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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 connect

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.

kristofferR 15y ago
What made you think he bought Windows? He's the founder of The Pirate Party after all :P
- henrikschroder 15y ago
  1) He used to work for Microsoft. 2) He's got the money to pay for it. 3) It would be incredibly stupid of him to flagrantry violate copyright and commit a crime. Rick is many things, but stupid is not one of them.
  - Falkvinge 15y ago
    The VM is an old Windows XP that I bought (legitimately!) for $10 as a Microsoft employee. Perhaps it was $15. Thereabouts, anyway.
nanijoe 15y ago
Actually, most routers usually don't care who is sending how much traffic..
dlsym 15y ago
Using Linux as the primary OS is not every time about > Avoiding the Microsoft tax[...] For me, it is the multidesktop support and great terminal emulators (like terminator) which make linux a very good OS, supporting me to get things done. [edit: OK - Missed the line about this topic in the original text. coffee.]
- aerique 15y ago
  Isn't Terminator written in Java and cross-platform? ;-)
  - dlsym 15y ago
    Oh - I just found that there are two terminators :-) The one I mean is called gnome-terminator and is written in python: http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html https://launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator https://launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator
kalleboo 15y ago
It's on connections like this where Peer-to-Peer systems like BitTorrent really come into your own. While no one server will saturate your 100 Mbit connection, 50 peers on your same ISP surely will.
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kristofferR 15y ago

What made you think he bought Windows? He's the founder of The Pirate Party after all :P

henrikschroder 15y ago
1) He used to work for Microsoft. 2) He's got the money to pay for it. 3) It would be incredibly stupid of him to flagrantry violate copyright and commit a crime. Rick is many things, but stupid is not one of them.
- Falkvinge 15y ago
  The VM is an old Windows XP that I bought (legitimately!) for $10 as a Microsoft employee. Perhaps it was $15. Thereabouts, anyway.

nanijoe 15y ago

Actually, most routers usually don't care who is sending how much traffic..

dlsym 15y ago

Using Linux as the primary OS is not every time about > Avoiding the Microsoft tax[...] For me, it is the multidesktop support and great terminal emulators (like terminator) which make linux a very good OS, supporting me to get things done. [edit: OK - Missed the line about this topic in the original text. coffee.]

aerique 15y ago
Isn't Terminator written in Java and cross-platform? ;-)
- dlsym 15y ago
  Oh - I just found that there are two terminators :-) The one I mean is called gnome-terminator and is written in python: http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html https://launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator https://launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator

kalleboo 15y ago

It's on connections like this where Peer-to-Peer systems like BitTorrent really come into your own. While no one server will saturate your 100 Mbit connection, 50 peers on your same ISP surely will.

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