Thats why I suggested, download - install - upload for 5 minutes - disconnect.
I believe thats all it would take to work on a large scale without tie-rashing everyones bandwidth
There's got to be something better than the random mirror system used now - about 50% of the time I get a dud FTP mirror which i have to cancel and restart until i get a decent one
If Firefox incorporated a bittorrent agent inside the browser for updates. Simple click and launch a bittorrent download - then install followed by some minimal upload time - say 5 minutes of bandwidth
I've found that opening links in "Tabs" within the same instance of Firefox will nuke all popups that you may come across. Right click the link and select open in new tab
If however, you simply double-click a link in Firefox, it can be easily fooled into generating a pop-under
I use drudgereport.com or cracks.am as a test - just try those sites with IE!
In this case - the speed of light (speed of the electromagnetic spectrum) is just not fast enough for VOIP - no matter how much bandwidth or QOSing you want to do.
Think of what you see when you're watching someone on the news "live" from somewhere via satelite. There is at least a full 1-2 second delay before he/she responds to a question. Thats the speed of light delay causing that, you've hit a brick wall of physics.
You may still use VOIP - and the quality will not be bad - but dont expect any kind of normal telephone experience. You (and the people you talk to) could get used to a kind of walkie-talkie VOIP experience that may be the best.
Which is going to kill us first - The Ice age or Global warming? - Would they cancel each other out? Should we all do our part to save mother earth by going out right now and buying Humvees to stave off the next ice age?
Everyone forfits about half the bill of rights now whenever you get behind the wheel of car.
The - "its a privilage - not a right" - argument is always trotted out on stories like these.
Its always interesting to see how government reacts to things they call "privilages" - they immediately curtail rights in a very predictable kneejerk fashion.
This is why governments suck and (as our founding fathers knew) you need to keep an iron boot of restraint on the neck of government otherwise you end up being abused.
I know the obligitory jokes and MS bashing will now commence - but IMHO this platform represented a major breakthrough for MS. It was the first truely "ready for prime time" platform from Redmond.
NT4 Workstation was state of the art at the time - NT Server 4.0 was pretty damn stable and was the first really big Novell killer.
Sure it wasn't perfect - Sure it wasn't secure - but give it its props - this was a decent platform
Lets say you got a really kick ass home PC running XP Pro -
Step 1 - Turn on remote desktop (RDP) on the good PC Step 2 - Run a Cat 5 out to the shed - or use WIFI Step 3 - Download and burn a PXES CD http://pxes.sourceforge.net Step 4 - Go to a local PC Recycler and pick up some $10 POS PC with a CD-ROM in it
Use the piece of crap PC in your shed using PXES to connect/remote control the good PC in the house - then who cares about dust filters - special keyboards etc....
I'm a big proponent of thin client computing - the only problem is that WYSE and others want a little too much money for the "thin" client ($300 and up!)
I was perplexed - until I found this
http://pxes.sourceforge.net/
Linux to the rescue! - this is a very tiny Linux distro which will turn any old piece o junk with either a bootable NIC (PXES) or a bootable CD - into a full blown thin client for X-Windows, ICA (Citrix) or RDP (Windows Terminal Services)
I suggest visiting a computer recycler/wholesaler and score some basic PII or PIII boxes and some monitors - Try and get a group of identical PC's - this will greatly assist in configuration.
Takes a little bit of patience to config/setup - but it works like a charm
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Agreed -
Thats why I suggested, download - install - upload for 5 minutes - disconnect.
I believe thats all it would take to work on a large scale without tie-rashing everyones bandwidth
There's got to be something better than the random mirror system used now - about 50% of the time I get a dud FTP mirror which i have to cancel and restart until i get a decent one
It's not perfect -Its just a thought.
If Firefox incorporated a bittorrent agent inside the browser for updates. Simple click and launch a bittorrent download - then install followed by some minimal upload time - say 5 minutes of bandwidth
... heh heh
that would be cool
Only MS has a monopoly on bad security press! How dare you! All others are secure!
I mean if other OS's get popular they cant possibly be as insecure as the satanic MS!
Thats your brain cooking from the cordless phone radiation ...
Lets see 5% of $0.00 is .....
1.5 meg for 30 bux?!?!?!? whats the BFD?
... whats the BFD?
... then we'll be kicking ass and taking names ....
I can get 3.0 mps for $29.95 from SBC (the Satanic Bastard Corporation) - so
Give my fiber to the home
Blocking extensions is pretty pointless ... how hard is it to rename before/after going thru a wall?
Doesn't pop up for me at all ..
You did say that you tweaked your browser to automatically generate tabs instead of windows - so maybe thats why you get them with Firefox.
I don't have that tweak - so every time I want to link to something I right click "open in new tab" and no popups - none
The snopes website has tons of pop ups when you normally click on stuff
I would undo your reghack
Good luck and thanks for the reply
Just curious - can you give an example website that does that?
I've found that opening links in "Tabs" within the same instance of Firefox will nuke all popups that you may come across. Right click the link and select open in new tab
If however, you simply double-click a link in Firefox, it can be easily fooled into generating a pop-under
I use drudgereport.com or cracks.am as a test - just try those sites with IE!
Firefox rocks!
In this case - the speed of light (speed of the electromagnetic spectrum) is just not fast enough for VOIP - no matter how much bandwidth or QOSing you want to do.
Think of what you see when you're watching someone on the news "live" from somewhere via satelite. There is at least a full 1-2 second delay before he/she responds to a question. Thats the speed of light delay causing that, you've hit a brick wall of physics.
You may still use VOIP - and the quality will not be bad - but dont expect any kind of normal telephone experience. You (and the people you talk to) could get used to a kind of walkie-talkie VOIP experience that may be the best.
Ok - the Xbox2 is out in November - Does that mean modchips and hacks in time for Christmas?!?!
Ok then - I give up
Which is going to kill us first - The Ice age or Global warming? - Would they cancel each other out?
Should we all do our part to save mother earth by going out right now and buying Humvees to stave off the next ice age?
Gee whiz - ya think?
Remember how the new "Ice Age" was comming? That was brought to us by the same group of hippies screaming about "global warming"
Until we get the political agendas out of mass media "Science", I ain't buying it
Everyone forfits about half the bill of rights now whenever you get behind the wheel of car.
The - "its a privilage - not a right" - argument is always trotted out on stories like these.
Its always interesting to see how government reacts to things they call "privilages" - they immediately curtail rights in a very predictable kneejerk fashion.
This is why governments suck and (as our founding fathers knew) you need to keep an iron boot of restraint on the neck of government otherwise you end up being abused.
I know the obligitory jokes and MS bashing will now commence - but IMHO this platform represented a major breakthrough for MS. It was the first truely "ready for prime time" platform from Redmond.
NT4 Workstation was state of the art at the time - NT Server 4.0 was pretty damn stable and was the first really big Novell killer.
Sure it wasn't perfect - Sure it wasn't secure - but give it its props - this was a decent platform
Good point -
....
Lets say you got a really kick ass home PC running XP Pro -
Step 1 - Turn on remote desktop (RDP) on the good PC
Step 2 - Run a Cat 5 out to the shed - or use WIFI
Step 3 - Download and burn a PXES CD http://pxes.sourceforge.net
Step 4 - Go to a local PC Recycler and pick up some $10 POS PC with a CD-ROM in it
Use the piece of crap PC in your shed using PXES to connect/remote control the good PC in the house - then who cares about dust filters - special keyboards etc
I mean they could have gotten away with it if they had avoided returning goods to the store.
I'm guessing this is how they got caught - all retailers track who you are whenever you return things
but they totally sucked this year - I have *expedited* Christmas gifts this year that wont make it until something like February ....
I hope they reinvest all those record profits into some fucking infrastructure which can handle the load next year.
... why all that human activity thousands of years ago was going on. You know all those caveman fires and farting. Yeah thats what caused it ...
I mean humans totally suck - lets kill them all for the planet's sake.
they would let me keep my slot machine winnings I got with that HERF gun ....
Lets hope that this gets pushed out to some businesses as well.
I mean - holy crap, we still design entire networks around the mighty "T1" (1536k, gee whiz!) and they cost a friggin fortune ($400 and up per month).
Is SBC (Satanic Bastard Corporation) ever gonna fucking invest some cash into the business infrastructure?
Personally I'm hoping that WiMAX really catches on as a replacement last mile option....
I'm a big proponent of thin client computing - the only problem is that WYSE and others want a little too much money for the "thin" client ($300 and up!)
I was perplexed - until I found this
http://pxes.sourceforge.net/
Linux to the rescue! - this is a very tiny Linux distro which will turn any old piece o junk with either a bootable NIC (PXES) or a bootable CD - into a full blown thin client for X-Windows, ICA (Citrix) or RDP (Windows Terminal Services)
I suggest visiting a computer recycler/wholesaler and score some basic PII or PIII boxes and some monitors - Try and get a group of identical PC's - this will greatly assist in configuration.
Takes a little bit of patience to config/setup - but it works like a charm
for them to figure this out ...
Most Nextel phones can be directly emailed to using phone#@blahblahnextel.com. (i'm not about to publish the actual address)
Pretty easy to generate an email list of every single phone number.
The big nightmare is that Nextel charges the USER by the character for this service.
Yikes!
fuck@you.com gets 1080 hits!