Yeah, we could all get a lower price on Dell computers if everyone skips the insurance fraud, otherwise EVERYONE pays for that new laptop...one way or the other.
What ever happened to DSL 2.0? It was supposed to have doubled the distance DSL was supposed to have worked from the dslam. And this isn't something cutting edge, they were coming out with this four or five years ago. There was also another technology that was supposed to work like DSL, but much further than DSL as well. Don't remember the name of it at the time, but I found it one time while looking for information on DSL 2.0.
What a great ISP you work for. Sprint won't turn on DSL for anyone in our town if it is an inch over the limit. And I know it would work, and do so exactly as you stated, just not as fast.
On dial-up, I get 24,000 connects almost every single time. To get 128k would be like some freaking high-speed-broadband-a-palooza for me.
Transporter_ii
And the irony is that the industry in general has made a ton of money from people buying a copy of something and giving it to four or five of their friends. I even recall some type of study about how much money they were making from "tape traders," who for some odd reason would buy music just to make copies for their friends...and replicate that all across the country, and you have a lot of money changing hands. The study even went so far as to have a psychological profile of a "tape trader" as if it was almost some type of disorder.
I think a lot of shareware was registered like that as well, and now that everyone is getting so anal about locking it down on one computer (as if computers never crash), it wouldn't surprise me one bit if everyone in general was making less money with everything locked down then they were back in the good ol' days when everyone had a little freedom.
I've used Creative MP3 players back since first generation devices. I have a Zen Nano now, and it works just like a USB drive and requires no special software.
The first generation device, I actaully got "free" for getting 50.00 worth of music from emusic.com (and this was back when they costs 100 - 200.00). It used a SmartMedia card. You could use the special software, or just drag MP3s to the SmartMedia card through file manager. Being first generation, it was buggy and I occasionally had to use the special software to reformat the SmartMedia card, as formatting it from Windows would not work for some reason (I eventually found out that my digital camera would also format it correctly, so I stopped using special software all together).
That kludgy, first generation MP3 player worked fine right up until someone stole it just about a year ago. A little buggy from time to time, but hey, it was $50.00 and a bargain at the time.
Here is an interesting piece (source WND) on Ron Paul in the debate and his true comments about the war:
But who was right - Rudy or Ron? Posted: May 18, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate.
Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded:
"That's really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of 9-11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I have ever heard that before, and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11.
"I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us what he really meant by it."
The applause for Rudy's rebuke was thunderous - the sound bite of the night and best moment of Rudy's campaign.
After the debate, on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes," came one of those delicious moments on live television. As Michael Steele, GOP spokesman, was saying that Paul should probably be cut out of future debates, the running tally of votes by Fox News viewers was showing Ron Paul, with 30 percent, the winner of the debate.
Brother Hannity seemed startled and perplexed by the votes being text-messaged in the thousands to Fox News saying Paul won, Romney was second, Rudy third and McCain far down the track at 4 percent.
"I would ask the congressman to... tell us what he meant," said Rudy.
A fair question and a crucial question.
When Ron Paul said the 9-11 killers were "over here because we are over there," he was not excusing the mass murderers of 3,000 Americans. He was explaining the roots of hatred out of which the suicide-killers came.
Lest we forget, Osama bin Laden was among the mujahedeen whom we, in the Reagan decade, were aiding when they were fighting to expel the Red Army from Afghanistan. We sent them Stinger missiles, Spanish mortars, sniper rifles. And they helped drive the Russians out.
What Ron Paul was addressing was the question of what turned the allies we aided into haters of the United States. Was it the fact that they discovered we have freedom of speech or separation of church and state? Do they hate us because of who we are? Or do they hate us because of what we do?
Osama bin Laden in his declaration of war in the 1990s said it was U.S. troops on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia, U.S. bombing and sanctions of a crushed Iraqi people, and U.S. support of Israel's persecution of the Palestinians that were the reasons he and his mujahedeen were declaring war on us.
Elsewhere, he has mentioned Sykes-Picot, the secret British-French deal that double-crossed the Arabs who had fought for their freedom alongside Lawrence of Arabia and were rewarded with a quarter century of British-French imperial domination and humiliation.
Almost all agree that, horrible as 9-11 was, it was not anarchic terror. It was political terror, done with a political motive and a political objective.
What does Rudy Giuliani think the political motive was for 9-11?
Was it because we are good and they are evil? Is it because they hate our freedom? Is it that simple?
Ron Paul says Osama bin Laden is delighted we invaded Iraq.
Does the man not have a point? The United States is now tied down in a bloody guerrilla war in the Middle East and increasingly hated in Arab and Islamic countries where we were once hugely admired as the first and greatest of the anti-colonial nations. Does anyone think that Osama is unhappy with what is happening to us in Iraq?
Of the 10 candidates on stage in South Carolina, Dr. Paul alone opposed the war. He alone voted against the war. Have not the last five years vindicated him, when two-thirds of the nation now agrees with him that the war was a mistake, and journalists and politicians left and right are babbling in co
A thing to note on Ron Paul, too, is that he is one of the few who voted against the Patriot Act and against Internet regulation. A few other nice things about him:
Paul unites opposition to the war and the police state at home across the entire political spectrum...
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. He voted against the Patriot Act. He voted against regulating the Internet. He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
A person running that actually has enough integrity to stand behind what he says. Don't think you could say that about another person running...period.
Why is dropping to root a failure for this laptop? It seems to me to be the solution to keeping kids out of things they shouldn't be in...just don't give them the root password. And if they WANT kids to be getting into it, how freaking hard is it to drop to root? You show a kid that one time and it is all it would take. As Windows has gotten more locked down, there are things only an Admin can do and people have to log out and log in as admin...and the world has survived.
Now I hate phone companies as much as the next person, but working for a small WISP -- and we currently are not doing this -- I can say phone companies are not the only ones that do this. A lot of WISPs use bandwidth management software, throttle P2P, and have high "burst rates" that get throttled back on big downloads (and that's fixed wireless, like Canopy, I'm talking about, not your local hotspot).
Yeah, WISPs are still a small percentage of online users, and often the last resort for people too far out for other services, but this is something to consider if you do go with a WISP.
Just not to RIAA, they pay the writers of the songs through ASCAP, which is like the song writer's version of the RIAA. I worked for a guy who wrote a song that actually got some air time on the radio, and he eventually got some checks in the mail. Note that artists who write their own songs actually make money when they are played on the radio, too, but the ones that don't, don't make any money from radio play.
Great is ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers). To ASCAP belong about 1,450 composers and writers and about 130 music publishing houses in the U. S. ASCAP holds the performance rights to their works. ASCAP collects royalties for its members, deducts about 20% for operating overhead, 10% more for the 20 foreign performing-rights societies with which it is affiliated. What is left is allocated, 50-50, between composers and writers and publishers. Distribution to individuals is arbitrary, based not upon number of performances but upon ASCAP's fixed ratings.
Radio, the juiciest source of ASCAP royalties, pays the society monthly on a contract basis, muttering horrible epithets. The present contracts, under which individual stations pay 5% of net receipts plus varying fees, networks pay nothing, expire next December. Last month ASCAP revealed the terms of the next contract: 3%-5% for individual stations, 7½% for the networks. Radio paid a total of $4,300,000 last year, would pay as high as $8,500,000 (its own estimate) in 1941. Last week the two major networks, CBS and NBC, gave their answer: nothing doing. For the first time they had a weapon with which to hit back.
Founded last fall, with stock owned by broadcasters, was Broadcast Music Inc., a music pool intended to rival ASCAP (TIME, Sept. 25). Last week B.M.I, issued its first catalogue: six songs, (sample: We Would Make Beautiful Music Together) which to many a broadcaster sounded sweeter than any of ASCAP's.
1.9 Mbps connections will now sell at a premium, because they will not be subject to wire tap. I would pay extra each month for a non-broadband connection and no built-in wiretap.
Only it isn't just broadband, there are tons of people stuck on dial-up that hate it, but have no other choice.
I'm one of them. Too far out for DSL or wireless, and my only choices are very slow dial-up or satellite. Now I would love to ditch the phone and just use my work cell phone, but I'm not sure about satellite. I've just heard so many bad things. Heck, I even used to work for a satellite dealer, and I hated our demo...but I have heard they have made some improvements since I did that.
Back when Napster was going hot & heavy, they were lobbying Congress to pass a Compulsory license law. What this meant was, if passed, Napster could use any song for a set fee without having to negotiate terms with the RIAA or the artists. They did not get that. Now Russia does have a compulsory license law, and that is how allofmp3.com claims to be able to put music from any artists up, pay its license fee, and be legal (now the RIAA would say that compulsory license was for radio, not downloads...).
Anyway, you can bet damn good money that the RIAA lobbied against Napster and fought the compulsory license issue tooth and nail, but now they are saying they have one. I would have to see the actual law to comment on it, but if so, you can bet the two-faced RIAA hypocrites are loving that they were able to buy enough votes to get themselves the legal right to swipe music.
Just a couple of weeks ago I needed something to just check LAN speeds, not going out on to the Internet at all. I downloaded a free (not open source, though) bandwidth speed test from http://www.ixiacom.com/ called Qtest. For free, I thought it was awesome. I don't know if it will do gigabit speeds, but if this software is reflective of the rest of the company's products, it may be a company that can help you.
What Qtest does is let you set up a test server at each end of a pipe. Then you can run tests between the two sites. But the kick-ass part is that you can set it up at different locations and run the tests point-to-point from any of the servers to any of the servers. You can also choose the type of test, sending TCP or UDP data.
Only thing that kind of concerned me is security, as you are loading yet another server at multiple locations.
When a friend let me borrow a copy of Casino Royale and it wouldn't play on two different DVD players, I pulled out the DVD case liner notes looking for info on what I thought was obviously some new type of copy protection gone awry. Wrong. When I opened the liner, a subpoena to show up in court on a copyright-violation charge fell out, along with an offer to settle out of court for $3000.00 and a "no-postage necessary" envelope addressed to the MPAA.
3000.00 down the drain. But not having to sit through Casino Royale... priceless.
A man was complaining about his life to his clergyman.
"I was a hard-working clerk making $30,000 per year. I was frugal, living carefully, saving my money, and I was happy and content. Then one day I fell in with some shady characters and I got suckered into a high-stakes poker game. That was my ruin. Now I am anxious, stressed, and miserable."
His friend says "So you fell into temptation and lost all your savings?" "No, I won, and like a fool I bought this lousy Wireless internet company."
Also, among the already mentioned items, there is a lot of pesticides in it:
News Flash!
Source: AllAfrica News (West Africa Business)
"Cocoa Production, Employment, Shot Up By Mass Spraying - Jun 12 2003
Available data convincingly proves that Ghana's Cocoa Diseases and Pests Control project (CODAPEC), commonly known as the Mass Spraying Exercise, has tremendously improved the yield of cocoa, which remains one of the most important foreign exchange earners."1
[P]esticide residues routinely turn up in chocolate products sold in the USA5 and Europe.6 For as long as the leaders in the chocolate industry refuse to acknowledge that a pesticide problem exists, we have no hope of finding (or even looking for) a realistic solution to that problem.
I first ran into this in the book Diet for a Poisoned Planet. Peanuts and Chocolate were among the most contaminated foods in the American diet. Chocolate was high because it is imported from a lot of countries that do not have as tough of laws as we do (and ironically, they buy a lot of the chemicals from us!).
Erm, you're only stopping support for Chinese manufacturers
A lot of goods in China are made by slave labor...and a lot of those are political prisoners. Boycotting may stop support for Chinese manufacturers, but if enough people did it, it would send a strong message that we care more about people than about money. But since money is what we really care about, everyone can move along here, nothing to see...
Seriously, I can go many months without having to print anything. But let the printer go down at work for five minutes and I have people ready to lynch me if I don't get it fixed quick enough. I guess some of it is necessary, but I would bet a fair amount of all printing is just a waste.
Some people might get huffy and puffy at work if we swapped to Open Office, but I bet we would be able to manage it. But what would keep us on Windows is Quickbooks and our Remote Desktop server.
A good Quickbooks replacement that wasn't even free but ran on Linux, would go a long way toward us being able to ditch Windows.
It would be interesting to see them do a workup on law enforcement types, as I have always said a certain type of person is drawn to being LEOs...and to some degree, maybe that type of person is needed in that type of job.
Also interesting would be Wal-Mart Manager/Assistant Manager science, as all the management wannabes that can't get real management jobs, end up as management at Wal-Mart. Maybe they would be profiled as dumb jerks?
The only way passengers on domestic flights can communicate with the ground is on a type of phone found on about 1,500 jets, usually built into seat backs. The phones aren't very popular because of complaints about high cost and poor reception.
Note that the phones actually made to talk air to ground also suffer poor reception. One would think that with signals traveling better in free space, that of all the issues, reception on a system designed specifically to talk air-to-ground, wouldn't be an issue.
Cell phones usually don't work at high altitudes. When they do, they simultaneously communicate with hundreds of cell towers on the ground, clogging networks.
USA today states that cell phone don't usually work at high altitudes. Note that the above statement didn't come from some "nutty conspiracy theorist."
But it's now possible to place a small cell phone tower on each airplane to receive signals from passengers' cell phones and relay them, directly or by satellite, to designated towers on the ground.
And this can be done, according to manufacturers and airlines, without disrupting cell service below or the plane's own navigation or electrical systems.
The tab: $100,000 per plane
Note that because cell phones don't work well at high altitudes, and if they manage to do so, cause problems on the ground, they have to put a small cell phone tower on each plane, plus figure out a system that allows only certain towers on the ground to be used.
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Yeah, we could all get a lower price on Dell computers if everyone skips the insurance fraud, otherwise EVERYONE pays for that new laptop...one way or the other.
Transporter_ii
What ever happened to DSL 2.0? It was supposed to have doubled the distance DSL was supposed to have worked from the dslam. And this isn't something cutting edge, they were coming out with this four or five years ago. There was also another technology that was supposed to work like DSL, but much further than DSL as well. Don't remember the name of it at the time, but I found it one time while looking for information on DSL 2.0.
Transporter_ii
What a great ISP you work for. Sprint won't turn on DSL for anyone in our town if it is an inch over the limit. And I know it would work, and do so exactly as you stated, just not as fast. On dial-up, I get 24,000 connects almost every single time. To get 128k would be like some freaking high-speed-broadband-a-palooza for me. Transporter_ii
And the irony is that the industry in general has made a ton of money from people buying a copy of something and giving it to four or five of their friends. I even recall some type of study about how much money they were making from "tape traders," who for some odd reason would buy music just to make copies for their friends...and replicate that all across the country, and you have a lot of money changing hands. The study even went so far as to have a psychological profile of a "tape trader" as if it was almost some type of disorder.
I think a lot of shareware was registered like that as well, and now that everyone is getting so anal about locking it down on one computer (as if computers never crash), it wouldn't surprise me one bit if everyone in general was making less money with everything locked down then they were back in the good ol' days when everyone had a little freedom.
Transporter_ii
I've used Creative MP3 players back since first generation devices. I have a Zen Nano now, and it works just like a USB drive and requires no special software.
The first generation device, I actaully got "free" for getting 50.00 worth of music from emusic.com (and this was back when they costs 100 - 200.00). It used a SmartMedia card. You could use the special software, or just drag MP3s to the SmartMedia card through file manager. Being first generation, it was buggy and I occasionally had to use the special software to reformat the SmartMedia card, as formatting it from Windows would not work for some reason (I eventually found out that my digital camera would also format it correctly, so I stopped using special software all together).
That kludgy, first generation MP3 player worked fine right up until someone stole it just about a year ago. A little buggy from time to time, but hey, it was $50.00 and a bargain at the time.
Transporter_ii
Here is an interesting piece (source WND) on Ron Paul in the debate and his true comments about the war:
... tell us what he meant," said Rudy.
But who was right - Rudy or Ron?
Posted: May 18, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate.
Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded:
"That's really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of 9-11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I have ever heard that before, and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11.
"I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us what he really meant by it."
The applause for Rudy's rebuke was thunderous - the sound bite of the night and best moment of Rudy's campaign.
After the debate, on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes," came one of those delicious moments on live television. As Michael Steele, GOP spokesman, was saying that Paul should probably be cut out of future debates, the running tally of votes by Fox News viewers was showing Ron Paul, with 30 percent, the winner of the debate.
Brother Hannity seemed startled and perplexed by the votes being text-messaged in the thousands to Fox News saying Paul won, Romney was second, Rudy third and McCain far down the track at 4 percent.
"I would ask the congressman to
A fair question and a crucial question.
When Ron Paul said the 9-11 killers were "over here because we are over there," he was not excusing the mass murderers of 3,000 Americans. He was explaining the roots of hatred out of which the suicide-killers came.
Lest we forget, Osama bin Laden was among the mujahedeen whom we, in the Reagan decade, were aiding when they were fighting to expel the Red Army from Afghanistan. We sent them Stinger missiles, Spanish mortars, sniper rifles. And they helped drive the Russians out.
What Ron Paul was addressing was the question of what turned the allies we aided into haters of the United States. Was it the fact that they discovered we have freedom of speech or separation of church and state? Do they hate us because of who we are? Or do they hate us because of what we do?
Osama bin Laden in his declaration of war in the 1990s said it was U.S. troops on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia, U.S. bombing and sanctions of a crushed Iraqi people, and U.S. support of Israel's persecution of the Palestinians that were the reasons he and his mujahedeen were declaring war on us.
Elsewhere, he has mentioned Sykes-Picot, the secret British-French deal that double-crossed the Arabs who had fought for their freedom alongside Lawrence of Arabia and were rewarded with a quarter century of British-French imperial domination and humiliation.
Almost all agree that, horrible as 9-11 was, it was not anarchic terror. It was political terror, done with a political motive and a political objective.
What does Rudy Giuliani think the political motive was for 9-11?
Was it because we are good and they are evil? Is it because they hate our freedom? Is it that simple?
Ron Paul says Osama bin Laden is delighted we invaded Iraq.
Does the man not have a point? The United States is now tied down in a bloody guerrilla war in the Middle East and increasingly hated in Arab and Islamic countries where we were once hugely admired as the first and greatest of the anti-colonial nations. Does anyone think that Osama is unhappy with what is happening to us in Iraq?
Of the 10 candidates on stage in South Carolina, Dr. Paul alone opposed the war. He alone voted against the war. Have not the last five years vindicated him, when two-thirds of the nation now agrees with him that the war was a mistake, and journalists and politicians left and right are babbling in co
A thing to note on Ron Paul, too, is that he is one of the few who voted against the Patriot Act and against Internet regulation. A few other nice things about him:
Paul unites opposition to the war and the police state at home across the entire political spectrum...
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
A person running that actually has enough integrity to stand behind what he says. Don't think you could say that about another person running...period.
Transporter_ii
Why is dropping to root a failure for this laptop? It seems to me to be the solution to keeping kids out of things they shouldn't be in...just don't give them the root password. And if they WANT kids to be getting into it, how freaking hard is it to drop to root? You show a kid that one time and it is all it would take. As Windows has gotten more locked down, there are things only an Admin can do and people have to log out and log in as admin...and the world has survived.
Transporter_ii
Now I hate phone companies as much as the next person, but working for a small WISP -- and we currently are not doing this -- I can say phone companies are not the only ones that do this. A lot of WISPs use bandwidth management software, throttle P2P, and have high "burst rates" that get throttled back on big downloads (and that's fixed wireless, like Canopy, I'm talking about, not your local hotspot).
Yeah, WISPs are still a small percentage of online users, and often the last resort for people too far out for other services, but this is something to consider if you do go with a WISP.
Transporter_ii
Good job with the karma-whoring, buddy.
Thank you!
Transporter_ii
Just not to RIAA, they pay the writers of the songs through ASCAP, which is like the song writer's version of the RIAA. I worked for a guy who wrote a song that actually got some air time on the radio, and he eventually got some checks in the mail. Note that artists who write their own songs actually make money when they are played on the radio, too, but the ones that don't, don't make any money from radio play.
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See: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,
Great is ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers). To ASCAP belong about 1,450 composers and writers and about 130 music publishing houses in the U. S. ASCAP holds the performance rights to their works. ASCAP collects royalties for its members, deducts about 20% for operating overhead, 10% more for the 20 foreign performing-rights societies with which it is affiliated. What is left is allocated, 50-50, between composers and writers and publishers. Distribution to individuals is arbitrary, based not upon number of performances but upon ASCAP's fixed ratings.
Radio, the juiciest source of ASCAP royalties, pays the society monthly on a contract basis, muttering horrible epithets. The present contracts, under which individual stations pay 5% of net receipts plus varying fees, networks pay nothing, expire next December. Last month ASCAP revealed the terms of the next contract: 3%-5% for individual stations, 7½% for the networks. Radio paid a total of $4,300,000 last year, would pay as high as $8,500,000 (its own estimate) in 1941. Last week the two major networks, CBS and NBC, gave their answer: nothing doing. For the first time they had a weapon with which to hit back.
Founded last fall, with stock owned by broadcasters, was Broadcast Music Inc., a music pool intended to rival ASCAP (TIME, Sept. 25). Last week B.M.I, issued its first catalogue: six songs, (sample: We Would Make Beautiful Music Together) which to many a broadcaster sounded sweeter than any of ASCAP's.
1.9 Mbps connections will now sell at a premium, because they will not be subject to wire tap. I would pay extra each month for a non-broadband connection and no built-in wiretap.
Transporter_ii
Only it isn't just broadband, there are tons of people stuck on dial-up that hate it, but have no other choice.
I'm one of them. Too far out for DSL or wireless, and my only choices are very slow dial-up or satellite. Now I would love to ditch the phone and just use my work cell phone, but I'm not sure about satellite. I've just heard so many bad things. Heck, I even used to work for a satellite dealer, and I hated our demo...but I have heard they have made some improvements since I did that.
Transporter_ii
Back when Napster was going hot & heavy, they were lobbying Congress to pass a Compulsory license law. What this meant was, if passed, Napster could use any song for a set fee without having to negotiate terms with the RIAA or the artists. They did not get that. Now Russia does have a compulsory license law, and that is how allofmp3.com claims to be able to put music from any artists up, pay its license fee, and be legal (now the RIAA would say that compulsory license was for radio, not downloads...).
Anyway, you can bet damn good money that the RIAA lobbied against Napster and fought the compulsory license issue tooth and nail, but now they are saying they have one. I would have to see the actual law to comment on it, but if so, you can bet the two-faced RIAA hypocrites are loving that they were able to buy enough votes to get themselves the legal right to swipe music.
Transporter_ii
Just a couple of weeks ago I needed something to just check LAN speeds, not going out on to the Internet at all. I downloaded a free (not open source, though) bandwidth speed test from http://www.ixiacom.com/ called Qtest. For free, I thought it was awesome. I don't know if it will do gigabit speeds, but if this software is reflective of the rest of the company's products, it may be a company that can help you.
What Qtest does is let you set up a test server at each end of a pipe. Then you can run tests between the two sites. But the kick-ass part is that you can set it up at different locations and run the tests point-to-point from any of the servers to any of the servers. You can also choose the type of test, sending TCP or UDP data.
Only thing that kind of concerned me is security, as you are loading yet another server at multiple locations.
Transporter_ii
When a friend let me borrow a copy of Casino Royale and it wouldn't play on two different DVD players, I pulled out the DVD case liner notes looking for info on what I thought was obviously some new type of copy protection gone awry. Wrong. When I opened the liner, a subpoena to show up in court on a copyright-violation charge fell out, along with an offer to settle out of court for $3000.00 and a "no-postage necessary" envelope addressed to the MPAA.
... priceless.
3000.00 down the drain. But not having to sit through Casino Royale
Transporter_ii
A man was complaining about his life to his clergyman.
"I was a hard-working clerk making $30,000 per year. I was frugal, living carefully, saving my money, and I was happy and content.
Then one day I fell in with some shady characters and I got suckered into a high-stakes poker game. That was my ruin. Now I am anxious, stressed, and miserable."
His friend says "So you fell into temptation and lost all your savings?"
"No, I won, and like a fool I bought this lousy Wireless internet company."
Also, among the already mentioned items, there is a lot of pesticides in it:
[P]esticide residues routinely turn up in chocolate products sold in the USA5 and Europe.6 For as long as the leaders in the chocolate industry refuse to acknowledge that a pesticide problem exists, we have no hope of finding (or even looking for) a realistic solution to that problem.
see: http://www.tava.com.au/article_chemicals.html
I first ran into this in the book Diet for a Poisoned Planet. Peanuts and Chocolate were among the most contaminated foods in the American diet. Chocolate was high because it is imported from a lot of countries that do not have as tough of laws as we do (and ironically, they buy a lot of the chemicals from us!).transporter_ii
Erm, you're only stopping support for Chinese manufacturers
A lot of goods in China are made by slave labor...and a lot of those are political prisoners. Boycotting may stop support for Chinese manufacturers, but if enough people did it, it would send a strong message that we care more about people than about money. But since money is what we really care about, everyone can move along here, nothing to see...
Transporter_ii
Save a bunch of money that way. :)
Seriously, I can go many months without having to print anything. But let the printer go down at work for five minutes and I have people ready to lynch me if I don't get it fixed quick enough. I guess some of it is necessary, but I would bet a fair amount of all printing is just a waste.
Transporter_ii
Some people might get huffy and puffy at work if we swapped to Open Office, but I bet we would be able to manage it. But what would keep us on Windows is Quickbooks and our Remote Desktop server.
A good Quickbooks replacement that wasn't even free but ran on Linux, would go a long way toward us being able to ditch Windows.
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It would be interesting to see them do a workup on law enforcement types, as I have always said a certain type of person is drawn to being LEOs...and to some degree, maybe that type of person is needed in that type of job.
Also interesting would be Wal-Mart Manager/Assistant Manager science, as all the management wannabes that can't get real management jobs, end up as management at Wal-Mart. Maybe they would be profiled as dumb jerks?
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wormholes...and they really help cut the latency down.
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See this article:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-12-16-c ells-planes_x.htm
Note that the phones actually made to talk air to ground also suffer poor reception. One would think that with signals traveling better in free space, that of all the issues, reception on a system designed specifically to talk air-to-ground, wouldn't be an issue.
USA today states that cell phone don't usually work at high altitudes. Note that the above statement didn't come from some "nutty conspiracy theorist."
Note that because cell phones don't work well at high altitudes, and if they manage to do so, cause problems on the ground, they have to put a small cell phone tower on each plane, plus figure out a system that allows only certain towers on the ground to be used.
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