I wouldn't call the above statement pathetic. Ever heard of how hard Telstra makes it to put 3rd party DSLAM's in exchanges (remember: Telstra's wholesale DSL network is limited to 1500/236k)?
They literally force you to give them the equipment for free and pay the monthly maintenence charge for it.
The two teams in question are from Kardinia International College in Australia. Mr Ernie Follet is a stupid humorous house leader who is always wrong (NOT!) and Mr Dale Clohesy is a sport teacher at my school. (don't be suprised if anyone hears excess swearing or blowing of whistles, it's common).
I can't let out any design secrets, not that I know any:) Well, I did chip in a $4 AUD donation in a raffle they were holding to raise air fares and the bastards stole all the soldering irons from my last electronics class to do last minute touch ups:(.Oh, they aren't using the gray color coding on the field to help navigate, so it's up to their radio control skills.
All the testing was done on a big green table set up to look like a soccer field (AFAIK, I can't guarantee the accuracy of this information).
It will be interesting to see how well they perform, after all, I myself might be on the school/Australian team in a few years:)
At the school I attend where laptops are compulsory items, I switched my entire school work over to Linux (OpenOffice, Ximian Evolution, Mozilla etc.) and run Windows under VMware with the NAT bridge option for programs that I need and don't run under Wine (Crocodile Technology etc.).
I have never sufferred any downtime since other than hardware. I laugh at Windows users who get viruses now and then. Heck, my school admin had to set up a Windoze group policy to autoupdate every windows machine in the school after someone came in with Slammer again (we had MSSQL for an app we used to use, but binned it. It's the laptops with old images of school software that worry everybody).
So Linux for student use is possible. The only comments I get are that KDE is a cluttered piece of cr*p compared to the simple Windows taskbar with a start button.
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The Conexant (who bought wireless off Intersil) Prism54 chipset has a feature called 'Nitro' mode which allows b and g clients to work together in the same environment.
I don't think the chipset is as widely used as it's 802.11b counterpart, the Prism 2 though.
Have a look at TransACT who have cabled up the Australian captial, Canberra with FTTC. Customers get phone, internet (VDSL, with the customer allowed to choose provider) and digital TV.
It's possibly depending what cable you have in the ground/on the poles.
Now, I wish I had FTTC or FTTH where I live instead of some shitty 2-wire Tel$tra Copper or Hybrid Fibre Coax by a provider that charges too much.
In Australia, sending traffic to the U.S is cheaper than sending traffic accross the road to Telstra, Optus, MCI or AAPT where you get billed per the MB since they refuse to peer with anyone else.
Practically every leecher in Australia has an ISP who doesn't charge traffic to ISPs who peer in IX'es in the same state. (i.e PIPE Networks IX and WAIX)
And for people who don't know what low end broadband is priced like here, the cheapest are around $30 AUD for a 256/64 ADSL connection shaped (down to 28.8k or something around that) after 200-300MB. Some ISP's used to bill ~15c per MB, after that though, and customers got pissed. Value varies from ISP to ISP though. Some ISP's offer shaped after limit or prioritised bandwidth (unlimited) plans, some offer free peering exchange traffic in the same state* and some just offer you a plain net connection. Have a look at Broadband Choice. Before anyone wonders, 1500/256k is the ADSL limitation here, except where ISP's have installed their own DSLAM's.
* If anyone is wondering, some ISP's promote this since the big 4 (Telstra, Optus, MCI, AAPT/TelecomNZ) here refuse to peer with smaller ISP's (they charge for transfers). SprintLink actually AS Path Stuffed traffic to the US and back in order to avoid paying Telstra. This means avoid the AARNet mirror and others (The OptusNet SF.net mirror and PlanetMirror) if you happen to be in Queensland and NSW and if your ISP doesn't happen to be a reseller of AAPT's DSL wholesale or someone else with generous arrangements with the group of four. (Which happens to be... nobody)
In two years, WINE has improved a lot. So, what can they run that WINE (and/or a devirative of it, like winex or Codeweavers) can't?
And read this: We are currently testing and updating our basic system architecture/design, which now uses a combination of open, free and proprietary code/modules from numerous sources. That sounds great. Erm, doesn't the LGPL allow you to link to LGPL code from non-GPL complaint code, but not include LGPL code in an application not licensed under a GPL-compliant license (AFAIK)?
I ran my system without swap for a while. I never really needed swap until I tried playing UT2003. At the time it only had 256MB of RAM and I had been running 2.6.0-testX kernels.
Actually, thats exactly what I'm using. (2.6.5-mm3, which already has them. Strange since DMA works fine on my desktop with the same kernel). I'm going to build a vanilla 2.6.5, 2.6.5 + laptop mode and a 2.6.6 kernel on my laptop tonight and I'll see how it goes.
A few years ago when people didn't always care about accuracy of search results (I for one, didn't give bugger all about accuracy), one of the good points of Google is that the search pages weren't polluted with 468x68 banner ads (which made loading search results faster).
This is only going backwards. Text Ads are cool. Images aren't.
Laptop mode definitely helps, but as a side effect DMA is disabled for laptops now (well, atleast on my Acer TravelMate 274), which hampers startup performance a little.
Current breed of Pentium M's are pin-for-pin compatible with Socket 478 Pentium 4's, but appear to use a different type of GTL+ signalling. I guess that Intel will release a Pentium M version for LGA 778 (the new socket).
Finally, Intel realises that some long pipeline design with zero decent hardware rotation (up to Prescott), requiring huge cache and big clockspeed isn't that good.
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I wouldn't call the above statement pathetic. Ever heard of how hard Telstra makes it to put 3rd party DSLAM's in exchanges (remember: Telstra's wholesale DSL network is limited to 1500/236k)?
They literally force you to give them the equipment for free and pay the monthly maintenence charge for it.
They happen to be good USPTO staff candidates.
Don't you see the patern? Slashdot = dupes. USPTO = dupes.
Neither check over for any prior news stories/prior art.
Same here too.
I was in Cebu earlier this year and the rate at the Xtreme Internet cafe in Poblacino (sp?) was a lot lot lower than I thought it was going to be.
Keep in mind that everyone there plays CS, not access teh intarweb.
Wait until I get assimulated by the borg. I can piraH^H^H^H^share my waH^H^thoughts with the piraH^H^H^H^ collective.
Two teams from my school down here in Australia are competing in the Junior soccer competition.
:) Well, I did chip in a $4 AUD donation in a raffle they were holding to raise air fares and the bastards stole all the soldering irons from my last electronics class to do last minute touch ups :( .Oh, they aren't using the gray color coding on the field to help navigate, so it's up to their radio control skills.
:)
The two teams in question are from Kardinia International College in Australia. Mr Ernie Follet is a stupid humorous house leader who is always wrong (NOT!) and Mr Dale Clohesy is a sport teacher at my school. (don't be suprised if anyone hears excess swearing or blowing of whistles, it's common).
I can't let out any design secrets, not that I know any
All the testing was done on a big green table set up to look like a soccer field
(AFAIK, I can't guarantee the accuracy of this information).
It will be interesting to see how well they perform, after all, I myself might be on the school/Australian team in a few years
He's referring to the earlier attempt to push Coppermine to 1.13GHz, which failed miserably.
At the school I attend where laptops are compulsory items, I switched my entire school work over to Linux (OpenOffice, Ximian Evolution, Mozilla etc.) and run Windows under VMware with the NAT bridge option for programs that I need and don't run under Wine (Crocodile Technology etc.).
I have never sufferred any downtime since other than hardware.
I laugh at Windows users who get viruses now and then. Heck, my school admin had to set up a Windoze group policy to autoupdate every windows machine in the school after someone came in with Slammer again (we had MSSQL for an app we used to use, but binned it. It's the laptops with old images of school software that worry everybody).
So Linux for student use is possible. The only comments I get are that KDE is a cluttered piece of cr*p compared to the simple Windows taskbar with a start button.
The Conexant (who bought wireless off Intersil) Prism54 chipset has a feature called 'Nitro' mode which allows b and g clients to work together in the same environment.
I don't think the chipset is as widely used as it's 802.11b counterpart, the Prism 2 though.
My 5+ year old V.90 56k modem is being used right now on my router box (external, serial, conexant/rockwell chipset).
My laptop has a Intel 537 internal modem. Got them working with the SmartLink drivers.
Think Fibre-To-The-Curb.
Have a look at TransACT who have cabled up the Australian captial, Canberra with FTTC. Customers get phone, internet (VDSL, with the customer allowed to choose provider) and digital TV.
It's possibly depending what cable you have in the ground/on the poles.
Now, I wish I had FTTC or FTTH where I live instead of some shitty 2-wire Tel$tra Copper or Hybrid Fibre Coax by a provider that charges too much.
Googling turned up this. (look at bottom).
It appears to be an unnumbered spare (identical to 10&11) that has been built, but not used.
Expensive?
In Australia, sending traffic to the U.S is cheaper than sending traffic accross the road to Telstra, Optus, MCI or AAPT where you get billed per the MB since they refuse to peer with anyone else.
Practically every leecher in Australia has an ISP who doesn't charge traffic to ISPs who peer in IX'es in the same state. (i.e PIPE Networks IX and WAIX)
Just ask SprintLink.
Thats it. I'm suing Darl for making a mockery of my family name.
And for people who don't know what low end broadband is priced like here, the cheapest are around $30 AUD for a 256/64 ADSL connection shaped (down to 28.8k or something around that) after 200-300MB. Some ISP's used to bill ~15c per MB, after that though, and customers got pissed.
Value varies from ISP to ISP though. Some ISP's offer shaped after limit or prioritised bandwidth (unlimited) plans, some offer free peering exchange traffic in the same state* and some just offer you a plain net connection. Have a look at Broadband Choice. Before anyone wonders, 1500/256k is the ADSL limitation here, except where ISP's have installed their own DSLAM's.
* If anyone is wondering, some ISP's promote this since the big 4 (Telstra, Optus, MCI, AAPT/TelecomNZ) here refuse to peer with smaller ISP's (they charge for transfers). SprintLink actually AS Path Stuffed traffic to the US and back in order to avoid paying Telstra. This means avoid the AARNet mirror and others (The OptusNet SF.net mirror and PlanetMirror) if you happen to be in Queensland and NSW and if your ISP doesn't happen to be a reseller of AAPT's DSL wholesale or someone else with generous arrangements with the group of four. (Which happens to be... nobody)
I don't know about every web host, but any cheap arse virtual host in a decent datacentre should be able to handle it... for a while.
The person who submitted this story is one stupid idiot. Heck, even hosting a mirror in ISP user webspace would be better.
* Disclaimer: I operate a virtual webhost in a "decent colo", more specifically, The Planet
Two years does sound like an exaggeration.
In two years, WINE has improved a lot. So, what can they run that WINE (and/or a devirative of it, like winex or Codeweavers) can't?
And read this:
We are currently testing and updating our basic system architecture/design, which now uses a combination of open, free and proprietary code/modules from numerous sources.
That sounds great. Erm, doesn't the LGPL allow you to link to LGPL code from non-GPL complaint code, but not include LGPL code in an application not licensed under a GPL-compliant license (AFAIK)?
So, when will my Linksys SOHO router do OSPF BGP routing?
I ran my system without swap for a while. I never really needed swap until I tried playing UT2003. At the time it only had 256MB of RAM and I had been running 2.6.0-testX kernels.
Yep. Our New Zealand friends have to face the hell.
Actually, thats exactly what I'm using. (2.6.5-mm3, which already has them. Strange since DMA works fine on my desktop with the same kernel).
I'm going to build a vanilla 2.6.5, 2.6.5 + laptop mode and a 2.6.6 kernel on my laptop tonight and I'll see how it goes.
A few years ago when people didn't always care about accuracy of search results (I for one, didn't give bugger all about accuracy), one of the good points of Google is that the search pages weren't polluted with 468x68 banner ads (which made loading search results faster).
This is only going backwards. Text Ads are cool. Images aren't.
The SpamCop we are talking about here is not spamcop.com (which this /. article links to), it is spamcop.net.
Hmm, what idiot provides this guys bandwidth?
Laptop mode definitely helps, but as a side effect DMA is disabled for laptops now (well, atleast on my Acer TravelMate 274), which hampers startup performance a little.
Remember NVIDIA's Gelato, which was released a few weeks ago?
Gelato uses the GPU as a floating point processor, in addition to the CPU. I would still love to see a movie rendered in realtime with OpenGL, though.
Current breed of Pentium M's are pin-for-pin compatible with Socket 478 Pentium 4's, but appear to use a different type of GTL+ signalling. I guess that Intel will release a Pentium M version for LGA 778 (the new socket).
Finally, Intel realises that some long pipeline design with zero decent hardware rotation (up to Prescott), requiring huge cache and big clockspeed isn't that good.