5 drawbacks to blogging by Matthiew Feder

5 Drawbacks to Blogging

As like most things there, are some disadvantages with blogging. The first disadvantage that I am going to talk about is that most blogs are not interesting. Many people write things that are only interesting to them and no one else, or if they have something fascinating to say they don't write it in a captivating way. This is a disadvantage because one might have the interest to start getting into blogging and reading other people's blog, however, once they start doing so they get bored and just go to something else. 

Another disadvantage of blogging is how time consuming it is. Writing in general is a very time consuming task. Having to update your blog regularly is like writing an essay regularly; it is going to use up very valuable time. Most people just don't have the time to write a blog, especially with one's with something interesting to say which ties into our first disadvantage. A lot of people when they get on the internet they want the process to be smooth and quick. A blog may be smooth, but it is not quick, leaving many blogs left not updated and abandoned. 

The next disadvantage is rude people. Many people who are Tiny Tim's in person become Jacked Johnny's on blogs. They say very rude things that they would never say in person. This happens all around the internet and not just blogs. People who write blogs and then get nasty comments can leave their feelings hurt. Cyber-bullying leaves some people hesitant in making a blog because they are afraid what people are going to say to them. It is sad how mean people can be on each other's blogs.

A fourth disadvantage is becoming anti-social. Even though blogging can be considered a social thing sitting in front of a computer a lot can have bad effects. This does tie-into the second disadvantage I mentioned, since blogging is time consuming some people become so wrapped up into it they aren't around they're family and friends as much as they should be. 

The last disadvantage is spam. Spam is annoying anywhere you see it and if you are working really hard on your blog and you keep getting spam advertisement in your comments it can become discouraging. Almost all people who blog on a regular basis run into spam at some point. There definitely needs to become away to prevent spam even though it is so hard to control.

Linus Torvalds and Linux by Matthiew Feder

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland. When Torvalds was little he didn't pay much attention to the common things you see boys interested in, sports, girls, and other activities involving him being social. He spent most of his time on the computer. When his grandpa bought him his first computer he was very bored with it and became experimenting with coding languages. He first dabbled in basic languages and then moved on to the more complex languages. Programming became a passion of his very quickly. Later down the road, just like his parents, he enrolled at the University of Helsinki for computer science. He bought a new computer with the MS-DOS system. He was very unhappy with it and tried to get UNIX on it, however, could not because it was too expensive. He had the option of MINIX but found many disadvantages in it. A couple of the major disadvantages of MINIX were all of the source code was not made public, it didn't have the performance and capabilities that UNIX had, and there was a licensing fee. He thought it would be a fun to create his own operating system. In Finland, education is free and that makes people less pressured to finish in four years so he decided to take a break from his studies and work full-time on creating a new operating system. However, he did go back and get a master's later on.

On September 17, 1991 he finished the first version, 0.01, of Linux. A little less than a month later on October 5, 1991 he released version 0.02 of Linux which was considered the official version. This is really when Linux became a huge group project around the world. Let's skip 22 years ahead to where Linux is today. Linux is considered to be very stable especially on a network server. Corporate loves to use it on their network for two big reasons, one being that the down time is very small, and two being the low cost. As some of you may know if a businesses' network is down for even a little time they lose a lot of revenue, so a network that doesn't need any down time can be very valuable. Another point I want to make is the amount of viruses that there are for Linux. Out of 100% of viruses 99% goes to Windows and only .05% goes to Linux and the other .05% goes to Mac OS. The biggest difference between the three operating systems is the open source code. You cannot customize the other two like you can do with Linux. Here is a list of the advantages and disadvantages of Linux.
Advantages       
                                                         

1.     Very Stable

2.     Easy to install

3.     Not likely to be effected by computer Malware

4.     Free

5.     A lot of free software

6.     Technical support

            Disadvantages 

1.     A lot of Windows programs aren't compatible

2.     It takes some time how to learn it

3.     Less peripheral hardware drivers 

I don't think I would consider Linus to be the greatest programmer in the world. I honestly believe that there is no one that considered the best. I think many people have their strengths and weaknesses at different things. Linux is a perfect example of this. Linus could have never done this alone. So many other people helped him make this what it is today. 

Sources:

http://www.linfo.org/linus.html

http://www.renewablepcs.com/about-linux/advantages-of-using-linux

http://www.linux.org/threads/what-is-linux.4076/