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Jan201022

5

ShowRSS down

I’m a huge fan of Broadcatching because it allows me to catch up with the latest news and watch my favorite shows when I got time, and not when they are scheduled, and a nice side effect is that I don’t need to own a TV.

When I wanted to find out if there is something new to watch today I noticed that my favorite service, ShowRSS, is currently down, which would explain why I’m not getting my shows. I hope it’s nothing tragic and that it returns soon.

Update: and it’s back, apparently it was just a small problem, and not the so feared takedown.

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Dec200915

0

Distro-Upgrading from openSuSE 11.1 to 11.2

One of the features I always enviopenSuSE 11.2ed the Ubuntu people for is the ability to do a distro upgrade without tearing down my whole system and doing the CD-Dance. While that may still be needed from time to time to ensure a nice and compact system, it is just incredibly time consuming. With the latest version of ZYpp openSuSE now has the ability to just do that. It’s not yet as comfortable and staightforward as in Ubuntu, but it definitely improved from what I tried manually when upgrading from 11.0 to 11.1. First of all we need to update to the latest patch level from the update repository: 
zypper addrepo --check --name 'openSUSE-11.1-Update' http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/ repo-update
zypper refresh
zypper update
If you already have the Update repository in your list then the first call will fail, but the others should work just fine.
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Jul200916

2

Bootchart

Bootchart is a neat tool to analyze and optimize the boot process, all with a nice simple poster:

bootchart

As you can see my boot process is far from optimal, but now I have a pointer to where to go next :D
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Jul200904

1

ThePirateBay sells out?

090219piratebay Just read an alternative way of seeing the deal between Global Gaming Factory and ThePirateBay (the worldwide largest BitTorrent tracker). While everybody is criticizing the deal, J.J. King of TorrentFreak puts it into a more positive light:
Big != Good

Let’s face it: The Pirate Bay itself had become a huge focus of attention for those trying to preserve the old copy-restriction model of the culture industries. By some accounts TPB’s tracker has been responsible for 50% of all Internet traffic, and its founders have been looming larger and larger, waving their pirate flags more and more visibly, for quite a few years. They are international celebrities and, love them as we might, that made them and TPB targets. It’s not a secret that quite a few peers on the TPB trackers today are ’spies’, there to gather data on legitimate peers — a real danger to Bittorrent users. And as well being feted, Brokep, Anakata and Tiamo have been followed, spied on, raided, arrested, maligned, sentenced and, now live under a real threat of imprisonment.

The bigger we get, the more of a target we are. Mininova, isoHunt and TPB have all been under siege these last years. We need to stop thinking about ‘one stop shops’ for our media. Distribution and aggregation point the way: think ’separation of powers’. Clients like Miro can aggregate feeds from a variety of sources according to the needs of the user. TPB may have represented the needs of the community for half a decade or more, but we don’t need them. We are our own media infrastructure!

Also the other points he cites are certainly well founded. He managed to convince me that the TPB Community won’t die when the Site is sold: let’s face it, it’s nothing more than the domain name. No Client data, no user information will be in possession of GGF!

[via TorrentFreak]

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Mar200931

18

Is MegaVideo broken or what?

Some days ago I started uploading some of my videos to MegaVideo, but I’m starting to be really annoyed. They offer great rewards for impressions but to apply for them you have to be a premium member yourself, which is quite expensive. The system is really broken as most of my video don’t even appear in my profile, which should be the easiest thing to do. What really annoys me is that my videos don’t even show up when searching for them, it’s not like all the other videos are pushing mine down in the list, I just get empty results. Also they have a policy that only premium members may view more than 72 minutes, which may work for file hosting, but for video it’s a major turn off. So take my advice and never watch a megavideo video.
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