• Obits

    RIP – Laura Ellen Hopper

    At right, Laura Ellen With Jay Boy Adams at KFAT. On Memorial Day, Laura Ellen Hopper passed away due to complications from cancer. This truly is the week the music died. Laura Ellen was the Program Director of KPIG radio – 107 oink 5, in Freedom, California. Before that, she was the Program Director of the legendary and infamous KFAT radio, located in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world, from 1975 through 1983. I didn’t find out Laura Ellen had passed away until today, because in a fit of nostalgia, I’d been listening to the KFAT stream for…

  • Broadband

    Oh to be a shill for a telco (or a gullible retard)

    It never fails to amaze me how the telcos shills populate user forums. There was a story on broadbandreports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/81287 5% of ISP Users Generate 45.3% of Traffic On the flip side, 40% generate just 3.8%… Ellacoya is a supplier of network hardware that can monitor and shape network traffic, and they recently shared some of their findings with ISP Planet. The company notes that 5% of users (aka “bandwidth hogs”) generate 45.3% of traffic, whereas at the other end of the spectrum 40% of users (aka “barely users”) generate just 3.8% of traffic. VoIP use spiked in 2006 for…