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by jsz0 12y ago
Over the last 5 years the cable industry has mostly completed their own analog-to-digital transition and now have a decent amount of spectrum to throw at faster data speeds.
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by jsz0 12y ago
The cable industry has been working on ramping up speeds for the last decade starting with DOCSIS 3 to compete with Verizon FIOS. The development of DOCSIS 3.1 for gigabit speeds over cable actually started before Google Fiber existed. It s
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by jsz0 12y ago
Quality is important but it's also important to move the platform forward. This flickering menubar issue sounds like an issue maybe related to the changes with multi-monitor support and/or the changes made to improve UI performanc
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by jsz0 12y ago
Most of the articles I've read on Apple software quality seem like larger industry wide issues to me. For example with the iTunes issue mentioned in this article this is a problem that every metadata / library based media player h
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by jsz0 12y ago
> Guess you havn't had a hanging Safari or Chrome tab take down the entire OS. According to the contents of my ~/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter logs my last Safari crash was August 3rd 2014 which IIRC would
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by jsz0 12y ago
There are ways to change system fonts but it's a similar situation to Windows where your font choices may not fit properly in some spots and some apps may set their own fonts and override your choice. Otherwise it's up to apps to
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by jsz0 12y ago
This shows the tricky position Apple is in. They are a progressive minded company with a user base that has grown to also include many traditional / conservative users who don't like change and maybe have little or no interest in
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by jsz0 12y ago
Not many details on this yet but there shouldn't be any major drawbacks since third party kexts can still be used to support legacy / multi-platform VMs or supplement Hypervisor.kext in other ways. I doubt Apple would have bothere
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by jsz0 12y ago
It's a big jump in pixel count but a 2X increase in bandwidth can be brute forced / tweaked out of existing technology similar to DL DVI or DP MST. IMO that doesn't diminish it at all because lots of technical problems have s
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by jsz0 12y ago
Perfectly reasonable speculation/opinions but there's no technical details available of the internals of Dell's upcoming display that uses the same|similar panel or the iMac Retina at this point. You might be getting down vot
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by jsz0 12y ago
It's very impressive Apple made the effort to do this now instead of waiting for 'off the shelf' parts but the technology behind this is probably nothing to write home about. The biggest limitation of display bandwidth is cur
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by jsz0 12y ago
That's not always the case though. Sometimes rack space is more valuable to ISPs than improving bandwidth efficiency via CDN co-location deals. It really depends how much space you've got to spare and who else wants it.
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It may very well be in their best interest to give NetFlix free co-location space but because of the PR battle this has become kind of a proxy war for bigger issues. ISPs have a legitimate concern now that if NetFlix 'wins' the PR
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by jsz0 12y ago
That is the big danger of municipal broadband. The town I live in frequently votes down budgets that only increase spending on education by just a few hundred thousand dollars. Anyone who thinks those same folks will be voting spend more to
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by jsz0 12y ago
Comcast and other major cable MSOs play a major role in the development of the DOCSIS spec. Over the next 18-24 months as DOCSIS 3.1 deployments kick up we're going to start seeing the most dramatic increase for residential broadband s
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by jsz0 12y ago
> looks like Windows Metro? Superficially yes but it's really just a new coat of paint on top of a slightly revised UI. My eyes instantly glaze over looking at these screenshots because we have this boring font combined with a bori
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by jsz0 12y ago
> This is exactly what the end of net neutrality looks like Probably yeah. We can party thank the ignorant mob mentality of the Internet for it. Over the last year or so we've heard nothing but gloom and doom about how terrible the
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by jsz0 12y ago
Broadcasting the secondary SSID by itself has no significant impact but there is a wireless performance penalty to having lots of nearby devices connecting (by default) to open networks especially on single radio/band devices. If I liv
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by jsz0 12y ago
This is a very legitimate concern. I doubt Comcast or any other ISP using these community wifi services are really prepared to deal with this problem. Any Comcast customer who runs into problems with DMCA / legal issues (via IP) will h
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by jsz0 12y ago
All cable modems (customer owned or ISP owned) are configured by the ISP. The main reason to buy your own modem is to save money by avoiding rental/lease charges from your ISP.
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by jsz0 12y ago
ISP managed gateways provide visibility to the ARP table via SNMP or TR-69.
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The router simply maps different networks to different SSIDs: SSID customer-net = VLAN1, nat VLAN1 192.168.1.0/24 to WAN-IP1 SSID public-net = VLAN2, nat VLAN2 192.168.2.0/24 to WAN-IP2
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by jsz0 12y ago
Cable modems can be configured to support multiple service flows with different classes of service. The users of the public hotspot network have a unique IP and separate service flows provisioning additional bandwidth to the modem. Presumab
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by jsz0 12y ago
> The ISP isn't upgrading their peering links unless they get paid to do so. At the same time NetFlix doesn't want to pay to expand their CDN capacity/diversity. Their motivations are exactly the same as ISPs -- cut costs
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> This is quite literally a "have a cake and eat it too" type of situation. How is NetFlix any different? They make the choice to lower the cost to deliver their service by choosing a CDN with inadequate existing peering relati
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by jsz0 12y ago
The architecture of the Internet can only offer a 'best effort' class of service so it's impossible for ISPs to guarantee speeds. At best they can offer an SLA to give the customer concessions (free/discounted service) i
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by jsz0 12y ago
Most people would read this article and be left with the impression that man made strains of influenza escaping from a lab are a greater risk than the natural processes that allow influenza to mutate so effectively in the wild. Hard to see
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It would be crazy not to. We understand the potential for influenza to mutate rapidly and since there's no reason to believe the Spanish Flu was anything other than the result of this natural storm of mutations so we can conclude soone
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> ISPs can't hide behind their lies. NetFlix isn't exactly being honest here either. They could easily delay the start of video playback to allow for more caching on congested networks to offer their customers a better experien
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by jsz0 12y ago
HFS+ is old an ugly but in practical terms it's good enough. Obviously you cannot rely on any single file system no matter how many mirror/parity disks you throw at it. You need at least one local backup on an independent file sys

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