You don't think 'good' and 'bad' are helpful adjectives to describe a company to a friend who might be interesting in purchasing services from said company and who will eventually need to deal with said company?
Two examples, Comcast and Netlix. I've read quite a bit actions that both companies have taken, and have been on the phone with both companies several times. If I were referring a friend for a high-speed internet service, I probably wouldn't recommend Comcast because I think that they are a 'bad' company. They do things like throttle your internet connection if you're using bit-torrent, regardless if it's for completely legal purposes or not. They are lobbying for a tiered internet. They are rarely pleasant or on time to service calls, and calling their customer service center is an exercise in futility.
Netflix, on the other hand, I would recommend as a 'good' company, because they are constantly doing things that bennefit their customers. For example, they have been working very hard to bring streaming movies to people. I just got that ability with the latest xbox update, and it's awesome (really good quality too). They are also very good on the phone. The CSRs will really try to help you, and if you have some sort of technical question, they put you on the phone with somebody who understands and can answer your question!
So, in short, I think that labeling companies as 'good' and 'bad' is helpful. If a company is falling into the 'bad' category, and they don't want to be there, then they need to get off their ass and figure out what put them there.
Acutally, according to several sources, and mentioned on his wikipedia page, his biological age is about 20 years younger than his chronological age (which is only two biological years older than when he changed is habits concerning his health 20 years ago).
Personal immortality pins down part of his motivation, sure, but his other motivation is figuring out what sort of products, using which technologies are going to be marketable when. He's an inventor, and as such, wants to have a well timed delivery of his products.
I think that these two motivations show us that he isn't just trying to sell us his ideas as a product in and of themselves, but he is relying on these ideas being accurate as much as relying on them to sell books.
I was there too, and was also impressed. I picked up "The Singularity is Near," and I find it interesting that he does actually address many of the criticisms that people make of his predictions. His models are much more robust than, I think, a lot of people give him credit for.
I'm writing on my MacBook Air. I really don't think that OS X is all that it's cracked up to be, although it will stay on this laptop. Yes, it does what it says it will, but I don't think that it's nearly as flexible as your average Linux distro. For example, using pgp/gpg with mail is *not* trivial. And I use Firefox over Safari for the add-ons like noscript. The main thing, for me, that linux really has over anything else is it's use of centralized software repositories, and the ease-of-use of several of the clients built around those repositories.
Searching for mac software that does what I want, is good quality software, and for a reasonable price has cost me many hours of searching, before either buying something overpriced, buying something cheap that doesn't work, or using an open source app that I'm used to on Linux. I don't have to do this when I'm on my opensuse box.
Like I said, OS X is good enough to keep it's place on my MBA, but only because I don't really want to install too much on it. I really only want the apps that I know that I need, in hopes of not getting distracted playing with the latest and greatest.
This was exactly how I felt after picking up an OQO 02. I spent a long time trying to get any distro to run on it, then when I did, I couldn't use Via's video driver. It was all sorts of screwed up, and with no real directions.
So, I went on their forums and looked around some of the threads. It seemed that a lot of other people were in the same situation as me, and Via didn't seem to care at all. They never posted on any of the Linux threads.
My idea of "support" is not garbage drivers that don't compile, and ignoring customers who purchase your hardware. I will never touch anything via again.
P.S. - The EEE PC that I got my fiancee worked out well. Eeexubuntu is a good distro for it, a big improvement over what comes installed on it.
I didn' say it was necessary. But, my girlfriend likes how it looks with Beryl. It hasn't seemed to significantly impact the performance, so why not? I wanted to give her something that wasn't just functional, but something that she would be comfortable using, and that looked good.
Beyond that, I was simply pointing out that it was an area where Linux provided a certain functionality that while Windows can do, it can't do it on that hardware. It's also functionality that some people enjoy having. I also don't really understand why you think that since you don't want something extra, that nobody should care about it's availability. Clearly, there are people interested in such things, or the Beryl/Compiz projects wouldn't exist, and KDE wouldn't have moved to a compositing desktop.
Please ignore the above post, I think I misunderstood what was being discussed.
On another note, it probably wouldn't be too technically difficult to accomplish what they're talking about doing. It'd be like having an MS branded cygwin, but some other default shell besides bash.
I had heard about this several years ago (2005?). My understanding was that Blackcomb was supposed to be built on a different paradigm that previous MS Windows, with a more Unix-like architecture. I heard that they were developing their own shell, and separating the GUI as a separate piece. As I understood it, they were going to try to make windows more modular, and give admins some better shell tools.... not that I'll ever use it.
I don't have a link handy, but I remember reading this on the Microsoft website, probably in their development section or something.
This phenomenon was explained years ago as an SEP field. It was described as the cheaper and more practical alternative to an invisibility field. I'm surprised that nobody else has mentioned it.
I've done all this. But regardless, it means relisting it, several times, because of second chance offers. Basically, this is taking an extra week to get sold, and it might sell for less than the highest legitimate bidder of the previous auction. eBay is not waiving the fees because the scammer replied to eBay's notice about the nonpayment thing, eBay isn't really dealing with this situation too well.
The scammer did not lock up my account, rather, he claimed that his payment would be released from PayPal to me once they received a tracking number. I of course didn't buy this at all. I did change my e-mail address for both accounts, just in case.
I guess that it comes down to the fact that these jerks are costing me time and money. I've spent a lot of time reading these e-mails asking me to send my laptop to Nigeria, Indonesia, Guam, West Africa, etc. I'm also pretty annoyed that this guy won't leave me alone, and continues to assume that I'm dumb (which I guess I deserve for dealing with him in the first place). I'm really tired of it, and I'm just going to report this guy to the authorities. I have several e-mails that he sent, fraudulently, on behalf of the actual user, PayPal and eBay. I believe that his IP address was in the e-mails that he sent as the user, as there were two separate e-mails, both with the same originating IP address.
Yep, this is probably the last time that I'm going to use eBay. I was getting pretty annoyed with the number of scammers on CraigsList, but eBay is almost as bad. And, eBay doesn't seem to be handling this stuff well.
I know this is a bit off topic, but it is related. I'm in the middle of trying to get rid of a phisher/scammer who won an eBay auction of mine. They took over someone else's account (eBay knows about this), bid on my item and won. Then they requested that I send the laptop to Nigeria (in the auction I explicitly stated that I would only send it to the US, Canada, and the UK). I knew that this person was a scammer, it was fairly obvious from the wrong e-mail addresses and Engrish, so I told him/her to stop bothering me. I then get a bunch of fake e-mails to me claiming to be from PayPal and eBay, saying that once I send the laptop, PayPal will release the funds. This person is deliberately preventing me from getting a refund for the auction costs from eBay, and obviously, preventing me from selling this laptop (or at least delaying it). Needless to say, I'm getting pretty annoyed with this guy.
I was able to grab what I believe to be his IP address off of the headers from a couple of e-mails that he sent to me, and found his ISP, but that's about as far as I got. I think that it is actually his IP address, but I'm not sure. My current plan is to send all communications between he and I to eBay, PayPal and the FBI, and be done with it. Any suggestions?
I got my fiancee an EEE PC for Christmas, and she loves it. I changed the desktop to KDE/Beryl (very easy to do), so it's a lot more user friendly (for someone used to the typical desktop paradigm). It fits in her purse, and has a nice big screen (compared to my nokia 770, n800 and OQO 02 that she had used before) and full laptop keyboard (all be it a small one). So, as the fourth ultramobile pc/device in the apartment, it gets a lot of use. It would be a little to big for me, because I can't fit it in my pocket, but for her, it works. The thing with the Nokia tablets, is that they aren't quite UMPCs, they are internet devices - they don't run real office software, which is important for say, working on a resume. And it's at a much better price than something like the OQO.
The EEE PC is a laptop. It's only real shortcoming is the lack of storage, but it has an SDHC reader (she's got an 8GB card), and I also picked up an 80GB external drive for her. The screen is on the average/large side of UMPCs, and is quite nice. The keyboard is a bit cramped, but I think that she has gotten used to it. At least the keyboard is a full laptop keyboard. It lacks internal bluetooth, but she doesn't really need that; if she did, I would probably just get one of those new tiny bluetooth dongles.
Compared to my OQO 02 (running openSuSE 10.2), it has a similar feel, but she's got a bigger screen and an accelerated video driver on the EEE PC (which I'm jealous of). Even with the cramped keyboard, it's faster to type on the EEE PC than it is the thumb-board on the OQO. The web experience is a little better on the EEE PC, because of the size of the screen.
The EEE PC and the Nokia devices don't really compare too well, except for perhaps the web experience, which is better on the EEE PC. Although, I don't like the default interface of the EEE PC as much as Nokia's Maemo interface. And, the Nokia devices get locked and unlocked quickly into a low power state, which makes it better sometimes for looking something up quickly (you don't need to wait the minute or so to boot up the device).
For me, the OQO 02 is my main laptop(esq) device, because of the fact that it is fully featured, and fits in my pocket. However, the n800 is nice for times that I don't want to worry about carrying around the OQO (it's half the thickness and a lot lighter), but want to have something to jump online quickly. If I were in the market today, and didn't have any ultramobile device, the EEE PC would be a really strong contender because it is really portable, it has a nice sized screen, it's really light, the price is excellent, it is full-featured, and I don't have to put any effort into loading Linux onto it (or dealing with searching for drivers).
As an aside, if anybody has gotten accelerated graphics working on the OQO 02 (VX700 or CX700 VIA video chipset), I'd be interested in hearing how you did it, as there is little support from viaarena on the forums, and the documentation is a bit lacking. The openchrome and unichrome drivers don't seem to work.
You can use kagu music player that works with a2dpbluetooth audio. I don't know about headsets (for voip), haven't really been too interested in that, although I know that it's coming. Sound quality is very good with a2dp, and avrcp (remote control) works fairly well with kagu too.
I believe that the n800 would do strongly in your rubric (applications, dev environment, syncing, interface and phone - voip). I believe that it can even do exchange (at least the 770 did through third-party software). As far as the dev environment, applications, etc check this out. It's not a phone, but it does do VOIP, as well as hundreds of other useful (and not so useful) things.
I already have my Linux mobile device, and I couldn't be happier with it. It attaches to my bluetooth headphones, keyboard, gps, and phone (DUN) without any problems. I can use xterm to ssh to my server, or stream internet radio or video at work. Oh yea, and I jammed 16GB of SDHC storage into the thing, so I have a decent music selection. The current version does not have a cell phone radio, but the next one will carry a WiMax chip, and possibly some other new hardware goodies.
On a related note, Ubuntu's Moblin and Red Flag's Midinux will be out relatively soon for use on UMPCs and MIDs. So, I'd agree that things are looking up for those of us who want more than e-mail and pim on our mobile devices. I'm not sure that I care *as much* about having Linux on my cell phone, as long as it will act as a modem to my other device and make phone calls. I want them to be separate, mostly so that I can make sure not to kill the battery on the cell phone, just in case I actually need it.
"There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'"
Yes, and my bet is that many of them wonder why opening their web browser takes 5 mintues.
Q: Why are there so many windows and mac users campared with linux users?
A: Because MS Windows and Mac OS X both come pre-installed on cheap/pretty boxes that the customer doesn't need to think about. MS and Apple also both have large, highly visible marketing efforts behind their software to make people aware of the brand, and attract them to the product. There is also the fear of something different that I'm sure many windows/mac users feel towards linux, they don't understand it, and it looks different from what they've seen before.
I think that the most effective way to get linux out to the people would be a large, highly visible marketing effort. As well as an easy way for people to get a linux distro onto their box without them needing to think about it too much.
Didn't this happen with DVD's also? Wasn't there a big thing about that t-shirt with the CSS key on it?
So, I can see the libs for this getting pushed to servers located in countries where consumers are allowed to consume the content that they paid for, similar to the current dvd situation. So, for me, I only add the repository of whatever server, or even visit said server myself (perhaps with a secure, or tor connection) to download the library for my own use.
So, while I don't agree that it is "right" to "censor a number," it won't really affect me, or anyone else interested in seeing said number. That is, if I decide to go ahead and purchase that DRM'd crapware, which probably won't be any time soon.
On second thought, to be safe, I should probably grab said lib now.
Finally, we might start seeing some better ping times, and fewer lost packets for my carrier of choice! I think that google should be happy about this too.
I agree. Why is making money so bad? Yes, the company benefits from the community, but doesn't the community also benefit from having the source? Wouldn't it be great if more companies provided source code for their software?
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You don't think 'good' and 'bad' are helpful adjectives to describe a company to a friend who might be interesting in purchasing services from said company and who will eventually need to deal with said company?
Two examples, Comcast and Netlix. I've read quite a bit actions that both companies have taken, and have been on the phone with both companies several times. If I were referring a friend for a high-speed internet service, I probably wouldn't recommend Comcast because I think that they are a 'bad' company. They do things like throttle your internet connection if you're using bit-torrent, regardless if it's for completely legal purposes or not. They are lobbying for a tiered internet. They are rarely pleasant or on time to service calls, and calling their customer service center is an exercise in futility.
Netflix, on the other hand, I would recommend as a 'good' company, because they are constantly doing things that bennefit their customers. For example, they have been working very hard to bring streaming movies to people. I just got that ability with the latest xbox update, and it's awesome (really good quality too). They are also very good on the phone. The CSRs will really try to help you, and if you have some sort of technical question, they put you on the phone with somebody who understands and can answer your question!
So, in short, I think that labeling companies as 'good' and 'bad' is helpful. If a company is falling into the 'bad' category, and they don't want to be there, then they need to get off their ass and figure out what put them there.
Acutally, according to several sources, and mentioned on his wikipedia page, his biological age is about 20 years younger than his chronological age (which is only two biological years older than when he changed is habits concerning his health 20 years ago).
Personal immortality pins down part of his motivation, sure, but his other motivation is figuring out what sort of products, using which technologies are going to be marketable when. He's an inventor, and as such, wants to have a well timed delivery of his products.
I think that these two motivations show us that he isn't just trying to sell us his ideas as a product in and of themselves, but he is relying on these ideas being accurate as much as relying on them to sell books.
I was there too, and was also impressed. I picked up "The Singularity is Near," and I find it interesting that he does actually address many of the criticisms that people make of his predictions. His models are much more robust than, I think, a lot of people give him credit for.
I'm writing on my MacBook Air. I really don't think that OS X is all that it's cracked up to be, although it will stay on this laptop. Yes, it does what it says it will, but I don't think that it's nearly as flexible as your average Linux distro. For example, using pgp/gpg with mail is *not* trivial. And I use Firefox over Safari for the add-ons like noscript. The main thing, for me, that linux really has over anything else is it's use of centralized software repositories, and the ease-of-use of several of the clients built around those repositories.
Searching for mac software that does what I want, is good quality software, and for a reasonable price has cost me many hours of searching, before either buying something overpriced, buying something cheap that doesn't work, or using an open source app that I'm used to on Linux. I don't have to do this when I'm on my opensuse box.
Like I said, OS X is good enough to keep it's place on my MBA, but only because I don't really want to install too much on it. I really only want the apps that I know that I need, in hopes of not getting distracted playing with the latest and greatest.
This was exactly how I felt after picking up an OQO 02. I spent a long time trying to get any distro to run on it, then when I did, I couldn't use Via's video driver. It was all sorts of screwed up, and with no real directions.
So, I went on their forums and looked around some of the threads. It seemed that a lot of other people were in the same situation as me, and Via didn't seem to care at all. They never posted on any of the Linux threads.
My idea of "support" is not garbage drivers that don't compile, and ignoring customers who purchase your hardware. I will never touch anything via again.
P.S. - The EEE PC that I got my fiancee worked out well. Eeexubuntu is a good distro for it, a big improvement over what comes installed on it.
I didn' say it was necessary. But, my girlfriend likes how it looks with Beryl. It hasn't seemed to significantly impact the performance, so why not? I wanted to give her something that wasn't just functional, but something that she would be comfortable using, and that looked good.
Beyond that, I was simply pointing out that it was an area where Linux provided a certain functionality that while Windows can do, it can't do it on that hardware. It's also functionality that some people enjoy having. I also don't really understand why you think that since you don't want something extra, that nobody should care about it's availability. Clearly, there are people interested in such things, or the Beryl/Compiz projects wouldn't exist, and KDE wouldn't have moved to a compositing desktop.
True, it won't run Crysis, but the EEE PC runs Beryl just fine. I doubt that it could handle any of Vista's 3D desktop stuff.
Please ignore the above post, I think I misunderstood what was being discussed.
On another note, it probably wouldn't be too technically difficult to accomplish what they're talking about doing. It'd be like having an MS branded cygwin, but some other default shell besides bash.
*If* that's what their intention is.
I had heard about this several years ago (2005?). My understanding was that Blackcomb was supposed to be built on a different paradigm that previous MS Windows, with a more Unix-like architecture. I heard that they were developing their own shell, and separating the GUI as a separate piece. As I understood it, they were going to try to make windows more modular, and give admins some better shell tools. ... not that I'll ever use it.
I don't have a link handy, but I remember reading this on the Microsoft website, probably in their development section or something.
This phenomenon was explained years ago as an SEP field. It was described as the cheaper and more practical alternative to an invisibility field. I'm surprised that nobody else has mentioned it.
I've done all this. But regardless, it means relisting it, several times, because of second chance offers. Basically, this is taking an extra week to get sold, and it might sell for less than the highest legitimate bidder of the previous auction. eBay is not waiving the fees because the scammer replied to eBay's notice about the nonpayment thing, eBay isn't really dealing with this situation too well.
The scammer did not lock up my account, rather, he claimed that his payment would be released from PayPal to me once they received a tracking number. I of course didn't buy this at all. I did change my e-mail address for both accounts, just in case.
I guess that it comes down to the fact that these jerks are costing me time and money. I've spent a lot of time reading these e-mails asking me to send my laptop to Nigeria, Indonesia, Guam, West Africa, etc. I'm also pretty annoyed that this guy won't leave me alone, and continues to assume that I'm dumb (which I guess I deserve for dealing with him in the first place). I'm really tired of it, and I'm just going to report this guy to the authorities. I have several e-mails that he sent, fraudulently, on behalf of the actual user, PayPal and eBay. I believe that his IP address was in the e-mails that he sent as the user, as there were two separate e-mails, both with the same originating IP address.
Yep, this is probably the last time that I'm going to use eBay. I was getting pretty annoyed with the number of scammers on CraigsList, but eBay is almost as bad. And, eBay doesn't seem to be handling this stuff well.
I know this is a bit off topic, but it is related. I'm in the middle of trying to get rid of a phisher/scammer who won an eBay auction of mine. They took over someone else's account (eBay knows about this), bid on my item and won. Then they requested that I send the laptop to Nigeria (in the auction I explicitly stated that I would only send it to the US, Canada, and the UK). I knew that this person was a scammer, it was fairly obvious from the wrong e-mail addresses and Engrish, so I told him/her to stop bothering me. I then get a bunch of fake e-mails to me claiming to be from PayPal and eBay, saying that once I send the laptop, PayPal will release the funds. This person is deliberately preventing me from getting a refund for the auction costs from eBay, and obviously, preventing me from selling this laptop (or at least delaying it). Needless to say, I'm getting pretty annoyed with this guy.
I was able to grab what I believe to be his IP address off of the headers from a couple of e-mails that he sent to me, and found his ISP, but that's about as far as I got. I think that it is actually his IP address, but I'm not sure. My current plan is to send all communications between he and I to eBay, PayPal and the FBI, and be done with it. Any suggestions?
I got my fiancee an EEE PC for Christmas, and she loves it. I changed the desktop to KDE/Beryl (very easy to do), so it's a lot more user friendly (for someone used to the typical desktop paradigm). It fits in her purse, and has a nice big screen (compared to my nokia 770, n800 and OQO 02 that she had used before) and full laptop keyboard (all be it a small one). So, as the fourth ultramobile pc/device in the apartment, it gets a lot of use. It would be a little to big for me, because I can't fit it in my pocket, but for her, it works. The thing with the Nokia tablets, is that they aren't quite UMPCs, they are internet devices - they don't run real office software, which is important for say, working on a resume. And it's at a much better price than something like the OQO.
The EEE PC is a laptop. It's only real shortcoming is the lack of storage, but it has an SDHC reader (she's got an 8GB card), and I also picked up an 80GB external drive for her. The screen is on the average/large side of UMPCs, and is quite nice. The keyboard is a bit cramped, but I think that she has gotten used to it. At least the keyboard is a full laptop keyboard. It lacks internal bluetooth, but she doesn't really need that; if she did, I would probably just get one of those new tiny bluetooth dongles.
Compared to my OQO 02 (running openSuSE 10.2), it has a similar feel, but she's got a bigger screen and an accelerated video driver on the EEE PC (which I'm jealous of). Even with the cramped keyboard, it's faster to type on the EEE PC than it is the thumb-board on the OQO. The web experience is a little better on the EEE PC, because of the size of the screen.
The EEE PC and the Nokia devices don't really compare too well, except for perhaps the web experience, which is better on the EEE PC. Although, I don't like the default interface of the EEE PC as much as Nokia's Maemo interface. And, the Nokia devices get locked and unlocked quickly into a low power state, which makes it better sometimes for looking something up quickly (you don't need to wait the minute or so to boot up the device).
For me, the OQO 02 is my main laptop(esq) device, because of the fact that it is fully featured, and fits in my pocket. However, the n800 is nice for times that I don't want to worry about carrying around the OQO (it's half the thickness and a lot lighter), but want to have something to jump online quickly. If I were in the market today, and didn't have any ultramobile device, the EEE PC would be a really strong contender because it is really portable, it has a nice sized screen, it's really light, the price is excellent, it is full-featured, and I don't have to put any effort into loading Linux onto it (or dealing with searching for drivers).
As an aside, if anybody has gotten accelerated graphics working on the OQO 02 (VX700 or CX700 VIA video chipset), I'd be interested in hearing how you did it, as there is little support from viaarena on the forums, and the documentation is a bit lacking. The openchrome and unichrome drivers don't seem to work.
You can use kagu music player that works with a2dp bluetooth audio. I don't know about headsets (for voip), haven't really been too interested in that, although I know that it's coming. Sound quality is very good with a2dp, and avrcp (remote control) works fairly well with kagu too.
I believe that the n800 would do strongly in your rubric (applications, dev environment, syncing, interface and phone - voip). I believe that it can even do exchange (at least the 770 did through third-party software). As far as the dev environment, applications, etc check this out. It's not a phone, but it does do VOIP, as well as hundreds of other useful (and not so useful) things.
I already have my Linux mobile device, and I couldn't be happier with it. It attaches to my bluetooth headphones, keyboard, gps, and phone (DUN) without any problems. I can use xterm to ssh to my server, or stream internet radio or video at work. Oh yea, and I jammed 16GB of SDHC storage into the thing, so I have a decent music selection. The current version does not have a cell phone radio, but the next one will carry a WiMax chip, and possibly some other new hardware goodies.
On a related note, Ubuntu's Moblin and Red Flag's Midinux will be out relatively soon for use on UMPCs and MIDs. So, I'd agree that things are looking up for those of us who want more than e-mail and pim on our mobile devices. I'm not sure that I care *as much* about having Linux on my cell phone, as long as it will act as a modem to my other device and make phone calls. I want them to be separate, mostly so that I can make sure not to kill the battery on the cell phone, just in case I actually need it.
Linus Torvalds had something to say about the evil beaches:
So, I will ask the obvious question: Why would you bring a wifi enabled device would you bring to an area with a lot of sand and water?
"There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'"
Yes, and my bet is that many of them wonder why opening their web browser takes 5 mintues.
Q: Why are there so many windows and mac users campared with linux users?
A: Because MS Windows and Mac OS X both come pre-installed on cheap/pretty boxes that the customer doesn't need to think about. MS and Apple also both have large, highly visible marketing efforts behind their software to make people aware of the brand, and attract them to the product. There is also the fear of something different that I'm sure many windows/mac users feel towards linux, they don't understand it, and it looks different from what they've seen before.
I think that the most effective way to get linux out to the people would be a large, highly visible marketing effort. As well as an easy way for people to get a linux distro onto their box without them needing to think about it too much.
Didn't this happen with DVD's also? Wasn't there a big thing about that t-shirt with the CSS key on it?
So, I can see the libs for this getting pushed to servers located in countries where consumers are allowed to consume the content that they paid for, similar to the current dvd situation. So, for me, I only add the repository of whatever server, or even visit said server myself (perhaps with a secure, or tor connection) to download the library for my own use.
So, while I don't agree that it is "right" to "censor a number," it won't really affect me, or anyone else interested in seeing said number. That is, if I decide to go ahead and purchase that DRM'd crapware, which probably won't be any time soon.
On second thought, to be safe, I should probably grab said lib now.
Here's a "how to" from ubuntu on the subject.Finally, we might start seeing some better ping times, and fewer lost packets for my carrier of choice! I think that google should be happy about this too.
I agree. Why is making money so bad? Yes, the company benefits from the community, but doesn't the community also benefit from having the source? Wouldn't it be great if more companies provided source code for their software?
Isn't that what Planet Express does?