Comcast just raised my rates. The increase is trivial, but far more
annoying is that the service is decreasing. Six months ago
speedtest.net reported a high of 3 MB/s. Now it is just over 2 MB/s.
The new rate is 55.59/month, which includes 11.49 for basic TV.
When I say 2 MB/s I mean megabytes
Check availability in your area for Verizon FiOS, which is Fiber Optic
Service.
Faster than cable (depending on the plan you choose) and wy faster than
DSL.
http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/aboutFiOS/Overview.htm?CMP=DMC-CVS_ZZ_ZZ_E_TV_N_X001
Yes there are options for DSL without landline
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:37 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote:
Comcast just raised my rates. The increase is trivial, but far more
annoying is that the service is decreasing. Six months ago
speedtest.net reported a high of 3 MB/s. Now it is just over 2 MB/s.
The new rate is
Sadly, the humble bundle deal is now over. Of the games that were part of it, I
highly recommend world of goo, lugaru and aquaria.
Fps-wise I like sauerbraten and nexuiz for some fast-paced shoot-em-ups.
- nathan
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On Tue, 18 May 2010 00:17:51 -0700
Matt McKenzie lnxkni...@gmail.com dijo:
Check availability in your area for Verizon FiOS, which is Fiber Optic
Service.
I'd sign up for FiOS in a heartbeat if it was available for my address.
Unfortunately I cannot sell my house and move just to get FiOS. I do
On 05/18/2010 04:33 AM, drew wymore wrote:
FWIW I'm paying 25 a month for 7Mbps DSL through Qwest.
Drew-
And, gosh darn Qwest, i'm still paying $28/mo for 1.5Mbps, while they
refuse to commit to a timeline for 7Mbps service to my home and refuse
to stop sending me the junk mail hawking
Hi all,
I have a Windows installation that I'd like to convert to a VirtualBox
VM so I can run it under Linux. This is possible under certain
circumstances, as described here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
I have tested the process by taking a dd image of the 80 GB drive and
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Scott Garman sgar...@zenlinux.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Windows installation that I'd like to convert to a VirtualBox
VM so I can run it under Linux. This is possible under certain
circumstances, as described here:
Dwight Hubbard wrote:
They also try to hide the fact that they don't offer any offerings with
upstream
rates faster than 0.8 Mb/s.
Point to the unhidden facts please. I would like to know.
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On Mon, 17 May 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Comcast just raised my rates. The increase is trivial, but far more
annoying is that the service is decreasing. Six months ago
speedtest.net reported a high of 3 MB/s. Now it is just over 2 MB/s.
The new rate is 55.59/month, which includes 11.49
On 5/18/2010 12:00 PM, plug-requ...@lists.pdxlinux.org wrote:
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 08:56:58 -0700
From: drew wymore drew.wym...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help with some partition trickery.
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic
On 05/18/2010 08:56 AM, drew wymore wrote:
Not tested but google seems to say this should work.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24864/virtualbox-from-an-existing-partition
Use vmware converter to convert the existing install into a vmware
instance, load said instance into Virtual Box
I'm working from memory but I think this works.
1) Create a linux VM (I would just use a live ISO image)
2) set your Windows dd image as hda
3) make a new virtual expanding drive the same size as your dd image and set
it as hdb
4) boot the VM and use dd to copy hda to hdb ( dd if=/dev/hda
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:54:21AM -0700, Mike Connors wrote:
When I say 2 MB/s I mean megabytes per second. That is, assuming the
server can feed me as fast as Comcast will let me download it, I can
download a full 700 MB Ubuntu live CD in about six minutes.
Googling around leads me
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:54:21AM -0700, Mike Connors wrote:
When I say 2 MB/s I mean megabytes per second. That is, assuming the
server can feed me as fast as Comcast will let me download it, I can
download
Scott Garman wrote:
Unfortunately the reason why I'm trying to
do this rather than doing a full install of WinXP myself is that I'm
trying to convert the WinXP image from my work laptop into a VM I can
run within Linux, and I don't have full admin privileges within Windows. :(
Does your work
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, alan a...@clueserver.org wrote:
Depending on where you live you may be able to get DSL/Fiber with faster
speeds. I have been told it is possible to get just DSL without land line,
but I think it depends on the carrier.
I'm using Qwest for two naked (or
On 05/18/2010 05:38 PM, m0gely wrote:
Scott Garman wrote:
Unfortunately the reason why I'm trying to
do this rather than doing a full install of WinXP myself is that I'm
trying to convert the WinXP image from my work laptop into a VM I can
run within Linux, and I don't have full admin
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