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            <p>I gave up on windows many many years ago. Last year i persuaded my sister to do the same. She is my exact opposite when it comes to technology, never the less the switch wasn't difficult. That's because she was using Firefox as the browser and Thunderbird as the mail client. The only piece of evil software that she was addicted to was M$ Office. On Linux (Fedora Core 6) I installed Open Office for her and migrated all her mails to the new Thunderbird installation.</p>
            <p>I must also confess that this wasn't a voluntary move from windows to linux. The hard drive on her toshiba crashed and she needed to have a new os put in. These toshiba notebooks don't shop with the OS installation CD. And persuaded her that paying lots of $ for a usefull point of software is an utter waste and damned if I will install it for her. So she agreed and now she is quite happy with it. So then why the move to a macbook now?</p>
            <p>Well the old notebook is showing it's age, and she is in the states right now. A Macbook purchased in the US costs a good Rs 40,000 less than the same thing bought from <a href="1065.html">Sri Lankan dealers</a>. So I suggested that she buy one and yesterday she did.</p>
            <p>Less than 24 hours after she bought her Macbook, my father also made the switch. He was using a <a href="000957.html">Acer Aspire</a> for a long time. It's a pretty good computer but has a serious cooling problem, and like my sisters computer was beginning to show it's age. So my father asked someone visiting Singapore to get one for him and he did. It's not as cheap as it is in the US but still a lot cheaper than what it costs in Sri Lanka.</p>
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            <div style="float: right; clear: left; margin-left: 20px;"><a href="http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raditha.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;user=54474&amp;referer=54474"><img alt="Listed on BlogShares" height="23" src="http://blogshares.com/images/blogshares.jpg" width="117"></a></div>
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            <p>The real money in <a href="http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raditha.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;user=54474&amp;referer=54474">blog shares</a> is in the Chip market and not in shares and ideas as many people believe. If you have a good stock, someone might do a hostile take over and take it away from you. Or it might simply 'melt down' as they say in blog shares and the price will unexpectedly collapse. Worst still if you try to trade in it someone else might buy up all the shares just after you sell it and before you get a chance to buy it back. So trading in shares is fraught with peril.</p>
            <p>The ideas market is worse. You never know how many ideas will be produced in a given industry in one production run. If lots of ideas are produced the prices will drop. If the ideas are left sitting on the market without anyone buying them up, the price drops further. If someone sells the ideas they own (and there are some players with millions of ideas in any industry), the price drops even further. So trading in ideas is a perilous business.</p>
            <p>That brings us to the chips market. Certainly this is not for the faint hearted because each chip is worth about 28-29 million B$. And that's exactly where the opportunity lies. The chip market is very inefficient, that means the gap between the lowest offer and the highest bid (sell and buy orders) is vast. Well it's only about 2-3% but as any day trader will tell you that really is a huge gap, specially if no transaction fees are involved.</p>
            <p>So on any given day you can buy chips at about 28.5 million and sell them at about 29 million. On a good day your buying price will be lower and the selling price even higher. There is a small but steady upwards trend in chip prices. So even if you make a small mistake, you can recover without a big loss. But then again, all that might change with the new 'dead blog finder'</p>
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            <div style="float: right; clear: left; margin-left: 20px;"><a href="http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raditha.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;user=54474&amp;referer=54474"><img alt="Listed on BlogShares" height="23" src="http://blogshares.com/images/blogshares.jpg" width="117"></a></div> In an attempt to break the blogshares glass ceiling, I have signed up as a premium member. That means I spend far too much time on <a href="http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raditha.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;user=54474&amp;referer=54474">blog shares</a>, but what the hell, let get to the top quickly and retire.<p></p>
            <p>It's now a month since I started trading. I have now moved to the 175th place on the ranking. If I may say so myself, I have climbed so far so quickly by shrewdly playing the ranking system. Most players go about blinding aquiring wealth and artefacts. But that's not enough to get to the top. You need wealth, artefacts, ideas, sigma and karma as well as chips to be ranked high.</p>
            <p>I struck the glass ceiling for two reasons. Wenever you aquire karma or sigma someone higher up the list can also aquire both these as well. Secondly problem is in building artefacts. For a while you can buy more than the 10000 ideas in a given industry in a single transaction. You need at least 10,000 to make an artefact. After you have created artefacts in the popular industries you find that the others do not produce 10,000 ideas in a single production run. When you reach this point as a non premium member you can create only two or three artefacts a day.</p>
            <p>When you become a premium member you can carry out an unlimited number of transactions you if you visit blog shares a few times each day you can pick up a handful of ideas in each industry so at the end of the day you have enough to create artifacts in about a dozen industries.</p>
            <p>Becoming a premium member also allows you to gain access to the chip market place. That's where the real money is but more about that later. in the meantime, please check out my <a href="http://blogshares.com/missions.php?list=1049">mission</a>.</p>
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            <p>I have spent close upon a month on <a href="http://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raditha.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;user=54474&amp;referer=54474">Blog Shares</a> so far and during that time I climbed rapidly up the rankings list. Or rather I climbed rapidly until I reached around the 250th spot. Since then progress has been rather slow and difficult. This is due in my opinion to an inherent weakness of the blogshares design.</p>
            <p>In order to be ranked high, you need to aquire, B$, chips, shares, sigma, karma and artefacts. Each time you gain Karma, Sigma or Chips, someone higher up on the list will get them too. The simplest and most effective way to gain these things is by voting on blogs or reporting dead blogs. When you do that, a moderater will look at them and decide whether or not to approve the vote or to delist the dead blog. The moderator gets chips and karma each time he does that. So you can never narrow the gap between you and the leaders.</p>
            <p>The second major weakness is that wealth can be created but cannot be destroyed. Once you have enough to have a high ranking, you can liquidate your shares and invest all your money in a corporation. Then you gain daily interest on that invest. That means as long as other members of the corporation are active traders, your networth is always increasing slowly. Which again means once you get to the top, you cannot be pushed over the edge.</p>
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            <p>We released a new version of Rad Upload a couple of days ago. This is primarily a bug fix release and I think this will be the last version in the 3x branch. We have already completed the work on version 4.0 and will be making the beta release in a few days time.</p>
            <p>Version 4.0 is going to be exciting. It's a resumable HTTP uploader. You can use it to upload very very large files regardless of the server configurations. Usually webserver have an arbitrary limit on the size of an HTTP post or even a specific setting for the multipart/form-data content type. You see this very often with PHP. PHP has a very low value for maximum upload size (2MB) and for the maximum post size (8MB). No wonder our <a href="http://www.radinks.com/upload/config.php">web server configuration guide</a> is so popular.</p>
            <p>Let's get back to the current version (3.12). What are the bug fixes? there are three of them but none of them are serious. It has to do with client side filtering by file type and the embeddable progress monitor. You can read the details <a href="http://www.radinks.com/upload/file.php">here....</a></p>
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Monthly Archives for 2007 06

Three Macbooks in the family.

Blogshares Chip Market.

Breaking the Blogshares Glass Ceiling.

Blog Shares Glass Ceiling.

Rad Upload