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Comment Re:AT&Ts model (Score 2) 163

Iceland here...

100 Mb/s down 100 Mb/s up 240 GB cap, get over that, same cap, yep internet stops :P

HOWEVER they do not cap or count domestic traffic, so domestic proxies are a godsend!

This is during a high usage time: http://speedtest.net/result/2502948610.png though i do max 100 Mb/s on torrent all the time, up and down :P
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Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents 153

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the now-and-forever dept.
sfcrazy writes "Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. In the pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor, or developer of Open Source software on specified patents, unless first attacked. Under this pledge, Google is starting off with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google. Google says that over time they intend to expand the set of Google's patents covered by the pledge to other technologies." This is in addition to the Open Invention Network, and their general work toward reforming the patent system. The patents covered in the OPN will be free to use in Free/Open Source software for the life of the patent, even if Google should transfer ownership to another party. Read the text of the pledge. It appears that interaction with non-copyleft licenses (MIT/BSD/Apache) is a bit weird: if you create a non-free fork it appears you are no longer covered under the pledge.

Submission + - Stop using custom browser "tricks"

Submitted by gunnaraztek
gunnaraztek writes: I suggest the END of "user agent" strings, and the END of custom browser hacks.

Just add a check for features the browser supports, use a proper CSS reset for all browsers (or have them include it, nice but doubtful).

Comment Disable wi-fi encryption... (Score 1) 884

by gunnaraztek (#42964977) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech?

... enable dhcp (no default gateway)
connect the access point to a openvpn server NOT THE INTERNET
connect the openvpn server to the internet

[access point]---[openvpn server]---([router]---[modem])---[internet]

So it goes like this for you:
you connect to your wi-fi
you authenticate with a certificate to your openvpn server
you use internet

It goes like this for him:
oooh open wi-fi ... connect
oooh ip, thanks
ping google.com ERROR
hax somebank.com ERROR
*cry*

Comment Host in Iceland... (Score 0) 225

by gunnaraztek (#39181165) Attached to: Suggestions For Music Hosting?

... no hosting services in iceland have ANY upload limits, they do-however have "download" limits, which means data from other countries _TO_ the server is metered, and quite expensive but ANY upload (from the server to the internet) is completely free.

Just a matter of making a deal, i'd reccomend contacting x.is and 1984.is.

Additionally, a 100 mbit connection at home in iceland is only like 7k ISK (~60 USD) with a 250 gb download (see above) cap and NO upload cap. (See: http://hringdu.is/page/yfirlit/ljos/ / http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhringdu.is%2Fpage%2Fyfirlit%2Fljos%2F)

Here's my speed (50/50 mbit connection, ~4k ISK (~30 USD) a month) http://www.speedtest.net/result/1801028229.png

p.s. data within iceland is not metered at all, up or down.
p.p.s. if you do hit the "download" limit, they don't charge you, they slow the connection down to ~4 KB/s so you can't keep downloading but domestic speeds stay the same all the time (so yes i proxy to friends when i go over my cap).
p.p.p.s. A friend of mine even runs an anime streaming site from one of those connections in iceland at http://fluffy.is/ it runs quite well and has for about a year now on the current connection.

Enjoy

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