Personally I haven't seen all that much advertising by Telewest for their internet services, maybe this is just because C&W are so much bigger than they are.
Anyway The Blueyonder serice is oversubscribed. Between the launch of the 24/7 service in February and July, it has been immensely slow or totally unusable. It was fine for most of July and early August (at least for me; others milage apparently varied).
This past fortnight however, the service became abysmal. No more than 2K/s download speeds from pretty much anywhere, epsecially through ftp ports. And on Friday night, all routes to the US were compeltely lost for about 20 hours!
The webcaching system they use is totally shafted; often showing porn sites rather than the correct site, but fortunately for me, the dialup area I am covered by doesn't use transparent caches, so that saves me those problems
I would love to know whether any other ISP would completely take down the network for 2 hours like they did on Monday morning this week (it should be mentioned on their service page at status.blueyonder.co.uk:888. OK it was at 4am, but it does seem rediculous to need to take the whole ISP down.
It is a good deal on paper and yes I am satisfied overall, but the failures are incredibly numerous and I will not trust their e-mail service, considering how often it fails.
Anyway, for £10/month with min of £10 on call charges it is a very good deal and the 3.99/month second phone line is also a worthy deal. Just don't exect as good a service as you might have had with other ISPs
Which lists the Ensoniq ISA cards; not the PCI ones, which are not compatible. It says nothing about the PCI ones, which are supposed to work from what I've read online.
Well atm my FreeBSD install is just to learn something other than linux, so its just an annoyance. When I get a job (damn I want to be a student still) I can build a new computer and my lowly P166 will be the server in my network, so the choice will have to be which Unixalike to use. I'll prolly go for FreeBSD as the server, but thats a few months off yet.
I installed FreeBSD 4.0 a couple of months ago; I found the install program and related documentation made it pretty easy to install FreeBSD. However when I came to configure my soundcard I became stuck.
I have an ensoniq AudioPCI sound card (and it is ensoniq rather than Creative) from reading the kernel documents and the LINT config file it seemed that my card wasn't supported. I wasn't too bothered by this, but thought I'd double check by looking for a document that gives a complete list of all the hardware that is supported by FreeBSD, but can I find such a document? nah. With linux I don't know if there is one, but I think the.txt files that come with the kernel probably list things in their heading and if you use (menu/X)config you will see all hardware listed for you anyway.
Today looking through google to double check that my card isn't supported I come across this telling me my card is supported by FreeBSD. Now I haven't time to reboot and check whether it works, but it would be nice if there was the centralised documentation that would help me out here.
OK I'm on dialup, but its free so I can wait, but I can't download any of it! Obviouly the streaming option is pointless for a 56K user, but I tried the other options and it tells me I need QT3+ BUT I HAVE QT4.1 or whatever I redownloaded today from Apple. Stupid QT/IE/windows:-(
I think I agree with every point you make:-) Free speech without responsibility is a bad thing and where possible ISP's should get the user to remove the account or modify it, with the situation since Demon settled the case its too dangerous for a company to allow anyone to post slanderous or other dodgy content.
umm B5 didn't fail; it went 5 years AS PLANNED against all expectations; it was thretened with cancellation each year, even though it came in *under budget* If you can't find deeper than skin philosophies in B5 you can't have watched it. Try "Passing Through Gethsemane" as a good example. It shows the only realistic view of Christianity I have ever seen and an interesting dilemma for Sheridan over forgiveness. There is more philosphy in B5 than in all the Treks combined. Watch it regularly and you will realise this
Its complex; keep watching. If after the episode "And the Sky Full of Stars" you haven't found you like it, feel free to stop, but give it a chance to that point. (its the episode where Sinclair is captured, drugged and has his mind probed.) The Lurkers guide is the best place for information: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/
A couple to start with: Confessions and Lamentations (a plague - we find a cure, but actually we are too late; Trek would have saved everyone) In the Beginning - TV movie
It isn't designed to stand alone; thats the point you don't read selected chapters of a novel; B5 is a novel in TV format, so all the chapters/episodes are essential. I can't think of a single episode that has *no* baring on the arc; even exogensis does (it mentions the package arriving from Mars - Dr Kirkish)
More importantly watch the final aired Crusade episode and then ask whether it would be good. That episode was amazing; the virus they have designed is soo wonderfully clever and scares me rotten. I'd loved to have seen how they cure it. Oh and the secondary storyline which jms had up his sleeve (he never gave details, so we will never know) Shame TNT had to screw them over so much.
This was announced 4 days ago! Anyway excellent show; finally you Americans can see it weekly on a well known channel. It is a completely different show when you see the episodes concurrently. I've watched most episodes more than 7 times and I still catch new information, in jokes and stuff. If you haven't seen the show before, stick with it; it begins to get really good frm "And the Sky full of Stars" there's loads of back story and you expect the answers to appear within a few episodes, but you don't get all of them till the next year! Heck there are things from the 1st season which don't have an impact until the 5th season. Talk about planning ahead. : heads home tomorrow; B5 videos ahoy!
From what I remember reading in the Water Utilities press during the summer the majority of the water utilities were either compliant or would be by the end of October this year. Anyway the biggest concern is the phone network as they don't have control over it. Many of the newer sewage plants using Active Sludge and the like as well as the incinerators need to be in contact with central services in case of major failures in the system, to get technical assistance. I worked around one of the biggest Sewage Treatment works in Europe and I think there is enough manual control to stop backflow. We had more problems during the floods in August killing pump houses. Ah well like many people my Dad is on call for the incinerator over the date change, just to be safe.
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Anyway The Blueyonder serice is oversubscribed. Between the launch of the 24/7 service in February and July, it has been immensely slow or totally unusable. It was fine for most of July and early August (at least for me; others milage apparently varied).
This past fortnight however, the service became abysmal. No more than 2K/s download speeds from pretty much anywhere, epsecially through ftp ports. And on Friday night, all routes to the US were compeltely lost for about 20 hours!
The webcaching system they use is totally shafted; often showing porn sites rather than the correct site, but fortunately for me, the dialup area I am covered by doesn't use transparent caches, so that saves me those problems
I would love to know whether any other ISP would completely take down the network for 2 hours like they did on Monday morning this week (it should be mentioned on their service page at status.blueyonder.co.uk:888. OK it was at 4am, but it does seem rediculous to need to take the whole ISP down.
It is a good deal on paper and yes I am satisfied overall, but the failures are incredibly numerous and I will not trust their e-mail service, considering how often it fails.
Anyway, for £10/month with min of £10 on call charges it is a very good deal and the 3.99/month second phone line is also a worthy deal. Just don't exect as good a service as you might have had with other ISPs
The documentation ONLY mentions Ensoniq ISA cards, as in Ensoniq soundscape; no mention of the AudioPCI.
Which lists the Ensoniq ISA cards; not the PCI ones, which are not compatible. It says nothing about the PCI ones, which are supposed to work from what I've read online.
Well atm my FreeBSD install is just to learn something other than linux, so its just an annoyance. When I get a job (damn I want to be a student still) I can build a new computer and my lowly P166 will be the server in my network, so the choice will have to be which Unixalike to use. I'll prolly go for FreeBSD as the server, but thats a few months off yet.
I have an ensoniq AudioPCI sound card (and it is ensoniq rather than Creative) from reading the kernel documents and the LINT config file it seemed that my card wasn't supported. I wasn't too bothered by this, but thought I'd double check by looking for a document that gives a complete list of all the hardware that is supported by FreeBSD, but can I find such a document? nah. .txt files that come with the kernel probably list things in their heading and if you use (menu/X)config you will see all hardware listed for you anyway.
With linux I don't know if there is one, but I think the
Today looking through google to double check that my card isn't supported I come across this telling me my card is supported by FreeBSD. Now I haven't time to reboot and check whether it works, but it would be nice if there was the centralised documentation that would help me out here.
Not that it would matter so much anyway; the regeneration of the stats would be running now, so many features won't work anyway.
OK I'm on dialup, but its free so I can wait, but I can't download any of it! Obviouly the streaming option is pointless for a 56K user, but I tried the other options and it tells me I need QT3+ BUT I HAVE QT4.1 or whatever I redownloaded today from Apple. Stupid QT/IE/windows :-(
I think I agree with every point you make :-)
Free speech without responsibility is a bad thing and where possible ISP's should get the user to remove the account or modify it, with the situation since Demon settled the case its too dangerous for a company to allow anyone to post slanderous or other dodgy content.
umm B5 didn't fail; it went 5 years AS PLANNED against all expectations; it was thretened with cancellation each year, even though it came in *under budget*
If you can't find deeper than skin philosophies in B5 you can't have watched it. Try "Passing Through Gethsemane" as a good example. It shows the only realistic view of Christianity I have ever seen and an interesting dilemma for Sheridan over forgiveness.
There is more philosphy in B5 than in all the Treks combined. Watch it regularly and you will realise this
It can't be a DS9 copy cat considering it was ceonceived in the mid 80's, when TNG had only just started! But all fans know that anyway
Its complex; keep watching. If after the episode "And the Sky Full of Stars" you haven't found you like it, feel free to stop, but give it a chance to that point. (its the episode where Sinclair is captured, drugged and has his mind probed.) The Lurkers guide is the best place for information: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/
A couple to start with:
Confessions and Lamentations (a plague - we find a cure, but actually we are too late; Trek would have saved everyone)
In the Beginning - TV movie
It isn't designed to stand alone; thats the point you don't read selected chapters of a novel; B5 is a novel in TV format, so all the chapters/episodes are essential. I can't think of a single episode that has *no* baring on the arc; even exogensis does (it mentions the package arriving from Mars - Dr Kirkish)
Blakes 7 is getting a film http://news .bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_705000/ 705922.stm
B5 has Drazi ships designed as a homage to the Liberator from this show
More importantly watch the final aired Crusade episode and then ask whether it would be good. That episode was amazing; the virus they have designed is soo wonderfully clever and scares me rotten. I'd loved to have seen how they cure it. Oh and the secondary storyline which jms had up his sleeve (he never gave details, so we will never know)
Shame TNT had to screw them over so much.
there ya go
This was announced 4 days ago! Anyway excellent show; finally you Americans can see it weekly on a well known channel. It is a completely different show when you see the episodes concurrently. I've watched most episodes more than 7 times and I still catch new information, in jokes and stuff. If you haven't seen the show before, stick with it; it begins to get really good frm "And the Sky full of Stars" there's loads of back story and you expect the answers to appear within a few episodes, but you don't get all of them till the next year! Heck there are things from the 1st season which don't have an impact until the 5th season. Talk about planning ahead. : heads home tomorrow; B5 videos ahoy!
From what I remember reading in the Water Utilities press during the summer the majority of the water utilities were either compliant or would be by the end of October this year.
Anyway the biggest concern is the phone network as they don't have control over it. Many of the newer sewage plants using Active Sludge and the like as well as the incinerators need to be in contact with central services in case of major failures in the system, to get technical assistance.
I worked around one of the biggest Sewage Treatment works in Europe and I think there is enough manual control to stop backflow. We had more problems during the floods in August killing pump houses. Ah well like many people my Dad is on call for the incinerator over the date change, just to be safe.