I go to a university in Canada with about 25000 students. The exact same thing happens here, people who run resnet know DC++ exists and they look the other way. They actually moderately appreciate it because it means that fewer people are grabbing files from outside the network which a) means the RIAA is going to send them fewer legal threats and b) the university uses less bandwidth, since everything within resnet costs them nothing.
There are a number of factors to consider when using UW as an example. UW's best and largest programs are computer science and engineering, not arts. These tend to attract students that didn't do particularly well in high school English classes. Furthermore, the school has a large number of foreign students who seem to find learning English impossible. While only 6.9% of students are studying on a student Visa, there appear to be a larger group of people who are recent immigrants and finished some of high school in Canada without actually learning English properly.
Setting aside issues specific to UW, part of this is to blame on poor high schools, but plenty of them do teach grammar. My high school certainly did.
The University of Waterloo should also stop accepting students who get below 75% in English. Prospective students tend to get poor marks in English while letting math and science marks raise their average.
Maybe not the first two, but you can't underestimate the last one. Even mainstream news organizations like the New York Times complain about the poor quality of AT&T's network.
True, but a very large amount of the Canadian population is concentrated in the Quebec-Windsor corridor and aside from that, within a few major cities. Servicing all of Canada with broadband will take forever, but getting 2/3 to 3/4 with very high speed access shouldn't take very long at all.
I recently set up a similar setup, but instead of load balancing across the two connections for everything, I needed to construct rules that decided if certain types of traffic (irc, http, etc.) went across which connections. If you choose to use any type of linux-based router, iproute2 will probably be what you'll be using, even if it is abstracted by some type of graphical tool. Consider the following links explaining iproute2:
This excellent page also explains how to make iproute2 and iptables interact with each other, so you can use iptables rules to mark packets for iproute2 to route over a certain interface: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.netfilter.html
Finally, this document provides some basic information about how to manipulate rules with iproute2, which is useful if you're trying to diagnose why it's not working correctly: http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2-toc.html
Word. Surely you mean "OpenOffice Writer", my home-dawg? Mah brotha from anotha mutha, you musta meant OpenOffice.org Writer. No trademark violatin' round here, fo' sho'.
I don't think he meant tracker formats, I think he meant Comcast may be manipulating the way they're calculating these totals by passing songs off as being 500kB (which I doubt they'd do, that's pushing it a little, maybe 2MB) which if you take one of the generic 2 minute pops that kids these days would probably want to listen to and encode it at an awful bitrate in something like AAC, is certainly possible.
That's complete bullshit. I regularly copy gigs upon gigs of data on and off my 80 gig ipod and I've/never/ had it corrupt anything. Ever. In fact, I just md5summed a DVD ISO that I shoved on there a few months ago and it's exactly the same as the one on my drive. With a "1 in 100" miss rate, there's no way that'd be possible.
I apologize, you're right, I missed where you said it's not entirely flat. And it's certainly not as sleek as 1" everywhere. And running OSX86 really is quite a hacked up mess. I should also note that it's an Asus, not an Acer.
And yes, whether or not you want to run OS X should be the deciding factor with this laptop vs an MBP; I've run it but it's a hacked up mess and I don't really run it seriously (installing it was more just for fun).
Oh, and one last feature I forgot to mention. The Asus has a 2 year global warranty, and their service is fast, especially in comparison to Apple. My friend owns a Core 1 MBP which was overheating. He had to send it back and was without it for about a month and a half. He also had an Asus motherboard which had an issue with the southbridge and needed to be fixed/replaced. Asus sent him another one in about a week. That's pretty important for alot of people I know.
The sizes posted are a bit misleading, due to a quirk in the way the F3Sv is designed. It is thin in the front and then gets gradually thicker as you go to the back. The size they used is where the laptop is at its thickest. I measured at the front, and it's 0.9 inches thick.
And I'd like to reiterate that for alot of people that having a laptop that "just works" like the MBP is worth the value for some people, and I can understand that. But for the average slashdot user, I think the F3Sv is the better deal in this case.
Since there are only a few asus laptops out there that are ~$1500 and have the nvidia 8600M, I'm pretty sure he's got an Asus F3Sv, which I also own.
And it has/everything/ that you listed, except for firewire 800 (it's 400), the backlit keyboard, the remote and the magnetic power cord release. Check on gigabit, bluetooth (with EDR, no less), a camera, microphone, dvi/vga/s-video/component/composite out, 802.11n and an expresscard slot. As for a remote, my Nintendo Wii remote works perfectly with it (in both linux and windows).
Oh, and linux runs perfectly on it. And so does OSX86. It's not worth paying an extra $400-500 for the MBP, if you ask me. That being said, you're completely right about a Mac being priced within the grasp of most people and "just working".
From wikipedia: "Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere."
I am in grade 10. I use my computer all night, and will sometimes play games (or read wikipedia! Great passtime.). Every day of the week. My average last year sat at around 87%. I cannot stress enough that the same thing is not always true for everyone. Some people would never do a good job on their homework if they sat around watching TV or playing games all the time, for others it works fine. Also, moderation is key. You need to know when to say "enough playing games, time to get homework done". Of course, for some people, it's best to do homework first, but I never do that!;)
Also, some people have suggested time spent playing video games could instead be spent studying. In practise, everyone seems to do the bare minimum and never studies if it's not required.
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I go to a university in Canada with about 25000 students. The exact same thing happens here, people who run resnet know DC++ exists and they look the other way. They actually moderately appreciate it because it means that fewer people are grabbing files from outside the network which a) means the RIAA is going to send them fewer legal threats and b) the university uses less bandwidth, since everything within resnet costs them nothing.
Students will ALWAYS find ways to download files.
There are a number of factors to consider when using UW as an example. UW's best and largest programs are computer science and engineering, not arts. These tend to attract students that didn't do particularly well in high school English classes. Furthermore, the school has a large number of foreign students who seem to find learning English impossible. While only 6.9% of students are studying on a student Visa, there appear to be a larger group of people who are recent immigrants and finished some of high school in Canada without actually learning English properly.
Setting aside issues specific to UW, part of this is to blame on poor high schools, but plenty of them do teach grammar. My high school certainly did.
The University of Waterloo should also stop accepting students who get below 75% in English. Prospective students tend to get poor marks in English while letting math and science marks raise their average.
Maybe not the first two, but you can't underestimate the last one. Even mainstream news organizations like the New York Times complain about the poor quality of AT&T's network.
i.e. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.html
apt can run on fedora/centos/etc.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apt-rpm
Just like how they deal with copyright violations right now, people will have the ability to flag uploaded videos.
True, but a very large amount of the Canadian population is concentrated in the Quebec-Windsor corridor and aside from that, within a few major cities. Servicing all of Canada with broadband will take forever, but getting 2/3 to 3/4 with very high speed access shouldn't take very long at all.
Compactflash cards are available in larger sizes, work as IDE devices (which SD cards do not afaik) and are faster.
I recently set up a similar setup, but instead of load balancing across the two connections for everything, I needed to construct rules that decided if certain types of traffic (irc, http, etc.) went across which connections. If you choose to use any type of linux-based router, iproute2 will probably be what you'll be using, even if it is abstracted by some type of graphical tool. Consider the following links explaining iproute2:
The Linux Foundation's iproute2 page:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2
These guys seem to be maintaining iproute2 now.
The "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO": http://lartc.org/howto/
This is probably the most thorough document on iproute2 and will cover absolutely everything you would need to know about it.
Specifically, look into load balancing:
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.loadshare.html
This excellent page also explains how to make iproute2 and iptables interact with each other, so you can use iptables rules to mark packets for iproute2 to route over a certain interface:
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.netfilter.html
Finally, this document provides some basic information about how to manipulate rules with iproute2, which is useful if you're trying to diagnose why it's not working correctly:
http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2-toc.html
While it is by no means a complete index, http://rapidsearch.yi.org/ combined with http://warez-bb.org/ allow you to find most of what you could possibly be looking for on rapidshare.
I think you need to see this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=299497&cid=20633267
I don't think he meant tracker formats, I think he meant Comcast may be manipulating the way they're calculating these totals by passing songs off as being 500kB (which I doubt they'd do, that's pushing it a little, maybe 2MB) which if you take one of the generic 2 minute pops that kids these days would probably want to listen to and encode it at an awful bitrate in something like AAC, is certainly possible.
That's complete bullshit. I regularly copy gigs upon gigs of data on and off my 80 gig ipod and I've /never/ had it corrupt anything. Ever. In fact, I just md5summed a DVD ISO that I shoved on there a few months ago and it's exactly the same as the one on my drive. With a "1 in 100" miss rate, there's no way that'd be possible.
Same thing at my school, and 4chan isn't blocked either. I wonder how many hours people in IT spend reading /b/...
I apologize, you're right, I missed where you said it's not entirely flat. And it's certainly not as sleek as 1" everywhere. And running OSX86 really is quite a hacked up mess. I should also note that it's an Asus, not an Acer.
And yes, whether or not you want to run OS X should be the deciding factor with this laptop vs an MBP; I've run it but it's a hacked up mess and I don't really run it seriously (installing it was more just for fun).
Oh, and one last feature I forgot to mention. The Asus has a 2 year global warranty, and their service is fast, especially in comparison to Apple. My friend owns a Core 1 MBP which was overheating. He had to send it back and was without it for about a month and a half. He also had an Asus motherboard which had an issue with the southbridge and needed to be fixed/replaced. Asus sent him another one in about a week. That's pretty important for alot of people I know.
The sizes posted are a bit misleading, due to a quirk in the way the F3Sv is designed. It is thin in the front and then gets gradually thicker as you go to the back. The size they used is where the laptop is at its thickest. I measured at the front, and it's 0.9 inches thick.
And I'd like to reiterate that for alot of people that having a laptop that "just works" like the MBP is worth the value for some people, and I can understand that. But for the average slashdot user, I think the F3Sv is the better deal in this case.
Couldn't you use PearPC? I mean, it's technically not allowed by the license, but I certainly don't think you could call it pirated software.
Since there are only a few asus laptops out there that are ~$1500 and have the nvidia 8600M, I'm pretty sure he's got an Asus F3Sv, which I also own.
/everything/ that you listed, except for firewire 800 (it's 400), the backlit keyboard, the remote and the magnetic power cord release. Check on gigabit, bluetooth (with EDR, no less), a camera, microphone, dvi/vga/s-video/component/composite out, 802.11n and an expresscard slot. As for a remote, my Nintendo Wii remote works perfectly with it (in both linux and windows).
And it has
Oh, and linux runs perfectly on it. And so does OSX86. It's not worth paying an extra $400-500 for the MBP, if you ask me. That being said, you're completely right about a Mac being priced within the grasp of most people and "just working".
It was in Windows 95 OSR2.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95#Editions
http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html/ 14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html0 0126OSDTHL
http://www.google.com/search?q=multiseat+x
http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~ctyler/ruby/
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/20051207
He didn't make Daikatana. You're thinking John Romero.
From wikipedia: "Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere."
It's all in how it's going down the stairs. A 300 pound person walking down the stairs and barrelling down the stairs are two different things.
I am in grade 10. I use my computer all night, and will sometimes play games (or read wikipedia! Great passtime.). Every day of the week. My average last year sat at around 87%. I cannot stress enough that the same thing is not always true for everyone. Some people would never do a good job on their homework if they sat around watching TV or playing games all the time, for others it works fine. Also, moderation is key. You need to know when to say "enough playing games, time to get homework done". Of course, for some people, it's best to do homework first, but I never do that! ;)
Also, some people have suggested time spent playing video games could instead be spent studying. In practise, everyone seems to do the bare minimum and never studies if it's not required.