Using Commander 3.1 for the first time - Page 3

Pisces · 08-21-08, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Riley

I consider myself as having a good system,which I built myself I might add,but with a serious bottleneck,the V92 modem,which at best manages about 48-56kbps (kilobytes per second),not even a fraction of a megabyte as you can see.

Actually that is kiloBits per second. So that would be about 5.3-6.2kilobytes/s, as you need atleast 9 bits.

Paul Riley · 08-21-08, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Pisces

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Originally Posted by Paul Riley

I consider myself as having a good system,which I built myself I might add,but with a serious bottleneck,the V92 modem,which at best manages about 48-56kbps (kilobytes per second),not even a fraction of a megabyte as you can see.

Actually that is kiloBits per second. So that would be about 5.3-6.2kilobytes/s, as you need atleast 9 bits.

You know what I mean.Its slow,and thats that.

Sailor Steve · 08-21-08, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Riley

Would that be by the author Snorri Sturlussen? (correct spelling as needed).I have a few books on Norse mythology and the Sagas myself,great stuff.

All I know is that it's the 1965 translation by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson.

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Originally Posted by StarLion45

Hi there sailor Steve

some say that Columus discovered America , and some say "Leiv Eriksson"
discovered America ,I am those who believe "Leiv Eriksson" did it

I don't think there's much question that the Norse reached Newfoundland long before anyone else even thought about heading west, and Leiv (or Leif, as we hidebound English-speakers usually call him) was the man. On the other hand, their efforts ultimately failed, and, even if old Cristoforo Colombo didn't actually discover it, he was the guy who opened it up for colonisation.

It's kind of like arguing wether the Wright Brothers were the first to fly. Others may or may not have gotten airborn before them, but the Wrights were the first to make repeated experiments and show everybody how it's done.

Enough sophistry from me, though. All hats of to Leiv Ericsson, his dad Erik 'the Red', Bjarni Herjulfson (who saw it first and gave old Leiv the idea to go there seeking lumber), their successors Thorfinn Karlsveni and his wife Gudrid, and their son Snorri, who was actually the first white child born in America, some seven hundred years before Virginia Dare!