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Sunday

State of the Union

* To: Julien TOUCHE
* Subject: Re: nfs + mount_union
* From: Theo de Raadt
* Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:39:38 +0000 (UTC)
* Cc: OpenBSD Misc
union mounting is now officially unsupported. we give up. in 15 years of hacking, noone has gotten it working bug free. it is time we gave up and mark it unuseable.

And that was the closest thing OpenBSD had to GNU/Linux's mount --bind. Makes chrooted Apache a pain, since I made / (and, consequentially, /var/www) quite small. "Solution" is to un-chroot Apache or to restructure the partitions. Ho-hum.

Play Fair

nildram.net/regrades
To ensure everyone gets a fair share of our High Performance we are implementing a 'Fair Use' policy that will introduce a 50GB per month Peak Time transfer allowance ? this applies to data transferred between the hours of 8am and Midnight, seven days a week. Once the allowance is hit, users will still be able to connect ? but will be limited to 64Kbps transfer rate. Any data transferred between Midnight and 8am does not count towards this limit. Users will have the option of purchasing additional 'Peak Time' data transfer at 99p per additional 1GB, charged in 2GB increments.

So for £25 per month: 240Kb/s*60^2[seconds per hr]*8hrs/1024^2[convert to gigabytes]*30days = 197.75GB + the 50GB cap (1.67GB per day — 0800-2359) vs. current allowance of 120Kb/s*60^2[seconds per hr]*24hrs/1024^2[convert to gigabytes*30days = 296.63GB.

Or for £67 per month: 240KB/s*60^2[seconds per hr]*24hrs/1024^2[convert to gigabytes]*30days = 593.26GB.

Decisions, decisions...


browser.download.manager.retention
0: Upon successful download
1: When the browser exits
2 (default): Manually
0 or 1 are good, the default sucks.