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http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fflash-of-genius.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D8

As far as I know, the tracker has not been shut down but merely moved to OpenBitTorrent. There are various posts on SuprBay confirming that fact. The (PirateBay) trackers themselves were shut down since august and OpenBittorrent is now the official tracker. I remember reading another post where someone did some research and ran a few traces, which confirmed (at the time) that the trackers were running on the same IP address. Here is another post worth reading.

As for OpenBitTorrent, it has been 404-ing since I tried to open that website. However a google cache exists as early as November 14th. On the cached page it is explained that the tracker operates solely on the info hash and thus knows absolutely nothing about the contents itself. Presumably in an attempt to elude copyright cops. Adding new torrents to that tracker is as simple as adding the tracker address to your newly created .torrent file. The tracker will automatically start tracking the info hash when an announce is made.

Documents detailing secret government plans in the 1970s to prevent Scotland laying claim to North Sea oil have been seen by The Times. They show the extraordinary lengths to which civil servants were prepared to go to head off devolution, which was seen then as inevitably leading to independence. The proposals included suggesting to Labour ministers, for whom devolution was a manifesto commitment, that progress towards a referendum should be delayed, in the hope that enthusiasm north of the Border would wane. Treasury officials also advised that the boundaries of Scotland's coastal waters should be redrawn and a new sector created to âoeneutraliseâ Scotland's claim to North Sea oil â" a step that was taken

these sectors are "hidden as "extra regio territories"

maybe something to do with stealing claim to the largest oil/gas reserves in the EU perhaps?

people like Brown do NOT have Scotland's best interests at heart, only expanding their own power base to the detriment of Scotland. he is a Brit and only happens to be of Scots origin.

Try one of the following:

• Google's cache
• This direct link to the relevant PDF

I hope someone will mirror the PDF somewhere.

then you're probably not using windows explorer at all. and right clicking on taskbar items to bring up the applications' system menu, neither. and the start menu shutdown-confirmationless item, also

No, I am not using IE, I didn't realise I had to use it if I wanted to use Windows.

At first I was tempted to reply to you but later realized it's useless replying to people who claim to know Windows but can't distinguish between a shell and a web browser.

you forgot to mention that it also does a lot of things worse

Which you then fail to list?

...but requiring hardware produced in 2010s. switch the aero off and the remains will not even equal the clean nice look of windows 2000

Utter b.s., it runs perfectly well on a two year old laptop.

you probably meant most amateur computer users.

Yeah, you know, those people who buy and use a product and make it profitable and the de facto standard? Yeah them. Also me.

being hdmi is irrelevant. resetting display settings is not that annoying. moreover, most good cards come with utilities that overcome this xp bug and you switch the monitor and resolution on the fly from cards' utility

No, resetting the display settings IS annoying and, furthermore, bullshit. But that's what happens when you are using an ancient OS to run hardware that didn't even exist when it was made.

LOL. on my old 1GHz/512ram/pata hdd i have 22 seconds from ntldr to busy cursor gone. windows 7 doesn't even install on that

Funny you should mention installing, Win 7 installed in maybe half the time that XP takes for me. I don't know what you're doing at bootup but mine takes about 20-25 seconds in Win 7.

so does media player classic home cinema. even better.

I'm well aware of mpc homecinema, I use it as my primary video player. However, the media centre in Win 7 has a nice media library built into it which is designed to look good and work well on a plasma, and to be used with a remote if you have one.

then you're probably not using windows explorer at all. and right clicking on taskbar items to bring up the applications' system menu, neither. and the start menu shutdown-confirmationless item, also

No, I am not using IE, I didn't realise I had to use it if I wanted to use Windows.

does this (1Gb ram, 16 Gb hdd) look modest to you ?

Yes. Yes it does. It's 2009 for Christ's sake. You can build a system with 4 gigs of ram and a 500 gig hdd for a few hundred bucks.

... at making impression to home users. in enterprise, this is just a second vista. joining a samba/nt4 domain is a pain in the ass or impossible.

Amazingly, most of the people in these enterprises you speak of are the same 'casual users' you dismissed earlier.

As an XP user all I can say is GO TO HELL Microsoft. I am done with your carnival sideshow of needless upgrades and pointless eye candy.

Once XP is completely dead, then I guess I'm done with Windows entirely.

I'm also a dedicated XP user. You are being unreasonable.

I have been using Windows 7 for a couple of months. Without having metrics to back up my personal experience, I find that it does everything at least as well as XP, and many things better.

you forgot to mention that it also does a lot of things worse

Most noticeably, it has a user interface which doesn't look like it was designed in the mid 1990s.

...but requiring hardware produced in 2010s. switch the aero off and the remains will not even equal the clean nice look of windows 2000

It looks and 'feels' a hell of a lot better, as well as being vastly more customizable. Maybe this doesn't matter to you, but it does to me and I would suggest to most computer users.

you probably meant most amateur computer users.

Overall the UI in Windows 7 looks good and is very responsive.

Various other things work a lot better than they used to - for instance, my laptop has an HDMI port. This was a constant nightmare on XP, and frequently didn't work at all or did weird things like resetting my display settings for the laptop itself whenever it was connected to a TV.

being hdmi is irrelevant. resetting display settings is not that annoying. moreover, most good cards come with utilities that overcome this xp bug and you switch the monitor and resolution on the fly from cards' utility

Windows 7 just figures out what it is plugged into and switches to the most appropriate video-out mode. Similarly, whereas switching screens under XP frequently causes issues with a video that was playing fine on one screen not transferring to another without restarting playback, in Win 7 this seems to happen seamlessly. Audio likewise is a lot simpler and easier to configure.

Unlike Vista, MS seems to have done a good job of working out when additional security is appropriate - e.g. when software wants to actually make changes to installed components or add drivers to the system, a password or fingerprint scan is required, but I am yet to be annoyed at an inappropriate time as I was in Vista.

Games seem to work just as well as they do in XP, which is a huge contrast to Vista (which came with my laptop and ran games like an absolute dog).

It starts up and shuts down a lot more quickly than XP.

LOL. on my old 1GHz/512ram/pata hdd i have 22 seconds from ntldr to busy cursor gone. windows 7 doesn't even install on that

The media centre (can't remember what it's called) is actually pretty good for use on a plasma TV.

so does media player classic home cinema. even better.

However, most noticeable is that most of the time I DON'T notice that I'm using Win 7, or any particular OS - stuff just works properly without any real need for fiddling around.

then you're probably not using windows explorer at all. and right clicking on taskbar items to bring up the applications' system menu, neither. and the start menu shutdown-confirmationless item, also

So, from one XP adherent to another, I say: maybe you should give it a go. Vista was a horror from the pits of hell as far as I am concerned. MS may be a big evil lumbering corporate monster, but someone there appears to have taken the problems with Windows by the balls and actu

IANAL, but there is at least one fact that links TPB to the Netherlands: ns2.thepiratebay.org is in the Netherlands. I don't know if this is what made the NL court assert authority, or if TPB have more servers there - they used to be based there back in 2006, and tracker.tpb.prq.to[Google Cache] used to be in the Netherlands, but now points to servers in Sweden. (PRQ is the TPB's hosting company.)

So my guess would be that no, the internet isn't collapsing. There is something that links TPB to the Netherlands, and it was sufficient.

Google cache result

Since the site is already slashdotted here's the link to the google cache page:

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:-aFSm98mcUAJ:www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/11/27/iraq-youtube-battle-footage/+http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/&hl=hu&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=hu&client=firefox-a

The page in the last link seems to be down here. Anyway, here is the Google cache link: http://209.85.129.132/search?hl=en&as_q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.finfacts.ie%2Firelandbusinessnews%2Fpublish%2Farticle_10005150.shtml&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

there is more (from google cache) http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:CKSrvx7W2y0J:jerryleecooper.com/+jerryleecooper&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=be

According to the Deutsche Bundesbank there were 90918890 (90 million) of them in 2006. Of those, 35,286,090 were "online" accounts, i.e. somehow accessible/usable via the internet. There were only 29 million in 2002, so if one were to use old data, that might be something where you could make that 3/4 of all accounts claim. I'd consider it very unlikely that all 21 million accounts or even more than 50% of them were "online" accounts. The "online" bit doesn't make any difference to anyone than the bank and the account holder.