I’ve joined the 21st century, and I now have internet. Comcast took about a week before I could get it installed, and even though I was told they’d called 30 minutes before they came, I only got 10 minutes of warning. So it was good that I stayed home until the end of the 4 hour window they gave me (8am-12, they came at 11:50). The installation involved a step where I could either install stuff on my computer — or not.
But bandwidth was what I really cared about, it was awful back in Waterloo, so I tried to measure it: So I tried to download as much as I could, and the results are: 8 gigs in 7.5 hours. And by looking at the graph, it’s more because I didn’t queue enough up.
I’ll see if it’s a temporary thing for new subscribers and they cap me down to 2kB/s after a week 
So I’ve been using Windows Vista at work for a week now, and I think I’m going to upgrade at least one machine to it. I’m not interested in the frosted windows, the colours or the junk at the sides, but it has one killer feature that I was considering programming:
You can change the volume of different applications separately.
I’ve wanted this feature in a few contexts (playing games/listening to MP3s, video editing/previewing) but a lot of programs just use the global volume as their own personal playground.
Oh, and now that I’m back on my WinXP machine, I’m really also missing the start menu where you can type what you want instead of finding it to click on. That’s so useful.
(it might be worth noting that I already have a copy, so I only need to justify installing it )
I’m looking to get a few hundred photos printed so I’ve been looking at prices.
PE Photo looks good, and I read good things about them.
They have a lot of different sizes of prints, since I’m planning on covering a wall in them, I was curious if there was a cheaper way to do it. (There isn’t). Here’s a graph of the cost in dollars per foot for different photos. Strangely the price seems to peak at the mid-size pictures, rather than at one extremity.
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Some other nice printing prices seem to be overnightprints.com’s 100 full colour business cards for $10 and making custom mugs at discountmugs.com
