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  1. Re:It wasn't the physical requirements.. on Many Hackers Too Fat For The FBI · · Score: 1

    Well, that depends. Is underage drinking "using an illegal drug?" I bet that would change a lot of people's answers.

  2. Re:You're behind a hub? You ain't got a T1. on How to Test Your T1? · · Score: 1

    Your subject is great, but your body is lacking. With a working T1 and good network, it's quite easy to get upwards of 1.4Mbps of data throughput.

  3. Re:Check the CSU/DSU on How to Test Your T1? · · Score: 1

    There's no need to check the channels on the CSU. If you test the bandwidth every so often, and you at least occasionally get 1.3-1.5 mbps, you have a full T1 at your location.

    No ISP would change the number of channels on a T1 during the service with any degree of regularity. It costs money and takes coordination with the ISP and LEC to do that.

  4. Re:dslreports.com on How to Test Your T1? · · Score: 1

    umm, it's a nice and useful site, but as the
    author said, he wants to know if it's a true T1
    vs, oversold DS3, which is not nessicarily
    detectable by a bandwidth meter


    Yes, it is. If you get your 1.3-1.5 megs of throughput all the time, you're not oversubscribed.

  5. Re:changes in SCSI land ? on Serial ATA and AGP 8X motherboards · · Score: 1

    Are you confusing motors with engines?

  6. Re:Their Software on Disney Switches To Linux For Animation · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the "regular folks" that work there?

    The corporate types are the ones that make decisions.

  7. Re:Relay-testing on ORBZ Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Would Lotus have preferred that by default every server identifying itself as a Lotus server be added to the black hole?

    That might be preferable to being crashed by ORBZ.

  8. Re:What a silly thing to do on Linux 2.4.18 Released · · Score: 1

    But it is that simple. Release the originally intended 2.4.18 as 2.4.19.

  9. Re:How many... on Be Sues Microsoft for Violations of Antitrust Laws · · Score: 1

    The point, I'm sure is two fold:

    1. Make a statement
    2. Attempt to pay off creditors, including stock holders.

  10. Re:Compile it on States Demand Windows Source Code · · Score: 1

    You must not live in America. The media is hanging Enron execs out to dry, everyone who owned Enron stocks hates 'em (which is a lot of ppl), and everyone else can barely believe Enron was that stupid. One already committed suicide... supposedly. There is pleanty of evidence to prove them guilty.

    Enron execs will hang, I guarantee you.

  11. Re:Alternatives on Security Hole In SNMP · · Score: 1
    The best way to deal with it right now is to put all your equpiments' management addresses in a management VLAN, of which none of the user ports are members, and then control access to it via the router you'll use to get to the VLAN.

    That's not too useful for products with only in-band management capabilities.

  12. Re:Of course... on Nano-sized Microchips? HP Says So. · · Score: 1

    Smaller = Less Heat
    Higher frequency = More Heat
    Higher voltage = More Heat

    Nanometer Chip = "Is this thing on?"

  13. Re:So, how do we interface to these nanocomputers? on Nano-sized Microchips? HP Says So. · · Score: 1

    How about placing a few million of them on a micro chip and placing _that_ in your computer?
    It would require a breakthrough in parallel programming, but hey...

  14. Re:Only thing a better monitoring system would do. on Another Asteroid Close Call · · Score: 1

    Just a guess, but after the nuke blows, it ain't no vacuum.

  15. Re:Riiight ... and where will the bandwidth come f on Ethernet Over Assorted Materials · · Score: 1

    The costs are:

    1. Phone companies providing the high speed backhaul circuits: the fiber, the terminating equipment and the maintenance/support and customer support of said equipment.

    2. Phone companies providing Last Mile hardware, phone lines, and maintenance/support and customer support.

    3. Networking companies (Genuity/UUNet/Sprint, etc) building an IP infrastructure on top of said backhaul circuits, and the maintenance/support and customer support of that.

    4. Recovery of any old debt at a reasonable rate both related to and unrelated to the service being delivered, if applicable.

    Of course, a margin must me made on top of all this. Don't look at the microcosm of: when I use more bandwidth, it doesn't cost the phone company any more money. Look at it this way: when a million users use 10 times more bandwidth, it costs x more to deliver.

    The details of (take DSL) bandwidth utilization are not trivial. If there is a router at your CO, then the marginal costs of communicating with other people in the same CO are zero. If not, the circuit is backhauled with ATM typically to another CO somewhere with a router. In that scenario, there is a marginal cost communicating even with your neighbor.

    What's the going rate for a meg (full duplex) of internet bandwidth? Depends on the quantity you buy, but it can range from $200 - $500. The only reason cable and DSL providers can sell it at the prices they do is that most people don't use the bandwidth.

    Could you imagine "local" and "long distance" internet service?

    ISP: you used 500 hours * 1Mbps of long distance bandwidth last month.
    User: Where did I connect to?
    ISP: We'll send you the DVD of who you connected to and what you sent and received to prove it.
    User: Uh, thanks. (whoa, where do they store that stuff?)

  16. Re:Nope, you're wrong on Mosfet Contributes Code To KDE (Again) · · Score: 1

    Ok, a quick glance reveals:

    1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.

    and

    2. b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.

  17. Re:Nintendo Outselling Both on Playstation 2 Outsells both Xbox and Gamecube · · Score: 1
    The new GBA franchise games, on which Nintendo makes a killing, cost the same as GCN, XBox, or PS2 games, about $50. The GB Color and GB games cost significantly less.

    Nintendo also profits heavily on their franchises on the GCN.

    I believe, comparing the P&Ls of gaming divisions only, that Nintendo kicked the crap out of Sony and Microsoft this year, hands down... and will do the same in 2002.

  18. Re:Heat Dissipation on Scientific American on 3-D Chips · · Score: 1

    Not that I've done a study, but the "wasted" energy of heat may not be wasted. The heat does need to leave the immediate area at a minimum rate.

  19. Re:First Power! on Hydrogen Micro Turbine Only 4mm In Diameter · · Score: 1

    Also from the Wired article:

    Weighing less than a gram, the engine is constructed from eight wafers of diffusion-bonded silicon and consists of a combustion chamber that ignites hydrogen and shoots hot gas past a spinning turbine that powers the compressor to drive the machinery.

  20. Re:Mind Blown on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 1

    They're just being clear as to what the light beams are orthogonal to, i.e. eachother, not some third object.

  21. Re:distributed power on Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1
    You technically own a cold water heater, otherwise it would be rather redundant.

    News flash: a hot water heater mostly keeps hot water hot.

  22. Re:Of course it never weighs the same... on NIST Wants An Electronic Kilogram · · Score: 1

    You have some known quantity on one side...

    Great, you just need a 1 kilogram mass that never changes over time. Oh, wait, that doesn't exist. Oh, wait, that's what this article's about :)

    You can use an accelerometer which basically vibrates a mass and determines the mass based on the frequency of vibration, which even works in free-fall. Although all metric measurements of mass will depend on the definition of a kilogram, which is apparently in flux.

  23. Re:Just a different was of measuring it on NIST Wants An Electronic Kilogram · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't look like they've replaced the hunk of metal, they've replaced the balance scale.

    No, they are just trying to make sure that the new mathematically "electrically" defined kilogram is as close as possible to the current kilogram.

    The same way they redefined a second based on a certain number of rotations of a cesium atom (or something like that) and redefined a meter in terms of light-seconds. They got the new definitions as close as possible to their old values.

    This is nothing more than doing essentially the same thing with the meter, however more difficult.

  24. Re:OS support exists on IPv4 vs IPv6: The Road Ahead · · Score: 1

    It's actually 12.2T and above, so it probably won't reach General Deployment for a long time. 12.2T will be merged into 12.3, but GD won't happen until 12.4 (or 13.0).

    What does that mean? That means that if you want to use IPv6, you have to run what amounts to an experimental code base until 12.4 or 13.0.

  25. Re:Every id game is worth it on Quake 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Quake was and isn't about single player.