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 televison show via torrent. Now is this just me or is this a case of a arm of the goverment approving a concept and then the ISP’s pulling a bonehead move to increase their profits? Baldy

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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 like it to be available, Baldy

 

Canadian ISPs forced to filter P2P [News]

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 explanations, I’m opting to consider that an ASCII picture is worth a thousand words. Here, therefore, is the picture I shall be using to explain the whole thing:

Good read and simple enough even for a dunce like me to follow along folks,Baldy

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