Micro$oft and Novell
Sunday, November 26, 2006
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I heard about this news from several podcasts and not everyone seems to agree on what this deal specifically means. Some say Novell was trying to weasel out and indemnify itself from possible lawsuits from M$, and if that's true they just violated the GPL. Others say, its simply a deal to increase marketing between both companies as M$ is planning on marketing its server products with vitualization capabilities. Bundling a Linux flavor together with that does make sense. But once lawsuits go out against Red Hat users, then we'll know for sure what this deal really represents. I say we as a community should withdraw support for Novell and still support Suse until everything becomes clearer. Damn, Novell should've kept its greedy hands off of Suse in the first place.
AMD Does It Again
In the wake of Intel's launch of their quad core processors, beating AMD to the race by about six months, AMD comes up with its own trump card for the enterprise market that blew analysts away. AMD is now selling what it calls Stream Processors. After reading these two articles on CMP's Information Week and TrustedReviews.com, I realized it was ironic that this was such a simple concept but no one thought about bringing this to the market earlier. I was just amazed at the foresight that they had when they decided to buy ATI. And being the AMD fan that I am, I just glad they did buy ATI, even though my heart says nVidia :-(
Accelerating Downloads
Saturday, November 18, 2006
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I usually have trouble remembering the itsy bits and pieces that I have to make up the jumble of stuff that eventually becomes my system. For posterity's sake and for the sanity of my memory, here goes...
There are times that WGet doesn't really do it for me. For one, I think there are servers that refuse to accept multiple connections from WGet. So to replace WGet, I have two favorites to squeeze all that bandwidth out of my connection. Para sulit naman ang monthly fee ko, 'di ba?
One is Axel, which is just a "sudo apt-get install axel" away from any terminal emulator. Advantages are its size and that it doesn't break up downloads into the pieces (and joins them, post-download) like most every accelerator out there does. Axel puts all the data into a single file, pieces of the puzzle written in the right order and on-the-fly at download time. And it is a very small program too. I think I've read someone say, he puts it in a floppy and just executes it on several linux PCs he uses. A plus if you're using a low-resource PC. The other accelerator I use is Prozilla. I've had trouble with this before but I still use it. Its still a favorite, owing to the fact that I get to see the progress of each part of the download and the speed of each of the 4 (default) connections. Its a pet peeve. Don't ask. You can get Prozilla by going to http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/net/prozilla for the stable deb package, currently version 1.3.6. There are newer versions you can compile from tar (download those from here), the latest of which is 2.0.4, but I've had the most stable experience with the 1.3.6.
Both acceelerators support downloading the same file from different mirrors, so you don't make the life of some poor network admin out there a living hell by overburdening one his server. Hey, bandwidth is money! So my parting shot would be to use one (or both!) and use those mirrors. Let's make everyone happy, even the guys who sit behind the servers that churn out all the open source goodness that we so treasure :-)
Next up, Aria2!
There are times that WGet doesn't really do it for me. For one, I think there are servers that refuse to accept multiple connections from WGet. So to replace WGet, I have two favorites to squeeze all that bandwidth out of my connection. Para sulit naman ang monthly fee ko, 'di ba?
One is Axel, which is just a "sudo apt-get install axel" away from any terminal emulator. Advantages are its size and that it doesn't break up downloads into the pieces (and joins them, post-download) like most every accelerator out there does. Axel puts all the data into a single file, pieces of the puzzle written in the right order and on-the-fly at download time. And it is a very small program too. I think I've read someone say, he puts it in a floppy and just executes it on several linux PCs he uses. A plus if you're using a low-resource PC. The other accelerator I use is Prozilla. I've had trouble with this before but I still use it. Its still a favorite, owing to the fact that I get to see the progress of each part of the download and the speed of each of the 4 (default) connections. Its a pet peeve. Don't ask. You can get Prozilla by going to http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/net/prozilla for the stable deb package, currently version 1.3.6. There are newer versions you can compile from tar (download those from here), the latest of which is 2.0.4, but I've had the most stable experience with the 1.3.6.
Both acceelerators support downloading the same file from different mirrors, so you don't make the life of some poor network admin out there a living hell by overburdening one his server. Hey, bandwidth is money! So my parting shot would be to use one (or both!) and use those mirrors. Let's make everyone happy, even the guys who sit behind the servers that churn out all the open source goodness that we so treasure :-)
Next up, Aria2!
Haiku (well, sort of...)
Saturday, November 4, 2006
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makes me yearn for more
bandwidth than I can spare...
Wordpress?
Friday, November 3, 2006
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I've been considering moving over this blog to Wordpress. It seems a lot more sophisticated and flexible than what I currently use in Blogger. And its an itch I need to scratch. I'm curious about Wordpress and I just want to try it.
I'm worried though that I might loose my archived content when I move my blog over there. Wordpress' "Importing" FAQ does assuage my worries, but one can never tell what unfortunate things might happen when experimenting.
On a lighter note, I've installed Edgy now and I'm currently updating. I couldn't download the ISO for Ubuntu as the servers were busy at the time I started to download. I checked on the servers hosting Edubuntu and I saw that the speed was better, even though there were only 2 mirrors in close proximity to the Philippines. I ended up downloading that and installed it today. No worries, though. I actually like Edubuntu's defaults. Next on my list, getting everything up-to-date, including my plugins :-)
I'm worried though that I might loose my archived content when I move my blog over there. Wordpress' "Importing" FAQ does assuage my worries, but one can never tell what unfortunate things might happen when experimenting.
On a lighter note, I've installed Edgy now and I'm currently updating. I couldn't download the ISO for Ubuntu as the servers were busy at the time I started to download. I checked on the servers hosting Edubuntu and I saw that the speed was better, even though there were only 2 mirrors in close proximity to the Philippines. I ended up downloading that and installed it today. No worries, though. I actually like Edubuntu's defaults. Next on my list, getting everything up-to-date, including my plugins :-)
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