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So I have a new IP address.

So if I don't put that new IP address in my NAT rules, NAT basically doesn't work.

Which will slow BitTorrent down a lot. (In fact, I'm rather surprised it worked as well as it did.)

And means that my mail, web and SSH servers running on my home box are now secured very effectively indeed - in that it is impossible to get to them at all.

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After reconfiguring my router** I came to the conclusion: Maybe not.

Oh well. I went off and read Mary Gentle's Ancient Light instead. (This is the sequel to Golden Witchbreed.)

But now: Success! Yay! It works it works!

Let's find something to download... Sailor Moon Live episode 21? Sounds good. Hmm... 40k per second is nothing special. Oh, 50k per second. Which is about as fast as I ever got on my old DSL.*** Now, if I download Jubei Chan as well... 70k on that, 40k on Sailor Moon. Not amazing, but I expect I'll survive.

Since I can leave that running all day... Which would work out to about 300GB a month. Whee!

* Hahahahaha!

** Err... Entering the new username and password.

*** My old connection was 512k symmetric; my new connection is 1536k down, 256k up.

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That's 37 Australian degrees, which is equivalent to about 99 American degrees.

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Free widescreen high definition anime!

The show is Misaki Chronicle - Divergence Eve, which I've never heard of before, but what's important is that it's at 1024x576.

(Which doesn't correspond to any known HDTV standard, but at least has the right aspect ratio, 16:9.)

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(This is still my old ISP - I cut over to the new one this Wednesday. Pity I didn't do it sooner...)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:38 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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It was a 20 megabyte hard disk thingy, but because of a peculiar design flaw, it was divided into two 10 megabyte partitions. You see, PCs back then couldn't deal with hard disk thingies bigger than 16 megabytes.

After a bit, the engineers realised that it didn't make much sense that the smallest hard disks available were bigger than an standard PC could recognise, so they boosted the size limit up to 512 megabytes. And for a few years, everyone was happy.

Then drives started showing up that were bigger than 512 megabytes! Who could have imagined that this might happen? So people wrote little hacky patches you could load on your system to cope with those huge drives. (I had a 720 meg drive on my Commodore PC, a 486SLC-25.)

And everyone was happy until, one day, someone brought out a drive that was bigger than 2GB. Because, you see, neither DOS nor Windows could cope with a drive that large. A 2 gigabyte drive! Who could have imagined that this might happen? So everyone went out and upgraded their operating systems at great expense to cope with this unprecedented event.

At 8 gigabytes, many systems no longer recognised IDE drives.

At 32 gigabytes, Windows' FAT filesystem hit the wall.

At 128 gigabytes, IDE LBA addressing ran out of room.

I just bought a 200 gigabyte SATA disk drive thingy, so that I could finally set up my Windows box the way I had originally planned. (The original 200 gigabyte SATA disk drive thingy I bought ended up in my Linux server for reasons too complicated and painful to bring up right now.)

And: My motherboard (less than six months old) says it's a 128 gig drive. Windows XP agrees.

After all, who could ever imagine that DISK DRIVES MIGHT CONTINE GROWING THE WAY THEY HAVE EVER SINCE IBM INVENTED THE FLAMING THINGS IN NINETEEN FIFTY-BLOODY-SIX?!

Apparently Service Pack 1 fixes this problem. Which is really helpful when you are trying to install onto the drive.

* For PCs, anyway.

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To put it another way: As your total visitor count increases, so does the proportion of those visitors who are trolls or fools or worse. That's why Instapundit doesn't have comments.

To put it yet another way: Success is its own punishment.

Corollary: You don't get hate mail if no-one reads your blog.

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If you haven't watched any anime since Astro Boy or perhaps Speed Racer, keep an eye out for Azumanga Daioh, which should be hitting the stores soon. You won't regret it.

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