| thafreak_ | canthus13: hosting service? chicagovps is the company | 14:34 |
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| === thafreak_ is now known as thafreak | ||
| thafreak | brb | 14:34 |
| thafreak | canthus13: if you want the coupon code, let me know..or just check out lowendbox.com | 14:40 |
| thafreak | $48/year for 1024mb of ram vps | 14:40 |
| paultag | that's not bad | 14:40 |
| thafreak | not sure if you get that price every year, or if it's just the first year or what | 14:41 |
| paultag | in fact, that | 14:41 |
| paultag | is pretty awesome | 14:41 |
| thafreak | yup | 14:41 |
| paultag | I'm paying a few hundred a yea | 14:41 |
| paultag | r | 14:41 |
| thafreak | regularly it's like 12 something /month they charge | 14:41 |
| thafreak | anyone suggest a good windows irc program? | 14:56 |
| canthus13 | irssi. | 14:56 |
| thafreak | for winidiots | 14:56 |
| canthus13 | I think it requires cygwin, though. | 14:56 |
| thafreak | if it doesn't have like one button they press to magically connect them, they'll fuck it up | 14:57 |
| canthus13 | just be a man and telnet to 6667. :) | 14:57 |
| paultag | +1 | 14:57 |
| thafreak | not for me, for the people i have to support | 14:57 |
| canthus13 | hmm.. | 14:57 |
| canthus13 | Pidgin was ok for it. | 14:57 |
| thafreak | most of which are chemistry ugrads it seems | 14:57 |
| thafreak | yay, go portableapps.com... | 14:59 |
| thafreak | always seem to have decent windows apps listed there | 14:59 |
| jandrusk | Be an even bigger man and use netcat as your Telnet client ;) | 15:02 |
| thafreak | you guys are funny | 15:08 |
| thafreak | i'm going to have you guys explain how to use netcat to these chem ugrads who can barely use a browser | 15:08 |
| thafreak | i think most ugrads only know how to use facebook | 15:08 |
| canthus13 | Sure. get me a job there and I'll do it. :) | 15:08 |
| thafreak | hahaha | 15:08 |
| thafreak | i barely have a job there | 15:08 |
| * canthus13 spends all day explaining computer operations to people with less mental acuity than an expired can of cat food. | 15:09 | |
| thafreak | i think this grant we're working on is the only reason i still have a job | 15:09 |
| canthus13 | heh. | 15:09 |
| thafreak | i'm the only person left in our group besides the director (who isn't paid by our group because she | 15:09 |
| thafreak | s a professor technically) | 15:10 |
| thafreak | oh and a student, who gets maybe 20 hours a week | 15:10 |
| canthus13 | :/ | 15:10 |
| thafreak | basically, i do everything... | 15:10 |
| thafreak | except write grants and travel all over trying to convice people to give us money | 15:10 |
| thafreak | that's the directors job...but all the actual work...that's me | 15:11 |
| thafreak | oh and the student does web stuff... | 15:11 |
| thafreak | like changing themes for drupal or whatever my boss decides to use this week | 15:11 |
| canthus13 | Heh. | 15:23 |
| canthus13 | It can't be any worse than being chained to a desk all day. | 15:23 |
| thafreak | i'm not saying my job is worse than yours... | 15:24 |
| thafreak | :) | 15:25 |
| canthus13 | ...that is, chained to a desk talking to morons all day. :P | 15:25 |
| canthus13 | Yay banking regulations. | 17:35 |
| yano | anyone know of any other cable companies in the columbus area besides TWC and WOW? | 20:22 |
| paultag | yano: that's a canthus13 question | 20:25 |
| andygraybeal | yano i'm in wisconsin!! | 20:34 |
| canthus13 | yano: you don't often find a bunch of companies overbuilding each other. It's a huge pain in the ass and really expensive to run cable, and if you've already got 2 cable companies in the area, it'd take 20 years or more to see a profit. | 20:34 |
| yano | ah | 20:35 |
| canthus13 | we're overbuilt with TWC in a few small areas.. there's no money there. :/ | 20:35 |
| yano | yea, i'm just looking for options as a consumer. a location i was checking out doesn't have WOW available | 20:35 |
| yano | and i've had bad experience with TWC in the past | 20:36 |
| Unit193 | Really? Mind saying a little about what it was? | 20:37 |
| canthus13 | TWC has... ambiguous bandwidth caps, for one. they're different depending on the neighborhood you're in, just about. | 20:38 |
| yano | they were advertising 1 Mbps at the time i last had their service and they were only giving me 768 kbps | 20:40 |
| * canthus13 nods. | 20:42 | |
| canthus13 | you should get within 10% of advertised speed. :/ | 20:42 |
| canthus13 | we fudge it by setting the modems at 10% higher than the advertised speed. :) | 20:42 |
| canthus13 | so 35mbit would actually be 38.5mbit. | 20:42 |
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