressing any of the knobs or buttons in the car.
yes, but a "click" sound? Why? WHY?!?!
Thats the only real thing that bugs me about it. You can assign any sound to that action , anything, a little whoosh, a nerdy rapid bunch of computer bleeps a-la Star Trek, and the default sound is a "click". Way to innovate, Microsoft.
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And what the fuck is the go with the "click" sound in internet explorer? My mouse, it has plenty of audible and tactile feedback when a button is pressed. I don't need a "click" from my speakers when I click with my mouse. Not to mention the fact that even on my 1.7 GIGAHERTZ machine, the "Start Navigation" click is often a good half-second behind my real finger-on-the-button click.
Fucking clicks from your speakers when you press a mouse button. If that isn't redundant fucking bloatware, than I don't know what is. What the fuck were they on when they thought that up?
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck them with the rough end of a pineapple for shit like that.
I noticed that google news has linked back to slashdot about the "renewed interest in the moon" story.
Heh, maybe we can get a front page article here about google news and see if we can get a news loop going.
I've only ever gotten one piece of spam on my phone in Australia.
.au phone co.) got into some trouble when they sent a pre-recorded voice message to all their customers about some crap new network feature they added... it wouldn't have been too interesting, except they also *charge* you for using the voicemail service.
Telstra (an
So, about 800,000 people get a voicemail message, and spend 20c individually to get it , only to find out it's just spam from the damn phone company. 800,000 people grumbling, "f***ing sleazy ripoff telstra!", had quite an effect. Made it into the TV news a few days in a row, and Telstra got a smack and a fine from the ACCC (.au's consumer watchdog) and was forced to issue grovelling apologies and a refund.
First and last case of Phone spam in Australia it seems.
Yes , this is a little off-topic, and probably only applies if you get charged for receiving messages (CompuServe, anyone?) , but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
Thats like saying if you cant read my code, then it cant be very good code, never mind the fact that mabey your arnt a programmer.....
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You seem to be looking at it the wrong way, so I'll try to explain using your code metaphor
In this case the code is "English", and your compiler is your teacher. You are trying to program in "English". If your compiler is an ANSI compiler with set standards and it can't understand your code, you're screwed. It's just not going to compile. And it's not just a case of changing your compiler, because a good portion of the systems you will interact with require the use of the proper ANSI compiler to operate correctly.
And yes, you could write and use your own compiler, but then you would belong to a relatively small subset of people who have that compiler, and when you try to give your code (which could be excellent, don't get me wrong) to someone without that compiler, you're screwed again.
When you are using your code to perform basic important functions with other people such as "Income Tax Form", or "Angry letter to Bank", or, God forbid, "Job Application", then ANSI code is the only way to go.
Quote by the RIAA:
"They (the ISP's) are trying to avoid the cost of identifying infringers as provided for in the DMCA by imposing unrealistic and burdensome obligations on copyright owners instead."
What?? You mean they are suggesting the RIAA use the law like everyone else has to? The nerve of those ISP's!
I'm pretty sure that it's the obligation of the copyright owner to preserve their copyright.
10^9 is Giga (G)
10^12 is Tera (T)
10^15 is Peta (P)
10^18 is Exa (E)
10^21 is Zetta (Z)
10^24 is Yotta (Y)
Yotta? Perhaps Lotta would've been better there - "yeah - I've got a Lottabyte drive array"