Pirates vs. Ninjas has already been decided. Now it’s the pirates vs. the clones or more technically The Pirate Bay and Mac Clones with a bit of HTML5 Video and Linux inbetween. No music this time again as the show is late, and some changes to the recording method (mentioned in the show) that made the edit take longer.
Here’s how the audio file breaks down:
| 0:00:00 | Intro |
|---|---|
| 0:02:38 | “GGF acquires Pirate Bay†|
| 0:18:01 | “Do any normal people use Linux?†|
| 0:27:26 | “HTML video codecs†|
| 0:47:03 | “PearC / Mac Clones†|
| 1:13:54 | Meta |
| 1:14:51 | (Total Time) |
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PB is not only a torrent search engine. It is also a torrent tracker.
What I don’t get is why doesn’t someone copy all the trackerless azureus links from all the PB torrents to another site and save the contents.
Theoretically you could build a new central tracker from the DHT azureus links.
What I don’t get is why people like to make suggestions without taking any initiative themselves. If you wanted a mirror of the pirate bay website, you could create your own. One clear reason I can think of is that this requires an investment of time and money to do something of the sort. Also you open yourself up to litigation. The Pirate Bay thought they were immune due to the laws of their country but look at what happened to them. Just my 2 cents.
“Normal” people and their OS of choice– most, as we know, use Windows, yet a lot of people who fall under this category who also use Linux. Thom mentioned in the podcast that most of these “normal” Linux users have a geek friend who set it up for them. Windows is pretty much the same idea; they’re not friends, but OEMs set up Windows for these people. Same with the Mac OS.
As it is, I’ve come to find that a Linux distribution seems easier to install than Windows (especially XP).
Definitely have to agree here. The majority of “non-techie” users very rarely ever install their own operating system and, often even if they reload their computer on their own, it’s a custom OEM restore image that is preloaded with all necessary components. Ideally, if an OEM ships a machine with another os, the same situation would apply–although, for whatever reason, most OEMs don’t seem able to do this (Asus, anyone?). I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to reload XP from a plain (non-OEM) restore image and, by the time I’ve located all the drivers and other things needed, I usually feel like beating my head against a brick wall to relieve the pain of the experience.
Hey Thom,
First let me thank you and Kroc for putting out an interesting podcast you both do a great job and I really appreciate it as well as reading osnews.com
I have not made it all the way through this episode but, I have to call you out on a couple of things:
1) Why should any US based company give away its content online for free to non US based IPs?
The whole model of creating content is based on making a show then letting views watch and then selling advertising that applies to that audience. So essentially they pay for making and distributing the tv show by advertising dollars
You say that it does not cost NBC anything to let you watch 30 rock. Who pays for the servers? Who pays for the bandwidth? Adds pay for all those things. Now most of the companies that advertise on hulu/abc.com are us based selling to US customers. Most of the adds are useless to people outside of the US. So why should NBC let you watch 30 rock when they can’t make money advertising to you?
***There is the argument that if you watch 30 rock and like it then you might buy the dvd so they are getting you as a customer but, in my opnion this is a weak argument.
***Also, the US is not the only country that does this. I don’t know if this is still true but, when it first was released, I tried using the BBC player to watch shows and was blocked because I was in the US.
2) Normal people do not use linux because, it is still more difficult to use and also because it is not packaged well. To get people to switch from windows, you have to make it easier to use than windows. Why can’t we get a logical file system? OS X is dead simple to use and that is why they are seeing a rise in market share. I have CS degree and know my way around computers but, still struggle with ubuntu once a week. The point often made is that Linux is easy to use it is just that people are most familiar with windows so anything different is harder. Well, that may be so but, to beat windows you have to be better.
Another big problem for linux is drivers. You said that you believed that CUPS is better than windows and mac. I will say it is better than mac but, be realistic dude every printer made is first made to work with windows then people get around to making it work with linux. I have currently have a Epson CX4600 all-in-one that works perfectly in XP, Vista and OSX but prints everything in Cyan under ubuntu. I am sure this is just anecdotal evidence but, I shouldn’t have to struggle with my printer to make it work. For windows/mac all i do download drivers and it works easily.
Linux also has horrible power management features. on my t400 i get 5+ hours in windows and i am lucky if i can get 3 hrs on ubuntu.
I have been trying to ditch windows since 2005 and though I have seen many improvements it is still not easier to use than windows and until that happens, Linux will not get the main stream computer user.
Hope my rant was not too long but, I just disagree with a lot things you said.
Again thank-you for the great site and podcast
respectfully,
postdiction
Because for over 200 years the cheeky US bastards stole everyone elses content and sold it amongst themselves for profit and without respect for their rights? Minor hypocrisy there.
Good morning and thanks for the great show.
The whole “who gives support if it breaks” thread on your podcast hits home with me as I’m a user of a fake mac product in the middle of the process of trying to get support.
I own an efix boot module (prebooter to make the hardware look mac) and I’ve been without my desktop since April because of firmware updates and faulty hardware.
Presently, efix’s firmware updater only works under OSX.
A number of people updated their OSX to 10.5.7 without realizing they should have updated the firmware of their boot module first, this caused their machine to no longer boot and get into a catch22 situation regarding firmware updates.
efix’s original solution was to have a windows updater but then you’d need to buy XP/vista just to update your firmware in case something goes wrong.
With a refresh of the update server, the windows solution is dead and only OSx will do it, so if you can’t get OSx booted, you have to send the module back to them for the update.
To tide things over while I wait for my (twice dead) module to come back, I went out and bought a macbook pro 13″ (since there isn’t too many clone mac laptops out there) so I guess in the end, the clone market actually helped Apple sales.
Anyway, just letting you know that support can be important.
The quality is a lot better i this podcast, but still 49kbs mp3 down-loadable isn’t really that great. Is it possible to put alternative HQ file with something like 128kbs VBR? Or maybe speex or some voice codec, the low 50kbs mp3 sounds always somehow metallic to me no matter what sound one compresses.
But anyway, enjoyable interesting/relaxing podcast…
never mind…
Edited 2009-07-08 17:04 UTC
The Bitrate is mainly to keep file size down. I export at 40 Kbps Variable high quality. I could up that to 48 variable if you feel it’s still tinny.
Hey just for future reference, if you want to site an example of an area of hardware where Linux is severely lacking, scanner support is the perfect candidate. It’s one of the few areas where finding a new device that works with Linux is close to impossible, you often have to specifically go on a search for one that will work with Linux and more often than not it has usually been discontinued a few years before you’ve bought it. Printer support and scanner support are polar opposites in Linux, 99.99% of printers will work right away where as if 5% of scanners will work that would be a miracle.
With all the fuzz Kroc made about using video without javascript, you choose to use Flash to stream audio?