Re: Newsnight

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> > New fangled to someone still running over a 9'600 connection!!!
>
> I use 9,600 almost more than I use the 36megabit connection at work, or
the
> 128k ISDN (soon to be ADSL  [at] 512kbits in 3.5 days)

Gosh you have a hard life ;)

> Due to my ability to do all my work in 80x13 or 80x24 using the "screen"
> program, and by never tieing myself to a gui admin tool knowing the cms
line
> for all work means 9,600 is really easy for me.

Hmm, dunno, problem at 9'600 (when running shells) isn't usually speed, it's
latency, *really* annoying, especially if you type at anything like a decent
speed.

> Now I have cellular, isdn, adsl, T3 all at almost peek speeds, I've never
> owned a modem and am amazed that in the year 2000 people still do!

Nothing wrong with modems in themselves, it's just the speeds available are
pretty poor. I guess this wil change soon though. I hadn't realised xDSL was
out so soon though - BT hasn't got around to upgrading most of the local
exchanges yet (I think they were talking about 50% population coverage in
2001 or something? Which means about 15% of the country or something...)

> We use RealProducer, which talks V4Lv1 to /dev/video and OSS to /dev/dsp

I've never really looked at V4L, always struck me as a fairly hacky way of
doing things, with little support for stuff other than TV cards, but maybe
I'm wrong ;)

> The package is 36meg, but by trial and error I've got that down to 20
> (deleting large java class files that didn't seem to be used for the
cmdline
> version, and some X libs that worked as symb links to libc.so.6, do fool
the
> runtime loader) the solid state harddrives are 40meg so I've used color.gz
> from slackware as a base dist and subtracted and added stuff to make a
> useable 4-5 meg distribution.

Yep, looking at stuff like tomsrtbt shows you how much OS you can get in
just a few meg, what with rdFS, compression, etc..

Cheers,

Alex.

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