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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Vertigo1 on June 06, 2002, 03:51:38 pm

Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Vertigo1 on June 06, 2002, 03:51:38 pm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/761972.asp?0pu=70&cp1=1

Now if I had enough money to do that.....
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: wEvil on June 06, 2002, 04:17:04 pm
Its illegal to do that in the UK, actually.

Heil Blair. [size=0].....you wet lettuce[/size]
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Shrike on June 06, 2002, 04:22:23 pm
Cool. :)
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: beatspete on June 06, 2002, 04:28:42 pm
my own ISP - :wtf:
Theres nothing wrong with freeserve.... except it pauses for a few minutes every so often, does anyone else get that, or is it just for ISDN?

Wish i had broadband, the UK is still in the relative caveman era of highspeed internet acsess, you would have to sell your house to afford anything faster than ISDN128.


pete
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Zeronet on June 06, 2002, 04:30:27 pm
Freeserve is fine for me.
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Post by: Thorn on June 06, 2002, 05:20:51 pm
Go Eastlink...
Its cheap, fast, reliable (I've only had it go down on my once in 7 months) and they fix things fairly quick (compared to other companies anyway)
Too bad it isnt available outside Nova Scotia.. :D
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Post by: wEvil on June 06, 2002, 05:57:35 pm
Hehe..best thing I can get for next year is NTL cablemodem.

which goes all the way to Luton and then pipes straight back to Hatfield where my uni is the major bandwidth supplier.

Stoopid, innit?
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 06, 2002, 11:12:28 pm
Er...I don't get this article. Essentially, you are your own ISP if you have a LAN. That's basically what the Internet is; various computers all hooked up to each other in a really big LAN. If you wanted to, you could make your own internet with a few computers running Apache and one running DNS. :nod:
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Kellan on June 07, 2002, 03:54:22 am
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Originally posted by wEvil
Heil Blair. [size=0].....you wet lettuce[/size]


I second that. Hurrah for Tony, our glorious Führer.

And Thorn: stop teasing me with your "broadband solutions", you bastard. I live in an area that is protected so they can't dig up the road and lay fiber-optic cable (or any kind of cable) in addition to the fact that they won't upgrade the local telephone exchange to DSL because, due to the fact DSL loses quality with distance, and it serves a couple of villages, not enough people would benefit from full-speed.

The most irritating thing is that the telephone exchange is at the end of my street. :o
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Post by: Zeronet on June 07, 2002, 04:44:10 am
Ian and Duncan Smith wouldnt even let us have broadband.
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Post by: Fineus on June 07, 2002, 04:44:30 am
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Originally posted by Kellan
I second that. Hurrah for Tony, our glorious Führer.

Well to be fair to the man they have finally started trying to get BT to get up and do something for once. But it's been long in coming - and this one point doesn't mean I like him :)
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Post by: Kellan on June 07, 2002, 08:29:50 am
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Originally posted by Zeronet
Ian and Duncan Smith wouldnt even let us have broadband.


Hurrah for Ian and Duncan Smith, you Have I Got News For You watcher. :) Since the conjoined Conservative leaders have as much charisma as my toenails, I don't think we have to worry about what they will and will not let us do. ;)

In addition, the government hasn't forced BT to make broadband available to everyone. Basically, they've just told them to stop making 400% profits, and make 300% instead. Which means that they'll only install it in profitable areas.
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Post by: Zeronet on June 07, 2002, 08:31:06 am
I dont think the Liberal Democrats would let us have 56kers. They'd steal our cars. Hopefully next year broadband will be cheaper.
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Post by: Kellan on June 07, 2002, 08:37:10 am
But the Lib Dems look so nice and so kind. Are you saying it's a facade and that if they come to power ( :ha: ) they'll start being all :snipe: ?

I'd like to see it. It's hard to imagine Charles Kennedy as a dictator. :D
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Post by: an0n on June 07, 2002, 10:06:57 am
You ***** about the current crappy government but will you support my facist regime when voting time rolls round? No. No good whining.........*mumbles obscenities*

*runs*
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Kellan on June 07, 2002, 11:56:23 am
Your fascist regime will topple when my Socialist revolution begins! And then I'll...I'll...give you equality? No wait, that's not right.

Ah, screw that, let's just have a friendly political street brawl. :D
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Post by: an0n on June 07, 2002, 11:57:30 am
*goes to round up some SA..err...."supporters"*
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Kellan on June 07, 2002, 12:04:17 pm
*goes to round up some T-72 tanks*

:ha: :ha: :ha:

Tremble before my might, weakling fascist dictator!
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 07, 2002, 12:51:57 pm
Well, you'll all tremble in fear when my contacts in the Anarchist Federation start the revolution!

The Anarchist Federation -  The Ultimate Contrdiction In Terms!

BTW -  Have I got news for you is on tonight, I trust many of you will be watching it, yes?

BTWBTW - Calling all Brits, let us rise up against the tyranny of the American way of ruining our language! Color, ha. Odor, Ha. Center, ha! You're all fools!
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: CP5670 on June 07, 2002, 01:01:32 pm
I've got my armies of robots and mad physicists with communist principles... ;7

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BTWBTW - Calling all Brits, let us rise up against the tyranny of the American way of ruining our language! Color, ha. Odor, Ha. Center, ha! You're all fools!


Better than adding in a pointless "u" for no reason... :p :D

Actually, the best language would be one solely based on mathematical commands, with the most fundamental ideas denoted to certain numbers and everything being created from combinations of those. ;)
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 07, 2002, 01:12:05 pm
Of if everyone spoke, wrote and read HTML, or C++, or JAVA!
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: CP5670 on June 07, 2002, 01:14:36 pm
Mathematica would be even better, as it has thousands of really neat functions built into it... ;)
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Kellan on June 07, 2002, 02:39:33 pm
I think I speak for everyone when I say:

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"[/b] :D

Oh, and Petrarch - surely the biggest contradiction is the 'belief in nihilism'. Nihilism is the belief in the destruction of everything; the belief in nothing. However, surely believing in nothing is something in itself... ;)
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Vertigo1 on June 07, 2002, 02:45:32 pm
Guys, lets get back on topic.  Last thing we need is Thunder going on a closing spree. ;)
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Post by: CP5670 on June 07, 2002, 08:11:00 pm
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Oh, and Petrarch - surely the biggest contradiction is the 'belief in nihilism'. Nihilism is the belief in the destruction of everything; the belief in nothing. However, surely believing in nothing is something in itself... ;)


That is one of the problems I see in the system. A logic contradiction. :p :D
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Post by: Alikchi on June 07, 2002, 10:19:45 pm
I'm starting to see Democrats and Republics as two extremes. Under one government, you'll be selling nuclear submarines to China but not getting in any wars AND not polluting the environment and supporting education, but in the other you'll be in a war.
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 08, 2002, 02:12:39 pm
CP, about the putting "pointless" Us into words, it's very useful, it allows us to get higher scores in Scrabble. And, anyway, I'm not actually a member of the AF, cos as I said its a contradiction, but a few of my mates are in it.
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Fineus on June 09, 2002, 03:33:39 am
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Originally posted by MD-2389
Guys, lets get back on topic.  Last thing we need is Thunder going on a closing spree. ;)

But it's so tempting - luckily it got sensible right after your post. It lives.
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Post by: Stunaep on June 09, 2002, 05:07:40 am
bah, some news. A couple of guys did that in a village almost a year ago. :nod:
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Sandwich on June 10, 2002, 03:34:17 pm
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Originally posted by Kellan
*goes to round up some T-72 tanks*

:ha: :ha: :ha:

Tremble before my might, weakling fascist dictator!


T-72? You've got to be kidding... Merkava rulez. :D

See? (http://brainzipper.com/albums/idf_mar_2002/adt.mpg)
Title: Now this is a cool idea! Be your own ISP!
Post by: Stealth on June 12, 2002, 12:49:50 am
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Originally posted by beatspete
my own ISP - :wtf:
Theres nothing wrong with freeserve.... except it pauses for a few minutes every so often, does anyone else get that, or is it just for ISDN?

Wish i had broadband, the UK is still in the relative caveman era of highspeed internet acsess, you would have to sell your house to afford anything faster than ISDN128.


pete


ISDN sucks... period... i had endless problems playing Freespace with it