If I were a business, I would get the exact same bandwidth (but better guarantees for uptime) for $300/mo.
Pretty much the only thing that is against their Terms of Service is sharing your bandwidth with a separate building (like your neighbor). You are explicitly allowed to run servers, etc.
Speakeasy kicks all ass.
Granted, for your bandwidth (1.5down/384up) they charge ~$85/mo. Still, they have all kinds of pricing/service packages. They friggin rule.
Sure, the relationship between the metal and the paper is gone. Nonetheless, this post kicks ass.
I mean, seriously. Why do people think they should get shit for free? I mean, what is the thought behind that? It's/worth it/ to me to pay for stuff I value. (Almost by definition.)
I have no qualms about buying software, or services from others./They/ do the work of assembling the data, etc. I pay them to do this work. Others pay me to do work I'm good at (and they are not). It's like a circle.:)
I always thought of the Law and Morality as being completely separate. The Law is the rules of the game. (The game being our society). They don't determine in any way what is right or wrong. They only determine what is permitted.
I honestly don't understand why people think that the Law and Morality are the same thing. Sure, Morality may influence the Law, but not the other way around. It's thinking like that which confuses things.
I think that there is something about the satellite link that makes VPN not work as well. I definitely noticed some control packets being sent to a non-routeable IP address (192.168.x.y) when I was troubleshooting problems that a co-worker had with our VPN. I think that the StarBand software sends some kind of info up to the satellite. So, when he would "dial-in" to the VPN, and his default gateway would change from some machine on the provider's network to the PPTP server, those packets would just stop getting to the satellite.
He had StarBand, and (on-topically enough) switched to a fixed wireless ISP to solve the latency and VPN issues.
When I was doing end user support for 400 users (with just one other guy), there was no way we could support them with anything but that. Their machines weren't locked down, but they all knew that their machines could be re-imaged at any time.
It saves an incredible amount of time to just re-image when something breaks. If it stays broke, then it's a hardware problem.
Also, since reimaging took about 10 minutes, if I spent more than 10 minutes troubleshooting the problem, it was time to reimage.
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http://www.consume.org/~jshare/mirrors/www.tinya pp s.org/index.html (no spaces in URL, obviously)
I use the gogo encoder. As I understand it, it's basically LAME from some older version, but with key parts hand-optimized in assembler.
On my PIII-866 it can encode to 192kbit-CBR at about 24x realtime. So, the real bottleneck on my system is the ripping of the WAV off the CD. I use windac32, since it allows me to pipe from the CD straight into the gogo encoder, without an intervening WAV file. Otherwise, you end up doubling the time it takes, because you have one pass to write the wav, and a second pass just to encode it. Madness!:)
On my linux box (Athlon 600), I use abcde and gogo as the encoder. I can't pass the data straight through into gogo, but since it encodes in the background while ripping the next track, this really only matters at the end, when it's done ripping, but has just started encoding the last track. All previous tracks are always done encoding before the next track is done ripping.
If I had a better CDROM on that box, I'd probably get somewhere near the 3minute-rip-and-encodes that I get on my Windows box.
If you have a lot to rip, it is very much worth getting a drive that can do DAE at high speed. Mine peaks at about 26x realtime on the outside of a CD (inner tracks are only about 10-13x).
Do you ever use any swap? Honestly, I guess I've never built a machine with X, but I'm only touching around 10megs of swap on a 64meg RAM system.
I mean, it seems like it's good to have it around, if you ever need to work on really huge things, but if you fill up 512megs of RAM, and start swapping, you'd be better off redefining your task anyway.
Sure, some "router" boxes will let you put a machine into the "DMZ", which effectively does a 1-to-1 NAT between the external IP and that machine's IP.
But with our DSL package, we get 4 static IP addresses. Right now we are using a Linux firewall, and doing 1-to-1 NAT, so that my internal machine effectively has its own IP address, as do two other machines on our LAN. All other machines are "masqueraded" (many-to-1 NAT) out the IP address of the Linuxbox.
So, what I'm wondering is, are there any of these "routers" that will let me do 1-to-1 NAT, or that even consider the idea that you may have more than one IP address that you want to share?
Portforwarding is almost sufficient for most uses, but since we already have the 4 IPs, we might as well use them....
Ok, while that does download all the files on the site, if they have absolute URLs instead of relative URLs, you have to do '-k' to convert them to relative. Optionally, you can do '-K' as well, which will keep the original files as "file.html.orig".
So, the command I use is: wget -r -K -k -p -np [URL]
This does the following:
Reading this book gets you hit on
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Once, I was reading this book in the bar (only place you could smoke) at an airport. As I was leaving, the waitress gave me a napkin with something written on it. I was a bit groggy, so I was out the door and down the hall before I read it and understood what it said.
"I too am an enlightened individual. Nice brand of smokes!"
I had no idea what she was talking about for the longest time. Then I searched around on Amazon and found that there is a book called "Lords of Light" by Deepak Chopra (who is a "new age" writer). Apparently, she had misread the title.:)
Basically, casinos make money because of odds. The odds are in their favor. If they weren't, then they wouldn't have the game.
If you do something to put the odds in your favor (card counting), then of course you aren't welcome in their establishment. You probably won't lose (overall).
Would you make a bet where you didn't think you had a better chance of winning than not? Neither would they.
I'm sure there are others. The biggest changes are the ones you don't notice until long after the fact. Changes that are immediately apparent as "radical" rarely take hold, and are seldom worth the effort. (Push technology anyone?)
I think the main problem with the whole "push technology" idea is that it really ended up being pull-on-a-timer rather than push. I use push technology every day (email). It's nice that someone can just push a message out to me and be done with it. (Granted, I "timed pull" them down from my mailserver).
If UPS could "push" a message out to me when my package is delivered, it'd be sweet. (a la instant messaging, rather than email).
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I pay $200/mo for 1.1mbit SDSL from Speakeasy.
If I were a business, I would get the exact same bandwidth (but better guarantees for uptime) for $300/mo.
Pretty much the only thing that is against their Terms of Service is sharing your bandwidth with a separate building (like your neighbor). You are explicitly allowed to run servers, etc.
Speakeasy kicks all ass.
Granted, for your bandwidth (1.5down/384up) they charge ~$85/mo. Still, they have all kinds of pricing/service packages. They friggin rule.
Mad props to you for this. It's great.
Sure, the relationship between the metal and the paper is gone. Nonetheless, this post kicks ass.
/worth it/ to me to pay for stuff I value. (Almost by definition.)
/They/ do the work of assembling the data, etc. I pay them to do this work. Others pay me to do work I'm good at (and they are not). It's like a circle. :)
I mean, seriously. Why do people think they should get shit for free? I mean, what is the thought behind that? It's
I have no qualms about buying software, or services from others.
It is my understanding that Krotus has had a profound effect on your development in college.
Would you say that it was for better or worse, and why?
I always thought of the Law and Morality as being completely separate. The Law is the rules of the game. (The game being our society). They don't determine in any way what is right or wrong. They only determine what is permitted.
I honestly don't understand why people think that the Law and Morality are the same thing. Sure, Morality may influence the Law, but not the other way around. It's thinking like that which confuses things.
Uh, doesn't a transfer limit seem like a catch? Lame.
eDonkey2000 is only for Windows though.
Because it sure seems that way.
Yeah, I can't find it anywhere.
I think that there is something about the satellite link that makes VPN not work as well. I definitely noticed some control packets being sent to a non-routeable IP address (192.168.x.y) when I was troubleshooting problems that a co-worker had with our VPN. I think that the StarBand software sends some kind of info up to the satellite. So, when he would "dial-in" to the VPN, and his default gateway would change from some machine on the provider's network to the PPTP server, those packets would just stop getting to the satellite.
He had StarBand, and (on-topically enough) switched to a fixed wireless ISP to solve the latency and VPN issues.
I'd like to start using this within qmail, but I'm unsure how to put it into my .qmail file.
Anyone have a recipe?
As an aside, ZoneEdit will also provide DNS for up to 5 domains for free. I've found their web-based interface to be incredibly easy to use.
Can't they just boot to a floppy and reset your NT password? Or don't they have physical access to your machine?
Amen to that.
When I was doing end user support for 400 users (with just one other guy), there was no way we could support them with anything but that. Their machines weren't locked down, but they all knew that their machines could be re-imaged at any time.
It saves an incredible amount of time to just re-image when something breaks. If it stays broke, then it's a hardware problem.
Also, since reimaging took about 10 minutes, if I spent more than 10 minutes troubleshooting the problem, it was time to reimage.
http://www.consume.org/~jshare/mirrors/www.tinya pp s.org/index.html (no spaces in URL, obviously)
Or, click here.
Jordan
I use the gogo encoder. As I understand it, it's basically LAME from some older version, but with key parts hand-optimized in assembler.
:)
On my PIII-866 it can encode to 192kbit-CBR at about 24x realtime. So, the real bottleneck on my system is the ripping of the WAV off the CD. I use windac32, since it allows me to pipe from the CD straight into the gogo encoder, without an intervening WAV file. Otherwise, you end up doubling the time it takes, because you have one pass to write the wav, and a second pass just to encode it. Madness!
On my linux box (Athlon 600), I use abcde and gogo as the encoder. I can't pass the data straight through into gogo, but since it encodes in the background while ripping the next track, this really only matters at the end, when it's done ripping, but has just started encoding the last track. All previous tracks are always done encoding before the next track is done ripping.
If I had a better CDROM on that box, I'd probably get somewhere near the 3minute-rip-and-encodes that I get on my Windows box.
If you have a lot to rip, it is very much worth getting a drive that can do DAE at high speed. Mine peaks at about 26x realtime on the outside of a CD (inner tracks are only about 10-13x).
Do you ever use any swap? Honestly, I guess I've never built a machine with X, but I'm only touching around 10megs of swap on a 64meg RAM system.
I mean, it seems like it's good to have it around, if you ever need to work on really huge things, but if you fill up 512megs of RAM, and start swapping, you'd be better off redefining your task anyway.
Sure, some "router" boxes will let you put a machine into the "DMZ", which effectively does a 1-to-1 NAT between the external IP and that machine's IP.
But with our DSL package, we get 4 static IP addresses. Right now we are using a Linux firewall, and doing 1-to-1 NAT, so that my internal machine effectively has its own IP address, as do two other machines on our LAN. All other machines are "masqueraded" (many-to-1 NAT) out the IP address of the Linuxbox.
So, what I'm wondering is, are there any of these "routers" that will let me do 1-to-1 NAT, or that even consider the idea that you may have more than one IP address that you want to share?
Portforwarding is almost sufficient for most uses, but since we already have the 4 IPs, we might as well use them....
Jordan
Uh, what about when they have a 13-year-old child with a knife at her neck?
Are you going to charge them then? When you don't know what's going to happen next?
Not bloody likely.
You might check out Oangband.
It has some non-candy improvements to the overall system, like better monster AI and the actual use of spells by the monsters.
Well, I guess you could call that candy. But I'd reserve that term for the "big screen" stuff (which it also has), for example.
Ok, while that does download all the files on the site, if they have absolute URLs instead of relative URLs, you have to do '-k' to convert them to relative. Optionally, you can do '-K' as well, which will keep the original files as "file.html.orig".
So, the command I use is:
wget -r -K -k -p -np [URL]
This does the following:
I find this to be the most useful way to mirror.
Also, wget is available for Win32 as well.
Jordan
Once, I was reading this book in the bar (only place you could smoke) at an airport. As I was leaving, the waitress gave me a napkin with something written on it. I was a bit groggy, so I was out the door and down the hall before I read it and understood what it said.
:)
"I too am an enlightened individual. Nice brand of smokes!"
I had no idea what she was talking about for the longest time. Then I searched around on Amazon and found that there is a book called "Lords of Light" by Deepak Chopra (who is a "new age" writer). Apparently, she had misread the title.
Oh, alright.
Basically, casinos make money because of odds. The odds are in their favor. If they weren't, then they wouldn't have the game.
If you do something to put the odds in your favor (card counting), then of course you aren't welcome in their establishment. You probably won't lose (overall).
Would you make a bet where you didn't think you had a better chance of winning than not? Neither would they.
I think the main problem with the whole "push technology" idea is that it really ended up being pull-on-a-timer rather than push. I use push technology every day (email). It's nice that someone can just push a message out to me and be done with it. (Granted, I "timed pull" them down from my mailserver).
If UPS could "push" a message out to me when my package is delivered, it'd be sweet. (a la instant messaging, rather than email).
I thought the haiku was:
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
No? At least that way it is actually following the haiku syllable pattern.
Jordan