Don't go with Rogers if you're hoping for fast Bittorrent speeds. I have their most expensive package available here in London. We get 30 kB/s down as our average peak (it will occasionally shoot up to 300-400 kB/s for about a minute) even on torrents with loads of peers and seeders. A lot of the time they come in at dial up speeds. It takes forever to get the share ratio over 1 on large torrents. I'm planning on switching to DSL even though it's slower over all as far as I know Bell doesn't throttle speeds.
For the record, I wouldn't care if Rogers throttled my torrent traffic simply to protect other traffic. I use VoIP for my home phone, so I understand that. But there's no reason my torrents should be coming in this slow. They're ripping me off as far as I'm concerned.
As for the article.. I don't really get the point of anonymizing the browser traffic. Aren't the MAFIAA figuring out who to sue by simply joining the torrents and making a list of the IP addresses in the swarm?
But between OS X being official UNIX and GNU/Linux being UNIX-like, which one is easier to actually compile the kind of written-for-unix(ish) code that desktop users have access to?
The other day my friend asked me to install some free software game on his MacBook... I think it was called Bos Wars. The webpage for the game claimed that it supports OS X but I couldn't find a binary, just the source. Downloaded that, read the INSTALL.txt and discovered that I'd need to install SDL and about 5 other libraries. And I'd have to get scons. I stopped manually fetching dependencies in the 90s (ok... it was 2001), and just told my friend he should install the game in his Ubuntu installation under Parallels. (We ended up playing Nexuiz I think).
Even if I'd had to compile the game from source code in Ubuntu, it would have been a lot easier. Most of the source code that us regular folks have access to is free software, and most of it is developed on GNU/Linux first, and ported to other platforms later. If you ask me, at least as far as consumers are concerned (not talking about big iron) GNU/Linux is the new UNIX. In that sense, it's more UNIX than some expensive certification.
Every time I sit down at a Mac I inevitably end up swearing at the lack of a util I'm used to having (why no wget?). And why are folders like/etc so hard to find in finder? Maybe I'm just giving up to easy, but I have a hard time getting over the single mouse button.
I regularly use OTR in Pidgin with MSN and Jabber (Gmail chat) and have never had a problem. Adium X on the Mac also includes OTR support out of the box.
I try to use OTR as much as possible, all of the time. I figure if I only protect the stuff that needs to be secret, it sticks out like a sore thumb. And the more encrypted traffic on the internet in general, the harder it is for them to break it all even if they do have magic quantum computers.
Trying to get more people to use PGP/GPG with me over email for the same reasons, but it's a little harder to understand and get started so I'm not making as much progress.
It's too bad they didn't include the first digital picture, that would have been neat to see. I couldn't find it on google, but I didn't really spend that long looking. Hopefully they still have it kicking around somewhere. The comments in the CNET article suggest they know what the picture was of but I guess they couldn't find it either.
The other of the article says that his major problem that caused him to give up on Linux this time was being unable to find the subscribe button in a dialog in Evolution. He mentioned how the documentation shows the dialog for Evolution 2.4 (which has subscribe and unsubscribe buttons), but he was using 2.8.
I don't know much about connecting to Exchange servers... but from what I know about GNOME human interface guidelines, dialog boxes are designed so changes take effect immediately. That's why there's a close button instead of the windows-esqe okay/cancel/apply on most GNOME dialogs.
I really hope that the author of the original post tried putting checkmarks beside the folders he wanted to subscribe to and clicking close. It'd be a shame if he gave up on Linux because he couldn't figure that out.
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Don't go with Rogers if you're hoping for fast Bittorrent speeds. I have their most expensive package available here in London. We get 30 kB/s down as our average peak (it will occasionally shoot up to 300-400 kB/s for about a minute) even on torrents with loads of peers and seeders. A lot of the time they come in at dial up speeds. It takes forever to get the share ratio over 1 on large torrents. I'm planning on switching to DSL even though it's slower over all as far as I know Bell doesn't throttle speeds.
For the record, I wouldn't care if Rogers throttled my torrent traffic simply to protect other traffic. I use VoIP for my home phone, so I understand that. But there's no reason my torrents should be coming in this slow. They're ripping me off as far as I'm concerned.
As for the article.. I don't really get the point of anonymizing the browser traffic. Aren't the MAFIAA figuring out who to sue by simply joining the torrents and making a list of the IP addresses in the swarm?
And why not just use Tor?
But between OS X being official UNIX and GNU/Linux being UNIX-like, which one is easier to actually compile the kind of written-for-unix(ish) code that desktop users have access to?
/etc so hard to find in finder? Maybe I'm just giving up to easy, but I have a hard time getting over the single mouse button.
The other day my friend asked me to install some free software game on his MacBook... I think it was called Bos Wars. The webpage for the game claimed that it supports OS X but I couldn't find a binary, just the source. Downloaded that, read the INSTALL.txt and discovered that I'd need to install SDL and about 5 other libraries. And I'd have to get scons. I stopped manually fetching dependencies in the 90s (ok... it was 2001), and just told my friend he should install the game in his Ubuntu installation under Parallels. (We ended up playing Nexuiz I think).
Even if I'd had to compile the game from source code in Ubuntu, it would have been a lot easier. Most of the source code that us regular folks have access to is free software, and most of it is developed on GNU/Linux first, and ported to other platforms later. If you ask me, at least as far as consumers are concerned (not talking about big iron) GNU/Linux is the new UNIX. In that sense, it's more UNIX than some expensive certification.
Every time I sit down at a Mac I inevitably end up swearing at the lack of a util I'm used to having (why no wget?). And why are folders like
I regularly use OTR in Pidgin with MSN and Jabber (Gmail chat) and have never had a problem. Adium X on the Mac also includes OTR support out of the box.
I try to use OTR as much as possible, all of the time. I figure if I only protect the stuff that needs to be secret, it sticks out like a sore thumb. And the more encrypted traffic on the internet in general, the harder it is for them to break it all even if they do have magic quantum computers.
Trying to get more people to use PGP/GPG with me over email for the same reasons, but it's a little harder to understand and get started so I'm not making as much progress.
Goatse is pretty grainy...
It's too bad they didn't include the first digital picture, that would have been neat to see. I couldn't find it on google, but I didn't really spend that long looking.
Hopefully they still have it kicking around somewhere. The comments in the CNET article suggest they know what the picture was of but I guess they couldn't find it either.
The other of the article says that his major problem that caused him to give up on Linux this time was being unable to find the subscribe button in a dialog in Evolution. He mentioned how the documentation shows the dialog for Evolution 2.4 (which has subscribe and unsubscribe buttons), but he was using 2.8.
I don't know much about connecting to Exchange servers... but from what I know about GNOME human interface guidelines, dialog boxes are designed so changes take effect immediately. That's why there's a close button instead of the windows-esqe okay/cancel/apply on most GNOME dialogs.
I really hope that the author of the original post tried putting checkmarks beside the folders he wanted to subscribe to and clicking close. It'd be a shame if he gave up on Linux because he couldn't figure that out.
Jeremy