I know DSL, being an ATM-based technology and often subjected to PPPoE overhead, will score lower than rated. I have a 5 megabit connection but that's the sync rate. You can realistically expect to lose 9-10% just from the above overheads. That rather fits with the graphs I'm seeing.

I've seen some ISPs compensate by setting the sync rate above the advertised rate but most don't.

I would argue that everything with writable firmware should have some kind of jumper on it (default: on) to write protect the firmware. Thus you can only patch firmware by inserting a jumper on the right pins.

Still, anyone should think twice before being told "short these contacts on your battery in order to enable firmware updates."

Ugh, replying to myself. I missed the link in the post.

But nothing's changed, right? It's the same chassis, same diagrams from backblaze. Only ~2 years of bigger drives is new.

Does this mean web designers will start making their web sites actually work when users without javascript try to use them?

(The list of offenders is too long to name.)

Not officially, but collision detection can be abused to trick the game into believing a solid wall is ground beneath Mario's feet, allowing him to jump. Frame-precision is needed, hence the tool-assisted aspect of it.

The tasvideos.org page has more info in their wiki.

I'm a firefox2 user (laugh it up, I'm not switching on this machine) with noscript. The CSS horribly broken, the sidebar follows me around cutting off content (as other people have said), there's a huge screenful of empty space on the homepage, content is fairly obviously in the wrong location and... oh god, click if you really want to see it. Turning off styles makes it slightly less painful.

And I just noticed the copyright on the bottom of the posting page here says (c) 201, Geeknet

I deleted nautilus (the Gnome program that manages those). Never liked it. Now my desktop is completely clean.

Even if I had them I wouldn't seem them very often anyway. There's always something open on my screen covering most/all of my screen area. It's better this way.

Flash cookies, or even any temp files left behind by video playback. I've heard it happen. See if anything was left in your Temp directory matching "Flash*" and play it back as .flv or .mp4. Very incriminating evidence

I just checked my system. /dev/sda1 is /dev/sda + 32256 bytes, which is 63 512-byte sectors. /dev/sda2 is also on an odd-numbered sector alignment.

Fedora 11 fresh install, which is less than a year old.

Hypothetical scenario: an ISP is under DDoS attack originating from some fixed foreign IP. Since it becomes impossible to "block access" without CRTC approval, does that mean the ISP has to take it like a bitch while waiting from the OK to have it blackholed? What about any other kinds of attacks? What about Spam filtering?

I really don't think the CRTC really understands the issue. I should know, I listened to some of the public hearings a few months back.

Disclaimer: I work for an affected ISP.

It's pig latin. Like the GP said.

1) Drop the "ay" suffix: Anc ouy eadr isth?
2) Move the last letter to the first: cAn you read this?

There's other rules, but this'll get you by. Apparently it's stronger than rot13.

At this rate I'm starting to question if we'll ever have a 2.7 "alpha/beta" series since all the major new features above and beyond stand-alone device drivers seem to be going right into the current branch.

From my interpretation, you buy stamps first and send mail later. This isn't a case of botnets racking up bills, this is a case of credit card fraud fueling spam.