[14:34] <thafreak_> canthus13: hosting service? chicagovps is the company
[14:34] <thafreak> brb
[14:40] <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
[14:41] <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
[14:56] <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.
[14:57] <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
[14:59] <thafreak> yay, go portableapps.com...
[14:59] <thafreak> always seem to have decent windows apps listed there
[15:02] <jandrusk> Be an even bigger man and use netcat as your Telnet client ;)
[15:08] <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
[15:09]  * 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
[15:10] <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
[15:11] <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
[15:23] <canthus13> Heh.
[15:23] <canthus13> It can't be any worse than being chained to a desk all day.
[15:24] <thafreak> i'm not saying my job is worse than yours...
[15:25] <thafreak> :)
[15:25] <canthus13> ...that is, chained to a desk talking to morons all day. :P
[17:35] <canthus13> Yay banking regulations.
[20:22] <yano> anyone know of any other cable companies in the columbus area besides TWC and WOW?
[20:25] <paultag> yano: that's a canthus13 question
[20:34] <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.
[20:35] <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
[20:36] <yano> and i've had bad experience with TWC in the past
[20:37] <Unit193> Really? Mind saying a little about what it was?
[20:38] <canthus13> TWC has... ambiguous bandwidth caps, for one. they're different depending on the neighborhood you're in, just about.
[20:40] <yano> they were advertising 1 Mbps at the time i last had their service and they were only giving me 768 kbps
[20:42]  * 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.