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DeWitt Clinton posted a link
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"You could go to Google. Or you could stay here and get straight to your answers." -Yahoo - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet
Um ... I guess this is kind of the same boat as an ad for American Airlines when I search for United, maybe ... - Alex Power
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Hassan Ibraheem posted a message on identi.ca
“Upgraded to Fedora 10 , nice improvements over F9 , and my wireless card works :)”
Wednesday at 12:13 am - Link
A very nice upgrade indeed. Do you have KMS working? - i80and
@i80and, no, I have an intel display card and found this on fedora's wiki "For Intel hardware, we default to disabled (targeted for Fedora 11)." https://fedoraproject.org/wiki... - Hassan Ibraheem
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November 24 at 4:11 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Call it shameless plug, but I am impressed by 8 Watt and some other features ... "Aleutia has Passionate Customers in 41 Countries: Senegal, Gambia, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, USA, Mexico, Haiti, Panama, Ireland, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, India, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Indonesia, and Australia." - silpol via Bookmarklet
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru (c) - Alex
@bleys whada'ya'mean ? - silpol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YlTh0yJS0M - Alex
oh, I see... :D - silpol
I'm in Egypt, and never heard about it. Any idea where to get it? Their reseller page isn't helping much. - Hassan Ibraheem
@hassanibraheem you ought to contact them at London office via e-mail e.g. http://www.aleutia.com/contact... - silpol
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Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers
November 22 at 9:26 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"All this expensive CDN infrastructure really isn’t necessary to handle live video streams effectively. P2P software can handle it effectively and far cheaper since the users are serving most of the video to others." -Michael Arrington. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet
Anyone want to explain that to me? I thought bittorrent-style P2P worked efficiently because chunks are designed to arrive out of sequence so as not to create a bottleneck on the necessarily smaller number of hosts with chunks to serve. Live streaming requires chunks to arrive in order and with little delay. How does P2P help here? - DeWitt Clinton
Heh, DeWitt, you're not missing anything. - Jason Wehmhoener
I just commented on the TechCrunch article. First time I've felt compelled to. - DeWitt Clinton
According to my calculations, Google was using something like 540gbit/s and used probably about 250TB of bandwidth for this event. That is if the figure of 700 thousand viewers is correct, and I'm timing that by 1 hour even though the whole event was 2 hours, for average. If bandwidth costs $0.10 per GB, then cost of bandwidth might have been just something like $25,000. That wouldn't be very expensive at all.. - Charbax
@Charbax - wow! - DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt: there's been a lot of recent research in developing BitTorrent-style (distributed economic) algorithms for real-time streaming. Having all the hosts online at the same time means there are more hosts serving chunks as well. I don't know that it's been productionized yet. - Jim Norris
@Jim - that definitely makes intuitive sense, and I know of companies that have been exploring this space for at least 5 years (thinking way back to one in particular). But afaik none of the existing protocols in deployment are doing this. Not saying it is impossible, just saying I bet Mike Arrington was talking out of the wrong end of his torso when he wrote that, because he doesn't know either. - DeWitt Clinton
@Jim, I think that is what P2P-Next is doing http://www.p2p-next.org/ . http://www.tribler.org/SwarmPl... - Hassan Ibraheem
@Charbax - your calculation, written as a Google query: http://www.google.com/search?q... - DeWitt Clinton
A bunch of CMU folks have done research on P2P streaming. Conviva is one of the companies (from CMU and Berkeley folks) which is commercializing it... - Ashwin Bharambe
For what it's worth, real-time P2P streaming has a much better shot at succeeding if Microsoft licenses and commercializes it. It's totally in line with their Silverlight and Xbox XBL strategy, and they can deploy it to a billion desktops overnight. - DeWitt Clinton
P2P-Next did some tests broadcasting the Eurovision song contest in Europe to hundreds of thousands of people http://tech.ebu.ch/lang/en/p2p... - Charbax
I watched the Eurovision song contest last year over the net, and it only froze once right at the start of the show. I thought oh well that's it, but after about 30 seconds it came back, and didn't drop or freeze again all the way through (three hours) - Ian May
Actually, P2P streaming of video is pretty common these days. I would even say "mainstream". I watched Olympics live from China using PPLive, and watch shows at least once a week, for example. It's not a techie phenomenon -- I learned about PPLive from AARP-aged Chinese people, all of whom use it. - Joshua Allen
Not totally sure how P2P saves real costs though -- doesn't it just shift the bandwidth need and cost? - Brian Sullivan
@Brian: Yes, it shifts expense to the local ISPs - Joshua Allen via fftogo
Joshua: So the local ISPs eventually have to find a way to transfer the cost to the customer/user? How is that good for users? - Brian Sullivan
@Brian: This hit to ISP is on upload bandwidth, which historically was underprovisioned; which is why Comcast and others have throttled P2P traffic, and why companies like MSFT have avoided heavy use of P2P (since it would hurt the ISPs). But ultimately it will be more efficient for edge ISPs to handle this type of traffic, as long as they get compensated fairly, and the ISPs seem to be adapting. - Joshua Allen
"But ultimately it will be more efficient for edge ISPs to handle this type of traffic" -- why ? Doesn't this actually create more traffic if there is more edge to edge traffic ? But even if this does happen -- who does the "compensating" in this model?-- ultimately the subscribers to the ISP? Again I ask how is this good for users? - Brian Sullivan
@Brian: It's more efficient, because the amount of traffic on the backbone is decreased by more than the amount at the edge is increased. Imagine that 100,000 people in each of the 10 largest cities in America simultaneously ordered the same book. Amazon could send out 1 million trucks to deliver the books, or could send 10 trucks and have the local post office print copies in each city. It's dramatically better for the backbone as well as for the publisher. It's better for the user as well, since it's quicker to distribute copies from locally. Try watching TV on PPLive (actually, CCTV is doing P2P on their own now, as well), then try streaming that same video stream from any streaming server in China. The former is rather nice, the latter is impossible. The only party who takes a hit is the local ISP, and their hit is not proportionally as bad as the benefit to the other parties. Thus the inexorable renegotiation of expectations, and the inevitable move toward ISPs allowing P2P. - Joshua Allen
Joshua -- doesn't your model assume though that P2P algorithms are tuned to favour transfer between "closer"' parties (which happens naturally in your example). I am not sure that this happens in other P2P situations. - Brian Sullivan
BTW, the NBC Olympics were broadcast to Silverlight using a P2P layer developed by Move Networks. And this layer is used in production on ABC and FOX players as well, IIRC. They don't come out and say that it's using P2P, but it is -- same as people using PPLive or CCTV don't actually know what "P2P" is. Which is as good a definition of "mainstream" as any. - Joshua Allen
@Joshua - can you point us to anywhere that gives details about the Silverlight P2P implementation? That would indeed disprove my assertion that this wasn't in the mainstream. - DeWitt Clinton
@Brian: Yes, it assumes that most P2P traffic happens between peers who are fewer hops away on the network. This is a rather safe assumption in the case of an event with mass appeal -- that is, the more popular the event, the closer the peers on average will be. The data bears this out in any study I've ever seen. - Joshua Allen
"This is a rather safe assumption in the case of an event with mass appeal -- that is, the more popular the event, the closer the peers on average will be." -- maybe but it doesn't seem totally intuitive to me. - Brian Sullivan
@DeWitt: DNC used Move Networks as well to broadcast Obama's acceptance speech via Silverlight. I should be clear that Move Networks deliberately stays far away from the phrase "P2P". They do "quantum streaming" or something like that. Using the name "P2P" implies piracy and also gets local ISPs worked up. In any case, I would venture to say that there are way more gray haired Chinese people watching PPLive than watched DNC and Olympics. - Joshua Allen
None of the video services you would think of as "P2P" are eager to associate themselves with the name: http://blog.streamingmedia.com.... Why CCTV isn't afraid to copy the technology and call it "P2P" is left as an exercise for the reader. - Joshua Allen
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"Beyond laying off up to 6,000 employees, Sun will also break up its software into new business groups -- Application Platform Software, Systems Platforms, and Cloud Computing & Developer Platforms. Sun's intention is to boost its open-source momentum and attract new sectors of the market that view technology as a competitive weapon. " - Hassan Ibraheem
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Tim Hoeck posted a message
“To NTFS, or not to NTFS.. that is the question...”
November 12 at 2:46 pm - Link
Those that dual boot in multiple OSes, do you format your shared drive as NTFS, FAT, or OTHER? - Tim Hoeck
I got a 1TB drive - I want to dual boot between OSX and Windows.. I had the drive formatted as NTFS, I installed ntfs-3g in OSX, and suddenly, it appears I am "missing" a lot of data. I am concerned with the ability of non-Windows OSes to write to NTFS... - Tim Hoeck
NTFS, mostly, but I don't dual boot - they're (effectively) network storage drives accessed by both my mac and PC. - Eric P
tim, use a NAS. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
NTFS gives me the trots, always has done. - RefD
so.. have a dedicated machine, be it a NAS, or another PC... that kinda sucks :) Can't all OSes just get along? - Tim Hoeck
NTFS gives me the herpes - directeur
what about ext3? How might that work with Mac/Win/Linux? - Tim Hoeck
Don't forget XFS - Jesse Stay
so fortunately, I was able to recover the files using regular windows chkdisk... now I am debating. - Tim Hoeck
IIRC, ntfs-3g doesn't work well if you're using compression and/or encryption on NTFS. And there is software that can add ext support to windows, but it looks messy, because the permissions are gone, and all the "dot" folders aren't hidden. - Hassan Ibraheem
Oh hell, I never use file system data compression if I can help it. Yes, Drivespace/Doublespace scarred me for life. - RefD
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♫ Rahsheen ™ ★ posted a message
“Ok, Linux people. What software should I go ahead and install now that I have Ubuntu running?”
November 12 at 8:55 am - via Ping.fm - Link
congrats on going F/OSS! ;) hax0r! - V for Veselka
Yeah...it's really nice to be back on Linux. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Hmm...you just have plain Ubuntu in? I prefer KDE to Gnome for a basic desktop. Banshee for music. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Yeah, just Gnome. Don't really have a preference between the two anymore. It's been so long. I know I used to run both simply because of the different software I needed to record/produce music. We'll see how it goes. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
What do you need? Love my Ubuntu - everyone's needs are different. Forget what comes loaded since we have a customized staff desktop. - Mlibrarianus
Hrm...I have Gnome-do, so that seems to be a big piece of how I work. Pidgin for IM. I guess I'm just interested to know what software everyone else uses. All the stuff I used to use back in the day I think is not even active anymore - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Start with the ubuntu-restricted package. That gives you codecs for mp3, dvd, avi, etc playback. Also install k3b, which is an excellent CD/DVD burning tool. The rest will kinda depend on what you like to do. - Jason Huebel
Amarok for music. OpenOffice for office stuff. Firefox or Flock for web stuff. - Secret Ninja Steven
Oh, and VLC. - Secret Ninja Steven
Wow, what a name. "restricted" LOL - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Rahsheen: does going open source really require as much time as everybody says (i.e,. a hobby)? - V for Veselka
Ah, yeah...VLC. Gotta research the rest of those. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
What do you guys use for Torrents? I was using Utorrent in XP. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Firefox. Links (prefer it to Lynx, but have both installed). GVim. Eclipse. AIR Runtime for various AIR apps. Flash. restricted packages for media. Kino for DV video. Wine/Crossover. VirtualBox. VLC. Songbird. and on and on, depending on your interests... lots of options. ;) Oh, and DOSBox, heh. - abacab
You can still use uTorrent via Wine/Crossover, actually. - abacab
I have a love for Azureus/Vuze. And it's cross platform. - April Russo
I try to avoid Wine/Crossover or any of that stuff. There's gotta be a viable alternative. Oh yeah, Azureus. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Same things Steven Perez mentioned plus Gimp, Blender, Scribus, Camorama, K3b - Mlibrarianus
Azureus got too bloaty for me a long, long time ago. And there's nothing wrong with a little Wine; everything in moderation. ;) - abacab
If you're running Linux, you don't install software, you write it. ;) - ·[▪_▪]·
For torrents, if you want to stay away from Wine and Azureus I'd say go with KTorrent. If you're going to be doing any video/audio/graphics editing, I'd recommend the packages that are in Ubuntu Studio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... - donato
I use Vuze/Azureus for torrents and love it :), I also used qbittorrent which is nice and simple :). http://qbittorrent.sourceforge... . - Hassan Ibraheem
Good lookin on Ubuntu Studio, all my favorite junk: hydrogen, ardour, muse, etc... - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
audacity, inkscape, openoffice.org-draw, vlc; then the whole http://www.medibuntu.org stack of DVD codecs etc. - Chuck LeDuc Díaz
Beryl is good if you want to show off. I just use the default window manager myself. As long as I can run emacs I'm fine. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo
Looks like Transmission (bittorrent client) is included with Ubuntu 8.10. It's a nice client. I use it on Mac OSX as well. @Bruce, emacs is evil. :-P - Jason Huebel
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wow. - felix
bad news. can't like. - Hassan Ibraheem
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"Sun will promote a Microsoft toolbar for the Internet Explorer browser to U.S.-based Web surfers as they download Sun's Java software". - Hassan Ibraheem
Toolbars in general are disgusting, a waste of screen real estate. It better be opt in, though I doubt it. - Phillip Stewart
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More patent nonsense. - Hassan Ibraheem
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more patent nonsense. Really!!! Did it take them that long to know about AdSense? or to figure out a way that it infringes their patent? - Hassan Ibraheem
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“I noticed that FF added a map in front of photos I posted (and with an accurate location, too). Was this based on embedded geo-info inside the photos, or the album title or...? And why did it show up for my Picasaweb photos but not Flickr?”
November 7 at 12:18 am - Link
I think it depends on the feed, whether it includes Geo data or not. http://friendfeed.com/e/4782e1... - Hassan Ibraheem
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November 6 at 9:34 pm - Link
"needs to open up even more", now that's funny, let's talk about Apple!! - Hassan Ibraheem
What idiots. Seriously, ATT sucks, and not even very well. - abacab
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wTorrent - Trac
November 6 at 11:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
web interface for rtorrent - Andy via Bookmarklet
Deluge working fine! - Şhabestan
Vuze(Azureus) works fine here too, still, this looks interesting. I haven't used rtorrent before. - Hassan Ibraheem
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"Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try "guessing" the last character." ROFL - Hassan Ibraheem
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October 29 at 6:55 am - via Mento - Link
The future of BitTorrent? - Chris Messina via Mento
from the same project, audio/video streaming via bittorrent: http://trial.p2p-next.org/ (sponsored by EU) - igor
Although I don't like the application much, the idea of streaming via bittorrent is great. As a torrent application of the _future_ , I guess Vuze(Azureus) is doing better. - Hassan Ibraheem
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"Recommended packages installed by default" , I think this maybe useful, I'll wait till next week and upgrade :). - Hassan Ibraheem
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I'll still use plain text however :). - Hassan Ibraheem
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“Nuts, the school Web filters know about http://simpli.st/ :-/”
October 23 at 6:46 am - Link
OH, what's the purpose of that domain name? - Hassan Ibraheem
It's an alias to friendfeed.com - I was hoping to bypass the filters that way. - Voyagerfan5761
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Strange domain name. - Hassan Ibraheem
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Hassan Ibraheem commented on a story on Reddit
October 21 at 10:26 am - Link
"Google likes the Apache license, nothing wrong with that, every developer is free to choose the license that fits him best. It doesn't mean that Google discourages copyleft licenses.It could've been better with a copyleft license, but that's their decision. So, that source code on their website is Free Software, will that be the same thing shipping with G1 ? I hope so, because it would be disappointing to have the source code without being able to compile and run it on the real device. I think that's more important than their license choice, because then you can run your own totally Free android on the device even if it shipped with some proprietary modules/addins." - Hassan Ibraheem
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Reader Poll: Is OpenID Too Confusing?
October 20 at 10:29 pm - via Mento - Link
"Truth be told, while the OpenID concept is very exciting, adoption has been disappointing—and it's most likely due to the usability problems surrounding it." - Chris Messina via Mento
As a web dev / software making monkey - it's great, but not feasible for public adoption. the process is too cumbersome to adapt to - Sociosophy Reviews via twhirl
Not for me, but I know it's confusing for many people. - Hassan Ibraheem
At least we're increasingly aware of the problems and now highly motivated to address them! I'm sure email and instant messaging went through similar hurdles. - Chris Messina
Well, I want to use it, and have no idea how...so...yeah ;) - Andru Edwards
Until the big players (Yahoo, MSN, AOL) don't *really* embrace it, it'll be an uphill battle, IMHO - Jorge Escobar
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Hassan Ibraheem posted a link
October 18 at 10:00 am - Link
A different interface. and a Pause button :). - Hassan Ibraheem
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Google Blocks Chrome Browser Use in Syria, Iran | MediaShift - PBS
October 14 at 8:59 pm - via Reshare - Link
Not surprised, browsing Google Code is blocked in Syria too. And downloading software from Sun Microsystems is banned too from Syria. - Hassan Ibraheem
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