Blake Miller's Blog

The story behind the all famous, The Pirate Bay, has caused some interest lately. The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent site that index’s many torrents all over the world. Everything thing from operating systems to games, they have it all. Currently, they are in court fighting for the freedom of indexing these torrents.

The site is frowned apon for hosting small files that allow users to connect to a tracking server. The tracking server holds records for all the users that are downloading (Leaching) and give out (Seeding) the file. The problem with this case is TPB cannot be pined for actually distribution files because there not. Other people on the internet are; average users like you. The chances of this case actually turning in favor of the Hollywood system is very slim. For the full articly please visit NBC.ca. And for the behind the sences story please Click Here for the owners blog.

I have none the individual that runs Windows 7 Forums for a fairly long time. I wouldn’t consider him a really knowledgeable web site administrator as he noes nothing about server. Just recently, one of the regulars (regulars being visited once this month) brot up the fact that there host was Linux based.

Matt understood the issue with this and decided to purchase a Windows based package. Well for the first week the site had some weird error because PHP was not setup correctly. Secondly the already slow web site is now twice as slow.

Another site the owner runs is called Windows 7 Meg. You can usally get a good laugh at some theorys.

But who am I to talk. This is the first time since July I posted

As most of you know I am fluent in both Windows and Linux. Yesterday in the #mybb IRC channel, tension was tight between us Linux people and the Windows fan boy Matt (owner of msubuntu who will be sued when the site is launched) A good friend of myn, DrPoodle had had it with Matt. So with the help of MiNT we started to produce a list of all the reasons why Linux was better then windows. For any of you Windows fan boys… eat this…

1) Linux is free.
2) Linux is faster (another IRC user, tmhai, was astounded earlier today at how his laptop booted in under 30 seconds with Ubuntu, compared to the 30 minutes it took Windows to boot on it).
3) Linux is Open Source (which means bugs and security holes are found and fixed quicker).
4) With Linux, you own your Operating System. With Microsoft Windows, you don’t actually “own” the Operating System, you simply have a license that says you can use it. Every installation of Windows is owned by Microsoft.
5) Linux has better support. This is debatable, but there are a lot of community forums out there, and usually errors in Linux are much more readable than Windows errors, which leads to quicker solutions.
6) Linux has package managers. Most distros come with some form of package manager, a utility that installs safe and secure programs, and then updates them automatically.
7) Linux has daily updates. Most distros release daily updates of core files, as well as updates for programs.
Linux has releases every 6 months. Most distros release their next version every 6 months without fail. So instead of waiting an uncertain amount of time for the next Windows release, you know exactly when the next version of your OS will be out.
.. To read all the reasons, click Here.

If any of you Windows people have anything that could possibly have a case against Linux. I ask you to sign up on my forums and post your reasoning.

Sorry it’s so late but I finally got the snow up on the site. Just wanted to wish every one a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday. See you all in the new year.

I know two posts in one day might be a little much but this one I felt i should make you aware of. As most of us know 1and1.com still hasn’t started using PHP5 by default. This little hack you add to your sites root .htaccess file. If you don’t have one… create one then just past this code in. Make sure all software you have installed on your server will run PHP 5.

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

Would like to thank Scott for this one.