I have both Wind and Mobilicity accounts (multiple devices for testing) and am very happy. However, keep in mind that both offer only 3G services on the AWS frequency band (same as T-Mobile). You can not use these data plans on non 3G AWS devices (no GPRS/Edge or "standard" frequencies at all).
After the TCP handshake, Telnet will negotiate options related to the session (see the command structure defined in RFC 854). These are done with high byte values (240 through 255) and control things like local echo. If the service you are talking to doesn't correctly ignore these sequences, then they can corrupt the data stream.
netcat is generally a better choice for connecting to generic services that use ASCII command sets.
I think absolutely, ISP's should be allowed to provide faster bandwidth for sites where companies have agreed to pay for delivering content to the consumer at faster transfer rates.
Without adding additional resources (which cost a lot of money), this can only be done by slowing down other traffic. Although blocking is unlikely, slowing down other traffic can make these services unusable, without actually "blocking" that traffic (think 1 frame per second YouTube). This will force the other services to also pay for the fast lane but only the largest sites will be able to afford this.
Say goodbye to new innovative services, especially those that compete with the business models of existing media conglomerates. Free or low-cost services like Skype, Facetime, etc. whose business models depend on equitable sharing of bandwidth will no longer be able to survive in their current form (think monthly fees, no free version). Anything not blessed by the big guys won't have a chance. An example of a big guy in the US: the new Comcast after the upcoming merger.
Yes, it is possible that an ISP could add new resources ($$$) so that the other traffic is not slowed, but think of the business case. In my example, the only cost is some DPI to classify the traffic and you get much more revenue by charging everyone who can afford it more money.
It's worse than you think. If we are all told to stay in our seats 60 minutes before the expected landing time and then the plane is put into a 30 minute hold by ATC
(due to weather, traffic congestion, etc.), and then another 30 minute hold, and so on, then it can easily become 2 hours or more that a planeload of passengers aren't allowed to go to the washroom. Result: a lot of wet seats and "pissed" off passengers.
What prevents them from warehousing the sample until such time that they can extract, process and store more information than they can today? Who knows how far DNA technology and storage technology will progress in 5, 10, 20 years?
Very scary stuff
If you are a Canadian and use an ISP that has a bandwidth cap, then you are using the wrong ISP. As both the phone companies and cable companies are legislated/required to resell their last-mile infrastructure to all ISPs, there is a huge choice for Canadians. I have a 5Mbps/1Mbps DSL connection, no caps, no port filtering, servers permitted.
In fact, I just did a quick search using http://canadianisp.com/ and there are over 60 ISPs who will sell me Internet access. Do NOT stick with the "incumbent" carriers (Rogers and Bell in my area). They offer the worst service, have caps (either explicit or hidden), filter ports, disallow servers and their customer service has been outsourced to Asia.
Gnome power manager has looked after cpufreq scaling since at least Edgy. You can choose between three profiles - always high, always low, or on demand.
Steve,
You problem may be that most X10 modules allow a small leakage current even when turned off. They use this current to detect when the load is removed and then replaced, which is an alternative method of turning on the module. Search the web for methods of disabling this detection circuit within the module - it is usually just a case of cutting one leg of a diode or capacitor.
The reason for the coral cache link was that is still contained the content that Google later removed. Not sure if it still does, of course, as the cache contents may have expired.
Here's a link to the main university website:
http://www.queensu.ca/
For those not familiar with it, Queen's is one of the top engineering schools in Canada. It is located in Kingston, Ontario (on Lake Ontario in fact).
There is a standardized format for talking books on CD called DAISY. My mother is blind and I put together a PERL script that takes a DAISY cd, extracts the title/author/chapter information from the DAISY index file and then embeds that as MP3 tags at the end of the MP3s. I then load that onto an iPod so that she can carry around 10-20 books with her without having to carry the fairly large DAISY reader.
Huge benefits of the iPod (3rd gen, not 4th):
- audible feedback when you push a button or use the scroll wheel (clicks)
- customization of main menu to remove irrelevant entries and can put browse by album (book title) at top of menu
- separate tactile buttons for play/pause and skip track (chapter). with the 4th gen iPod, these buttons were integrated into the scroll wheel like the iPod mini - much harder to use
- large storage capacity - each book is on average 500 MB
Isn't one of TCP's purposes to throttle connections when loss (=contention) in the core starts to affect a stream? This is a method by which multiple users can share the same public network without adversely affecting one another. This technology looks like it is working around this problem by adding redundancy to the orignal data and then flooding the network, ignoring any indications of contention. This smells pretty selfish to me and could cause problems to the public internet if this technology ever takes off in large enough numbers.
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I have both Wind and Mobilicity accounts (multiple devices for testing) and am very happy. However, keep in mind that both offer only 3G services on the AWS frequency band (same as T-Mobile). You can not use these data plans on non 3G AWS devices (no GPRS/Edge or "standard" frequencies at all).
Simple 3-way handshake and boom, datastream.
Actually, that isn't quite true.
After the TCP handshake, Telnet will negotiate options related to the session (see the command structure defined in RFC 854). These are done with high byte values (240 through 255) and control things like local echo. If the service you are talking to doesn't correctly ignore these sequences, then they can corrupt the data stream.
netcat is generally a better choice for connecting to generic services that use ASCII command sets.
I think absolutely, ISP's should be allowed to provide faster bandwidth for sites where companies have agreed to pay for delivering content to the consumer at faster transfer rates.
Without adding additional resources (which cost a lot of money), this can only be done by slowing down other traffic. Although blocking is unlikely, slowing down other traffic can make these services unusable, without actually "blocking" that traffic (think 1 frame per second YouTube). This will force the other services to also pay for the fast lane but only the largest sites will be able to afford this.
Say goodbye to new innovative services, especially those that compete with the business models of existing media conglomerates. Free or low-cost services like Skype, Facetime, etc. whose business models depend on equitable sharing of bandwidth will no longer be able to survive in their current form (think monthly fees, no free version). Anything not blessed by the big guys won't have a chance. An example of a big guy in the US: the new Comcast after the upcoming merger.
Yes, it is possible that an ISP could add new resources ($$$) so that the other traffic is not slowed, but think of the business case. In my example, the only cost is some DPI to classify the traffic and you get much more revenue by charging everyone who can afford it more money.
Lower cost + higher revenue + control = BINGO!
It's worse than you think. If we are all told to stay in our seats 60 minutes before the expected landing time and then the plane is put into a 30 minute hold by ATC (due to weather, traffic congestion, etc.), and then another 30 minute hold, and so on, then it can easily become 2 hours or more that a planeload of passengers aren't allowed to go to the washroom. Result: a lot of wet seats and "pissed" off passengers.
What prevents them from warehousing the sample until such time that they can extract, process and store more information than they can today? Who knows how far DNA technology and storage technology will progress in 5, 10, 20 years? Very scary stuff
If you are a Canadian and use an ISP that has a bandwidth cap, then you are using the wrong ISP. As both the phone companies and cable companies are legislated/required to resell their last-mile infrastructure to all ISPs, there is a huge choice for Canadians. I have a 5Mbps/1Mbps DSL connection, no caps, no port filtering, servers permitted.
In fact, I just did a quick search using http://canadianisp.com/ and there are over 60 ISPs who will sell me Internet access. Do NOT stick with the "incumbent" carriers (Rogers and Bell in my area). They offer the worst service, have caps (either explicit or hidden), filter ports, disallow servers and their customer service has been outsourced to Asia.
Gnome power manager has looked after cpufreq scaling since at least Edgy. You can choose between three profiles - always high, always low, or on demand.
Steve, You problem may be that most X10 modules allow a small leakage current even when turned off. They use this current to detect when the load is removed and then replaced, which is an alternative method of turning on the module. Search the web for methods of disabling this detection circuit within the module - it is usually just a case of cutting one leg of a diode or capacitor.
The reason for the coral cache link was that is still contained the content that Google later removed. Not sure if it still does, of course, as the cache contents may have expired.
Here is is: http://wifi.google.com.nyud.net:8090/faq.html
Here's a link to the main university website: http://www.queensu.ca/ For those not familiar with it, Queen's is one of the top engineering schools in Canada. It is located in Kingston, Ontario (on Lake Ontario in fact).
There is a standardized format for talking books on CD called DAISY. My mother is blind and I put together a PERL script that takes a DAISY cd, extracts the title/author/chapter information from the DAISY index file and then embeds that as MP3 tags at the end of the MP3s. I then load that onto an iPod so that she can carry around 10-20 books with her without having to carry the fairly large DAISY reader. Huge benefits of the iPod (3rd gen, not 4th): - audible feedback when you push a button or use the scroll wheel (clicks) - customization of main menu to remove irrelevant entries and can put browse by album (book title) at top of menu - separate tactile buttons for play/pause and skip track (chapter). with the 4th gen iPod, these buttons were integrated into the scroll wheel like the iPod mini - much harder to use - large storage capacity - each book is on average 500 MB
Isn't one of TCP's purposes to throttle connections when loss (=contention) in the core starts to affect a stream? This is a method by which multiple users can share the same public network without adversely affecting one another. This technology looks like it is working around this problem by adding redundancy to the orignal data and then flooding the network, ignoring any indications of contention. This smells pretty selfish to me and could cause problems to the public internet if this technology ever takes off in large enough numbers.