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• A sourceforge project with no files uploaded, no description, and a few messages asking, "What happened?"
• A glossary which describes SnapFS as "A defunct experimental filesystem". There's also a broken link to linuxcare.com.au/projects/snapfs .
• A diary entry from somebody named Martin Pool. On 18 August 2000 he writes,

  I wrote up some documentation for my snapfs filesystem, which has been shelved for some months now. I get mail every so often asking what happened to it, so it seemed good to answer it once and for all. Perhaps I'll get back to it eventually.

  
  
• And of course, Mountain View Data (or the equivalent snapfs.org), which now owns the project and seems to have renamed it "MVD Snap". But there is very little information here, and nothing to download.

Thanks to everyone for all the help!

What you're asking for is definitely something that a *lot* of people would want. I, for one, would like to be able to integrate home webcams with my PC, my satellite TV and with my web server, for example. Imagine programming your softVCR over the web, etc.

The TiVo meets this need part way. Previous discussion on /. indicated a crying need for the TiVo to have an Ethernet port so that easy up/down loading of recorded media could take place, as well as enable the development of Web based controllability. There was talk of the next official version of the TiVo having such a port, but I haven't about such a product yet, despite its technical feasibility.

All that said, I think there's a great deal of apprehension over the legal ramifications since most publicly broadcast programs have specific prohibitions against rebroadcast.

I presume that's rebroadcast (a) to others, going beyond a typical definition of personal use; (b) for profit to others (definitely a no-no).

Certainly there's nothing illegal with taping or disk recording for later use by you in your own home or anywhere else you happen to be (eg, recording your personal CD collection on MP3 to take in your car.)

But a lot of video content producers would get very jittery if you provided that recorded content to others beside yourself. There, even though I can invite friends over to my house to watch a rented movie or to listen to a CD, I cannot charge them admission. And, if I run a business as, for example, a daycare center, then I can get into trouble for public exhibition of copyrighted videos to toddlers in my charge (though providing books does not seem to be so dangerous to my legal health). Clearly, the legal definitions have been strongly influenced by parties with a vested interests in the existing revenue models associated with media distribution.

Once you have such a video system, a P2P network that enables trading favorite TV programs, pr0n, etc. is only a short step away, with all the hullabaloo that has accompanied trading of music files over the past several years.

Perhaps the Java Media API provides a good framework, but it would be nice to have some open source standard API for the control and activation functions of the next generation of consumer electronic equipment: network-enabled video and audio jukeboxes.

update that works for redhat 6.2 http://lgp.linuxcare.com.au/lgp-2.4.0a.tar.bz2

use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that

Sounds a bit slow to me. What you really want is 20 second kernel compile times :-)

../linux/Documentation/Configure.help

Power Management support
CONFIG_PM...

ACPI Support
CONFIG_ACPI
ACPI/OSPM support for Linux is currently under development. As such, this support is preliminary and EXPERIMENTAL.

Advanced Powehttp://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/index.htmlr Management BIOS support
CONFIG_APM
APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different techniques.

etc...etc...etc...

• Intel Specs
• ACPI mailing list
• Kernel Documentation (pm.txt): Linux Power Management
• APMD
• ACPID

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The real link with all the info is here
Mirror soon, mirror often!!

SealBeater

In case you want to skip the forum messages (or it get's /.ed) here is story on http://linuxcare.com.au/tridge/tiv o-e thernet/

Since this is an article about Canberra, I should also point out that for REALLY good Australian beer one need go no further than the the Wig and Pen in the city. They brew their own beer in a variety of styles and have a wall full of prizes for it. As a bonus, the Wig and Pen is around the corner from LinuxCare's Australian office and just off the campus of The Australian National University so it's perfectly placed for the geek about town in Canberra.

Quite a few? I thought my last company was doing well with four. The bastards wouldn't let me install Linux on one of the unused domains, though :-( Linuxcare have put Linux on a 24 CPU Starfire domain: http://linuxcare.com.au/anton/e10000/

At a guess, not very long at all. On a 24 CPU Sun Starfire machine, a kernel compile takes a shade over 20 seconds. See http://linuxcare.com.au/anton/e10000/ for details. I'd guess this Alpha will be comparable to that, if not faster. As an interesting datapoint, my first kernel compile took over 10 hours (that was 0.99pl8+ on a 386).

I have used dirdiff for this in the past. It has a good interface for dealing with two directory hierarchies, but I found its interface for the actual diffs to be a bit clunky (although it may have improved since I tried it). And it has a decent collection of features.

• Microsoft.com. Search for exact phrase "SAMBA." (include the period)
• Web Workshop - CIFS Products and Vendors
• Samba
• At the bottom of the page select Linuxcare
• then click the Linuxcare logo to go to the US site for Linuxcare
• Under Linux Links select News/Press
• then, finally, Slashdot!

Ok Happy April fools day... I was bored so I thought I would translate this for people who don't speak this special language! =)

Anonymous in Indy writes: "So you've shut off your cookies, blocked those bannered sites, and installed Junkbuster. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Feeling secure in your anonymity? Well, Martin Paul at Linuxcare Australia knows a way we can still track you while you surf: By using the HTTP cache control heeder. It's far more devious than cookies, and more difficult to block, too. Here's the article The Meantime Exploit will give you a description and a demonstration." It's a bonus, Martin's writing is funny and clear. Welcome to Standard Perunueea?? Time.

Ok Happy April fools day... I was bored so I thought I would translate this for people who don't speak this special language! =)

Anonymous in Indy writes: "So you've shut off your cookies, blocked those bannered sites, and installed Junkbuster. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Feeling secure in your anonymity? Well, Martin Paul at Linuxcare Australia knows a way we can still track you while you surf: By using the HTTP cache control heeder. It's far more devious than cookies, and more difficult to block, too. Here's the article The Meantime Exploit will give you a description and a demonstration." It's a bonus, Martin's writing is funny and clear. Welcome to Standard Perunueea?? Time.

Ok Happy April fools day... I was bored so I thought I would translate this for people who don't speak this special language! =)

Anonymous in Indy writes: "So you've shut off your cookies, blocked those bannered sites, and installed Junkbuster. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Feeling secure in your anonymity? Well, Martin Paul at Linuxcare Australia knows a way we can still track you while you surf: By using the HTTP cache control heeder. It's far more devious than cookies, and more difficult to block, too. Here's the article The Meantime Exploit will give you a description and a demonstration." It's a bonus, Martin's writing is funny and clear. Welcome to Standard Perunueea?? Time.

Actually, Tridge is mainly working on Samba and rsync right now. I know that jitterbug is on his TODO list as well, and he's done some smbfs work. It's anyone's guess what else he's cooking up here in the office...

Best bet is to check out Tridge's diary

Rusty.