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You know, I really thought that the people in the Canonical website were real employees. Now my vision of Canonical HQ is shattered. I got this add for phone-service in my inbox today, and realized that the woman looked familiar.

Ok. So I really didn’t think they were employees, but it is kind of disturbing to have pictures of fake employees on your website like that.

I just downloaded the new Ubuntu release. It took a whopping 29 minutes to download the near 700 megabytes. That’s a very good speed to download any OS, on release day. And it is all thanks to the 2344 seeders.

That’s right. there were thousands of people seeding this thing. And to top it off, there were 969 leachers. So that is almost a 3 to 1 ratio. That is unprecedented

And the best thing about it, is that it didn’t cost the Ubuntu much money in bandwidth (assuming a tracker is cheap)

Here is a picture

Also, You may notice that I am using KTorrent, instead of the default Ubuntu torrenter. It is the only torrent downloader on Ubuntu that “just works”. If you ask me, it should be the default. That is if it does not require too much KDE to install.

I don’t care if the problem is Dreamhost or Subversion. All I know, is that I get home from work at 7 PM and have to go to bed at 10PM. In that small window, (where I am alive, and cease bing a cog in a really antiquated machine) I want to get work done on my project.

And I can’t. For the past week, I have been trying to simply compare two branches. I’m not even at the fucking merge stage. Just comparing. It either takes 30 minutes, or fails with some strange error (possibly a timeout):

svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/intuitive_desktop/!svn/bc/209/trunk/IntuitiveFramework/Models'
svn: Processing PROPFIND request response failed: required string: "lp1:version-name" (/intuitive_desktop/!svn/bc/209/trunk/IntuitiveFramework/Models)

I keep having to push the release of 0.5 back, because of shit like this. So close and yet so fucked in the side of the head.