Comment Re:ISP's are against local serving (Score 1) 227
Where do you live? I'd seriously consider moving there.
Comment Re:Any real benefit? (Score 3, Interesting) 307
Part of your point, that telcos are lazy and negligent, is exactly why this is enticing. Maybe if the telcos didn't have to install new hardware on private property, the cost to roll out broadband would be cheaper. Of course, without the opportunity to gouge the customer on that new hardware, the enticement might be gone. This could also open the possibility of third-party bandwidth providers like WISPs, and not being pigeon-holed into one of 3 delightfully crappy plans.
Comment Re:Stupid Tricks (Score 1) 2362
it's a little slow, but I wrote a one-liner to do this. It's posted above, but I'll post it again here:
du -s * | sort -n | awk -F "\t" '{print "\"" $2 "\"" }' | xargs du -sh
Comment Re:Stupid Tricks (Score 1) 2362
du -s * | sort -n | awk -F "\t" '{print "\"" $2 "\"" }' | xargs du -sh
only tested in GNU/Linux. awk should proabably be gawk. Prints human readable sizes in size order.
Comment Re:rm -rf / (Score 1) 2362
Not exactly the same, but I once named a file the backspace character. This was under IRIX, fwiw. How do I delete that? I really can't remember how I created it.
Comment Re:Show attached block devices (Score 1) 2362
As long as there aren't too many files in the current directory. The C/UNIX argument system only allows for a finite (1024 iirc) number of arguments. The shell will expand * to the contents of the directory, and if that plus the 1 argument for the command name is more than the limit, you get an error. This is why xargs exits. It's a strange command and you have to really understand UNIX to appreciate it, but there's no real substitute.
Italy's First Steps in Censoring the Internet 90
mijio writes "It's not the first time that Italy discusses Internet censorship. The last year, after some guys appeared in a video punching and blaming a kid with Down syndrome, Minister of Education Fioroni brought in to trial two of Google Italy's managers and then proposed and strongly sustained his idea of censoring the Internet to protect the young. Now Ricardo Levi, the prime minister's right hand, is finally successful in promulgating his law on internet censorship. With the goal of "promoting and enriching the pluralism of information," the law rules that everyone involved in "editorial activity" must be subscribed to the "Registry of Operators of Communication" to be prosecutable in case of defamation, where "editorial product" is defined as "any product with purpose of information, education, divulgation, entertainment, aimed at publication, no matter the form it is realized in and the mean it is distributed with." When inquired about the effects of this rule for bloggers, Levi responded, "We have no interest in touching amatorial or personal sites, it would be not feasible". The Times speaks about this paradox as well."
Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google 500
thefickler writes "According to Bill Gates' successor Craig Mundie, there would have been no Google without Microsoft. 'I mean, the fact is: Google's existence and success required Microsoft to have been successful previously to create the platform that allowed them to go on and connect people to their search servers. Now, Microsoft's business is not to control the platform per se, but in fact to allow it to be exploited by the world's developers. The fact that we have it out there gives us a good business, but in some ways it doesn't give us an advantage over any of the other developers in terms of being able to utilize it.' This comment comes from a lengthy interview between Mundie and APC magazine, which talks with the newly installed strategy and R&D head. Other interesting topics discussed include the future of Microsoft and Windows, OOXML, and and the 'rise of Linux' on the desktop."
