Any RFP that names brands has missed the point. A better RFP would describe exactly what the new OS needs to accomplish, rather than what vendor or product they want to accomplish it.
You don't think the major ISP's have the ability to prioritize traffic to specific locations. Methinks consumers will happen to get much better throughput to this website than they will get to most others...
As long as it's in the ISP's interest to cast their speed in the best light (and I would think so in this case), I think it's pretty much a given that they will game this test accordingly, to the extent that they can.
Handling p2p is not so much about bandwidth as it is about routing capacity and QoS. There's a reason that a proper Linux-equipped home router can withstand torrents with literally thousands of open connections, while your typical DLink or Trendnet will buckle somewhere around 150, and I don't care what your link speed is.
Similarly, a good healthy torernt can saturdate just about any WAN link you want to throw at, but only a proper QoS solution will keep a 1mbit connection responsive under a comparable load.
The problem is that alternatives are not (yet) economical
Compared to what? The BP disaster should open a few eyes to some of the hidden costs of the oil orgy. If oil is still seen as too cheap compared to the saner alternatives, then maybe we're cutting too many corners in harvesting it, as the GGP suggested, or maybe we're just not aware of the overwhelming externalities, which have not in the past been so easily and widely witnessed by the public.
While it's great to have last mile numbers, instead of useless metrics of advertised performance, there still needs to be a control for other factors, such as cost. For example, if you looked at my speedtest results you would see that I'm getting roughly 10/1 mbps, but what you would not see is that I pay $100/month and use a not-widely-available mlppp offering and multiple connections to get this. It's silly, because each of my modems is individually capable of this speed, but the ISP (the incumbent, not my wholesaler), in its monopoly has chosen to impose artificial barriers thereby enforcing unreasonable fees.
So yeah, I have reasonably fast internet for a Canadian, but at what price?
This thing goes on sale almost every month, and there is a $10 rebate every month. I've deployed 10 or so recently and never had a rebate not come back. Throw Tomato on in and you will be one happy camper. I'm using one currently for a 2-link bonded DSL connection and it passes 10/1 mbps day and night with full QoS. There's no router platform that can touch it under $100, at which point you start looking at m0n0wall, pfsense, or something Linux-based.
Ignore FCC regs and you can get 100 miles using satellite dishes and 802.11b. If you don't cause any interference, they won't be knocking at your door.
I have my doubts. I've done 45 miles LOS with 900MHz and 17dbi yagis. 2.4GHz won't have nearly the penetration, and I'm not sure the increased gain of a pair of dishes would make up for it.
Then there's that little issue of the curvature of the earth. Even if you can get.11b to penetrate 100 miles of air, well, good luck finding 2 points with 100 miles of nothing but air between them. I'm not saying it's impossible, just way less likely than a person might infer from reading your post.
Just a couple weeks ago someone at the company I worked for received a Word 2.0 document and was asking for my help opening it as he only had Word 2010.
The article has Dally advocating more efficient processing done in parallel. The potential benefits of this are obvious if you've compared the power consumption of a desktop computer decoding h.264@1080p in software (CPU) and in hardware (GPU). My own machine, for example, consumes less than 10W over idle (+16%) when playing 1080p, and ~30W over idle (+45%) using software decoding. And no fires. See also the phenomenon of CUDA and PS3s being used as mini supercomputers, again, presumably without catching on fire a lot.
Lucky. I could never get the rc scripts to run right, and if you have to run it manually after every restart, well, then it's not really a surprise daemon at all, is it?
this is like Apple hand-picking which apps are allowed in the app store, except on a much bigger scale
And there you have the answer to your own question. Governments regulate how monopolists are allowed to leverage their monopolies. This question comes up in every discussion of this nature. You're either new here or you have a learning disability.
as a work around they now offer a dual line setup to get though Bell, but it costs more money because of the need to split the packets to get around bell.
Having spent some time recently on the teksavvy/dslreports forums recently, I assume you're talking about multi-link PPPoE (ML-PPP). TSI charges $4 for the ML-PPP option, and in fact users on the forums will tell you that ML-PPP can be employed on a single TSI/Bell DSL line to avoid throttling--no need to get a costly second line to enjoy this benefit. I can't personally verify this claim, as I'm on single-line TSI/Telus account, and throttling has never been an issue for me. It's probably worth a try for somebody who's already using ML-PPP and wants to rid himself of the expense of a second line.
I've always considered this to be one of Linux's strengths. I have many times taken a hard drive from a working computer, dropped it into another box with all different hardware, and fired it up with only a couple minor issues: if you want a proprietary driver on the new box (such as a video card driver), but weren't using it on the old one, then you'll have to add that manually. The primary ethernet interface will have a new name (eth1 instead of eth0, for example), but other than that, it's pretty much plug and play. I assumed all Linux distros were similar due to most drivers being present as modules that load on demand.
...also extremes of heat, such as is commonly found in fire. Or intense pressure, traumatic impact, acid bath...I could go on. These scientists are such exaggerators!
I've had mixed luck using unetbootin with non-Linux isos. freedos works fine, but I don't think I've ever made it work with any Windows product, including Win7 and Office2007OPK.
I don't think we can necessarily write these two effects off as one and the same. I attended a talk on nuclear energy recently where the speaker explained that proponents will write off the effects of low-level radiation as insignificant in quantity, ignoring the fact that there is a significant trauma done at a microscopic level, where dangerously large amounts of energy are impacted upon miniscule locales. CPU overclockers, and in particular overvolters are familiar with a similar phenomenon, where hardware damage can occur even when adequate cooling is in place; even while your sensors report safe temperatures, some areas of the silicon are much hotter than others, or the average.
I'm not saying unequivocally that wireless is bad for you; I use cell phones and wifi myself. I just think that such things warrant some caution and it would be hubris to gloss over potential concerns with sweeping generalizations and potentially meaningless comparisons.
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Totally, right?
No way in hell I would spend the extra money to upgrade to xp then.
Any RFP that names brands has missed the point. A better RFP would describe exactly what the new OS needs to accomplish, rather than what vendor or product they want to accomplish it.
You don't think the major ISP's have the ability to prioritize traffic to specific locations. Methinks consumers will happen to get much better throughput to this website than they will get to most others...
As long as it's in the ISP's interest to cast their speed in the best light (and I would think so in this case), I think it's pretty much a given that they will game this test accordingly, to the extent that they can.
Handling p2p is not so much about bandwidth as it is about routing capacity and QoS. There's a reason that a proper Linux-equipped home router can withstand torrents with literally thousands of open connections, while your typical DLink or Trendnet will buckle somewhere around 150, and I don't care what your link speed is.
Similarly, a good healthy torernt can saturdate just about any WAN link you want to throw at, but only a proper QoS solution will keep a 1mbit connection responsive under a comparable load.
The problem is that alternatives are not (yet) economical
Compared to what? The BP disaster should open a few eyes to some of the hidden costs of the oil orgy. If oil is still seen as too cheap compared to the saner alternatives, then maybe we're cutting too many corners in harvesting it, as the GGP suggested, or maybe we're just not aware of the overwhelming externalities, which have not in the past been so easily and widely witnessed by the public.
While it's great to have last mile numbers, instead of useless metrics of advertised performance, there still needs to be a control for other factors, such as cost. For example, if you looked at my speedtest results you would see that I'm getting roughly 10/1 mbps, but what you would not see is that I pay $100/month and use a not-widely-available mlppp offering and multiple connections to get this. It's silly, because each of my modems is individually capable of this speed, but the ISP (the incumbent, not my wholesaler), in its monopoly has chosen to impose artificial barriers thereby enforcing unreasonable fees.
So yeah, I have reasonably fast internet for a Canadian, but at what price?
ANY box on the network would see all drives as though locally connected
Is that any different than iSCSI? FreeNAS on commodity hardware then.
I see you've never tried to maintain a ratio on a private tracker.
This thing goes on sale almost every month, and there is a $10 rebate every month. I've deployed 10 or so recently and never had a rebate not come back. Throw Tomato on in and you will be one happy camper. I'm using one currently for a 2-link bonded DSL connection and it passes 10/1 mbps day and night with full QoS. There's no router platform that can touch it under $100, at which point you start looking at m0n0wall, pfsense, or something Linux-based.
You cannot get better than about half of your nominal throughput, at least on .11a or .11g. Ubiquiti advertises 100mbps of real throughput on their non-mimo .11n radios, which connect nominally at 150mbps. And yeah, that's combined up and down.
Ignore FCC regs and you can get 100 miles using satellite dishes and 802.11b. If you don't cause any interference, they won't be knocking at your door.
I have my doubts. I've done 45 miles LOS with 900MHz and 17dbi yagis. 2.4GHz won't have nearly the penetration, and I'm not sure the increased gain of a pair of dishes would make up for it.
Then there's that little issue of the curvature of the earth. Even if you can get .11b to penetrate 100 miles of air, well, good luck finding 2 points with 100 miles of nothing but air between them. I'm not saying it's impossible, just way less likely than a person might infer from reading your post.
Just a couple weeks ago someone at the company I worked for received a Word 2.0 document and was asking for my help opening it as he only had Word 2010.
Just move the decimal. Duh.
The article has Dally advocating more efficient processing done in parallel. The potential benefits of this are obvious if you've compared the power consumption of a desktop computer decoding h.264@1080p in software (CPU) and in hardware (GPU). My own machine, for example, consumes less than 10W over idle (+16%) when playing 1080p, and ~30W over idle (+45%) using software decoding. And no fires. See also the phenomenon of CUDA and PS3s being used as mini supercomputers, again, presumably without catching on fire a lot.
What was your point again?
You said it. Take that, Alberta!
Why not? We've been taking your oil dollars for years!
What's this distressd, and what's this disturbing trend to daemonize all our emotions?
It's just fine, thanks for asking. :)
Lucky. I could never get the rc scripts to run right, and if you have to run it manually after every restart, well, then it's not really a surprise daemon at all, is it?
... and Flash installed OOTB.
Because that's what all the best operating systems do, including OSX, Windows 7, iPhone, Palm....Oh, wait.
this is like Apple hand-picking which apps are allowed in the app store, except on a much bigger scale
And there you have the answer to your own question. Governments regulate how monopolists are allowed to leverage their monopolies. This question comes up in every discussion of this nature. You're either new here or you have a learning disability.
as a work around they now offer a dual line setup to get though Bell, but it costs more money because of the need to split the packets to get around bell.
Having spent some time recently on the teksavvy/dslreports forums recently, I assume you're talking about multi-link PPPoE (ML-PPP). TSI charges $4 for the ML-PPP option, and in fact users on the forums will tell you that ML-PPP can be employed on a single TSI/Bell DSL line to avoid throttling--no need to get a costly second line to enjoy this benefit. I can't personally verify this claim, as I'm on single-line TSI/Telus account, and throttling has never been an issue for me. It's probably worth a try for somebody who's already using ML-PPP and wants to rid himself of the expense of a second line.
I've always considered this to be one of Linux's strengths. I have many times taken a hard drive from a working computer, dropped it into another box with all different hardware, and fired it up with only a couple minor issues: if you want a proprietary driver on the new box (such as a video card driver), but weren't using it on the old one, then you'll have to add that manually. The primary ethernet interface will have a new name (eth1 instead of eth0, for example), but other than that, it's pretty much plug and play. I assumed all Linux distros were similar due to most drivers being present as modules that load on demand.
Uh ... it is really easy to install IE8 on XP.
He didn't say otherwise, but merely that upgrading from IE6 "often means a Windows OS upgrade", which is true for anybody using Windows 2000.
(you think I'm kidding, don't you?)
No.
And lack of sunlight....
...also extremes of heat, such as is commonly found in fire. Or intense pressure, traumatic impact, acid bath...I could go on. These scientists are such exaggerators!
I've had mixed luck using unetbootin with non-Linux isos. freedos works fine, but I don't think I've ever made it work with any Windows product, including Win7 and Office2007OPK.
I don't think we can necessarily write these two effects off as one and the same. I attended a talk on nuclear energy recently where the speaker explained that proponents will write off the effects of low-level radiation as insignificant in quantity, ignoring the fact that there is a significant trauma done at a microscopic level, where dangerously large amounts of energy are impacted upon miniscule locales. CPU overclockers, and in particular overvolters are familiar with a similar phenomenon, where hardware damage can occur even when adequate cooling is in place; even while your sensors report safe temperatures, some areas of the silicon are much hotter than others, or the average.
I'm not saying unequivocally that wireless is bad for you; I use cell phones and wifi myself. I just think that such things warrant some caution and it would be hubris to gloss over potential concerns with sweeping generalizations and potentially meaningless comparisons.