Well, I know Northern Ireland has almost 100% NTL coverage, which is your standard 512/256 cable connection...
All these people griping about Ireland must mean the REPUBLIC of Ireland, RoI, not Northern Ireland, where the Internet's pretty much as available as mainland Britain:)
On BBC's Sports Relief (a night of entertainment where Sportsmen degrade theirselves so that you donate money to the needy children, etc.) last night, someone dropped from the top of the Millenium Dome (100ft) into about 10 layers of cardboard boxes... no damage what so ever:)
UUnet (europe's part of WorldCom's backbones, and the owner of English ISP Pipex) has a huge amount of redundancy in Europe and to the rest of the world.
If KPNQWest carry 1/2 the internet traffic in Europe, UUnet carries at least a 1/3.
No idea why KPNQWest do so well, anyway, WorldCom's latency/packet-loss figures are much lower.
I also have the iPAQ mentioned in the article, the 3870.
I got the bluetooth model for two reasons:
1. My mobile phone (cellular for you Americans) also has a bluetooth chip on it (It's an Ericsson T39) and it communicates flawlessly with my iPAQ. With my GPRS subscription I can use my PDA to surf wirelessly, anywhere with mobile phone coverage, at dial-up modem speeds (w00t).
2. There are bluetooth headphones finally coming out (not the crummy headsets, which are just one-ear jobbies. I use it to listen to music while my iPAQ sits in my pocket (yes, it plays MP3s and has 64mb of on-board RAM)
It's like the equivalent of Napster for books - and it's still in it's early stages... everything goes.
They also have 'scanathons' where you all start scanning a book at the same time, and the person that finishes scanning first gets... er... the kudos for being the fastest scanner...
He's talking about liquid-nitrogen cooling the mobo, while it is immersed in a pool of inert liquid... and he details what's submersed, and what's not...
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Cooool, I rox0r. Thanks, AC.
I've named 8000 of them so far -- can anyone beat that? :)
Well, I know Northern Ireland has almost 100% NTL coverage, which is your standard 512/256 cable connection...
:)
All these people griping about Ireland must mean the REPUBLIC of Ireland, RoI, not Northern Ireland, where the Internet's pretty much as available as mainland Britain
So is /dev/null actually a directory?
Or if you send it there, is it simply a mapping to a function that removes the data from the hard disk...?
And I guess, from all those /bin/laden > /dev/null jokes that /dev/null is the same as my Recycle Bin? :)
For the non Linuxites (like me :), what's this do...? Something about SpamAssassin...
Does it delete all mail that SpamAssassin picks up? (I use SpamAssassin, too)
I do, for one.
Anybody else notice that their sponsors are SIS? :)
No wonder they're calling a "4.7% increase" worthwhile... jesus...
the Playboy collection from 1958... damn, when the girls were *pretty*, not stick thin.
Learning Perl by O'Reilly (Schwartz & Christiansen)... brilliant book for getting into Perl, and all things llama'ish.
5. ...and, well, you get the point. If it's coming close enough, let's turn it in to something useful.
How about making a Deathstar?
On BBC's Sports Relief (a night of entertainment where Sportsmen degrade theirselves so that you donate money to the needy children, etc.) last night, someone dropped from the top of the Millenium Dome (100ft) into about 10 layers of cardboard boxes... no damage what so ever :)
He did go through 9 of the 10 layers though!
UUnet (europe's part of WorldCom's backbones, and the owner of English ISP Pipex) has a huge amount of redundancy in Europe and to the rest of the world.
If KPNQWest carry 1/2 the internet traffic in Europe, UUnet carries at least a 1/3.
No idea why KPNQWest do so well, anyway, WorldCom's latency/packet-loss figures are much lower.
Probably because the model he has (the 3875) has built-in Bluetooth capabilities.
:)
If he wanted to use the Wi-Fi PCMCIA card/CompactFlash-style card then he'd have to get the iPAQ expansion jacket, which costs quite a bit
And neither of the 11Mbit solutions are cheap at all for PCMCIA or CompactFlash.
435 when I visited - it's standing up pretty damn well...
Bear in mind that the 'wireless' bit is most likely Bluetooth, which has a theoretical cap of 720KBps, sooo...
The Slashdot Effect gets yet another new type of target to kill.
Nope, it's royally slashdotted :)
I also have the iPAQ mentioned in the article, the 3870.
:)
I got the bluetooth model for two reasons:
1. My mobile phone (cellular for you Americans) also has a bluetooth chip on it (It's an Ericsson T39) and it communicates flawlessly with my iPAQ. With my GPRS subscription I can use my PDA to surf wirelessly, anywhere with mobile phone coverage, at dial-up modem speeds (w00t).
2. There are bluetooth headphones finally coming out (not the crummy headsets, which are just one-ear jobbies. I use it to listen to music while my iPAQ sits in my pocket (yes, it plays MP3s and has 64mb of on-board RAM)
... that's what I use bluetooth for
Go check the #bookz channel on Undernet IRC.
It's like the equivalent of Napster for books - and it's still in it's early stages... everything goes.
They also have 'scanathons' where you all start scanning a book at the same time, and the person that finishes scanning first gets... er... the kudos for being the fastest scanner...
Good ol' Slashdot.
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According to:
http://v1.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=1&id=2828
it's their busiest day ever... almost double their normal traffic.
Wonderful, a nice, nasty story, and they just get extra publicity...
I hope I'm not the only sad bastard that's just ran outside to the nearest park (first time in DECADES) to try out this 'better' method of swinging?
He's talking about liquid-nitrogen cooling the mobo, while it is immersed in a pool of inert liquid... and he details what's submersed, and what's not...
Submersed:
ABIT BE6-2 Motherboard (QJ BIOS)
Creative 32MB TNT2 Ultra
Infineon 128MB PC133
Celeron 366
Not included in submersion
IBM HD 7200rpm UDMA66
300w ATX PSU
Heehee.
Thanks :)
:)
It was Bluetooth that was 1Mbit/sec
" ... on/off switch, USB port on the bottom... " (emphasis mine)
I'm quite sure the maximum datarate of USB is well under 2.4Mbit/second. Isn't it nearer 1Mbit/sec?
Sounds a bit iffy to me...
Looks like the webmaster got wise... :)
:p)" (on the homepage)
"sorry, but the bit-tech.net server is currently unavailable (thanks slashdot
Just sounds like a complex term for 'wanking'