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July 22nd - Life, The Universe, and Cable Modems
Posted Jul 22, 1999
As you can probably tell by the title, I've been thinking about Cable Modems a lot. Over here in the UK, we are slowly but surely rolling out
Cable Modems to users, but just how do thay work?
Well, the principle is quite simple. The Cable Modem uses all the spare bandwidth on the Cable TV system to
transmit data to people. There is a problem with this, however. 30Mb/s
is the quoted speed, but this is for the line as a whole. Great if you're
the only person using it, but the line itself (Like your Cable TV Line)
Is shared along the whole street. If you're the only person in your street
to have a Cable Modem, enjoy the 30Mb/s downloads! If not, enjoy a fraction
of that. Anything down to 3Kb/s (33.6 modem speed). So, is it really worth it?
As I said, you need to (Covertly) observe how many people down your
street are on Cable TV, and how many use the Internet.
You could even spread malicious rumours about cable modems to
try and get the line to yourself, not that I condone this at all.
In the end, Cable modems are good if there aren't many people using them.
If there are several people using them, however, the speed goes down and it becomes
infeasable.
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8th July - Dear Diary
Posted Jul 8, 1999
I've never been very good at these "Dear Diary" entries, but I'll sure try my best.
Today's been interesting for me (NOT!)... I've got a friend (Possibly) doing a C/C++ programming course (Yay for her),
and I'm getting better. Who knows, maybe someday I'll get out of here!
Until then, however, I'll be commenting here on unemployed life (What little there is to say about it).
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Not so bad today...
Posted Jul 7, 1999
As the title suggests, I'm not in quite so blue a mood today, so I'm coping well with everything life keeps throwing at me...
I am having some problems with my mind (It won't shut up!), but other than that, today (And the past week or so), have been reasonably uneventful.
I know, this doesn't make good reading, but it's only a damn journal entry!
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2nd July - Isn't it strange..?
Posted Jul 2, 1999
Isn't it strange how, just when you thought you've conqured all life's ills and you're getting along in the world, something comes along and bites you in the a$$?
It's happened to me too many times to remember, and I'm kinda womdering today if I'm the only guy who feels it's not worth being optimistic.
Deep?
Probably.
Getting 200+ mailing list mails in one day can do that to you.
Want to know more? drop me a line (By discussing this, for example).
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Life so far...
Posted Jun 30, 1999
Okay, here's an entry just to update you on my life so far...
I've been hanging round the net for years (Literally), and have lead an interesting and, generally, Unemployed life. I'm hoping this will change soon, but you never know.
That's it. (!)
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