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Kupotek:
One thing I found  interesting about  UC Santa Cruz when I went to college there, all the  compy terminals were unix.

I guess they  didnt have any  big techsupport and figured it was easier to  secure then a Sindows box  

Refalm:

quote:Emiko: Hey, my brothers both live in Taipei! Where are you in Taiwan?
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TheQuirk lives in Texas and lived in Russia before... he never even been in Taiwan, he's a bit crazy for putting that in his sig.

Faust:
I see no reason why MS wouldn't be using up too much bandwidth Quirk, they use too much of everything else.  :rolleyes:  I remember the Australian Personal Computer magazine dudes saying something about overheads involved in keeping their wi-fi link up under Windows (something like 9 meg out of 300 just to keep the connection up.)  And have you ever looked in the status section of Zone Alarm or Kerio and observed just how fucking often scvhost / system / tcpsvcs etcetera send data?  I mean sure they necessary, but not when my cable is out of the network socket!  And why does messenger need to run in the background by default?
Emiko I wouldn't be too worried about being a girl in computing, my CS teacher is a girl and she works on big bad supercomputers. (Of which my uni has 5.) Come to think of it I know of two female comp lecturerers here and only one male.  :confused:
Oh and www.linuxchix.com may be interesting for you...

Faust:
Hmm that could be .org.  I've never actually been there so I have no idea.  I only know because my religous reading of how-to's lead me to a how-to written by like the head of that page or something.  Was interesting to find a how-to that was actually relevant to Real Life (tm).  (thats a joke for all of you that know that Real Life is Really computers.)

Anyways, another point:Who else has noticed how much CPU time downloading a file / networking uses? Windows can't handle full speed multiple d/ls without chugging up *badly*.  As an example try running a movie and then starting up d/ls on a high speed link - you won't get too many d/ls going before the movie starts chugging along.  Oh and this happens on my friends Windows PC's as well so it's not just me.
Note this will probably not work on a 56K.  I have a 100mbps internet link so I probably notice the effect of this more than anyone else.  Of course Linux has *much* less slowdown when running multiple fast d/ls.  How did I guess?  

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