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Rick Falkvinge and his "a bit slow full-duplex 100Mbit" Internet Connection

by linhat on 4/7/12, 10:27 AM with 60 comments

  • by hamidpalo on 4/7/12, 11:27 AM

    Avoiding the Microsoft tax, but bought a copy of Windows to run in a VM?

    Most universities have full-duplex 100Mbit+, and at those speeds it's not your connection that's the bottleneck, it's the latency of getting your request to the server and the server's available bandwidth. I imagine most routers are smart enough not to completely saturate the pipe with a single user's connection.

  • by munchor on 4/7/12, 11:41 AM

    "Unfortunately, GNU/Linux can still not match Windows in the development department."

    I just don't get that.

  • by dfc on 4/7/12, 11:27 AM

    I do not understand how these two quotes fit together logically:

    "For my primary workstation, I’m using a built-from-parts box optimized for silence with a couple of graphics cards. That also allows me to evade the Microsoft Tax"

    "Unfortunately, GNU/Linux can still not match Windows in the development department. I use an emulated Windows box with Visual Studio for that"

    I am not trolling for RMS's affection. I'm thinking my understanding of MS Tax is not accurate/up-to-date?

  • by rb2k_ on 4/7/12, 11:20 AM

    What does he actually do on those machines?

    I have no idea why somebody in the european parliament would want more than 8 GB of RAM. Apparently he runs Visual Studio inside a VM, but I'm not sure why he does a lot of software development.

  • by bravura on 4/7/12, 2:27 PM

    Ubuntu, a version of Linux, is used throughout as base operating system. ... some video production tools. (In the Pirate Party, we produce quite a bit of video.)

    What are good video production tools for Linux?

    [Aside: Strange how he slags Linux for development and uses Windows, but uses Linux for video production.]

  • by nextparadigms on 4/7/12, 12:24 PM

    In Europe 100 Mbit/s speeds are quite common and for pretty low prices.

  • by villagefool on 4/7/12, 11:27 AM

    You only have two eyes, so why so many screens? just flip desktops...

  • by pasbesoin on 4/7/12, 4:52 PM

    From a U.S. perspective, those servers on the balcony cause me qualms for multiple reasons.

  • by hackermom on 4/7/12, 11:18 AM

    When 100 mbit/s isn't fast enough you know it's time to get checked out for Download's Syndrome.