The netherlands has some of the best peering arrangements in europe, so you tend to find that anyone providing latency-sensitive services in europe will base their servers there.
Try on irc.quakenet.org. I frequent on there a lot as its used by the competitive communities for pretty much every online game in europe, I mean theres plenty of smart people (the real idiots don't even know how to use IRC) but i bet if you went into a number of channels you'd find plenty of gulible users.
1: Buy a cheap VPS (linode.com are pretty good)
2: Install a torrent client (torrentflux is great, its essentially a nice PHP front-end to BitTornado.
3: Download torrents on VPS in a fraction of the time it would take on your home connection.
4: Download from VPS by another method (SCP/HTTP/etc)
This is often far quicker than actually downloading it on my home PC simply due to a VPS being to handle far more concurrent connections than my home router
The funny thing is, MSY (one of the websites on that list) is actually hugely popular with technology enthusiasts in Australia.
Not all websites NEED to be pretty, they just need to convey the right information.
You will never be able to get a true representation of graphics from a compressed image or video. The only way to truely show it would be something like lagarith or bitmap, or, you know, to actually see it in person?
And then when I read about the current state of the education system, I get just a bit worried...
Speaking as a student here in the UK where the "education" system is almost as bad, all I can say is don't worry. The truly smart, get smart and jump ship.
Whats wrong with writing a VERY VERY basic program that gives a list of browser, the user picks one and then the program downloads it via FTP from a central respository and then installs it.
Honestly, It sounds to me like everyone is over-engineering this to to death. That would take any capable programmer (myself) included less than a day to make. Whats the problem?
Agreed. Personally I'd never use OSX as I absolutely refuse on principal to use an OS I can't run on my own custom built PC, but thats another story. I still only see Solaris as being particularly practical in a server enviroment.
One of the lovely things about linux is this:
I have my HTC Hero sitting next to me, One the box it says Android but I know that under the hood (and a very thin one at that) its still running a standard linux kernel. Aswell as running on my phone, the exact same Operating system is also running on a couple of servers I run my buisness from. That is the true greatness of linux. Although as the saying goes: Jack of all trades, Master of none.
OpenSolaris is likely your better option for your netbook. Its likely that all you'll do on a netbook, is... well... the net. And OpenSolaris is certainly better for that purpose than Windows 7.
You miss my point. Thats user ready for US - me and you - who are interested in computers and are happy to take the time to learn all about it. Most people are too damn lazy (i refuse to accept stupid to be the case given personal experience, its pure laziness) to learn a new OS. Setup Ubuntu on a laptop, then show someone how to open Firefox and thats it; their sorted.
Thats really not the case for OpenSolaris; nowhere near it.
But anyway, Im on the side as you here, anything that gets more people off Windows, the better. Personally im a hypocrite in that as both my laptop and Desktop are running Windows 7 but those are the only computers I own which do. At the moment, I have such a huge number of Windows-only programs that its simply impractical to switch. But given good reason - whether that be a bad new mistake in windows or something new in linux - I wouldn't hesitate to.
You could say the same about Linux. Doesn't mean it's a bad idea to try it.
Well not exactly, Linux wasen't written with servers in mind, Solaris was, but anyway thats by-the-by now.
Im not against Solaris, I think its great also, infact ive even been toying with the idea of putting it on my home server for the exact same reason you just stated regarding ZFS. I just think that at the moment, the only Open Source OS thats even nearly practical for typical day-to-day desktop use is Linux. OSS is pretty thinly spread as it is, I think as a community, we need to just concentrate on getting at least 1 OS totally practical for desktop use before we start peddeling others.
Currently, this is EXACTLY how any of the Valves multiplayer Source engine games (CSS, Left 4 Dead, TF2) work at the moment in regards to checking that no game files have been modified (read: cheating). The server asks for hashes of a number of game files when the client connects. It works fantastically well and I personally see no reason why it would not work for making sure that a copy of the game is legal also. Obviously this leaves potential for people to use cracked servers but those are few and far between.
No... If this were true, we'd all be playing multi-terabyte 4K video uncompressed on our computers because the studios would simply distribute it at that quality then? No, you downscale the video file, then put the smaller file on the device you wish to play or on the internet to stream.
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The netherlands has some of the best peering arrangements in europe, so you tend to find that anyone providing latency-sensitive services in europe will base their servers there.
Try on irc.quakenet.org. I frequent on there a lot as its used by the competitive communities for pretty much every online game in europe, I mean theres plenty of smart people (the real idiots don't even know how to use IRC) but i bet if you went into a number of channels you'd find plenty of gulible users.
"By the end of summer" really, in valve time, means "at some point next year". Its great, it'll happen, but I wouldn't hold your breat.
Heres what i've been doing for over a year:
1: Buy a cheap VPS (linode.com are pretty good)
2: Install a torrent client (torrentflux is great, its essentially a nice PHP front-end to BitTornado.
3: Download torrents on VPS in a fraction of the time it would take on your home connection.
4: Download from VPS by another method (SCP/HTTP/etc)
This is often far quicker than actually downloading it on my home PC simply due to a VPS being to handle far more concurrent connections than my home router
The funny thing is, MSY (one of the websites on that list) is actually hugely popular with technology enthusiasts in Australia. Not all websites NEED to be pretty, they just need to convey the right information.
You will never be able to get a true representation of graphics from a compressed image or video. The only way to truely show it would be something like lagarith or bitmap, or, you know, to actually see it in person?
Speaking as a student here in the UK where the "education" system is almost as bad, all I can say is don't worry. The truly smart, get smart and jump ship.
Whats wrong with writing a VERY VERY basic program that gives a list of browser, the user picks one and then the program downloads it via FTP from a central respository and then installs it.
Honestly, It sounds to me like everyone is over-engineering this to to death. That would take any capable programmer (myself) included less than a day to make. Whats the problem?
Whats wrong with thunderbird?
Agreed. Personally I'd never use OSX as I absolutely refuse on principal to use an OS I can't run on my own custom built PC, but thats another story. I still only see Solaris as being particularly practical in a server enviroment.
One of the lovely things about linux is this: I have my HTC Hero sitting next to me, One the box it says Android but I know that under the hood (and a very thin one at that) its still running a standard linux kernel. Aswell as running on my phone, the exact same Operating system is also running on a couple of servers I run my buisness from. That is the true greatness of linux. Although as the saying goes: Jack of all trades, Master of none.
iTunes converts all music to AAC before actually putting it on the iPod. Its pure laziness on the part of apple not to add those codecs to iTunes.
OpenSolaris is likely your better option for your netbook. Its likely that all you'll do on a netbook, is... well... the net. And OpenSolaris is certainly better for that purpose than Windows 7.
Wow thats impressive....
My OP post gets Modded +3 Insightful, and then my reply to someone who commented on it gets modded troll.
Slashdot, well done, you never fail to amaze me.
Its an MP3 player... Why the fuck does it have a camera on it?
Same here? What Operating System do you use Sir?
That is why Linux is practical and others aren't. Most isn't good enough. Only ALL is satisfactory.
You miss my point. Thats user ready for US - me and you - who are interested in computers and are happy to take the time to learn all about it. Most people are too damn lazy (i refuse to accept stupid to be the case given personal experience, its pure laziness) to learn a new OS. Setup Ubuntu on a laptop, then show someone how to open Firefox and thats it; their sorted.
Thats really not the case for OpenSolaris; nowhere near it.
But anyway, Im on the side as you here, anything that gets more people off Windows, the better. Personally im a hypocrite in that as both my laptop and Desktop are running Windows 7 but those are the only computers I own which do. At the moment, I have such a huge number of Windows-only programs that its simply impractical to switch. But given good reason - whether that be a bad new mistake in windows or something new in linux - I wouldn't hesitate to.
Well not exactly, Linux wasen't written with servers in mind, Solaris was, but anyway thats by-the-by now. Im not against Solaris, I think its great also, infact ive even been toying with the idea of putting it on my home server for the exact same reason you just stated regarding ZFS. I just think that at the moment, the only Open Source OS thats even nearly practical for typical day-to-day desktop use is Linux. OSS is pretty thinly spread as it is, I think as a community, we need to just concentrate on getting at least 1 OS totally practical for desktop use before we start peddeling others.
Why try to hack it on to a desktop?
I'd have to +1 this idea.
Currently, this is EXACTLY how any of the Valves multiplayer Source engine games (CSS, Left 4 Dead, TF2) work at the moment in regards to checking that no game files have been modified (read: cheating). The server asks for hashes of a number of game files when the client connects. It works fantastically well and I personally see no reason why it would not work for making sure that a copy of the game is legal also. Obviously this leaves potential for people to use cracked servers but those are few and far between.
Damn you all Slashdot! I am scottish, however the link has been slashdot'd so I am unable to fulfill my dreams! Damn you all!
I like how you have a higher UID than the person your saying is new here. :)
As much as I would love to be able to nod in agreement, Flash works perfectly well on my 64bit Windows 7 install.
No... If this were true, we'd all be playing multi-terabyte 4K video uncompressed on our computers because the studios would simply distribute it at that quality then? No, you downscale the video file, then put the smaller file on the device you wish to play or on the internet to stream.
The link I posted is actually meant as a joke. :)
I think that comment is a testament to just how good Onion is.