The problem for me was being tied to the Governments every whim - At that time I was working at the ADSCS, 30 kilometers out from Geraldton (DSD field site) - I had already begun talks with the ombudsman representitives in Perth, they directed me to the ACCC, provided lots of good information on legal remidy... Long story short, I haven't been back to Australia for any great length of time since 2000.
I let it slide - though I did get a few hundred dollars from a hotel in Broome (1998ish) - sending junk mail as well. The legal system works quite good - fast - whenever you 'do' manage to get a good id on the sender (and they are doing it from within Australia)
I'm not sure if the ombudsman still deal with spam - they did back then though.
Officially I have 'no comment' - unofficially you'd have to discuss it with the sleezy politicians - they were the ones who 'donanted' the 30 extra slabs of VB for the crappy camera shots...
Probably bad form to reply to myself, a similar thing happened with 'WestNet' - wasn't banned though, just told I was annoying for the extra workload their admins had to do in resolving the problem. (I don't like junk mail)
I think they merged with iinet pretty soon after that.
I was banned from iinet (WA) in 2000 - back when they were 'small time' - the reason: I asked them (politely) not to send me their monthly 'spam' advertising filled with added services and features they were offering. They responded that I was the 'only' one across the entire country that had a problem with this, and that I should just put up with it. Use the delete button.
I asked them once more not to send junk mail else I would go to the ombudsman. They did, so I fired off email to the ombudsman, got a few telephone calls from Perth, then Canberra, then Sydney - their spam STOPPED.
So did my account. I was suspended. After a telephone call I was told that I would never be able to connect with them again - I was a problem client apparantly. I was sent overseas so I never had the opportunity to make lots of money from it all.
Their service is actually quite good though! Or at least it was for me. Connected with iinet in Geraldton Western Australia. Never had any trouble other than that.
The GUI on XP loads fast - if you've ever wondered why it takes another minute for it to become useable, it's because it's still loading all the services and crud in the background - the difference with linux is that it loads the crud up front in the open. When it's ready to go, it's ready so to speak.
How on earth am I trolling? As a matter of fact, yes I do know how to configure a web browser, not that that matters to someone so willing to immediately pounce with the inferred opinion that any odd failure implies stupidity on the users part.
Besides that, I hit refresh and away it went - worked fine, this does not detract from the utter crud that is present within the flash animation, hardly a demonstration of anything relevant to solaris. Market droid rubbish.
Just sorry yourself and the moderators missed the joke. Not that I really care. Life goes on.
I tried the 'demonstration' on their website, I got as far as the blue stripe with Sun logo and nothing else happened - I've been waiting for 5 minutes now.
Just a white screen. Does this mean solaris ten is... a box of nothing?
I've borrowed loads of PHP stuff, though all of that code needs to be vetted, contemplated, modified, and jumped on to fit the hole it needs to fill.
I'm no expert, though I think this is a problem not just with PHP, but most languages. Perl is a good example for me. There are literally thousands of websites offering code snippets, some of it works, lots of it is obscure and undocumented. (Java is worse)
It's hard to sort through the noise at the best of times.
Where do you look, and is it safe to use? So I rebuild the tired old wheel, or spend just as long looking through someone elses code. Makes little difference. Doesn't mean you can't pick up handy tips along the way.
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hyundai - I don't recall many mistakes from that company (excluding the car department). If they don't have it, they build it. I guess when you are that big, you can sweep your 'failures' under the carpet pretty much.
I haven't tried it in a long time now (not since enlightenment (the windowmanager) but afterstep looks like a better version of NeXTSTEP - than, well NeXTSTEP itself.
256 QAM is only part of the equation. Most satellite signals are still using QPSK, the 256 simply means the number of constellation points (Phase and amplitude changes the signal uses to represent 0's and 1's), so yes, you are correct, but data rates / signal rates also influence the speed.
Take a CEPT 1 - 1429.333 kilobits per second QPSK Millions of them throughout asia. 2 * SR = 2858.666 Remove FEC (2858.666/4)*3 = 2144 Remove your 96 bits of overhead crud and you're left with 2048 kilobits per second.
The problem with using 256QAM is likely going to be error correction - not too bad when it comes to television, since a glitch here and there is insignificant, the decoder can lock back on to the sync pattern pretty well any time the signal cleans up.
If you are sending IP or whatever over the link, you need a FEC that works well enough 3/4sequential/viterbi whatever (1/2 even)
(for the poster above, everyone is reading about battery stickers)
I thought the review was written pretty well actually! I'm always on the lookout for a better distro - not that this one really fits, but there are many links to other sites that lead me to other ideas.
I remember seeing a few 'black boxes' (Sparc 20's to be vaguely specific) that were running some fairly interesting algorithms (around the 1997/98 ish era) that would identify logo's from various transmissions, mostly faxes, thus identifying the sending entity.
It was more miss than hit, though I'm sure the recognition software has improved since then, it still relied upon a mathmatic description of the original image, much the same as a voice print.
This was before I defected from Military to civil defence.
Oddly enough, the Philippines have a few cable companies willing to shell an 8mbps connection for a similar price - minus the wireless router, I think most companies here have given away the idea of different up and downlink speeds - through cable TV I have 1500 kilobits per second both ways. (about 180 kilobytes per second sustained)
Pretty easy to un-cap, but this is fast enough for what I need at home.
Some friends in the UK just had a business connection set up with BT - talk about slow and mediocre service...
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Yeah, but how do you turn off the damn safe search in MSN... :-)
The problem for me was being tied to the Governments every whim - At that time I was working at the ADSCS, 30 kilometers out from Geraldton (DSD field site) - I had already begun talks with the ombudsman representitives in Perth, they directed me to the ACCC, provided lots of good information on legal remidy... Long story short, I haven't been back to Australia for any great length of time since 2000.
I let it slide - though I did get a few hundred dollars from a hotel in Broome (1998ish) - sending junk mail as well. The legal system works quite good - fast - whenever you 'do' manage to get a good id on the sender (and they are doing it from within Australia)
I'm not sure if the ombudsman still deal with spam - they did back then though.
http://www.ombudsman.wa.gov.au/
You were the one who banned me weren't you! :-)
Good one!
Officially I have 'no comment' - unofficially you'd have to discuss it with the sleezy politicians - they were the ones who 'donanted' the 30 extra slabs of VB for the crappy camera shots...
Wait, I've said too much...
Probably bad form to reply to myself, a similar thing happened with 'WestNet' - wasn't banned though, just told I was annoying for the extra workload their admins had to do in resolving the problem. (I don't like junk mail)
I think they merged with iinet pretty soon after that.
I was banned from iinet (WA) in 2000 - back when they were 'small time' - the reason: I asked them (politely) not to send me their monthly 'spam' advertising filled with added services and features they were offering. They responded that I was the 'only' one across the entire country that had a problem with this, and that I should just put up with it. Use the delete button.
I asked them once more not to send junk mail else I would go to the ombudsman. They did, so I fired off email to the ombudsman, got a few telephone calls from Perth, then Canberra, then Sydney - their spam STOPPED.
So did my account. I was suspended. After a telephone call I was told that I would never be able to connect with them again - I was a problem client apparantly. I was sent overseas so I never had the opportunity to make lots of money from it all.
Their service is actually quite good though! Or at least it was for me. Connected with iinet in Geraldton Western Australia. Never had any trouble other than that.
The GUI on XP loads fast - if you've ever wondered why it takes another minute for it to become useable, it's because it's still loading all the services and crud in the background - the difference with linux is that it loads the crud up front in the open. When it's ready to go, it's ready so to speak.
How on earth am I trolling? As a matter of fact, yes I do know how to configure a web browser, not that that matters to someone so willing to immediately pounce with the inferred opinion that any odd failure implies stupidity on the users part.
Besides that, I hit refresh and away it went - worked fine, this does not detract from the utter crud that is present within the flash animation, hardly a demonstration of anything relevant to solaris. Market droid rubbish.
Just sorry yourself and the moderators missed the joke. Not that I really care. Life goes on.
Sun Fanboy perhaps?
I tried the 'demonstration' on their website, I got as far as the blue stripe with Sun logo and nothing else happened - I've been waiting for 5 minutes now.
Just a white screen. Does this mean solaris ten is... a box of nothing?
I've borrowed loads of PHP stuff, though all of that code needs to be vetted, contemplated, modified, and jumped on to fit the hole it needs to fill.
I'm no expert, though I think this is a problem not just with PHP, but most languages. Perl is a good example for me. There are literally thousands of websites offering code snippets, some of it works, lots of it is obscure and undocumented. (Java is worse)
It's hard to sort through the noise at the best of times.
Where do you look, and is it safe to use? So I rebuild the tired old wheel, or spend just as long looking through someone elses code. Makes little difference. Doesn't mean you can't pick up handy tips along the way.
And you say this because?
hyundai - I don't recall many mistakes from that company (excluding the car department). If they don't have it, they build it. I guess when you are that big, you can sweep your 'failures' under the carpet pretty much.
Will an off-sized amount of popcorn place you on anyones radar screen? Tinfoil -> NSA etc.
If it's not broken, and you don't touch it, other than a big old back yard shed to keep it in - where's the huge cost?
The good thing about arse covering is that it works both ways - management send you a metric crap load of hate mail, store it, print it, keep it.
Management meeting, threatened to sack you for simply existing, sideburns too long, whatever.
I've think I've been on both sides of the fence long enough to know government is about running favors for each other.
I didn't know Afterstep was so unliked these days :-)
I stand corrected.
I haven't tried it in a long time now (not since enlightenment (the windowmanager) but afterstep looks like a better version of NeXTSTEP - than, well NeXTSTEP itself.
http://www.afterstep.org/
I could well be wrong on this though.
Someone made 150 million of them!
256 QAM is only part of the equation. Most satellite signals are still using QPSK, the 256 simply means the number of constellation points (Phase and amplitude changes the signal uses to represent 0's and 1's), so yes, you are correct, but data rates / signal rates also influence the speed.
Take a CEPT 1 - 1429.333 kilobits per second QPSK
Millions of them throughout asia.
2 * SR = 2858.666
Remove FEC (2858.666/4)*3 = 2144
Remove your 96 bits of overhead crud and you're left with 2048 kilobits per second.
The problem with using 256QAM is likely going to be error correction - not too bad when it comes to television, since a glitch here and there is insignificant, the decoder can lock back on to the sync pattern pretty well any time the signal cleans up.
If you are sending IP or whatever over the link, you need a FEC that works well enough 3/4sequential/viterbi whatever (1/2 even)
(for the poster above, everyone is reading about battery stickers)
I thought the review was written pretty well actually! I'm always on the lookout for a better distro - not that this one really fits, but there are many links to other sites that lead me to other ideas.
I bet that cool sticker has 'BatMax' stamped on it 45 thousand times, just like each page of their website.
Maybe if they say it enough, the sheep will believe it.
You could always just dump their encryption and use PGP/GPG in its place.
I remember seeing a few 'black boxes' (Sparc 20's to be vaguely specific) that were running some fairly interesting algorithms (around the 1997/98 ish era) that would identify logo's from various transmissions, mostly faxes, thus identifying the sending entity.
It was more miss than hit, though I'm sure the recognition software has improved since then, it still relied upon a mathmatic description of the original image, much the same as a voice print.
This was before I defected from Military to civil defence.
A 1.5 litre bottle of coke costs 29 peso (58 us cents)
A can runs anywhere around 14-16 peso depending on where you get it.
I drink loads of the stuff! (diet kind)
Oddly enough, the Philippines have a few cable companies willing to shell an 8mbps connection for a similar price - minus the wireless router, I think most companies here have given away the idea of different up and downlink speeds - through cable TV I have 1500 kilobits per second both ways. (about 180 kilobytes per second sustained)
Pretty easy to un-cap, but this is fast enough for what I need at home.
Some friends in the UK just had a business connection set up with BT - talk about slow and mediocre service...