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[19:21] * mpt compares the layout of <http://www.ubuntu.com/products/softwarecatalogue> and <https://shop.canonical.com/> |
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[19:22] <mpt> I suppose <http://www.canonical.com/> vs. <https://shop.canonical.com/> is a fairer comparison |
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[19:22] <mpt> and they're only slightly different |
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[19:37] <mpt> newz2000, why do you use <em class="tiny">TM</em> instead of ™? |
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[19:37] <newz2000> I don't think I did that |
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[19:37] <newz2000> mpt: where is it? |
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[19:39] <mpt> newz2000, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download |
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[19:39] <mpt> Standard personal computer (x86 architecture, PentiumTM, CeleronTM, AthlonTM, SempronTM) |
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[19:39] <newz2000> oh, I copy and pasted that from somewhere |
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[19:39] <newz2000> but I probably didn't know about 8482 |
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[19:39] <newz2000> too many entities these days |
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[19:40] <mpt> ™ is easier to remember :-) |
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[19:40] <newz2000> are you looking over that email I sent re the download page? |
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[19:40] <mpt> yes, that's why I noticed it just now |
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[19:42] <newz2000> good advice matt, that looks much nicer |
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[19:57] <mpt> sweet |
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[19:57] <mpt> Hm, that download location menu shoots off the edge of the white area quite funkily in Gecko |
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[19:57] <newz2000> yes it does |
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[19:58] <mpt> And it's all Lund University's fault! |
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[19:58] <mpt> Well, not entirely |
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[19:58] <newz2000> I do truncate it |
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[19:58] <mpt> United States Northeastern University have a lot to answer for, too |
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[19:59] <newz2000> I'm thinking about switching to just choosing a country |
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[20:00] <newz2000> yes, random + weighted in favor of reported bandwidth |
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[20:00] <newz2000> so someone with twice the bandwidth will get aprox twice the traffic |
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[20:01] <newz2000> mpt: you missed it, I said: so someone with twice the bandwidth will get aprox twice the traffic |
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[20:05] <mpt> ah cool |
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[20:06] <mpt> I guess the only downside would be for countries with large dimensions, i.e. Russia, USA, and to some extent Australia |
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[20:06] <newz2000> USA has good bandwidth throughout the country |
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[20:06] <mpt> true |
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[20:06] <newz2000> I don't know about Russia and Australia though |
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[20:07] <newz2000> Africa is another tricky one as I understand it... there are few mirrors and rules for picking the best are complex |
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[20:07] <mpt> That sounds like a job for a learning algorithm :-) |
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[20:07] <newz2000> ah, indeed |
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[20:08] <mpt> but doing the measurements would require doing dummy downloads every so often |
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[20:08] <newz2000> well, you could learn from user's choices |
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[20:09] <newz2000> and gauge success if they don't return for a second attempt |
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[20:10] <mpt> Oh, I wasn't thinking you would still let them choose |
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[20:10] <newz2000> oh, I see |
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[20:11] <mpt> rather choose automatically based on how fast each mirror had been recently for people from that IP block or whatever |
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[20:12] <mpt> hmm, now I think about it, that would be really quite hard |
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[20:12] <newz2000> yeah |
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[20:12] <mpt> unless you have geographically distributed download-testing machines, which is probably overkill :-) |
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[20:12] <newz2000> I dn't have that |
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[20:13] <mpt> ssh timbuktu.canonical.com |
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