What is that?
It's a duck pond.
Why aren't there any ducks?
I don't know. There's never any ducks.
Then how do you know it's a duck pond?
Saturday, May 06
Whee!
I did some more tweaking on my ADSL modem, and I'm now getting 18808kbps downstream and 1023kbps upstream.
But that's not the good part. The good part is I'm downloading anime* on Bittorrent** right now at 1.2Mbytes per second.
...
Was downloading anime. It finished while I was typing this post. Zzzzzip!
* The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
** Actually Azureus.
Update: Dropped out, and reconnected at 18999. A new Pixy speed record!
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Fixed! mu.nu, that is. Not much I can do about your modem, I'm afraid.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 06 2006 08:43 PM (Yen+c)
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I think there's something about
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya... I got 7 kbps when I was d/l'g it earlier.
Sure, that might not SOUND like much, particularly when compared to your godlike speeds, but considering that I'm using dialup, and that it's 2 kbps faster than the best sustained speed I've ever gotten, I'll take it.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, May 06 2006 11:27 PM (+FLIL)
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I think it's the sheer number of people DL'ing it. That is one popular show.
Gee, I wonder why? ;-)
Posted by: ubu roi at Sunday, May 07 2006 12:04 PM (/cvqF)
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One thing I've noticed is that torrents tend to be
much better seeded than, say, a year ago. So when you come to download a show like this, instead of finding 20 seeds and 100 downloaders, you'l have 500 seeds and 100 downloaders. Which makes a hell of a difference.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, May 07 2006 01:57 PM (J+j5x)
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Ubu Roi, I'm afraid I can't tell you why it's popular... I haven't seen it yet. I'm keeping up with the d/l's, but I haven't had a chance to watch, other than the first five minutes of the first episode, which I am PRAYING is something like a student-made 'film within a film.'
Because if it isn't, there's something wrong with anime fans worldwide.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, May 08 2006 01:26 AM (zBXYv)
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the first five minutes of the first episode, which I am PRAYING is something like a student-made 'film within a film.'
Not sayin' nothin'. :)
Because if it isn't, there's something wrong with anime fans worldwide.
Well, that's a given.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, May 08 2006 02:14 AM (J+j5x)
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Scarlet Pumpernickels
Anyone know where I can get a bunch of mini-ITX boards with two ethernet ports and two firewire ports?
Also, OC-3 PCI cards.
Also, cheap network-controlled power switches. Or PCI system management cards that work in standard motherboards. (HP have a nice one, but it seems to work in their servers only.)
Also, an ATX desktop case with at least 4 3.5" drive bays that's no more than six inches high. (Okay, that one was easy.)
Oh, and a micro-ATX motherboard with dual gigabit lan, four PCI slots, SATA, and compact flash. (No problem.)
Yes, I'm doing something weird.
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Pixy - are you doing a Maguiver or something!?!
Richard Dean Anderson eat your heart out!
Did you get my email the other day btw?
Posted by: Tilesey at Saturday, May 06 2006 04:26 AM (eyEGU)
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I don't remember seeing an email from you recently, but I might have missed it. I'll check this weekend.
As for the MacGyver thing, yeah, pretty much. I've been tasked with taking over the worldwide internet and telephony market and given a budget of three pounds five shillings and eleven pence ha'penny.
It's a tough assignment.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 06 2006 04:35 AM (FRalS)
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Especially in a country where the official currency is the "dollar".
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, May 06 2006 08:18 PM (+rSRq)
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So, do you think there might be something about this three pound note they gave me?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 11 2006 09:19 AM (xN2lN)
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