Thanks, Tom, that helps.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
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tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 10:26:44 am PDT #4828 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 10:45:37 am PDT #4829 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome. In addition to an older tactic of offering bogus downloads that never complete, HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. BitTorrent downloads are peer-to-peer, but the peers are introduced to each other by a tracker ("you're looking for Rome Season 1 Episode 2, talk to 127.0.0.1"). HBO runs peers that tell the tracker they have all the chunks of the show, but then send garbage data when a downloader requests a chunk. The downloading client can detect that it's garbage and will try another peer for the chunk, but the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows.
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 11:49:58 am PDT #4830 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oooh. My boss said that it's the client's fault their data is screwey, so they have to fix it. So, not my problem.
The downloading client can detect that it's garbage and will try another peer for the chunk, but the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows.
And so the arms race begins....
amych - Oct 07, 2005 11:51:43 am PDT #4831 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows
Great. The big corps are DDOSing now. I'd like a sane world, please?
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2005 11:53:43 am PDT #4832 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's their stuff. I find it shortsighted, but sane enough.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 11:54:59 am PDT #4833 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have to say, that does explain a LOT. Like why my Rome downloads have been taking so long. t /part of the problem
I just got off the phone with Apple, and dude, SO NICE to talk to a tech support person who actually LISTENS to me when I tell them everything I've tried, instead of cutting me off and going down the official list of things to say. He let me explain what I'd tried, said "Okay, well you've done everything we can suggest over the phone." And then we talked about taking it to the Apple Store vs just mailing it to the repair people. Quite possibly the most pleasant tech support call I've ever had.
Eddie - Oct 07, 2005 1:11:58 pm PDT #4834 of 10003
Your tag here.
What the heck is ASCII character 11 (vertical tab) typically used for?
ASCII porn.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2005 1:34:08 pm PDT #4835 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Somewhere, somehow I frelled my bluetooth modem connection between my Palm T5 and my Motorola V3. In order to fix this, I wanted to delete the phone/bluetooth device configs, and start from scratch.
Can't work out how! I've deleted it from the trusted device list, but that's not enough for me to be comfortable. I hate troubleshooting from mid-mess.
Any answers out there?
le nubian - Oct 07, 2005 2:58:42 pm PDT #4836 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Man. I wonder if HBO is going to do the same thing for "The Wire" and "Sopranos."
I might need to fire up my usenet account.
Gris - Oct 08, 2005 8:22:51 am PDT #4837 of 10003
Hey. New board.
keyboard has gone psycho. Apparently x and 5 are connected now - Typing either gives me "x5". Similarly m7 and 8w and when I press the spacebar it spaces 5 times and I can't type until it's done. Currently copy-and-pasting spaces.
It's a M&icrosoft Natural *Wireless Keyboard (hmm, the M& and *W are new discoveries). Any ideas on something I can do to correct it? Don't have a spare lying around.
P.S. Definitely the keyboard not the computer, does same plugged into laptop.
ETA: Hmm. It fixed itself. Yay!