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I did the same as well after I got fed up with Windows bloat and, to your point, the way that windows is more for home users whereas I want it to get out of the way as well. And since I mostly use my box for coding, I also just got tired of working with Python on windows as well as consuming all of the developer tools as it is just natural on Linux/Ubuntu. Note that I don't do any gaming or anything.

My install experience was pretty flawless. I have moved 2 desktops and 3 laptops over to Ubuntu(10.4, 10.10 and 11.04) and have not had any real problems except for a 3d acceleration issue on a 10 year old ATI video card. Been going for about 6 months this way and really find it painful to work in Windows now.
As the author of this article does, I explain how Groupon and other daily deal sites work to anyone who mentions using them. Many people I've told feel something close to shame for using them — and stop. The people who don't are the last people in the world a business would want as customers.
Grow Up Java Proposing Java Desktop Edition
You don't have to ask for it from everyone, you just have to know at auth time. If you don't know, I agree, it's a hassle...
anyone care to give a simple TL;DR for the rest of us?
A Netflix plugin for Linux Chrome is on the verge of being released. May be of interest.

http://www.thechromesource.com/netflix-plug-in-for-chrome-an...
True, true, and Medvedev and others are actively working to create a "Silicon Valley of Moscow." But I wonder how long it is going to be before self-made wealth in Russia isn't intimately tied to relations with the state.
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World's most expensive iPhone app testing: Going to space
Language.js - A fast PEG parser written in JavaScript
Apple: "Amazon's store is 'inferior' "
Connecticut Killed Affiliate Marketing with Amazon.com
Why the heck do you need a control panel to simply scp or sftp files over to a virtual host?
I've dug out the book :) p. 99 it says (rough translation):
"I remember an anecdote from 1982. That year, the vacuum cleaner used in the saliout 7 station failed. I had the opportunity to admire the simplicity and efficacy of the Russian method. An ordinary vacuum cleaner was bought from Star City supermarket, sent to Baïkonur via the next plane and loaded into the next Progress cargo ship. Once aboard the station, it was plugged in, and worked perfectly. Problem solved. The whole operation costed 5 rubles (1 US $)".
Hey, it's not all bad! Check out http://www.suckless.org for real Linux desktop innovation
Yep. Even got slashdotted once with a system that was a 100MHz and 16M RAM IIRC. The limiting factor was bandwidth, not CPU or RAM.
I agree with some of these points, but they're not big issues for me.

I used Linux for 10 years. Bought a MacBook to that, coexisted, and then switched to it full time a few months ago.

I'm actually starting to miss Linux a great deal, though. I'll probably miss some conveniences about the Mac when I go back, but I can't seen anything major. I like KDE and Gnome, and the Linux versions of Firefox, Opera and Chromium are just fine. I don't care in the slightest about Flash or Dolby sound (I listen to music on $15 'Altec Lansings' from WalMart). I don't play games. I don't care about office software. Skype works well enough for me, and will be dead soon anyway.

The ethernet driver complaint is bizarre. I never had a problem finding them in 2004, and why mention it now?

I've had problems with suspend/resume on Windows as well as Linux. You need to get everything set up right video-wise, etc. and I agree it is a pain. Power management, too - it needs to be improved.

A Linux user switching to a Mac makes sense. Using Windows is a bizarre idea - it's simply too unfamiliar and limited of an OS for me. It makes me feel like I'm locked in a padded room with a start button - powerless and declawed, and a lot of my favorite software is not available for Windows. No, I'm not installing cygwin or learning PowerShell. Mac's Unixness is comfortable for me, though I am grizzled by how some of the flags for the common command line utils must come before other arguments here in non-GNU land.
And pay more money for less quality? (It's not as if pre-installed Linux is cheaper than pre-installed Windows, and manufacturers that offer it aren't exactly in the highest of tiers.)

The only way Linux makes sense is if it is competitive on at least one level, and it currently is not.
Memory is under your control, and if you can keep your content cached will serve you well.

The catch with very small VPS slices for me is disk performance. Small slices means more neighbors, and if a few of your neighbors are high disk use applications your disk latency can get ugly. The nasty bit is you can benchmark and check it all out when you move in, then a month later your site is suddenly a dog.

CPU has the same dynamic, but I think the virtualization platforms do a better job at "fair" for CPU, and if you are using nginx or lighttpd you don't need much so should be treated well by the scheduler.
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Some of these looks are so special that everyone appears to be arrested in that look. These are basically the looks which create new fashions in dressings, hair styles, hand bags, even in the matter of walking and talking.
Wallpapers and ringtones for your Android with Zedge.
http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SpeedOfL...
I know some partisans here in the US hate Nancy Pelosi, and it's an easy piece of red meat to attach her to the Big Government boogeymen, but in reality, don't you think someone a bit higher up on the totem poll would be owning Google if the US was as corrupt as Russia?

Because, honestly she's basically a nobody now. Minority leader. She's out of power. Who cares?
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It's never discussed in these cases where the original inventor has gotten to. Apple licenses from Lodsys who bought from Intellectual Ventures who owns 30,000 patents, apparently none of which they have invented themselves.

Where are the original inventors?

What I have seen in industry is companies write contracts so that people who invent things automatically transfer ownership to the company, often even if the invention was made off hours and has nothing to do with the company, and in some cases when the invention was completed before or started after their term of employment.

Now the whole argument is that these patents protect the rights of inventors and give them an incentive to invent.

Yeah? Well let's see how much the inventor is getting paid out of these millions. I bet the amount the inventor, the dude that actually did the work, gets is absolutely nothing, or maybe he got a $1 bonus for the invention, which is a typical clause I've seen. $1 awarded for patents.
Link with more details: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/tg-drives-the-citroen-sur...
Many people in the market for such entry-level hosting don't have the know-how to setup and manage accounts/virtual hosts.
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It doesn't seem to make any sound on FireFox 4 and IE9.
I'm sure I could think about this more and figure it out, but its a lazy Saturday. If you aren't comfortable at the command line to the point where you need something like cPanel then whats the point of using a VPS over shared hosting? I pay something ridiculous like $8 a month for dreamhost just to host a few sites I don't want to deal with. (Note I also run a VPS for other things - but I maintain it myself from a prompt)
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> If you have 1024 static sites the only thing taking up ram is the configuration of the sites sitting in Apache's memory. As long as there isn't a lot of traffic on the site, it doesn't really matter how many there are.

And if you're smart about the setup, you don't even necessarily have to have a separate configuration for each site. See mod_vhost_alias for Apache, for instance. With that in place, memory is no longer an issue at all.
Man overclocks graphics cards (for bitcoin), gets heat stroke
My interview with Groupon when they were in only 10 cities
Just wait until there are several active WP connections and then there is a cache miss.

WordPress can sometimes use 32M to build a page.

That kind of setup is only useful where most of your visitors are NOT logged in, since logged in users often cause cache-misses.
Only if you neglect hashing time (significant with perfect hashes) and comparison-time. That makes them O(k), not O(1). It is helpful to me to think of hashing as expensive as copying.

Radix tries on the other hand don't hash. They're always at least O(k), and you can find the next and previous values (lexicographically) in O(k) as well. They're also more compact and you never have to resize your tables.
Thank you for sharing David. We will be putting this into practice at chefsurfing.com
Yup, good point. Who was head of the SEC back when they went public?
FireFox 5 seems to work...
That does not solve the problem, as devices can go offline. If they come back with a change from an old version you still have to deal with a conflict.
Latency exists with any medium. Latency isn't really comparable to bandwidth, though a lack of bandwidth can impair latency. Most people aren't connecting to a server that is 3000 miles away from them, they are connecting to a CDN that is strategically located within a few states from them. Even in latency sensitive applications like gaming or VoIP, usually 100ms or less is enough for satisfactory results. Then there are a whole host of things where latency really doesn't matter all that much like file backup or video streaming...
Why type-punning breaks strict-aliasing
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Do you have flash blocked?
This is HN we talk about business issues sometimes here. Permit me to make some comments.

I've had Pixelmator since it came out. I use it, Acorn, and Photoshop Elements. I would really like to get off the Adobe bandwagon since Elements has insidiously overbearing DRM where you get two installs and you lose an install permanently every time your hard drive goes down, so that you weren't able to delicense first. So I had Elements installed on my laptop and my desktop and when the laptop's drive kicked the bucket, then I was down to one activation and could no longer use it on the laptop without buying it again. This is annoying and it is not how my hammer works. My hammer works whether or not my hard drive has gone down. It's also not how a lot of other software works. But it is how some works.

So Pixelmator has the Apple Store thing. One install only, so none of this nonsense of installing on laptop and desktop even though both are used by the same single person who never uses both at once. However, if the harddrive goes down, there is some way to get the license back, delicensing is not necessary first.

But in any case I don't want to buy Apple Store stuff because I don't want my machine ID tied to my credit card number with Apple. Apple is doing too much privacy invading and I want nothing to do with it. If others want that fine.

So Pixelmator 2 will be Apple store only, and no upgrade price for loyal Pixelmator 1 users.

So that's it. Not upgrading and not recommending it to anyone.

That leaves Acorn and Gimp.

Photoshop is hands down a better program than anything else, but the last few years it seems most of their time has been spent on DRM. Photoshop is constantly trying to connect to the internet, which it has absolutely no legitimate reason that benefits the customer to be doing. Programs that connect to the internet that have no reason to are intrinsically suspicious.

I can see more of the value proposition for open source because of all this DRM stuff.

I pay for all my software. I am the good customer. But over the top DRM is driving me to alternatives, forcing me to have to use open source solutions instead even if I'd rather have something that's a little more polished like a commercial product.

Oh well. I am fine using the alternatives. It's interesting to me though that companies would do this. Such as take an app, pull it from distribution unless you lock your hardware to a credit card at an Apple store. Why would I want to do that just to use a image editing app?

Sure for many people this is no big deal. They don't care about privacy or fair use of things they have bought. But some of us do.
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First of all, you need to be willing to trade low maintenance on a daily basis for higher maintenance in terms of haircuts. Short hair needs to be cut more frequently to maintain its shape
Technically speaking it's not Google's Roboguice, it's a library built using Google's Guice.
Just a hint, on Chrome it's using Flash to play sound.
I was disappointed that this article didn't have anything about traffic but speculation. I expected it because of the title. There's no point to me in how many static sites it can host if traffic isn't taken into account. As jonknee said, it could host 10,000 low-traffic sites.

I also looked up the VPS mentioned in the article, and noted that it's not really that cheap. There's only two price levels below $20, and $20/mo for 256MB isn't great. I got a tax-day special on Zerigo that amounts to about $20/mo for 640MB, and RackSpace Cloud has 512MB for $21.90/mo. The author of the article also mentioned getting a billing issue resolved, and I expect not to have any billing issues in the first place for web hosting. I'm more willing to give other types of services some slack but I think hosting companies ought to have this one figured out.
I'm pretty happy with Linux on the desktop these days, but I am ecstatic to see someone complaining about desktop Linux and asking for stuff to WORK instead of just yammering on about redesigning the user experience to appeal to less and less sophisticated users. It's like the good old days of Linux on the desktop, when I still felt like I was a target user instead of the enemy. These days with the Linux desktop I feel like a loving wife who is a perfect match for my husband but is doomed to be abandoned because I mirror everything he wishes he could change about himself: nerdy, niche, not someone the alpha males (the Steves) pay any attention to. And here is this guy asserting that even the opinion of an admitted "professional sys admin" and "former kernel hacker" deserves respect! I love it!
Annette Nazareth. Google's IPO was in 2004. Looks like she got out while the getting was good. Her successor, Cox didn't get portrayed in a good light in Too Big to Fail on HBO. Pretty much fell on his sword for the greater good.
Is FTL travel or communication possible: No.
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Among other things, backhoe fade.
Don't want this to get too out of hand:
http://blog.joemoreno.com/2011/06/yesterdays-post-on-quantum...
Can you provide some specific errors that you're encountering?

- Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, sounds like you don't have Flash installed, or no 3d acceleration (no video card drivers? What videocard are you using?)

- What's broken about the built-in version of Ruby? (I don't use Ubuntu or Ruby, so I'm sincerely curious.)

- Documentation for what? What are you looking for, how can we help?

- Apt-get, Ubuntu has a strict release cycle. To get the latest unstable stuff, you'll probably need to upgrade to the latest beta or alpha.

- Printing, I've had mixed experiences with this depending on the printer. I've given up on paper, can't blame you.

- If you can't play Minecraft, then you may have a weird version of Java installed, or no 3d acceleration (no drivers?).

- GMail freezing, what browser?

When posting complaints, avoid framing it in such a way that it's impossible for anybody to help. If no one can say anything about your experience because there's a lack of information, then people can't relate your experience to their own or debate the applicability of it.
There is one sentence I have a problem with in this post:
"Shadows and spotlights suffice to show that there is no logic in this suggestion, because they can certainly go FTL and still be seen."
Now, I was only scanning over the article and certainly missed some explanatory section, but can someone explain to me how shadows and spotlights go faster than light?
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Since I work with other people, I still see a lot of Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs and the non-Microsoft viewing options for those remain very weak.

Also, I consider Google's offerings to be a pleasure to use.
The headline says "static sites". That means WordPress isn't being used.
Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
That Mashable infographic [1] is really awful, making so many terrible connections. For example "Between 1980 and 2000 Exercise rates stayed the same, sitting time increased 8%, obesity doubled".

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/05/09/sitting-down-infographic/
Discusses why the speculation about the future of Windows Development is little more than pure hysterics.
They don't. These are not truly examples of things traveling from Point A to Point B. No information is being transmitted FTL. It is not clear to me why the author sees this as confusing.

Imagine you have a device with two lasers (Laser A and Laser B) that each point down to a white surface. The lasers are one meter from one another, and are calibrated such that Laser B fires exactly 1/(600,000,000)th of a second after Laser A. It might look that the dot is moving faster than light, since light travels at 300,000,000 m/s; however, as we know, nothing went from Point A to Point B.
Random speculation: conduit fills with water or mud, sheathing rots.
Related: Jon Ronson's "The Psyocopath Test" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aCir5bu-c)

Also featured on the recent This American Life podcast.
I'm sorry that you have such a cynical view of the world. Fortunately, many people (including people who make decisions about laws and regulations) disagree with you.
I'm not sure that I'm using the term correctly, but what I mean is this: if control of personal data becomes all that matters then which OS you use may become unimportant and Linux may lose it's raison d'etre unless it can offer something unique to that cause e.g. http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
I know this is completely unrelated to the main discussion, but have you tried RVM? I'm not an experienced Ruby developer, but I had some issues with the default ruby installation that RVM fixed completely. Try installing it directly from their site (its a one liner) instead of from repo.

EDIT: Had some issue posting.
This is one of the applications for which I really like small couch dbs. Build it in one place, replicate all over.

I converted something from that to a couchdb in a couple of minutes and set up a view to reproduce their CIDR export data. For example:

http://dustinphoto.couchone.com/country_ip/_design/views/_vi...

Pull a single country, bogons (XA) in this case. It looks slightly funny since I used the CIDR address as the key since I can extrapolate pretty much everything else from it:

http://dustinphoto.couchone.com/country_ip/_design/views/_vi...

This model means I can rate limit to near nothing without affecting people because they can just replicate http://dustinphoto.couchone.com/country_ip/ and use their own infrastructure while keeping the data fully synchronized.

I've got another similar database where I integer encoded the keys so they sort numerically so a reverse limit 1 sorted search by integer key will return lat/long data at whatever granularity that particular block was captured (could be a single IP address). I should get these consolidated somehow.
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I'm not sure what you're looking for here. Actually when this story broke, there was an assumption that Lodsys was owned by Daniel Abelow the original inventor of the patents. This was proven to be incorrect. Abelow had sold the patents to IV (I think) which were later purchased by Lodsys. Once he sold the patent rights he doesn't have much to do with anything. I can't find the article now but some news or blog outlet tracked him down and I believe the statement they got was along the lines of "I sold the rights to those patents a while back, and I've got nothing to do with this anymore"

His website is here
http://www.abelow.com/
I had similarly bad experience with my x220. If you try to boot with external screen connected, the screen blinks like a strobelight, you need to change resolution to make it work. X hangs up sometimes. Ditched unity, running xubuntu seems to be smoother and more sane.
well, looking at the cost of going out to eat every night, vs. buying the ingredients at your local grocery store, it makes sense to learn to cook - cheaper food, you know what's in it, etc.
Current daily deals make the cash-flow situation worse for small business. Public information suggests that the merchants are paid somewhere between 30 to 90 days after the deal has run. While this is normal for B2B relationships, in the past those merchants were involved in B2C where they were paid up front.
GNOME and KDE are monolithic and encourage everything under their umbrellas to depend on everything else. The Linux desktop has fallen into the same pitfall that so many enterprises do: reaction against integration issues in a chaotic environment has led to monolithic approaches that provide uniformity and integration but prevent the mix-and-match flexibility that allows individual projects to fail and succeed on their merits. The monolithic approach, the architecture astronaut approach, means high commitment to each project and leads to projects like PulseAudio becoming "too big to fail" even if they fail at their technical objectives. The next step in evolution is supposed to be a loosely coupled services architecture that provides the best of those two worlds. I won't venture to guess where it goes after that.
The idea is the angle of it. If I have an intensely bright spotlight (on, say, a satallite?), and I make it spin 360 degrees in a second, then somewhere out in space the trail of light is going faster than the speed of light.

You can also think about the beacon that a pulsar gives off. We can detect the pulses happening every few seconds-- so what happens when our friend on Alpha Centauri also detects the pulses? The pulsar 'spotlight' is cycling between Alpha Centauri & Earth in a fraction of a second, even though we're 4 lightyears away from eachother.

It's not really FTL, only from a certain point of view. As the author says: "These are all examples of things that can go faster than light, but which are not physical objects. It is not possible to send information faster than light on a shadow or light spot, so FTL communication is not possible in this way. This is not what we mean by faster than light travel, although it shows how difficult it is to define what we really do mean by faster than light travel."
Worth pointing out that the site behind this is itself running Wordpress on a 80MB VPS (plus swap): http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/quickweb-7-128mb-xen-vps-in-la...

That's an old article, but LowEndBox is a fun site for checking out the bottom end of the VPS market, these days it's mostly only postings of very cheap providers ($7/month limit) the blogger has been sent or seen on WebHostingTalk. Then the ensuing discussion of how long until the company behind it goes bankrupt. 64MB VPSes like this don't really get offered anymore, while 128MB and 256MB offers are much more popular, usually in the $15-$20/year range.
So, I guess I only gave it 7 years (2001-2008) - I just didn't wait long enough? And for friends of mine that still have trouble with audio on their laptops running Linux working flawlessly, I guess they just didn't research enough?
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