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For a real world example, i have a small atom based box with tv cards connected to the tv (its small and quiet), when it records tv it then pipes the video over ssh to a noisy quad core box that sits out of earshot which strips out commercials and transcodes the video before piping it back...
Just out of curiosity, where can I find a guide on doing that?...
I don't know, I just find it unusual how you can accumulate TBs worth of critical information...
I've personally considered just getting an external hard drive and making daily backups to it, and then burning any videos/music I might have to CDs and DVDs...
I know RAID isn't backups. It's only there to stop you from losing all the data off a hard drive... But how many times do you delete a file and decide you want it back?
I think that's why we need "proper backups". No more of this silly business where every day a new backup is sent out...
Rather, you've got RAID1 or RAID5 on your workstation/server, and anything considered "finished" (movies, music) should go onto CDs or DVDs (with whatever quality you want/need). And then you make a second copy and send it off to a friend for safe keeping. Your typical office crap? I really couldn't give less of a damn if I lose the documents I work on, unless it's something I haven't finished or sent to its proper place or printed (whatever applies).
I mean, if I ever lost my music collection, well, it wouldn't take me very long to fire up a P2P client and get it all back. Same for movies, just longer. Only pictures are fairly important; and even then, I have relatives in Northern Europe I send photos to, and they send me photos back, both deadtree and digital. That's pretty good for backups, don't you think?
And it's not like any of this really matters. Photos often ruin the moment; sure, proffesional photography is nice... But I'm not going to cry too much if I lose a picture of me at some party. And did it really warrant taking the time to snap a picture right in the middle of something? If it was important, I'll remember it. I remember faces, places. And I don't really have a spectacular memory. But I remember. I don't need photos; they're nice but not essential.
I don't get how you can get 500GB or 2TB or more's worth of stuff and start fretting about how to keep it all together. P2P is your friend. I don't need tapes; I have the internet.
Well, I play with the lowest brightness all the time, and haven't really run into any problems... So I don't think that will be a big issue.
Any idea is the battery life is still noticeably hit though? I realise the DS has a battery life of like 15-20 hours for DS mode so it won't be easy to measure right now, but I'm hoping someone could chime in. I thought about using it instead of carrying around all the carts, but if I lose something like an hour on every charge, or even half of one, I'd rather just use it for... experimental things (emulators and browsers, game demoing, etc.) or for videos.
At ~10$ on DealExtreme.com it looks like a great buy. (it also sorts alphabetically doesn't it?)
Further, you are only modeling one aspect of the experience: walking through the store. You are not using a "walk out front door, get in car, put key in ignition, drive to store" metaphor to model how to get to that virtual store.
Hey, that actually sounds like fun.
Animal Crossing slashed with a GTA-esque driving sim, and you drive to destinations as in that Simpsons donut-CD game (virtual springfield??). Bundle it with a steering wheel... Or the Wii Wheel and a WiiMote! Too bad Nintendo might not like you doing that, but assuming the Wii is decentralised by design it should be easy to develop for the Wii instead.
It looks very nice, being a 4-core Cell CPU on a card with 128MB of XDR. PCIEx1 (it's too bad I can't find PCIE splitters/risers...) and half-height but it uses a fan (I'm sure we can fix that. heh.) so it's almost the right card for a mythTV backend (or combo, or frontend since it can decode video).
It would also be nifty for those of us who like to do... "creative" programming.
But leadtek hobbled it, with drivers only for XP and Vista and requiring their bloatware to go with.
But if you intend to play games, VIA Nano with a possible GeForce chipset (sometime soon!) would be way better (or at least the CN896 chipset and a low-power GeForce).
ARM is low power; but other than that, what advantages does it have? Does it really scale to desktop performance? I mean, I'd love to have a small board like the BeagleBoard, but the thing isn't that great for desktop performance. Where are ARM's upsides?
(9600GT still looks like a good deal, but the HD4670 might just be slightly better for me at the moment... But do these include something like PhysX? Is it even a consideration?)
If you're going to rag on the Chinese, consider all the people in Hong-Kong with Canadian passports, or the possibility that those men start looking for wives here.
As sad as it may seem, though... There has to be a "quiet death" of men. Maybe in nature there's supposed to be more women than men by a small amount, to account for war losses? But then again, there is not necessarily a cosmic force guiding all this, unless you really believe in a grouped minds theories (ie bliss and horror are transmitted across minds "wirelessly").
Yes, the Chinese certainly make a lot of computer hardware, but those aren't quite the chinese you were thinking of. Not to mention the Thai, the Singaporians, the Germans, even the French and the Americans who do also manufacture a lot of your computer parts.
A backdoor for the NSA in microsoft products is not unfathomable; if they were determined they'd do it. Then again, SELinux is funded by the NSA, so I don't quite know how that all fits in...
Like you said, Russia won't care. I really doubt they have that kind of Chaotic-Evil feel to them to go in balls deep and blast the american continent with nuclear weapons. I can understand a lot of tension, a lot of flying fs flung around (and already have because the price of gas is dropping) but there's no chance of an all-out invasion. Realistically 1989 was the most peaceful year; assuming the Gulf War didn't start until the year after?
I really have to agree though that this is just a test, just a way to say "Hey, we're capable now guys" and help the US defend itself and its allies (missiles are blegh but thank you for the defence) against the rogues, what you really have to watch out for.
I do believe the main reason IPv6 adoption is so low is because it's looks like shit.
Why couldn't we go x.x.x.x.x.x? Or make it 8 xs, or 16, or heck even 64 and make the unused ones "cleared". It's a lot easier to go 192.168.0.1 is my router, as opposed to 3443::43fff:#434434:FFDdfffd:FD3443 which is what my mind thinks when I see IPv6; a bunch of random mumble jumble, and this coming from someone who finds Perl legible.
IPv6 is a problem masquerading as a solution looking for a problem.
Slashdotters, let's get to work on mesh networking. Everyone set up a "piece" of the mesh, and we just keep rolling until we get entire provinces/states covered. Wires work great when you can go over 300ft without it starting to die.
And with wireless the truly anon are free to stalk as they like.:)
Aren't most datacentres in the world in big cities along the east & west coast of the US?
And in various European metropolitan areas?
Those places aren't very dense. If every big datacentre is within 100km of a city, you just line up the 10/40gbps connections to the city, and plop wireless everywhere.
A long-time personal "dream/goal" of mine is to see a working implementation of the Web over a BitTorrent-like protocol, one completely decentralised. No more lag. All the sites load up quicker if more people want them. High-demand content is then incredibly fast and widespread. Unpopular content maybe not so much, but even then you should still have the traditional connection speeds, and it should be even faster because you're going on a gigabits-line that isn't saturated with a million people hitting youtube.
Instead, YouTube could be mirrored across several cities, and people would be able to fling these bits all across the air. Imagine that, strings of data weaving over our heads.
Then again, Canada loves to eat its citizens' children, so I don't know if we'd ever see something like this. Have fun my American friends, just make sure you get this working so you can help us build one later.
The big problem is, electric cars would kill the auto industry.
You wouldn't need to go see your mechanic as often; a lot of parts would be simplified... And reliability seems to be fairly high on these things, mainly because a lot of parts were removed.
Plus, GM and Ford are there in Detroit/Windsor right now, and if you let them go it's millions of people without money in a (currently savable) recessive period. Sure, those factories aren't going anywhere, and somebody is going to pick up the slack, but how long until that happens? And are you willing to kill Southern Ontario and the US Great Lakes region in the process?
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For a real world example, i have a small atom based box with tv cards connected to the tv (its small and quiet), when it records tv it then pipes the video over ssh to a noisy quad core box that sits out of earshot which strips out commercials and transcodes the video before piping it back...
Just out of curiosity, where can I find a guide on doing that?...
The Athlon X2 4850e and similar chips have replaced the BE series. I think they're better performance, and I'm hoping they are "real-world" 45W.
You should be able to bring those down close to 15W as well.
I don't know, I just find it unusual how you can accumulate TBs worth of critical information...
I've personally considered just getting an external hard drive and making daily backups to it, and then burning any videos/music I might have to CDs and DVDs...
I know RAID isn't backups. It's only there to stop you from losing all the data off a hard drive... But how many times do you delete a file and decide you want it back?
That's a wedding; it's not your birthday that you can barely remember...
I think that's why we need "proper backups". No more of this silly business where every day a new backup is sent out...
Rather, you've got RAID1 or RAID5 on your workstation/server, and anything considered "finished" (movies, music) should go onto CDs or DVDs (with whatever quality you want/need). And then you make a second copy and send it off to a friend for safe keeping. Your typical office crap? I really couldn't give less of a damn if I lose the documents I work on, unless it's something I haven't finished or sent to its proper place or printed (whatever applies).
I mean, if I ever lost my music collection, well, it wouldn't take me very long to fire up a P2P client and get it all back. Same for movies, just longer. Only pictures are fairly important; and even then, I have relatives in Northern Europe I send photos to, and they send me photos back, both deadtree and digital. That's pretty good for backups, don't you think?
And it's not like any of this really matters. Photos often ruin the moment; sure, proffesional photography is nice... But I'm not going to cry too much if I lose a picture of me at some party. And did it really warrant taking the time to snap a picture right in the middle of something? If it was important, I'll remember it. I remember faces, places. And I don't really have a spectacular memory. But I remember. I don't need photos; they're nice but not essential.
I don't get how you can get 500GB or 2TB or more's worth of stuff and start fretting about how to keep it all together. P2P is your friend. I don't need tapes; I have the internet.
Oblivion is just Fallout with swords, and Fallout is just Oblivion with guns.
Well, I play with the lowest brightness all the time, and haven't really run into any problems... So I don't think that will be a big issue.
Any idea is the battery life is still noticeably hit though? I realise the DS has a battery life of like 15-20 hours for DS mode so it won't be easy to measure right now, but I'm hoping someone could chime in. I thought about using it instead of carrying around all the carts, but if I lose something like an hour on every charge, or even half of one, I'd rather just use it for... experimental things (emulators and browsers, game demoing, etc.) or for videos.
At ~10$ on DealExtreme.com it looks like a great buy. (it also sorts alphabetically doesn't it?)
Further, you are only modeling one aspect of the experience: walking through the store. You are not using a "walk out front door, get in car, put key in ignition, drive to store" metaphor to model how to get to that virtual store.
Hey, that actually sounds like fun.
Animal Crossing slashed with a GTA-esque driving sim, and you drive to destinations as in that Simpsons donut-CD game (virtual springfield??). Bundle it with a steering wheel... Or the Wii Wheel and a WiiMote! Too bad Nintendo might not like you doing that, but assuming the Wii is decentralised by design it should be easy to develop for the Wii instead.
I'd rather have battery life and novel controls that everyone is going to copy next generation than "better graphics".
How many people were actively looking for touchscreens on things like netbooks before the DS? Motion control before "Revolution" was said to have it?
Isn't the R4 out of production now?
I'd buy a DSTT or Acekard2.1
And don't these things some how suck up more battery life? (but how much are we talking, and what about things like the M3 Perfect?)
Fuck right off dirtbags.
Drop your prices or get out. Why the fuck should I spend so much money on a game when I can get it used for 1/3 of the price?
You think we could get this little bugger working on Linux (and BSDs, etc) then?
http://www.leadtek.com.tw/eng/tv_tuner/specification.asp?pronameid=447&lineid=6&act=2
It looks very nice, being a 4-core Cell CPU on a card with 128MB of XDR. PCIEx1 (it's too bad I can't find PCIE splitters/risers...) and half-height but it uses a fan (I'm sure we can fix that. heh.) so it's almost the right card for a mythTV backend (or combo, or frontend since it can decode video).
It would also be nifty for those of us who like to do... "creative" programming.
But leadtek hobbled it, with drivers only for XP and Vista and requiring their bloatware to go with.
But if you intend to play games, VIA Nano with a possible GeForce chipset (sometime soon!) would be way better (or at least the CN896 chipset and a low-power GeForce).
ARM is low power; but other than that, what advantages does it have? Does it really scale to desktop performance? I mean, I'd love to have a small board like the BeagleBoard, but the thing isn't that great for desktop performance. Where are ARM's upsides?
Just out of curiosity, what about ATI?
(9600GT still looks like a good deal, but the HD4670 might just be slightly better for me at the moment... But do these include something like PhysX? Is it even a consideration?)
If you're going to rag on the Chinese, consider all the people in Hong-Kong with Canadian passports, or the possibility that those men start looking for wives here.
As sad as it may seem, though... There has to be a "quiet death" of men. Maybe in nature there's supposed to be more women than men by a small amount, to account for war losses? But then again, there is not necessarily a cosmic force guiding all this, unless you really believe in a grouped minds theories (ie bliss and horror are transmitted across minds "wirelessly").
But House only does it with four!
Clever plot but I do believe you're wrong.
Yes, the Chinese certainly make a lot of computer hardware, but those aren't quite the chinese you were thinking of. Not to mention the Thai, the Singaporians, the Germans, even the French and the Americans who do also manufacture a lot of your computer parts.
A backdoor for the NSA in microsoft products is not unfathomable; if they were determined they'd do it. Then again, SELinux is funded by the NSA, so I don't quite know how that all fits in...
Like you said, Russia won't care. I really doubt they have that kind of Chaotic-Evil feel to them to go in balls deep and blast the american continent with nuclear weapons. I can understand a lot of tension, a lot of flying fs flung around (and already have because the price of gas is dropping) but there's no chance of an all-out invasion. Realistically 1989 was the most peaceful year; assuming the Gulf War didn't start until the year after?
I really have to agree though that this is just a test, just a way to say "Hey, we're capable now guys" and help the US defend itself and its allies (missiles are blegh but thank you for the defence) against the rogues, what you really have to watch out for.
Nwabudike Morgan?
(but even 500 years would be nice)
I do believe the main reason IPv6 adoption is so low is because it's looks like shit.
Why couldn't we go x.x.x.x.x.x? Or make it 8 xs, or 16, or heck even 64 and make the unused ones "cleared". It's a lot easier to go 192.168.0.1 is my router, as opposed to 3443::43fff:#434434:FFDdfffd:FD3443 which is what my mind thinks when I see IPv6; a bunch of random mumble jumble, and this coming from someone who finds Perl legible.
IPv6 is a problem masquerading as a solution looking for a problem.
Wine =! Linux
Who needs wires?
Slashdotters, let's get to work on mesh networking. Everyone set up a "piece" of the mesh, and we just keep rolling until we get entire provinces/states covered. Wires work great when you can go over 300ft without it starting to die.
And with wireless the truly anon are free to stalk as they like. :)
Aren't most datacentres in the world in big cities along the east & west coast of the US?
And in various European metropolitan areas?
Those places aren't very dense. If every big datacentre is within 100km of a city, you just line up the 10/40gbps connections to the city, and plop wireless everywhere.
A long-time personal "dream/goal" of mine is to see a working implementation of the Web over a BitTorrent-like protocol, one completely decentralised. No more lag. All the sites load up quicker if more people want them. High-demand content is then incredibly fast and widespread. Unpopular content maybe not so much, but even then you should still have the traditional connection speeds, and it should be even faster because you're going on a gigabits-line that isn't saturated with a million people hitting youtube.
Instead, YouTube could be mirrored across several cities, and people would be able to fling these bits all across the air. Imagine that, strings of data weaving over our heads.
Then again, Canada loves to eat its citizens' children, so I don't know if we'd ever see something like this. Have fun my American friends, just make sure you get this working so you can help us build one later.
No, I'm all for electric cars, I'm just explaining why nobody else is.
The big problem is, electric cars would kill the auto industry.
You wouldn't need to go see your mechanic as often; a lot of parts would be simplified... And reliability seems to be fairly high on these things, mainly because a lot of parts were removed.
Plus, GM and Ford are there in Detroit/Windsor right now, and if you let them go it's millions of people without money in a (currently savable) recessive period. Sure, those factories aren't going anywhere, and somebody is going to pick up the slack, but how long until that happens? And are you willing to kill Southern Ontario and the US Great Lakes region in the process?