I had much the same problem, which I attempted to solve with danbooru; after 4 hours of banging my head against ruby on rails and postgres, I decided that there needed to be something which was much like danbooru but a lot easier to set up. Being unable to find such a thing, I made one for myself, and the result is here. (tech info / downloads / etc)
Or instead of buying one 19" screen, and forcing two people to sit on top of eachother, you could buy several 15" screens, and allow many people to sit in comfort. link. In gist, it's a multi-headed X server, with a USB keyboard and mouse pair assigned to each head~
The Wikimedia Foundation runs Wikipedia (the 10th most popular website in the world) with PHP and 123 commodity PC servers. What does that prove?
Throwing more hardware at a problem will solve anything \o/
I'm running a service which was originally PHP on a throwout box in the corner of my bedroom -- after a few months, the service was so popular the box was in a state of slashdottedness 24/7. I then moved to a shared host, where it ran happily for about a year, until it got so big it started breaking their uber-servers too. I have now rewritten it in python, and moved back to hosting it myself:P
Everywhere else, KDE appears to lead my a margin of roughly 2:1
Define "everywhere"? From what *I've* seen, KDE is third place, GNOME is second, and a mixture of the command line and apps from several toolkits combined under a lightweight WM like fluxbox or E16 is *way* out in front:P
Of course not! Clearly, the police should dedicate 100% of their manpower towards stopping rape, and completely ignore all other forms of crime until the rape rate drops to zero:P
Why don't people understand that the world of ISOs isn't practical for EVERYTHING? They're not "refusing" anything, the OpenBSD people provide an easy manner to obtain and install OpenBSD via ftp.
Can I still do an FTP install if I can't get online?
What online artists do you enjoy listening to who release their work free?
The Kahvi Collective are an entire online label, with new releases in an RSS feed for automatic downloading; I've got 6.4GB of high quality ogg / mp3 so far~
"wow, 128 extra megs of RAM and 512MB more hard disk space--THEY'RE SLEEPING WITH MICROSOFT!" nonsense
Links to microsoft aren't being drawn simply because they've upped the hardware, but because they've upped the hardware from "enough to give the kids a functional laptop" to "enough to run windows"
I think the issue is not that it can run windows as-is, but that it's having its hardware (and price) increased for the sake of running things that it doesn't need to. (Though other posts are casting doubt over the validity of this worry)
Commercial software companies won't use the package formats or the repositories
That's strange... just today I was installing ubuntu on a laptop, and I went out to grab two programs which the user wanted, specifically Opera and Skype -- both sites detected that I was running linux, and pointed me at.deb files (which I then installed in an entirely pointy clicky way). Do opera and skype not count as commercial companies?
I'm sure there are other examples out there, but I haven't gone out looking for them, these are just things that I've run into in an ordinary day:P
Now take those numbers, and multiply by the amount of time spent online:P (TFA is counting anyone who's touched the internet, at all, in the past month, as "online"...)
I'm not the only person who keeps adding a "g" after "python":O
Does anyone have any idea why I do this though? I am suspecting something to do with keyboard layout... Or maybe it's freudian, and I'm just thinking of thongs:-/
My uni doesn't let you in without signing their terms & conditions; one of which is approximately "all your work are belong to us". Don't most places do this?
I'm a student at the university of kent -- if that name rings a bell, it's probably because we're a sourceforge mirror. Why am I posting this here? Because while all you random people can access our servers at gigabit speeds, students who live on campus are restricted to 1Mbps each:( (yes, ~100KB/s. It sucks.)
But while our downloading of software / porn / etc is limited in speed, at least we get it 24/7...
Slashdot Mirror
I had much the same problem, which I attempted to solve with danbooru; after 4 hours of banging my head against ruby on rails and postgres, I decided that there needed to be something which was much like danbooru but a lot easier to set up. Being unable to find such a thing, I made one for myself, and the result is here. (tech info / downloads / etc)
Why does a system designed primarily for 3D cyber sex have child avatars to begin with?
Games developers could really do with taking some tips from these guys...
Or instead of buying one 19" screen, and forcing two people to sit on top of eachother, you could buy several 15" screens, and allow many people to sit in comfort. link. In gist, it's a multi-headed X server, with a USB keyboard and mouse pair assigned to each head~
Throwing more hardware at a problem will solve anything \o/
I'm running a service which was originally PHP on a throwout box in the corner of my bedroom -- after a few months, the service was so popular the box was in a state of slashdottedness 24/7. I then moved to a shared host, where it ran happily for about a year, until it got so big it started breaking their uber-servers too. I have now rewritten it in python, and moved back to hosting it myself :P
Define "everywhere"? From what *I've* seen, KDE is third place, GNOME is second, and a mixture of the command line and apps from several toolkits combined under a lightweight WM like fluxbox or E16 is *way* out in front :P
Of course not! Clearly, the police should dedicate 100% of their manpower towards stopping rape, and completely ignore all other forms of crime until the rape rate drops to zero :P
that's a point; is it illegal to maintain a directory of drug dealer's contact details, and publish them online?
Um, yes, I totally can. With linux isos I download the iso at work, burn it to CD, then install completely offline elsewhere.
Can I still do an FTP install if I can't get online?
GTFO my internets. You can come back when you know how to use a dictionary :-|
Personally, I take words in context.
Out of curiosity, what do think when america is described as "land of the free"? :P
What Internet radio stations do you listen to and why?
Digitally Imported is pretty much it
What online artists do you enjoy listening to who release their work free?
The Kahvi Collective are an entire online label, with new releases in an RSS feed for automatic downloading; I've got 6.4GB of high quality ogg / mp3 so far~
How do you deal with all the closed source licences?
Links to microsoft aren't being drawn simply because they've upped the hardware, but because they've upped the hardware from "enough to give the kids a functional laptop" to "enough to run windows"
I think the issue is not that it can run windows as-is, but that it's having its hardware (and price) increased for the sake of running things that it doesn't need to. (Though other posts are casting doubt over the validity of this worry)
apt-g[tab] in[tab] bash-c[tab][enter]
(heh, I never knew it supported apt package names...)
That's strange... just today I was installing ubuntu on a laptop, and I went out to grab two programs which the user wanted, specifically Opera and Skype -- both sites detected that I was running linux, and pointed me at .deb files (which I then installed in an entirely pointy clicky way). Do opera and skype not count as commercial companies?
I'm sure there are other examples out there, but I haven't gone out looking for them, these are just things that I've run into in an ordinary day :P
The common sense of the US Government is the only thing standing between us and DRM hell? Oh dear :(
Now take those numbers, and multiply by the amount of time spent online :P (TFA is counting anyone who's touched the internet, at all, in the past month, as "online"...)
Bah, I can drink coke for 12 hours and people still feel safe making me the designated driver :)
I'm not the only person who keeps adding a "g" after "python" :O
Does anyone have any idea why I do this though? I am suspecting something to do with keyboard layout... Or maybe it's freudian, and I'm just thinking of thongs :-/
My uni doesn't let you in without signing their terms & conditions; one of which is approximately "all your work are belong to us". Don't most places do this?
Why are these related?
But while our downloading of software / porn / etc is limited in speed, at least we get it 24/7...