Up here in Canada, Sympatico is doing the same thing. When I moved to my new place I wanted my 1 Meg DSL to follow me so I called Bell and requested that. Somehow I ended up with 128k DSL, which I didn't even know existed. I don't know any other DSL provider in my area that even offers it. I only found out when I called to get a tech in to replace the wiring which I thought was causing my speed problems.
With all this talk of allotting only a fraction of available bandwidth to residences, I thought I'd share what my University decided to do. They have a 13Mb connection to the Internet (that maxes out at 10.8Mb due to ATM overhead, but they pay for 13Mb) over OC-3c with the rest of the fibre used to connect to CA-Net. Since the porn vortex that is residence was using the vast majority of the bandwidth, they limited residence (~2000 students) to 3Mb total. They didn't bother allowing them access to the CA-Net connection and they didn't allow them unlimited access to the campus network. The result was that few people could even access their course webpages (hosted on campus) never mind browse off-campus websites. I guess they tried their best.
I also run a research project in the engineering faculty there. We want to do a few projects with the fat, low-latency CA-Net pipe. Administration is not even capable of providing a wire map, or any information about what kind of equipment is between our office and the border router. Who makes the border router? Who knows. Can't even get that. Our projects would be latency sensitive ones, VoIP being an example, and how would we know where latency is introduced? It's no wonder that they use less than 5% of the CA-Net link at any given time. No building has better than 10Mb to the border, never mind an individual office or lab, even if you volunteer to pay for it.
I've asked the undergraduate advisor in my Engineering Faculty where I'm taking Computer Engineering why we take Java and not some other language. His answer was that the other ones are "too hard". That was also his answer to why we didn't use more free software in our courses. Because it's too hard for students to get the hang of UNIX we don't use it.
Now, I can see part of his point. My faculty is full to the brim with morons that cannot use a computer and won't be able to when they graduate, but as long as they are accomodated the cycle continues. *sigh*
Now, I haven't bought a game in ages, but don't most games these days have a rating on them? Or at least it says on the box "extreme violence"? Maybe that's just in Canada, or just in BC, I don't know.
In any case, if a kid is playing Quake for hours a day and parents don't know, then it's probably their fault. All they need to do is knock on the kid's bedroom door and see what's up.
They're not selling any more of these VAX boxes because they are running low on those 1gb SCSI disks. What happens with anything larger? Probably just better performance. Those drives gotta be few and far between. But there's regular sized disks as (mandatory) options.
What about OpenSSL/OpenSSH? Are there issues with distributing the crypto that are stopping from being included in the distro? The first thing I always need to after a fresh RedHat install is install OpenSSL/OpenSSH.
They list all the specs (CPU, RAM, Video, etc.) but don't mention what that drive on the front will read. Is it a DVD drive? Just a CD-ROM drive? Will the thing play DVDs? I didn't bother reading more than the front page and the page with specs, but these things should be on the specs page.
I am lucky enough to work at a company where enlightened people make the decisions on the software chosen for servers/desktops. This was the case right from the start (the company is only a year old). So we have about 7 servers/routers running Linux, and 6 desktops running Linux. Then there are about 8 Mac desktops/laptops running MacOS. So we're very close to being MS-free! I believe that MS Office apps are still used for managing paycheques and the like.
We also need to test our web stuff using IE on the Macs. IE 5.5 on Mac is a surprisingly standards compliant browser. Since we also need to test with IE in Windows, one of the Linux desktops runs VMWare. It is obviously much easier to stay MS-Free when you are a young company. All new people hired into the Engineering Dept. are expected to know Linux. If they don't and somehow get hired, they probably wouldn't last long.:)
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I used to read religiously, not so anymore. Back in the early aughts I spent countless hours here and learned a lot. Thanks.
http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/a/aapl_qb.html
That shows about $6B in total assets and just over $4B in shareholder equity. They have $2.6B in cash.
Up here in Canada, Sympatico is doing the same thing. When I moved to my new place I wanted my 1 Meg DSL to follow me so I called Bell and requested that. Somehow I ended up with 128k DSL, which I didn't even know existed. I don't know any other DSL provider in my area that even offers it. I only found out when I called to get a tech in to replace the wiring which I thought was causing my speed problems.
...congrats.
With all this talk of allotting only a fraction of available bandwidth to residences, I thought I'd share what my University decided to do. They have a 13Mb connection to the Internet (that maxes out at 10.8Mb due to ATM overhead, but they pay for 13Mb) over OC-3c with the rest of the fibre used to connect to CA-Net. Since the porn vortex that is residence was using the vast majority of the bandwidth, they limited residence (~2000 students) to 3Mb total. They didn't bother allowing them access to the CA-Net connection and they didn't allow them unlimited access to the campus network. The result was that few people could even access their course webpages (hosted on campus) never mind browse off-campus websites. I guess they tried their best.
I also run a research project in the engineering faculty there. We want to do a few projects with the fat, low-latency CA-Net pipe. Administration is not even capable of providing a wire map, or any information about what kind of equipment is between our office and the border router. Who makes the border router? Who knows. Can't even get that. Our projects would be latency sensitive ones, VoIP being an example, and how would we know where latency is introduced? It's no wonder that they use less than 5% of the CA-Net link at any given time. No building has better than 10Mb to the border, never mind an individual office or lab, even if you volunteer to pay for it.
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I've asked the undergraduate advisor in my Engineering Faculty where I'm taking Computer Engineering why we take Java and not some other language. His answer was that the other ones are "too hard". That was also his answer to why we didn't use more free software in our courses. Because it's too hard for students to get the hang of UNIX we don't use it.
Now, I can see part of his point. My faculty is full to the brim with morons that cannot use a computer and won't be able to when they graduate, but as long as they are accomodated the cycle continues. *sigh*
Now, I haven't bought a game in ages, but don't most games these days have a rating on them? Or at least it says on the box "extreme violence"? Maybe that's just in Canada, or just in BC, I don't know.
In any case, if a kid is playing Quake for hours a day and parents don't know, then it's probably their fault. All they need to do is knock on the kid's bedroom door and see what's up.
Sudbury is 359 miles away from Kingston, so the SNO is nowhere close to where the article said. Check it out.
There were dates to pass up?
They're not selling any more of these VAX boxes because they are running low on those 1gb SCSI disks. What happens with anything larger? Probably just better performance. Those drives gotta be few and far between. But there's regular sized disks as (mandatory) options.
What about OpenSSL/OpenSSH? Are there issues with distributing the crypto that are stopping from being included in the distro? The first thing I always need to after a fresh RedHat install is install OpenSSL/OpenSSH.
They list all the specs (CPU, RAM, Video, etc.) but don't mention what that drive on the front will read. Is it a DVD drive? Just a CD-ROM drive? Will the thing play DVDs? I didn't bother reading more than the front page and the page with specs, but these things should be on the specs page.
I am lucky enough to work at a company where enlightened people make the decisions on the software chosen for servers/desktops. This was the case right from the start (the company is only a year old). So we have about 7 servers/routers running Linux, and 6 desktops running Linux. Then there are about 8 Mac desktops/laptops running MacOS. So we're very close to being MS-free! I believe that MS Office apps are still used for managing paycheques and the like.
:)
We also need to test our web stuff using IE on the Macs. IE 5.5 on Mac is a surprisingly standards compliant browser. Since we also need to test with IE in Windows, one of the Linux desktops runs VMWare. It is obviously much easier to stay MS-Free when you are a young company. All new people hired into the Engineering Dept. are expected to know Linux. If they don't and somehow get hired, they probably wouldn't last long.