En mi pobreza, y teniendo que respaldar 130 GB de datos, no puedo comprarme aún otro disco duro para hacer el respaldo (y cualquiera que sugiera que me compre DVDs para respaldar 130 GB de datos queda cordialmente invitado a hacer de cambiadiscos en mi casa por todo un día).
¿Qué toca?
No, no es en sentido irónico.
Yo, que tenía 64 Kb/s de ancho de banda, hoy tengo 200 Kb/s, ¡por el mismo precio! He recibido reportes de amigos con 128, que ahora tienen 400.
Es de notar que, en mi caso particular, he decidido desperdiciar 10 Kb/s y mantener el tráfico firmemente debajo de 190 Kb/s mediante Wonder Shaper, para mantener la velocidad de respuesta interactiva simultáneamente con grandes descargas de archivos.
¡Felicitaciones a SatNet! Así, mantendrán la fidelidad de los clientes al máximo.
Ah, cierto: si las descargas de BitTorrent van lento para Uds., puede ser que SatNet esté haciendo traffic shaping de BitTorrent. Consíganse un cliente BitTorrent que acepte conexiones cifradas, y su problema estará resuelto.
Yesterday, I started to use smart on andrea, my home computer, immediately after I got my cable modem (64kbits, which make the quotes in “broad” band sensible). By the way, I’m paying $50/mo. for this setup.
Sigh. Smart told me it has to download over 900MB of RPM packages to update my system. I’m on day 2, and it still hasn’t finished.
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Here’s a new, nice screenshot of my computer. I’m using GNOME 2.10 on Fedora Core 4. This is my desktop:
For those of you who probably don’t know yet, I don’t watch live TV anymore. I just record TV shows on my computer, which then removes commercial breaks and lets me watch them at any time I choose. The marvelous piece of software I’m using for that purpose is MythTV: a personal video recorder which captures the TV shows, compresses them, and lets me program shows to record like a VCR.
Well, I just found out that MythTV is even more useful - beyond my wildest dreams. How? Simple, I always record Dawson’s creek reruns and watch them in the afternoon, when I have some leisure time. But sometimes that leisure time won’t be long enough to watch an entire episode…
…and that’s where MythTV’s playback speed function comes to the rescue. I’ve been watching the last week’s Dawson creek reruns at 1.3X the original speed. No chipmunk voices, no jerkiness in the video, just plain Dawson creek, but way more action-packed! After 1 minute of watching TV like that, the pace of the show feels completely normal again. Plus, no commercial breaks, so I get to watch every episode in about 25-30 minutes, and follow the story without interruptions.
The only thing I regret is, at that speed, the ballads from Dawson’s creek sound like country music and acoustic punk.