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From: zoara on 22 May 2010 19:39 Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > On 22/05/2010 10:01, T i m wrote: > > > Stats from my Fritz! router. Received this month: 107283MB > > > > VM Cable. ;-) > > > > And? > > That's nothing. Seems you've missed the point of this thread, which is that it's kind of astonishing that such a huge amount of data can be called "nothing". -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: T i m on 23 May 2010 03:56 On Sat, 22 May 2010 13:55:49 +0100, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >To get out of ADSL what you should get, it must be installed and >maintained under the supervision of competent engineers. > >I said `engineers', by which I mean someone with a degree and membership >of a professional engineering institution and professional >qualifications who takes his job seriously because it's a serious >business if he gets anything wrong. Oh, you probably mean 'A professional, licensed or certified engineer'? Unfortunately they aren't the sort that normally look after such things in the UK. From WiKi (FWIW but spot on as per my understanding of the use over here, irrespective of the literal use). "In the UK, the term "engineer" can be applied to non-degree vocations such as technologists, technicians, draftsmen, machinists, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, repair people, and semi-skilled occupations." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering Cheers, T i m
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 May 2010 08:42 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > > > Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On 22/05/2010 10:01, T i m wrote: > > > > > > > Stats from my Fritz! router. Received this month: 107283MB > > > > > > > > VM Cable. ;-) > > > > > > > > > > And? > > > > > > That's nothing. > > > > Whatever data rate you're getting, it's nothing compared to the data > > that flows out of CERN when the detectors are running. > > > > They throw away almost all of the measurements they make. > > > > The data rates they end up with after disposing of most of the measured > > data are staggering. > > > > I don't think any other organization works with such streams - I assume > > Google handles similar magnitude data flow looked at over the whole > > world, but CERN's stuff all just comes out of one lab. > > And by the time I'd left DANTE we'd organised around 15 or so 10Gbps > circuits from CERN to labs across Europe where a lot of the data will be > analysed. A year or two back, there was an article in Physics World about the computery stuff there were doing to support the LHC project. They've organized quite a /lot/ of bandwidth, haven't they? All over the world, too. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: James Jolley on 23 May 2010 10:47 On 2010-05-23 15:01:57 +0100, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) said: > > Is it that you're not happy unless your environment stinks throughout of > your droppings, or what? So wherever you go, you have to spray shite > around the place to make yourself feel at home? > Talking about yourself there Rowly McTrolly?
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 May 2010 11:06
Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In article <64biv5dq5pgg345htm056i1mq1j6roppcv(a)4ax.com>, > T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: [snip] > > So, the next time that happens to you and said 'engineer' turns up to > > fix your broken <whatever>, you make very sure you explain to him why > > he shouldn't be using such a title. Unless he fixes say washing > > machines when he's not designing skyscrapers or bridges etc. > > Do that and you'll mysteriously find you have another, more subtle, > fault. Much better make the bloke a cup of tea. Tim, T i m was just trying to get a rise out of me. I decided it wasn't the right thing to rise to that part of the bait. T i m's just doing his usual game of objecting to all my points by deliberately misrepresenting my points and raising invalid and rather silly objections for the sake of winding me up. It's his usual shitty behaviour - he's got an obsession with me, you see, he can't help himself. He needs help, does T i m. I bet he won't seek it - but you do need help, T i m, you're suffering from a morbid obsession here, and you need to get it sorted out for your sake. See your doctor, you need access to a mental health professional to help you understand and deal with your mental health problems. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |