You do have implicit copyright on things that you create. A registered trademark is a different story, but it doesn't mean that something is not 'yours' just because you don't tell the trademark office that it is.
Well since you said free as in beer not free as in libre, and since you did not say how many machines you needed to back up exactly, I might as well suggest to you that you try Arkeia. The free version, "Arkeia Light," supports a server with a single tape drive (no changer robots) and up to 2 client machines. So you can use it to back up 3 machines -- If you use more than that or if you have a tape library, you gotta cough up for a license.
Plenty of the solutions people have posted about are fine and dandy hack jobs and while they probably will work -- they would take a lot of time and effort to implement. Arkeia is pretty easy to install on the client end - you basically just install the client and tell it the name of the server - the acutal backup is managed completely by the server. Clients are available for practically every OS under the sun.
Arkeia has served me pretty well over the last few years, so even with the cost (not very much for a comparable solution from any other vendor) you really do get a pretty decent product.
Damn! I didn't know the G5 couldn't change endianness. That's a pretty severe blow to the emulators. Do the Power5's?
Oh well.. have to wait for VPC 7 I guess to see how severely that product was crippled - or how much of a wiz microsoft is at writing emulation - the X86 emu in the version of windows for itanium doesn't really bode well for VPC!
PearPC does not yet virtualize the PowerPC MMU, thus all memory read and write routines are still software based. The next big speed boost in PearPC will come from this.
The big advantage that the PowerPC CPU has in emulating the X86 (or any other CPU for that matter) is that it has far more registers and it can change endianness. I don't think anyone's disputing that PowerPC can emulate X86 better than X86 can emulate PowerPC:) The PowerPC is a really good processor for emulation in general.
The query that google seems to block in order to work around this problem is a query for "mailer-daemon@domain.com" where "domain.com" is pretty much anything.
I was following xcar while it was still on the mp3car boards, but had not looked at it in quite a while. I switched over to linux for my carpc a few months ago, and am writing my own interface in OpenGL with perl. I'm not terribly great at C++ which is why I haven't really been that interested in xcar..
I have hopes to write a Garmin StreetPilot emulator to deal with navigation at some point.. unfortunatly, it's going to be probalby October before I'll have any time for a big side-project like this:(
You can duplicate the effect of the reset tool on most earlier model BMW's (the ones with the 1.5" round connector in the engine bay) with a paperclip. On the late model cars, it's done with the OBD-II connector, but the commands to do it are not exactly kept secret. Still, the car won't behave any differently if you just change the oil and don't reset the lights.
These smartboards are cool. I bought one off of ebay for about $350 about a year ago with a stand and even the computer it was running. They pop up there for sale from time to time, and you can always get a good deal. Anyway they are great for putting together DB schemas and stuff like that. You just draw it out and push the print icon on the edge. The mouse feature is kind of nice, but I have found the Gyration RF mouse to be a better presentation tool.
The touch sensitive ones kind of suck since they aren't very durable and you have to put the pens back in their places and stuff. Mine is one of the ones that tracks with IR lasers, so it's impervious to stray fingers or rearranged pens. Plus the actual whiteboard on the laser ones is made of powder coated sheet metal instead of plastic, so you can do fun stuff like draw semi-permanent lines on it with a sharpie and erase them by drawing back over the lines with a dry erase marekr.
I thought about this also and then concluded that the only way that this makes sense is if he is running a DNS server on a dynamic IP, which is a pretty crappy idea when there are good, cheap, and even free alternatives to hosting your own DNS, especially if you need dynamic dns.
GPSDrive, yes, I figured someone would bring this one up. I have used it a little in the car in testing from time to time. It does work marginally well by being able to show you where you are on top of pre-rendered maps; however, since it doesn't have any ability to access the low level data that was used to create these maps it can't even do something simple like figure out what street you are driving on (note the difference between showing you a map that shows your location moving down main street vs printing "Driving E on Main St.")
It would seem that with the wonderful (ok at least it's decent) TIGER data set being available that someone would have a simple library built that can index it, then provide a robust interface to rasterize maps from it, search it, and perform cost-based routing on it. I think that even ESR was working on something like this at one time, but I cannot find it anymore.
So, we've got all this wonderful open source GIS software, but no open source GPS navigation software that takes advantage of it unfortunately. It's like the open source GIS stuff is so complex and geared towards GIS applications, that it's next to impossible to make it do anything else like draw simple road maps.
I have some tritium keychains and some watches with tritium in them. The mesuarable dosage that you get from it is nominal compared to background radiation. IE the difference in background radiation exposure between someone living in the mountains and someone living at sea level is greater than the difference in exposure carrying a small amount of tritium with a phosphor coating. You just don't want to eat the stuff. With a half life of about 15 years, tritium will hang around in your body quite a while.
The main difference here is that there have been many studies on radiation exposure over both short term and long term durations. There have been far fewer studies on the effects of high frequency, low energy RF. When you consider what high frequency, high energy RF and even low frequency high energy RF can do to the human body, it sure makes you wonder if this stuff is safe anyway.
People this paranoid, however, are definately the target market for this kind of antenna.
To me, the whole thing reeks a little on the surface of ads proclaiming something 'it's like attaching a four foot antenna to your cell phone!, though the obvious benefit here is that it's an antenna tuned to a specific frequency designed to make an omnidirectional antenna a little more directional. Still when you can make it for about $1 using a ruler, some foil, and some scissors you have to wonder why they are even bothering.
What's kind of ironic is that I even have a bit of code in the Linux kernel, and I maintain parts of a number of widely used open source applications. I hope whoever modded me down never needs help with any of it:) Oh well, probably a Gentoo user anyway. It will probably get looked it in meta-mod and severly hurt this guy's ability to moderate again anyway, so no big deal.
Not that I am a huge fan of windows, but I thought it was at least worthwhile to mention that a similar solution is available for Windows computers and/or Windows labs. I have been thinking of investigating something like this in leiu of thin clients for data people at work that are very low-impact on their computers.
The Z8 fell short on all counts. The Z4 is a far better car. Sales of the Z8 flopped so bad (especially in America) that they changed most of the production over to skeleton-only for Alpina to refine and drop a bigger/better motor (From the X5) into. Problem is, even the Alpina Z8 costs $120K and you can do much better than BMW/Alpina for the money if you are going to pee it away like that, and that was the real problem with the Z8 in the first place.
Man, if you were working on something and your wood got a little too wet or something, and this thing went off incorrectly, it would be both problematic and expensive. A false negative would be pretty bad too.
I get better than the EPA rated mileage of 16/24, averaging about 20/30 according to the onboard guage and some calculations at the pump. The car is a BMW E46 M3. It's certainly no Geo Metro, but the actual fuel economy was somewhat suprising. Part of this probably has to do with the engine being only 6cyl.
The weight of an SLR and balancing it on a rig are the main reasons. Using one limits your ability to fly because it makes stronger requirements about where and when you will be able to lift it up into the air. The less expensive ones or older cameras also many times do not have an automatic film advance which is absolutely required for KAP. Plus, since most of the shots you take from a kite don't turn out very well, you have to spend a lot of money developing a lot of worthless photos. Also, the other disadvantage to using film in this situation is that you can't even be reasonably sure that you got the shot you wanted until after you have left the site. Finally, a cheap SLR means a cheap lens or no autofocus or something else that is going to hinder your KAP ability. Point and shoot cameras are a lot easier to work with.
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You do have implicit copyright on things that you create. A registered trademark is a different story, but it doesn't mean that something is not 'yours' just because you don't tell the trademark office that it is.
Well since you said free as in beer not free as in libre, and since you did not say how many machines you needed to back up exactly, I might as well suggest to you that you try Arkeia. The free version, "Arkeia Light," supports a server with a single tape drive (no changer robots) and up to 2 client machines. So you can use it to back up 3 machines -- If you use more than that or if you have a tape library, you gotta cough up for a license.
Plenty of the solutions people have posted about are fine and dandy hack jobs and while they probably will work -- they would take a lot of time and effort to implement. Arkeia is pretty easy to install on the client end - you basically just install the client and tell it the name of the server - the acutal backup is managed completely by the server. Clients are available for practically every OS under the sun.
Arkeia has served me pretty well over the last few years, so even with the cost (not very much for a comparable solution from any other vendor) you really do get a pretty decent product.
Damn! I didn't know the G5 couldn't change endianness. That's a pretty severe blow to the emulators. Do the Power5's?
Oh well.. have to wait for VPC 7 I guess to see how severely that product was crippled - or how much of a wiz microsoft is at writing emulation - the X86 emu in the version of windows for itanium doesn't really bode well for VPC!
PearPC does not yet virtualize the PowerPC MMU, thus all memory read and write routines are still software based. The next big speed boost in PearPC will come from this.
:) The PowerPC is a really good processor for emulation in general.
The big advantage that the PowerPC CPU has in emulating the X86 (or any other CPU for that matter) is that it has far more registers and it can change endianness. I don't think anyone's disputing that PowerPC can emulate X86 better than X86 can emulate PowerPC
The query that google seems to block in order to work around this problem is a query for "mailer-daemon@domain.com" where "domain.com" is pretty much anything.
Did you hear they are cancelling Sesame Street? Send me your email address and I'll forward you the petition to stop them.
He was talking about lens resolution (lpm not pixel resolution) you insensitive clod!
if only the g5 had more drive cages
Now it can!
I was following xcar while it was still on the mp3car boards, but had not looked at it in quite a while. I switched over to linux for my carpc a few months ago, and am writing my own interface in OpenGL with perl. I'm not terribly great at C++ which is why I haven't really been that interested in xcar..
:(
I have hopes to write a Garmin StreetPilot emulator to deal with navigation at some point.. unfortunatly, it's going to be probalby October before I'll have any time for a big side-project like this
HECK YEAH! This is awesome! Thanks.
You can duplicate the effect of the reset tool on most earlier model BMW's (the ones with the 1.5" round connector in the engine bay) with a paperclip. On the late model cars, it's done with the OBD-II connector, but the commands to do it are not exactly kept secret. Still, the car won't behave any differently if you just change the oil and don't reset the lights.
These smartboards are cool. I bought one off of ebay for about $350 about a year ago with a stand and even the computer it was running. They pop up there for sale from time to time, and you can always get a good deal. Anyway they are great for putting together DB schemas and stuff like that. You just draw it out and push the print icon on the edge. The mouse feature is kind of nice, but I have found the Gyration RF mouse to be a better presentation tool.
The touch sensitive ones kind of suck since they aren't very durable and you have to put the pens back in their places and stuff. Mine is one of the ones that tracks with IR lasers, so it's impervious to stray fingers or rearranged pens. Plus the actual whiteboard on the laser ones is made of powder coated sheet metal instead of plastic, so you can do fun stuff like draw semi-permanent lines on it with a sharpie and erase them by drawing back over the lines with a dry erase marekr.
I thought about this also and then concluded that the only way that this makes sense is if he is running a DNS server on a dynamic IP, which is a pretty crappy idea when there are good, cheap, and even free alternatives to hosting your own DNS, especially if you need dynamic dns.
GPSDrive, yes, I figured someone would bring this one up. I have used it a little in the car in testing from time to time. It does work marginally well by being able to show you where you are on top of pre-rendered maps; however, since it doesn't have any ability to access the low level data that was used to create these maps it can't even do something simple like figure out what street you are driving on (note the difference between showing you a map that shows your location moving down main street vs printing "Driving E on Main St.")
It would seem that with the wonderful (ok at least it's decent) TIGER data set being available that someone would have a simple library built that can index it, then provide a robust interface to rasterize maps from it, search it, and perform cost-based routing on it. I think that even ESR was working on something like this at one time, but I cannot find it anymore.
So, we've got all this wonderful open source GIS software, but no open source GPS navigation software that takes advantage of it unfortunately. It's like the open source GIS stuff is so complex and geared towards GIS applications, that it's next to impossible to make it do anything else like draw simple road maps.
Good to know! I will keep this in mind if I ever break open my keychain and snort it.
I have some tritium keychains and some watches with tritium in them. The mesuarable dosage that you get from it is nominal compared to background radiation. IE the difference in background radiation exposure between someone living in the mountains and someone living at sea level is greater than the difference in exposure carrying a small amount of tritium with a phosphor coating. You just don't want to eat the stuff. With a half life of about 15 years, tritium will hang around in your body quite a while.
The main difference here is that there have been many studies on radiation exposure over both short term and long term durations. There have been far fewer studies on the effects of high frequency, low energy RF. When you consider what high frequency, high energy RF and even low frequency high energy RF can do to the human body, it sure makes you wonder if this stuff is safe anyway.
People this paranoid, however, are definately the target market for this kind of antenna.
To me, the whole thing reeks a little on the surface of ads proclaiming something 'it's like attaching a four foot antenna to your cell phone!, though the obvious benefit here is that it's an antenna tuned to a specific frequency designed to make an omnidirectional antenna a little more directional. Still when you can make it for about $1 using a ruler, some foil, and some scissors you have to wonder why they are even bothering.
Robots do it. They are from the future.
What's kind of ironic is that I even have a bit of code in the Linux kernel, and I maintain parts of a number of widely used open source applications. I hope whoever modded me down never needs help with any of it :) Oh well, probably a Gentoo user anyway. It will probably get looked it in meta-mod and severly hurt this guy's ability to moderate again anyway, so no big deal.
Not that I am a huge fan of windows, but I thought it was at least worthwhile to mention that a similar solution is available for Windows computers and/or Windows labs. I have been thinking of investigating something like this in leiu of thin clients for data people at work that are very low-impact on their computers.
Or so their marketing would have mislead you.
The Z8 fell short on all counts. The Z4 is a far better car. Sales of the Z8 flopped so bad (especially in America) that they changed most of the production over to skeleton-only for Alpina to refine and drop a bigger/better motor (From the X5) into. Problem is, even the Alpina Z8 costs $120K and you can do much better than BMW/Alpina for the money if you are going to pee it away like that, and that was the real problem with the Z8 in the first place.
I was thinking more along the lines of "Incendeary Device"...
Man, if you were working on something and your wood got a little too wet or something, and this thing went off incorrectly, it would be both problematic and expensive. A false negative would be pretty bad too.
I get better than the EPA rated mileage of 16/24, averaging about 20/30 according to the onboard guage and some calculations at the pump. The car is a BMW E46 M3. It's certainly no Geo Metro, but the actual fuel economy was somewhat suprising. Part of this probably has to do with the engine being only 6cyl.
The weight of an SLR and balancing it on a rig are the main reasons. Using one limits your ability to fly because it makes stronger requirements about where and when you will be able to lift it up into the air. The less expensive ones or older cameras also many times do not have an automatic film advance which is absolutely required for KAP. Plus, since most of the shots you take from a kite don't turn out very well, you have to spend a lot of money developing a lot of worthless photos. Also, the other disadvantage to using film in this situation is that you can't even be reasonably sure that you got the shot you wanted until after you have left the site. Finally, a cheap SLR means a cheap lens or no autofocus or something else that is going to hinder your KAP ability. Point and shoot cameras are a lot easier to work with.