So then this easily means if they guarantee bandwidth they are likely misleading the public.
If you get a t1 through a major service provider, you aren't going to get something that runs slower because they have too many t1's hooked up to their backbone.
a T1 should be able to get that level of bandwidth from theri service provider, regardless of load going out to the internet.
Same should apply for residental broadband connections.
@home is a big network, which brings me to the central office bit: Does an @home site in another city, or country (say dallas to toronto) count as part of their service area?
I know for fact if i trace my packets from @home in toronto to @home in Dallas i'll travel exclusively through the @home network.
The same likely applies to SBC, hence, what defines the central office?
Do they only guarantee their bandwidth to the local central office or router?
For example, my university gives 10mbit access to all students, but the students eventually share the same pipe(s) that go out to the internet.
I can get 10mbit/second internally, but if the university guarantees (money back of course) that i can get 10mbit outside of the network, then i *want* it.
If they don't guarantee 10mbit outside the university network, then so be it..
Back to the real world: if you guarantee everyone gets 384kb/sec to the central office, so what. Any provider can do that and still not have enough to go *outside* the central office.
I wish @home would guarantee a rate as well, since inside the @home network (same city for example) I get worse rates than fast sites such as wuarchive, sunsite, etc.
But Mainsoft technology was used in the ports of IE that i have seen under Solaris.
The solaris ports look suprisingly close to the Windows alternatives, but under the sun box i have tried it on, there were frequent graphical errors.
Nonethelss, mainsoft has tools to port Windows solutions to Unix. Under the mainstream MS apps though, i'd imagine they would have to add the advanced API calls to their tools.
As for the 'snooping' part, how can you stop this aside from encrypting everything? Since snoopers will be viewing the data from (theoretically) say, 4 PC's at once, all it takes is some analysis of data to find out what clients do what.
What methods exist to generically stop this from happening, assuming you have end-users who won't go 'as far as they need to go' like us techies can do.
As for web-servers and such: I'll tell them to suck it before I take any of my personal servers down.
Excuse me.. If you knew a little more about the situation you would understand that Ion Storm is not just "John Romero" but a few development teams under one roof.
Secondly, the team that did DEUS EX is going to handle THIEF 3, and not John Romero, or his "teams".
Deus Ex is a well regarded game, which was released shortly after Diakatana.
Actually, in my house, I have 3 15 inch monitors. I also have access to a few spare Voodoo 2's.
I wouldn't mind giving multi-headed quake 3 a try, It would be fun for a while.
Hence, you can do it with inexpensive hardware.
The only limiting factor is the hardware..
will your legacy hardware be fast enough?
(if not, wait a year and get some legacy voodoo 3's or Geforce 1 or 2's when they are cheap_
Friend, Baldurs gate game out years after Diablo was released. Frankly, it is often touted that Diablo CREATED the 'action-rpg' and thus brought BioWare the market in which to create their games!
By stating "Baldurs Gate stomped Diablo into the ground" is rather misleading. IMHO it would be more accurate to say "Bioware infused the action-RPG genere with ingenuity"
Aside from all this, Bioware is still a great company and should prove to make an Excellent Star Wars RPG that fans will be proud of.
I think you are jealous we get to enjoy Iranian rugs, and especially Cuban cigars. I go through boxes of them every time I come home from a vacation in Cuba.
Americans use their "world leader" perspective and expect other allies, especially their neighbour to the north, to succumb and be a "yes man" on all issues.
Why does it suprise americans that canadians can actually have their own opinion on things, rather than that of their nearest neighbour?
Anyway, this is off topic. I await the barrage of americans pouncing on me.
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Right.
So then this easily means if they guarantee bandwidth they are likely misleading the public.
If you get a t1 through a major service provider, you aren't going to get something that runs slower because they have too many t1's hooked up to their backbone.
a T1 should be able to get that level of bandwidth from theri service provider, regardless of load going out to the internet.
Same should apply for residental broadband connections.
Oops, to add to the above:
@home is a big network, which brings me to the central office bit: Does an @home site in another city, or country (say dallas to toronto) count as part of their service area?
I know for fact if i trace my packets from @home in toronto to @home in Dallas i'll travel exclusively through the @home network.
The same likely applies to SBC, hence, what defines the central office?
What defines their central office?
Do they only guarantee their bandwidth to the local central office or router?
For example, my university gives 10mbit access to all students, but the students eventually share the same pipe(s) that go out to the internet.
I can get 10mbit/second internally, but if the university guarantees (money back of course) that i can get 10mbit outside of the network, then i *want* it.
If they don't guarantee 10mbit outside the university network, then so be it..
Back to the real world: if you guarantee everyone gets 384kb/sec to the central office, so what. Any provider can do that and still not have enough to go *outside* the central office.
I wish @home would guarantee a rate as well, since inside the @home network (same city for example) I get worse rates than fast sites such as wuarchive, sunsite, etc.
Uhh, Linus has children.
Read the article.
Click here.
Seems they left the door open with the "other unixes" wording in their press release.
I highly reccomend you check out mainsoft's webpage.
They have tools that could make Linux/Nonx86 MS apps a reality. Just look at IE for the Sparc/Solaris!
But Mainsoft technology was used in the ports of IE that i have seen under Solaris.
The solaris ports look suprisingly close to the Windows alternatives, but under the sun box i have tried it on, there were frequent graphical errors.
Nonethelss, mainsoft has tools to port Windows solutions to Unix. Under the mainstream MS apps though, i'd imagine they would have to add the advanced API calls to their tools.
This will be interesting.
RIght, but as an advanced user well aware of network neighbourhood follies, I'd like to take it one step better.
Yes, and I ran Windows 95 betas under 4 megs of ram on a dx2/66.
That proves nothing though, since such Operating systems resort to disk paging when ram is not sufficient.
As for the 'snooping' part, how can you stop this aside from encrypting everything? Since snoopers will be viewing the data from (theoretically) say, 4 PC's at once, all it takes is some analysis of data to find out what clients do what.
What methods exist to generically stop this from happening, assuming you have end-users who won't go 'as far as they need to go' like us techies can do.
As for web-servers and such: I'll tell them to suck it before I take any of my personal servers down.
Around here (Canada) @Home doesn't allow for you to buy more than 3 or 4 IP's per home.
I need 10 IP's, thus I'm using Masquerauding.
Oh and i'm saving money (10/month extra per IP)
I'd like to see them try to bring 'me down' so i have to pay for my IP's.
Bring it on
Question: If an agreement is changed, do i have to agree to the new change? (ie: sign something) or is it automatically agreed upon?
Excuse me.. If you knew a little more about the situation you would understand that Ion Storm is not just "John Romero" but a few development teams under one roof.
Secondly, the team that did DEUS EX is going to handle THIEF 3, and not John Romero, or his "teams".
Deus Ex is a well regarded game, which was released shortly after Diakatana.
YEah? SO? It was featured on the site, but my thread specifically talks about Quake 3.
He didn't mention quake 1 (glquake) or UT in his thread, so why do you assume that's what he was talking about?
Ok Moron. Quake 3 in software mode.
Right.
Actually, in my house, I have 3 15 inch monitors. I also have access to a few spare Voodoo 2's.
I wouldn't mind giving multi-headed quake 3 a try, It would be fun for a while.
Hence, you can do it with inexpensive hardware.
The only limiting factor is the hardware..
will your legacy hardware be fast enough?
(if not, wait a year and get some legacy voodoo 3's or Geforce 1 or 2's when they are cheap_
Click me
Look at the parent message to see why I posted this.
Buy RECORD! LP's! Yes!
Although much of today's music is not available (for a cheap price) on LP there is tons of excellent music on LP!
Further, you can find these records for as little as $.25 -> $1.00
Dirt cheap!
I own more LP's than CD's and refuse to pay the price of a CD for one or two songs. (exception: real good CD's i have bought)
F.Y.I i am not old enough to have owned hundreds of records previously. I started purchasing them 2 months ago and have about 150 records now.
Screw the big-boys and still enjoy music: Buy LP's!
(also remember to support independant and local music groups or labels)
Mirror Hosted in Canada on an .EDU type link.
Funny thing is, these pictures are dated July 1999.
Even funnier, it really did take this long (150 posts) to download the whole thing.
Mirror Hosted in Canada on .EDU type link.
Windows users: File will open with Winzip.
Unix: Need i explain?
Someone mirror them. Korea is slow.
800 bytes/second on a t1.
Watch the sky for falling sattelite(s) kiddies.
Friend, Baldurs gate game out years after Diablo was released. Frankly, it is often touted that Diablo CREATED the 'action-rpg' and thus brought
BioWare the market in which to create their games!
By stating "Baldurs Gate stomped Diablo into the ground" is rather misleading. IMHO it would be more accurate to say "Bioware infused the action-RPG genere with ingenuity"
Aside from all this, Bioware is still a great company and should prove to make an Excellent Star Wars RPG that fans will be proud of.
Yes, did anyone ever mention that recordtv.com was shut down?
Apparently, if i remember correct it was sued by the MPAA and the likes..
Check their web page for more info.
Why is this redundant when i was the first person to post that it was down (see the message number)
I think slashdot needs to have a crash course in moderation for new moderators (those randomly chosen).
That message was not redundant for those who click "read more" and check comments before going to the sites themselves.
read the above message.
Being a Canadian, i find it instinctful to reply:
I think you are jealous we get to enjoy Iranian rugs, and especially Cuban cigars. I go through boxes of them every time I come home from a vacation in Cuba.
Americans use their "world leader" perspective and expect other allies, especially their neighbour to the north, to succumb and be a "yes man" on all issues.
Why does it suprise americans that canadians can actually have their own opinion on things, rather than that of their nearest neighbour?
Anyway, this is off topic. I await the barrage of americans pouncing on me.
/me puts on his canadian flag as a shield