These guys do 4MB/s broadband...
BT can die die die!
Wednesday, 30 April 2003
Nifty app - Netlimiter [lurks]
Nifty thing I found, Netlimiter (site wasn't responding when I wrote this blog) runs on all flavors of Windows and allows you to choke individual net process bandwidth up/down. While Bittorrent, see blog 339, allows choking of outbound bandwidth - it opens up several sockets to download so it's quite capable of seriously choking your Internet connection on the downstream too. Netlimiter can help and according to my tests so far, does help.
Of course, the ace thing is that you can choke DC++ which we couldn't do at all before. It seems to be trialware at the moment, it doesn't seem to use up too much memory and is fairly unobtrusive in the task tray so I reckon it's definitely worth a look. The manual is worth a look too because the Czech authors have an amusingly netlimited grasp of English too :)
Since the web site is b0rked, I've slapped the installer up on ED.com. Just remember, when the revolution comes, vote Lurks for King.
Of course, the ace thing is that you can choke DC++ which we couldn't do at all before. It seems to be trialware at the moment, it doesn't seem to use up too much memory and is fairly unobtrusive in the task tray so I reckon it's definitely worth a look. The manual is worth a look too because the Czech authors have an amusingly netlimited grasp of English too :)
Since the web site is b0rked, I've slapped the installer up on ED.com. Just remember, when the revolution comes, vote Lurks for King.
Tuesday, 29 April 2003
BT in being Evil shocker [lurks]
BT is Evil. We all know this. No other country in the world with similar technological demographics and demand for Internet access has seen broadband rollout so incumbered as that which our favorite monopoly has managed in the UK. Even if they have a fraction of the population density and high-tech industry. Yet for all that, most of us have broadband now. Either via BT's DSL offerings or cable modems, so we've not had cause to direct napalm and bile in BT's direction for some time.
Today that changed. You see we still have a few folks who don't have broadband. One doesn't really care (Spiny) and one has set up a campaign (Houmous) to get BT to ADSL-enable his exchange. These chaps are in the significant numbers within the UK that are not serviced by broadband and so may have rightly pinned some hopes on BT's new 'midband' package which will have a 97% UK population coverage being as it's based on ISDN technology.
There had been a lot of speculation on this midband package. The midband term coming from the belief it was a 128k service, always on, based on ISDN. Sure it's not going to be much good for leeching CumFiesta-KateAndKim.mpg on a regular basis but it's a big step up from regular dial-up and ISDN right? Even if it wasn't going to be always-on, there was talk of having always-on e-mail via the ISDN d-channel.
I saw today on the register that they have the seen the documents detailing what the BT midband package is actually going to be. Let me summarise it for you;
You can't make this shit up. They're charging between £5 to £10 more than BT's ADSL offerings. What does that buy you? Well it buys you a crappy 64K dial-up ISDN connection which you can't use for more than 5 hours a day on average. You'll get thrown off every 2 hours which will please gamers no end. This, ladies and gentlemen, is basically BT bundling ISDN with a flat-rate ISP service and nothing more. No concessions, no improved service, no serious attempt at improving Internet access for those out of range of ADSL.
It's a farce. It's an insult. It proves once and for all that BT have absolutely no inclination to drive forward broadband in this country unless it can be absolutely positively proven that they will make money out of it today. These are the same pricks that piss away billions on loss-making 3G ventures. I really thought that BT were improving, I thought they were showing signs of behaving just a little bit more like a progressive multi-billion pound telecommunications operator in the new millennium. How fucking naive of me.
Of course just as much blame should be dumped squarely at the foot of our Luddite government which has let this country lounge as a second class Internet backwater through the lack of subsidies or incentives. Instead they'd rather concern themselves with the Evil things Carol Vorderman says people get up to on the Internet and craft daft uninformed legislation such as the RIP act.
Death to BT and death to the Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and utterly incompetent 'e-Minister'.
Today that changed. You see we still have a few folks who don't have broadband. One doesn't really care (Spiny) and one has set up a campaign (Houmous) to get BT to ADSL-enable his exchange. These chaps are in the significant numbers within the UK that are not serviced by broadband and so may have rightly pinned some hopes on BT's new 'midband' package which will have a 97% UK population coverage being as it's based on ISDN technology.
There had been a lot of speculation on this midband package. The midband term coming from the belief it was a 128k service, always on, based on ISDN. Sure it's not going to be much good for leeching CumFiesta-KateAndKim.mpg on a regular basis but it's a big step up from regular dial-up and ISDN right? Even if it wasn't going to be always-on, there was talk of having always-on e-mail via the ISDN d-channel.
I saw today on the register that they have the seen the documents detailing what the BT midband package is actually going to be. Let me summarise it for you;
- Costs £35 a month.
- Service limited to 150 hours a month.
- 64K dial-up, 128k uses 2X inclusive hours.
- 2 hour session limit (requires reconnect)
- Usage over 150 hours charged per hour.
- No always-on e-mail system.
You can't make this shit up. They're charging between £5 to £10 more than BT's ADSL offerings. What does that buy you? Well it buys you a crappy 64K dial-up ISDN connection which you can't use for more than 5 hours a day on average. You'll get thrown off every 2 hours which will please gamers no end. This, ladies and gentlemen, is basically BT bundling ISDN with a flat-rate ISP service and nothing more. No concessions, no improved service, no serious attempt at improving Internet access for those out of range of ADSL.
It's a farce. It's an insult. It proves once and for all that BT have absolutely no inclination to drive forward broadband in this country unless it can be absolutely positively proven that they will make money out of it today. These are the same pricks that piss away billions on loss-making 3G ventures. I really thought that BT were improving, I thought they were showing signs of behaving just a little bit more like a progressive multi-billion pound telecommunications operator in the new millennium. How fucking naive of me.
Of course just as much blame should be dumped squarely at the foot of our Luddite government which has let this country lounge as a second class Internet backwater through the lack of subsidies or incentives. Instead they'd rather concern themselves with the Evil things Carol Vorderman says people get up to on the Internet and craft daft uninformed legislation such as the RIP act.
Death to BT and death to the Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and utterly incompetent 'e-Minister'.
Map pack for Raven Shield released! [lurks]
Wooo! New maps! New maps for Raven Shield! Raven Shield Platoon had a competition for maps and these are the winners and damn good they are too. Of course, none of them support terrorist hunt so it's off to PvP we go! Slim and I had a kick around on them and golly gosh, they sure are sweet!
So for a limited time only, I've taken the password off the server and we're playing team survival on these maps. Of course, you're going to need the map pack which you can get from Fileplanet (bleugh!) on that link or you can grab it from this server. It's 50MB and it rocks!
Server settings clearly wont be optimal for PvP so let me know what needs to be changed. We can remove weapons and things but I'm unsure if that will be necessary. Seems that your armour is up in PvP, it took two Barrett .50 cal hits to kill (!) but headshots still seem instantaneous so it's pretty much like CS in that respect.
There's fears the game is campy and snipey but with the thermal scopes and the heartbeat sensors, I'm not sure how much of a problem it is to being a good game or not. One way to find out, saddle up bitches and come get some!
As usual, IPs for RS server and TS server are in the topic of #eed.
So for a limited time only, I've taken the password off the server and we're playing team survival on these maps. Of course, you're going to need the map pack which you can get from Fileplanet (bleugh!) on that link or you can grab it from this server. It's 50MB and it rocks!
Server settings clearly wont be optimal for PvP so let me know what needs to be changed. We can remove weapons and things but I'm unsure if that will be necessary. Seems that your armour is up in PvP, it took two Barrett .50 cal hits to kill (!) but headshots still seem instantaneous so it's pretty much like CS in that respect.
There's fears the game is campy and snipey but with the thermal scopes and the heartbeat sensors, I'm not sure how much of a problem it is to being a good game or not. One way to find out, saddle up bitches and come get some!
As usual, IPs for RS server and TS server are in the topic of #eed.
Monday, 28 April 2003
I need new heaphones! [brit]
I'm on a quest; an audio crusade, with yours truly taking the part of King Richard, my armies ready to crush the Dixonian hordes who dare tout themselves as being the home of the one true god (Currys are worse, in fairness).
The problem is this, a few weeks ago during one of my daily trips on the tube, a fat lady who shall remain nameless (because I don't know her name) walked past me in a great hurry; and in doing so, ripped my earphone lead in half - my iPOD hasn't been used since.
But what to get to replace them? I wasn't terribly happy with the phones anyway (some uber in-your-ear Sony job, which are right finniky to actually use) and Dixons (evil evil people) in Paddington station only do £4.99 Matsui headphones; the kind that have the bass response of a tin of Castrol.
They've got to be in-your-ear, and have good bass and treble obviously - not looking to spend more than £30.00 on them, but I have GOT to get my morning dose of Coldplay back on track, or I'm going to go stir fry crazy.
Suggestions? eh? whattyda think audio clan wiz0rds? :)
The problem is this, a few weeks ago during one of my daily trips on the tube, a fat lady who shall remain nameless (because I don't know her name) walked past me in a great hurry; and in doing so, ripped my earphone lead in half - my iPOD hasn't been used since.
But what to get to replace them? I wasn't terribly happy with the phones anyway (some uber in-your-ear Sony job, which are right finniky to actually use) and Dixons (evil evil people) in Paddington station only do £4.99 Matsui headphones; the kind that have the bass response of a tin of Castrol.
They've got to be in-your-ear, and have good bass and treble obviously - not looking to spend more than £30.00 on them, but I have GOT to get my morning dose of Coldplay back on track, or I'm going to go stir fry crazy.
Suggestions? eh? whattyda think audio clan wiz0rds? :)
Friday, 25 April 2003
Ask a Stupid Question [spiro]
Came across a story in the Metro this morning all about Madonna's new album. She's planned an nasty trick for people who will down load it.
Instead of American Life, MP3 networks have been flooded with fake tracks. They contain no music, just Madonna demanding 'WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?'. The fakes have been made to look like full length tracks so you can't ell until you play it for the first time.
I thought this was quite funny till I read on. It looks like all she's managed to do is stir up a hornets nest. An Unknown Assailant hack her official site and posted the real MP3's of all 11 tracks and then replaced the home page with a message saying 'THIS IS WHAT THE FUCK I THINK I'M DOING'. The site was down for 15 hours being restored.
owned!
Instead of American Life, MP3 networks have been flooded with fake tracks. They contain no music, just Madonna demanding 'WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?'. The fakes have been made to look like full length tracks so you can't ell until you play it for the first time.
I thought this was quite funny till I read on. It looks like all she's managed to do is stir up a hornets nest. An Unknown Assailant hack her official site and posted the real MP3's of all 11 tracks and then replaced the home page with a message saying 'THIS IS WHAT THE FUCK I THINK I'M DOING'. The site was down for 15 hours being restored.
owned!
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