Journal Ashtead's Journal: Fiber in the house! 1
Finally, they managed to get a working fiber in here. The first one they pulled was no good, so the fiber-installing people had to come an put in a new one.
Then it was a matter of minutes before "We get signal!"
First thing I had to try was to download the Fedora 8 DVD ISO, just to see how fast it would be. This took some 20-odd minutes for 2.4 GB. I'm wondering if I got the whole thing, as that ISO is exactly 0x7FFFFFFF bytes long, which I've seen as having been a file-size limit on some 32-bit systems.... (such as the Western Digital Worldbooks) Since it is a DVD I'd think it is rather unlikely that it will have exactly this size. And I've checked that the file system on the machine I'm downloading to can handle bigger files, which it does, so any limitation is elsewhere.
But the fiber goodness is there: 10 Mbits/s in and 3 Mbits/s out, and there is a public IP-address assigned through a transparent modem, so there is the ability to run servers. Which will be of the "show the temperature here" variety at first.
Now that I have two different Internet connections here, there is the matter of having to loop around outside just so as to be able to access the fairly noisy machine sitting behind my back apart from USB-stick-net (the modern descendant of the floppy-net concept from the 1980s and 1990s) but eventually I'll be moving everything over to the fiber.
In other news, I've been doing a lot of moderation recently, getting the points 10 at a time instead of 5, but I've also noticed that a lot of Anonymous Coward posts show up at -1 now, even if their contents actually are at the very least Interesting, and even positively Insightful, even when they're not Informative. Looks like there is some new settings in slashcode: I modded one of these as Interesting, and looking at it now, it started off at -1, then it is 50% interesting and 50% informative with an up-rating of +1 for a total of 0. No idea where that Informative came from though, though this post is deserving of that as well; had I seen it as Informative in meta-mod, that I would consider Fair.
I hope there is not too much mixing up here, I'd hate to mod something Insightful and have it come up 50% Insightful and 50% Troll, although I have seen comments where that might be an appropriate combination... Still, this would be no big deal, as long as the direction on moderations agree, Insightful/Informative/Interesting, and Troll/Flamebait at least, where the specific choice is somewhat open as per the "don't sweat the small stuff" of the FAQ.
Launch every mod-point... (Score:2)
-MT.