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How much bandwidth will one dollar buy today ?
I'm thinking about a network of, duh, let's estimate one hundred end users who use the connection to my system five times a day for maybe three or four minutes each time.
How much bandwidth (i.e., how many bytes of data) could I expect to provide one of those users, on average, for one dollar ?
Now, suppose my service got popular and I attracted one thousand users. Do the costs remain consistent ?
What if by some wild chance I found a million people who wanted my service five times a day ? Would the cost of the number of bytes per dollar remain constant ?
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 The question is as near as dammit meaningless. How are you providing the data? Are you going to have a dedicated server, a home server which also serves your own computing needs
, have someone else host? How are they going to be connecting? Peer-to-peer, private network, standard internet connection? What is the bandwidth of the server's connection and will you have to pay to improve it as customers grow. What are your power costs, your insurance? Does it matter if the system has down time or will you need backups and UPS and ... and ... and ...
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I don't know if this helps, but my web host (where www.ravib.com[^] is hosted) charges me $16/mo for which I get 50G of bandwidth. My current average usage is about 5GB/month, so I have plenty to spare. Note, I'm talking web host, not ISP. I assume you meant the same?
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Note, I'm talking web host, not ISP. I assume you meant the same?
Correct, thanks. I'm trying to get some idea of what various amounts of data would cost for various configs of various possible pages.
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My old website........before the ISP managed to kill the server and not recover the data.........was delivering about 10 to 15 GBytes / month. I was hosting this on a virtual machine at their data centre for around 30ukp/month. They have since changed all their machine specs so could probably get the same for less now.
One option is to go and look at AWS, Google Apps and Azure pricing calculators, they will give you an idea of how much it would cost.
When starting off small, private VMs on the likes of 1and1 will be cheaper that using the likes of Amazon/Microsoft/Google etc. it is just down to how much want to pay for service reliability and availability.
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This guy[^]
It was a brief meeting. I walked in to the room where everyone was listening to him answer the latest question on immigration, sat down, listened to the absolute inane answer that he would give every illegal immigrant US citizenship, and immediately walked out.
You know, it's one thing to see a political on some news clip on the web (we don't have a TV) or on John Oliver, or even hear them on the radio. There's a certain separation, sense of disconnect, that occurs over media. But to see one of them live, in person, up close, with all their lying, bull***ing words, body language, fake smile, saying what the they think the audience wants to hear, just got me  so fast it made my head spin. I also felt like I needed to take a shower with hydrochloric acid to wash the slime off of me.
And this guy is just a minor minnow. I can't imagine my response if I actually met T or C. 
Marc
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He describes himself as a "family farmer"... is that allowed these days?
(I know a few cattle farmers and sheep farmers but I've never heard of a family farmer)
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A number of years ago, okay quite a number, I was having a Sunday morning coffee in a Sydney suburb Lane Cove, when a fairly major pollie was doing a walk through with a camera crew espousing his bullshit. The director took one look at me and bypassed my table. I do a really mean scowl and I loathe politicians with a passion.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I have always had the impression that you loathe most people, institutions, and most of all, "change". Now of course, I don't know you, and my impression is solely based on my perception of you based on your postings and comments, but you seem to me, to be a grumpy old man.
Anyhow, I don't loathe politicians, I just don't trust them - at all, any of them; too much energy involved with loathing someone, I think.
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Slacker007 wrote: you loathe most people, institutions
It's hard not to! 
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Slacker007 wrote: but you seem to me, to be a grumpy old man
You are perceptive although it is more dislike, I reserve loathe for creatures that really turn my stomach, politicians, religious fanatics and the like.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I reserve loathe for creatures that really turn my stomach, politicians, religious fanatics
Helpdesk employees who really couldn't care less about helping you?
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I saw C at a small restaurant near my house last month. Ignored her while drives of people where snapping pictures.
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I'm just starting to work my way through the Petzold book on Xamarin Forms - and I'm on my second day, but still on "hello world" as it's been a PITA getting the Android emulator to run.
So, the second "Hello World" app is a PCL solution, so I create that and get an MS error about a missing SDK. The message includes a URL to fix the problem:
go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?prd=12514&pver=14.0&sbp=PlatformSDKMissing&plcid=0x409&o1=UAP, Version=10.0.10240.0 Which isn't clickable...or copyable...so you have to type the whole damn thing in by hand.
So, I get that right, and run the installer, and...it says to go to sdksetup.exe in
C:\Users\PaulG\Downloads\Windows Kits\10\StandaloneSDK to instal it.
And that's not copyable either...
How difficult is it to make these things selectable? Not that $%$£^%$ing difficult - I do it all the time!
Tell me chaps - are your error messages selectable, copyable? Mine are...and I'm sure you do it to. So what the Elephant can.t MS do that?
[edit]
I just ran it, and...it says "setup is already running" and shuts down.
So you can't have the message showing what to do while you do it...  [/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Any message box is copyable  I think/assume/to remember .... uups wait .... f***...
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Did you forget to enable the "copyable links" option during the W10 installation?
It's under Options -> More Options -> Advanced -> Super Advanced -> Esoteric -> Occult -> Copyable links.
Once you enable it you get a terms of use window that basically tells you your undying soul belongs to Santa Satan Satya once you agree.
There is no other way to enable this option, so you can either re-install your computer and hope they haven't removed the option with one of the 666 updates or live with links that aren't copyable
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No, as soon as I get to the "Occult" settings page Kaspersky Antimagic kicks up and kills it.
Apparently you can bypass it using ouija board, but the Win10 drivers are useless!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I went through all that, but the problem was that it also makes all message boxes full-screen.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are you sure you disabled the "Full screen message boxes" option?
It's right there next to the "Reliable estimated times" option 
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The problem at hand is described in the first sentence: "Xamarin Forms".
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I thought CTRL+C on any message box copied the text to the clipboard ?
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I still try it on most things that are not copy pasteable
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Message boxes used to copy in their entirety if you just highlighted them and hit Ctrl+C. Doesn't that work, any more?
[edit] "highlighted them" is misleading. Replace with "gave them focus".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: highlighted them and hit Ctrl+C
what, that's for when base type is textbox. those message boxes are of base type: text. so you need to do ctrl+shift+C. but Xamarin? oh that might be the legacy text type, so ctrl+alt+c should do it?
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