Ever try to hit FilePlanet on a dialup connection? Jesus./. is getting bad too, but I think it's just the length/complexity of the pages and IIRC you can edit that in your preferences.
Moderators = nimrods. I post and post, people that are replying get at LEAST +1 but nobody ever gives me props. You guys suck.
Well there's a simple solution to this problem...LIMIT your BANDWIDTH allocated for DOWNLOADS and the max number of simultaneous connections. FilePlanet's been doing this for years, it spreads a fat pipe into coffee straws so everyone can have a sip.
Before you go off on this company, do some research. MP3.com donated a serious amount of cash/resources into developing Reiserfs, which is free. MP3.com's founder, Mikey, is the founder of Lindows. He knows the value of open source but has to make a buck somewhere. I agree with everyone who's bitching about the preview price...I'm sure as hell not paying $100 to see another os.
Great, now aliens are gonna come here and expect to see everyone walking around naked and waving. Boy won't they be surprised if they land in the middle of a San Francisco Gay Pride Parade!
You must be high. Quote "When Shit Just Works, and theres no fussing about for sound (mostly done) printing(also mostly done), and just plain accounting for the average StupidUser"
Windows still can't do this for 100% of users. Actually your statement sums up windows to a T.
..with all these stupid lawsuits/laws being passed, it's probably a good time to get into litigation and corporate law. I wonder what these sleazeballs make per year on average.
Stable is it? I guess that's why after installing XP over Windows 98, the first day I had it installed, I put my machine into hibernation mode. I came back the next day and it had bluescreened. The/windows/config folder was missing or corrupted ALREADY. Unprecedented instability at it's finest. Unshaken, a few days later I reinstalled it. This time it lasted a whole 3 days before bluescreening again and proceeding to dump memory to the drive. I thought it'd be ok to halt it in it's tracks and reboot. Guess what? It destroyed it's/windows/config folders and all the files completely. What a piece of shit.
I reinstalled windows98 which crashes alot less and never, EVER destroys itself without giving me a way to repair it from dos. I can't believe an OS could be so poorly coded as to allow it to destroy vital system files and folders like this. It's just beyond comprehension.
At least in the interim I had mandrake 8.1 installed and humming away perfectly. I boot windows about once a week now just to see if it still works.
The job market sucks everywhere, even here in Texas. The IT industry isn't as bulletproof and well-funded by venture capitalists as it once was. I'm considering getting out of the IT field altogether and doing something that I can have a guaranteed future with, like healthcare or insurance.
Electronics Boutique is the same way. I lost my receipt, my Playstation2 died, and I was up shit creek without a paddle. By the time I found the receipt 30 days were up and Sony was responsible a that point. A Sony rep told me 'oh your dvd remote probably broke your ps2' which is completely ridiculous but that was the best I could get, call after call. Sony sucks ass. Offering a 90 day warranty on the PS2 compared to an equally valuable Sony stereo with a 1 year warranty? Sony can kiss my hairy white ass.
Re:Unbelievable (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04, @09:45PM (#2789471)
I think KDE has something to say about Gnome. KDE is like a mechanized Panzer assault. They will blitz right through Gnome
I agree with you. QT uses C++ while Gnome and GTK are stuck in the Dark Ages of Coding. Maybe GTK2 will resolve this issue...ack.
That great idea had already been established years earlier in the Amiga. It always takes the PC world a few years (or decades) to catch on. I think Eide is finally getting close to SCSI speeds after what, a decade?
I have a Ford Explorer (the one with the evil tires) and use it every day. It dies up at least a couple times a week. Any devices plugged into it keep working, but the engine stops working. Killing the engine and starting it back up fixes the problem, but it's still a bit annoying. That said, I think it's the best SUV available and wouldn't drive anything else.
MRR do you automatically get a +1 for some reason? Weird.
Anyway yeah, they're a young company but from what I saw, they're very serious and very well-funded. They build their entire network from scratch, don't have to chip off of anyone. They have banks of satellite dishes at the headend (for their tv service and maybe for telephony) and ungodly amounts of Lucent hardware. When I was wiring their headend was about 55% complete. I've never seen such a nice, secure, cold datacenter in my life.
If their wireless internet service is anything like my Sprint PCS phone's service, I want nothing of it. Dropping calls sucks when the meter magically drops from 3 bars to 0 and it says 'looking for service'.
Trust me, like I said, I wired their datacenter and spoke to alot of the engineers. They have the bandwidth. $15 a month is impossible for a pots line, maybe you live in a dorm or with your parents but you should scope the bill sometime. The local/federal taxes will cost you >$15 alone. The system is easily scalabale to 100MB/sec access if you need it also. This is FIBER we're talking about here.
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You need to learn a little more about the industry. The cable company does in fact use CO's. The only things on the phone poles are signal boosters and bundles. Next time you see a big silver Sylvania finned-box on the line with an aluminum tube running both directions from it, you'll know that's just an amplifier. Most of cable's routers are in CO's that are rented from the Bells and other companies.
Actually, fiber to the home is a reality. www.winfirst.com is a good place to start looking. Here in Dallas, they hope to debut the service next year (I helped wire their datacenter).
Picture this: 10M symmetrical bandwidth for your internet connection, 120+ digital and hdtv channels for your tv, and 4 pots lines, all for about $110 a month. That's what they're doing. Buy stock now...they've already got this system up and running in Sacramento and a few other places.
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Yeah and when that happens, I'll send you a picture of my Snowman in hell.
Ever try to hit FilePlanet on a dialup connection? Jesus. /. is getting bad too, but I think it's just the length/complexity of the pages and IIRC you can edit that in your preferences.
Moderators = nimrods. I post and post, people that are replying get at LEAST +1 but nobody ever gives me props. You guys suck.
Well there's a simple solution to this problem...LIMIT your BANDWIDTH allocated for DOWNLOADS and the max number of simultaneous connections. FilePlanet's been doing this for years, it spreads a fat pipe into coffee straws so everyone can have a sip.
That brings up an interesting point...
What would happen if every nation was neutral? Could the US become neutral, and if so, what would be the outcome?
Before you go off on this company, do some research. MP3.com donated a serious amount of cash/resources into developing Reiserfs, which is free. MP3.com's founder, Mikey, is the founder of Lindows. He knows the value of open source but has to make a buck somewhere. I agree with everyone who's bitching about the preview price...I'm sure as hell not paying $100 to see another os.
The last time I saw a planet-like body orbiting a star was Marlon Brando's birthday party.
Great, now aliens are gonna come here and expect to see everyone walking around naked and waving. Boy won't they be surprised if they land in the middle of a San Francisco Gay Pride Parade!
You must be high. Quote "When Shit Just Works, and theres no fussing about for sound (mostly done) printing(also mostly done), and just plain accounting for the average StupidUser"
Windows still can't do this for 100% of users. Actually your statement sums up windows to a T.
Hey! Thanks for posting the broken links pal. You just wasted 30 seconds of my time.
..with all these stupid lawsuits/laws being passed, it's probably a good time to get into litigation and corporate law. I wonder what these sleazeballs make per year on average.
I thought in most cases, if you win part of your win is the defendant paying your legal fees....?
Stable is it? I guess that's why after installing XP over Windows 98, the first day I had it installed, I put my machine into hibernation mode. I came back the next day and it had bluescreened. The /windows/config folder was missing or corrupted ALREADY. Unprecedented instability at it's finest. Unshaken, a few days later I reinstalled it. This time it lasted a whole 3 days before bluescreening again and proceeding to dump memory to the drive. I thought it'd be ok to halt it in it's tracks and reboot. Guess what? It destroyed it's /windows/config folders and all the files completely. What a piece of shit.
I reinstalled windows98 which crashes alot less and never, EVER destroys itself without giving me a way to repair it from dos. I can't believe an OS could be so poorly coded as to allow it to destroy vital system files and folders like this. It's just beyond comprehension.
At least in the interim I had mandrake 8.1 installed and humming away perfectly. I boot windows about once a week now just to see if it still works.
The job market sucks everywhere, even here in Texas. The IT industry isn't as bulletproof and well-funded by venture capitalists as it once was. I'm considering getting out of the IT field altogether and doing something that I can have a guaranteed future with, like healthcare or insurance.
Electronics Boutique is the same way. I lost my receipt, my Playstation2 died, and I was up shit creek without a paddle. By the time I found the receipt 30 days were up and Sony was responsible a that point. A Sony rep told me 'oh your dvd remote probably broke your ps2' which is completely ridiculous but that was the best I could get, call after call. Sony sucks ass. Offering a 90 day warranty on the PS2 compared to an equally valuable Sony stereo with a 1 year warranty? Sony can kiss my hairy white ass.
Re:Unbelievable (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04, @09:45PM (#2789471)
I think KDE has something to say about Gnome. KDE is like a mechanized Panzer assault. They will blitz right through Gnome
I agree with you. QT uses C++ while Gnome and GTK are stuck in the Dark Ages of Coding. Maybe GTK2 will resolve this issue...ack.
That great idea had already been established years earlier in the Amiga. It always takes the PC world a few years (or decades) to catch on. I think Eide is finally getting close to SCSI speeds after what, a decade?
Not if Gnome has anything to say about it.
I have a Ford Explorer (the one with the evil tires) and use it every day. It dies up at least a couple times a week. Any devices plugged into it keep working, but the engine stops working. Killing the engine and starting it back up fixes the problem, but it's still a bit annoying. That said, I think it's the best SUV available and wouldn't drive anything else.
MRR do you automatically get a +1 for some reason? Weird.
Anyway yeah, they're a young company but from what I saw, they're very serious and very well-funded. They build their entire network from scratch, don't have to chip off of anyone. They have banks of satellite dishes at the headend (for their tv service and maybe for telephony) and ungodly amounts of Lucent hardware. When I was wiring their headend was about 55% complete. I've never seen such a nice, secure, cold datacenter in my life.
Here's my troll for the day:
If their wireless internet service is anything like my Sprint PCS phone's service, I want nothing of it. Dropping calls sucks when the meter magically drops from 3 bars to 0 and it says 'looking for service'.
Trust me, like I said, I wired their datacenter and spoke to alot of the engineers. They have the bandwidth. $15 a month is impossible for a pots line, maybe you live in a dorm or with your parents but you should scope the bill sometime. The local/federal taxes will cost you >$15 alone. The system is easily scalabale to 100MB/sec access if you need it also. This is FIBER we're talking about here.
I wonder how the hockey-puck mouse tasted.
You need to learn a little more about the industry. The cable company does in fact use CO's. The only things on the phone poles are signal boosters and bundles. Next time you see a big silver Sylvania finned-box on the line with an aluminum tube running both directions from it, you'll know that's just an amplifier. Most of cable's routers are in CO's that are rented from the Bells and other companies.
Let's see...
Phone bill: about $50 per month for a single line
Cable tv : about $45 per month non-digital
Internet : cable or dsl about $50 a month
This is a good deal. I don't know about your country but here, something like this is a bargain and the bandwidth is hard to comprehend.
Actually, fiber to the home is a reality. www.winfirst.com is a good place to start looking. Here in Dallas, they hope to debut the service next year (I helped wire their datacenter).
Picture this: 10M symmetrical bandwidth for your internet connection, 120+ digital and hdtv channels for your tv, and 4 pots lines, all for about $110 a month. That's what they're doing. Buy stock now...they've already got this system up and running in Sacramento and a few other places.