Sorry, but you really do need to do some research of your own, rather than listening to tenth hand accounts that you've overhear during a game of chinese whispers.
If you want to post stuff without checking fact, preface it with IMHO, or some such thing.
Tori Amos CDs and LPs tend to be fairly good recordings. On reasonably good systems it sounds great, but on cheaper systems the music loses all its life. I have yet to listen to her from a compressed source, but I would guess from other experience that it would be sound pretty poor.
Err actually most languages evolve, and continue to evolve. This is not why English is so widespread. It's got more to do with empires, both political and economic. One of its advantages that I have found, as opposed to some other languages (I do speak others (Latin based, although I am trying to learn one Malay based language too))is that you can completely bastardise it and still be understood reasonably well.
There is a mandated 48 hour maximum week now in force in the EU (this is average out of a period of so many months). This includes overtime. There are a few exceptions, but IT workers are not one of them.
A company in France just got fined very heavily for having its employees exceed the 48 hour time limit.
Two other great SF books are The Sparrow and The Lost Children (?), its sequel by Maria Doria Russell. It is SF, but mixed with religion, philosophy etc., and with a bit of SETI and AI thrown in. Two of the best books I have read in a long time.
Pulling a cable out won't affect anything - that node will just drop out of the ring. What does cause problems is if a NIC goes bad or there is a fault in the node cable (this will affect ethernet too). However, modern TR hubs (CAUS/LAMS) can automatically isolate a faulty node - in other words they are self healing. The old problems with MAUs (non-intelligent) such as plugging in a card with the wrong speed etc. don't happen with the modern hubs either.
You can also use TR switches if you need more performance.
You wouldn't change a network over from one topology to another (unless you had a damn good reason).
There are some who believe that Robert Pierce in Canterbury, NZ may have made earlier, more controlled, powered, heavier than air flights sometime before the Wright brothers. Some initial research that someone did on the history leading to the development of the automobile found some evidence that Koreans in the early 1700's may have made heavier than air flights (not necessarily powered, but like gliders).
Wrong, the reason for NCs is the cost - not the (purchase) price. It is all to do with Total Cost of Ownership over the lifetime of the unit. PCs in corporate environments, even used as glorified NCs still cost too much. That's without taking into account their power consumption etc.
for some reason I didn't see half your post - the important bits;-). Anyway, com3/irq7 is probably most of your problem. Also test large downloads using dial-up from that box (kppp etc.) and see how that goes
>tried 2 modems...no irq or mem conflicts modem is >on com 3 irq 7..both a usr sportster 33.6 >internal isa For a start, reconfigure the com port to a standard IRQ - 7 is for the parallel port. Try IRQ 5, or try configuring it for com2/irq 3. Both those modems work fine under Linux.
However, I'd begin your testing using an external modem connected to com1 (that way you can see the lights, useful for diags) - when you've got that dialing out properly, say with ppp (try KPPP with Suse), then move on to the next step. I can't be specific, because I've never tried this. However, try one step at a time, with a simple config until you can understand what's going on.
If you're a bit more specific with how far you've got, someone else may be able to give better help. Also, there is (IIRC) a single floppy solution for what you're trying to do.
>This was a strategic move on the part of the >United States because we are one of the only >superpowers with enough technological skills to >simulate nuclear tests without exploding actual >bombs. By getting other nations to agree to this >treaty, it gives us a strategic advantage.
Errr... the Frogs are quite adept at this too - hence them doing a little last minute testing in the South Pacific a while back, to make sure their simulators were acurrate.
are among the highest in the world - that's why a lot of telecoms gear is tested there. Local calls have always been free, which obviously contributes to this.
What is ironic, that in the UK, the "free" ISPs still cost more than the per hour ISP fees in NZ.
In NZ, you can get quite a few capped rate specials for international calls e.g. $NZ5 calls to the UK, talk as long as you like. These "specials" only started happening when clear turned up to offer toll competition.
No, NZ is doing fine. As others have pointed out, Auckland is the largest city, Wellington is the capital. While NZ may not have the highest standard of living (quantity), it certainly has one of the highest quality of living indexes in the world.
Unlike practically ALL other countries, US included, we now no longer have export subsidies or import tarrifs. That can make us susceptible to external shocks, and countries like the US putting tarrifs on our goods if the locals are unable to compete. In fact the recent US trade rows with Europe are quite funny, since they are about to slap protectionist tarrifs on Aus/NZ lamd to protect their own farmers.
The economy is somewhat of an experiment in free market theories. I'm not sure it works as well as some would like to believe, and the Telecom problem does prove the need for some controls to ensure the free market is a true free market. Whether a sector is controlled by one big company (Telecom in NZ telecoms, MS in s/w) or govt. it still has the same effect of killing competition and innovation.
The other dirty trick TNZ has done (I don't think they have changed it), is that they treat all schools as BUSINESSES, and charge them accordingly - even playcentres, kindergartens etc.
All those nice shiny digital exchanges, with all the nice digital transmission stuff that telecom claims they installed was infact bought. planned and installed by the NZPO. Yes phones did take a long time to install, but the improvements began way before telecom took over. I know, I worked there, I installed some of the stuff. NZPO also was very good at maintenance, and the telecoms portion of it did re-invest a lot of what it earned in the network.
Myself and my collegues did some basic calculations at the time on costs/profits - even under NZPO's way overstaffed over maintained etc. way of doing things, you could still make shit-loads of money.
I couldn't agree more. I admit it did take a bit of getting used to after the Mac and crappy windows, but I do think a new user would find it easier because everything was consistent. I never even began to explore the full potential, but was often impressed with what it could do. None of the problems of dead shortcuts because you renamed a file!
It was the reason (along with stability, especially with watchcat installed) that I stuck with OS/2 until the apps I needed to run required NT.
I think you should do a bit more research. The gun laws are much tighter now in NZ too.
Hand guns are illegal in NZ, except if you belong to a licensed Pistol club. Automatic rifles are illegal, as are many semi automatics.
Guns must me securely locked at all times, in an approved case, the firing mechanism must be seperately and securely locked, as must the ammo.
Same for transporting a gun in a car.
All gun owners are licensed. This includes basic safety training. For a pistol, you must belong to a club for at least two years before ou can get the additional license.
Most guns in NZ are probably shotguns, which are destructive at relatively short ranges. Pump action ones are limited in the number of shots they can hold.
Machine guns/pistols and anything like assauly rifles are banned (you get a few years in one of the Govt. hotels, no room service).
Hell, most of our Police don't carry guns (unless they are on solo night duty in certain areas, when they can carry them locked, in the car, Diplomatic protection squad, and armed offender's squad when they are called out - btw, these guys have balls of steel - I have seen one have a gun pointed at him, and he didn't shoot! They are very good at negotiating, and rarely have to shoot).
No, I don't think your gun laws are sensible in the modern age. It has nothing to do with free speech (which we also have).
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Yes, there have been one or two incidents of mass killings, but they are rare (Aramoana and Raurimu). The police, like those in the UK, generally do not carry guns, unless they are in the diplomatic protection squad.
Guns laws are strict (not as strict as Oz), especially with pistols (basically you must belong to a club, etc. etc.) No automatic guns, and semis are restricted to a fairly low number of rounds. All guns must be locked in approved lockers, and the firing mechanism and ammo must be seperately secured. All owners are licensed, and must pass some basic safety training.
I used to do target shooting, and liked it, including pistol (9mm,.45, black powder etc.) and enjoyed it, but I can't see any good reason to allow people to bear arms in a modern society.
Yes the criminals do get guns, but there is nowhere near the problem the US has.
Or pile of crap! The age old notion that without the US, Europe would all be talking German.
Before the US joined the war (WWII) (Churchill apparently knew you were to be attacked, but kept quiet as he knew you'd join in later), they were quite happily supplying arms, money and info to BOTH sides.
You assisted, but then so did Russia (they turned of the winter heating!!), as did many other countries who fought on principle (Australia, New Zealand for example). On your own, you'd have lost (It was the British who cracked the Enigma, with the help of a couple of Polish guys). On Britain's own she'd have lost. It was a collective effort.
Practically all OECD countries do quite well without an armed civilian population, and rely on democracy to kick out unpopular governments. Don't believe for one minute that your guns are any match for the military's firepower.
Again, different attitudes. Porn is Bad (tm) seems to be a very anglo-saxon thing. Most of (western) Europe doesn't see it that way. They see violence as bad - you can see some reasonably explicit sex stuff on TV and at the cinema, but violence often attracts censorship or a cinema rating.
It made me smile one day in a video shop - a young 10-12 year old was saying to his mum - oohh look at that person geting that dirty video, while he was busily getting a very violent film out, with no qualms at all from his mum!
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Sorry, but you really do need to do some research of your own, rather than listening to tenth hand accounts that you've overhear during a game of chinese whispers.
If you want to post stuff without checking fact, preface it with IMHO, or some such thing.
Use whatever distro you like.
Tori Amos CDs and LPs tend to be fairly good recordings. On reasonably good systems it sounds great, but on cheaper systems the music loses all its life. I have yet to listen to her from a compressed source, but I would guess from other experience that it would be sound pretty poor.
Err actually most languages evolve, and continue to evolve. This is not why English is so widespread. It's got more to do with empires, both political and economic. One of its advantages that I have found, as opposed to some other languages (I do speak others (Latin based, although I am trying to learn one Malay based language too))is that you can completely bastardise it and still be understood reasonably well.
There is a mandated 48 hour maximum week now in force in the EU (this is average out of a period of so many months). This includes overtime. There are a few exceptions, but IT workers are not one of them.
A company in France just got fined very heavily for having its employees exceed the 48 hour time limit.
Two other great SF books are The Sparrow and The Lost Children (?), its sequel by Maria Doria Russell. It is SF, but mixed with religion, philosophy etc., and with a bit of SETI and AI thrown in. Two of the best books I have read in a long time.
Pulling a cable out won't affect anything - that node will just drop out of the ring. What does cause problems is if a NIC goes bad or there is a fault in the node cable (this will affect ethernet too). However, modern TR hubs (CAUS/LAMS) can automatically isolate a faulty node - in other words they are self healing. The old problems with MAUs (non-intelligent) such as plugging in a card with the wrong speed etc. don't happen with the modern hubs either.
You can also use TR switches if you need more performance.
You wouldn't change a network over from one topology to another (unless you had a damn good reason).
There are some who believe that Robert Pierce in Canterbury, NZ may have made earlier, more controlled, powered, heavier than air flights sometime before the Wright brothers. Some initial research that someone did on the history leading to the development of the automobile found some evidence that Koreans in the early 1700's may have made heavier than air flights (not necessarily powered, but like gliders).
Even for servers. But I think there is quite a high percentage usage there. OS/2 is also still quite widespread in Germany.
Wrong, the reason for NCs is the cost - not the (purchase) price. It is all to do with Total Cost of Ownership over the lifetime of the unit. PCs in corporate environments, even used as glorified NCs still cost too much. That's without taking into account their power consumption etc.
Most western european countries are examples of Socialist Democracy - one person, one vote, and a viable choice of more than two parties
for some reason I didn't see half your post - the important bits ;-). Anyway, com3/irq7 is probably most of your problem. Also test large downloads using dial-up from that box (kppp etc.) and see how that goes
>tried 2 modems...no irq or mem conflicts modem is >on com 3 irq 7..both a usr sportster 33.6 >internal isa
For a start, reconfigure the com port to a standard IRQ - 7 is for the parallel port. Try IRQ 5, or try configuring it for com2/irq 3. Both those modems work fine under Linux.
However, I'd begin your testing using an external modem connected to com1 (that way you can see the lights, useful for diags) - when you've got that dialing out properly, say with ppp (try KPPP with Suse), then move on to the next step. I can't be specific, because I've never tried this. However, try one step at a time, with a simple config until you can understand what's going on.
If you're a bit more specific with how far you've got, someone else may be able to give better help. Also, there is (IIRC) a single floppy solution for what you're trying to do.
>This was a strategic move on the part of the >United States because we are one of the only >superpowers with enough technological skills to >simulate nuclear tests without exploding actual >bombs. By getting other nations to agree to this >treaty, it gives us a strategic advantage.
Errr... the Frogs are quite adept at this too - hence them doing a little last minute testing in the South Pacific a while back, to make sure their simulators were acurrate.
are among the highest in the world - that's why a lot of telecoms gear is tested there. Local calls have always been free, which obviously contributes to this.
What is ironic, that in the UK, the "free" ISPs still cost more than the per hour ISP fees in NZ.
In NZ, you can get quite a few capped rate specials for international calls e.g. $NZ5 calls to the UK, talk as long as you like. These "specials" only started happening when clear turned up to offer toll competition.
No, NZ is doing fine. As others have pointed out, Auckland is the largest city, Wellington is the capital. While NZ may not have the highest standard of living (quantity), it certainly has one of the highest quality of living indexes in the world.
Unlike practically ALL other countries, US included, we now no longer have export subsidies or import tarrifs. That can make us susceptible to external shocks, and countries like the US putting tarrifs on our goods if the locals are unable to compete. In fact the recent US trade rows with Europe are quite funny, since they are about to slap protectionist tarrifs on Aus/NZ lamd to protect their own farmers.
The economy is somewhat of an experiment in free market theories. I'm not sure it works as well as some would like to believe, and the Telecom problem does prove the need for some controls to ensure the free market is a true free market. Whether a sector is controlled by one big company (Telecom in NZ telecoms, MS in s/w) or govt. it still has the same effect of killing competition and innovation.
The other dirty trick TNZ has done (I don't think they have changed it), is that they treat all schools as BUSINESSES, and charge them accordingly - even playcentres, kindergartens etc.
All those nice shiny digital exchanges, with all the nice digital transmission stuff that telecom claims they installed was infact bought. planned and installed by the NZPO. Yes phones did take a long time to install, but the improvements began way before telecom took over. I know, I worked there, I installed some of the stuff. NZPO also was very good at maintenance, and the telecoms portion of it did re-invest a lot of what it earned in the network.
Myself and my collegues did some basic calculations at the time on costs/profits - even under NZPO's way overstaffed over maintained etc. way of doing things, you could still make shit-loads of money.
I couldn't agree more. I admit it did take a bit of getting used to after the Mac and crappy windows, but I do think a new user would find it easier because everything was consistent. I never even began to explore the full potential, but was often impressed with what it could do. None of the problems of dead shortcuts because you renamed a file!
It was the reason (along with stability, especially with watchcat installed) that I stuck with OS/2 until the apps I needed to run required NT.
They're both further away from all that dangerous stuff
I think you should do a bit more research. The gun laws are much tighter now in NZ too.
Hand guns are illegal in NZ, except if you belong to a licensed Pistol club. Automatic rifles are illegal, as are many semi automatics.
Guns must me securely locked at all times, in an approved case, the firing mechanism must be seperately and securely locked, as must the ammo.
Same for transporting a gun in a car.
All gun owners are licensed. This includes basic safety training. For a pistol, you must belong to a club for at least two years before ou can get the additional license.
Most guns in NZ are probably shotguns, which are destructive at relatively short ranges. Pump action ones are limited in the number of shots they can hold.
Machine guns/pistols and anything like assauly rifles are banned (you get a few years in one of the Govt. hotels, no room service).
Hell, most of our Police don't carry guns (unless they are on solo night duty in certain areas, when they can carry them locked, in the car, Diplomatic protection squad, and armed offender's squad when they are called out - btw, these guys have balls of steel - I have seen one have a gun pointed at him, and he didn't shoot! They are very good at negotiating, and rarely have to shoot).
No, I don't think your gun laws are sensible in the modern age. It has nothing to do with free speech (which we also have).
Yes, there have been one or two incidents of mass killings, but they are rare (Aramoana and Raurimu). The police, like those in the UK, generally do not carry guns, unless they are in the diplomatic protection squad.
.45, black powder etc.) and enjoyed it, but I can't see any good reason to allow people to bear arms in a modern society.
Guns laws are strict (not as strict as Oz), especially with pistols (basically you must belong to a club, etc. etc.) No automatic guns, and semis are restricted to a fairly low number of rounds. All guns must be locked in approved lockers, and the firing mechanism and ammo must be seperately secured. All owners are licensed, and must pass some basic safety training.
I used to do target shooting, and liked it, including pistol (9mm,
Yes the criminals do get guns, but there is nowhere near the problem the US has.
Or pile of crap! The age old notion that without the US, Europe would all be talking German.
Before the US joined the war (WWII) (Churchill apparently knew you were to be attacked, but kept quiet as he knew you'd join in later), they were quite happily supplying arms, money and info to BOTH sides.
You assisted, but then so did Russia (they turned of the winter heating!!), as did many other countries who fought on principle (Australia, New Zealand for example). On your own, you'd have lost (It was the British who cracked the Enigma, with the help of a couple of Polish guys). On Britain's own she'd have lost. It was a collective effort.
Practically all OECD countries do quite well without an armed civilian population, and rely on democracy to kick out unpopular governments. Don't believe for one minute that your guns are any match for the military's firepower.
Again, different attitudes. Porn is Bad (tm) seems to be a very anglo-saxon thing. Most of (western) Europe doesn't see it that way. They see violence as bad - you can see some reasonably explicit sex stuff on TV and at the cinema, but violence often attracts censorship or a cinema rating.
It made me smile one day in a video shop - a young 10-12 year old was saying to his mum - oohh look at that person geting that dirty video, while he was busily getting a very violent film out, with no qualms at all from his mum!
The Euro way is (IMHO) a far healthier way.