Notice where it says '70 countries' on the Foxtel page. Hmm.. Comcast, it's not only your customers that will be pissed. Oh, while your on the first page (NCable), feel free to sympathise with the fact that bandwidth is so darn expensive down here (Australia) when 1) You need it outside a captial city 2) The 'Big 4' will make it hard for you.
In the forced localized version of Google here in Australia, all I see is a) AXA official web sites b) An ad for a local mortgage firm. No compeditors. Obviously the validility of this lawsuit varies from country to country.
In the interests of full disclosure: I am an AXA Australia shareholder.
And what is your damn reason for not even trying 2.6 in the first place? Of course, Debian does give you a choice by way of dpkg. Don't like it? Just find yourself another package, or build it yourself with your selection of packages etc. Overclockers Australia runs 2.6.5 on both www and db. AFAIK the mem usage is high due to the use of some caching and accelerator tools. Both servers are quite new run Slackware and replaced a single Dual PIII 1GHz which started having high usage problems since a few months back. Peak time slowdowns are a thing of the past now.
All my computers run 2.6 series kernels and I have never experianced problems with them at all. The performance is higher (my machines do distributed computing stuff all the time) and I my laptop is even faster booting into KDE than Windows now (couldn't beat Windows on 2.4)
Unfortunately for this sort of problem, there isn't an email equivalent to a Usenet Death Penalty (UDP).
We could always IDP them.
It will block legitimate stuff (but who here needs to communicate with them, anyway? I can imagine some business people, but other than that, no.)
I can't believe ISP's like Qwest will waste some bandwidth on providing these idiots with a pipe mainly to do one thing - spam the ass out of us.
Some ISP's here in Australia are probably unfortunate victims of spam, too. There is a "big 4" group of ISP's here (Telstra, Optus, MCI, AAPT/Connect/TelecomNZ). If a small ISP runs their own network somewhere (but lets say, runs the rest of their customer base off Connect, Telstra's or Veridas managed services) and puts mail servers etc. on it and ends up with a insane backbone agreement, they will pay just to have spam routed to their mail servers. No firewall control will stop the dollars.
Aww shat, my school is going to make me spend one school term over there and net there is already bad:(
Hopefully the 'educational' centre I'm going to won't block FTP, incoming POP/outgoing SMTP and SSH or I will scream:( (all required to maintain operation of my website for two months).
Parent ins troll, but anyway, Easy for us, but a 'normal' user doesn't want to hunt down a program executable in Explorer/Konqueror/Nautillus (have you viewed your/usr/bin recently?) and click on a executable. They want to be able to go to a Start/K/G menu, nativate to the application name and run it from there. They don't want to see the 'guts' of an app.
I watched Bloomberg for a bit on Sunday, and they work on a model that charges customers for excess bandwidth beyond their allocation, and expect their customers to use more 'features' of their service as their bandwidth demands grow..
I agree with the AC post above. I've used PostgreSQL before and I love it. Try reverse engineering (get lost billy) and replacing a [proprietary] MS SQL based app that uses cross-table relationships heavily with a MySQL based app. It was easier with PostgreSQL.
But, NVIDIA's Quadro lineup *ARE* PCB Hacked consumer cards. Some PCI ID(or BIOS for the NV3x cards) hacking can get you a Quadro out of a GeForce easily, minus the extra video memory present on the Quadro's. I've done this heaps of times with my GeForce4 Ti 4200 8x (to a Quadro 780 XGL and even a 980 XGL) and I believe people have done it with the NV3x/FX cards as well.
This film renderer is different. It uses the GPU and CPU together as powerful floating point processors (not sure if gelato does anything more than that).
Being Australian, I can tell you that broadband here is... a joke.
It's cheaper for me to keep my unlimited everything dialup connection and download as much as I want and pay local call charges every five hours than get even a 256/64 connection.
SF.net is getting a little slow. They didn't start upgrading their Dual PIII servers to something newer until recently. I decided to move Jazilla's website to my own webhost because SF.net's MySQL was getting so damn slow. I've never looked back.
My experiances with Mantis are ugly and buggy some much that I decided to go back to the SF.net bug tracker.
The nForce 1-2 (and therefore Xbox) appears to be a revamped AMD design anyway. Notice that a lot of AMD Athlon 32-bit chipset drivers in the Linux kernel also have nForce marked on them..
The Planet/ServerMatrix do a simular thing. They get those shelves and just dump ATX towers. See a live picture here. (Warning: Java applet). I feel sorry for the support guy there.
Personally, for my home clustering project where Mini-ITX is not a option and I don't have real room for towers, I'm going to pick up some Jaycar 2U Rackmounts for AUS $95. Keep in mind that I don't need to place hard drives etc. in there, and that my power supply needs will be taken care of externally.
For other Linux distros, if someone were to say that, depending on what kind of hardware you were talking about I have to turn around and scream "BULLSHIT!".
I'm currently doing volunteer work for the local pc recycling shop (The exact same one which got fucked over by Microsoft years ago for piracy), and we loaded Slackware, KDE 3.0 and OpenOffice on an old Digital Veritas FX which has a Pentium MMX 166 and 64meg of SDRAM (after I added another 32MB stick because it's original 32 made OpenOffice choke).
OpenOffice took around 1 min 30 seconds to load, but it works.
I'm currently doing volunteer work at the local PC recycling center*, and in a lot of cases I we simply end up pulling apart the crap that comes our way.
There is a whole pit full of monitors, arranged as if they were balls in a ball pit. One of the guys there tried taking one out and ended up destroying a whole bunch of them when the whole stack collapsed. Oops. A lot of monitors also fail the day long soak test too.
At least we can get something useful out of old stuff. We have two boxes full of copper from monitor deguassing coils which supposedly could score us $100 AUD, and boxes full of metals. Sad part comes when I end up pulling old 386's and 486's that fail to meet minimum requirements (100MHz Pentiums, 32MB's of RAM minimum. Must run OpenOffice.org on Win95 or Linux).
If you want to know what stuff ends up in the frag bin, I demolished two boxes full of old Colorado Memory Systems tape drives and 33k modems within two hours. It's just a simple flat head screwdriver job: Wack the plastic cover off, remove PCB and dump it, remove metals and place in recycling bin.
* Yes, it's the one that got fucked over by M$ for licensing. We currently put Linux on a few systems, but unfortunately, we end up scrambling for copies of Windoze because the recipients want to run f**king Macromedia Director based "educational" programs.
ReactOS already has their explorer replacement running natively on ReactOS and WinXP.
KDE and GNOME wouldn't be that hard. It would really only involve usage of native ports of their respective toolkits (Qt Win32 non commercial edition and GTK+2)
Keep in mind there are other alternatives like LiteStep etc.
Very true. Australian bandwidth stinks. Sure, the Southern Cross Cable linking Oceania with the U.S is pretty phat, but it's costs are too big. ISP's here tend to run transparent proxies (I have a ADSL ISP blacklist of ISP's I won't go with for that reason. At least my dialup ISP, iPrimus isn't stupid enough) in order to keep costs down. Well, instead of trying to cut costs on the ISP side, why don't they try to make Australian->US bandwidth less expensive?
It's probably cheaper to dump a server in a US colo facility overall than dump it in a Australian colo and watch yourself get Slashed/Farked no matter what your primary demographic for your website is:(
I'm 13 and I'm already reselling for a webhost (not joking, but only to geeky friends at the moment), not to mention the lead Jazilla developer + a whole lot of other stuff.
I refuse to disclose my financial status except to say that I'm in the black and don't have any debt to anybody:)
You can believe me or not believe me on this one..
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Comcast should realise that some international viewers might get pissed.
Notice where it says '70 countries' on the Foxtel page. Hmm.. Comcast, it's not only your customers that will be pissed. Oh, while your on the first page (NCable), feel free to sympathise with the fact that bandwidth is so darn expensive down here (Australia) when 1) You need it outside a captial city 2) The 'Big 4' will make it hard for you.
Ah, that rings a bell!
They did indeed stop providing general web search a few years back. I remembered going there once when they announced it.
In the forced localized version of Google here in Australia, all I see is a) AXA official web sites b) An ad for a local mortgage firm. No compeditors. Obviously the validility of this lawsuit varies from country to country.
In the interests of full disclosure: I am an AXA Australia shareholder.
And what is your damn reason for not even trying 2.6 in the first place? Of course, Debian does give you a choice by way of dpkg. Don't like it? Just find yourself another package, or build it yourself with your selection of packages etc.
Overclockers Australia runs 2.6.5 on both www and db.
AFAIK the mem usage is high due to the use of some caching and accelerator tools. Both servers are quite new run Slackware and replaced a single Dual PIII 1GHz which started having high usage problems since a few months back. Peak time slowdowns are a thing of the past now.
All my computers run 2.6 series kernels and I have never experianced problems with them at all. The performance is higher (my machines do distributed computing stuff all the time) and I my laptop is even faster booting into KDE than Windows now (couldn't beat Windows on 2.4)
Unfortunately for this sort of problem, there isn't an email equivalent to a Usenet Death Penalty (UDP).
We could always IDP them.
It will block legitimate stuff (but who here needs to communicate with them, anyway? I can imagine some business people, but other than that, no.)
I can't believe ISP's like Qwest will waste some bandwidth on providing these idiots with a pipe mainly to do one thing - spam the ass out of us.
Some ISP's here in Australia are probably unfortunate victims of spam, too. There is a "big 4" group of ISP's here (Telstra, Optus, MCI, AAPT/Connect/TelecomNZ). If a small ISP runs their own network somewhere (but lets say, runs the rest of their customer base off Connect, Telstra's or Veridas managed services) and puts mail servers etc. on it and ends up with a insane backbone agreement, they will pay just to have spam routed to their mail servers. No firewall control will stop the dollars.
Aww shat, my school is going to make me spend one school term over there and net there is already bad :(
:(
Hopefully the 'educational' centre I'm going to won't block FTP, incoming POP/outgoing SMTP and SSH or I will scream
(all required to maintain operation of my website for two months).
Parent ins troll, but anyway, Easy for us, but a 'normal' user doesn't want to hunt down a program executable in Explorer/Konqueror/Nautillus (have you viewed your /usr/bin recently?) and click on a executable. They want to be able to go to a Start/K/G menu, nativate to the application name and run it from there. They don't want to see the 'guts' of an app.
I watched Bloomberg for a bit on Sunday, and they work on a model that charges customers for excess bandwidth beyond their allocation, and expect their customers to use more 'features' of their service as their bandwidth demands grow..
I agree with the AC post above. I've used PostgreSQL before and I love it. Try reverse engineering (get lost billy) and replacing a [proprietary] MS SQL based app that uses cross-table relationships heavily with a MySQL based app. It was easier with PostgreSQL.
But, NVIDIA's Quadro lineup *ARE* PCB Hacked consumer cards. Some PCI ID(or BIOS for the NV3x cards) hacking can get you a Quadro out of a GeForce easily, minus the extra video memory present on the Quadro's. I've done this heaps of times with my GeForce4 Ti 4200 8x (to a Quadro 780 XGL and even a 980 XGL) and I believe people have done it with the NV3x/FX cards as well.
This film renderer is different. It uses the GPU and CPU together as powerful floating point processors (not sure if gelato does anything more than that).
Being Australian, I can tell you that broadband here is... a joke.
It's cheaper for me to keep my unlimited everything dialup connection and download as much as I want and pay local call charges every five hours than get even a 256/64 connection.
SF.net is getting a little slow. They didn't start upgrading their Dual PIII servers to something newer until recently. I decided to move Jazilla's website to my own webhost because SF.net's MySQL was getting so damn slow. I've never looked back.
My experiances with Mantis are ugly and buggy some much that I decided to go back to the SF.net bug tracker.
More info at http://www.libertus.net/censor/know.html#bh.
I get sick of listening to that tard on parliament broadcasts.
That was the Queens incident soon after 9/11 involving a American Airlines Airbus A300.
The nForce 1-2 (and therefore Xbox) appears to be a revamped AMD design anyway. Notice that a lot of AMD Athlon 32-bit chipset drivers in the Linux kernel also have nForce marked on them..
dxglwrap.
The Planet/ServerMatrix do a simular thing. They get those shelves and just dump ATX towers. See a live picture here. (Warning: Java applet). I feel sorry for the support guy there.
Personally, for my home clustering project where Mini-ITX is not a option and I don't have real room for towers, I'm going to pick up some Jaycar 2U Rackmounts for AUS $95. Keep in mind that I don't need to place hard drives etc. in there, and that my power supply needs will be taken care of externally.
Lin----?, well, nope.
For other Linux distros, if someone were to say that, depending on what kind of hardware you were talking about I have to turn around and scream "BULLSHIT!".
I'm currently doing volunteer work for the local pc recycling shop (The exact same one which got fucked over by Microsoft years ago for piracy), and we loaded Slackware, KDE 3.0 and OpenOffice on an old Digital Veritas FX which has a Pentium MMX 166 and 64meg of SDRAM (after I added another 32MB stick because it's original 32 made OpenOffice choke).
OpenOffice took around 1 min 30 seconds to load, but it works.
I'm currently doing volunteer work at the local PC recycling center*, and in a lot of cases I we simply end up pulling apart the crap that comes our way.
There is a whole pit full of monitors, arranged as if they were balls in a ball pit. One of the guys there tried taking one out and ended up destroying a whole bunch of them when the whole stack collapsed. Oops. A lot of monitors also fail the day long soak test too.
At least we can get something useful out of old stuff. We have two boxes full of copper from monitor deguassing coils which supposedly could score us $100 AUD, and boxes full of metals. Sad part comes when I end up pulling old 386's and 486's that fail to meet minimum requirements (100MHz Pentiums, 32MB's of RAM minimum. Must run OpenOffice.org on Win95 or Linux).
If you want to know what stuff ends up in the frag bin, I demolished two boxes full of old Colorado Memory Systems tape drives and 33k modems within two hours. It's just a simple flat head screwdriver job: Wack the plastic cover off, remove PCB and dump it, remove metals and place in recycling bin.
* Yes, it's the one that got fucked over by M$ for licensing. We currently put Linux on a few systems, but unfortunately, we end up scrambling for copies of Windoze because the recipients want to run f**king Macromedia Director based "educational" programs.
Most ISP's put a limit of a few megs on attachments you can send through their server anyway.
ReactOS already has their explorer replacement running natively on ReactOS and WinXP.
KDE and GNOME wouldn't be that hard. It would really only involve usage of native ports of their respective toolkits (Qt Win32 non commercial edition and GTK+2)
Keep in mind there are other alternatives like LiteStep etc.
And in other news, The DoD runs The site www.darpa.mil is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 .
grandchallenge.org has timed out for Netcraft, but I assume they run the same thing.
Very true. Australian bandwidth stinks. Sure, the Southern Cross Cable linking Oceania with the U.S is pretty phat, but it's costs are too big. ISP's here tend to run transparent proxies (I have a ADSL ISP blacklist of ISP's I won't go with for that reason. At least my dialup ISP, iPrimus isn't stupid enough) in order to keep costs down. Well, instead of trying to cut costs on the ISP side, why don't they try to make Australian->US bandwidth less expensive?
:(
It's probably cheaper to dump a server in a US colo facility overall than dump it in a Australian colo and watch yourself get Slashed/Farked no matter what your primary demographic for your website is
I noticed once that my local bowling alley used DRDOS for Scoring. Somebody managed to crash it once by bowling the ball at the wrong time :(
Yeah, you do :)
:)
I'm 13 and I'm already reselling for a webhost (not joking, but only to geeky friends at the moment), not to mention the lead Jazilla developer + a whole lot of other stuff.
I refuse to disclose my financial status except to say that I'm in the black and don't have any debt to anybody
You can believe me or not believe me on this one..