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Archive for March 27th, 2008

How CBC torrented a TV show

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Here’s a great, insider account of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s internal process leading up to their decision to put a high-quality torrent of the show Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister online:
Okay now what is wrong with the article? First the ISP’s are “avoiding” P2P and then the Goverment Television Network puts out a hugely popular [...]

Canadian ISPs forced to filter P2P [News]

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

 
Smaller ISPs in Canada are finding that their wholesale connections are being ‘managed’ due to changes made by Bell Canada to shape P2P traffic without consent.
Darn and just when I get ready to head north again this pops up. Not that I use a lot of P2P but when I want to I would [...]

Why doesn’t Linux need defragmenting?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

That is a question that crops up with regularity on Linux forums when new users are unable to find the defrag tool on their shiny new desktop. Here’s my attempt at giving a simple, non-technical answer as to why some filesystems suffer more from fragmenting than others.
Rather than simply stumble through lots of dry technical [...]

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