Look at it this way: You could say "Oh, you're from Manitoba. That's some beautiful country out there." Well, Manitoba isn't a country. But the landscape, the terrain, the plains, the wheat, all that shit is part of the generic term 'country'.
It's not French slang, btw. It's a language unto itself. If you study the history of it, Quebecois is very closely related to the french of the 1700s. It didn't mature in the same fasion as the France French. There's a lot of English influence in it, but it's not slang.
Slang is like "Hey, can I slip my tube steak into your sister? She ain't half bad lookin." That's slang.
And so what if a seperatist thinks Quebec should be its own country? Does that mean there's a fundamental flaw in the program?
I'm anal, I like good sound, but I can't hear all that well thanks to an obscene amount of fireworks and skeet shooting sans ear plugs.
This isn't directed at your post, but there's tons of audiophiles than don't know shit from shinola. They can repeat the same old crap about analog coverters, phono records, and gold plated this and gold plated that.
I think it's all bogus. Mp3 *can* sound just as good as the CD, despite it being a lossy mechanism. I don't like ogg, not for any reason, but mp3 is just a hell of a lot easier to deal with.
I DL shit from usenet all the time, I UL shit all the time. When files are encoded with LAME 3.90, using the --r3mix and - b112 switches, you don't beat it. I don't think there's a militant audiophile in this world who can, with 100% certianty, discern a difference between the real deal and the mp3.
Good ripping doesn't hurt either. Everybody rips their shit with AudioCatalyst in Burst mode and don't do any QC/QA on it, so you get blips and chirps and generally fucked up trash. That's why I quit using Napster and AudioGalaxy. It's like 24/7 amateur night and nobody has any care about quality. They get this attitude like "Well, fuck 'em if they don't like it." Problem is, once 100 people have your file, getting anything *other* than the shit version is next to impossible.
For ripping, I wish everyone would use CDParanoia or EAC in Secure Mode. You don't beat it.
There's a ton of info at http://www.r3mix.net. It's a good place to start, and a good place to finish.
I see your point and agree completely. The people in Afghanistan were properly fucked by the government, either the Northern Alliance (which has a less than steller record) or the Taliban.
The thing is, and apparently people are entirely unaware about this, is that crime dropped to nearly zero after the Taliban took control. Premarital sex: whip the heretic woman
Theft: Whip them until they bleed to death
Drugs: Execute them
Thought crimes (if anybody still reads 1984...): Death or hideous torture
So crime isn't a problem and the only people allowed to commit crimes are the government who has made all other crime illegal, except that which it commits itself. But hey, when you make the rules, you can make a rule saying "We who make the rules can break no rules"
With the rate things are going, who's to say if the new US approved Afghanistan government will be any better at securing civil rights for the people than the current Taliban....
Yeah, they were secure alright, but what's the point in living like dogs?
Unless you have some proof that the images we saw on TV are a hollywood special effect and that the smoke and stench in lower Manhattan today is really a complex media hoax there is absolutely NO comparison to the Spanish-American war.
You're missing the point. The comparision is as such:
Today: massive superpower with a the most expensive toy in the world (a military) that can never take it out to play. Goal: beating the piss out of a bunch of hapless, poverty stricked farmers, at the urging of a vengeful and easily manipulated public.
Then: regional superpower with a military dozens of times larger than it's opponent. Goal: beat the piss out of a bunch of hapless, poverty stricken farmers, at the urging of at the urging of a vengeful and easily manipulated public.
Apparently history is not longer taught as most people are amazingly myopic about events older than 15 years.
'Twas the Spanish American war which gave rise to the tabloids. Pulitzer, remember him? Yeah, well, he was a scummy journalist who helped, along with other publishers of the day, to get the jingoistic ferver stirred up into a bonafide shitstorm until we all were ready to pummel a bunch of hapless down and out poverty striken farmers in Cuba.
Oddly, the same shit people spouted then "We have to get those bastards! American will not stand for this! This unchecked aggression! Rally 'round the flag "America, america, god shed his grace on thee...." etc etc -- that same old party line is getting rehased now, only this time, it's courtesey of the NYTimes, Washpost, CNN, FoxNews, etc...whereas before it would have been the bowels of the indsutry like the NY Daily News, and VCY America News Network.
This means that if you think your system was better off with the 2.2.14 kernel
2.2.14 has a number of security problems. So no, it's not always prudent to pick some kernel at random and use it, just because it's old. However, it probably is wise to grab the latest 2.2.x kernel, and go with that.
And yes, you can still find older versions of Windows, so don't pull that typical zealot FUD...It was only about a week ago that MS finally discontinued NT 4.0, which has been out for ages.
The trouble with SETI@Home is that it's based on the assumption that somebody is sending a signal with a "carrier", a constant-frequency signal. The trouble with looking for carriers is that any sufficiently advanced transmission system looks like noise. (That's why modern modems sound like noise, not beeps.) Carriers are obsolete, because they waste energy and spectrum. For example, about 80% of a TV signal's energy is in the carrier, which carries no information.
That nice that you can armchair QB one of the largest efforts in computing ever. Are you an expert in foreign policy too? There's a coalition of pundits on that thread, and your expert analysis is needed there too. What do you think about the French involvement in Afghanistan?
The point is this: I'm sure a few dozen PhDs from the world's top research universities have a bit more insight into something than some guy who runs a website about animation tools.
Maybe, just maybe, they've thought of this? I dunno, they did manage to construct a system of 3 million distributed computers, and probably even know how to drive a stick shift, so you suppose it's possible they thought of this too?
Yeah, if you do, you end up with something like the Sonique mp3 player -- something innovating and pretty looking, but a flat out pain in the ass to use, coming from something like [insert 99 other mp3 player names here].
As the article grossly overstates even the most mundane details:
Take plywood for light duty, metal for heavy duty
Fashion it together into a rectangle shape.
Install a back and sides, insert equipment. Viola!
Whilst I applaud them for illustrating what a rape job most rack cabinets are, I think if you can install Sendmail or configure innd, you can probably have enough wits to use a skillsaw and a few screws.
Is this Slashdot, or FuckedCompany? An obscene amount of Page 1 news on/. is YADILB - Yet Another ISP Bankruptcy.
This is getting old, and with all the great, obscure stuff relegated to other Sections, and therefore never getting nearly the exposure they deserve, stuff is getting overlooked in favor of this type of pedantic shit.
Surprise, surprise, ISPs are going bankrupt. This isn't a matter which has a whole lot of avenues for discussion. We can talk and talk about the Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda game all day, but in the end, it's same old, same old.
A year ago, Taco finally began posting stories when the shit hit the fan for all the Linux businesses, but only did so after bitching that/. Wasn't a Financial News Site, so HERE IT IS, QUIT BITCHING. Now we're on the opposite end of this.
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These are actually a lot easier on the road, believe it or not.
Excellent point. For the very same reason, more and more farmers (who can afford them) are trying out Cat and Case tracked combines and tractors. Soil compaction is a huge issue, and having the weight distributed over a much larger area mitigates a number of issues arising from conventional wheeled vehicles.
As far as I can see, wouldn't that put the crew into a really hairy position? Without support from the ground, how they'd have no way to know how to try diagnosing / fixing the problem.
Hmm, RTFM perhaps?
I doubt they just get thrust into the station untrained. Training, I'd guess, is fairly complete. They are after all, orbiting a planet at 17,500+ mph in a vacuum. One would think that self reliance is a tad valued.
If soybean-based fuels boost the price of soybeans, it will also help encourage corn farmers to rotate soybeans through their fields more often, which will further decrease the amount of energy needed for fertilizer.
Probably not. Soybeans require a different infrastructure than corn. Plus, the price of soybeans is so low that the government subsidizes soybean prices with loan deficiency payments. If the price of soybeans rises, farmers will not see any more money, just lower LDPs.
I agree that corn is hard on the environment. Soybeans are a better choice.
Truthfully, there are a lot of people out there for whom Linux is not an option. There are a lot of people out there who don't know how to compile the source they got from someone to get a program to run. To be an efficient Linux user, this is one of the many special skills you have to have. In this sense, Windows does appeal to a lot of people, a lot of smart people too, the only difference is they are not computer techs, they have other specialities.
You imply that some special and exotic ability is required to compile and install software. For 90% of the stuff out there, these are the steps to follow:
./configure
make
make install
done.
Provided your distro isn't dumbed down and assumes, much like you do, that a compiler is way to hard to use, so why include it in the default install? What the hell is so exotic about that? I think even the stupidest person can type about a dozen keystrokes.
You make a good point about the learning curve, but to assume that the vast majority of people aren't capable of learning, so why bother teaching them is so completely arrogant that I am insulted. Even me, as an English Education major, had zero trouble configuring a decent firewall and masquerade box with a bit of port forwarding.
The difficulty in using Linux lies not with the difficulty of using the OS, but a failure for users of all skill levels to RTFM. *EVERYTHING* one needs to do to compile programs, or setup qmail, or setup IP masquerading is available in step by step documents no more difficult to use than a recipe for pound cake. That's all it is, just a recipe. Linux HOW-TOs, for those that have enough sense to read them, in lieu of stupidly hitting keys and bitching, can solve a vast majority of issues.
Things ain't any easier on Windows. I have yet to fully understand how the hell Windows 2000 works for IP masquerading, aka Internet Connection Sharing. So few decent docs exist, that Linux was a much easier solution.
To assume that some people just aren't fit for linux plays into many of the Linux elitist stereotypes that turns off informed users.
Anyone is capable of being an "efficient Linux user" provided they'd just read the damn directions.
This reminded me of an article I read in the Winnipeg Free Press about three years ago. During the time I was in Winnipeg, a rash of arson plagued the city. Kids, 10-19 years old, set fire to abandoned houses.
Firefighters, often responding to fires in houses burned two and three times over, were at risk for injury as these houses were apt to collapse due to the severe damage.
In the article, the Winnipeg Fire Cheif, despite his anger at sending his men into very dangerous situations, didn't blame the kids. He said something to the effect of, "They [kids] have nothing else to do -- nothing to keep them busy, nothing to keep them out of trouble. We need to find ways to keep kids out of trouble, be it evening programs, sports, academic pursuits."
Contrast his view with the typical American view of things - spend money not on enriching pursuits and positive activites, but on more police enforcement and juvenille detention centers.
The thoughts and activities of a society manifest itself in its youth. Canada is no utopia but seems to recognize that jail only makes for meaner and more bitter citizens.
Ok, so I pay $500-$1000 for a system with a 17" monitor. Then, I pay $25-50/month for broadband internet access. After all this, I have the honor of paying $10/month to watch baseball in a puny screen with piss poor audio?
I think an $80 13" TV from Target and the rabbit ear antenna will do nicely instead.
Memo to MLB and any other media outlets: The "neato" aspect of streaming video expired in about Q3 1997.
Hey, they could do like 94% of the other Linux distributions: CALL FOR MIRRORS.
It's a novel idea, really. Asking people like myself, with big fat, unsaturated pipes to both the commodity internet and Internet2 (really big pipe), and gigs of HD space unused on a spare box, to host a DL. Redhat wouldn't have been quite so profitable (breaking even in Linux is called profit) if all users had to DL their 2 CD set from Redhat run servers. Mandrake, king of the super distros, has a monstrous page of mirrors.
Looking over the DL page, clearly the distro has some mirrors. Why not say "Get the newest version from ibiblio.org or its mirrors"?
Sounds like a business plan based on OPP -- other people's products.
That paper there, the Argus Leader, is the largest paper in South Dakota, and among the largest in the upper great plains. They've been gung ho about an internet sales tax for quite sometime, and it appears to be havin an effect.
For a dose of how middle america sees these.coms, check it out, and while your at it, use the link "send a letter to the editor." Maybe some informed opinion, versus the "OhMyGod those.coms are killing Ma and Pa in de store dere."
Here's the argument:
"Those lost revenues put added burden on bricks-and-mortar businesses when catalog and cyber-retailers aren't paying a fair share. And with that 5 percent or more discount, some price-conscious buyers are abandoning local businesses."
By the way, nobody mentioned catalog retailers....just e-commerce.
"Hell, we can make it a community-based site. I don't suppose it would take more than a couple of weeks for some of the 'net's elites to initiate such a service."
Considering CDDB has sucked and been a turncoat for some time, you idea has reached fruition in the form of Freedb.org. All the benefits of CDDB, sans the corporate lust.
Slashdot Mirror
Look at it this way: You could say "Oh, you're from Manitoba. That's some beautiful country out there." Well, Manitoba isn't a country. But the landscape, the terrain, the plains, the wheat, all that shit is part of the generic term 'country'.
It's not French slang, btw. It's a language unto itself. If you study the history of it, Quebecois is very closely related to the french of the 1700s. It didn't mature in the same fasion as the France French. There's a lot of English influence in it, but it's not slang.
Slang is like "Hey, can I slip my tube steak into your sister? She ain't half bad lookin." That's slang.
And so what if a seperatist thinks Quebec should be its own country? Does that mean there's a fundamental flaw in the program?
I'm anal, I like good sound, but I can't hear all that well thanks to an obscene amount of fireworks and skeet shooting sans ear plugs.
This isn't directed at your post, but there's tons of audiophiles than don't know shit from shinola. They can repeat the same old crap about analog coverters, phono records, and gold plated this and gold plated that.
I think it's all bogus. Mp3 *can* sound just as good as the CD, despite it being a lossy mechanism. I don't like ogg, not for any reason, but mp3 is just a hell of a lot easier to deal with.
I DL shit from usenet all the time, I UL shit all the time. When files are encoded with LAME 3.90, using the --r3mix and - b112 switches, you don't beat it. I don't think there's a militant audiophile in this world who can, with 100% certianty, discern a difference between the real deal and the mp3.
Good ripping doesn't hurt either. Everybody rips their shit with AudioCatalyst in Burst mode and don't do any QC/QA on it, so you get blips and chirps and generally fucked up trash. That's why I quit using Napster and AudioGalaxy. It's like 24/7 amateur night and nobody has any care about quality. They get this attitude like "Well, fuck 'em if they don't like it." Problem is, once 100 people have your file, getting anything *other* than the shit version is next to impossible.
For ripping, I wish everyone would use CDParanoia or EAC in Secure Mode. You don't beat it.
There's a ton of info at http://www.r3mix.net. It's a good place to start, and a good place to finish.
Win: EAC Secure mode, LAME 3.90 --r3mix - b112
Linux: CDParanoia, same LAME
I see your point and agree completely. The people in Afghanistan were properly fucked by the government, either the Northern Alliance (which has a less than steller record) or the Taliban.
The thing is, and apparently people are entirely unaware about this, is that crime dropped to nearly zero after the Taliban took control. Premarital sex: whip the heretic woman
Theft: Whip them until they bleed to death
Drugs: Execute them
Thought crimes (if anybody still reads 1984...): Death or hideous torture
So crime isn't a problem and the only people allowed to commit crimes are the government who has made all other crime illegal, except that which it commits itself. But hey, when you make the rules, you can make a rule saying "We who make the rules can break no rules"
With the rate things are going, who's to say if the new US approved Afghanistan government will be any better at securing civil rights for the people than the current Taliban....
Yeah, they were secure alright, but what's the point in living like dogs?
Unless you have some proof that the images we saw on TV are a hollywood special effect and that the smoke and stench in lower Manhattan today is really a complex media hoax there is absolutely NO comparison to the Spanish-American war.
You're missing the point. The comparision is as such:
Today: massive superpower with a the most expensive toy in the world (a military) that can never take it out to play. Goal: beating the piss out of a bunch of hapless, poverty stricked farmers, at the urging of a vengeful and easily manipulated public.
Then: regional superpower with a military dozens of times larger than it's opponent. Goal: beat the piss out of a bunch of hapless, poverty stricken farmers, at the urging of at the urging of a vengeful and easily manipulated public.
And, BTW, the Maine really did explode.
Good point. Pulitzer was following Hearst's game, and THAT is what lead to the whole clusterfuck.
Apparently history is not longer taught as most people are amazingly myopic about events older than 15 years.
'Twas the Spanish American war which gave rise to the tabloids. Pulitzer, remember him? Yeah, well, he was a scummy journalist who helped, along with other publishers of the day, to get the jingoistic ferver stirred up into a bonafide shitstorm until we all were ready to pummel a bunch of hapless down and out poverty striken farmers in Cuba.
Oddly, the same shit people spouted then "We have to get those bastards! American will not stand for this! This unchecked aggression! Rally 'round the flag "America, america, god shed his grace on thee...." etc etc -- that same old party line is getting rehased now, only this time, it's courtesey of the NYTimes, Washpost, CNN, FoxNews, etc...whereas before it would have been the bowels of the indsutry like the NY Daily News, and VCY America News Network.
This means that if you think your system was better off with the 2.2.14 kernel
2.2.14 has a number of security problems. So no, it's not always prudent to pick some kernel at random and use it, just because it's old. However, it probably is wise to grab the latest 2.2.x kernel, and go with that.
And yes, you can still find older versions of Windows, so don't pull that typical zealot FUD...It was only about a week ago that MS finally discontinued NT 4.0, which has been out for ages.
The trouble with SETI@Home is that it's based on the assumption that somebody is sending a signal with a "carrier", a constant-frequency signal. The trouble with looking for carriers is that any sufficiently advanced transmission system looks like noise. (That's why modern modems sound like noise, not beeps.) Carriers are obsolete, because they waste energy and spectrum. For example, about 80% of a TV signal's energy is in the carrier, which carries no information.
That nice that you can armchair QB one of the largest efforts in computing ever. Are you an expert in foreign policy too? There's a coalition of pundits on that thread, and your expert analysis is needed there too. What do you think about the French involvement in Afghanistan?
The point is this: I'm sure a few dozen PhDs from the world's top research universities have a bit more insight into something than some guy who runs a website about animation tools.
Maybe, just maybe, they've thought of this? I dunno, they did manage to construct a system of 3 million distributed computers, and probably even know how to drive a stick shift, so you suppose it's possible they thought of this too?
Yeah, if you do, you end up with something like the Sonique mp3 player -- something innovating and pretty looking, but a flat out pain in the ass to use, coming from something like [insert 99 other mp3 player names here].
As the article grossly overstates even the most mundane details:
Take plywood for light duty, metal for heavy duty
Fashion it together into a rectangle shape.
Install a back and sides, insert equipment. Viola!
Whilst I applaud them for illustrating what a rape job most rack cabinets are, I think if you can install Sendmail or configure innd, you can probably have enough wits to use a skillsaw and a few screws.
No, but you may hotsync it with some yummy kettle corn or some corn on the cob.
And if you win, how the hell do you ship something like this. The seller has neglected to include the most important nugget.
What major shipping carrier will ship a 50lb chunk of butter with a promise not to melt it?
Maybe this is more of a proof of concept thing -- to see if people really *will* buy any old shit on Ebay.
Is this Slashdot, or FuckedCompany? An obscene amount of Page 1 news on /. is YADILB - Yet Another ISP Bankruptcy.
/. Wasn't a Financial News Site, so HERE IT IS, QUIT BITCHING. Now we're on the opposite end of this.
This is getting old, and with all the great, obscure stuff relegated to other Sections, and therefore never getting nearly the exposure they deserve, stuff is getting overlooked in favor of this type of pedantic shit.
Surprise, surprise, ISPs are going bankrupt. This isn't a matter which has a whole lot of avenues for discussion. We can talk and talk about the Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda game all day, but in the end, it's same old, same old.
A year ago, Taco finally began posting stories when the shit hit the fan for all the Linux businesses, but only did so after bitching that
These are actually a lot easier on the road, believe it or not.
Excellent point. For the very same reason, more and more farmers (who can afford them) are trying out Cat and Case tracked combines and tractors. Soil compaction is a huge issue, and having the weight distributed over a much larger area mitigates a number of issues arising from conventional wheeled vehicles.
As far as I can see, wouldn't that put the crew into a really hairy position? Without support from the ground, how they'd have no way to know how to try diagnosing / fixing the problem.
Hmm, RTFM perhaps?
I doubt they just get thrust into the station untrained. Training, I'd guess, is fairly complete. They are after all, orbiting a planet at 17,500+ mph in a vacuum. One would think that self reliance is a tad valued.
Say what you want about how great MacOS X and Darwin are, but the guy has something right: it doesn't seem that great.
m od e_w=on&site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opensource.apple.com% 2F&submit=Examine
.5 days uptime, at best.
Check out the following link:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=off&
Look real close and take note on the max uptime for the flagship Darwin server:
Not impressive.
If soybean-based fuels boost the price of soybeans, it will also help encourage corn farmers to rotate soybeans through their fields more often, which will further decrease the amount of energy needed for fertilizer.
Probably not. Soybeans require a different infrastructure than corn. Plus, the price of soybeans is so low that the government subsidizes soybean prices with loan deficiency payments. If the price of soybeans rises, farmers will not see any more money, just lower LDPs.
I agree that corn is hard on the environment. Soybeans are a better choice.
Perhaps you should check the ftp trees.
/ os /i686/glibc-2.2-12.i686.rpm
/ os /i686/kernel-enterprise-2.2.17-14.i686.rpm
For example:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/7/redhat/updates/7.0/en
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/7/redhat/updates/7.0/en
Same goes for i586.
Truthfully, there are a lot of people out there for whom Linux is not an option. There are a lot of people out there who don't know how to compile the source they got from someone to get a program to run. To be an efficient Linux user, this is one of the many special skills you have to have. In this sense, Windows does appeal to a lot of people, a lot of smart people too, the only difference is they are not computer techs, they have other specialities.
You imply that some special and exotic ability is required to compile and install software. For 90% of the stuff out there, these are the steps to follow:
./configure
make
make install
done.
Provided your distro isn't dumbed down and assumes, much like you do, that a compiler is way to hard to use, so why include it in the default install? What the hell is so exotic about that? I think even the stupidest person can type about a dozen keystrokes.
You make a good point about the learning curve, but to assume that the vast majority of people aren't capable of learning, so why bother teaching them is so completely arrogant that I am insulted. Even me, as an English Education major, had zero trouble configuring a decent firewall and masquerade box with a bit of port forwarding.
The difficulty in using Linux lies not with the difficulty of using the OS, but a failure for users of all skill levels to RTFM. *EVERYTHING* one needs to do to compile programs, or setup qmail, or setup IP masquerading is available in step by step documents no more difficult to use than a recipe for pound cake. That's all it is, just a recipe. Linux HOW-TOs, for those that have enough sense to read them, in lieu of stupidly hitting keys and bitching, can solve a vast majority of issues.
Things ain't any easier on Windows. I have yet to fully understand how the hell Windows 2000 works for IP masquerading, aka Internet Connection Sharing. So few decent docs exist, that Linux was a much easier solution.
To assume that some people just aren't fit for linux plays into many of the Linux elitist stereotypes that turns off informed users.
Anyone is capable of being an "efficient Linux user" provided they'd just read the damn directions.
This reminded me of an article I read in the Winnipeg Free Press about three years ago. During the time I was in Winnipeg, a rash of arson plagued the city. Kids, 10-19 years old, set fire to abandoned houses.
Firefighters, often responding to fires in houses burned two and three times over, were at risk for injury as these houses were apt to collapse due to the severe damage.
In the article, the Winnipeg Fire Cheif, despite his anger at sending his men into very dangerous situations, didn't blame the kids. He said something to the effect of, "They [kids] have nothing else to do -- nothing to keep them busy, nothing to keep them out of trouble. We need to find ways to keep kids out of trouble, be it evening programs, sports, academic pursuits."
Contrast his view with the typical American view of things - spend money not on enriching pursuits and positive activites, but on more police enforcement and juvenille detention centers.
The thoughts and activities of a society manifest itself in its youth. Canada is no utopia but seems to recognize that jail only makes for meaner and more bitter citizens.
I really hate it when people make statements like this. No one is going to buy a computer system just to listen to MLB
Like hell they won't. You have obviosly never been exposed to the evils of retail computer sales.
"I want a computer. I need to Internet." or "I want to use online banking" or "I want to watch TV on my computer."
All real phrases uttered by hapless fish driven to a marketing frenzy by gong-pounding blue men.
Ok, so I pay $500-$1000 for a system with a 17" monitor. Then, I pay $25-50/month for broadband internet access. After all this, I have the honor of paying $10/month to watch baseball in a puny screen with piss poor audio?
I think an $80 13" TV from Target and the rabbit ear antenna will do nicely instead.
Memo to MLB and any other media outlets: The "neato" aspect of streaming video expired in about Q3 1997.
Hey, they could do like 94% of the other Linux distributions: CALL FOR MIRRORS.
It's a novel idea, really. Asking people like myself, with big fat, unsaturated pipes to both the commodity internet and Internet2 (really big pipe), and gigs of HD space unused on a spare box, to host a DL. Redhat wouldn't have been quite so profitable (breaking even in Linux is called profit) if all users had to DL their 2 CD set from Redhat run servers. Mandrake, king of the super distros, has a monstrous page of mirrors.
Looking over the DL page, clearly the distro has some mirrors. Why not say "Get the newest version from ibiblio.org or its mirrors"?
Sounds like a business plan based on OPP -- other people's products.
I'll host the damn iso. Email me.
http://www.argusleader.com/editorial/Wednesdayfeat ure.shtml
.coms, check it out, and while your at it, use the link "send a letter to the editor." Maybe some informed opinion, versus the "OhMyGod those .coms are killing Ma and Pa in de store dere."
That paper there, the Argus Leader, is the largest paper in South Dakota, and among the largest in the upper great plains. They've been gung ho about an internet sales tax for quite sometime, and it appears to be havin an effect.
For a dose of how middle america sees these
Here's the argument:
"Those lost revenues put added burden on bricks-and-mortar businesses when catalog and cyber-retailers aren't paying a fair share. And with that 5 percent or more discount, some price-conscious buyers are abandoning local businesses."
By the way, nobody mentioned catalog retailers....just e-commerce.
"Hell, we can make it a community-based site. I don't suppose it would take more than a couple of weeks for some of the 'net's elites to initiate such a service."
Considering CDDB has sucked and been a turncoat for some time, you idea has reached fruition in the form of Freedb.org. All the benefits of CDDB, sans the corporate lust.