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Would have been a little more believable if it took more effort to get off the ground. :-)
(Edit: Sorry, I'm a dick for not playing along. It's a decent enough hoax after all.)-nudone (March 21, 2012, 04:58 AM)
lol im on a 100mbps line, and thats telling me im 7.12 down speed 1.54 up speed with a ping of 270ms
Speedtest.net = 96.8mbps down, 12.4up 7ms ping-Stephen66515 (March 19, 2012, 09:49 PM)
We must have the same ISP. They are who I use to have 100Mbit downstream, 5Mbit upstream. Latency of course depends on how far your packet is to travel, and the remote server, but latency out of their network and their peering arrangements seem EXCELLENT. I've noticed they use many of several service providers themselves, so they make sure your stuff gets there as fast as it can. They've really built a good network, I must say. It is sad the company has always been teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. What's great is we are talking rural TN. So, the USA Internet is getting better, fast.-db90h (March 20, 2012, 06:14 AM)
- We get free upgrades to 200mbps soon! 
you forgot to upload the image attachment :Crikey, that was fast!
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Did anything ever come of the 'DC directory' in the end?-timns (March 19, 2012, 03:44 PM)
I would recommend against ReactOS, it is still alpha stage, and even some of the OS features don't work properly (such as configuring the taskbar/start menu/file explorer.) It's a nice idea/experiment, but still has a way to go before it is ready for regular users to use without getting frustrated with it.
On the slower machines, is Windows a requirement or could you use linux instead? Something that does not have all too much for system requirements such as Xubuntu, Mint LXDE, or Lubuntu, or even something lighter like Tiny Core? Using Win9x seems like a bad idea because it opens the users to so many security risks, and no way to update or patch them.-Krishean (March 17, 2012, 01:52 PM)
I've noticed this change or shift in attitude also, and not just in this forum. I can't explain it, i've asked others about it, i don't get it. There does seem to have been a change in mood or attitude or something in the last couple of years.-superboyac (March 16, 2012, 03:42 PM)
I'm seeing a lot more anger most places I'm looking.
People seem to get angry much more easily than they used to, and stay angry a lot longer once they do.-40hz (March 16, 2012, 04:18 PM)
This, definitely. And people seem to have less tolerance for dissenting opinions, or even discussion of those positions.
I like a good debate of positions. But have been getting less of that, because at the end, it seems that there is more anger at than appreciation of differences. Sad.-wraith808 (March 16, 2012, 05:02 PM)
I suppose if you want to be vicious you could enable SMF Karma-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2012, 12:12 PM)
That will cause nothing but problems IMHO, seen it happen on too many forums-Stephen66515 (March 16, 2012, 01:16 PM)
+1
I've stopped going to two sites I used to like because of what happened once they implemented Karma.
I'll probably stop coming here too if Karma ever shows up.-40hz (March 16, 2012, 03:14 PM)
I suppose if you want to be vicious you could enable SMF Karma-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2012, 12:12 PM)
I left myself open pretty wide there~!-Renegade (March 15, 2012, 07:56 PM)
How much water would the world save by the lower amount of socks needing to be washed?-Stephen66515 (March 15, 2012, 06:48 PM)
Socks? Hmmm... Apparently your porn is different than my porn...-Renegade (March 15, 2012, 06:54 PM)
- You did kinda walk right into that one Oh god... here we go again... Some yahoo blathering about censorship blah blah blah...
http://dailycaller.c...ers-with-pants-down/
Internet pornography could conceivably become a thing of the past if Rick Santorum is elected president.
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To black out foreign sites, Santorum would likely need legislative action requiring Internet service providers to use “a mandatory filter set up by the government or by the service providers,” said Volokh.
But the government could also prosecute individual citizens who view porn, and already has the legal authority to do it.
“Although the Supreme Court says private possession is constitutionally protected, it has said that private receipt of [pornography] is not protected,” noted Volokh. “You can’t prosecute them all … but you can find certain types of pornography that are sufficiently unpopular” for easy convictions, he explained.
How many data centers would instantly go bankrupt if porn were banned?-Renegade (March 15, 2012, 06:42 PM)
Just me, or anybody else think that a wiki on DC would be goddamn awesome?...-Stephen66515 (March 15, 2012, 06:08 PM)
I seem to recall it's been proposed a few times....-40hz (March 15, 2012, 06:15 PM)
I just think that discussions should try to stay on topic, and be conducted with an eye towards their permanent existence on the site as a knowledge repository.-mouser (March 15, 2012, 03:42 PM)
I agree with staying on topic as much as possible. But I sort of disagree with the "for posterity" concept.
Informal discussions are (to me) exactly that. Informal discussions. IMO if something is really worth preserving for posterity (as opposed to "Until the next version of Windows comes out.") it really should be written up as a white paper of some sort (if it's static) - or relegated to a wiki if it's more of a 'living' document topic.
There are differences of opinion on this, but I've found tightening up on open forum areas has a bad tendency to reduce peoples willingness to think out loud and share what they're thinking. The minute people start thinking too much about posterity, a lot of the openness and willingness to explore ideas goes out the door. People start drafting formal comments, watching their words, and looking over their shoulders. From there it's only a short hop to posturing and making speeches.
I see open forum topic areas as brainstorming sessions. And first rule of those is: don't disrupt the flow. Most of the really interesting insights I've seen in the forum came out of people ranging off and around the topic fairly widely before it re-coalesced into something larger than what it originally started out as. I'd hate to see that go away.
But that's me.-40hz (March 15, 2012, 06:03 PM)
Get a new website host...who the hell offers website hosting with no database installations? - There are more than plenty that do, and are absolutely free-Stephen66515 (March 14, 2012, 05:46 PM)
can you suggest me one? I already have mydomain.com in a specific nameserver
ofcourse without any kind of ads or other things like that, or downtimes, etc, it must be totally professional-kalos (March 15, 2012, 03:57 PM)
"Mea cupla" also - sorry I have a butterfly brain! I also like arguing too much.
Birthday resolution - chill out a bit!
Anyone fancy a beer or two?-Carol Haynes (March 15, 2012, 10:48 AM)
I think I agree with you, and I think it just means that we all have to remember that even as we become comfortable with each other enough to engage in casual discussions within topics -- the forum is also meant to be a repository of information for other people to find and read.
As such, a real attempt should be made to give threads useful topics, and to stay on topic.
There is always the irc chat channel for when people just want to hang out and talk about nonsense-mouser (March 15, 2012, 10:51 AM)
I'd guess if/when it gets to a useful stage of development it will be good enough for Microsoft to lock them up in courts for decades!
