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General Software Discussion / Re: Java install - online or offline?
« Last post by f0dder on June 22, 2007, 08:16 AM »
I always pick the offline version no matter what I install, since the "online" installers tend to download other stuff at install time. With an "offline" install, you have all the files you need.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Secondary monitor support
« Last post by f0dder on June 22, 2007, 07:11 AM »
Go mouser go mouser go!
*insert cheerleading smiley here*
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 21, 2007, 06:08 AM »
What this means is that if you have something wrong on your pc, only things that are aol:// are accessable..the rest is as if it doesn't exist.
-app103
That's still routed through the internet, though, isn't it? What I mean by "The InternetTM" isn't the www, ftp, and so on and so forth - I mean IP traffic routed through that big net that also happens to faciliate what most of us use daily.

What I mean by separate internets, then, is traffic that's not using the IP protocol, and isn't even IP-encapsulated... I guess some HAM radio stuff might qualify, but I wouldn't be surprised if that actually does use IP traffic and is connected to "the rest of the internet" too.
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 21, 2007, 05:31 AM »
if you're looking for a proper way to illustrate something, check the periodic table of visualization
http://www.visual-li.../periodic_table.html
Heh, that's pretty cute - some of the charting methods look very made-up though, many don't seem very useful, and a lot are so omg-we're-smart-and-hip-and-young-new-managers-ish :)
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 20, 2007, 09:14 AM »
jgpaiva: it wouldn't make sense to go down to customer scale nodes - ISPs, probably sub-divided by region, as well as other "big pipes" ;) is what's interesting. But even that seems like a pretty big and tedious task, I wouldn't even know where to begin gathering data, and I doubt that enough of it is public anyway.
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 20, 2007, 07:30 AM »
You'd need to hunt for things like http://www.decix.de/info/traffic.html - especially router nodes that connect states and countries would be interesting. Some big corporations, universities and cities have internal high-speed fiber nets (not just LANs), and are then routed on to "the rest of the internet" with somewhat less capable connections.

Also, more and more individual people are starting to get high-speed (10mbit) fiber at home - some of the power companies in Denmark have become tired of TDC's monopoly on the copper lines, so they've been digging fiber-optic cables for a lot of years, and are now offering fast internet at decent prices. Obviously there's no problem routing all this traffic internally, what happens when a mere 1000 users max out their 10mbit line?

I can't help but think about the "straws and pipes" analogy here, since a 1000 10-mbit users maxed out would be ~10gbit/s of traffic. And from what I can tell (from things like the amount of "remember to dig down your fiberoptic cable" postcards I've seen at post.dk), there's a lot of fiber users already. And I'm willing to bet that a lot of them are getting fiber for warezing purpose, after all you get 10000/10000 synchronous rather than async 8000/512 ADSL.

So, do those fiber providers have some insane interconnects, or are they overselling massively?
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p3lb0x is my (at times pretty obnoxious) younger brother - he's fine enough though, so welcome onboard, kiddo ;)
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Why go through SSH encryption when you're only using one physical machine, though? That shouldn't really be necessary :)

A few years back, I found it was faster (well, smoother) to use X-Win32 across a 100mbit lan, than run X11 directly on my linux box, even though there was some (supposedly, heh) accelerated driver for the voodoo3 card in the box. That was two physical machines and no SSH encryption, though, and X-Win32 is commercial.

jgpaiva: 127.0.0.1 won't work since the linux machine is emulated, but vmware has some virtual adapters, so the traffic won't go across your wlan.
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Maybe I'm way behind, but for me it's much easier just to drop 5 or 10 bucks in an envelope and mail it away. Sure, it might get lost, but I think the mail system is a lot more reliable than people give it credit for.
-Nighted

Grmbl.

You shouldn't send money via snail-mail. You wouldn't know the amount of accusations this brings on the poor postal workers in the manual sections. But I'd better stop before I go on a rant against all the people who blame post.dk for missing letters & packages, etc etc etc.

Yeah, I just got home from work, don't take it personal :)
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 19, 2007, 06:09 PM »
To summarize: Your question was fine. Nothing wrong with wondering how things work. It's just a matter of digging more cables to Canada to keep the intertubes afloat.
-Deozaan
And upgrading some routers etc... but not big deal, really. And ipv6 can bite my not-so-shiny not-so-\m/etal hiney, NAT'ing works fine :)
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Living Room / Re: Thank you for this site and the people here.
« Last post by f0dder on June 19, 2007, 09:33 AM »
I'm sorry to hear that - hope you're relatively okay.

DonationCoder is a pretty great community with some pretty great members, it's not just about software imho.
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 19, 2007, 09:16 AM »
allen: if you setup a gopher network, isn't it going to be routed through The InternetTM? Or are you going to dig your own communications cables? :)
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 18, 2007, 06:43 PM »
I also wonder if there's multiple "internets", or if everything is so interconnected today that we only have The InternetTM.
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 18, 2007, 06:22 AM »
Good questions, really - it would be interesting to know just how narrow some of the critical connections are. There's a transatlantic fiber cable, isn't there?

Anyway, appearantly it's possible to have both 100mbit and gigabit connections to the internet, and getting full speeds not just within one ISP... so there's a lot of bandwidth.
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Do run memtest86 as well... GoldMemory is shareware and I've never heard about it before, so I'm more inclined to trust memtest86 :)
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Best Text Editor / Re: Boxer Text Editor
« Last post by f0dder on June 18, 2007, 06:16 AM »
Phar Lap - now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Dos extender, right?

I remember using Boxer a bit under DOS, wasn't all bad. I mostly used the "rawhide" IDE, though, since it mimicked the Borland IDE I was used to from my pascal years. Ah, the old days :)
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Living Room / Re: what is the potential capacity of the internet?
« Last post by f0dder on June 16, 2007, 04:29 AM »
Good question, nudone.

I'd say "it depends". There might be portions of the internet that have weaker routing (lower-capacity connections, etc.). But, say, inside scandinavia I'd doubt there's any problems, since there's a pretty massive fiber ring connecting our countries. Speeds to the .us are good as well. And do check http://www.decix.de/info/traffic.html for some statistics of one of the german nodes.

Capacity is constantly being increased, and people claiming that "omg we're reaching teh intarweb capacity max!!11! one one" are just lobbyist in the whole net neutrality charade.
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Definitely run memtest86 if you suspect memory corruption.

Perhaps deleting the hibernation file (might require turning off hibernation, rebooting, the deleting) to have it recreated might help. And a "chkdsk /f" while you're at it, too.

Did you *add* a memory module, or replace the current one with a 2gig module? Hopefully it isn't some flaky compatibility issue.
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Living Room / Re: Is it me, or is the internet getting S L O W E R ?
« Last post by f0dder on June 15, 2007, 07:18 AM »
I don't really think the torrent sites are the main problem anyway (though some of them can generate traffic in megabytes per second, for a single torrent) - botnet that send spam and do DDoS are worse; even if their total traffic is smaller (which I doubt), the amount of and nature of the connections they make put more load on servers, and perhaps some of the smaller routers as well.

Another big factor, that have nothing to do with the darker business on the web, are those sites on shared hosts where capacity is oversold. Considering how slow the aforementioned flatassembler.net site is, and asmcommunity.net as well, I would think POWWEB (where both are hosted) has started overselling.
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I wish I was creative - the best I can do is cheer a bit, and perhaps drink a beer for moral support :)
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Living Room / Re: Is it me, or is the internet getting S L O W E R ?
« Last post by f0dder on June 15, 2007, 05:00 AM »
Darwin: don't worry, more than 8cm is overkill anyway :eusa_dance:
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@f0dder - Why mustn't they be named? The buyout (or whatever it was) didn't thrill me either BTW.
Well, just like some people ususally don't wanna name satan, I don't feel too comfortable about typing or saying "Corel" :p

Also, I think the new PSP GUI sucks bigtime. Big-bigtime. Corel basically ruined everything that was great about it - like not having to install it, but being able to carry it on an USB disk.

Ulead PhotoImpact uses this graphics model as well, and I find in many cases it's much easier to use.
-Perry Mowbray (June 14, 2007, 11:22 PM)
I'll check that out, thanks for the tip!
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I like PaintShop Pro a lot, but not after JASC sold it to that company which shall not be named here. paint.NET is pretty cute for simple stuff, it runs pretty well and all, and certainly beats mspaint :).

GIMP... confuses me. Just like photoshop. Both are probably pretty smart when you're into it, but when you're not - eek.

Sevaral years ago, I used micrografx picture publisher (iirc) - it was pretty nice in the sense that you could turn your selections into "objects", instead of having to muck around with layers, and you could "paint" your selections (easier than dealing with alpha channels). And it was very very lightweight.
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Living Room / Re: Is it me, or is the internet getting S L O W E R ?
« Last post by f0dder on June 14, 2007, 05:47 PM »
Torrent sites are getting faster, regular intarweb pages are getting slower?

I haven't really noticed a general tendency, but a few places have been very slow as of late - the flatassembler messageboard is almost unbearably slow.
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Living Room / Re: Basic Instructions: Great Cartoons
« Last post by f0dder on June 13, 2007, 08:57 AM »
To be honest, that's the one bad thing about being married.  Of course, I save more money now that I have to justify purchases... which means I can make even bigger purchases to have to justify...
*grin* :-*
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