Cable prices in Montreal (Videotron). Approx. 300kB/sec down, 50kB/sec up. They charge for bandwidth overage, but I've never recevied a bill in excess of my expected base price.
Price: Acces Internet haute vitesse 44,95 Rabais engagement 12 mois 10,00-
So, basically, $35CAD/month.
Not bad... DSL is comparative (Bell/Sympatico). Prices are same, bandwidth is lower, but there's no cap.
I don't have a landline, though.. so Cable it is. Unless I want to go with Look (Microwave) -- approx. same prices, same speed, but goes out if/when it rains/clouds/etc.
As someone who has experience micing amps, I doubt that this target market could tell the difference between a cheap radioshack mic in front of the cab, or a properly placed '57.
through more that 20 degrees C over the hottest noon
where do you LIVE?!? I live in Canada (Montreal) and it certainly gets hotter than 20C; ESPECIALLY in my car (greenhouse effect). I'd guess pushing 60C.
I just bought a sweet Swiss Army bag, and I'm VERY happy with it. Nice compartments, good materials, comfortable. Clip-together top layer to keep the snow out.
"5. Some GEO-location hacks to assess what country you are coming from. Using the Perl Module Geo::IPfree, it is fairly simple to determine what country you are surfing from based on your IP address - try it now!;-)"
Ok, so I tried it..
Your Country Name : United States Your Country Region : North America Your Hostname : modemcable*CUT*.mc.videotron.ca
Homeless people starving, highest taxes in the G8, north-american car theft capital, and yet we still fund the language police (who actually have people going around and comparing text on signs to make sure that the english version is a certain percentage smaller (point-size) than the french).
We served on the order of tens of millions of page-views per day, on edgesuite, with secure services, and a shared, akamized, wildcard certificate, all with content caching (on web applications that were 99% dynamic, user-specific content (non-cacheable) -- my CTO was a troll), all for DDoS protection (we peaked at 100Mb/sec when we signed, so we got ripped off -- see the part about my CTO).
Even if an RSS driven bittorrent was well behaved, it wouldn't be long before an unfriendly one arrived
That's a good point, but it's trivial to serve up "broken" or empty RSS if the requests are coming too often.. limit by IP. Would cost SLIGHTLY more in processing, but would save much in bandwidth, especially if the feed is large.
Slashdot Mirror
That's why software firewalls were invented (-:
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Cable prices in Montreal (Videotron). Approx. 300kB/sec down, 50kB/sec up. They charge for bandwidth overage, but I've never recevied a bill in excess of my expected base price.
Price:
Acces Internet haute vitesse 44,95
Rabais engagement 12 mois 10,00-
So, basically, $35CAD/month.
Not bad...
DSL is comparative (Bell/Sympatico). Prices are same, bandwidth is lower, but there's no cap.
I don't have a landline, though.. so Cable it is.
Unless I want to go with Look (Microwave) -- approx. same prices, same speed, but goes out if/when it rains/clouds/etc.
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Speaking of Acid Pro; did anyone notice the similarities in the screenshots?
Check:
here and here.
Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
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Good point.
As someone who has experience micing amps, I doubt that this target market could tell the difference between a cheap radioshack mic in front of the cab, or a properly placed '57.
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ahh.. that makes much more sense (especially, in line with my pushing 60C comment (-: )
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through more that 20 degrees C over the hottest noon
where do you LIVE?!? I live in Canada (Montreal) and it certainly gets hotter than 20C; ESPECIALLY in my car (greenhouse effect). I'd guess pushing 60C.
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I just bought a sweet Swiss Army bag, and I'm VERY happy with it. Nice compartments, good materials, comfortable. Clip-together top layer to keep the snow out.
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The irony here is that you must pump the water out of the pot.
These people are called Pharisees.
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"5. Some GEO-location hacks to assess what country you are coming from. Using the Perl Module Geo::IPfree, it is fairly simple to determine what country you are surfing from based on your IP address - try it now! ;-)"
.ca is in the United States, no? (-:
Ok, so I tried it..
Your Country Name : United States
Your Country Region : North America
Your Hostname : modemcable*CUT*.mc.videotron.ca
Odd that a
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Numero d'Identification Personnel
NIP (french)
Montrealers use NIP in both languages.. kinda like "all dressed" pizza (-:
yep.. WAAY offtopic. (-: (no +1)
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I could tell by your use of "nip" instead of "pin".
(-:
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you're francophone, aren't you?
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There's similar functionality s/java/php/g, here:
http://talks.php.net/show/phpquebec/27
http://www.sklar.com/page/article/myphp
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Only in Quebec.
Seriously.
Stupid Bill 101.
Homeless people starving, highest taxes in the G8, north-american car theft capital, and yet we still fund the language police (who actually have people going around and comparing text on signs to make sure that the english version is a certain percentage smaller (point-size) than the french).
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Well, make IS much prettier now.
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We served on the order of tens of millions of page-views per day, on edgesuite, with secure services, and a shared, akamized, wildcard certificate, all with content caching (on web applications that were 99% dynamic, user-specific content (non-cacheable) -- my CTO was a troll), all for DDoS protection (we peaked at 100Mb/sec when we signed, so we got ripped off -- see the part about my CTO).
Fun stuff. Good riddance, I say.
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That was the whole point of the original post (great great grandparent, I think).
Sure, well-behaved clients would do "HEAD" at a moderate interval. But, clients just can't be trusted; most users are "gimme gimme gimme"..
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Rumor around a previous employer of mine was that Akamai was costing us approx $100,000.00 (CND) per MONTH.
(yes, I placed that decimal correctly)
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Even if an RSS driven bittorrent was well behaved, it wouldn't be long before an unfriendly one arrived
That's a good point, but it's trivial to serve up "broken" or empty RSS if the requests are coming too often.. limit by IP. Would cost SLIGHTLY more in processing, but would save much in bandwidth, especially if the feed is large.
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The grandparent was speaking of bandwidth bills, not processing time.
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You know that puns are the lowest form of humor, right?
(-:
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Looks a lot like PHP, written without using sane coding standards.
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I am also in Montreal. He meant "multiply". They all do this. (-;
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That IS pretty funny..
It also seems that MS is trying to get rid of options all together, now.. according to Wired.
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Sorry for replying to myself (I unchecked the +1) but here's a different article.. this is the one I was looking for when I found the other.
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