How are we to expect objective news from a site that has these types of things?
Why in the world are you expecting objective news here on/.? Seriously, you are out of your flaming gord to even imagine that/. has any thoughts on the objectivity forefront.
Compression "enhancements" like this won't do you any good on your downloaded software or most images.
Uhhhh... Isn't that obvious that I understand that if you simply read the post your are replying to? I am talking about bsdcomp or at least the compression in the modem standards. Obviously it won't affect poorly compressed data but it will speed up text.
Yesterday I came across the same offer on Coastal Web Online's home page while looking at colocation deals. Here is a direct link to their product page: www.cwo.com/3xs-index.html.
They are claiming 3x the performance -- "if your modem gets 52k, 3XS will increase it up to 156k." Hrm... Costs regular dialup account price plus $8/month. So almost $30/month.
I think it is pretty dumb as regular HTML isn't all that bad. I only get highly annoyed when I'm downloading software or viewing largish binary data like images. Now if only the ISP would turn on compression on their end everything would be sweet (*).
* Yeah, I had broadband, yeah, I don't now. I moved to a rural area that has both cable and DSL but the contract lengths or costs are just too stupid to consider while living in a short term apartment.
I strongly agree with you but of course there are people out there who just can't leave well enough alone. A couple years ago I built 3 566 Mhz -> 850 Mhz overclocked machines (2 for me, 1 for a friend) and they are still in use today. I just can't justify replacing them with something else. Giving the 66 Mhz FSB celerons a 100 Mhz FSB (which is what I and Angry White Guy are doing) is a wonderful performance boost plus we are staying in the regular speed ranges for the PCI bus and everything else besides the processor. I even have a couple of 366 Mhz -> 550 Mhz setups sitting around still.
Of course if I had a 1.2 Ghz AMD CPU that would hit 1.6 or 1.8 I'd be tempted. Even if I didn't need the speed. But the costs would probably make me just go with the regular speed. With the celeron overclocks you didn't need to buy a $20-$40 heatsink combo ($9 for a gorb or similar)... Overclocking today just isn't as sweet a proposition as it was back in the celeron days.
No no no no no... See, this is/. and we <em>*HAVE*<em/> to have the latest release just like we have to have food to live. It isn't an option. So when the parent poster says (s)he is forced to buy it then one can safely so that it is true, Apple is extorting money from this geek! This is an international crime to force the geek to pay for the upgrade. We should invade One Infinite Loop and liberate the OS.
The time is now to drop your jolt cola, fire up your major comipile jobs, lock up your computer room, don your smelliest sweat soaked t-shirt (hint, the one you're wearing right now), and go forth to meet at Zero Infinite Loop. We will attack at dawn (*).
* bring extra sweat soaked shirts for use as biological weapons against the door guards <sarcasm/>
I read up on the afterburner and it sounds like a major pain in the rear to install without smudges or other annoyances. Getting it installed isn't all that cheap. Considering the SP is $99 I would say afterburner is going to have declining sales for a long while.
Apparently Best Buy released theirs early at some locations so everyone else got in on the act after it was bless by Nintendo. So they have been out for a couple days at least (21st?).
Oh yeah, has the story poster considered a KLR-650? Not romantic like your current choice but it should get you there and back./me goes off to motorcylce troll elsewhere
In my experience inverters are very wasteful in terms of energy requirements and motorcycles are very fruagal in their providence of said energy. In other words, even modern bikes 700cc often have a hard time powering heating riding gear let alone inverters. This old bike probably won't have enough juice to power little more than the headlight.
Except precedent already exists for this. We have to pay our local telco a monthly fee to keep our regular land line unlisted.
On a side note, if telcos actually had the customers interests in mind, they might consider getting rid of at least the white pages and using the money saved to provide directory assistance at little to no charge. Of course the yellow pages will probably be around forever.
I have read almost all of the replies here but none seem to address freedom. If Keith wants to fork xfree86 then he should go ahead and do it. Why, except for political reasons, would the developers at xfree86 with cvs access care about a fork? Why remove Keith's CVS access because he discussed creating a fork with others?
Clearly the xfree86 development group has opened up their development process within the last year but if somebody wishes to fork their project, and this is their reaction, don't we need to question how valid their approach to openness really is?
You'd be able to backup 33Gb (128k/sec inbound limit), 66Gb (256k/sec inbound limit), etc... Definately not feasible for you but in the original posters defense, they never claimed it would work for everyone.
After mulling this over for a bit I'm sitting here thinking that ISPs should go into the backup market if they can work it to their advantage by keeping the backup traffic within their network and increasing subscriber speeds to the backup systems. Realistically everyone seems to still be on the outsource kick so it would be implemented in some inefficient and nonsensical manner.
In regards to your problem--shouldn't the school itself look at purchasing some large backup system and share the costs among other departments that will buy in? Or is administration screwed up enough to make such things not happen? Here is an interesting tape silo page at tamu.edu: http://sc.tamu.edu/emass/EMASSFlier.html
We use LoneTar at a couple of different clients. Not much to dislike except slow file restore seeks on tape but apparently this has been fixed within the last year.
I was going to recommend a particular set of documentation on the Samba site but I can't find it. There seem to be a number of choices. Some of the documentation is included in the tar ball but not (easily) accessable on the website.
Hey, that is cool! Did you notice typing the beginning of urls goes to them without having to mouse around? That is pretty neat too but I haven't really used it much. I think we'll have a Nutshell book for Mozilla eventually--so many neat things that seem to be almost buried.
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How are we to expect objective news from a site that has these types of things?
/.? Seriously, you are out of your flaming gord to even imagine that /. has any thoughts on the objectivity forefront.
Why in the world are you expecting objective news here on
Oh yeah, no need to download on the OC-3 at school instead of using the 56k modem at home. Sure, no problem...
Some people.
Compression "enhancements" like this won't do you any good on your downloaded software or most images.
Uhhhh... Isn't that obvious that I understand that if you simply read the post your are replying to? I am talking about bsdcomp or at least the compression in the modem standards. Obviously it won't affect poorly compressed data but it will speed up text.
Yesterday I came across the same offer on Coastal Web Online's home page while looking at colocation deals. Here is a direct link to their product page: www.cwo.com/3xs-index.html.
They are claiming 3x the performance -- "if your modem gets 52k, 3XS will increase it up to 156k." Hrm... Costs regular dialup account price plus $8/month. So almost $30/month.
I think it is pretty dumb as regular HTML isn't all that bad. I only get highly annoyed when I'm downloading software or viewing largish binary data like images. Now if only the ISP would turn on compression on their end everything would be sweet (*).
* Yeah, I had broadband, yeah, I don't now. I moved to a rural area that has both cable and DSL but the contract lengths or costs are just too stupid to consider while living in a short term apartment.
I strongly agree with you but of course there are people out there who just can't leave well enough alone. A couple years ago I built 3 566 Mhz -> 850 Mhz overclocked machines (2 for me, 1 for a friend) and they are still in use today. I just can't justify replacing them with something else. Giving the 66 Mhz FSB celerons a 100 Mhz FSB (which is what I and Angry White Guy are doing) is a wonderful performance boost plus we are staying in the regular speed ranges for the PCI bus and everything else besides the processor. I even have a couple of 366 Mhz -> 550 Mhz setups sitting around still.
Of course if I had a 1.2 Ghz AMD CPU that would hit 1.6 or 1.8 I'd be tempted. Even if I didn't need the speed. But the costs would probably make me just go with the regular speed. With the celeron overclocks you didn't need to buy a $20-$40 heatsink combo ($9 for a gorb or similar)... Overclocking today just isn't as sweet a proposition as it was back in the celeron days.
No no no no no... See, this is /. and we <em>*HAVE*<em /> to have the latest release just like we have to have food to live. It isn't an option. So when the parent poster says (s)he is forced to buy it then one can safely so that it is true, Apple is extorting money from this geek! This is an international crime to force the geek to pay for the upgrade. We should invade One Infinite Loop and liberate the OS.
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The time is now to drop your jolt cola, fire up your major comipile jobs, lock up your computer room, don your smelliest sweat soaked t-shirt (hint, the one you're wearing right now), and go forth to meet at Zero Infinite Loop. We will attack at dawn (*).
* bring extra sweat soaked shirts for use as biological weapons against the door guards
<sarcasm
They are still using the shareware model for selling their software.
CircuitCity has a deal for $99 that includes the unit plus a game.
I read up on the afterburner and it sounds like a major pain in the rear to install without smudges or other annoyances. Getting it installed isn't all that cheap. Considering the SP is $99 I would say afterburner is going to have declining sales for a long while.
Apparently Best Buy released theirs early at some locations so everyone else got in on the act after it was bless by Nintendo. So they have been out for a couple days at least (21st?).
I am currently using MRTG but have been reading up on Cricket. Do you, or anyone else, have any opinions on Cricket?
What's the deal with your sig?
Oh yeah, has the story poster considered a KLR-650? Not romantic like your current choice but it should get you there and back. /me goes off to motorcylce troll elsewhere
In my experience inverters are very wasteful in terms of energy requirements and motorcycles are very fruagal in their providence of said energy. In other words, even modern bikes 700cc often have a hard time powering heating riding gear let alone inverters. This old bike probably won't have enough juice to power little more than the headlight.
Except precedent already exists for this. We have to pay our local telco a monthly fee to keep our regular land line unlisted.
On a side note, if telcos actually had the customers interests in mind, they might consider getting rid of at least the white pages and using the money saved to provide directory assistance at little to no charge. Of course the yellow pages will probably be around forever.
In many areas people have to pay for incoming calls. This is very common in the United States.
Well you do, right? Jeeze... Sometimes it is too easy.
I have read almost all of the replies here but none seem to address freedom. If Keith wants to fork xfree86 then he should go ahead and do it. Why, except for political reasons, would the developers at xfree86 with cvs access care about a fork? Why remove Keith's CVS access because he discussed creating a fork with others?
Clearly the xfree86 development group has opened up their development process within the last year but if somebody wishes to fork their project, and this is their reaction, don't we need to question how valid their approach to openness really is?
For a moment I parsed that as "prenatal" filters. Now that would really be something...
You'd be able to backup 33Gb (128k/sec inbound limit), 66Gb (256k/sec inbound limit), etc... Definately not feasible for you but in the original posters defense, they never claimed it would work for everyone.
After mulling this over for a bit I'm sitting here thinking that ISPs should go into the backup market if they can work it to their advantage by keeping the backup traffic within their network and increasing subscriber speeds to the backup systems. Realistically everyone seems to still be on the outsource kick so it would be implemented in some inefficient and nonsensical manner.
In regards to your problem--shouldn't the school itself look at purchasing some large backup system and share the costs among other departments that will buy in? Or is administration screwed up enough to make such things not happen? Here is an interesting tape silo page at tamu.edu:
http://sc.tamu.edu/emass/EMASSFlier.html
If you have "real data" why don't you have something like a netapp or a tape silo?
We use LoneTar at a couple of different clients. Not much to dislike except slow file restore seeks on tape but apparently this has been fixed within the last year.
I was going to recommend a particular set of documentation on the Samba site but I can't find it. There seem to be a number of choices. Some of the documentation is included in the tar ball but not (easily) accessable on the website.
This new document looks good:
The Unofficial Samba HOWTO
(moderators: no need to mod this up, really, it won't get lost in the few posts here)
Hey, that is cool! Did you notice typing the beginning of urls goes to them without having to mouse around? That is pretty neat too but I haven't really used it much. I think we'll have a Nutshell book for Mozilla eventually--so many neat things that seem to be almost buried.
Look how long it has taken to track down Bin Laden!
Did I miss something or aren't we still trying to find Bin Laden?