Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
I'm running great over 1 Gbit over Copper Switched LAN to Linksys Router to Toshiba analog Cable modem on Cox Cable Internet with LM8.1. LM8.1 recognized a linksys Gig over Cu NIC and installed the drivers automagically. It automagically recognized the router DHCP over the Lan and installed the internet configuration during the initial install. Internet access is faster than on 95,98,ME,XP home boxes on the same LAN! Need to get Samba working, if anyone has any suggestions, hint, hint...Maybe it automagically installs if one answers the right questions right on the install? I didn't know I needed Samba until after I finished the install and couldn't talk to the win machines... I don't have time to read the manual today because I'm trying to get the plugins for Netscape 6.2 to install. They're not automagical, either... LM8.1 is so fun!;-) Jim Lynch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 14:06, you wrote: Will Cable modem work with mandrake 8.1?? I am updateing my box and I am curious if a cable modem will work and if so which specific kinds work.. I am just too far outside of DSL, now that I moved.. So let me know your feedback.. I am located in Richmond VA. If any one has had good luck with one kind of ISP please post..Mark I'm running fine with Cox@Home in Norfolk. --Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:50:10 -0500, Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/17/01 1:35 PM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 11:28, you were observed remarking: on 10/17/01 1:15 PM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT@home gives me from 250-500Kb/s and 8.1 didn't even hiccough...zoom,zoom zoom. Damn. My crappy ass cable connection gives me about 150k tops. That's what I get for living in the city. Matt I live in Cupertino (not a small town...)...I downloaded all 3 8.1 cd's simultaneously in 40 minutes!!! That's got just as much to do with what ftp server you connected to as your internet connection. I downloaded 8.1 at about 40k/s, but that's because that's all the server would give me. I used my remaining 110ishk/s on other stuff. I'd say you were da-amn lucky to find an ftp site that'd give you 500k/s. Call me da-amn lucky then. I pulled all three Mandrake 8.1 ISOs from the same server (which was about 1000Km away) with a combined average download speed of about 700KB/s! I wasn't even using rsync (just wget)! I live in Chicago, and our cable company is way overburdened and isn't making much profit, so they can't increase bandwidth. The DSL situation is even worse. Oh well, I'm moving in two months so hopefully I'll have better luck then. I am in Sydney, Australia. Here we only have two cable providers, Optus and Telstra (who also happen to be the two largest telcos). Telstra is overpriced and underserviced, while Optus is a dream for both price and performance. Telstra also operate ADSL, but I haven't heard anything good about it. We were the first country in the world to have satellite Internet, but not many people use it (in the city, anyway). Take a wild guess which one I use??? Matt -- Sridhar Dhanapalan And I have to say that I absolutely despise the BSD people... Oh, well. Not everybody can be as goodlooking as me. It's a curse. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A megabyte is a thousand bytes? *giggle* Have a cup of coffee! My treat :) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) Since there is no such thing as a millibit, people take mb to mean MB. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:38:12 -0500, Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was KB == kilobytes and Kb == kilobits... the /s is optional since most folks know what you mean... G = giga M = mega K = kilo k = ??? (don't know if there is such a thing...) m = milli -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1 Yeap I'm getting just shy of 800kbps in the boonies... BTW: It's not 250-500Kb/s it's 250-500Kbps (kilo Bits per second )the latter gives you about 25-50kb/s (Kilo Bytes per second). Otherwise you would have the world's fastest cable modem... 56kbps modems give you ~ 5kb/s xfer rate, etc... |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Wilson |Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:07 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1 | | | | Hello List.. |Will Cable modem work with mandrake 8.1?? I am updateing my |box and I am |curious if a cable modem will work and if so which specific |kinds work.. I |am just too far outside of DSL, now that I moved.. So let me know your |feedback.. I am located in Richmond VA. If any one has had |good luck with |one kind of ISP please post..Mark -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I think that throttling writers is fine and good, but as it stands now, the dirty buffer balancing will throttle anybody, not just the writer. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
on 10/18/01 1:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) 1024 bytes. Computers operate on base 2. 1MB = 2^10 bytes. Only hard drive manufacturers use base 10, to artificially inflate the size of their drives (false advertising basically). mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A bit is as small as it gets. A bit is either 1 or 0. mb generally means megabits, which is 1/8 of a megabyte. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:54:41 -0500, Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/18/01 1:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) 1024 bytes. Computers operate on base 2. 1MB = 2^10 bytes. Only hard drive manufacturers use base 10, to artificially inflate the size of their drives (false advertising basically). I'm an idiot! How could I make such a _stupid_ mistake? *whacks own forehead with palm* That's correct. I must've been half-asleep when I wrote that message (I know I am right now :) ). mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A bit is as small as it gets. A bit is either 1 or 0. Yep. I was only giving an example there. mb generally means megabits, which is 1/8 of a megabyte. Strictly-speaking, a megabit should be Mb. It's quite common for people (including myself, I'm afraid) to mix up the cases of the letters. MB (megabyte) and Mb (megabit) is probably the most confusing for people. Matt -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Also we should remember that unfortunately free software is not widely used because people prefers to have something to plug'n'play and not something to configure'n'work. -- Pier Luca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:25:03 GMT, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A megabyte is a thousand bytes? *giggle* Have a cup of coffee! My treat :) Paul Yeah, I've already whacked myself on the head over that one. I was sleepy at the time (I think I need that coffee), gimme a break :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
This i do know. Originally using metrics capitals were used when it was a persons name only. Like Pascals in kP for air pressure. Since then though the computer industry has adapted things for their own use. After all we are the only ones that do not use a metric kilo. A kilo byte (kB) = 1024 bytes. And a mega byte = 1048576 bytes (1024 * 1024). So really now it is quite common to see adverts etc. that use kb, KB, Kb or kB all on the same page. Standardisation of the metric prefixes has been blown out the window in our industry. But hell... how often is it really important anyhow? My opinion only folks (and no - i am not flaming anyone) Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) Since there is no such thing as a millibit, people take mb to mean MB. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
Hi, Actually, a megabyte is 1024 bytes (i.e. 2^10); Also, I have seen several people on the list stating that 1 byte = 10 bits, this is not true; 1 byte = 8 bits. HTH, David Charles On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Paul wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1003397177-1734-1166 a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A megabyte is a thousand bytes? *giggle* Have a cup of coffee! My treat :) Paul =_1003397177-1734-1166 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1003397177-1734-1166-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
I have Optimum Online, which works great in 7.2, but I haven't been able to get online with it in any 8.x version. :-( On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Matt Greer wrote: on 10/17/01 1:15 PM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATT@home gives me from 250-500Kb/s and 8.1 didn't even hiccough...zoom,zoom zoom. Damn. My crappy ass cable connection gives me about 150k tops. That's what I get for living in the city. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com peace, Rog The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 03:15 pm, you wrote: Who is your service provider? :^) Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED], AZ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
