SLAX_ReMix has done a beautiful Live KDE CD / LXDE CD,
I am going to drop it in my DropBox soon.
Join the pack.
Still no install.
They should do that soon in the coming year.
Like Puppy Linux (TeenPup) it should grow up.
Good Work. Guys and Girls.
Keep it UP.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
I am not playing Cricket Now
This a note I posted at Dropbox-Blog.
I am new to Dropbox but found it by accident when I was testing Live Linux (recent ones) CDs.
I used to write a short comment on each Live CD and when I see a new feature would allocate somewhat arbitrary (my marking scale) points as a plus feature.
When I saw Dropbox in several of the Live CDs (Fedora, Ubuntu) in the internet section, I was curious but left it for another day to investigate.
Then, finally I investigated it (they were promoting for school kids) and being myself a teacher in the University, the question why not for me and my students.
Presto!
I am hooked to the Dropbox now as an Educational Tool.
Thank you for that and another reason.
I am depositing Linux Live CDs (unfortunately not DVDs- I advocate light version of OS instead of the Gorilla Versions) in the box for my Linux friends to test and try.
All in all it is a Linux Depository for Testing and Trying not a Repository..
The download spread are awfully slow in this part of the world and this is a simple remedy.
You do the synchronizing I do the depositing (Eggs -not Easter yet) on the Nest.
We have a bird in this country who deposits eggs on another type of bird's nest.
I am a lazy bird who does not want to look after (intellectual property of mine) my laid eggs!
I am trying to collect enough MiB (at least 4 GiB for me to deposit a Linux Big Image once in a while-for example games DVD) by promoting Dropbox.
I sent a virtual spam (to all my contacts) and some of them thought somebody has hacked my email. Never done that before!
Most of them are afraid of Dropbox (I have lost my sanity, they think in my old age) but I keep brainwashing (with coconut oil which is very expensive-we use it in anointing in our New Year ) them (at least I get all my friends together and some Mibs in the process) and with my humour, it seems to be working especially with younger counterparts.
I have found one problem that is unique to me.
I have up to 5 operating systems in the same Linux Box with different home partitions (with the same name-and same password) and they do not seem to synchronize the Dropbox which is in my home partition.
Linux distributions are finicky when it comes to sharing unless I ROOT Myself (which is not healthy at my age) every time I BOOT.
Apart from that Dropbox makes me lighter at the dinner parties.
Happy Christmas and New Year to all of you.
If you have some spare bones or MiBs please drop at my box (not the Cricket Box-I am not playing Cricket now).
Thanks.
K-Torrents
I was wondering how to speed up my downloads but could not find a solution yet.
The point to point downloads are painfully slow and only in early hours of the day the download speed recovers its speed to what we pay by the minute.
Guys / Girls working at the Telcoms are nice but due to not upgrading the infrastructure for decades and by consistently increasing (without increasing the loops and servers) the number of paid users without increasing the throughput, the Telecom as an industry is failing in its duty and also in efficiency.
In no time it will become like the Electricity Board or Water Board.
All the signs of impending crisis is there.
Electricity Board has failed on two counts.
1. The Cost of Electricity way beyond an average user.
2. The Power outages are frequent (both high and low) and recently our switch board caught fire. The cost of repair was over Rs. 15,000/=.
All we have to do it ourselves (private) no compensation or help from the Electricity Board.
Water Board is worse.
1. Water purification is questionable (one has to drop into a Service Station and see what I mean).
2. Again payment structure is badly streamlined.
3. When an important guy visits Kandy, water is diverted from elsewhere and never restored even day after the guy leaves the city.
4. Wastage is enormous.
5. Corruption is rampant (including illegal tapping of water).
Why I stated above is not as a diversion but in spite of its giant strides in another 5 years Telecoms will be very similar to above two.
Why?
Mismanagement?
Like flood gates opened, they are increasing the connections without increasing the throughput (both uploading and downloading).
One has to go and look at the www.speednet.com site and verify the speed.
It is easy.
Anyone can do that.
The testing is free.
I went for K-torrents.
Even that is a failure.
Bit torrents cannot help us if the services (Telecoms) are poor.
Since we cannot expect the Government to do anything about it, I have a few suggestions for those using Torrent Services (what ever the client side may be).
Mind you, institutions block torrent downloads due to various reasons including the Universities.
Like Open Software Community, Torrent is a Community Service.
Services should be open 24/7.
This is how you do it.
1. There are Seeders and Leechers in the Torrent Community.
Like politicians do not become only the Leechers (bleeding the country-with war or otherwise).
2. I want go into technicalities but please follow my leads.
3. If you download a file after it is finished do not Switch Off the computer. Let it run for few hours (connected to the Internet) after the download for the Tracker to establish seeding of computers.
4. Keep the upload speed to 90% of your service speed. That is, give as much as you take from others.
5. If you download 700 MiB make sure you give back at least 500 (better 700) MiB.
All what you have to do is to keep your computer running and leave the downloaded file in the same directory (do not remove or change the directory) for seeding to occur.
That is it.
6. You can copy the file at your wish and fancy but leave it there as a copy for others to access it.
Tracker knows how to do that.
Only time you remove it is when you run short of memory in your hard drive.
Then also remove in stages.
Oldest one to go first and the newest one the last.
In the mean time one believes that at least several other seedings have been established.
This is how the community exists.
7. More you give back more you get.
Just keep your computer running connected to the Internet while doing other tasks.
8. Keep off days not doing downloading so others can use the limited services.
9. More seeders are there in the community the more the download speed will be.
10. So leech less and seed more but not excessively to a bleeding point (like our politicians).
11. Give what you have to the community.
After all this is Christmas time.
I know lot of our guys / girls are downloading films / songs and not letting other people have them (to sell sometimes as pirated copies for a profit-if it is a pirated copy you are selling you aught to be ashamed of yourself.
Buying pirated copies keep these guys in practice (I want call it a business) and we need to wean them off this society for good.
Understanding in the web is that you download for your personal use and not for selling.
Sharing with friends is a different story.
Pirating is illegal especially if we call this a Buddhist Country.
Even Dhamma is sold in CDs.
I cannot believe it.
Because of a few bad leechers in the community even my Linux downloading comes to a standstill.
There are no seeders.
I leave some of the Linux images in my Dropbox and they are for sharing.
Guys / Girls working at the Telcoms are nice but due to not upgrading the infrastructure for decades and by consistently increasing (without increasing the loops and servers) the number of paid users without increasing the throughput, the Telecom as an industry is failing in its duty and also in efficiency.
In no time it will become like the Electricity Board or Water Board.
All the signs of impending crisis is there.
Electricity Board has failed on two counts.
1. The Cost of Electricity way beyond an average user.
2. The Power outages are frequent (both high and low) and recently our switch board caught fire. The cost of repair was over Rs. 15,000/=.
All we have to do it ourselves (private) no compensation or help from the Electricity Board.
Water Board is worse.
1. Water purification is questionable (one has to drop into a Service Station and see what I mean).
2. Again payment structure is badly streamlined.
3. When an important guy visits Kandy, water is diverted from elsewhere and never restored even day after the guy leaves the city.
4. Wastage is enormous.
5. Corruption is rampant (including illegal tapping of water).
Why I stated above is not as a diversion but in spite of its giant strides in another 5 years Telecoms will be very similar to above two.
Why?
Mismanagement?
Like flood gates opened, they are increasing the connections without increasing the throughput (both uploading and downloading).
One has to go and look at the www.speednet.com site and verify the speed.
It is easy.
Anyone can do that.
The testing is free.
I went for K-torrents.
Even that is a failure.
Bit torrents cannot help us if the services (Telecoms) are poor.
Since we cannot expect the Government to do anything about it, I have a few suggestions for those using Torrent Services (what ever the client side may be).
Mind you, institutions block torrent downloads due to various reasons including the Universities.
Like Open Software Community, Torrent is a Community Service.
Services should be open 24/7.
This is how you do it.
1. There are Seeders and Leechers in the Torrent Community.
Like politicians do not become only the Leechers (bleeding the country-with war or otherwise).
2. I want go into technicalities but please follow my leads.
3. If you download a file after it is finished do not Switch Off the computer. Let it run for few hours (connected to the Internet) after the download for the Tracker to establish seeding of computers.
4. Keep the upload speed to 90% of your service speed. That is, give as much as you take from others.
5. If you download 700 MiB make sure you give back at least 500 (better 700) MiB.
All what you have to do is to keep your computer running and leave the downloaded file in the same directory (do not remove or change the directory) for seeding to occur.
That is it.
6. You can copy the file at your wish and fancy but leave it there as a copy for others to access it.
Tracker knows how to do that.
Only time you remove it is when you run short of memory in your hard drive.
Then also remove in stages.
Oldest one to go first and the newest one the last.
In the mean time one believes that at least several other seedings have been established.
This is how the community exists.
7. More you give back more you get.
Just keep your computer running connected to the Internet while doing other tasks.
8. Keep off days not doing downloading so others can use the limited services.
9. More seeders are there in the community the more the download speed will be.
10. So leech less and seed more but not excessively to a bleeding point (like our politicians).
11. Give what you have to the community.
After all this is Christmas time.
I know lot of our guys / girls are downloading films / songs and not letting other people have them (to sell sometimes as pirated copies for a profit-if it is a pirated copy you are selling you aught to be ashamed of yourself.
Buying pirated copies keep these guys in practice (I want call it a business) and we need to wean them off this society for good.
Understanding in the web is that you download for your personal use and not for selling.
Sharing with friends is a different story.
Pirating is illegal especially if we call this a Buddhist Country.
Even Dhamma is sold in CDs.
I cannot believe it.
Because of a few bad leechers in the community even my Linux downloading comes to a standstill.
There are no seeders.
I leave some of the Linux images in my Dropbox and they are for sharing.
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