no they don't need to go tiered, they need to stop overselling.
frankly if you say unlimited internet then it should be just that - and not filtered.
if they weren't betting the profit margins on joe public only using 5% of his bandwidth, then they wouldn't have to worry about the people who use bittorrent 24/7.
they really should just adjust their pricing structures based on today's usage (they have the information they need in their logs) and not still be basing their usage plans on 1992's traffic.
you've got to love the isp's who market their services with slogans such as "faster music downloading" and then stop you dong it!
when i lived in the usa i got quite peeved by the way bills were just put into place by companies who "owned" congressmen and senators (dmca is a prime example). now i'm back in the uk the practice seems to have followed me - it wasn't my fault honest!
Can't we just standardise on eSATA rather than bothering updating Firewire and USB?
The drives in external enclosures are limited by SATA's speed, so why not just use an external version of SATA? 3Gbps, cabling up to 2 metres......
Frankly Firewire should be used for video cameras and USB should be used for flash card readers. eSATA should be used for external SATA drives (the clue is in the name!)
1. This has got to be so open for abuse - you'll be getting spammers paying people in third world countries to click the thumbs-up icon all day like they do with captcha's. Google searches will become like Wikipedia where you can't trust any of it!
2. If its anything like Digg, then idiots will be thumbing down everything as they don't understand it. Most of the time the things that would be modded up as Informative on Slashdot would be modded down on Digg as it seems to be populated by a bunch of teenagers.
3. If its anything like IMBB you'll get the zealots and fanatics making most of the effort - have you ever noticed just how out-of-touch the ratings seem to be these days - and what about all of the comments on there asking if there's any nudity in the film (i.e. Christians not liking it, not pr0n hunters).
Wow, a lot of RAID fanboys on here. Didn't anyone hear that RAID is not a substitute for backup, and frankly not what the op really needs/wants.
RAID mirrors one drive to another, yeah that's real useful if you get disk errors and it mirrors them, or you accidently delete a file and the deletion gets mirrored. A backup is where you have somewhere to get files back from, not just a copy of the useless drive you already have!
Just buy a cheap NAS (NSLUG or Walmart PC) or a USB/eSATA/Firewire enclosure and a big drive, and use rsync or whatever you fancy to backup your files to it. If you're really a risk taker you could just burn your data to DVD every now and then.
Does it really take an AskSlashdot, and haven't we already been through this?
1. reconstruct a tcp stream and figure out what is bittorrent traffic and what is ssh, ssl etc.
2. decrypt Bittorrent encryption.
3. put the psuedo-randomly-ordered chunks of torrent data into the final file[s] (requires downloading the whole thing).
4. put the rar files most p2p movies are contained in into one piece and decompress.
5. compare the divx with the footprint for the dvd they have (remembering that its all been recoded n-times and possibly editted/cropped a bit so the divx timescale/image is not much like the vobs).
and all in real-time/wire-speed! riiiiiiiiiight. good luck with that one videodna.
oh anyone know if stargate atlantis s04e08 is on thepiratebay yet?
disk and even network i/o is completely crap under virtualisation, so why people are virtualising databases and lately, storage (!) is beyond comprehension.
vms are good for things that use mostly ram and cpu (which are easy things to upgrade - you can't really make disks just go faster)
We have the National Health Service, treatment is free to residents - yeah not just citizens, hence the many European holidaymakers coming over for plastic surgery.
The Welsh and Scots get medication for free too - courtesy of the English taxpayers who just got a rise in prescription charges.
I guess it's a bit like the US paying 100m+ usd annually for Mexico and Canada's healthcare - great eh?!
Now whilst I agree T-Mobile is the sporn of satan of carriers, surely all mobile carriers will be blocking VOIP?
I mean if your main income is from charging 10p for sending a few bytes of SMS, or a Pound per minute for international mobile calls and someone comes along with a system that will do it for free and all you get is a few pence from a 3G data call, aren't you going to be pissed?
The mobile phone industry is the biggest rip-off racket since Microsoft selling protection from Linux patents.
Yeah, I know it looks like some dodgey mailer script, but it just uses Javascript form elements to fill in bits of their standard printer page, instead of making a proper URL. Of course GET vs. POST is not checked;-)
Seeing as how I can't seem to get any info from Apple's site about iTunes, without installing it, could someone answer a few questions please?
1. Are the non-DRM files just Apple's broken AAC "MP4", or can we chose MP3 (or FLAC/Ogg)?
2. If #1 is not possible, is re-converting to Ogg/MP3 from a 256k AAC going to sound worse than a 128k MP3 encoded from a CD directly?
3. How much are they per track (I'm not interested in buying albums, most of it is cruft) and compared to DRM'd versions, in the UK are they more expensive than the US - Apple's usual policy. This would be a big selling point - with the poor Dollar, tracks could be very cheap if they sell for the same price in the UK.
4. How do you use the iTunes store on Linux without using the iTunes software (I'd prefer just a website with download links instead of resorting to WINE).
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no they don't need to go tiered, they need to stop overselling.
frankly if you say unlimited internet then it should be just that - and not filtered.
if they weren't betting the profit margins on joe public only using 5% of his bandwidth, then they wouldn't have to worry about the people who use bittorrent 24/7.
they really should just adjust their pricing structures based on today's usage (they have the information they need in their logs) and not still be basing their usage plans on 1992's traffic.
you've got to love the isp's who market their services with slogans such as "faster music downloading" and then stop you dong it!
https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/Project_Wing_-_Northern_Rock_Executive_Summary.pdf
grab it before it gets taken down.
when i lived in the usa i got quite peeved by the way bills were just put into place by companies who "owned" congressmen and senators (dmca is a prime example). now i'm back in the uk the practice seems to have followed me - it wasn't my fault honest!
well that's mainly because win98 was not meant as a multi-user or server operating system, essentially there was no way to login remotely.
nobody could hack into my vic-20 either - mainly because it has no network stack.
my accounts lecturer was fired from meryl lynch if that counts?
missed 1st.
yay for new version of perl!
Can't we just standardise on eSATA rather than bothering updating Firewire and USB?
The drives in external enclosures are limited by SATA's speed, so why not just use an external version of SATA? 3Gbps, cabling up to 2 metres......
Frankly Firewire should be used for video cameras and USB should be used for flash card readers. eSATA should be used for external SATA drives (the clue is in the name!)
i did read the article and summary, but how long do you think its going to stay as individuals only? it's almost completely pointless for individuals.
1. This has got to be so open for abuse - you'll be getting spammers paying people in third world countries to click the thumbs-up icon all day like they do with captcha's. Google searches will become like Wikipedia where you can't trust any of it!
2. If its anything like Digg, then idiots will be thumbing down everything as they don't understand it. Most of the time the things that would be modded up as Informative on Slashdot would be modded down on Digg as it seems to be populated by a bunch of teenagers.
3. If its anything like IMBB you'll get the zealots and fanatics making most of the effort - have you ever noticed just how out-of-touch the ratings seem to be these days - and what about all of the comments on there asking if there's any nudity in the film (i.e. Christians not liking it, not pr0n hunters).
Wow, a lot of RAID fanboys on here. Didn't anyone hear that RAID is not a substitute for backup, and frankly not what the op really needs/wants.
RAID mirrors one drive to another, yeah that's real useful if you get disk errors and it mirrors them, or you accidently delete a file and the deletion gets mirrored. A backup is where you have somewhere to get files back from, not just a copy of the useless drive you already have!
Just buy a cheap NAS (NSLUG or Walmart PC) or a USB/eSATA/Firewire enclosure and a big drive, and use rsync or whatever you fancy to backup your files to it. If you're really a risk taker you could just burn your data to DVD every now and then.
Does it really take an AskSlashdot, and haven't we already been through this?
Its not good making a new internet protocol, Comcast will only block it!
1. reconstruct a tcp stream and figure out what is bittorrent traffic and what is ssh, ssl etc.
2. decrypt Bittorrent encryption.
3. put the psuedo-randomly-ordered chunks of torrent data into the final file[s] (requires downloading the whole thing).
4. put the rar files most p2p movies are contained in into one piece and decompress.
5. compare the divx with the footprint for the dvd they have (remembering that its all been recoded n-times and possibly editted/cropped a bit so the divx timescale/image is not much like the vobs).
and all in real-time/wire-speed! riiiiiiiiiight. good luck with that one videodna.
oh anyone know if stargate atlantis s04e08 is on thepiratebay yet?
disk and even network i/o is completely crap under virtualisation, so why people are virtualising databases and lately, storage (!) is beyond comprehension.
vms are good for things that use mostly ram and cpu (which are easy things to upgrade - you can't really make disks just go faster)
Seems a bit strange how RHEL 5.1 offers Windows virtualisation with Xen 3.1 and just days later Oracle does the same.
And how can this make VMWare stock drop by 10%? Xen ain't new (or great).
I was starting to get excited until somebody mentionned its likely to be an all-Java environment, great - more slow apps coded by crappy outsourcers!
Can we have Python and Bash please - both provide a nice console as well as a decent programming language.
Is this really Linux-based like OpenMoko/Greenphone, or is it just another J2EE thing you can do nothing with and might as well stick with WinCE?
i think he means nobody is playing games on this particular system (of 8 ps3's) not that nobody plays games on the ps3 in general.
how can so many people have misinterpreted that?
its funny, i was perfectly content reading a book the other day, it didn't seem dated - i didn't notice the publication date.
then they mentionned 486's, and it all just went to hell. quick look inside the cover confirmed first published 1996 or something.
thats because rails is a web FRAMEWORK not a programming language - you know RUBY is underneath it all, right?
people get too tied up with cms's that they think will do everything. code a plugin yourself (assuming a decent api is available).
"....managed the websites of as many as 60 of the country's largest hospitals"
Which coutry might that be then, as I'm sure there's more than one country in the world.
Slashdot is not USA-specific.
I'd better shut up now before the World Police come-a-knocking.
yum install ntfs-3g
Oh wait, you don't need to, it's already in Fedora.
We have the National Health Service, treatment is free to residents - yeah not just citizens, hence the many European holidaymakers coming over for plastic surgery.
The Welsh and Scots get medication for free too - courtesy of the English taxpayers who just got a rise in prescription charges.
I guess it's a bit like the US paying 100m+ usd annually for Mexico and Canada's healthcare - great eh?!
The torrent has been about for at least two weeks, other news sites reported it last week.
/. and can expect a few more seeds.....
I guess you stick a torrent on
Sporn? I think I meant spawn, but I did just wake ten minutes ago.
Now whilst I agree T-Mobile is the sporn of satan of carriers, surely all mobile carriers will be blocking VOIP?
I mean if your main income is from charging 10p for sending a few bytes of SMS, or a Pound per minute for international mobile calls and someone comes along with a system that will do it for free and all you get is a few pence from a 3G data call, aren't you going to be pissed?
The mobile phone industry is the biggest rip-off racket since Microsoft selling protection from Linux patents.
Yeah, I know it looks like some dodgey mailer script, but it just uses Javascript form elements to fill in bits of their standard printer page, instead of making a proper URL. Of course GET vs. POST is not checked ;-)
Seeing as how I can't seem to get any info from Apple's site about iTunes, without installing it, could someone answer a few questions please?
1. Are the non-DRM files just Apple's broken AAC "MP4", or can we chose MP3 (or FLAC/Ogg)?
2. If #1 is not possible, is re-converting to Ogg/MP3 from a 256k AAC going to sound worse than a 128k MP3 encoded from a CD directly?
3. How much are they per track (I'm not interested in buying albums, most of it is cruft) and compared to DRM'd versions, in the UK are they more expensive than the US - Apple's usual policy. This would be a big selling point - with the poor Dollar, tracks could be very cheap if they sell for the same price in the UK.
4. How do you use the iTunes store on Linux without using the iTunes software (I'd prefer just a website with download links instead of resorting to WINE).
OK, so that's four, not two.