Hah.. I always thought us Canadians were helping those south of our border get wired... Atleast, thats what I spend my days doing. Canadian firm, bought by americans cause the american telco's didn't know how to do high volume web hosting.
(No, not small name Telcos either). Anyhow, enjoy your internet service, brought to you by canadians, paid for by americans.
I'm sure lots of people said that when 32bits was introduced.
Heck.. when doing any assembly controls in school it was always 8bit. Then again, some of us know better than to say that 640k is enough for.. umm.. 32 bits is enough for anyone.
Normally I'd agree to the above, but after reading the other comments I'd say it's ack of advertising.
Everyone here seems to believe what look offered was for WAP, or other devices intended to roam the city. Very few people realize that the service was the equivelent of DSL or Cable in that it was high speed to a single location via bi-directional dishes.
Looks television service is superbe. Rarely (in a cable television sense) goes out and it's always a clear picture. TV in general has nothing on, but they can't fix that.
Anyhow, think point to point wireless where neither of the points moves. Kinda like people with satalite dishes, only looks were significantly smaller. My parents dish is 5 inch's across.
Isn't sudden reversal a matter of a couple decades where we go without magnetic poles?
If we have no magnetic poles, not only does our electronics fail but so do humans due to radiation.
Keep in mind its the magnetic attraction at the poles that drag the various radiative particles from the sun away from the human populus. Can you say deep fry in 2 minutes when outside?
Agreed, complete BS. The fact that Linux users (or is it just the authors or columns?) are so high on themselves that everything must be a conspriacy against them. More to the point, if Microsoft was to take source from somewhere, it would be BSD due to the license. As a BSD user, I welcome this achievement as much as MacOS basing a good portion of their new OS on what I'm already using.
If they convert over enough, they'll start sending in patch kits (it's much much cheaper to let others maintain your source and business is still about money more than IP) for the parts they can allow.
Besides that, do you want to pay $1500 for a copy of BSD or Linux repackaged by Microsoft (considering it's a free download otherwise)? Certainly the average home user doesn't want to either. Using that logic, they'll never take so much source that they're similar in every way. Mac's sell due to hardware not just software, and as such they can afford to have much more floating around.
All that said, Microsoft still has an extreamly high number of inteligent programmers working on their staff. Probably gets as many man hours into their projects as significant opensource projects so theres absolutly no reason they couldn't come out with as good if not better product. This is an example of their customers finally getting what they want. Even most of those without computers are well aware of the Blue Screen of death.
I hope increased windows stability forces ram manufacturers to make better ram. That stuff's always going bad. (I'll only buy Micron and IBM anymore due to it).
It should be noted that it's directly within their policy that users MAY NOT create downloadable sites as part of their unrestricted bandwidth. That includes adult material, mp3s, and other.
Data Transfer - Explanation
In 1996, we were one of the first providers to
provide "unlimited traffic" as a standard feature
with all plans. Since then, this terminology has
come under fire for various reasons. As a result,
web hosting companies have been forced to
re-evaluate the way in which traffic allotments were
depicted.
Here's our philosophy in a nutshell...
Chances are, if you are looking to buy web hosting
services in a "shared" environment, you are not
going to be a high traffic site. You may get a lot
of hits and be successful - but you won't be a major
concern when it comes to bandwidth. If you were a
high-traffic site, you would probably need a
dedicated server.
Since 1996, we have only had a handful of customers
abuse this "unlimited" bandwidth feature. It usually
comes from site that is offering illegal copies of
software, or had content that was not in compliance
with our Terms of Service.
As a result, we have changed to an "unrestricted"
traffic model. This means that unless your site
compromises the performance of the web server
(which, by the way, probably won't happen), or the
performance of our network - we don't care how much
traffic you have. Your site should be successful.
What distinguishes our plans is the features that
are available - not the traffic limitations.
The first question this poses is, "How can you offer
unlimited traffic if all you have is an OC3
connection?". Simple, we can't. Neither can anyone
else. The reality is that your site can use as much
of our available bandwidth as it wants - without
fear of penalty. Just don't hurt our server or the
network. We figured that it was about time that a
hosting company explained this very confusing issue.
If you have any questions, please contact our sales
department.
NOTE: You can not have adult sites, download sites
and MP3s on our servers.
Unless like me you have a motherboard with ATA33 controllers and ATA66 controllers (Abit BP6). Then you can have 4 devices in use in parallel without expansion cards.
Amaya only renders pages properly when they're created to spec. Pages created to spec consist of about half a percent? of all the pages on the web.
Actually, it would be a an interesting stat that Google might be able to pump out... Run HTML verifying the utility against every page in their cache:)
Looks to me like he actually managed to vote for both by punching though both holes.
Upon further investigation the the butterfly ruling was deemed legal, and the case is being thrown out as the judge cannot have a second chance at filling out the card.
There are those among us (myself included) who would even disagree with most of that statement.
I'd personally vote for a PrimeMinister not a president and use BSD everywhere after Linux gave me more trouble than it was worth (long time ago, things may have improved).
Arguably that would be a change in switch point positioning or addition of a switch point which makes it assosciated with that cost rather than the bandwidth it carries.
Just like most OpenBSD security fixes appear in FreeBSD, NetBSD and sometimes even Linux most of the TrustedBSD extensions will be found in the others over time. NetBSD contributes a good number of portability fixes and design to the various BSD's as well.
Heck, even Mac has thrown in a ton of speed enhancements and modularity design patches.
The FreeBSD kernel has rescently gone through parallel development with the new SMP code which is in the process of being implemented (and fixed up) in the main source tree. I would expect any major undertaking to use the same approach to keep the basic code tree mostly usable. Afterall, theres more than just a few people doing development.
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Please tell me that your not a 27 year old still living with their parents without atleast a good reason.
Hah.. I always thought us Canadians were helping those south of our border get wired... Atleast, thats what I spend my days doing. Canadian firm, bought by americans cause the american telco's didn't know how to do high volume web hosting.
(No, not small name Telcos either). Anyhow, enjoy your internet service, brought to you by canadians, paid for by americans.
Reminds me a lot of NASA actually...
I'm sure lots of people said that when 32bits was introduced.
Heck.. when doing any assembly controls in school it was always 8bit. Then again, some of us know better than to say that 640k is enough for.. umm.. 32 bits is enough for anyone.
Normally I'd agree to the above, but after reading the other comments I'd say it's ack of advertising. Everyone here seems to believe what look offered was for WAP, or other devices intended to roam the city. Very few people realize that the service was the equivelent of DSL or Cable in that it was high speed to a single location via bi-directional dishes. Looks television service is superbe. Rarely (in a cable television sense) goes out and it's always a clear picture. TV in general has nothing on, but they can't fix that. Anyhow, think point to point wireless where neither of the points moves. Kinda like people with satalite dishes, only looks were significantly smaller. My parents dish is 5 inch's across.
Isn't sudden reversal a matter of a couple decades where we go without magnetic poles?
If we have no magnetic poles, not only does our electronics fail but so do humans due to radiation.
Keep in mind its the magnetic attraction at the poles that drag the various radiative particles from the sun away from the human populus. Can you say deep fry in 2 minutes when outside?
Agreed, complete BS. The fact that Linux users (or is it just the authors or columns?) are so high on themselves that everything must be a conspriacy against them. More to the point, if Microsoft was to take source from somewhere, it would be BSD due to the license. As a BSD user, I welcome this achievement as much as MacOS basing a good portion of their new OS on what I'm already using.
If they convert over enough, they'll start sending in patch kits (it's much much cheaper to let others maintain your source and business is still about money more than IP) for the parts they can allow.
Besides that, do you want to pay $1500 for a copy of BSD or Linux repackaged by Microsoft (considering it's a free download otherwise)? Certainly the average home user doesn't want to either. Using that logic, they'll never take so much source that they're similar in every way. Mac's sell due to hardware not just software, and as such they can afford to have much more floating around.
All that said, Microsoft still has an extreamly high number of inteligent programmers working on their staff. Probably gets as many man hours into their projects as significant opensource projects so theres absolutly no reason they couldn't come out with as good if not better product. This is an example of their customers finally getting what they want. Even most of those without computers are well aware of the Blue Screen of death.
I hope increased windows stability forces ram manufacturers to make better ram. That stuff's always going bad. (I'll only buy Micron and IBM anymore due to it).
gzipped file. You might recognize .tar.gz
It should be noted that it's directly within their policy that users MAY NOT create downloadable sites as part of their unrestricted bandwidth. That includes adult material, mp3s, and other.
Data Transfer - Explanation
In 1996, we were one of the first providers to
provide "unlimited traffic" as a standard feature
with all plans. Since then, this terminology has
come under fire for various reasons. As a result,
web hosting companies have been forced to
re-evaluate the way in which traffic allotments were
depicted.
Here's our philosophy in a nutshell...
Chances are, if you are looking to buy web hosting
services in a "shared" environment, you are not
going to be a high traffic site. You may get a lot
of hits and be successful - but you won't be a major
concern when it comes to bandwidth. If you were a
high-traffic site, you would probably need a
dedicated server.
Since 1996, we have only had a handful of customers
abuse this "unlimited" bandwidth feature. It usually
comes from site that is offering illegal copies of
software, or had content that was not in compliance
with our Terms of Service.
As a result, we have changed to an "unrestricted"
traffic model. This means that unless your site
compromises the performance of the web server
(which, by the way, probably won't happen), or the
performance of our network - we don't care how much
traffic you have. Your site should be successful.
What distinguishes our plans is the features that
are available - not the traffic limitations.
The first question this poses is, "How can you offer
unlimited traffic if all you have is an OC3
connection?". Simple, we can't. Neither can anyone
else. The reality is that your site can use as much
of our available bandwidth as it wants - without
fear of penalty. Just don't hurt our server or the
network. We figured that it was about time that a
hosting company explained this very confusing issue.
If you have any questions, please contact our sales
department.
NOTE: You can not have adult sites, download sites
and MP3s on our servers.
Most browsers will extract .gz's and remove the extra parameter.
:)
So... create blah.mp3.gz files
And you thought that cutting up this pipe was an accident...
> take that graphic on disk (or ftp) to a
> graphics service bureau and have them output a
> digital on their color corrected equipment.
Might want to read that one again... He mentioned you had to print it out on colour corrected equipment.
Everyone knows that the real hubs of the internet are Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton! :)
Unless like me you have a motherboard with ATA33 controllers and ATA66 controllers (Abit BP6). Then you can have 4 devices in use in parallel without expansion cards.
Works good!
> You know the saying : "A bird in the hand worth > 2 in the bush"
You must be a better shot than I am... I need about 20 birds in the bush to equal one in the hand...
Amaya only renders pages properly when they're created to spec. Pages created to spec consist of about half a percent? of all the pages on the web.
:)
Actually, it would be a an interesting stat that Google might be able to pump out... Run HTML verifying the utility against every page in their cache
Looks to me like he actually managed to vote for both by punching though both holes.
Upon further investigation the the butterfly ruling was deemed legal, and the case is being thrown out as the judge cannot have a second chance at filling out the card.
Lbh unir gbb zhpu gvzr ba lbhe unaqf...
If only I were a moderator...
Personally, I think this comment deserves a scrap book entry.
I'm kinda hoping for more than 1.2M L1 cache on the 5.5Ghz chip myself. Ram amounts are normally larger than that ;)
Expensive but in my exprience the servers are extreamly reliable.
Can't be linux.. Gotta be BSD, perhaps solaris. God forbid maybe Irix?
Hmm.. what else runs X. Could be OS/2, might even be Windows box!
Look at that.. A computer with a cdrom drive. I bet it's running linux cause linux uses CD's!
I hope by western you mean specifically a canadian reactor (nothing is better in that industry).
There are those among us (myself included) who would even disagree with most of that statement.
I'd personally vote for a PrimeMinister not a president and use BSD everywhere after Linux gave me more trouble than it was worth (long time ago, things may have improved).
Arguably that would be a change in switch point positioning or addition of a switch point which makes it assosciated with that cost rather than the bandwidth it carries.
Just like most OpenBSD security fixes appear in FreeBSD, NetBSD and sometimes even Linux most of the TrustedBSD extensions will be found in the others over time. NetBSD contributes a good number of portability fixes and design to the various BSD's as well. Heck, even Mac has thrown in a ton of speed enhancements and modularity design patches. The FreeBSD kernel has rescently gone through parallel development with the new SMP code which is in the process of being implemented (and fixed up) in the main source tree. I would expect any major undertaking to use the same approach to keep the basic code tree mostly usable. Afterall, theres more than just a few people doing development.