It’s on that page, under the “Faster cable modem speeds: Mediacom” headline. I haven’t heard anything about increasing the upload speed, but I assume that will come along with the download speed increase.
Supposedly it’s gonna be rolled out sometime in March of this year. Some people seem to think the 5mbit down will be only for the “heaviest” users, who are willing to pay a little more for the extra speed. Either way, I’m excited.
Mediacom doubled their speeds from 1.5mbit to 3mbit in February of 2004. That was a free upgrade to all of their high speed internet customers.
Microsoft is going to disable activating windows over the internet. If you have to re-install your copy of Windows XP, you’ll now need to call Microsoft to activate it.
I pray I don’t need to re-install winxp on any pc’s here @ work.
Windows messes with your setup. Today, I changed the size of icons on my desktop. What does Windows do along with that? It rearranged all of my icons on my desktop. Why the fuck does it need to do that? Why can’t it just leave them in their current place?
Gnome would never move my icons around for me. It knows better. I’ll never install Windows on any of my personal pc’s ever again.
I posted a link to the lokitorrent page with the “Inappropriate for all ages” image. There’s rumors going around that there never was a lawsuit against lokitorrent. I’m skeptical though.
Supposedly, the owner of lokitorrent created all this lawsuit business in order to get dontations from his sites users. After raising a decent ammount of money, he skipped the country. The lawsuit was supposedly filed in Dallas. When the MPAA is in Cali and lokitorrent is hosted in D.C. So a lawsuit in Dallas doesn’t really make any sense. The lokitorrent page still points to it’s original server. I would have thought the MPAA would alter the sites name servers to have it point to one of their servers. That’s not the case.
The only thing that confuses me is uk-torrents.com. I used uk-torrents a little, upon visiting their site one day, I was redirected to the lokitorrent page with the “Inappropriate for all ages” image. I don’t know why uk-torrents would voluntarily redirect their site to that page. And now, a visit to uk-torrents.com shows it’s just a page with a bunch of ads.
Well, there’s not really much new going on for me. Some interesting things are happening at work, all very good, I’m excited to see the outcome and will discuss a little bit here when I’m at liberty to do so.
I’ve registered a couple domain names, I think I’ve finally chosen the one I am gonna use. It’s so sweet domains are so cheap now. The first domain I registered was diplomaticimmunity.net and the second was blaze-up.net. I think the second domain should be mostly done propogating by now. Doing a whois on blaze-up.net reveals my registrars nameservers even though upon registration I set my own. I don’t like their setup too well.
Anyway, that’s it for now, Ashley and I are gonna go out to eat somewhere in Ames. I’m starving as I haven’t really eaten much yet today.
Lokitorrent.com has officially been shutdown. After a couple months of asking for donations from users to fight MPAA lawsuits, the site has been shutdown.
The message from the MPAA on Lokitorrent is pretty funny. “Illegal Downloading: Inappropriate for All Ages”. And, “You Can Click, But You Can’t Hide”. People using these sites need to start being more “anonymous”. These organizations, MPAA and RIAA, need to learn doing things like this isn’t going to help their cause. People will always steal your products. You might as well get used to it, cuz it’s not gonna stop. When all the bittorrent sites get shutdown, some other P2P technology will come out.
I expect the next big P2P app will employ the use of some sort of anonymizing technology to prevent “paper” trails leading back to downloaders. A redesigned bittorrent would be ideal for implementing something like this because BitTorrent isn’t run off a “central server”.
Anyway, you should check out lokitorrent.com just for the amusing messages.
