Assuming that you manage about a terabyte of storage, here are your numbers...
Let's use Tivo's basic quality as an example, but drop the framerate to 15fps. This should look acceptable considering the limited changes from a stationary camera.
A week's worth of data would use up 49 GB per camera. 16 cameras? 784GB.
I'd advise settling for something more realistic at this point. Perhaps lowering the resolution, or going grayscale. Either way, you've still got to address *sixteen* cameras, so they'll need to be Axis webcams or something else capable of talking IP. There's no way that you'll get away with USB cameras.
So, assuming that black and white reduces you to 33% of the previous number, that's still 262GB per week.
You'd need slightly over two *terabytes* of storage to handle 8 weeks of 15 fps, TV resolution, B&W footage from 16 cameras.
And you'd still need a way to encode the video feed to MPEG on the fly at the camera. And handle roughly 2.3 Mbit/sec per cam into your "server," which would have to reliably write 37 Mbit/sec to your 2 TB array. Without failing.
Now, considering the fact that this is all *WAY* under Fast Ethernet and ATA specs, it's doable. But a homegrown solution with 8 week rollback just isn't feasible. Drop the rollback by a bit, dump to tape (unless you've got a fiber line going to a remote site for backups,) and keep a lot of spare drives around. You can't afford to have a failure anywhere in this assembly.
Sorry if I've taken the wind out of anyone's sails through the judicious use of math, but I just wanted to make sure that no one does anything without being informed.
It seems simple, but I'll bet that today's kids forget to use "howto" as a search parameter.
Go ahead, Google "iptables port forwarding" and see how much worse those results are.
This just goes to show that we need more basic user education. RTFM should be preceded by RTFH (Read The Fucking HOWTO!) so that people at least know what to look for when they're stumped.
They make a Mini-PCI card to offload crypto to. Clever, those guys.
I've been drooling over the boards for a while, since it'd give me exactly what I want. Firewall, Wireless AP, NAT and DMZ management, DHCP, all in a silent, small package, running FreeBSD. Even the ability to secure it. Just set it to mount the FS read only, and walk away.
Two 10/100 ports, 1 serial port, one Mini-PCI slot, two PCMCIA/CardBus slots.
Granted, it's not out just yet, but you could make it handle wireless, inbound traffic, and two internal segments fairly easily.
The only problem is the dependence on CF. Logging isn't generally a good idea to media that can't handle excessive writes. While a Microdrive would fare better, it would also cost much more.
Having played hours upon endless hours of this game and never hearing a Bad Religion track, this proves not that I'm wrong, but I must really suck at the game. Is it in the standard rotation, or do you have to unlock it by completing parts of the Crazy Box?
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Bad Religion *didn't* make any money off of Crazy Taxi.
I'll assume that this is mostly because The Offspring provided the music.
Bad Religion probably did rake in some change for Tony Hawk 2, though.
Okay, now suppose that your expertise where you live gets you enough to be a member of the lower middle class in the area where you live. Let's also assume that you have incurred massive amounts of debt due to college. You owe lots of cash, can't move, and the local company is paying you enough to live from paycheck to paycheck.
Now, someone from another country comes up and offers you a job that lets you suddenly live in a wonderful new home, cover all your debts, and still put cash away each month. Do you really see a problem with that?
It's not exploitation to them, since there's nowhere else to go. And as soon as they've saved up the cash (2, maybe 3 years tops?), they'll be in the US demanding 3 weeks vacation, 75K/year minimum, and getting it.
The way I look at it, they've got it all figured out.
I know that we all think that a spinning spacecraft is a wonderful idea, but it's a bit much.
What about just a single chamber, perhaps along the lines of living quarters, that spun, much like the old amusement park rides?
A certain amount of exposure to ~1g per day should be enough to ward off the deterioration of bone mass, and it would be cheaper than engineering an entire spaceship to spin fast enough to induce gravity.
Of course, I'm certainly missing the key detail of this spinning chamber most likely staying in place while the rest of the ship spins, but I leave the tough work to the NASA engineers:-P
As the article says, and we should all remember, SGI's also selling Linux boxes now.
It's easier to go with something that's being worked on by the Open Source community, since you can be pretty sure that any Open project with sufficient momentum will get the major kinks out over time. Besides, it's easier for SGI than to keep on supporting IRIX, which has had its own fair share of disaster stories.
It's going to go back to a hardware battle, and this is where IBM may not be ready to compete. Using Linux is nice, but what about render times? What about the overall architecture? Are these IBM boxes going to beat out SGI in price and performance?
If so, then SGI should worry. Linux has nothing to do with it.
The question was "what would be your ideal city to work in?"
Helpful or not, I pick NYC, and more importantly, I *did* list why. Perhaps if Ottawa had the variety that NYC does, then I'd consider moving there. Perhaps it has the same appeal as NYC, and I'm just unaware of it. Either way, pay attention to what I wrote as a whole, not just the subject line.
Of course, you'd rather go ahead and troll. I see how that's helpful.
I know, I know... minimal Ricochet coverage, horrible cell reception in a lot of neighborhoods, through-the-roof rent, and horrendously rude people.
Who cares. I was born here, and while it's no place for hardware types, it's coastal, has damn near every type of restaurant available, and there's always something to do. At the end of the day, I want to leave the sysadmin work back at the office and kick back. At least I have more options than staying at home playing video games, although I'll do that pretty often as well.
Being within 40 minutes of most of your friends helps. And for me, the import shops are key. The only thing that I'd really like to see is a decent amateur 802.11 effort here. Two access points on one street and another a few miles away doesn't count.
I could swear this looks like a cross between a Dance Dance Revolution pad and the old IR tier controller for the Genesis. I think that was called the "Intensor" or something like that.
It still looks like this won't stop me from doing a quarter circle back and a punch. Make it so that the character on screen does what *I* do, and then I'll want one. It'll make the fireball a lot more interesting, that's for sure. Something along the lines of mimicking the motions, seeing as I still can't actually blast my enemies with white hot energy emanating from my hands in real life:-) Raptor
US Launch:
Super Mario Advance, F-Zero, Army Men, High Heat Baseball, Tony Hawk 2, Dodgeball, Fire Pro Wrestling, Top Gear GT, Tweety and the Magic Jewel, Fortress, Iridion 3D, Pitfall, Ready 2 Rumble, Chu Chu Rocket, Rayman, Castlevania, and Pinobee AT LEAST. That's 17 games.
Besides, do you honestly think that you're even going to play 5 of them all the way through before the next set of games hits the shelves?
Note: I didn't say 17 *good* launch titles, but you didn't mention quality either. That said, F-Zero and Tony Hawk have been enough to keep *me* busy lately.
Out of personal curiosity, I noticed that on one of your pages, you state that you "wish China will one day take Taiwan back, peacefully or by force, at any cost!" Why is that? I can understand fierce national pride, after all, I am from the US.
It still irks me to see what amounts to little more utter racism on your site, even more so from someone with aspirations towards immortality. Is this really what we want for our future? Can you honestly stand by those beliefs, knowing that any application of immortality combined with that kind of narrowmindedness would eventually leave us in a world of people who all think and act in the exact same way?
I suppose the real question breaks down to: What exactly do you have against Taiwan to such an extent that you would attempt to deny an entire nation a chance at (supposed) immortality?
Raptor
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Gel wrist pads? You know you are not supposed to rest your wrists on anything as you type?
I'm aware of the "rules" for ergonomics. That said, I'm not resting *as* I type. I rest my wrists on them when I *stop* typing, but I still have to read. Reducing wrist travel makes it far more comfortable to deal with using the computer, not just typing or mousing about. It's a bit of a holdover from piano lessons. If you can't keep a quarter on the back of each wrist as you type/click, then you're doing it all wrong.
As for the questions regarding accidental gestures, the system I'm using traces my gestures, and only responds when I'm holding down a button. The result is a system that costs me my right mouse button (with an updated interface, I'm sure I could assign that to the fourth button on my logitech.), and even that can be turned off pretty quickly.
That said, the gesture system has its flaws, and so does excessive reliance on wrist pads. You have to know what you're dealing with before you hurt yourself doing something stupid.
I'd have to disagree with that. I've been running on a gesture system for a while now, and it's actually more convenient for most simple tasks. Since I don't have to move my hand from mouse to keyboard as often, and I have a decent setup (gel wrist pads are amazing), and I *stop* every hour or so to make sure that I don't overdo it, my wrists have been fine.
The reduction of mouse to keyboard switches has done wonders for my overall speed with my system, and caused the small amount of pain that I was already in to go away.
Maybe you should give it a shot before making any claims, Michael.
We've got a PowerApp.web 120 over here and a brand spanking new Netra T1 AC200.
The AC200 is a carrier grade system, and it shows. It's (relatively) cheap, it's got a USIIe chip, and it's the most manageable box I've ever touched, even amongst other Sun gear.
The PowerApp may still have a bad motherboard revision floating around that doesn't work with their own Redhat install.
The most important issue to take in, however, is that upgrade cost. Sun will charge you an arm and a leg to upgrade, but you won't *need* to in most cases. These are throwaway boxes.
The nicest part, though, is the size. The T1/X1 is about half the depth of the PowerApp. For a 2 post rack, the PowerApp is a 2 man job. For the Netra, it's 1 person, no problems. The box is just easier to hold in place while screwing it in.
Just make sure you have the 25-pin male/female adapter for the Netra if you ever want that serial port to work.
Of course, once they're up, the hardware's proven stable, and the apps are installed, they're about equal. I don't touch them after they're up, because they both run just fine. But I prefer the Netras based on size, price range, support, and OS. Re: Solaris vs. Linux for anything critical, I'll have to stand by the one with a more stable default filesystem, better manufacturer support, and more thorough testing. I still feel burned from the motherboard incident, regardless of how quickly it got handled. We should never have gear that is not 100% guaranteed to work with the installed OS. Raptor
"And you wouldn't characterize the operating system volume as one that NEEDS ACLs? Basic rule of system integrity is to keep non-privleged programs and users out of there.
Of course, 99 out of 100 NT admins I've known surf the web as Domain Administrator, so there you go. "
::Raises hand in shame::
Well, more like sysadmin with too many Windows boxes on the side... and a need to run 2000 on the desktop.
Now, for the *why*
No decent su. The ResKit SU sucks, Win2K Run As isn't much better (read: it's not any better), and I've got to mangle with other systems so often as admin that there's nearly no point to me doing otherwise. In a more stable, happy, easily manageable network, I'd just su. In M$ land, you slowly learn to give up and just take over the whole damned network as Domain Admin.
Its great to see the power of Non Disclosure Agreements.
He decided to let me in on the secrets of Sony using Linux full-time on their "Internet Appliance PS2" machine, called the GSQ. They have a cluster of them in their research group with 16 in series, doing *REAL TIME* "matrix-style" video editing.
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Well, first off, Mr. Ego who posted that story wasn't listening very closely. What Sony's got is the GSCube, and all it is is a cluster of the original PSX CPU and some added logic to glue them all together. And yes, it runs Linux. And yes, it's massively parallel to the point of doing Matrix effects in real time or so. Sony's publically admitted to having this piece of hardware around, since they see a massively parallel architecture as the Holy Grail of console gaming, once programmers learn how to use it well.
Regardless, there's still an important point here. We're foaming at the mouth here over a GPL violation mentioned on an airplane, without any legal counsel available whatsoever.
What's next? Taco's 3 year old cousin (I'm guessing) says that there's GPL code in a cell phone, and they'll post a story? Maybe we need a few more facts before going off on people.
Of course, if Sony is in violation of the GPL, then they deserved to be hauled into court. Not because of any supposed superiority of Free Software, but because it's a flat out license violation. GPL, BSD, or proprietary, Sony has to learn that they have to play by the rules.
Because it's what *I* want. Fair enough? If not, then look at it this way. If we're talking about an open spec box, so that you can make your PC "TuxBox compliant," which are you going to pick?
Granted, I was off on the main chip. The math still states that this machine is going to break $300, not accounting for OEM discounts, since I'm not an OEM. Raptor
Dude, I'm *so* with you on this one. Granted, the idea that I wouldn't have had any privacy at all in school would've sucked, and bullies would have found where to go just out of sight, but it's a start.
Simply put, momma doesn't believe that her perfect little angel (even at 16) would *ever* beat up another kid. It's just not the way she raised him. The instant that they get busted on tape, well, hell hath no fury like a disappointed mother. I'm not even talking about a butt whipping, I'm talking about a mother just going ahead and no longer enabling the little bastard to get away with that kind of crap.
If that doesn't work, though, there's always option #2. File charges, and get the kid sent to reform school. Make sure that security keeps an eye on him. Consider expulsion if he slips up again.
There are certainly issues with video cameras anywhere that I'm not entirely comfortable with (the bathrooms come to mind), and students do occasionally need privacy (to an extent that probably has no right to exist with minors in a school), but there's probably a way to work that out properly.
Of course, I'm not sure if this is the answer or not, but it's certainly not a troll.
Umm, it's Linux. Last I checked, there's already drivers for Nvidia hardware under Linux, right? Granted it's binary only, but that's neither here nor there. Seeing as this Indrema replacement is being called a TuxBox, I think it's fairly obvious what it will be running. Raptor
Consoles are always loss leaders, and this can't be an exception if they still plan on using an Nvidia chip. That alone will cost $300 and up for a GeForce 2 class video card.
If they're going to open it up, they might as well go for completely off the shelf parts, and tell gamers to build it for themselves.
How? Pick a motherboard, a specific network card, hard disk, video card, sound card, etc. What you end up with is a PC, yes, but it's a PC with very specific expected design considerations.
What they also get from this is a new standard for PC games to develop for. Since each game would have to have its own boot code, you suddenly get a game that will play on most PCs out there as well, depending on the specs you pick. Most sound cards are the same. Pick the right network card (or don't, and just rely on module loading for that), and only target Nvidia cards, are how much are you really losing in terms of a market?
I wouldn't expect it to be immensely profitable, but you'd gain *some* users from this without having to sell a console at all.
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Assuming that you manage about a terabyte of storage, here are your numbers...
Let's use Tivo's basic quality as an example, but drop the framerate to 15fps. This should look acceptable considering the limited changes from a stationary camera.
A week's worth of data would use up 49 GB per camera. 16 cameras? 784GB.
I'd advise settling for something more realistic at this point. Perhaps lowering the resolution, or going grayscale. Either way, you've still got to address *sixteen* cameras, so they'll need to be Axis webcams or something else capable of talking IP. There's no way that you'll get away with USB cameras.
So, assuming that black and white reduces you to 33% of the previous number, that's still 262GB per week.
You'd need slightly over two *terabytes* of storage to handle 8 weeks of 15 fps, TV resolution, B&W footage from 16 cameras.
And you'd still need a way to encode the video feed to MPEG on the fly at the camera. And handle roughly 2.3 Mbit/sec per cam into your "server," which would have to reliably write 37 Mbit/sec to your 2 TB array. Without failing.
Now, considering the fact that this is all *WAY* under Fast Ethernet and ATA specs, it's doable. But a homegrown solution with 8 week rollback just isn't feasible. Drop the rollback by a bit, dump to tape (unless you've got a fiber line going to a remote site for backups,) and keep a lot of spare drives around. You can't afford to have a failure anywhere in this assembly.
Sorry if I've taken the wind out of anyone's sails through the judicious use of math, but I just wanted to make sure that no one does anything without being informed.
It seems simple, but I'll bet that today's kids forget to use "howto" as a search parameter.
Go ahead, Google "iptables port forwarding" and see how much worse those results are.
This just goes to show that we need more basic user education. RTFM should be preceded by RTFH (Read The Fucking HOWTO!) so that people at least know what to look for when they're stumped.
Kids these days...
They make a Mini-PCI card to offload crypto to. Clever, those guys.
I've been drooling over the boards for a while, since it'd give me exactly what I want. Firewall, Wireless AP, NAT and DMZ management, DHCP, all in a silent, small package, running FreeBSD. Even the ability to secure it. Just set it to mount the FS read only, and walk away.
Which I figured was somewhat obvious, but also not that great of an idea, since hard drives tend to make a lot of noise, too.
If he's trying to phase out the use of an old pentium box, it's generally not advisable to hook up the same old pentium box as a syslog server.
How about this?
Two 10/100 ports, 1 serial port, one Mini-PCI slot, two PCMCIA/CardBus slots.
Granted, it's not out just yet, but you could make it handle wireless, inbound traffic, and two internal segments fairly easily.
The only problem is the dependence on CF. Logging isn't generally a good idea to media that can't handle excessive writes. While a Microdrive would fare better, it would also cost much more.
Bah!
Having played hours upon endless hours of this game and never hearing a Bad Religion track, this proves not that I'm wrong, but I must really suck at the game. Is it in the standard rotation, or do you have to unlock it by completing parts of the Crazy Box?
Bad Religion *didn't* make any money off of Crazy Taxi.
I'll assume that this is mostly because The Offspring provided the music.
Bad Religion probably did rake in some change for Tony Hawk 2, though.
You mean Fluorinert?
I remember seeing an overclocking/cooling experiment with this somewhere. Cool stuff, until it turns to mustard gas.
Okay, now suppose that your expertise where you live gets you enough to be a member of the lower middle class in the area where you live. Let's also assume that you have incurred massive amounts of debt due to college. You owe lots of cash, can't move, and the local company is paying you enough to live from paycheck to paycheck.
Now, someone from another country comes up and offers you a job that lets you suddenly live in a wonderful new home, cover all your debts, and still put cash away each month. Do you really see a problem with that?
It's not exploitation to them, since there's nowhere else to go. And as soon as they've saved up the cash (2, maybe 3 years tops?), they'll be in the US demanding 3 weeks vacation, 75K/year minimum, and getting it.
The way I look at it, they've got it all figured out.
I know that we all think that a spinning spacecraft is a wonderful idea, but it's a bit much.
:-P
What about just a single chamber, perhaps along the lines of living quarters, that spun, much like the old amusement park rides?
A certain amount of exposure to ~1g per day should be enough to ward off the deterioration of bone mass, and it would be cheaper than engineering an entire spaceship to spin fast enough to induce gravity.
Of course, I'm certainly missing the key detail of this spinning chamber most likely staying in place while the rest of the ship spins, but I leave the tough work to the NASA engineers
As the article says, and we should all remember, SGI's also selling Linux boxes now.
It's easier to go with something that's being worked on by the Open Source community, since you can be pretty sure that any Open project with sufficient momentum will get the major kinks out over time. Besides, it's easier for SGI than to keep on supporting IRIX, which has had its own fair share of disaster stories.
It's going to go back to a hardware battle, and this is where IBM may not be ready to compete. Using Linux is nice, but what about render times? What about the overall architecture? Are these IBM boxes going to beat out SGI in price and performance?
If so, then SGI should worry. Linux has nothing to do with it.
The question was "what would be your ideal city to work in?"
Helpful or not, I pick NYC, and more importantly, I *did* list why. Perhaps if Ottawa had the variety that NYC does, then I'd consider moving there. Perhaps it has the same appeal as NYC, and I'm just unaware of it. Either way, pay attention to what I wrote as a whole, not just the subject line.
Of course, you'd rather go ahead and troll. I see how that's helpful.
I know, I know... minimal Ricochet coverage, horrible cell reception in a lot of neighborhoods, through-the-roof rent, and horrendously rude people.
Who cares. I was born here, and while it's no place for hardware types, it's coastal, has damn near every type of restaurant available, and there's always something to do. At the end of the day, I want to leave the sysadmin work back at the office and kick back. At least I have more options than staying at home playing video games, although I'll do that pretty often as well.
Being within 40 minutes of most of your friends helps. And for me, the import shops are key. The only thing that I'd really like to see is a decent amateur 802.11 effort here. Two access points on one street and another a few miles away doesn't count.
I could swear this looks like a cross between a Dance Dance Revolution pad and the old IR tier controller for the Genesis. I think that was called the "Intensor" or something like that.
:-)
It still looks like this won't stop me from doing a quarter circle back and a punch. Make it so that the character on screen does what *I* do, and then I'll want one. It'll make the fireball a lot more interesting, that's for sure. Something along the lines of mimicking the motions, seeing as I still can't actually blast my enemies with white hot energy emanating from my hands in real life
Raptor
Less than a dozen?
US Launch:
Super Mario Advance, F-Zero, Army Men, High Heat Baseball, Tony Hawk 2, Dodgeball, Fire Pro Wrestling, Top Gear GT, Tweety and the Magic Jewel, Fortress, Iridion 3D, Pitfall, Ready 2 Rumble, Chu Chu Rocket, Rayman, Castlevania, and Pinobee AT LEAST. That's 17 games.
Besides, do you honestly think that you're even going to play 5 of them all the way through before the next set of games hits the shelves?
Note: I didn't say 17 *good* launch titles, but you didn't mention quality either. That said, F-Zero and Tony Hawk have been enough to keep *me* busy lately.
Raptor
Out of personal curiosity, I noticed that on one of your pages, you state that you "wish China will one day take Taiwan back, peacefully or by force, at any cost!" Why is that? I can understand fierce national pride, after all, I am from the US.
It still irks me to see what amounts to little more utter racism on your site, even more so from someone with aspirations towards immortality. Is this really what we want for our future? Can you honestly stand by those beliefs, knowing that any application of immortality combined with that kind of narrowmindedness would eventually leave us in a world of people who all think and act in the exact same way?
I suppose the real question breaks down to: What exactly do you have against Taiwan to such an extent that you would attempt to deny an entire nation a chance at (supposed) immortality?
Raptor
Gel wrist pads? You know you are not supposed to rest your wrists on anything as you type?
I'm aware of the "rules" for ergonomics. That said, I'm not resting *as* I type. I rest my wrists on them when I *stop* typing, but I still have to read. Reducing wrist travel makes it far more comfortable to deal with using the computer, not just typing or mousing about. It's a bit of a holdover from piano lessons. If you can't keep a quarter on the back of each wrist as you type/click, then you're doing it all wrong.
As for the questions regarding accidental gestures, the system I'm using traces my gestures, and only responds when I'm holding down a button. The result is a system that costs me my right mouse button (with an updated interface, I'm sure I could assign that to the fourth button on my logitech.), and even that can be turned off pretty quickly.
That said, the gesture system has its flaws, and so does excessive reliance on wrist pads. You have to know what you're dealing with before you hurt yourself doing something stupid.
Raptor
I'd have to disagree with that. I've been running on a gesture system for a while now, and it's actually more convenient for most simple tasks. Since I don't have to move my hand from mouse to keyboard as often, and I have a decent setup (gel wrist pads are amazing), and I *stop* every hour or so to make sure that I don't overdo it, my wrists have been fine.
The reduction of mouse to keyboard switches has done wonders for my overall speed with my system, and caused the small amount of pain that I was already in to go away.
Maybe you should give it a shot before making any claims, Michael.
Raptor
We've got a PowerApp.web 120 over here and a brand spanking new Netra T1 AC200.
The AC200 is a carrier grade system, and it shows. It's (relatively) cheap, it's got a USIIe chip, and it's the most manageable box I've ever touched, even amongst other Sun gear.
The PowerApp may still have a bad motherboard revision floating around that doesn't work with their own Redhat install.
The most important issue to take in, however, is that upgrade cost. Sun will charge you an arm and a leg to upgrade, but you won't *need* to in most cases. These are throwaway boxes.
The nicest part, though, is the size. The T1/X1 is about half the depth of the PowerApp. For a 2 post rack, the PowerApp is a 2 man job. For the Netra, it's 1 person, no problems. The box is just easier to hold in place while screwing it in.
Just make sure you have the 25-pin male/female adapter for the Netra if you ever want that serial port to work.
Of course, once they're up, the hardware's proven stable, and the apps are installed, they're about equal. I don't touch them after they're up, because they both run just fine. But I prefer the Netras based on size, price range, support, and OS. Re: Solaris vs. Linux for anything critical, I'll have to stand by the one with a more stable default filesystem, better manufacturer support, and more thorough testing. I still feel burned from the motherboard incident, regardless of how quickly it got handled. We should never have gear that is not 100% guaranteed to work with the installed OS.
Raptor
"And you wouldn't characterize the operating system volume as one that NEEDS ACLs? Basic rule of system integrity is to keep non-privleged programs and users out of there.
Of course, 99 out of 100 NT admins I've known surf the web as Domain Administrator, so there you go. "
::Raises hand in shame::
Well, more like sysadmin with too many Windows boxes on the side... and a need to run 2000 on the desktop.
Now, for the *why*
No decent su. The ResKit SU sucks, Win2K Run As isn't much better (read: it's not any better), and I've got to mangle with other systems so often as admin that there's nearly no point to me doing otherwise. In a more stable, happy, easily manageable network, I'd just su. In M$ land, you slowly learn to give up and just take over the whole damned network as Domain Admin.
I hate Windows...
Raptor
Its great to see the power of Non Disclosure Agreements.
He decided to let me in on the secrets of Sony using Linux full-time on their "Internet Appliance PS2" machine, called the GSQ. They have a cluster of them in their research group with 16 in series, doing *REAL TIME* "matrix-style" video editing.
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Well, first off, Mr. Ego who posted that story wasn't listening very closely. What Sony's got is the GSCube, and all it is is a cluster of the original PSX CPU and some added logic to glue them all together. And yes, it runs Linux. And yes, it's massively parallel to the point of doing Matrix effects in real time or so. Sony's publically admitted to having this piece of hardware around, since they see a massively parallel architecture as the Holy Grail of console gaming, once programmers learn how to use it well.
Regardless, there's still an important point here. We're foaming at the mouth here over a GPL violation mentioned on an airplane, without any legal counsel available whatsoever.
What's next? Taco's 3 year old cousin (I'm guessing) says that there's GPL code in a cell phone, and they'll post a story? Maybe we need a few more facts before going off on people.
Of course, if Sony is in violation of the GPL, then they deserved to be hauled into court. Not because of any supposed superiority of Free Software, but because it's a flat out license violation. GPL, BSD, or proprietary, Sony has to learn that they have to play by the rules.
Raptor
Because it's what *I* want. Fair enough? If not, then look at it this way. If we're talking about an open spec box, so that you can make your PC "TuxBox compliant," which are you going to pick?
Granted, I was off on the main chip. The math still states that this machine is going to break $300, not accounting for OEM discounts, since I'm not an OEM.
Raptor
Dude, I'm *so* with you on this one. Granted, the idea that I wouldn't have had any privacy at all in school would've sucked, and bullies would have found where to go just out of sight, but it's a start.
Simply put, momma doesn't believe that her perfect little angel (even at 16) would *ever* beat up another kid. It's just not the way she raised him. The instant that they get busted on tape, well, hell hath no fury like a disappointed mother. I'm not even talking about a butt whipping, I'm talking about a mother just going ahead and no longer enabling the little bastard to get away with that kind of crap.
If that doesn't work, though, there's always option #2. File charges, and get the kid sent to reform school. Make sure that security keeps an eye on him. Consider expulsion if he slips up again.
There are certainly issues with video cameras anywhere that I'm not entirely comfortable with (the bathrooms come to mind), and students do occasionally need privacy (to an extent that probably has no right to exist with minors in a school), but there's probably a way to work that out properly.
Of course, I'm not sure if this is the answer or not, but it's certainly not a troll.
Raptor
Umm, it's Linux. Last I checked, there's already drivers for Nvidia hardware under Linux, right? Granted it's binary only, but that's neither here nor there. Seeing as this Indrema replacement is being called a TuxBox, I think it's fairly obvious what it will be running.
Raptor
Consoles are always loss leaders, and this can't be an exception if they still plan on using an Nvidia chip. That alone will cost $300 and up for a GeForce 2 class video card.
If they're going to open it up, they might as well go for completely off the shelf parts, and tell gamers to build it for themselves.
How? Pick a motherboard, a specific network card, hard disk, video card, sound card, etc. What you end up with is a PC, yes, but it's a PC with very specific expected design considerations.
What they also get from this is a new standard for PC games to develop for. Since each game would have to have its own boot code, you suddenly get a game that will play on most PCs out there as well, depending on the specs you pick. Most sound cards are the same. Pick the right network card (or don't, and just rely on module loading for that), and only target Nvidia cards, are how much are you really losing in terms of a market?
I wouldn't expect it to be immensely profitable, but you'd gain *some* users from this without having to sell a console at all.
Raptor