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Re: [Plug] Bandwidth sharing
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My bad. I missed the 6250 number while I was writing the reply, and...hit
^x instead of ^c (which was my intention) in pine (sending instead of
canceling).
my appologies
k
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Nick R wrote:
> How do you figure that I'm off by a power of 2^8th even if I had meant 8.4GB
> rather than 8.4GiB?
>
> -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
>
>
> If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
> 46. If an advisor says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man
> possibly do?", I will reply "This." and kill the advisor.
> -- Peter's Evil Overlord List,
> http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
>
>
> >From: Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>
> >Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> >To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> >Subject: Re: [Plug] Bandwidth sharing
> >Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:32:18 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >I think your calculation is off by an order of 2^8th
> >
> >8.4GB = 8.4*1024MB = 8.4*1024*1024k = 8.4*1024*1024*1024bytes (8 bits each)
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a
> >kind
> >word alone.
> > -- Al Capone
> >mortis@voicenet.com
> >http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Nick R wrote:
> >
> > > Well my now working 8.4GB HD should be arriving any day now, so I think
> >I'll
> > > start at www.yahoo.com and work my way through the web from there. Let's
> > > see, 8,400,000,000 bytes, 56K connection, don't know how fast I connect
> > > here, but when I used W95 is was usually about 50,000 bits/sec. So
> >that's
> > > 8,400,000,000/6250 which is about 1344,000 seconds, which is about 16
> >days
> > > assuming fairly optimal conditions. Yeah, I think I can swing that.
> > >
> > > -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
> > >
> > >
> > > If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
> > > 70. When my guards split up to search for intruders, they will always
> >travel
> > > in groups of at least two. They will be trained so that if one of them
> > > disappears mysteriously while on patrol, the other will immediately
> >initiate
> > > an alert and call for backup instead of quizzically peering around a
> >corner.
> > > -- Peter's Evil Overlord List,
> > > http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: "Jason S." <jason@sn.com>
> > > >Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > > >To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > > >Subject: Re: [Plug] Bandwidth sharing
> > > >Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:11:11 -0400 (EDT)
> > > >
> > > >If you do that, check out the options for both depth and domain
> >control.
> > > >It follows everything.... incuding banner ads. Its pretty easy to let
> >it
> > > >get out of control and spider sites you didnt mean to.
> > > >
> > > >Not that I've ever done that or anything.... :)
> > > >
> > > >J.
> > > >
> > > >When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
> > > >I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
> > > >attitude.
> > > >
> > > >On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > have you toyed with the -r option? Ever wan't the _entire_ contents
> >of
> > > > > a website? :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > *schluurrp!*
> > > > >
> > > > > "Look, up in the sky..."
> > > > > "It's a spider!"
> > > > > "It's a search engine"
> > > > >
> > > > > "No, it's 'wget -r'"
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > websites quiver in it's presence...
> > > > >
> > > > > k
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it
> >displays a
> > > >dialog
> > > > > box and lets you press 'OK' first.
> > > > > -- (Arno Schaefer's .sig)
> > > > > mortis@voicenet.com
> > > >http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis
> > > > >
> > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Nick R wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Wow, I just checked this util out & boy is it impressive! It's so
> > > >fully
> > > > > > featured and even resumes d/ls that were cut off. Forget NS!
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >From: Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>
> > > > > > >Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > > > > > >To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > > > > > >Subject: Re: [Plug] Bandwidth sharing
> > > > > > >Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >try wget(1) for unattended downloads...hardly uses any memory...
> > > > > > >start it in differnet windows...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >there's not all that much bandwidth to slice up on a modem
> >connection
> > > > > > >anyway.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >k
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > > >In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.
> > > > > > > -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
> > > > > > >mortis@voicenet.com
> > > > > > >http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:05:48AM -0700, Nick R wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Well you could launch 2 different instances of netscape.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > And waste all your ram. Netscape is very unfriendly
> > > > > > > > about taking lots of ram, and doing a *lot* of disk reading.
> >It
> > > >and
> > > > > > > > gcc are the only two programs I have that will bring my
> >computer
> > > >to a
> > > > > > > > complete halt for long periods of time.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > Morgan Wajda-Levie
> > > > > > > > http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev
> > > > > > > > PGP fingerprint:
> > > > > > > > A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C
> > > > > > > > http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key
> > > > > > > > encrypted mail preferred
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
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