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But we have a seperate phone line for the net, does that make any difference? And would it make that much difference?

Ah. Well, I do have one. Which leaves me more confused than I was before ^^;

No cable box.

Would these filters slow or increase the connection? I have one of these...



Is that it? I think that's a filter.

Puddin': The percentage was the percentage that of should be getting from my specific host.

Scotch: This test was on mytest. I will look for others and post back.


In the meantime, anyone else with ideas is welcome.

[Warning: Running at only 63.32 % of your hosts average.]

I'm on AOL (don't recoil, I don't use anything but the connection/modem after finding a handy little way of circumnavigating the software), and purportedly equipped with a 2.2 mb/s line:



But I was just on testmy.net, and I got some rather distressing results:

IE upload:

Your connection is: 164 Kbps      (about 0.2 Mbps)
You uploaded at: 20 kB/s
Warning: Running at only 63.32 % of your hosts average.

Although Firefox was kinder:

Your connection is:      242  Kbps      (about 0.2 Mbps)
You uploaded at:    30 kB/s
90% + Okay : running at 93.44 % of your hosts average.

Then I ran download.


IE quoth:

Your connection is: 963 Kbps      (about 1 Mbps)
You downloaded at: 118 kB/s
Running at only 38.41 % of your hosts average.

Firefox said:

Your connection is:      959  Kbps      (about 1 Mbps)
You downloaded at:    117 kB/s
running at only 38.27 % of your hosts average

All tests were carried out with a 579kb large file.



My problem seems clear: my connection speeds are severely hampered by... something. I have no idea what. I have swept for spyware using the latest Adaware and Spybot builds, before you say that.

I'm at a loss! Help!

It's pretty horrible... and I'm worried that Las may be right; that hadn't occured to me.

I was in London meeting up with some special just last week. She would have been in Liverpool Street Station at this time. Luck and bad luck are strewn equally.

I hate these fucking people. I really hate them.

I hope everyone is okay.

Oz, that's goddammed beautiful.

I wouldn't personally associate it with snails, mind. More like a CC-esque game.

Eek. I do apologise about this, I was in Russia. Shame about what happened.

However, I won't sidetrack teh music. I might even enter, it's a good theme.

Alrighty then.

Close. Very close.

Geoff's is typically brilliant, and that's a magnificient opening hook with the string ensemble. However, it does disintergrate slightly later on, leaving me feeling a little unfulfilled. A nice arabian-esque ditty.

Voodoo's is also great, with an effective and intelligent reworking of *that* theme - I thought the reverb was brilliantly balanced, and the guitar solo was well thought-through, if a little short.

Now, Geoff wins a quite ridiculous amount of these, but Voodoo had the slightly easier job. Hrm.

I think we'll call it....

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Voodoo's!

Postponed for m0ds ^^v

2ma2, my story (in suspended narration [hah, the pun]) also draws heavily from it - so you're not that transparent :p

You wouldn't know it, but I live on Salmagundi Street.
It's brickwork donned with aerials,
And smells of chips.

Potted tarmac in the road,
The wall that got hit by Aiden's bike,
Pigeons cupped in gutters
And sparrows in the allotments.

Where the terraces crouch huddled
Under march drizzle, and saris in the rain,
Or hanging from the washing line next door
Like a night-time carnival,
Colours glowing damply.

And that one summer when the air was leaden,
And I dropped that toy police car off the side of the wall
Accidentally,
And couldn't find it again.

It skittered along the mortar and scratched.

There was that bit in the fence you could crawl through,
And stand, sniffing the chutney in the air,
Or the bacon from next door.
I think they've moved away now.

That was spring... In summer,
The green was a cocoon.
Me and Laura used to go there,
And there was a kiss once. But
We had to stop 'cause she had a boyfriend.

Even then we laughed,
That was good.
I got up on the roof of her house and they had to get a ladder.
She left for another school.

Shadows of August, when it got dark too early,
And the parks weren't safe,
And Declan got into drugs,
And there was something up the street to do with the police.

There was a wedding too,
But me and the guys didn't gather the confetti
This time. We were older;
Didn't have-want-need to do that kind of stuff.

Then there was a man,
This old guy who walked up the road every day
To get his papers and ciggies,
Carrying a cane, wearing a hat.
And one day, or week, he didn't walk,
And they found him at the foot of his stairs later.

And now it's winter.
And it's too cold,
And so many people are missing.
There's no more mad hot smells coming from
The people next door,
And someone patched up the fence.

And I lie in bed,
In the early morning -
(Not light yet, though,
Nothing coming through my curtains);
I close my eyes, and listen to the
Urban Birdsong
Of traffic on the high street.

One thing: 'Genius' doesn't have an O.

Otherwise, I love it! Shades of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind ihmo, and that's no bad thing. I will follow with interest...

Oh, and Permenant Daylight was also my first game. Isn't that nice.

Nah, it's for lots of things. It's pretty versatile.

And sure, that counts. Upload space here.

Fruityloops Studio

Yeah, I'm afraid I can't accept that because it sucks too much.

Alrighty, against all odds I won the last one, so here we jolly well go.

I want you to make me a celebration theme. A good example would be the end of Star Wars Episode 1 (you've all seen it, admit it), where RIGHT at the end there's a beautiful sort of festival chant - that's the kind of thing I'm after. Imitation is the sincerest form of losing, though. Think creative.

Go!

Stunned.

Erenan's is blatently the best entry here... and I'd defer the win to him if it wasn't for the fact he's a brand new member - he might not come back.

So thanks alot for the shock decision!

That took me SO much longer than I anticipated.

PLEASE save as... Quicktime absolutely mauls MIDI.

All tunes will be judged out of twenty with four catagories (suitability, compositional acumen (controllers/effects, instrument choice etc), imagination and damage just plain How Much I Like It, with each catagory scored out of five. MIDI will score one bonus point because it's just harder to make it sound really good.

However, I'm not going to just *dismiss* MP3s. Just send anything you like in. If you deserve to win, you will.

Suitability, Acumen, Imagination and Wuv-factor.

Oz: 3.5/5, 5/5, 4/5, 5/5 = 17.5
Sluggo: 2/5, 4/5, 5/5, 3.5/5 = 14.5 + 1 = 15.5
Nihilly: 4/5, 3.5/5, 3/5, 4/5 = 14.5 + 1 = 15.5

Oz wins, but I liked the other two; I was particulally impressed with Nihilyst's first ever MIDI. Were there an effort mark, you'd score higher

In fact, that's probably an oversight...

Sluggo, it was nice, and very ambitious, but I felt it was rather tempermental and undirected? Good use of strings, mind.

Oz, brilliant stuff, you annoyingly 'rushed' person (seriously what). Deserved winnar.