Thank God I'm in the process of dumping EV1 in favor of ServerMatrix. Lower prices, faster boxes, and 43% more bandwidth! I'm not going to support a company that falls for SCO's tactics.:(
You already can... it's called the Linux pcHDTV card. And no one will ever be able to make a card or other recording device with component inputs due to the copyright issues.
This is why I like companies with an advance-replace model for the general consumer. I get replacement Maxtor's in 1-2 weeks and can copy data if I need to from the failed drive to the new drive before shipping the failed one back. IBM/Hitachi doesn't have A-R.:(
I have 3 of the 3-year warranty 120GB/8MB models and 1 has failed within a year. Hitachi apparently doesn't do advance-replace so I bought a new drive to replace the failed one (they are in raid5) and shipped the failed one back. When I get a replacement I guess I'll have a 4-drive array.:) I think these drives are pretty good though, and a 3-year warranty makes me feel better.
When my company has to demonstrate the speed of our gbps switches they always use uncompressed HDTV which is about 1.5 Gbps. Leaving you with 1 Gbps to fill, you could hook up some fibre channel drives and do some remote video editing or just copy a lot of files around.
I get dropouts every once in a while on the standard Linksys firmware. I have to go and power off the access point for a few seconds and then it will come back online. This just reminded me I need to go look for some new firmware.:)
I'm getting the Motorola DCT-6208 HDPVR in about 2 weeks for $3.95/month. It's not even close to a Tivo and only has 1 tuner, but the cost is next to nothing. I'd probably have to pay $500+ for a DirecTV HD Tivo. I am an ex-D* customer and would still be one if my current house wasn't in such a poor spot to receive local OTA HD channels. What is really needed is for Tivo to make a deal with Motorola to supply PVR software on their boxes, or for cable companies to bypass the horrible Moto boxes in favor of an all-Tivo cable box.
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After going through 2 modems that were supposed to be compatible but weren't, I gave up too. It was too much of a headache. About the only modem most people are using costs about $200, so I said forget it.
I've never watched Farscape and I want to start renting it from Netflix. But what's up with the weird episode ordering like Disc 1 has 1 & 7, 2 has 2 & 4, 3 has 3 & 6!? Are they out of order on purpose or do I need to watch them in numerical order by renting more than 1 disc at a time? That will really suck I think.
A DVD or CD weighs approx 0.7 oz, so that's 22 DVD's per pound. However, the amount of space that many DVD's takes up is really what you should calculate. Also, use a double-sided, double-layer DVD which holds ~18GB.:)
What I keep wondering is how come there are no open source virus scanners? I'd like to add a simple procmail rule that scans incoming mail for viruses using a free program. There are plenty of tools out there but they all use commercial virus scanners on the backend.
I guess the main problem is dealing with virus updates... I suppose it would be illegal to reverse engineer a NAV dat file for use in an open source program.:(
My bad, I didn't RTFM. The % sign had to be removed from the mainport.allowedHosts option or it would ignore the value. I wonder why they didn't just use the standard convention of commenting out default settings with #.
I wanted to run a freenet node on my dedicated server with lots of bandwidth. However, when I tried to change the mainport.allowedHosts option to my home IP address so I could view the web interface, it still only accepted connections from 127.0.0.1. This sucks, so I guess I'll have to wait for a later version to fix this.
Also, I see a lot of links to freenet files that start with http://127.0.0.1:8888/KEY. This is no good; it should use something like freenet://KEY, similar to the way ed2k links work.
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Thank God I'm in the process of dumping EV1 in favor of ServerMatrix. Lower prices, faster boxes, and 43% more bandwidth! I'm not going to support a company that falls for SCO's tactics. :(
You already can... it's called the Linux pcHDTV card. And no one will ever be able to make a card or other recording device with component inputs due to the copyright issues.
There have been PCI HDTV cards for years that receive OTA HD. Even a cheap one that only works in Linux!
This is why I like companies with an advance-replace model for the general consumer. I get replacement Maxtor's in 1-2 weeks and can copy data if I need to from the failed drive to the new drive before shipping the failed one back. IBM/Hitachi doesn't have A-R. :(
I have 3 of the 3-year warranty 120GB/8MB models and 1 has failed within a year. Hitachi apparently doesn't do advance-replace so I bought a new drive to replace the failed one (they are in raid5) and shipped the failed one back. When I get a replacement I guess I'll have a 4-drive array. :) I think these drives are pretty good though, and a 3-year warranty makes me feel better.
When my company has to demonstrate the speed of our gbps switches they always use uncompressed HDTV which is about 1.5 Gbps. Leaving you with 1 Gbps to fill, you could hook up some fibre channel drives and do some remote video editing or just copy a lot of files around.
I get dropouts every once in a while on the standard Linksys firmware. I have to go and power off the access point for a few seconds and then it will come back online. This just reminded me I need to go look for some new firmware. :)
I think the real problem will be when someone hacks the remote unlocking feature, and can walk through any parking lot unlocking people's doors!
I'm getting the Motorola DCT-6208 HDPVR in about 2 weeks for $3.95/month. It's not even close to a Tivo and only has 1 tuner, but the cost is next to nothing. I'd probably have to pay $500+ for a DirecTV HD Tivo. I am an ex-D* customer and would still be one if my current house wasn't in such a poor spot to receive local OTA HD channels. What is really needed is for Tivo to make a deal with Motorola to supply PVR software on their boxes, or for cable companies to bypass the horrible Moto boxes in favor of an all-Tivo cable box.
After going through 2 modems that were supposed to be compatible but weren't, I gave up too. It was too much of a headache. About the only modem most people are using costs about $200, so I said forget it.
RTA, they did in 4.0.17.
My cable company is rolling out Motorola DCT-6208 80GB HD-PVR boxes in less than a month!! I can finally timeshift all my HD shows. :)
xmms-crossfade works great for me. It has many options to configure the crossfading just how you want it.
How about that you saw the Book Of Mormon Movie and realized it was the One True Religion [tm] ;)
I've never watched Farscape and I want to start renting it from Netflix. But what's up with the weird episode ordering like Disc 1 has 1 & 7, 2 has 2 & 4, 3 has 3 & 6!? Are they out of order on purpose or do I need to watch them in numerical order by renting more than 1 disc at a time? That will really suck I think.
Excellent, so simply run:
curl copy me -o universe#1_#2.mov
A DVD or CD weighs approx 0.7 oz, so that's 22 DVD's per pound. However, the amount of space that many DVD's takes up is really what you should calculate. Also, use a double-sided, double-layer DVD which holds ~18GB. :)
I'm glad I switched to Gentoo a few months ago! What with RedHat trying hard to charge for the up2date service, and now this with Mandrake.
Pretty funny, but you used 'a' twice. :\
What I keep wondering is how come there are no open source virus scanners? I'd like to add a simple procmail rule that scans incoming mail for viruses using a free program. There are plenty of tools out there but they all use commercial virus scanners on the backend.
:(
I guess the main problem is dealing with virus updates... I suppose it would be illegal to reverse engineer a NAV dat file for use in an open source program.
Is it just me, or does the EE "dis-information" page remind anyone of the same kind of tactics Scientology uses when writing about its critics?
My bad, I didn't RTFM. The % sign had to be removed from the mainport.allowedHosts option or it would ignore the value. I wonder why they didn't just use the standard convention of commenting out default settings with #.
I wanted to run a freenet node on my dedicated server with lots of bandwidth. However, when I tried to change the mainport.allowedHosts option to my home IP address so I could view the web interface, it still only accepted connections from 127.0.0.1. This sucks, so I guess I'll have to wait for a later version to fix this.
Also, I see a lot of links to freenet files that start with http://127.0.0.1:8888/KEY. This is no good; it should use something like freenet://KEY, similar to the way ed2k links work.