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Journal Some Woman's Journal: From the Who Knew? Files. 18

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Apparently high-end technical support pays quite well. Some Guy just received a job offer doing just that. So now you know where part of your $200,000 support contract is going. Now I have one less jobless person to worry about, and I can have all the allotted "whining about not having a job" time to myself. I'll make good use of it, don't worry. ;^)

And from the amusing conversation files...

SW: Why are the internets so slow? We're only getting 6 k/s.
Shorty: Did you try the other one?
SW: Yeah. Both internets are slow.
Spex: Oh. I'm downloading a large file.
SW: Me too. That would explain it. *thinks* Hey... what are you downloading?
Spex: Something A showed me. Some political thing.
SW: *curious* What kind of a political thing?
Spex: Some TV show. I forgot the name.
SW: *intrigued* Is it Crossfire?
Spex: Yeah! That's it.
SW: You're downloading the Jon Stewart clip?
Spex: Yep.
SW: The internets are slow because we're downloading the same file. *smacks head*

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  • Jesus SW, that's 4 days old. In internet time that's like, 50 years.

    Half a million downloads off i-film and counting btw.
    • I don't speak torrent, and ifilm wouldn't download for me. I was working as fast as I could! I promise!
      • You have two internets? Wow.

        I feel so lame with my little dual-t1s. (load balancing, of course, I *am* a network geek after all--thank you EIGRP)

        BTW, congrats to Some Dude.

        Is he gonna pop the question now? (I mean, it would *maybe* get TL to stop asking you to join him in his hottub.)

        Is that question I just asked similiar to the one I used to get asked all the time about when the wife and I were gonna have kids?

        Should I just shut up now?

        Ok, fine.
      • I moderate the bittorrent_help mailing list. Anything I can help with so that you DO speak torrent?
        • I don't even know what it is, let alone going about using/getting it. See? I don't even know what verb to use because I don't know what type of word "torrent" is. I have this vague notion of files and internets (which I will someday stop pluralizing, but not today :^).
          • a torrent [bittorrent.com] is a file to download that pulls from multiple sources, by sharing what you have downloaded with anyone else also trying to download the file.

            The app is an easy install. When you click a torrent "seed" you system starts talking to other computers also downloading the same file and asks them for different chunks of the same file. That way your downstream bandwidth can be saturated while the person hosting the seed does not have their upstream saturated.

            jason
            Did I get that right ryanr?
          • I don't even know what it is, let alone going about using/getting it.

            Bit torrent is a scheme for content providers to offload their bandwidth costs onto the general public with no visible end user benefits. Flamebait? Perhaps. In principle, it can help with very popular files hosted on a site with comparatively low bandwidth. But since I can max out my bandwidth for everything I want to download without using torrent, it seems to be fairly true to me.

            • It exists primarily to benefit the publisher of the content. As you describe, it gives people with insufficient bandwidth the ability to publish some large file they otherwise couldn't deal with.

              As a user/consumer, you would benefit by the fact that the file might not otherwise get published. If you've never had a desire to get a file only available via Torrent, then no, you've probably got no use for it.
          • If you want to try it, basically:

            -Download & Install BitTornado:
            http://bittornado.com/download.html
            (There are a number of BitTorrent clients available, this is one of the better ones.)
            -Find a link that ends in .torrent and click on it. Pick a place to save the file.

            Things can go difficult sometimes after that, but those are the basic steps. Feel free to ask me if you need/want help.
  • It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can't be all bad can it? Of course not.

    A user rings

    "Do you know why the system is slow?" they ask

    "It's probably something to do with..." I look up today's excuse ".. clock speed"

    "Oh" (Not knowing what I'm talking about, they're sat

  • Man! (Score:2)

    by mekkab ( 133181 )
    I'm glad to finally not be the last one to the party!

    Heck- I even saw The Daily Show last night (Which I NEVER watch despite its quality) with John Stewart commenting on his little trip to DC... and crossfire.

    On a better note; you and pex could have used bittorrent, and then torrenteded (Tarantino'd?) from each other.
    • On a better note; you and pex

      Ohmigosh. I just called your house mate a plumbing tube product! [plumbingsupply.com] Sorry 'bout that!

      (and the link sucks- PEX is quality business; but the 'trades' are full of weenies who never want to do anything new. Or right. Or on time.)

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