Re:P2P Now and Then in a nutshell
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If you looked at CacheLogic's traffic analysis, something a touch over 20% of the traffic is data as opposed to video or audio.
Of that 20%, I'd say that about 20-25% is CD ISOs and.tar files. (I threw out all but about 10 of the compressed file format traffic because.rar,.cab,.zip rarely are used in Linux. It's.tar.gz and.tar.bz2.)
I know there are probably some Playstation disc ISOs and such in there, but I'd wager that the vast majority of the CD ISOs are Linux distributions and the.tar files are UNIX-type binaries and source. That gives somewhere in the high single digits of P2P traffic as Linux software and such. I know Windows users download open-source stuff in.zip files and in.exe binaries (and some little groups distribute wares and media via P2P), so I would guess that roughly a tenth or an eighth of the P2P traffic is legit.
Personally, I have downloaded gigs and gigs off of BitTorrent as Linux ISOs and large chunks of gzip/bzip2 source to save the developers on bandwidth. The legal use is there, but by far and away the illegal use trumps the legal use. I just wish that the 90% who do illegal stuff and the *AAs realize that there is a small minority who use the system for legal purposes and destroying it would be harmful to users such as myself.
Give a man a fish and you'll have to work for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you'll have to work for the rest of your life because the man disappeared to go fishing.
MS generated just shy of $8 billion of profit on a little over $11 billion in sales for Office alone. That leaves less than a quarter for R&D, salaries, bonuses, advertising, facilities, etc.
I believe that once MSFT sinks eight or nine digits into developing and rolling out a profit, the production is even less than Intel's. They just need to have boxes, jewel cases, and a CD pressing plant.
Well, software is a different animal than hardware. For the same product, hardware decreases in price over time. For example, when I purchased my laptop about 3 years ago, a 512MB DDR266 SODIMM stick cost over $250. Now a pair will get you $10 back from your Benjamin.
However, Windows XP still costs the same $299 for a full Professional installation CD that it did in 2001 when it launched. And Windows 2000, which the OfficeMax near me still stocks, costs $259.
Software is IP while hardware is mostly "nuts 'n bolts." That makes a HUGE difference.
They do. http://www.anandtech.com/ has nifty little graphs of processor cost over time for specific CPUs. They ALL drop after introduction, often to a fraction of their original cost in six months or so.
So once the R&D costs are regained, and some profit made or future expansion capital saved, the prices fo drop.
Well, DOS/Windows commands aren't that different from Linux commands as a whole. Yes, the options in Windows cmd.exe are generally given as (space) option or/option and they are always -option or --option in Linux. And the whole \ vs. / and drive letters versus mount paths.
Give yourself a week or two and you'll adjust just fine. I did (from Linux to Windows, but I assume the reciprocal to hold about as true)
Yeah, Windows handles names really funky. Not case-sensitive, and a bunch of characters not allowed (well, I can understand . \ and $, but why the rest?) I'll even spot them the / vs. \.
After using the bash shell under Linux, I feel as if I want to rip my hair out whenever I have to open up cmd.exe on a Windows machine...
Actually, notebook hard drives are sold on both width AND height.
Most notebook hard drives are 2.5" wide by 12mm tall. Super-slimline drives measure 9.5mm tall, and a few notebooks use 1.8" wide drives (don't know the height, but probably 9.5mm.)
If you try to stuff a 12mm drive in a 9.5mm bay, you're in trouble.
Also dual-booting takes up a bunch of space. I have a 60GB 4200 rpm model in my laptop and it is pushing the limit in capacity. Windows and the reason to have Windows at all (Office 2003 and games) takes up a minimum of about 10 GB. A modern Linux install takes up about ~3 GB and that's all before data.
And don't forget swap, temp, and such. You really need about 30 GB before any of your own data to even think about dual-booting.
Divx (the DVD player + service) died. Nobody wanted a pay-per-view DVD system. I think few will buy HDCP monitors and many will crap about the low-res junk.
Studios and MSFT will backtrack. I bet on it.
That's why most companies still stick with Windows 2000. Office 2000 still opens Word files made with any version of Word so far, ditto for other Office formats. Almost all new programs still run on 2K, and they can still use the computers that they bought in 1999 to run it.
I think that MS will have an even tougher time getting businesses to upgrade to Vista than they did getting (some of) them to upgrade to XP.
If your Windows box "idles" with only 300MB of RAM used, that's pretty good. When I boot up Windows, it's more like 425 or more and all I have is Zone Alarm, Norton AV, and Spybot as startup-loaded services. I even killed of msmsgs.exe for cryin' out loud! I ended up having to upgrade my 512 MB to 1 GB just to make the system somewhat usable for running more than one program at once.
But when I start up KDE 3.4.2 on SuSE 9.3 on the exact same machine, it uses about 125 MB RAM at idle. It only ever swaps when I suspend to disk and it reads stored data from the swap after I resume. Otherwise, I'll have to do something like run a 20-million-data-point analysis into R to get Linux to eat up anything near that gig of RAM.
I don't know if it is because Linux/KDE is *that* much lighter than XP (I don't really think so) or that Windows just eats a TON of RAM for various and sundry.
Depends on your bandwidth to the computer being RDP'd. All of the animated junk transfers nice and smoothly over a 100 Mbit LAN. But it is stuttery on wireless (I have a 11 Mbit card- d'oh!).
If you're talking about using a VPN to get on your company network to then do RDP, by all means set the colors to 8-bit and disable all of the GUI stuff. A 1-3 Mbit connection is not nearly the equal of a wired LAN.
User Agent Switcher. Do a search for that at the mozilla.org website to pull up the.xpi installer.
But be forewarned that most sites that say they require IE do so because they use ActiveX (such as to use THEIR player) and will not work with any other browser.
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Why would Linux not run on a TCPA machine? The Linux distribution could simply ignore the fact that there is even a TCPA chip in the computer as it can ignore any other piece of hardware if you tell it to just by not configuring it.
Unless there is a TCPA-bootable-disk-key-checker the BIOS runs, but why? They would stand nothing from that- the applications, data, and even the hard drive partition are encrypted and not visible to to other OSes from what I have heard. This would be an additional expense and have no benefit.
The thing is that unlike a government, you DON'T have to let corporations "rule" you. It is more or less nonsense to even believe that.
Corporations can easily be put out of business. In the 1970s, Smith-Corona had a monopoly on typewriters and such as MSFT has a monopoly on OSes today. But where is SCM now? Out of business for two decades. Business landscapes change, and so do legal and consumer landscapes.
If you do not like MSFT, do not buy their products. Get others to do likewise. Persuade your legislators to seek action against MSFT for illegal deeds if they did happen. If enough do that, MSFT will go under.
My gen chem teacher in college did that. He used a ground-up rusty bolt, a soda can and tinfoil, some water, and magnesium peroxide (I know it was some magnesium oxide that reacted with water to give O2). He simply lit it and it was like a road flare.
I am typing this on SuSE 9.3 and the backspace key works AOK. It even works fine from the command line (bash v3.0-SUSE).
Maybe he's using Lynx or a very old XFree86 version.
My laptop hard drive goes "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" every so often. It seems to still be fine, though.
But every time it does it, it scares the living &%*$ out of me. Needless to say, EVERYTHING is backed up onto a server.
Yes, that is true. But in German, only nouns are capitalized. Adjectives are not. That is why he does that. And I am SURE his English is much better than my German- ich spreche es nicht so gut...
...it means that Betty in accounting will have to remember that the big blue "e" for Internet has been replaced by a big globe with a red animal sitting on it.
Ever been to Lowe's? ALL of the little black IBM terminals I have seen run their programs on a modified KDE desktop.
It's funny as I am probably one of the few who don't work there that noticed that.
Yeah, and it's only getting worse, trust me. When I was in grade school (a dozen years ago), it was rather rare for kids to swear at teachers and few took Ritalin.
Now, after watching my mother's elementary school kids, about half are on ADHD drugs and you can't even yell at them to be quiet when they call you a ***** and a ************.
I think it is caused by all of those ex-hippie college professors and psychologists that spread this kind of crap around. I have the dubious pleasure of having to attend some of their classes (gack!)
Actually, my Texas Instruments Voyage 200 graphing calculator uses a 14MHz Motorola MC68000 CPU with 384 KB RAM and 4 MB flash EEPROM.
Last time I checked, the Mac PPC lineage traces back to that chip. That would mean the G5 is an overgrown calculator chip, not the x86 ones;)
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If you looked at CacheLogic's traffic analysis, something a touch over 20% of the traffic is data as opposed to video or audio. Of that 20%, I'd say that about 20-25% is CD ISOs and .tar files. (I threw out all but about 10 of the compressed file format traffic because .rar, .cab, .zip rarely are used in Linux. It's .tar.gz and .tar.bz2.)
I know there are probably some Playstation disc ISOs and such in there, but I'd wager that the vast majority of the CD ISOs are Linux distributions and the .tar files are UNIX-type binaries and source. That gives somewhere in the high single digits of P2P traffic as Linux software and such. I know Windows users download open-source stuff in .zip files and in .exe binaries (and some little groups distribute wares and media via P2P), so I would guess that roughly a tenth or an eighth of the P2P traffic is legit.
Personally, I have downloaded gigs and gigs off of BitTorrent as Linux ISOs and large chunks of gzip/bzip2 source to save the developers on bandwidth. The legal use is there, but by far and away the illegal use trumps the legal use. I just wish that the 90% who do illegal stuff and the *AAs realize that there is a small minority who use the system for legal purposes and destroying it would be harmful to users such as myself.
Give a man a fish and you'll have to work for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you'll have to work for the rest of your life because the man disappeared to go fishing.
MS generated just shy of $8 billion of profit on a little over $11 billion in sales for Office alone. That leaves less than a quarter for R&D, salaries, bonuses, advertising, facilities, etc. I believe that once MSFT sinks eight or nine digits into developing and rolling out a profit, the production is even less than Intel's. They just need to have boxes, jewel cases, and a CD pressing plant.
Well, software is a different animal than hardware. For the same product, hardware decreases in price over time. For example, when I purchased my laptop about 3 years ago, a 512MB DDR266 SODIMM stick cost over $250. Now a pair will get you $10 back from your Benjamin. However, Windows XP still costs the same $299 for a full Professional installation CD that it did in 2001 when it launched. And Windows 2000, which the OfficeMax near me still stocks, costs $259. Software is IP while hardware is mostly "nuts 'n bolts." That makes a HUGE difference.
They do. http://www.anandtech.com/ has nifty little graphs of processor cost over time for specific CPUs. They ALL drop after introduction, often to a fraction of their original cost in six months or so. So once the R&D costs are regained, and some profit made or future expansion capital saved, the prices fo drop.
Well, DOS/Windows commands aren't that different from Linux commands as a whole. Yes, the options in Windows cmd.exe are generally given as (space) option or /option and they are always -option or --option in Linux. And the whole \ vs. / and drive letters versus mount paths.
Give yourself a week or two and you'll adjust just fine. I did (from Linux to Windows, but I assume the reciprocal to hold about as true)
Yeah, Windows handles names really funky. Not case-sensitive, and a bunch of characters not allowed (well, I can understand . \ and $, but why the rest?) I'll even spot them the / vs. \. After using the bash shell under Linux, I feel as if I want to rip my hair out whenever I have to open up cmd.exe on a Windows machine...
Actually, notebook hard drives are sold on both width AND height. Most notebook hard drives are 2.5" wide by 12mm tall. Super-slimline drives measure 9.5mm tall, and a few notebooks use 1.8" wide drives (don't know the height, but probably 9.5mm.) If you try to stuff a 12mm drive in a 9.5mm bay, you're in trouble.
Also dual-booting takes up a bunch of space. I have a 60GB 4200 rpm model in my laptop and it is pushing the limit in capacity. Windows and the reason to have Windows at all (Office 2003 and games) takes up a minimum of about 10 GB. A modern Linux install takes up about ~3 GB and that's all before data. And don't forget swap, temp, and such. You really need about 30 GB before any of your own data to even think about dual-booting.
Divx (the DVD player + service) died. Nobody wanted a pay-per-view DVD system. I think few will buy HDCP monitors and many will crap about the low-res junk. Studios and MSFT will backtrack. I bet on it.
That's why most companies still stick with Windows 2000. Office 2000 still opens Word files made with any version of Word so far, ditto for other Office formats. Almost all new programs still run on 2K, and they can still use the computers that they bought in 1999 to run it. I think that MS will have an even tougher time getting businesses to upgrade to Vista than they did getting (some of) them to upgrade to XP.
If your Windows box "idles" with only 300MB of RAM used, that's pretty good. When I boot up Windows, it's more like 425 or more and all I have is Zone Alarm, Norton AV, and Spybot as startup-loaded services. I even killed of msmsgs.exe for cryin' out loud! I ended up having to upgrade my 512 MB to 1 GB just to make the system somewhat usable for running more than one program at once. But when I start up KDE 3.4.2 on SuSE 9.3 on the exact same machine, it uses about 125 MB RAM at idle. It only ever swaps when I suspend to disk and it reads stored data from the swap after I resume. Otherwise, I'll have to do something like run a 20-million-data-point analysis into R to get Linux to eat up anything near that gig of RAM. I don't know if it is because Linux/KDE is *that* much lighter than XP (I don't really think so) or that Windows just eats a TON of RAM for various and sundry.
Depends on your bandwidth to the computer being RDP'd. All of the animated junk transfers nice and smoothly over a 100 Mbit LAN. But it is stuttery on wireless (I have a 11 Mbit card- d'oh!). If you're talking about using a VPN to get on your company network to then do RDP, by all means set the colors to 8-bit and disable all of the GUI stuff. A 1-3 Mbit connection is not nearly the equal of a wired LAN.
At least it's not Retard Roulette. A semi-automatic with a round in the clip.
User Agent Switcher. Do a search for that at the mozilla.org website to pull up the .xpi installer.
But be forewarned that most sites that say they require IE do so because they use ActiveX (such as to use THEIR player) and will not work with any other browser.
Why would Linux not run on a TCPA machine? The Linux distribution could simply ignore the fact that there is even a TCPA chip in the computer as it can ignore any other piece of hardware if you tell it to just by not configuring it. Unless there is a TCPA-bootable-disk-key-checker the BIOS runs, but why? They would stand nothing from that- the applications, data, and even the hard drive partition are encrypted and not visible to to other OSes from what I have heard. This would be an additional expense and have no benefit.
The thing is that unlike a government, you DON'T have to let corporations "rule" you. It is more or less nonsense to even believe that. Corporations can easily be put out of business. In the 1970s, Smith-Corona had a monopoly on typewriters and such as MSFT has a monopoly on OSes today. But where is SCM now? Out of business for two decades. Business landscapes change, and so do legal and consumer landscapes. If you do not like MSFT, do not buy their products. Get others to do likewise. Persuade your legislators to seek action against MSFT for illegal deeds if they did happen. If enough do that, MSFT will go under.
My gen chem teacher in college did that. He used a ground-up rusty bolt, a soda can and tinfoil, some water, and magnesium peroxide (I know it was some magnesium oxide that reacted with water to give O2). He simply lit it and it was like a road flare.
I am typing this on SuSE 9.3 and the backspace key works AOK. It even works fine from the command line (bash v3.0-SUSE). Maybe he's using Lynx or a very old XFree86 version.
My laptop hard drive goes "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" every so often. It seems to still be fine, though. But every time it does it, it scares the living &%*$ out of me. Needless to say, EVERYTHING is backed up onto a server.
Yes, that is true. But in German, only nouns are capitalized. Adjectives are not. That is why he does that. And I am SURE his English is much better than my German- ich spreche es nicht so gut...
...it means that Betty in accounting will have to remember that the big blue "e" for Internet has been replaced by a big globe with a red animal sitting on it.
Ever been to Lowe's? ALL of the little black IBM terminals I have seen run their programs on a modified KDE desktop. It's funny as I am probably one of the few who don't work there that noticed that.
Yeah, and it's only getting worse, trust me. When I was in grade school (a dozen years ago), it was rather rare for kids to swear at teachers and few took Ritalin.
Now, after watching my mother's elementary school kids, about half are on ADHD drugs and you can't even yell at them to be quiet when they call you a ***** and a ************.
I think it is caused by all of those ex-hippie college professors and psychologists that spread this kind of crap around. I have the dubious pleasure of having to attend some of their classes (gack!)
Actually, my Texas Instruments Voyage 200 graphing calculator uses a 14MHz Motorola MC68000 CPU with 384 KB RAM and 4 MB flash EEPROM. Last time I checked, the Mac PPC lineage traces back to that chip. That would mean the G5 is an overgrown calculator chip, not the x86 ones ;)