I used Vuze for a bit back in the day, it was a resource hog on whatever I was running it on. I think I mostly stuck with uTorrent until switching to the open source alternatives.
I actually use all three you mentioned in different contexts.
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I actually use all three you mentioned in different contexts.
I found out because my host emailed me saying I had hit my bandwidth quota for the month... 2 days into said month. So digging through logs I found the biggest offenders, there were forums where people linked just about every image I had.
A little htaccess magic later, any request that came from a non-allowist referer was instead served a rather crude message I quickly put together in MS paint.
No one contacted me about it, but it was amusing watching these threads where people were getting upset when they thought they were going to see funny owl pics.
Also keep in mind that at this time, getting Linux working was a crapshoot, I had already attempted and failed to get it running on the same machine, making the QNX disk seem even more amazing.
My family had two phone lines (necessitated by my obsession with the Internet), so we started playing Doom in modem mode (one pc connected to the kitchen phone line, and a 50ft cable going to my bedroom). At one point i decide to try the direct connection. ATDT one end, ATA the other (i think the caller init string needed something to tell it to ignore the lack of dialtone) and it worked! At that point we restarted our game in serial mode. I hadn't thought of this in ages.
All machines were initially connected via coax ethernet, all sharing one 28.8 dialup connection.
A house like this was basically the most amazing thing any of us could have imagined back then.
Also found its great for regex, I'm pretty good with writing these, but recently came across a pretty complex one in our codebase that wasnt commented. Pasted into GPT4 and asked it to explain it, it broke down each bit in detail, and in the end even generated an example string that would match it.
Deployments can start with a stock image, load your code and run, without you having to move around an actual binary blob from machine to machine.
I'm more interested in stability now. On my last job hunt i was avoiding some more interesting work in favor of stability. I was in my late 30s at the time and just didnt want to go through all the start up problems I've experienced in the past.
That all said, I'm on a small team now working on an ecommerce site. It seems like a boring job, but I've been surprised at how much I've been able to use "interesting" tech to solve problems. You actually dont know when that boring job might be exactly what you want.
IM seems like such an established part of the internet now, it's easy to forget how amazing it seemed when I first saw it. Finally I could chat with my friends without us all having to be on IRC at the same time. It was also much easier to use than IRC, which brought in a lot of other friends I had who were less technically inclined.
My best friend and I got our first apartment when we were still in High School, which ended up turning into an almost 24/7 lan party. Friends would find space for their PC's and leave them there for weeks, dropping by to play games when they had the time. One weekend we had so many people, there were two PCs setup on the kitchen counter. Internet access? A socks proxy letting everyone share our 33.6 dialup connection.
In France it was hit or miss, I'd say maybe 25% of the time I was even asked for an id for a transaction.
Cannabis is great for unwinding when you just cant force yourself to stop thinking about work or other worries. It's also just plain fun.
I enjoyed LSD the most. Aside from the hallucinations and euphoria (both of which were good enough reasons to use it) the drug causes a lot of introspection. You wander down some corridors of the mind you would normally never visit. I feel like I know myself better because of it. My first trip alone caused me to make some life changes afterward which have greatly improved my life today.
Much has been said about the therapeutic value of mdma, but that as not been my experience. It's a lot of fun, you do feel closer to those around you, but I don't think I took much away from it. I've mainly done this at clubs, so perhaps it would be different in another setting.
For reference: 29 Male, software developer. More or less successful (married with a house and all that)
As a former Mississippi resident (and one who did not have a passport until the age of 26) I can tell you I personally knew very few people who could afford to travel. The wages in the state may match the low cost of living, but a plane ticket is going to be the same leaving from Jackson Mississippi as it is LAX.
When this was posted on Reddit quite a few people used it as an opportunity to take jabs at how ignorant people in the south are because they did not "want" to see places outside our borders. It's quite difficult to do when a ticket to Europe would equal an entire months salary for many people.
After years of programming I felt I would gain little by studying CS. Sure I would learn, but only after going though classes that would teach me nothing or little at all in order to get to the good stuff. If I was going to throw down the money for a degree I wanted to learn something new.
I eventually went for the low hanging fruit and switched to IT with a software emphasis at a school where I could graduate much faster, this was more for fiscal reasons though. I feel what I picked up in my brief time as a religion major was extremely valuable and I came out with a lot of knowledge and better understanding of a lot that goes on in the world.
I personally picked emacs for a number of reasons, you seem to already be familiar with Vim so that might be best for you.
Print out the cheat sheets, and get to work. It's terribly frustrating at first, but you'll be off the sheets in no time. After a month of steady emacs use I could not go back to anything else. I have to use Eclipse at work from time to time and I find the experience maddening; having to use keys like Page Up, Page Down, Home, etc. Emacs lets me do all that and more without ever leaving the home row. I'm sure Vim is the same way.
Pick one, learn it, love it... just don't become a zealot :)
For console use Lynx is what I prefer and seems to be popular for that.
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That is hardly practical for most people though. Take the classes, but supplement that learning. Watch Spanish language films with and without subtitles. Watch movies you already know very well dubbed in Spanish (I learned lots from that).
Chat up people in Spanish speaking countries and attempt to speak Spanish as much as possible. You might even find an English language student you can assist at the same time.
If you go eat at a Mexican place, order in Spanish. Yes, you will butcher it at first, yes you will feel silly. But you improve quickly by doing this.
Learning the way I did does have its drawbacks. While I can more or less communicate effectively, I know almost know grammar rules. I can conjugate correctly, but have no idea "why" something is correct.
And I believe this article confirms my mental state, I do go running when its 100 degrees outside.
Quit that job to become an asp developer :(
Another trick I've found is don't hit the coffee or energy drinks until you absolutely need to, you're going to crash anyhow, and drinking stimulants too soon will only make that happen quicker.
Looks like it comes with Ubuntu 8.04 and no option to change it.
I have 2 linodes currently, I plan to run some benchmarks vs Chunkhost to see how it stacks up.