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en Installation Notes for Kubuntu 18.10 on the Alienware 17 R5 Laptop By www.robotthoughts.com Published On :: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 04:45:45 +0000 Before Installation Installing Kubuntu / Ubuntu on the Alienware 17 R5 Laptop NVME Drive To get the NVME drive or M.2 drive to show up as an installation candidate for the installer, you need to make a small BIOS change and modify two kernel arguments at boot time. First, boot into the BIOS on the […] The post Installation Notes for Kubuntu 18.10 on the Alienware 17 R5 Laptop first appeared on robotthoughts. Full Article Alienware Technology
en Moving the Root Partition to a New Disk in Ubuntu 18.10 (General GRUB Chicanery) By www.robotthoughts.com Published On :: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:17:07 +0000 I had a Ubuntu 18.10 install setup perfectly on a disk shared with a Windows 10 install. I originally setup Windows 10 and then reduced the size of the Windows 10 partition to make room for a Ubuntu 18.10 install. After the install of Windows 10 and the Ubuntu 18.10 install I had these partitions: […] The post Moving the Root Partition to a New Disk in Ubuntu 18.10 (General GRUB Chicanery) first appeared on robotthoughts. Full Article Alienware Linux Technology
en 10 reasons you should vote "Yes" in the AV referendum By iconoplex.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 04 May 2011 14:17:00 +0100 There has been a lot of mud-slinging over the referendum on the Alternative Vote. The “No” campaign have been particularly bad at avoiding sensible debate and resorting to fear-mongering and smears. The polling shows they will likely win by a significant margin. They shouldn’t. And with apparently 20%+ of people still undecided, I’d like to share some thoughts that might tip the balance in some people’s heads: please share this with anybody who is still undecided. Here are 10 very good reasons you should vote “Yes” in the AV referendum tomorrow: 1. First Past The Post (FPTP) doesn’t work in a system with more than two parties You might only like one of the two leading parties, but you can’t deny that we live in a society where more than two parties matter. If you live in Scotland or Wales, multi-party politics is a reality even more so. FPTP was designed when there were only two political groups in Parliament: the Tories and the Whigs. Since the birth of Labour, the reformation of the Liberals and the rise of nationalist parties and groups like the Green Party, we live in a nation where there are multiple political voices. You might not agree with them, but you agree under a democracy that they have a right to be heard, right? So why would you persist with a system that denies them that voice? Right now, an MP can have support of less than 20% of the people in their constituency, and be sent to Parliament on behalf of all 100%. AV eliminates that from being possible, and forces more engaged politics. 2. AV actually weakens extremist parties There are three parties wholly against the Alternative Vote: the Conservatives, the BNP and the Communist party. The Tories don’t like it for a variety of reasons along with some Labour MPs (see below), but the BNP and the Communist parties don’t like it because it reduces their chances of getting a seat. How? It comes down to second preference votes. People who are inclined to vote for extremist views typically will place them first. People who put other parties first are unlikely to offer a second preference to an extremist party. That means on the whole, parties like the BNP are likely to be eliminated quite early on. To win, a candidate must convince at least 50% of the people who vote to give them at least a second or third preference vote. The BNP and the Communists are unlikely to achieve that whilst their views and the electorate’s are so out of kilter. Under FPTP it’s possible to win a seat with just 20% of eligible voters agreeing with you, or around 30% of voters who actually vote - a much more achievable target for extremist parties to get. 3. AV forces consensus and a new mode of political debate You might have noticed politicians from opposite sides don’t seem to like each other very much. Most people can’t stand watching Prime Minister’s Questions for all its Punch & Judy mechanics. FPTP requires confrontation and feeds off fear-mongering. AV forces politicians into a very different mode. They have to talk about what they’re for, rather than what they’re against (as tactical voting disappears, see below), and they need to seek out ways to find compromise and agreement rather than just shout the other side down. You might have strong feelings against the coalition government, but you can’t deny that the disagreements seem to have been dealt with more philosophical debate than previous disputes between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. It’s not that either side has sold out completely, but rather it’s because that’s what coalitions need to work. AV turns that progressive debate into the daily routine of politics. 4. AV doesn’t cost a penny more. The only penalty is a slightly longer election night special on the BBC There have been some preposterous claims made about the cost of AV. One leaflet suggested it would cost us £250m, and another campaign suggested that maybe the money would be better spent on hospitals. We could argue that democracy shouldn’t have a price put on it - particularly one so low given the size of our GDP - however that’s not the point. AV won’t cost us anything more. The referendum will cost virtually nothing as it coincides with many local elections anyway. There are no “counting machines” that need to be bought, and the cost of explaining AV to the electorate has basically already been met by the (privately-funded) “Yes” campaign and various other groups. If you don’t currently understand how AV works, you can learn it yourself in under two minutes by reading the article on Wikipedia about it. 5. FPTP supports incompetent and lazy MPs - it provides a “job for life”, undeservedly There are a lot of very bad MPs in Parliament. You’ve probably never heard their names, but they’ve been there for a long time, and know that they have a job for life. They are in “safe seats” where it would take a political Tsunami of epic proportions to remove them. If you analyse which Labour members support the FPTP system over AV, you will realise they are generally unpopular figures who have held safe seats whilst resorting to “we hate the other side” politics, which would likely flounder under AV: John Prescott, Margaret Beckett, et al. The Tory back-benches are filled with a similar breed of politician. They resent the voter, on the whole. These MPs do not represent their constituency in Parliament. They represent their party in the constituency. With perhaps no more than 35% of the vote (and often with low turnouts, just a 10-15% approval from their constituency as a whole), they know they can do pretty much what they want. For example, on average MPs in safe seats claim more in expenses than MPs in marginals, and cost the taxpayer more. One beauty of AV is that it pretty much eliminates the concept of a safe seat. There will be some left where there is overwhelming support for a candidate, but MPs will be more inclined to fight for the continued support of their entire constituency, and therefore act more in accordance with their wishes. 6. Under AV you can - if you wish - select just one candidate (and it’s actually easier) At the moment under FPTP you type an X in a box. Under AV, if you only want to support one candidate and have no second preference, simply write ‘I’ instead. It’s one less line. It could be argued that under AV you’ll halve your time spent actually physically voting. OK, I’m clearly making a small joke here, but there is nothing complicated about AV if you don’t want to think about multiple candidates, just vote for the one individual you want to see elected. But don’t you want the option of being able to specify a second candidate if your first preference doesn’t win, just in case? Isn’t the elimination of tactical voting worth it? That brings us onto… 7. Tactical voting pretty much disappears under AV This morning I got a “the Tories can’t win here” leaflet from the Lib Dems through my door. We’ve all seen them. Basically, if you don’t want Labour to win in this ward, there is no point in voting Conservative because of how the vote is counted. Under AV at general elections, this would make no sense. Tory voters, instead of being told their votes are futile, would be reached out to by both parties seeking to build bridges with that community who live locally. You would no longer need to go to the polls and vote for a party you disagree with, just to keep another party out. Campaigners would instead want to listen to views across the political spectrum in the hope of getting a second preference vote from people within those groups. It completely changes the way we think about politics and political campaigning. For the better, and permanently. There is a more complicated explanation of how tactical voting pretty much becomes impossible under AV in a section of the Wikipedia article. 8. We all start to count again You might have heard the phrase “Mondeo Man”, “Windsor Woman” or the like at previous elections. These are demographic groups targeted by campaigners whose vote determines the election. You see, at the last election, it’s thought that only 1.6% of votes actually changed the outcome. Because of the way FPTP favours jobs for life, safe seats and promotes tactical voting and negative politics, experts realised that the “swing” that would win the election would come from less than 1 voter in 50. They identified who these people were based on where they lived. They analysed their lifestyles based on demographic information and labelled them. Experts then ran focus groups composed of this tiny demographic, and party policy and manifesto promises were crafted around what was responded to by that group. All of those billboards, manifestos, news reports and editorials. They weren’t meant for 98.4% of the electorate - they were crafted to shape the opinion of just 1.6% of the electorate. Does that seem a reasonable way to run a democracy to you? Under AV, we all start to count again. 9. It’s not a rubbish version of PR, and we don’t want PR anyway! Some people have argued we should hold out for Proportional Representation because that means the number of MPs representing each party is in exact proportion to the number of votes cast for that party nationally. We don’t want that. Note, I said the MPs would be representing each party. They would no longer represent a constituency, and would be positioned on a list based on their loyalty to the party elders and the small Westminster clique that runs politics today. We want and need a system that means an MP is tied to a constituency. We want and need a system that makes the MP want to represent the constituency within Parliament, rather than the other way around. PR doesn’t do that. FPTP doesn’t do that. AV does. 10. If we vote “No”, we keep the status quo for at least a generation. The reality is, if we collectively vote “No” to the Alternative Vote, that’s it, we don’t get any more reform for a while - probably at least a generation. The concession prize might be a reform of the House of Lords, in order to try and keep the coalition together (it’s a very weak second prize for the Lib Dems), but I suspect if we voted “Yes”, then Lords reform would be here within no more than one more Parliament anyway - it’d be popular with voters. We all agree that the current system is broken, but if we vote “no” we’re saying “that’s OK”. We are committing our children and possibly several generations more to the broken politics we’re so disenchanted with ourselves. So, there we have it. 10 reasons. If you need any more, feel free to email me and I’ll try and answer your questions and answer any lingering doubts before polls open tomorrow. Full Article politics av alternative vote referendum democracy
en AV Referendum result: oh bobbins... By iconoplex.co.uk Published On :: Mon, 09 May 2011 14:17:05 +0100 In the time between me publishing my list of 10 reasons for supporting the Alternative Vote and polling closing the next evening, it was read over 1,000 times. I still stand by every word of it, even though - as you no doubt have heard - the “No” campaign won it. Annoyingly, it seems the majority of people who voted “No”, did so because of one of the following reasons: Their favourite media outlet told them to We have a major problem with media influence and the popular vote in most democracies, but in the UK its reached new levels. If the media was unbiased, or people sought a balance of opinion in their media consumption, I’m not sure that the vote would have gone the way it did. People seem to be reluctant to think for themselves any more. They held strong allegiance to the way things are right now In gambling parlance there is a phrase to dismiss somebody who has a bet on and is trying to justify their logic: talking through their pocket. There were very, very many people on the “No” campaign who would stand to lose a lot if the vote had gone to “Yes”, not least the Prime Minister himself. I think the “Yes” campaign didn’t do enough to highlight that this was about long-term change within how politics is done and is perceived. What amazed me is just how many people have a vested interest in politics as they are done today. With thousands of people hoping one day to have a chance running for MP in a safe seat, able to leverage hundreds of campaigners each… we just didn’t see it coming! They were “holding out” for PR Possibly the most stupid reason: we don’t want PR (which the electoral commission found out without the need for a referendum), which is why it wasn’t offered. But plenty of people do want it, and so voted “No” using the warped logic this would in the long run give them more progressive politics. What they hadn’t spotted was that voting “Yes” would have led to a more progressive politics with a possibility of PR being offered within 3-4 Parliaments, maximum. Now? Even the Lib Dems are talking about a “losing a generation” before it gets brought up again. So there we are, the vote was lost, I’m talking through my own pocket it seems, and the result is thoroughly depressing for progressives. C’est la vie… Full Article alternative vote referendum politics democracy
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en Navegadores en el Posicionamiento Web - ¿ Cual usar ? By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: ¿Para que navegador diseño mi sitio? Parece difícil la pregunta, pero no, la respuesta es simple, PARA TODOS. Bueno, si usted se refiere a por que navegador se puede guiar par diseñar su sitio para que los robots de búsqueda lo vean bien, pues pruebe un Lynx... :-) si, en serio, creo que esa es una vista más cercana de cómo ven los robots de búsqueda los sitios, pero bueno, hablando realmente en serio, la realidad es que.... Full Article
en Ventajas de CSS al posicionamiento Web By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: Con CSS se logra aumentar la densidad de las palabras clave dentro de los contenidos, ya que muchas de las etiquetas ocuparán muchísimo menos espacio. Esto también supone un menor peso para las páginas Web, lo cual agradecen tanto los robots de búsqueda como los usuarios finales. Adicionalmente se podrá cambiar rápidamente los estilos de ciertas palabras, modificando la importancia que les quieres otorgar ante los robots de búsqueda... Full Article
en El PageRank y los enlaces en la Web By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: La popularidad de un sitio es un valor calculado basándose en la cantidad de sitios que lo enlazan. Desde ahí se saca una cuenta fácil (PERO ERRONEA), "mientras mas gente apunte mi sitio pues mejor ubicado estará", lo cual no es exactamente así. No obstante algunas personas han confiado erróneamente en la cuenta fácil ... Full Article
en Penalizaciones de los Buscadores al mal trabajo de Posicionamiento By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: El trabajo SEO en los primeros años de su desarrollo se caracterizó por el uso de diversas técnicas dirigidas a "engañar" a los robots de búsqueda. Esas técnicas fueron dejando de funcionar a partir del desarrollo de los robots de búsquedas que cada día son mas sofisticados y son capaces de detectar desde textos invisibles para el usuario hasta la existencia de textos no legibles por personas ... Full Article
en Registro en Buscadores - ¿Manual o Automático? By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: El registro en los principales buscadores debe ser manual, de forma tal que se puedan cumplir todos los requisitos de la forma más óptima, lo cual con una herramienta automática seria difícil de lograr. Además ya en varios no es posible la inclusión automática pues uno de los pasos del formulario a llenar solicita la escritura de una cadena alfanumérica que se muestra en forma de imagen ruidosa la cual ... Full Article
en El trabajo del Profesional SEO y la relación con los clientes By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: Muchas empresas se dedican a ofrecer posicionamiento, pero gran parte se caracteriza por la falta de sinceridad hacia el cliente, al prometer cosas que no están en sus manos por el afán de ganar clientes. Pecan también algunas de estas en abuso de herramientas automáticas que no son capaces de sustituir la inteligencia humana, y de la falta de actualización en el tema o abuso de métodos que llevan a los robots de búsqueda a penalizar el sitio... Full Article
en Densidad e identificación de las palabras claves por parte de los buscadores By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: Un abuso de frecuencia en la palabra a menudo es interpretado como spam y es penalizado. Debemos mantener siempre el contenido de las Webs legible para las personas, pues además del tema de las penalizaciones de contenidos hechos solo para buscadores debemos tener en cuenta que el objetivo final de nuestras Webs e llegar a los usuarios y ofrecerles contenidos de calidad que ... Full Article
en Manejo de errores 404 - Implementación By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: ¿Como logramos el manejo de los errores 404 ? Para no depender de acciones por parte de los administradores del servidor donde tengamos nuestra Web, o de las posibilidades que ofrezca el panel de control del servidor de hosting, podemos nosotros mismos colocar la siguiente línea en el fichero .htaccess en el caso del Server Web Apache... Full Article
en La accesibilidad y su aporte al Posicionamiento Web By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: La accesibilidad ayuda al buen posicionamiento Web. Persigue, entre otros, el objetivo de que ningún usuario este discriminado ante el acceso y asimilación de los contenidos, ya sea por problemas físicos (visión ejemplo), a causa de usar navegadores con pocas capacidades, poseer conexiones muy lentas, personas sin ratón, con pantallas pequeñas o de baja resolución, pantallas en blanco y negro, etc. ... ¿Como lograr esto? ... Full Article
en RSS y los buscadores, importancia para el posicionamiento By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: Desde el punto de vista del posicionamiento Web los canales RSS nos ofrecen varias ventajas. Una es que cuando es incluida la información del canal RSS en una Web remota esto proporciona un enlace a la Web original con la correspondiente ganancia de... Full Article