Technically, Ubuntu is doing the Right Thing with the settings (it queries the hard drive for the proper settings as defined by the manufactuer), but it seems that the manufactuers put in bad values (possibly due to "why bother? windows just ignores this stuff anyway."), resulting in frequent spin up/spin down behaviour.
while it appears to be the manufactuer's fault, it's faster/easier/cheaper for Ubuntu to fix it in software by overriding those settings with more sane ones.
But the broadband operators aren't likely to give up on billing the endpoints.
hence why a regulated free market (no, this is not a contradiction. "free" as in "free (as in freedom) for the customer", not "free for the corporations") is needed.
opt-in blocking? leave the choice on it to the customer.
by default, ISP is not allowed to block anything (QoS only when necessary (peak hours), but nothing else), but if the customer says they want spam/viruses/bittorrent blocked, the ISP jumps in and enables that for them on a per-customer basis. if they find they want bittorrent unblocked for at a later date, off goes the block.
fine if they re-prioritise (VOIP/games before bitrorrent/FTP) and traffic shape (websites/IPTV/etc. work normal, BT runs slower) stuff when necessary (peak hours), but when they're sabotaging a protocol all the time for no good reason, that ticks me off and shouldn't be allowed.
my personal idea of NN is "don't shape by origin/destination ever, shape by traffic only when absolutely necessary".
presumably, with a fireproof house, evacuation wouldn't be necessary. just close the doors and windows, put a suitable filter on the fresh air intake, and let it go past.
i think i read about such an event either last year or the year before in some magazine. might have been popsci.
concrete and steel will not be ignited by the temperatures produced by a wood-and-grass fire, so they're fireproof enough for the purpose of this discussion.
Shaw does similar capping (stated as 100GB/month), though they're pretty variable about it. in some areas, they jump on you for money as soon as you go even a single bit above that, other places, you can pull 500GB of traffic for months on end and never hear a peep from them and without a single extra charge on the bill.
and if you don't like them, you can easily switch to someone else (Access, Sasktel, and i believe a couple other small guys in Regina and Saskatoon) for DSL without caps, though possibly a bit less bandwidth.
nevermind that the fuel is about as radioactive as your morning coffee and is only present in small quantities, plus the fact that the alpha radiation emitted by uranium (and it's isotopes) can't even penetrate skin and would be stopped by your clothes before that.
about the only way to get harmed by uranium is to eat it, have it fall on you from a height, or leave it laying around for years, as when it decays into radon, it's significantly more ugly.
though, of course, it's NUCULAR! RADIATION! FEAR! PANIC! INSANITY! DEATH!
(slightly) lower power bill, the whole "i'm doing good for the planet" feeling, computer runs cooler (requires fewer fans and makes for a quieter computer) but other than those, i don't really see a whole lot of benefit to J. Random geek.
and also they need to raise the requirement for disclosure in patents. it is completely impossible to replicate the item in question from a lot of modern patents because they lack a lot of the information that ought to be required.
sorry to hear that it isn't working, but PLEASE file a bug report on it with all the details you can. it's really hard to fix problems if people don't let the developers know about them.
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speedy start to the trial. it can go on for pretty much as long as either side likes.
a discount for seeding the purchased file?
...
e.g.
you purchase a song for $1 and download it, then (optionally) act as a seed, and by the share ratio for that file :
share ratio 1 - 10% off (price now $0.90. $0.10 returned to your purchase account)
ratio 2 - 20% off (price now $0.80)
ratio 10 - 100% off (free, full price refunded)
the necessary ratio for each discount level could be scaled as appropriate.
sounds reasonable to me...
Technically, Ubuntu is doing the Right Thing with the settings (it queries the hard drive for the proper settings as defined by the manufactuer), but it seems that the manufactuers put in bad values (possibly due to "why bother? windows just ignores this stuff anyway."), resulting in frequent spin up/spin down behaviour.
while it appears to be the manufactuer's fault, it's faster/easier/cheaper for Ubuntu to fix it in software by overriding those settings with more sane ones.
"bricking your machine"?
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding this procedure, the worst case scenario is you have to reformat the disk and reinstall Windows/Linux/whatever.
That hardly qualifies as "bricking" to me.
acre is area, not volume.
that's what i was meaning. though in terms of the action (bandwidth re-prioritization), traffic shaping and QoS are the same thing.
But the broadband operators aren't likely to give up on billing the endpoints.
hence why a regulated free market (no, this is not a contradiction. "free" as in "free (as in freedom) for the customer", not "free for the corporations") is needed.
you can get debtorrent for that i believe.
opt-in blocking? leave the choice on it to the customer.
by default, ISP is not allowed to block anything (QoS only when necessary (peak hours), but nothing else), but if the customer says they want spam/viruses/bittorrent blocked, the ISP jumps in and enables that for them on a per-customer basis. if they find they want bittorrent unblocked for at a later date, off goes the block.
fine if they re-prioritise (VOIP/games before bitrorrent/FTP) and traffic shape (websites/IPTV/etc. work normal, BT runs slower) stuff when necessary (peak hours), but when they're sabotaging a protocol all the time for no good reason, that ticks me off and shouldn't be allowed.
my personal idea of NN is "don't shape by origin/destination ever, shape by traffic only when absolutely necessary".
yes, one of the occasions when i hate english is with the word "free" and its double-meanings in this context.
you finally convinced me to actually look that up.
wikipedia says it's the "kitten face" emoticon.
presumably, with a fireproof house, evacuation wouldn't be necessary. just close the doors and windows, put a suitable filter on the fresh air intake, and let it go past.
i think i read about such an event either last year or the year before in some magazine. might have been popsci.
concrete and steel will not be ignited by the temperatures produced by a wood-and-grass fire, so they're fireproof enough for the purpose of this discussion.
Shaw does similar capping (stated as 100GB/month), though they're pretty variable about it. in some areas, they jump on you for money as soon as you go even a single bit above that, other places, you can pull 500GB of traffic for months on end and never hear a peep from them and without a single extra charge on the bill.
and if you don't like them, you can easily switch to someone else (Access, Sasktel, and i believe a couple other small guys in Regina and Saskatoon) for DSL without caps, though possibly a bit less bandwidth.
nevermind that the fuel is about as radioactive as your morning coffee and is only present in small quantities, plus the fact that the alpha radiation emitted by uranium (and it's isotopes) can't even penetrate skin and would be stopped by your clothes before that.
about the only way to get harmed by uranium is to eat it, have it fall on you from a height, or leave it laying around for years, as when it decays into radon, it's significantly more ugly.
though, of course, it's NUCULAR! RADIATION! FEAR! PANIC! INSANITY! DEATH!
well, you're gonna have to breed some pretty big sharks...
modern GPU's have been becoming increasingly general purpose since the introduction of programable shaders.
NVIDIA's CUDA and ATI's CTM are examples of this.
(slightly) lower power bill, the whole "i'm doing good for the planet" feeling, computer runs cooler (requires fewer fans and makes for a quieter computer) but other than those, i don't really see a whole lot of benefit to J. Random geek.
and also they need to raise the requirement for disclosure in patents. it is completely impossible to replicate the item in question from a lot of modern patents because they lack a lot of the information that ought to be required.
Don't know how a dish would be faring. But that doesn't mean I'm happy with Comcast.
works quite fine in a wind so long as it's mounted well (our's is mounted with 4 4 inch lagscrews into a stud through stucco and shiplap.).
only thing that has tripped up our satellite (we have starchoice) is heavy lightning activity right on top of us.
sorry to hear that it isn't working, but PLEASE file a bug report on it with all the details you can. it's really hard to fix problems if people don't let the developers know about them.
how can you complain about that?
when their server becomes a pile of molten slag?
you might like XMMS, BMPx, or Audacious as Linux replacements for Winamp.
it's not built in (yet), but there is such a thing available.
http://sianka.free.fr/?lang=en