What makes you a geek

[12Stones]

Trogdor burninates the geeks.

[Darwin]

You mean that gay G4 malarkey now?  Turn off the damn tv, please.  They have ruined that station!


Click here to hear a Revenge of the Screen Savers, you know, when the channel was actually good to watch:
http://leoville.tv.nyud.net:8090/tlr/TLR20050417.mp3

I guess these statements make me a geek...


Oh, and my girlfriend got me a trogdor shirt...  I wear it around every now and then.  More geekiness.

[villman420]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html

[Aphex]

You mean that g** G4 **** now?  Turn off the damn tv, please.  They have ruined that station!


Click here to hear a Revenge of the Screen Savers, you know, when the channel was actually good to watch:
http://leoville.tv.nyud.net:8090/tlr/TLR20050417.mp3

I guess these statements make me a geek...


Oh, and my girlfriend got me a trogdor shirt...  I wear it around every now and then.  More geekiness.

well i dont have techtv here. but when i lived in oklahoma it was still tech tv and not g4.  when i lived in texas g4 was its own chanel and it was alright. but yeah screen savers was my favorite tv show ever. i still go on their website....god i suck


and yeah i played the trogdor game today!!

TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIGHT!!!!

[Darwin]

On a college visit last night, I walked around campus with my laptop during a light drizzle and 45*F weather (IN PRACTICALLY MAY) in search for a wifi connection one of the students might have.  Didnt find any.

When I got to the dorm, I was distraught to find that students are not allowed to have their own 802.11 routers because of "interference".  Yeah right.  Its so that students can't use cisco routers to get around restrictions.

[DeathAdder]

lol, whats stopping someone from still installing one, you can tell the router not to broadcast its signal. That way no one can find it unless you know the network name and key ^_^. BUT, if the college monitors its IP's than ya its easily detectable :p

By the way, does anyone know how to bypass bandwidth on a cable internet connection at my house? I'm capped out at 15k/s... C'mon they claim to have a better connection than 56k.... BS 15k is like.... 41k less >_< I'm using a Linksys WRT54G wireless braodband router for my laptop...

[GStricto]

You very well could have speeds running what cable should but if you use wireless, it will only go as fast as the wireless signal allows.  For example, I should be connecting at speeds of 1GB per second with this wireless connection but my DSL tops at 150kb/s.  It's the same idea in reverse.  I.E. One may be large enough for more but it throttles to the lower bandwidth.

[Particle]

heh, yeah right

the fastest wireless currently tops out at an advertised 108Mb (bits, not bytes) per second and realistically achieves about 40Mbps or even less if you use security ala WEP, which is 5MBps

[GStricto]

heh, yeah right

:cry:

[Lidge Farkley]

I agree with Particle as it has been my interpereted experience of friends as well as through research on the internet:
Link to fastest wifi I could find

Aside from that, it is not realistically possible to send 400MB per second over any wifi connection that a consumer can purchase.


Advertisers are not the brightest in the field and will easily slap a capital "B" on something with out thinking twice about it, thus making it seem like the connection is better than it really is... and i will illustrate this:

General info for whoever is interested:
b = bit = 1 bit link
B = Byte = 8 bits
K = Kilo = 1024
M = Mega = 1024 Kb

Justification:
8 Mb = 1b x 1024K x 1024M = 1048576 bits
8 MB = 8b (which is 1B) x 1024K x 1024M = 8388608 bits

The difference in connection speed is:  
8388608b - 1048576b = 7340032b

In other words:
1 Mb is 1/8 the speed of 1 MB.

So the router with a maximum wifi transfer of 108Mb only has a MB transfer maximum of: 13.5MB
13.5 MB = (13824B /1024M)
Which is reduced from:
13824 KiloBytes = (1415576B / 1024K)
Which is reduced from:
14155776 Bytes = (113246208b / 8b)
Which is reduced from:
113246208 bits = (108b x 1024K x 1024M)

Mathematically there is no possible way to achieve 400MB over wifi available to consumers... and on top of that, there is no firmware (open source or proprietary) that supports speeds that fast either.

[GStricto]

I completely agree with all of that, I guess it was some junk like when you start downloading at 500KB/s and it falls back to the expected 150KB/s or maybe I misread what was displaying, either way, it didn't sound *that* realistic to me.

[Darwin]

15k/s on a cable internet connection?  You should place a call to your provider immediately, somethin aint right.

[Particle]

heh, yeah right

:cry:

Yeah, it's wrong.  The fastest link available is gigabit which tops at a theoretical of 125MB/s and realistically sees 60MB/s.  Your hard drives can't write at 400MB/s either...and even if it just buffered to your RAM until written, that would fill up in 1-5 seconds even with the HDD writing.  Unless you've got 2.2Gbps fiber or experimental 10Gbps fiber links going, of which only the latter could provide 400MBps.  Despite the fact that your HDD couldn't keep up even if it was a SATA RAID-0 for one minute of that, that would be a hair under 23.5GB of data moved in that first minute.  To top it off, you were using wireless.  Even 108Mbps wireless only achieves a very small fraction of its rating...meaning 10MBps is out of the question, especially if you use WEP or any other data encryption (as you ARE using, right).  So, unless you're transferring from one six drive SATA PCI-E RAID-0 to another over 10Gbps fiber, yeah--the report was wrong.

[GStricto]

Darwin - 150 kilobytes per second is 1.5 megabits per second download.

Particle - Yes, all of your math works out correctly, I was obviously mistaken.  And no, I'm not using encryption...  To get on the internet I steal it from my neighbor.  My other computer is hooked up to DSL.

[Darwin]

By the way, does anyone know how to bypass bandwidth on a cable internet connection at my house? I'm capped out at 15k/s... C'mon they claim to have a better connection than 56k.... BS 15k is like.... 41k less >_< I'm using a Linksys WRT54G wireless braodband router for my laptop...

Darwin - 150 kilobytes per second is 1.5 megabits per second download.

Particle - Yes, all of your math works out correctly, I was obviously mistaken.  And no, I'm not using encryption...  To get on the internet I steal it from my neighbor.  My other computer is hooked up to DSL.

I already know that.  It was a reply to deathadders post.  DeathAdder is getting 15k/s according to him, so thats 1.875 KB/s, which nobody should be getting from any cable broadband service.  Nor dialup by today's standards.