:Running Down the Way Up » computers http://johncavacas.com/blog Insert blog description here Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:34:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tim Bray on contribution and experience http://johncavacas.com/blog/2006/07/26/tim-bray-on-contribution-and-expererience/ http://johncavacas.com/blog/2006/07/26/tim-bray-on-contribution-and-expererience/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:50:00 +0000 jc http://www.johncavacas.com/blog/2006/07/26/tim-bray-on-contribution-and-expererience/ Tim Bray is by far one of my favourite bloggers. Always full of insight. Today is no different, and it is about something that hits home. I’ll just post here verbatum what the post is since it is so short, but do go visit:

“User-Generated Content” is an irreparably ugly and broken phrase. First, we’re people, not “users”. Second, people write and speak and design and compose and sing and play and build and earn and pay; machines “generate”. Third, it’s words and pictures and sound and money, not “content”. The trouble is, we need labels; short ones that still say something. Say, contribution and experience? The Net (really, truly) is the sum of billions of contributions from millions of people, and that’s all that’s interesting about it. People contribute at the edge, and experience the contributions at the edge. (Experience, not consume; the difference is obvious). The Net itself’s a contribution, by humanity to humanity, the engine of future contribution and experience. The Net’s not finished of course; contributing and experiencing, both of them, are too hard and awkward and slow.

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So how did I do? Well, i was able to hear up to 18,000 on my headphones. On my crappy computer speakers I could only hear up to 15,000. 19,000 i could feel but can’t say I could really hear it.

How did you do?

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Thinking that there is no way that i’m the only person that has experienced this, I found the following:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=74382
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79212
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=103776
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=108436

I’m not the only one!

So after reading those, I noticed that I have a D-Link gigabit adapter which uses the same exact chip set mentioed in one of those bug reports. Since I have another ethernet card built into my motherboard which I don’t use, i decided to swap the connection. Guess what? Problem solved!

So, for those of you out there having the same problem, take a look at your network card, in particular a D-Link card using the Marvell Yukon GigE ship set.

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