You haven't addressed my argument. Google offers information on how to have their search spiders find your site easier just the same as TPB offers information on how to index your torrent files. Take a look at Google Analytics. That whole service is designed to help you index your site better. I once again make the point: if you say that indexing is a means of counterfitting explicitly than it is no stretch to argue indexing ANYTHING is contributing to it. Indexing porn sites makes you a pornographer.
I appreciate the dialog, this is the kind of back and forth I love about Slashdot. Intelligent conversation and debate!
I was just saying that to be a jerk, but now that you've brought it up:
TPB offers discographies the same way that Google offers porno. If you Google porno, you get results that lead you to places that ACTUALLY sell or distribute porno. So by your rationale Google offers pornography in a *practicle* sense.
Even though the workers at Google don't film, upload, post, or participate in the porn (maybe they do? I don't know anyone at Google...maybe they've got a porn star on staff...maybe they're responsible for the entire porn industry online!!!!) they've given you the tools for downloading or viewing the porn so that makes them the ones who are offering it. Right? So you're saying Google and Yahoo are distributing porn to our kids?! How dare they! They should be shut down!
Also a Googling of torrents or TPB will lead you to TPB or other torrent sites and thereby Google is just as guilty as TPB is of copyright infringement! Googles are the villains of the day century I guess, and nobody suspects a thing accept for you khellendros1984 (Is the 1984 a reference to the year you were born, or the book?...and if its both I don't appreciate the irony here) You truly are a hero!
Why don't you save your own brand of semantic pedantry for where it belongs and not in a *technical* forum.
...I think I even read about it on Slashdot almost a year ago...actually, yes I DID read it on Slashdot in October: Here it is
I actually tried to buy this since then from overseas (I'm in the US) vendors and it was very easy to do. If not off of eBay many vendors would ship it at a total cost of about $700 after shipping.
Agreed...however the Ewoks were almost as annoying as Jar-Jar, so he/she can get a pass if the annoyance of such stupid characters caused him/her to collapse to the floor in a seizure only to awaken 10 years later in the basement of a trusted coworker who has been using their stiff and comatose body as a pillow ever since...not that I'd know anything about such scenarios...I have plenty of other pillows, why would I need a comatose coworker with smooth skin?...
I couldn't agree more with your sentiment...accept The Pirate Bay doesn't offer downloads of discographies, they offer torrent mapping only;)
Musicians weren't paid like they are today at any other time in history, and yet 50 years of overpriced LP's and albums give these people the idea that they can continue to rip us all off?! The music business model needs to change, and if the conventional record labels want to remain in the drivers seat they should probably embrace that change, not fight it!
6 seconds! That's like a dream for me! My wife's notebook is kinda old, and it runs XP, and in fact isn't capable of running any linux build that I've tried. Waking from sleep is 31 seconds...I haven't been able to keep time from boot since I usually fall asleep waiting for it to finish!
I'm thinking about getting the eee 900 in the next two weeks, so this discussion was particularly useful to me:) Thanks for your input and insight, I feel even more confident in my purchase (I was skeptical mostly because I don't see an exact need for a netbook considering Android's functionality and the promise of the Pre's; but if the netbook can work the way you and others have described I see the value!).
Like I said: I don't own a netbook. If you are aware of a config that works well then let us all know (since that seems to be the point of this thread)
I did copy and paste without reading too much of what I as submitting, for that I do apologize. The point I was driving at was that ext4 will boot faster which should allow for a better netbook experience. Why? Because you can simply shut down the box when not in use.
My wife's Toshiba notebook takes 31 seconds to "wake up" when put in standby mode...so 21 seconds from a off-state to rock n' roll is pretty awesome! It'll help battery time among other things. I'm sorry I copied the wrong portion of the Wikipedia entry, I should've just linked to the site that I have in this post. My bad.
Thats why they needed money back from their laid-off employees, they needed to pay for their programs to find everyone else employment! The leaders at Microsoft are truly saints of our time!
I don't own a netbook (yet...I'm getting one soon though!) but I've been looking into this a lot myself.
I would say that at the moment there isn't an OS out there that lends itself to the particular brand of configuration required for the netbooks, but if you wait just a bit longer it'll be worth the wait.
Aside from Windows 7's support for netbooks, the ext4 file system to be used with "Jaunty" will help with all the things you've complained about with Ubuntu as well as helping with boot time.
"As computers become faster in general and specifically Linux becomes used more for mission critical applications, the granularity of second-based timestamps becomes insufficient. To solve this, ext4 will have timestamps measured in nanoseconds. This feature is currently implemented in 2.6.23. In addition, 2 bits of the expanded timestamp field are added to the most significant bits of the seconds field of the timestamps to defer the year 2038 problem for an additional 500 years.
Support for date-created timestamps was added in ext4. However, as Theodore Ts'o points out, while adding an extra creation date field in the inode is easy (thus technically enabling support for date-created timestamps in ext4), modifying or adding the necessary system calls, like stat() (which would probably require a new version), and the various libraries that depend on them (like glibc) is not trivial and would require the coordination of many different projects[8]. So even if ext4 developers implement initial support for creation-date timestamps, this feature will not be available to user programs for now."
I work on government contracts where the documentation is required as a deliverable for us to be paid. That makes it easier for me to recommend the wiki since we've got to keep the documentation current anyway (SVN works almost as well, but it isn't as accessible for reference as a wiki is...actually you can link SVN to a wiki;) ).
If you make the documentation a deliverable the wiki turns out to be easier on everyone because the documentation starts to take care of itself (I do most of my programming for my tools in PL/SQL but that job requires some DBA work as well so I understand it from that angle).
In my current work I have the forced hand of "CMMI compliance" which could help in a general work environment since they are good practices to mandate documentation, and better org your company. If for no other reason so you can force documentation to simply prove logically certain aspects of your applications without on-the-spot demonstration (like showing how your apps are backwards compatible with earlier standards or formats). I guess the key is discovering a neutral and competent reason to document your stuff./p?
If your company has itself a nice neat little network you can build yourself an intranet wiki to document all code and procedures. I've done something similar with my business and it helps with a lot of things!
It allows for easy access to business requirements by the tech leads as well as detailed explanations of function for the business leads. It will take an effort to set up, but once its going you're golden!
Well Australia was a prison colony...maybe they were just sticking to their roots and trying to rip off Europeans and nerdy American types using T-Mobile or AT&T? Either way I blame Hugh Jackman for this. WOLVERINE!!!!
The article doesn't suggest the type of Verizon service she got, so the "Verizon High Speed Internet CD" may not be the issue.
I've got FiOS and was using Ubuntu for a while. When the FiOS is rigged up to your home there are a lot of configurations that need to take place. If you get the FiOS TV and Internet, your TV's OnDemand features come via the router so there are certain things that need to be done to configure that by the technician installing the service. They carry a Auto-install-and-go USB stick so that they don't actually need to know the config needed. This is a Windows-only app and the tech will refuse to finish installing without it (as per your service contract).
I used a virtualized XP build I had on my Ubuntu box to get past this, and then reconfigured the router myself afterward...but I doubt this young lady knew how to virtualize any OS, let alone reconfigure her router afterward.
The real issue here is that there is a language barrier between casual PC users and their new Ubuntu goodness. Someone (maybe me?) should get something together for the user friendly Linux builds to act as a tutorial for the Windows to Linux cross-over. Something that is more than a tutorial, but a bridge. Something that links applications and actions. You type in Word it outputs Writer and a path to use OOo. I duuno...any ideas?
"This is seriously not a difficult enough problem to warrant a/. story.."
Agreed. I just clicked on this story because it was scrolling in my RSS ticker...I figured it would be something more informative or interesting...I was disappointed.
Just put a couple of bookmark links on the desktop to some of those free flash-game sites.
I've got a decent gaming PC and a X-Box 360 and I still find myself playing some simple game where you move a box around for an hour just because its addictive!
If you've got some skill and ambition then you can get a job, but you've got to be willing to do it for less pay.
I went to a dice.com job fair and accepted a paid internship to prove my worth. I had no job experience and no degree at the time, but I had a kid on the way and was in college for computer science. A great company gave me a shot because they could see the determination in me and that means a lot to many companies.
Its a year later and I'm a mid-level programmer and I got my BS and my family is going to celebrate a fruitful holiday. If you put in the effort, and play office politics the right way, you'll get the job and income you want sooner or later.
...and that way of thinking is why our version of capitalism will ultimately fail. Before anyone responds to that comment with some kind of argument go read up on the American Revolution, our Constitution, Capital (Marx), economic theory, and the value of labor then talk to me. Best deal does not always equal best price, sometimes you pay more in security (and I'm not talking door locks).
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You haven't addressed my argument. Google offers information on how to have their search spiders find your site easier just the same as TPB offers information on how to index your torrent files. Take a look at Google Analytics. That whole service is designed to help you index your site better. I once again make the point: if you say that indexing is a means of counterfitting explicitly than it is no stretch to argue indexing ANYTHING is contributing to it. Indexing porn sites makes you a pornographer.
I appreciate the dialog, this is the kind of back and forth I love about Slashdot. Intelligent conversation and debate!
Hahaha, thats a great line! I usually just use, "Look out behind you!" then I push them down the stairs.
I was just saying that to be a jerk, but now that you've brought it up:
TPB offers discographies the same way that Google offers porno. If you Google porno, you get results that lead you to places that ACTUALLY sell or distribute porno. So by your rationale Google offers pornography in a *practicle* sense.
Even though the workers at Google don't film, upload, post, or participate in the porn (maybe they do? I don't know anyone at Google...maybe they've got a porn star on staff...maybe they're responsible for the entire porn industry online!!!!) they've given you the tools for downloading or viewing the porn so that makes them the ones who are offering it. Right? So you're saying Google and Yahoo are distributing porn to our kids?! How dare they! They should be shut down!
Also a Googling of torrents or TPB will lead you to TPB or other torrent sites and thereby Google is just as guilty as TPB is of copyright infringement! Googles are the villains of the day century I guess, and nobody suspects a thing accept for you khellendros1984 (Is the 1984 a reference to the year you were born, or the book?...and if its both I don't appreciate the irony here) You truly are a hero!
Why don't you save your own brand of semantic pedantry for where it belongs and not in a *technical* forum.
...I think I even read about it on Slashdot almost a year ago...actually, yes I DID read it on Slashdot in October: Here it is
I actually tried to buy this since then from overseas (I'm in the US) vendors and it was very easy to do. If not off of eBay many vendors would ship it at a total cost of about $700 after shipping.
Agreed...however the Ewoks were almost as annoying as Jar-Jar, so he/she can get a pass if the annoyance of such stupid characters caused him/her to collapse to the floor in a seizure only to awaken 10 years later in the basement of a trusted coworker who has been using their stiff and comatose body as a pillow ever since...not that I'd know anything about such scenarios...I have plenty of other pillows, why would I need a comatose coworker with smooth skin?...
I couldn't agree more with your sentiment...accept The Pirate Bay doesn't offer downloads of discographies, they offer torrent mapping only ;)
Musicians weren't paid like they are today at any other time in history, and yet 50 years of overpriced LP's and albums give these people the idea that they can continue to rip us all off?! The music business model needs to change, and if the conventional record labels want to remain in the drivers seat they should probably embrace that change, not fight it!
6 seconds! That's like a dream for me! My wife's notebook is kinda old, and it runs XP, and in fact isn't capable of running any linux build that I've tried. Waking from sleep is 31 seconds...I haven't been able to keep time from boot since I usually fall asleep waiting for it to finish!
I'm thinking about getting the eee 900 in the next two weeks, so this discussion was particularly useful to me :) Thanks for your input and insight, I feel even more confident in my purchase (I was skeptical mostly because I don't see an exact need for a netbook considering Android's functionality and the promise of the Pre's; but if the netbook can work the way you and others have described I see the value!).
Like I said: I don't own a netbook. If you are aware of a config that works well then let us all know (since that seems to be the point of this thread)
I did copy and paste without reading too much of what I as submitting, for that I do apologize. The point I was driving at was that ext4 will boot faster which should allow for a better netbook experience. Why? Because you can simply shut down the box when not in use.
My wife's Toshiba notebook takes 31 seconds to "wake up" when put in standby mode...so 21 seconds from a off-state to rock n' roll is pretty awesome! It'll help battery time among other things. I'm sorry I copied the wrong portion of the Wikipedia entry, I should've just linked to the site that I have in this post. My bad.
This was all over the place yesterday.
Thats why they needed money back from their laid-off employees, they needed to pay for their programs to find everyone else employment! The leaders at Microsoft are truly saints of our time!
I would say that at the moment there isn't an OS out there that lends itself to the particular brand of configuration required for the netbooks, but if you wait just a bit longer it'll be worth the wait.
Aside from Windows 7's support for netbooks, the ext4 file system to be used with "Jaunty" will help with all the things you've complained about with Ubuntu as well as helping with boot time.
"As computers become faster in general and specifically Linux becomes used more for mission critical applications, the granularity of second-based timestamps becomes insufficient. To solve this, ext4 will have timestamps measured in nanoseconds. This feature is currently implemented in 2.6.23. In addition, 2 bits of the expanded timestamp field are added to the most significant bits of the seconds field of the timestamps to defer the year 2038 problem for an additional 500 years.
Support for date-created timestamps was added in ext4. However, as Theodore Ts'o points out, while adding an extra creation date field in the inode is easy (thus technically enabling support for date-created timestamps in ext4), modifying or adding the necessary system calls, like stat() (which would probably require a new version), and the various libraries that depend on them (like glibc) is not trivial and would require the coordination of many different projects[8]. So even if ext4 developers implement initial support for creation-date timestamps, this feature will not be available to user programs for now."
I work on government contracts where the documentation is required as a deliverable for us to be paid. That makes it easier for me to recommend the wiki since we've got to keep the documentation current anyway (SVN works almost as well, but it isn't as accessible for reference as a wiki is...actually you can link SVN to a wiki ;) ).
If you make the documentation a deliverable the wiki turns out to be easier on everyone because the documentation starts to take care of itself (I do most of my programming for my tools in PL/SQL but that job requires some DBA work as well so I understand it from that angle).
In my current work I have the forced hand of "CMMI compliance" which could help in a general work environment since they are good practices to mandate documentation, and better org your company. If for no other reason so you can force documentation to simply prove logically certain aspects of your applications without on-the-spot demonstration (like showing how your apps are backwards compatible with earlier standards or formats). I guess the key is discovering a neutral and competent reason to document your stuff./p?
If your company has itself a nice neat little network you can build yourself an intranet wiki to document all code and procedures. I've done something similar with my business and it helps with a lot of things!
It allows for easy access to business requirements by the tech leads as well as detailed explanations of function for the business leads. It will take an effort to set up, but once its going you're golden!
Well Australia was a prison colony...maybe they were just sticking to their roots and trying to rip off Europeans and nerdy American types using T-Mobile or AT&T? Either way I blame Hugh Jackman for this. WOLVERINE!!!!
The article doesn't suggest the type of Verizon service she got, so the "Verizon High Speed Internet CD" may not be the issue.
I've got FiOS and was using Ubuntu for a while. When the FiOS is rigged up to your home there are a lot of configurations that need to take place. If you get the FiOS TV and Internet, your TV's OnDemand features come via the router so there are certain things that need to be done to configure that by the technician installing the service. They carry a Auto-install-and-go USB stick so that they don't actually need to know the config needed. This is a Windows-only app and the tech will refuse to finish installing without it (as per your service contract).
I used a virtualized XP build I had on my Ubuntu box to get past this, and then reconfigured the router myself afterward...but I doubt this young lady knew how to virtualize any OS, let alone reconfigure her router afterward.
The real issue here is that there is a language barrier between casual PC users and their new Ubuntu goodness. Someone (maybe me?) should get something together for the user friendly Linux builds to act as a tutorial for the Windows to Linux cross-over. Something that is more than a tutorial, but a bridge. Something that links applications and actions. You type in Word it outputs Writer and a path to use OOo. I duuno...any ideas?
"This is seriously not a difficult enough problem to warrant a /. story.."
Agreed. I just clicked on this story because it was scrolling in my RSS ticker...I figured it would be something more informative or interesting...I was disappointed.
Just put a couple of bookmark links on the desktop to some of those free flash-game sites. I've got a decent gaming PC and a X-Box 360 and I still find myself playing some simple game where you move a box around for an hour just because its addictive!
then my torrents will download slow!
If you've got some skill and ambition then you can get a job, but you've got to be willing to do it for less pay. I went to a dice.com job fair and accepted a paid internship to prove my worth. I had no job experience and no degree at the time, but I had a kid on the way and was in college for computer science. A great company gave me a shot because they could see the determination in me and that means a lot to many companies. Its a year later and I'm a mid-level programmer and I got my BS and my family is going to celebrate a fruitful holiday. If you put in the effort, and play office politics the right way, you'll get the job and income you want sooner or later.
...and that way of thinking is why our version of capitalism will ultimately fail. Before anyone responds to that comment with some kind of argument go read up on the American Revolution, our Constitution, Capital (Marx), economic theory, and the value of labor then talk to me. Best deal does not always equal best price, sometimes you pay more in security (and I'm not talking door locks).