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MarkWebles

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  1. Last time read similar sentiments was in a tract by Frederick Douglass quoting an anti-abolitionist. Sometimes a persons true character can't help but betray oneself, huh?
  2. "To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing" - Elbert Hubbard
  3. For any one considering jumping to a different brand of e-reader, there is an open source (free) e-book management application called Calibre that, among many other functions, can convert your existing e-books into a compatible format for just about any brand of e-book reader. The application is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Check it out.
  4. My points were generalities that stand regardless of technology. Hardware is, and for the foreseeable future will be, the bottleneck in EVERY modern network. Single mode fiber has a capacity that modern transceivers can't saturate, even optical transmission systems such as HDWDM still can't push SM fiber to capacity.. Transit and peering? Are you telling me something I don't already know? You're in sales aren't you?
  5. Did I do that, Tom, put fiber in the same category as other mediums? No, I didn't. As someone who has worked in the network engineering departments of some fairly notable internet providers; Global Crossing, Exodus Communications, and SAVVIS, I think I have a pretty good handle on the technology. I have specified equipment for, installed (including terminations using a fusion splicer) and supported fiber based networks. Past experience includes, but is not limited to SONET, ATM, BGP, MPLS, OSFP, ISIS, STP, and multicast. Tom said: Because fiber is newer technology, the networks have fewer bottlenecks up to the ISP network boundary. Complete crap, and you should know it. Network performance is dependent on much more than just fiber Tom also said: Beyond that, into other networks, where Telmex and Ilox have to pay traffic costs, the oversubscription and degradation of bandwidth begins. It happens mostly at the later stages in the connection up to your destination. Also complete crap. Traffic leaving the subscribers edge network tends NOT to be limited as it traverses the peering/transit networks. This traffic tends to traverse their peers border network only; where speed and efficiency are supreme and hence will have very limited massaging of the traffic. Typically only routing occurs here. Only if the traffic is terminating on a peer's local edge will there be any rate-limiting/filtering.
  6. Yes, all internet-to-the-home services will eventually degrade with increased subscribers. Fiber isn't magic, it's just another data transport medium. It all connects to hardware that has limits to it's capacity to move packets (data). And yes, DSL is subject to degradation too: wire terminations at the telco are subject to near-end-crosstalk on packets arriving at the telco which attenuates the signal and is why DSL is asynchronous.
  7. Confidential? On Google.com? Who's zoomin' who? I wonder how many people really know how the internet works.
  8. Don't be tempted to ride without proper equipment, as many here don't and they make it look like such fun. A friend has recently quit riding after his 3rd. unscheduled get-off. He found the road-rash to be annoying. To suggest that one should "Drive Defensively" here is a gross understatement. They are out to kill you. Stay away from the Chinese brands, the quality of materials leaves a bit to be desired. ...and learn where the Topes are: hitting one unexpectedly can ruin your whole day. Aside from that: ride, be free!
  9. Coincidentally, I had a doctors appointment with my GP on last Tuesday and somehow got talking about the borderline irrationality some have about germs. She said "That's on you gringos, we Mexicans are still sane. Don't worry, get dirty". I almost pissed myself.
  10. The best thing about Dell, from a corporate stand point, was/is their warranty and part replacement policy. "What's wrong?" "I don't know, it's new and doesn't work." "O.K., we'll ship you another."
  11. Not everyone wears apathy as a badge of honour. Some of us actually like to move out of our comfort zones, try new things; to risk failure, or revel in success. I could try and impress upon you the joy of exploring the unknown, but it's likely pointless. Reminds me of a coworker who once said, "Why try, just watch tv." At first I though the was joking. He wasn't.
  12. Bash on Windows 10. While your at it, don't overlook Python, Perl, Powershell, PHP or Ruby. The fun never need stop. BTW, bash is available on all Linux distributions and bash scripts don't need to be compiled in order to execute them.
  13. Skill? What skill? Most of us need no more skill than what it takes to push a button and click an icon. I could easily teach a child how to install any of the more main stream Linux distributions and have said child connected to the internet in under an hour (it usually takes me about 30 minutes to install Linux). And said child wouldn't know that it was supposed to be difficult until he/she spoke to an adult who "has a friend who knows computers". Back when I was a (primarily) Windows technician, I used to dread those words.
  14. Eric, the first truly viable version of Windows was version 3.1 (released in 1992), before that it was little more than a curiosity. You state that you used DOS before switching to Windows which suggests that you've been a computer user for about 30 years, yet you are still not a "computer person". Support for Linux on the internet is ubiquitous and it's not difficult to learn, certainly no more difficult than Windows, but an effort is still required. Perhaps you're best suited to the tried-and-true: Crayons, version 1.0.
  15. Read the study, ignore the histrionics. "The report considers only the types of carrier (bags) available from UK supermarkets." The bags in question are all made from plastics, excepting the cotton ones, of course. And consider that home made cotton bags tend be constructed of cloth that has already served a primary purpose. We have some home made bags that were originally jeans. We've been using the bags for about 8 years now. Remember when smoking was healthy?
  16. There's always CancĂșn. You could catch a bullfight. Oops, too late. No matter, as the song goes, barbarism begins at home.
  17. No doubt we'll evolve to a point where we will able to keep up with our social media chores and simultaneously get the requisite amount of sleep each night. Brave New World, indeed.
  18. There, there, people. Don't get yer boxers in a bunch. All the excitement will surely keep you up tonight. ETA: "Goody for you". Who says that?
  19. My, my! What did we do before the development of modern, easily obtained pharmaceuticals? Probably something barbaric like avoiding pharmaceuticals, or better, going for a walk .
  20. As long as the right people are profiting, who are we to complain?
  21. What they need to do is convince people that they really don't need the mountain of plastic shit that is available on every shelf of every Walmart on the continent.
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