@allquixotic conditions and pay are quite good. I'm also rather junior. but the state of our internal network, server and internet-related services... urgh
There's no way there's under 10MB on there right now
I was also told (by a not-so-technical person, thankfully) that our staff list couldn't accept any more biographies cause it was too long
keep in mind this is about 3 paragraphs of plain text.
the html source is rather amusing, once your eyeballs have finished melting - you can clearly see the original nice, structured framework in the first couple of lines with masses of crap added on top with MS Word tags everywhere
Your info above has made me think about my .co.uk i've been with the same hosting provider sine the year dot (think it was 1999) and have 10 gig bandwidth with 50mb webspace for ~£35 a year
Its made me think, mines on easyspace... They used to be one of the big providers but they've kinda fallen by the wayside now
I had another couple of .co.uk's on a small provider a friend recommended, no webspace just domain registration... Think it's £8 each p/a
Asked the guy for some webspace on one of them, he's charging me an extra £3.50 p/a and when i asked about bandwidth and space he said "as much as you want, just nothing silly" lol :D
@allquixotic I believe it might have been inserted by MS Word
but; the only people who would have updated this page without going through the CMS (other than me; DON'T LOOK AT ME) would have been the original contracted designers..
@Bob Looks like Word's doing... I'm still trying to eradicate some outlook signatures my predecessor made with image locations pointing at the C: drive aswell as the alt text containing the file path including his local profile name...
@allquixotic I can remember looking at flash cards many moons ago when i had one of the first MP3 players (a Rio PMP 300 i think?!), it had 32mb (yes, MB) of onboard memory... In Birmingham (large UK city) a shop had flash cards of upto 256mb in size sat on shelves in the same size plastic packaging as these days, but with 4 figure prices (£1000+)
of course, i once toured a government campus (NASA) and they showed me one of the mothballed datacenters
it was a datacenter that had about eighty washing machine-sized gigantic hard drives (and I mean HARD DRIVE, not like we use now with micro-everything) and the total capacity of the facility was 180 MB
even that 32 MB flash card would be amazing to the people who built that
the change from using a room the size of a grocery store for 180 MB of data storage, to 64 GB in the size of a thumbnail, is the equivalent of compressing yourself into a black hole (where you'd be about a square nanoliter in volume)
does anyone wonder if Moore's Law is some kind of industry trick to ensure a continued revenue stream, and that in reality they've known how to make the "end product" (the eventual physical limit of microelectronics) all along?
it seems mighty convenient that they're able to increase transistor density by 1.5x - 2x every 18 months or so, as if research is done at almost a predictable pace
but if you can predict the amount of time it takes to do research, can't you just skip a bunch of generations and go to the end?
like I wonder if in 1999 Intel could have created a processor like Ivy Bridge if they put their mind to it
or did they lack novel research - yet undiscovered concepts that prevented them from doing so?
there was an episode of Star Trek: Voyager where someone traveled back in time to the 90s on earth and used their knowledge from the future to do exactly that: they had the whole "baby stepping" plan laid out in secret, but they released successively improving generations of the product in public and got people to pay a premium for them
unlike earlier versions of Windows (xD), I've had excellent success with the stability and continued performance of Windows 7....
even my pathetic low-end Sandy Bridge system with 4GB of RAM at work can sustain uptimes in excess of one month with many program launches and terminations and long periods of idle (sometimes a 3-day or 4-day weekend if I'm on vacation) and it's fine
that's a very interesting question, but I wouldn't immediately pin it on product activation... it would be most odd indeed if Microsoft gave you a performance penalty for not activating... I think if you go to the extreme and simply refuse to activate forever, won' t it refuse to let you login?
it's probably due to VM image fragmentation or something like that.
Does Windows 7 impose a performance penalty for not activating Windows with a Product Key?
Let's say you have a very old installation of Windows 7 that has not been activated. The number of days they give you to activate is long expired. You've already used up your free slmgr rearms. Basically, ...
I have had Windows 7 Ultimate installed for about two weeks, with a couple more weeks left to activate.
What happens after the trial period has ended without activation?
that Q doesn't specifically address the performance aspect, but perhaps the absence of mention of performance in the Microsoft KB article could be used as a definitive answer
my intuition is that they are not limiting your performance but I asked the question in order to get a better supported answer.
Ok, GoToAssist is really pissing me off today. Forums are broken and its Windows 8 support is entirely broken.
Oh nice, I crashed their computer again. Some how it's hosing up the graphics drivers and causing stuff to freeze when I drag windows around, which is necessary since I can only see a 3rd of the screen. =D Glad they were ready for Windows 8: blog.gotoassist.com/2012/10/30/windows8
I have many DVDs with movies and games, they are getting old and dusty, some of them are damaged. And I have more than 300 GB of general files in my PC. I want to store and preserve all of my data and keep them for a long long time.
I want to know what is the best and more reliable storage media...
Do you guys know how much time needs to pass until the data stored on a hard drive starts to degrade?
To keep the data intact for long periods of time, I heard you need to periodically rewrite it on the hard drive, like every 5 years or so. Is it true?
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@OliverSalzburg I usually only read slashdot's "yesterday's news" that gets sent to my email midday (around lunchtime) every day, which is why I just saw it
I don't actually visit slashdot.org itself, I just click on interesting articles in the email summary
"Correlation does not imply causation" is a phrase used in science and statistics to emphasize that a correlation between two variables does not necessarily imply that one causes the other.
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@Boris_yo Nothing "from the outside" should cause your router to reinitialize its IP configuration. If that is the case, then it's a serious issue IMO.
i gave an android gift to my relative who doesn't have internet i downloaded some games and apps on it and gave it and i setpued the patterlock my cousin called me today that tablet is not working because it's locked he tried to unlock pattern 3 times there is no internet. any way to unlock it without internet?
I have an Arnova GBook, which is running Android 4.0.3 (or something like that).
My little brother decided to try and guess my lock screen pattern the other day, and ended up locking me out.
I have since been unable to log back in to the tablet using my Google Account details. I provided the c...
@OliverSalzburg I wonder what significance source port has in modern networking protocols. Does the TCP protocol just use the source port to know how to send a message "back" to the sender, thus making it a bidirectional protocol?
original outbound message recipient reads "sender src port: 50000" and goes "oh, if I want to send a message back, I send it on that port"?
@Sathya omg... 40 ethernet ports @___@ he must be using the Physical Networking Protocol (PNP), where you plug in the ethernet cable to the machine you want to route to, and access it on a static pre-determined IP address like 192.168.1.1
@allquixotic The source port is required so the same machine (or same IP address to be more precise) can make multiple connection to the same target IP+port
technically it's not necessary if each message is stateless, but if you want to have a stateful TCP socket that keeps track of messages sent and received and reacts "in context", you'd need that
technically it's not necessary if each message is stateless, but if you want to have a stateful TCP socket that keeps track of messages sent and received and reacts "in context", you'd need that
great, I'm receiving lag and message send timeouts to chat, and it's causing me to apparently double post
@JitendraVyas Yeah, that's the accepted answer on the question I just posted. I just remembered that avirk posted his answer later on. I have not confirmed anything, but wired.com is not a proper source for me :D (but that doesn't imply that it isn't accurate)
And "If the FBI can't do it, you can't" does not apply to everybody ;P
Hey - I've been having troubles with my custom built PC lately. The main symptom is that on occasion my wireless (using a PCI card) gets really flaky. I do a ping -t google.com in the command line and watch the latency and I get a lot of time outs and high (1-3 second) pings when this is happening.
Sometimes (though usually its ok) playing games, at the same exact time, I experience huge frame drops
The wireless issue seems to get remedied temporarily by reseating the wireless card (even changed slots once) but otherwise seems to come back
Any thoughts / theories on this? Probably just interference and I should get a better setup? My wireless card is going? Mobo is going / has a short? PSU doing some damage? I'm not really sure what to start investigating :)
Was on Windows 7 64 bit, just upgraded to Windows 8 two nights ago and I'm still having problems. Going out to the official site for driver and firmware updates is probably a good idea. Router firmware might be a good idea too
@ToddersLegrande Try non-Windows wireles connection manager. If your card is Intel, then it has separate manager as optional install. RealTek has often its own manager.
@ToddersLegrande I don't like them but they sometimes show things Windows' integrated wireless connection manager won't. I hated when one caused system confusion and I had to remove it and then activate Windows built-in manager.
the entire WiFi ecosystem and all devices participating in it are fully, fundamentally, irreversibly broken unless they completely scrap all WiFi related hardware and technology and start over using extremely strict standards with zero opportunity for deviation and operate on a licensed/controlled spectrum frequency
but since they aren't willing to do any of that, it's basically a joke technology, like "ha ha, we enjoy making the lives of millions of people miserable"
one, vendor extensions (hardware and software) which are incompatible with other software or devices that lack the extensions or implement them a different way
two, the very poor (physical) radio design of WiFi which is unnecessarily sensitive to interference and polarization, two things we know how to mitigate extremely well with other radio protocols
three, drivers and hardware manufactured by people who value cost savings over doing it right, leading to tons of implementation errors that make it an absolute miracle when anything related to WiFi actually works
if you want an example of a radio protocol that's fundamentally the same physical type of communication (radio waves) that actually works, check out for example cellular 3G or, better, 4G (LTE).... compare and contrast the physical characteristics, the protocol characteristics, the licensing model of the spectrum, and therein lie the reasons why WiFi sucks and cellular data doesn't
@Boris_yo definitely, and I think it would be possible to design a wireless protocol for short ranged, home use that's based on the same radio principles as cellular broadband
"cellular broadband" and "wireless broadband" are the same as far as I'm using them, the point is they are not using WiFi specifically, they are using something related to GSM or CDMA
Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) is a method of transmitting radio signals by rapidly switching a carrier among many frequency channels, using a pseudorandom sequence known to both transmitter and receiver. It is utilized as a multiple access method in the frequency-hopping code division multiple access (FH-CDMA) scheme.
A spread-spectrum transmission offers three main advantages over a fixed-frequency transmission:
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@Boris_yo they don't really; the amount of electromagnetic energy involved in them both is very similar (depending on how close you are to a cell tower / wifi access point)
what I was trying to say about WiFi's physical layer being inferior to other protocols (e.g. Bluetooth, LTE) is that WiFi is not based on some sort of CDMA/FHSS scheme
actually since Bluetooth is already based on FHSS, they could just make a new revision to bluetooth that continues using the FHSS physical layer, but enhances the data rate, and it'd be basically what WiFi never was
Bluetooth recently (2010) published a protocol revision that actually integrates WiFi technology into Bluetooth for higher bit rates, ironically. I think they should have stayed with their existing technology and just upped the bit rate
I have had Windows 7 Ultimate installed for about two weeks, with a couple more weeks left to activate.
What happens after the trial period has ended without activation?
This question was inspired by How to store and preserve lots of data?
There have been another similar questions, but none with this type of criteria.
This is two questions in one.
How do you store financial/critical records that should survive anything but a fire and should be available for de...
I have an Arnova GBook, which is running Android 4.0.3 (or something like that).
My little brother decided to try and guess my lock screen pattern the other day, and ended up locking me out.
I have since been unable to log back in to the tablet using my Google Account details. I provided the c...
My son has an impression tablet 10 and has forgot the lock pattern. How can we reset it without knowing the code?
