Comment Its the money (Score 1) 826
I have a friend who uses an Indian company for his tech support.
Its $2000 a mo for someone to be answering tickets and fixing accounts 24/7 365
Or he could hire in the states, which would be like $3000-$4000 a mo for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, no holidays
Comment Re:Does anyone ever get over 2 Mb/s download speed (Score 1) 402
I actually have it the other way around. I have a 3 mb/s connection, but in practice i have hit 500 kB/s which is 4 mb/s
thats usually on the odd hours when people are not likely to be on the interwebs here in my apartment complex(we have a DSLAM here which then goes over a oc-1 or 3, don't remember what the guy said)
Comment Re:Does anyone ever get over 2 Mb/s download speed (Score 4, Informative) 402
Make sure your not mixing up Mbps and MBps
Mbps is reported by your isp
MBps is reported by most applications
20Mbps / 8 = 2.5 MBps. which fits with your 2 MB/sec speed
Submission + - Israeli ISP throttling direct downloads.
TCDooM writes: Israeli ISP 013NetVision [link:http://www.013Netvision.net.il] is throttling the bandwidth of most users, according to the source, the bandwidth is cut after 40-60 seconds of download.
this experiment was conducted against [link:http://www.youtube.com/my_speed] Youtube speed test and other sites as well.
when the ISP is confronted they deny any kind of throttling.
this experiment was conducted against [link:http://www.youtube.com/my_speed] Youtube speed test and other sites as well.
when the ISP is confronted they deny any kind of throttling.
Submission + - How to Start Math Skills at Early Age - Child Educ (mathshands.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Math skills can start to be developed at a very early age. Here is a quick guide or cheat sheet that home schoolers and parents can use that shows what math skills to work on based on your childs age.
Submission + - 3D without glasses (youtube.com)
masshuu writes: No glasses and no fancy 3d TVs!
Now you can watch 3D without glasses with better viewing angles than normal "No Glasses 3d TVs"
Now you can watch 3D without glasses with better viewing angles than normal "No Glasses 3d TVs"
Submission + - IT Education for Children 1
alphanumerix writes: In a few short weeks I will become a father. I believe that an important aspect of a child's education is computer literacy, much of which can be taught in the home. Are there any slashdotters out there that have experience in teaching kids how to use a PC? There is a mountain of software available for kids and it's a daunting task to sift through it all. Which software titles stand out amongst the best for child education?
I have also been wondering when is a suitable age to introduce a child to a PC? How young is too young? And which version of Windows would be best to start with? My initial inclination was to go with the latest instalment available at the time which might well still be Windows 7. However, on further consideration I'm starting to think XP may be a better a choice to develop a good grounding of familiarity with Windows. My rationale for this is that XP is much less 'visually' intuitive, forcing you to properly learn your way around the menus and file systems. The lack of a sophisticated taskbar search function in XP might also help in this regard. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
I have also been wondering when is a suitable age to introduce a child to a PC? How young is too young? And which version of Windows would be best to start with? My initial inclination was to go with the latest instalment available at the time which might well still be Windows 7. However, on further consideration I'm starting to think XP may be a better a choice to develop a good grounding of familiarity with Windows. My rationale for this is that XP is much less 'visually' intuitive, forcing you to properly learn your way around the menus and file systems. The lack of a sophisticated taskbar search function in XP might also help in this regard. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Submission + - Times reports US & Israel behind Stuxnet
Oxford_Comma_Lover writes: Confirming heavy speculation in the Slashdot community, the New York Times reports that joint US-Israeli efforts were almost certainly behind the recent Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear program.
Submission + - No Hardware Acceleration Firefox for Linux (osnews.com) 4
devtty writes: Yesterday, the ninth Firefox 4.0 beta was released. One of the major new features in Firefox 4.0 is hardware acceleration for anything from canvas drawing to video rendering. Sadly, this feature won't make its way to the Linux version of Firefox 4.0. The reason? X' drivers are "disastrously buggy". Boris Zbarsky, long-time Mozilla developer, commented on the issue over at Hacks.Mozilla.org. The release notes for Firefox 4.0 beta 9 noted that it comes with hardware acceleration for Windows 7 and Vista via a combination of Direct2D, DirectX 9 and DirectX 10. Windows XP users will also enjoy hardware acceleration for many operations "using our new Layers infrastructure along with DX9". Furthermore, Mac OS X has excellent OpenGL support, they claim, so they've got that covered as well.
No mention of Linux, and there's a reason for that. "We tried enabling OpenGL on Linux, and discovered that most Linux drivers are so disastrously buggy (think 'crash the X server at the drop of a hat, and paint incorrectly the rest of the time' buggy) that we had to disable it for now," explains Zbarsky, "Heck, we're even disabling WebGL for most Linux drivers, last I checked..."
No mention of Linux, and there's a reason for that. "We tried enabling OpenGL on Linux, and discovered that most Linux drivers are so disastrously buggy (think 'crash the X server at the drop of a hat, and paint incorrectly the rest of the time' buggy) that we had to disable it for now," explains Zbarsky, "Heck, we're even disabling WebGL for most Linux drivers, last I checked..."
Comment Re:Crippled version of 580 (Score 1) 52
Thats the issue i have. I got a 470 a few months ago and i can't find anything to give it a workout. I guess the good thing is as long as it doesn't fail, i have a gfx card that will max out(probably almost) any game for the next 3-5 years.
Comment Torrents (Score 1) 275
Is torrnet on that list? I know allot of good uses for torrent.
Comment Re:erode Windows server how? (Score 0) 228
I almost equate Fedora to Ubuntu. Both like the latest and greatest, while getting bashed for doing that.
Not that i have used fedora in a server environment.
Sometimes use Ubuntu LTS versions for servers though.
Comment Re:Someone help me out here (Score 2, Funny) 282
42 years
Comment Re:Price (Score 1) 161
Yup.
Play games on Facebook, and your sitting there asking yourself "People really pay $120 for a bunch of artificial points they can spend on energy and random crap?"
When you can buy those points in every store around you in the form of gift cards, you know its bad.
