Its a legit website, which has been giving live written commentary of cricket matches for years for free. In India, while you are at work, it's the best way to get updates. I don't see why live sports reporting should be a problem. You have a working and highly popular example right in front of you.. There are also services on cellular networks which provide live scores for around half a dollar a month.
I studied Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad" in India. Almost on the very first day of classes, we get a mail account and a programming account on locally hosted servers, to which we ssh through putty on Windows machines in the labs. Of course, it was just a matter of weeks before we installed Redhat on all the machines, considering this was 2003. Not that we were the first, we just inherited the prevalent culture. Also, the students were the admins of the labs and some senior students become the student Sys-Admins of the servers and infrastructure.
Also, being a university, only open technologies were part of the curriculum with some rare exceptions. So, Windows didn't make too much sense from a programming perspective. We only used Windows for multi-player gaming in the hostels (Quake, CS-CZ, UT, BF2, Warcraft etc..).. ah.. good ol days!:) Even our personal machines in our hostel rooms were dual boot config and the time apart from gaming was spent in Linux (SUSE and then Ubuntu). The only issue we had back then was that wired access wasn't available in all the rooms and wireless drivers were hard to find in Linux especially for a D-Link card, the only solution being Ndiswrapper.
The other premier institute in India, the IIT's use Solaris instead of Linux as the standard system.
I find it shocking to read about the response of the IT staff in your university. I think you need to start a campaign to modernize/enlighten your university. The first thing you learn after C programming being Computer Architecture, Compilers and OS Internals, it would be wise to use an OS which is open, not a closed source proprietary OS, which is now incidentally targeting your grandma as their new demographic with their latest release.
I hope the companies would just put their efforts in creating a semantic web, instead of trying to hack-patch html by adding random meta-data for the purpose of search. Seriously.. focus people!
This has been in the pipeline for a while now and it kinda makes sense. Currently the 2.6.xxx has so many versions, it is no longer clear which is from when. His reasoning for the 3.0 as Linus says is that 2 decades have passed in the linux kernel development (Sounds like he's trying to avoid a conflict by giving a reason which cannot be argued against). But it also feels like the 3rd generation in linux kernels too with all the new hardware nowadays.
I feel somewhat relieved by this move.. its like i have been holding my breath for decades and can let it go now!
LOL, cheers for that troll reply. I put my hand up rather than blurting it out, as the speaker said when they started that if you had a comment or observation to make then you should put your hand up and he'd ask you to share it with the others (if it sounds school-like, it was a schools security conferenec).
The 10 second thing has never been true in general - at least not since 1995, which is when I first went online. The only change I've seen over the years is that rather than a single probe at a port you might now get several at once.
Note that I'm not saying that security is irrelevant, as it's clearly very important. I just have an issue with that utterly rubbish "A Windows machine gets probed within x seconds/minutes" line. It's simply not true and never has been. (Well, unless x is 604800 or something!)
Dude... get your facts right. Maybe your closet server is on a safe network already. My experience at my university around 2004, before some of the major SP's, was exactly in line with the 10 seconds rule. All you needed was to plug the network in and lo and behold, before you could think about updating your AV definitions! The only way was to make a CD of latest AV. Those were the days, when running a Windows machine was impossible without an AV and a firewall like Zone Alarm. Remember Zone Alarm?
Looks to me like price and of course availability is the problem for the people. It's strange that RadioShack marks the price up in such a ridiculous fashion.. I read about someone complaining about an LED for 3$... In India it costs me 1 Rupee, about 0.02$. An assorted box of 100 resistors costs less than a 1$. The basic multimeter costing less than 2$.
I always remembered wishing components were available in India, as easily as in RadioShack.. but its surprising to hear the current state.
Of course, this is a street famous for electronics in my city Hyderabad, where we get most of the simple components you would expect from a DIY shop. The problem is that, they are still not up to date on certain advanced things like microcontrollers, arduinos, development boards, and their knowledge doesn't extend beyond the small components. The Pickaxe is the commonly available dev board, and of course the AVR microcontroller is evergreen. But, the DIY and the ideas and the knowledge comes from the Universities... The students just come to this street to buy their components.
This is so ridiculous that it has to end now. The court rules them guilty of making it possible to share files illegally. Okay.. let me provide a few more examples they should target next according to their logic.
1. Microsoft -> For over 15 years, Microsoft has been making it possible for people to illegally copy files over the network (Windows Sharing).
2. FTP -> FTP protocol has been making it possible for people to illegally transfer files for as long as the internet.
3. HTTP -> You can download and upload files via HTTP.
4. SSH, TELNET -> Even allowed people to illegally take control over a system.
5. TCP/IP -> Allows transfer of data illegally with sessions and options to split packets and route through different routes reassembling them at destination.
6. UDP/IP -> Allows faster data transfer where some data loss is acceptable.
7. Post Office -> Allows transfer of information, objects, anthrax, even originals of secret documents.
8. Running Messengers -> For thousands of years these people who carry messages from place to place have been allowing illegal sharing of information.
You get the point...
So please, MAFIAA, RIAA, RETARDAA, go ahead censor the whole fucking shebang or shut all networks, and you will finally see the dormant reaction of the people you have been trying to provoke for so long.. Pirate Bay is not wrong in its actions, neither is Anonymous in defending the founders.
Yes.. "Towel Day" is cool and all... but how about a "Thanks for all the fish" day... and also the answer to everything.. the "42 day", Feb 11 maybe... day no 42 of the gregorian calendar.. or even "Restaurant at the end of the universe"! To be fair, they are more well known concepts of Douglas Adams... and probably could be more exciting than a towel. Maybe the day would have been more interesting if they linked Towelie (of SouthPark fame) to it, and the comments above serve to prove my point!
I was reading up on some of the ridiculous patent applications made by facebook.. here's another one..
Broad patent on Location networking
Okay.. I dunno how smart the patent division of Facebook is.. but they seem to think Zuckerberg is the only guy in the world who can think more than one level. Quite literally in the case of the original article. It is plain dumb to try and patent common sense... You think of Friends, and any dumbass would reach at Friends of Friends.. I personally have come up some with the ideas which facebook is trying to patent... and when I was high and within a few hours.. So, this whole patent thing is really childish... you can't patent what someone can and cannot think... Antitrust is what it is...
In the current situation.. I think its kinda stupid to buy an album of an artist you've never heard.. either you get to hear a few songs.. or believe in the artist.. or god forbid take the record labels word for it.. otherwise makes no sense buying it outright.Flashback: I was a kid maybe 13 yrs old in a suburb in a southern city called Hyderabad in India... with only one shop selling music within 6-8 km radius of my house... past which me and my trusty bicycle couldn't deal with the chaotic traffic... and what do they sell? the poppiest of pop... n some really mainstream rock...(its like you just cannot find non-mainstream artists anywhere in the whole state).. you tend to start liking whatever you can find in such cases... n thats really not cool... thats just ignorant.. you start to think lame music is THE SHIT! Atleast once.. i bought an tape of britney spears... costed abt 3$.. went back an hour later and pleaded for a return and exchange... (Currently, i listen to only talented artists who compose beautiful music, not insane teen sexual ravings).
There's something not right about all this... if its gonna take forever (i mean never release.. "Screaming Trees" is one of my fav bands... would never have released anywhere out of Seattle for all i know). So, for the latest album of some other favorite artist who is pretty much unheard where I come from.. am I supposed to just not listen to it? Yes, I will in the future contribute to my favorite artists. I think its good that google and amazon and even ubuntu and other popular services which are still not so popular around here.. are rolling out music services... yes i would like to support my favorite artists but new distribution mediums are needed for that.. Don't fight the internet RIAA, work with it.. or else GTFO..
If Skype is longer supported on linux and mac based platforms... then it would create a void which others would gladly fill. Already it has competitors commercially (mostly in the conferencing space).
Also it seems that Skype has a proprietary protocol.. so others messengers cannot be used to communicate with Skype users. Of course this means, some Skype users on windows might also make a shift.. if all their buddies are on other platforms and can't get on Skype..
So it would be wise for them to continue to provide Skype for all platform even if not the latest version..
US Court: Give us the identities of these ips..
Indian ISP: GTFOML
US Court: We have a subpoena.
Indian ISP: So shove it.
US Court: This is not cool. You will be an accomplice!
Indian ISP: So sue me!
US Court: Okay here's 100$..
Indian ISP: Now you're talking.. take whatever you want...
Seriously, thats the way it would go down if it ever came up!
Just wondering if all the accused defendants are from the US or other countries too? I don't think subpoenaing an ISP in a place like India is gonna do any good..
Reminds me of a friend of mine in NCSU... downloaded a primus album.. raided next day and had to pay a 500$ fine.. But $150K... lol.. comeon! Get your head out of your ass! Companies asking for such unreasonable fines or compensation should be declared mentally unstable and banned from the courts! With $150K, the defendant could make a better movie himself.. be it an indie flick. It still would anyday be better than a Stallone flick! For gods sake, get the fucking steroids out of your mouth before you talk!
You make some good points.. i agree that pirated windows is probably one reason for not using IE.. As for Windows XP.. with the SP's its still the best windows distro from a programming point of view atleast.. But, i still find it surprising that so many people even know firefox. I'm from India and I can say for sure.. the general population would have almost never even heard of firefox.. they just get their Windows (pirated or otherwise) bundled with IE and thats it.. maybe 10-20% of users know/use firefox/safari/chrome (just an estimate.. could be inaccurate)..
that Indonesia would have the most tech savvy crowd (i.e. know a shitty browser (IE) when they see one.. and stay the hell away from it). But that makes sense.. considering it's an emerging market where Microsoft didn't get a chance to establish its monopoly because of already established competitors..
and only heard, "Cloud, cloud, cloud! It's new and shiny and cheaper than those annoying internal IT guys so I get a bonus!" learn to pay the stupidity tax.
Next up, learning just how *much* of your cloud data has been stolen and resold by those trustworthy souls in China and India.
Cheers!
As a developer from India, I can tell you India has absolutely nothing to do with the cloud.. thats a US revolution.. we are still years behind..
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Its a legit website, which has been giving live written commentary of cricket matches for years for free. In India, while you are at work, it's the best way to get updates. I don't see why live sports reporting should be a problem. You have a working and highly popular example right in front of you.. There are also services on cellular networks which provide live scores for around half a dollar a month.
I studied Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad" in India. Almost on the very first day of classes, we get a mail account and a programming account on locally hosted servers, to which we ssh through putty on Windows machines in the labs. Of course, it was just a matter of weeks before we installed Redhat on all the machines, considering this was 2003. Not that we were the first, we just inherited the prevalent culture. Also, the students were the admins of the labs and some senior students become the student Sys-Admins of the servers and infrastructure.
Also, being a university, only open technologies were part of the curriculum with some rare exceptions. So, Windows didn't make too much sense from a programming perspective. We only used Windows for multi-player gaming in the hostels (Quake, CS-CZ, UT, BF2, Warcraft etc..).. ah.. good ol days! :) Even our personal machines in our hostel rooms were dual boot config and the time apart from gaming was spent in Linux (SUSE and then Ubuntu). The only issue we had back then was that wired access wasn't available in all the rooms and wireless drivers were hard to find in Linux especially for a D-Link card, the only solution being Ndiswrapper.
The other premier institute in India, the IIT's use Solaris instead of Linux as the standard system.
I find it shocking to read about the response of the IT staff in your university. I think you need to start a campaign to modernize/enlighten your university. The first thing you learn after C programming being Computer Architecture, Compilers and OS Internals, it would be wise to use an OS which is open, not a closed source proprietary OS, which is now incidentally targeting your grandma as their new demographic with their latest release.
I hope the companies would just put their efforts in creating a semantic web, instead of trying to hack-patch html by adding random meta-data for the purpose of search. Seriously.. focus people!
Focus!
This has been in the pipeline for a while now and it kinda makes sense. Currently the 2.6.xxx has so many versions, it is no longer clear which is from when. His reasoning for the 3.0 as Linus says is that 2 decades have passed in the linux kernel development (Sounds like he's trying to avoid a conflict by giving a reason which cannot be argued against). But it also feels like the 3rd generation in linux kernels too with all the new hardware nowadays.
I feel somewhat relieved by this move.. its like i have been holding my breath for decades and can let it go now!
Where does the power come from then!?
The government must now determine how it can make up the difference with renewable energy sources, natural gas and coal-fired plants.
I mean, really? That'll end up being 90% coal at the very least. I love sentiment driven politics, It's crappy, but waaay more interesting.
Does anyone remember this?
If just one percent of the Saharan Desert were covered in concentrating solar panels it would create enough energy to power the entire world.
Solar Energy from Sahara Will Be Imported To Europe Within 5 Years
LOL, cheers for that troll reply. I put my hand up rather than blurting it out, as the speaker said when they started that if you had a comment or observation to make then you should put your hand up and he'd ask you to share it with the others (if it sounds school-like, it was a schools security conferenec). The 10 second thing has never been true in general - at least not since 1995, which is when I first went online. The only change I've seen over the years is that rather than a single probe at a port you might now get several at once. Note that I'm not saying that security is irrelevant, as it's clearly very important. I just have an issue with that utterly rubbish "A Windows machine gets probed within x seconds/minutes" line. It's simply not true and never has been. (Well, unless x is 604800 or something!)
Dude... get your facts right. Maybe your closet server is on a safe network already. My experience at my university around 2004, before some of the major SP's, was exactly in line with the 10 seconds rule. All you needed was to plug the network in and lo and behold, before you could think about updating your AV definitions! The only way was to make a CD of latest AV. Those were the days, when running a Windows machine was impossible without an AV and a firewall like Zone Alarm. Remember Zone Alarm?
Looks to me like price and of course availability is the problem for the people. It's strange that RadioShack marks the price up in such a ridiculous fashion.. I read about someone complaining about an LED for 3$... In India it costs me 1 Rupee, about 0.02$. An assorted box of 100 resistors costs less than a 1$. The basic multimeter costing less than 2$.
I always remembered wishing components were available in India, as easily as in RadioShack.. but its surprising to hear the current state. Of course, this is a street famous for electronics in my city Hyderabad, where we get most of the simple components you would expect from a DIY shop. The problem is that, they are still not up to date on certain advanced things like microcontrollers, arduinos, development boards, and their knowledge doesn't extend beyond the small components. The Pickaxe is the commonly available dev board, and of course the AVR microcontroller is evergreen. But, the DIY and the ideas and the knowledge comes from the Universities... The students just come to this street to buy their components.
This is so ridiculous that it has to end now. The court rules them guilty of making it possible to share files illegally. Okay.. let me provide a few more examples they should target next according to their logic.
You get the point... So please, MAFIAA, RIAA, RETARDAA, go ahead censor the whole fucking shebang or shut all networks, and you will finally see the dormant reaction of the people you have been trying to provoke for so long.. Pirate Bay is not wrong in its actions, neither is Anonymous in defending the founders.
Yeah, I figured "Towel Day" would be on April 2 (4-2) or, like you said, Feb 11. Any significance to this date?
Unfortunately no... Just thought it was a good straightforward 42! But a Douglas Adams day should relate to 42 in some way.. that should be a rule!
Saw some ladies laying out on towels today, glad to see it's not just the internet nerds who celebrate towel day.
Just my limited perspective.. but a lotta ladies like Douglas Adams' books...
Yes.. "Towel Day" is cool and all... but how about a "Thanks for all the fish" day... and also the answer to everything.. the "42 day", Feb 11 maybe... day no 42 of the gregorian calendar.. or even "Restaurant at the end of the universe"! To be fair, they are more well known concepts of Douglas Adams... and probably could be more exciting than a towel. Maybe the day would have been more interesting if they linked Towelie (of SouthPark fame) to it, and the comments above serve to prove my point!
and ya blah blah... @ISP's please take care of this..
Its not my headache as long as I can get an IP to access the internet with..
I was reading up on some of the ridiculous patent applications made by facebook.. here's another one.. Broad patent on Location networking Okay.. I dunno how smart the patent division of Facebook is.. but they seem to think Zuckerberg is the only guy in the world who can think more than one level. Quite literally in the case of the original article. It is plain dumb to try and patent common sense... You think of Friends, and any dumbass would reach at Friends of Friends.. I personally have come up some with the ideas which facebook is trying to patent... and when I was high and within a few hours.. So, this whole patent thing is really childish... you can't patent what someone can and cannot think... Antitrust is what it is...
In the current situation.. I think its kinda stupid to buy an album of an artist you've never heard.. either you get to hear a few songs.. or believe in the artist.. or god forbid take the record labels word for it.. otherwise makes no sense buying it outright. Flashback: I was a kid maybe 13 yrs old in a suburb in a southern city called Hyderabad in India... with only one shop selling music within 6-8 km radius of my house... past which me and my trusty bicycle couldn't deal with the chaotic traffic... and what do they sell? the poppiest of pop... n some really mainstream rock...(its like you just cannot find non-mainstream artists anywhere in the whole state).. you tend to start liking whatever you can find in such cases... n thats really not cool... thats just ignorant.. you start to think lame music is THE SHIT! Atleast once.. i bought an tape of britney spears... costed abt 3$.. went back an hour later and pleaded for a return and exchange... (Currently, i listen to only talented artists who compose beautiful music, not insane teen sexual ravings).
There's something not right about all this... if its gonna take forever (i mean never release.. "Screaming Trees" is one of my fav bands... would never have released anywhere out of Seattle for all i know). So, for the latest album of some other favorite artist who is pretty much unheard where I come from.. am I supposed to just not listen to it? Yes, I will in the future contribute to my favorite artists. I think its good that google and amazon and even ubuntu and other popular services which are still not so popular around here.. are rolling out music services... yes i would like to support my favorite artists but new distribution mediums are needed for that.. Don't fight the internet RIAA, work with it.. or else GTFO..
If Skype is longer supported on linux and mac based platforms... then it would create a void which others would gladly fill. Already it has competitors commercially (mostly in the conferencing space). Also it seems that Skype has a proprietary protocol.. so others messengers cannot be used to communicate with Skype users. Of course this means, some Skype users on windows might also make a shift.. if all their buddies are on other platforms and can't get on Skype.. So it would be wise for them to continue to provide Skype for all platform even if not the latest version..
US Court: Give us the identities of these ips.. Indian ISP: GTFOML US Court: We have a subpoena. Indian ISP: So shove it. US Court: This is not cool. You will be an accomplice! Indian ISP: So sue me! US Court: Okay here's 100$.. Indian ISP: Now you're talking.. take whatever you want... Seriously, thats the way it would go down if it ever came up!
Just wondering if all the accused defendants are from the US or other countries too? I don't think subpoenaing an ISP in a place like India is gonna do any good.. Reminds me of a friend of mine in NCSU... downloaded a primus album.. raided next day and had to pay a 500$ fine.. But $150K... lol.. comeon! Get your head out of your ass! Companies asking for such unreasonable fines or compensation should be declared mentally unstable and banned from the courts! With $150K, the defendant could make a better movie himself.. be it an indie flick. It still would anyday be better than a Stallone flick! For gods sake, get the fucking steroids out of your mouth before you talk!
Omen? or Thadastu as they say in India.. meaning may it happen!
You make some good points.. i agree that pirated windows is probably one reason for not using IE.. As for Windows XP.. with the SP's its still the best windows distro from a programming point of view atleast.. But, i still find it surprising that so many people even know firefox. I'm from India and I can say for sure.. the general population would have almost never even heard of firefox.. they just get their Windows (pirated or otherwise) bundled with IE and thats it.. maybe 10-20% of users know/use firefox/safari/chrome (just an estimate.. could be inaccurate)..
that Indonesia would have the most tech savvy crowd (i.e. know a shitty browser (IE) when they see one.. and stay the hell away from it). But that makes sense.. considering it's an emerging market where Microsoft didn't get a chance to establish its monopoly because of already established competitors..
and only heard, "Cloud, cloud, cloud! It's new and shiny and cheaper than those annoying internal IT guys so I get a bonus!" learn to pay the stupidity tax.
Next up, learning just how *much* of your cloud data has been stolen and resold by those trustworthy souls in China and India.
Cheers!
As a developer from India, I can tell you India has absolutely nothing to do with the cloud.. thats a US revolution.. we are still years behind..