The toomanylegs is probably a "house centipede" They have them at the University of Maryland and I've seen them featured on Sluggy Freelance about three years back.
Oh, right ... what was its name, "Fluffy"? If it looked sort of like a crawling eyebrow, yeah. (Not going to creep back through archives at 56Kbaud right now, but have a vague recollection of a photo there of what I've got.)
I was sifting through at cable modem speed but got sucked into the "game called on account of naked chick" thread. ;) I know there is a substory called torg in the land of the fluffies but I can't find it. I do know it's before july 2002 cuz I saw a reference to it in someone's blog
(technosticklery) I doubt that your modem is really 56 kilobaud. 56 kilobits per second is quite plausible. I don't recall, however, what the baudrate is for the 56 kbps modem.
A baud is one symbol on the communication line per second. One symbol of line code, that is, not one symbol of payload. There are coding schemes that put three, or four, or five, or even more bits of payload into one symbol of line code. The higher-speed things do odder things, but still there remains a difference between line symbol rate and delivered bit rate.
Sorry about that. The difference between bit per second and baud has been something of a pet peeve of mine for well over twenty years.
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I doubt that your modem is really 56 kilobaud. 56 kilobits per second is quite plausible. I don't recall, however, what the baudrate is for the 56 kbps modem.
A baud is one symbol on the communication line per second. One symbol of line code, that is, not one symbol of payload. There are coding schemes that put three, or four, or five, or even more bits of payload into one symbol of line code. The higher-speed things do odder things, but still there remains a difference between line symbol rate and delivered bit rate.
Sorry about that. The difference between bit per second and baud has been something of a pet peeve of mine for well over twenty years.