April 23rd is Download Day

Posted by rae in development, software
at 10:59 am on Thursday, 23 April 2009

I seem to be downloading a couple of Gigs of stuff this morning. First off is Ubuntu 9.04, which was released today. I am grabbing both the “desktop” and “server” editions. I plan on using the server edition when I rebuild Tnir.

Next up is Qt 4.5.1, and this time there are Cocoa, 64-bit Binaries for Mac OS X (last time, with 4.5, you had to compile it yourself to get 64-bit goodness). But you have to dig around to get them. Here are the links to save people some trouble.

If you want to debug, you should get both the normal and debug libraries. And the debug libraries are huge compared with non-debug.

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Bell Canada wants to impose universal 60 GB bandwidth caps

Posted by rae in politics, the Net
at 1:11 pm on Tuesday, 14 April 2009

I got notified about this by Tek Savvy today, so I entered the following on their comment page.

File Number # 8740-B2-200904989 - Bell Canada - TN 7181

Bell's attempts to limit the availability of inexpensive high-bandwidth service would have a grave consequence: Canadian users would lose affordable internet services such as high-quality video downloads available from online producers like Apple and http://revision3.com -- downloading just ten 430 MB episodes would consume over 7% of the proposed 60 GB monthly cap.

This kind of tariff would kill modern services such as HD movie rentals on iTunes, turning Canada into an internet backwater.

Canadians have been able to boast about our high-tech infrastructure to the world. This one action would topple Canada from the top to the bottom of the internet world.

Thanks,
Reid Ellis, Toronto ON

If you’d like to make your comments/concerns known about what Bell is attempting to do, go to the CRTC web page set up for it. Just select the word “Tariff” from the drop down list, and add the following in Subject Line: “File Number # 8740-B2-200904989 – Bell Canada – TN 7181″ – make your thoughts known!

The deadline for comments is tonight at midnight, so hurry!

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