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| * mpt compares the layout of <http://www.ubuntu.com/products/softwarecatalogue> and <https://shop.canonical.com/> | 19:21 | |
| mpt | I suppose <http://www.canonical.com/> vs. <https://shop.canonical.com/> is a fairer comparison | 19:22 |
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| mpt | and they're only slightly different | 19:22 |
| mpt | newz2000, why do you use <em class="tiny">TM</em> instead of ™? | 19:37 |
| newz2000 | I don't think I did that | 19:37 |
| newz2000 | mpt: where is it? | 19:37 |
| mpt | newz2000, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download | 19:39 |
| mpt | Standard personal computer (x86 architecture, PentiumTM, CeleronTM, AthlonTM, SempronTM) | 19:39 |
| newz2000 | oh, I copy and pasted that from somewhere | 19:39 |
| newz2000 | but I probably didn't know about 8482 | 19:39 |
| newz2000 | too many entities these days | 19:39 |
| mpt | ™ is easier to remember :-) | 19:40 |
| newz2000 | are you looking over that email I sent re the download page? | 19:40 |
| mpt | yes, that's why I noticed it just now | 19:40 |
| newz2000 | good advice matt, that looks much nicer | 19:42 |
| mpt | sweet | 19:57 |
| mpt | Hm, that download location menu shoots off the edge of the white area quite funkily in Gecko | 19:57 |
| newz2000 | yes it does | 19:57 |
| mpt | And it's all Lund University's fault! | 19:58 |
| mpt | Well, not entirely | 19:58 |
| newz2000 | I do truncate it | 19:58 |
| mpt | United States Northeastern University have a lot to answer for, too | 19:58 |
| newz2000 | I'm thinking about switching to just choosing a country | 19:59 |
| newz2000 | yes, random + weighted in favor of reported bandwidth | 20:00 |
| newz2000 | so someone with twice the bandwidth will get aprox twice the traffic | 20:00 |
| newz2000 | mpt: you missed it, I said: so someone with twice the bandwidth will get aprox twice the traffic | 20:01 |
| mpt | ah cool | 20:05 |
| mpt | I guess the only downside would be for countries with large dimensions, i.e. Russia, USA, and to some extent Australia | 20:06 |
| newz2000 | USA has good bandwidth throughout the country | 20:06 |
| mpt | true | 20:06 |
| newz2000 | I don't know about Russia and Australia though | 20:06 |
| newz2000 | Africa is another tricky one as I understand it... there are few mirrors and rules for picking the best are complex | 20:07 |
| mpt | That sounds like a job for a learning algorithm :-) | 20:07 |
| newz2000 | ah, indeed | 20:07 |
| mpt | but doing the measurements would require doing dummy downloads every so often | 20:08 |
| newz2000 | well, you could learn from user's choices | 20:08 |
| newz2000 | and gauge success if they don't return for a second attempt | 20:09 |
| mpt | Oh, I wasn't thinking you would still let them choose | 20:10 |
| newz2000 | oh, I see | 20:10 |
| mpt | rather choose automatically based on how fast each mirror had been recently for people from that IP block or whatever | 20:11 |
| mpt | hmm, now I think about it, that would be really quite hard | 20:12 |
| newz2000 | yeah | 20:12 |
| mpt | unless you have geographically distributed download-testing machines, which is probably overkill :-) | 20:12 |
| newz2000 | I dn't have that | 20:12 |
| mpt | ssh timbuktu.canonical.com | 20:13 |
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