Just heard from my friend in Taipei again. He says the Taiwanese people
aren't actually very happy with their Internet pricing. Huh? No, they're
envious of the people in Japan who have higher speed at a somewhat higher
price. 2 Gbps for $50/month? What on earth do you do with 2 Gbps? I
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 07:29:04AM -0600, Curt Lundgren wrote:
price. 2 Gbps for $50/month? What on earth do you do with 2 Gbps? I
Porn. What else?
John
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Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking
Time for my (tech) porn story. I applied for a position as a Linux
administrator at a company in downtown Los Angeles. The perky secretary
that I talked with prior to the interview mentioned that the company dealt
in 'some' adult content.
Fast forward to the interview, on the 30th floor of a
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Just heard from my friend in Taipei again. He says the Taiwanese
people aren't actually very happy with their Internet pricing. Huh?
No, they're
envious of the people in Japan who have higher speed at a somewhat
higher price. 2 Gbps for $50/month? What on earth do
On 01/28/2014 07:29 AM, Curt Lundgren wrote:
Just heard from my friend in Taipei again. He says the Taiwanese people
aren't actually very happy with their Internet pricing. Huh? No,
they're envious of the people in Japan who have higher speed at a
somewhat higher price. 2 Gbps for $50/month?
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote:
The truth is that to deliver ubiquitous broadband in the US is a
multi-hundred-billion dollar undertaking, that no company or companies
will do because there's no real return on investment.
My belief is that people see
Just a quick show of metaphorical hands, who's ever heard of
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/intro.html
It's a lot like puppy linux, but this distro is 9 MB ( with a working
gui desktop).
It looks like a good contender for a fast asleep at the prompt.
We might do it as a asleep at the prompt for
I run tiny core on a couple of old laptops and I like it a lot for old hardware.
I switched over to tiny core from puppy for that kind of stuff. It boots
pretty fast straight from a USB flash drive.
Dave Manginelli | Programmer/Analyst
Benefit Communications,
Saw on Toms Hardware that ATT is capping people at 150G/mo of data and
Comcast is dropping users who regularly use over 250G/mo.
Evidently ATT says a 'average user' uses about 15G/mo. But that doesn't
add up, because a typical Netflix customer uses about 2G/hour and watches
20 movies a month
On 01/28/2014 10:16 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
Saw on Toms Hardware that ATT is capping people at 150G/mo of data and
Comcast is dropping users who regularly use over 250G/mo.
And what with the not network neutral Verizon court decision, this is
only going to get more expensive - especially for
Comcast has Nashville as a Test market for its cap. There are like 4
test markets, the rest of the US doesn't currently have a hard cap.
Nashville we have 300gb combined cap. You get an email at 90% then at
100%. At that point you get 3 free overages. After your third overage
in a 12 month period
Yep, the bean counters take over after the techies that understand move on
to new things.
Now, what does it take to set up a WISP? If it can be done reasonably from
cell towers, losts of space
is available on them. ... Then it is 'just' getting a deal on bandwidth
from backbone providers (and
Jack, a lot of variables go into tower rental, but seeing a price tag with
4 digits before the decimal wouldn't be at all unusual.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote:
Yep, the bean counters take over after the techies that understand move on
to new things.
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