A *LOT* of work proxies and 'free wi-fi' hotspots limit HTTP/S traffic to ONLY ports 80/443. Having a link to http://myawesomefridgecam.com:81/ is just not gonna work...
I don't need to see this right at the top of the comments [1]. I thought slashdot released stories earlier to logged in users or subscribers? If so, then how are ACs getting first comment?
-Jar
[1] Yes I know I can change my comment browsing level, but I shouldn't have to. Besides, thanks to the useless mods on/. there's a lot of good stuff modded down into the minuses.
I recall that a simple search for memes and swear words in Google Code can show that devs putting in incredibly stupid placeholder text is depressingly common.
I know I'm guilty of it also, sometimes I just can't help myself.
(Hmm, I've just tried it again, and unless I'm doing it wrong, I can't seem to search the code repository properly?)
Try as I might, I couldnt 'see' those colours. So I had to mock up a html file with dummy text. I am pleased to report that it is a nice pale yellow text on a dark cyan (teal?) background.
Government made the internet, and they goddamn well better get a handle on the corporate takeover of it before it turns completely into cable television.
I totally agree with this point. I am sick and tired of following a news headline in my RSS reader only to find that the destination page is just an embedded video player of some talking head hack reading out loud the article I was fully prepared to read for myself in the first place.
If I wanted to watch TV, I'd turn it on. Now, get off my lawn!
I've done this on a 8ft projector screen with Johny Chung Lee's original Wii head tracking mod, and I can assure you, the moment you move your head and the display updates, your brain is immediately fooled into seeing 3D.
...you imply you have not even tried. My advice is to try and contact them letting them know you have a problem.
You've not had to deal with Virgin Media before have you?
Their support system is the most on-rails I've ever encountered. I've tried before when I've had previous issues, and it's simply frustrating. They won't even send out an engineer if their remote tools say nothing is wrong.
The main point of my post was to see if anyone understands the traffic profile I'm seeing ? It seems like they are shaping me ALL the time, but I am not sure, and I want to collect as much information about whats happening before I do speak to them.
It also sounds like you're more stubborn than they are.
I probably am.:)
Anyway, the router on my side is a pfSense box, with an unchanged config on it. I can't see how by changing nothing on my side, that the speed has dropped and it beeing something I (haven't) done.
I'm on their 20mb service, and have been with them for several years now. My location has overheard phone cables, so fast ADSL is not an option leaving me with Virgin cable as my only broadband option.
Over the past few months the speed has practically collapsed. Now I never get any more than about 6mb from sites like Microsoft.
More alarminly, is that it's not a constant speed. If I watch the traffic graph in DownThemAll (using a single stream, single file download) it looks like a row of mountains, peaking upto to 6mbish, and then suddenly dropping to a few Kb for several seconds, then climbing back upto 6mbs over another 10-20 seconds. This pattern continues for the complete download, regardless where I am downloading from, and what size of file, and when in the day I'm doing it.
Because of this, even low res YouTube type video streaming is out. Warcraft regularly stutters, and overall browsing is now becoming hit-and-miss with a lot of failed page loads.
I know if I contact them, they'll argue that it's my equipment (it's not - nothing has changed on my side of the network for a couple of years now), and they'll never admit to it being their problem...
So I'm throwing it out here, are any slashdotters who use Virgin Media suffering in the same way, and did they manage to solve it?
I am SO with you on this. I've always disliked Superman for many reasons, but mainly
a) He's WAY overspecced so that no encounter is ever dangerous.
b) Even though I know his reasons for being created (US Depression era), his Jingoism simply gets on my nerves.
c) Theres no inner turmoil. In short, he's a dumb Jock who would have never graduated from High School.
This leaves us with very simplistic stories that fail to engage.
I'm bias though, because for me, Batman is the MAN.
Once, I was at a sci-fi collectables fair. One of the most popular stands was selling Beanie babies. My 1 year old daughter, whom I was carrying, started stretching out for one of the beanie babies (a small pig I think). I picked it up and asked how much. The vendor told me £30 or there abouts. Watched by the many other collectors who were all sifting through the stand, I bought the beanie baby pig, tore off the tag, and handed it to my daughter.
The silence around me was deafening... I quickly retreated to the Star Trek area, where at least they can take a joke.
-Jar.
PS. She's 12 now, and still has the beanie baby pig, without tag, and without most of it's fur. PPS. I bought an original lobby poster of Star Trek V at that same fair, signed by Shatner. It's one of my most valuable collectables.
Just use nLite for customizing an XP install, or vLite for a custom vista* install. Both tools do a very good job of creating lightweight Windows installations.
(*although WHY anyone would still be running vista, is beyond me.)
Windows Devs: Please stop using MSI installers. I hate having to find the install files to remove programs.
That's not MSI per-se but a badly built install table. Blame the mechanic, not the tools.
When you install an application via MSI, the MSIEXEC process stores a cached copy of the application installation db (not the files, just their position and information) in a sub folder under windows. This cache copy SHOULD be all windows needs to uninstall the application. Ergo, in well behaved MSI installs, you do NOT need the original install files (just uninstall the app via Add/Remove Programs).
However, because MSI allows for extensive custom scripting, a lot of devs add extra checks into their install routines, some of which would probe for the existence of the install files (even during an uninstall, which is dumb obviously).
Slashdot Mirror
A *LOT* of work proxies and 'free wi-fi' hotspots limit HTTP/S traffic to ONLY ports 80/443. Having a link to http://myawesomefridgecam.com:81/ is just not gonna work...
What he said.
Mod this guy up. Or at least send him a free tin foil hat.
-Jar
I don't need to see this right at the top of the comments [1]. I thought slashdot released stories earlier to logged in users or subscribers? If so, then how are ACs getting first comment?
-Jar
[1] Yes I know I can change my comment browsing level, but I shouldn't have to. Besides, thanks to the useless mods on /. there's a lot of good stuff modded down into the minuses.
I recall that a simple search for memes and swear words in Google Code can show that devs putting in incredibly stupid placeholder text is depressingly common.
I know I'm guilty of it also, sometimes I just can't help myself.
(Hmm, I've just tried it again, and unless I'm doing it wrong, I can't seem to search the code repository properly?)
-Jar
You pasted the Corporate Ispum link incorrectly. Here is the correct URL.
Apple didn't invent Lorum Ipsum y'know. ;)
Either way, most Masochists ARE Saddos imho, so the BBC are right however you look at it. ;)
Know your history, it's 'We'...
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/401800.html
Try as I might, I couldnt 'see' those colours. So I had to mock up a html file with dummy text. I am pleased to report that it is a nice pale yellow text on a dark cyan (teal?) background.
http://www.weegeeks.com/upload/foo.html
Very pleasing on the eye.
-Jar
VB(6) and C++ will. Java of course wont, seeing as it needs thousands of support files just to do a hello world [1].
- Jar
[1] I don't program Java, and have no desire to, as it is a 1990s throwback language. feel free to flame on :)
I totally agree with this point. I am sick and tired of following a news headline in my RSS reader only to find that the destination page is just an embedded video player of some talking head hack reading out loud the article I was fully prepared to read for myself in the first place.
If I wanted to watch TV, I'd turn it on. Now, get off my lawn!
-Jar.
I've done this on a 8ft projector screen with Johny Chung Lee's original Wii head tracking mod, and I can assure you, the moment you move your head and the display updates, your brain is immediately fooled into seeing 3D.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
-Jar
...you imply you have not even tried. My advice is to try and contact them letting them know you have a problem.
You've not had to deal with Virgin Media before have you?
Their support system is the most on-rails I've ever encountered. I've tried before when I've had previous issues, and it's simply frustrating. They won't even send out an engineer if their remote tools say nothing is wrong.
The main point of my post was to see if anyone understands the traffic profile I'm seeing ? It seems like they are shaping me ALL the time, but I am not sure, and I want to collect as much information about whats happening before I do speak to them.
-Jar
It also sounds like you're more stubborn than they are.
I probably am. :)
Anyway, the router on my side is a pfSense box, with an unchanged config on it. I can't see how by changing nothing on my side, that the speed has dropped and it beeing something I (haven't) done.
-Jar
I'm on their 20mb service, and have been with them for several years now. My location has overheard phone cables, so fast ADSL is not an option leaving me with Virgin cable as my only broadband option.
Over the past few months the speed has practically collapsed. Now I never get any more than about 6mb from sites like Microsoft.
More alarminly, is that it's not a constant speed. If I watch the traffic graph in DownThemAll (using a single stream, single file download) it looks like a row of mountains, peaking upto to 6mbish, and then suddenly dropping to a few Kb for several seconds, then climbing back upto 6mbs over another 10-20 seconds. This pattern continues for the complete download, regardless where I am downloading from, and what size of file, and when in the day I'm doing it.
Because of this, even low res YouTube type video streaming is out. Warcraft regularly stutters, and overall browsing is now becoming hit-and-miss with a lot of failed page loads.
I know if I contact them, they'll argue that it's my equipment (it's not - nothing has changed on my side of the network for a couple of years now), and they'll never admit to it being their problem...
So I'm throwing it out here, are any slashdotters who use Virgin Media suffering in the same way, and did they manage to solve it?
-Jar
'bang regular chicks'
Who let the pre-schoolers in here?
*sigh*
I am SO with you on this. I've always disliked Superman for many reasons, but mainly
a) He's WAY overspecced so that no encounter is ever dangerous.
b) Even though I know his reasons for being created (US Depression era), his Jingoism simply gets on my nerves.
c) Theres no inner turmoil. In short, he's a dumb Jock who would have never graduated from High School.
This leaves us with very simplistic stories that fail to engage.
I'm bias though, because for me, Batman is the MAN.
-Jar
Once, I was at a sci-fi collectables fair. One of the most popular stands was selling Beanie babies. My 1 year old daughter, whom I was carrying, started stretching out for one of the beanie babies (a small pig I think). I picked it up and asked how much. The vendor told me £30 or there abouts. Watched by the many other collectors who were all sifting through the stand, I bought the beanie baby pig, tore off the tag, and handed it to my daughter.
The silence around me was deafening... I quickly retreated to the Star Trek area, where at least they can take a joke.
-Jar.
PS. She's 12 now, and still has the beanie baby pig, without tag, and without most of it's fur.
PPS. I bought an original lobby poster of Star Trek V at that same fair, signed by Shatner. It's one of my most valuable collectables.
I'll take my eggs, hard boiled thank-you-very-much...
Haven't actually seen the film myself mind you.
-Jar
See This Comment
-Jar
Why use an illegal spyware ridden torrent copy ?
Just use nLite for customizing an XP install, or vLite for a custom vista* install. Both tools do a very good job of creating lightweight Windows installations.
(*although WHY anyone would still be running vista, is beyond me.)
-Jar
No he wouldn't. Douglas was a Mac fan.
-Jar
And save before printing
So much time/stress/relationships would be saved if this was the default option on all Office type applications.
You cannot Print until this document has been saved, click on 'Save' to continue.
-Jar
I'm sure the toilet on the IIS has it.
That'll be the missing > on the IMG tags. Sloppy html coding there.
-Jar
Windows Devs: Please stop using MSI installers. I hate having to find the install files to remove programs.
That's not MSI per-se but a badly built install table. Blame the mechanic, not the tools.
When you install an application via MSI, the MSIEXEC process stores a cached copy of the application installation db (not the files, just their position and information) in a sub folder under windows. This cache copy SHOULD be all windows needs to uninstall the application. Ergo, in well behaved MSI installs, you do NOT need the original install files (just uninstall the app via Add/Remove Programs).
However, because MSI allows for extensive custom scripting, a lot of devs add extra checks into their install routines, some of which would probe for the existence of the install files (even during an uninstall, which is dumb obviously).
Hope this explanation helped.
-Jar