This is a very helpful/accurate post. Using Comcast myself, doing a bit of research about their bandwidth tallying opened my eyes to the fact they count DOCSIS overhead towards my overall usage. =(
I admit, I have not RTFA, but I'm interested in the statistics overall of Windows-based 64-bit systems, versus 32 bit. I'd also more specifically like to know the numbers on XP 64-bit..
Anyone have a link for me? Thanks.
Well, I thought it was humorous enough to actually log in and to tell you so.
+1 for making me chuckle, then an additional +1 for not being self-important and adding to the overall quality of things, unlike your inbox-shitheads
/me logs out
For the first time in months, I actually logged in with my username and password instead of just lurking, simply to tell you how marvelous I found your post to be.
Yeah, no shit it does. I tried to use all that extra time as efficiently as possible by trying to teach myself other useful things. Unfortunately there isn't much the beaurocracy will let you do in class even after you've finished your work. It'll 'distract' the other students.
This is precisely why I said I kept a log of the time wasted, because nomatter how much my physics/chemistry/whatever teacher loved me, they still wouldn't let me go out into the hall and read a book when I already knew the material. It would have been a "distraction" for the other kids. I prefered to think of it as "motivation." Maybe if students could do as they please with their classtime, it might give the otherwise-normal-or-better-but-lazy students some incentive to give a damn, like the ones bored to the point of anger.
I should add, now that I think of it, I had 2 years of preschool and had a slight speech impediment as a kid, outside of stuttering. I don't brag about these facts much, as you can imagine, but for me they add further merit to this idea.
That's only one of the two problems with that idea. The other, and bigger is that "No child left behind." ends up as "No child gets ahead." Teachers spend so much time dragging along the slowest learners, the ones who really need to be left behind because the need that extra time, that they can't give the best and the brightest the attention they need and deserve. Thus, trying to bring the slowest up to standard means the best have to be held back.
I love you. I used to keep a log of how much time each schoolday wasted of mine. It added up quite fast.
Without having read the article, I consider myself to have experienced this. I remember very distinctly not reading until 1st grade or so, not enjoying math until 2nd grade, and otherwise not very scholastically inclined, because honestly it was a bit of trouble for me. From this point into my [early teen | teen | late teen | young adult] years, I very soon and in a prolonged fasion was considered by my classmates as "the brain", "the smart kid", etcetera.. I have many memories from 4th grade helping teach the other children about the computers/calculators/science idea because the teacher was often swamped with running around the room seeing to kids. Correcting my "technology" teachers in middle school. Locating security holes, and offering free hands-on tech support to to the "administration" and teachers alike in high school. I graduated [highschool] with a 4.0, and barely tried. You know the type, the one that never studies, aces the tests, sleeps in class and still gets straight A's on turned in assignments, etcetera. Eh. It feels like I plateaued somewhere, which is significantly influenced from the perception that my cognitive growth compared to the difficulty increase in subject matter in whatever was being learned at the moment drastically shrank in ratio from one to another. I actually have to try at what I'm getting into, instead of reading something once and knowing it from there on out [which isn't completely gone.. =D]. Maybe that's just how difficult college is surprising me as, who knows. Now I'll read the damn thing.
>>but tcp/ip stack buffer errors? Like how is that a power user's forte? Isolate the offending set of apps?
No, I suppose they aren't. From the activities you listed, although my comment was intended to be mostly tongue-in-cheek, I can see you are by no means at fault for the errors you encountered.
I retract any implied negligence or lack of user aptitude. I would have done the same thing as you, faced the situation.
It may just be me, but I would have thought the "average poweruser" would be able to keep Windows from encountering any of the problems you mentioned?
Or am I setting the bar too high? I do, actually, reboot no less than once a week, and that's for a scheduled defrag session. Hotfixes can wait. The firewall is working fine, right?
How often did you reboot when you had Windows?
Hey! That would mean all my friends, family, aquaintances, and myself STILL wouldn't pay for their products!
Incredible!
Seriously though (cough), if Microsoft went opensource, I personally think a lot of people (read: close to the number of them today) would still use Windows, because "all" the software is still written for Windows.. I know this would change gradually, but really, would it change things much?
My uncle is stationed at a nameless Naval base currently. About a year ago, when he came to visit my family, he told my father and I about how one of the "servers" in his office was found to be serving warez.
Apparently, the system had no passwords and no firewall. It just also happened to be sitting on a "very fast" (an OC3, IIRC) internet connection.
This was observed, and a warez group soon started to host gigabytes of files.. very easily. This was only discovered after someone had been found with pr0n on their government-property computer, and the office network traffic was looked at a bit closer.
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Might want to take a look at http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/ .. quite handy.
This is a very helpful/accurate post. Using Comcast myself, doing a bit of research about their bandwidth tallying opened my eyes to the fact they count DOCSIS overhead towards my overall usage. =(
I admit, I have not RTFA, but I'm interested in the statistics overall of Windows-based 64-bit systems, versus 32 bit. I'd also more specifically like to know the numbers on XP 64-bit ..
Anyone have a link for me? Thanks.
Well, I thought it was humorous enough to actually log in and to tell you so. +1 for making me chuckle, then an additional +1 for not being self-important and adding to the overall quality of things, unlike your inbox-shitheads
/me logs out
But .. pre-special-edition Laserdisc rips. Who's with me?
http://www.erowid.org/
For the first time in months, I actually logged in with my username and password instead of just lurking, simply to tell you how marvelous I found your post to be.
Here here for the EAC + LAME one-two combo!
Yeah, no shit it does. I tried to use all that extra time as efficiently as possible by trying to teach myself other useful things. Unfortunately there isn't much the beaurocracy will let you do in class even after you've finished your work. It'll 'distract' the other students.
This is precisely why I said I kept a log of the time wasted, because nomatter how much my physics/chemistry/whatever teacher loved me, they still wouldn't let me go out into the hall and read a book when I already knew the material. It would have been a "distraction" for the other kids. I prefered to think of it as "motivation." Maybe if students could do as they please with their classtime, it might give the otherwise-normal-or-better-but-lazy students some incentive to give a damn, like the ones bored to the point of anger.
I should add, now that I think of it, I had 2 years of preschool and had a slight speech impediment as a kid, outside of stuttering. I don't brag about these facts much, as you can imagine, but for me they add further merit to this idea.
That's only one of the two problems with that idea. The other, and bigger is that "No child left behind." ends up as "No child gets ahead." Teachers spend so much time dragging along the slowest learners, the ones who really need to be left behind because the need that extra time, that they can't give the best and the brightest the attention they need and deserve. Thus, trying to bring the slowest up to standard means the best have to be held back.
I love you. I used to keep a log of how much time each schoolday wasted of mine. It added up quite fast.
Without having read the article, I consider myself to have experienced this. I remember very distinctly not reading until 1st grade or so, not enjoying math until 2nd grade, and otherwise not very scholastically inclined, because honestly it was a bit of trouble for me. From this point into my [early teen | teen | late teen | young adult] years, I very soon and in a prolonged fasion was considered by my classmates as "the brain", "the smart kid", etcetera.. I have many memories from 4th grade helping teach the other children about the computers/calculators/science idea because the teacher was often swamped with running around the room seeing to kids. Correcting my "technology" teachers in middle school. Locating security holes, and offering free hands-on tech support to to the "administration" and teachers alike in high school. I graduated [highschool] with a 4.0, and barely tried. You know the type, the one that never studies, aces the tests, sleeps in class and still gets straight A's on turned in assignments, etcetera. Eh. It feels like I plateaued somewhere, which is significantly influenced from the perception that my cognitive growth compared to the difficulty increase in subject matter in whatever was being learned at the moment drastically shrank in ratio from one to another. I actually have to try at what I'm getting into, instead of reading something once and knowing it from there on out [which isn't completely gone.. =D]. Maybe that's just how difficult college is surprising me as, who knows. Now I'll read the damn thing.
>>but tcp/ip stack buffer errors? Like how is that a power user's forte? Isolate the offending set of apps?
:-)
No, I suppose they aren't. From the activities you listed, although my comment was intended to be mostly tongue-in-cheek, I can see you are by no means at fault for the errors you encountered.
I retract any implied negligence or lack of user aptitude. I would have done the same thing as you, faced the situation.
Kudos, and my apologies.
It may just be me, but I would have thought the "average poweruser" would be able to keep Windows from encountering any of the problems you mentioned? Or am I setting the bar too high? I do, actually, reboot no less than once a week, and that's for a scheduled defrag session. Hotfixes can wait. The firewall is working fine, right? How often did you reboot when you had Windows?
Ever hear of batch files? Yeah, even if you're in WindowsXP, a quick Google search returns many useful links to start you off with.
Hey! That would mean all my friends, family, aquaintances, and myself STILL wouldn't pay for their products!
Incredible!
Seriously though (cough), if Microsoft went opensource, I personally think a lot of people (read: close to the number of them today) would still use Windows, because "all" the software is still written for Windows.. I know this would change gradually, but really, would it change things much?
Holy shit, a three digit UIN. Sorry, it's the first I've seen.
My uncle is stationed at a nameless Naval base currently. About a year ago, when he came to visit my family, he told my father and I about how one of the "servers" in his office was found to be serving warez.
Apparently, the system had no passwords and no firewall. It just also happened to be sitting on a "very fast" (an OC3, IIRC) internet connection.
This was observed, and a warez group soon started to host gigabytes of files.. very easily. This was only discovered after someone had been found with pr0n on their government-property computer, and the office network traffic was looked at a bit closer.