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I’m switching from RoadRunner to pigeon

Posted at September 23, 2007 8:17 pm | In Networking | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Internet, Networking, RoadRunner, Time Warner

…but it’s going to be slower than his current modem and there might be a lot of packet loss due to Hawks

Wrong. A 4GB Flash disk can easily be attached to a pigeon’s leg. If round trip time is even 30 min (1800 sec) between his home and the collection point, and only one pigeon is in flight at the time, you get 4GB = 32Gb =~ 32,000,000,000b. 32,000,000,000 bits / 1500 s = 17,777,777 bits / sec = 17 MBps. This is faster than FIOS!

Latency may be a problem as would be packet loss.

-b.

From Slashdot commenter b0s0z0ku.

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I hate Vi

Posted at 11:48 am | In Technology | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Annoyances, Outdated, Technology

Seriously, who actually likes to use Vi? Having to “switch modes” just to save a file is stupid. The whole system is annoying. nano/pico are much much better alternatives imo. I know Vi is supposedly more “powerful,” but really… I don’t care. All I want to do is add a line to my crontab. I don’t need it to cook me breakfast too. Plus trying to get it to cook me breakfast, if I did want it to, would probably take a lot longer than just doing so myself, as I’d probably have to switch between command and insert mode 50 times.

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