Thanks for the info. One of these years, I'm going to try this, just have to find the dish. I already do some casting, so it's just a matter of putting a thermocouple in the focal point, and reading the pyrometer. Hmmm, I think there's one of those in a neighbor's yard...
I've always wanted to line one with Mylar, point it at the sun, and see what temperature you could generate at the focal point. How cool would it be to hang a crucible, and melt bronze?
For all those with a knee-jerk reaction to this, consider it from this perspective: You've just spent millions of dollars, building a network infrastructure, programming servers and switches and routers, creating images and an environment to handle all of this, all for a very specific task. You're saying there's *nothing wrong* with me using what you've built, however I want to, and you've no right to watch how I use it? If so, I'm coming to your place, no reason for me to ever spend a dime on tech! Hmm, does this logic apply to your car? Or bank account???
This could get far more interesting if you coupled the phone to, say, a laptop, or a headless mini, and integrated that into the auto systems. Then, you could call in, use a username/password, and have remarkable control over the vehicle - disable as well as start, for one. Interesting possibilities...
is when the kids who've grown up using p2p start writing the rules. We're not that far off from politicians being able to get elected on a p2p stance. Once that happens, the era of Michael Rodent *finally* dies, and we might see something resembling sane copyright law. But that's what it's going to take: there's *no* $$ in supporting this change, and huge amounts of it in the 'AAs.
I just imaged/deployed ~4000 MacBooks using DeployStudio (free). Image was created using JamF's Composer (~$90) to create individual software packages, which were layered onto an OS X base, to create an image. I built a bench that holds 108 machines, with power (four circuits) and 1GB network on it's own subnet. There are two xserves, one hosting data, the other running DS. Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is used to set the machines to netboot (we've passworded firmware), and I built a custom file to import all the relevant settings (groups, names, etc.) into DS (this was the tricky part). The only other 'secret' to remember - the image is multicast, but netboot is not. Boot twelve machines at a time, wait for the DS screen to come up on all of them, then boot the next dozen. Set a ten minute delay on imaging, and you'll have all ~100 booted when ASR starts. I was running ~2hr from putting the first machine on the table, to putting the last one away, imaging ~400 machines a day. I'm still figuring out how to handle ongoing issues, but one-off re-imaging at our schools is happening from firewire drives using NetRestore. Don't know if this answers the OPs questions, as this is a single location, with all machines moving to me, not spread out on the WAN, and all my machines are MacBooks, but this worked here. I hope to get this whole experience documented soon, but it's time I haven't had yet - riding herd on ~4000 MacBooks is, ahem, time consuming;-)
On my last full-time XP box, I could not run Visual Studio with AV (Sophos) enabled. This persisted into some other apps, but was most notable with this. If the system became available enough to *see* a diag tool/window, there wasn't a problem, when it 'hung', task mgr hung with it. I doubt this is the problem for what's been presented, but it's worth checking. Turn off your AV, and see if it speeds up.
http://www.serif.com/ I picked up PagePlus in the early '90s, and now have most of their software. Although it's not FOSS, and it's not quite up to Adobe's quality, Serif beats Adobe with a big stick on price, and has done everything I've needed it to. I've never quite understood why they're so poorly known here.
As I RTFA, I kept thinking, 'So when are they going to issue arrest warrants for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker, or Stephen King? Should the authors of every 'B' grade horror film ever written be seeking out their attorneys?' When was the memorial service for the first ammendment? I seem to have missed it...
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Thanks for the info. One of these years, I'm going to try this, just have to find the dish. I already do some casting, so it's just a matter of putting a thermocouple in the focal point, and reading the pyrometer. Hmmm, I think there's one of those in a neighbor's yard...
I've always wanted to line one with Mylar, point it at the sun, and see what temperature you could generate at the focal point. How cool would it be to hang a crucible, and melt bronze?
As I don't know the state the poster is from, I'll post my own. Most have similar laws, and I believe there's also pertinent federal law. BTW, the courts won't really care that you think it's BS, they'll just give you plenty of structured time to think about it. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByArticle/Chapter_14/Article_60.html
For all those with a knee-jerk reaction to this, consider it from this perspective: You've just spent millions of dollars, building a network infrastructure, programming servers and switches and routers, creating images and an environment to handle all of this, all for a very specific task. You're saying there's *nothing wrong* with me using what you've built, however I want to, and you've no right to watch how I use it? If so, I'm coming to your place, no reason for me to ever spend a dime on tech! Hmm, does this logic apply to your car? Or bank account???
Um, dude - you've just admitted to a felony. If it doesn't belong to you, you have no rights to do anything with it, without the owners permission.
This could get far more interesting if you coupled the phone to, say, a laptop, or a headless mini, and integrated that into the auto systems. Then, you could call in, use a username/password, and have remarkable control over the vehicle - disable as well as start, for one. Interesting possibilities...
is when the kids who've grown up using p2p start writing the rules. We're not that far off from politicians being able to get elected on a p2p stance. Once that happens, the era of Michael Rodent *finally* dies, and we might see something resembling sane copyright law. But that's what it's going to take: there's *no* $$ in supporting this change, and huge amounts of it in the 'AAs.
I just imaged/deployed ~4000 MacBooks using DeployStudio (free). Image was created using JamF's Composer (~$90) to create individual software packages, which were layered onto an OS X base, to create an image. I built a bench that holds 108 machines, with power (four circuits) and 1GB network on it's own subnet. There are two xserves, one hosting data, the other running DS. Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is used to set the machines to netboot (we've passworded firmware), and I built a custom file to import all the relevant settings (groups, names, etc.) into DS (this was the tricky part). The only other 'secret' to remember - the image is multicast, but netboot is not. Boot twelve machines at a time, wait for the DS screen to come up on all of them, then boot the next dozen. Set a ten minute delay on imaging, and you'll have all ~100 booted when ASR starts. I was running ~2hr from putting the first machine on the table, to putting the last one away, imaging ~400 machines a day. I'm still figuring out how to handle ongoing issues, but one-off re-imaging at our schools is happening from firewire drives using NetRestore. Don't know if this answers the OPs questions, as this is a single location, with all machines moving to me, not spread out on the WAN, and all my machines are MacBooks, but this worked here. I hope to get this whole experience documented soon, but it's time I haven't had yet - riding herd on ~4000 MacBooks is, ahem, time consuming ;-)
On my last full-time XP box, I could not run Visual Studio with AV (Sophos) enabled. This persisted into some other apps, but was most notable with this. If the system became available enough to *see* a diag tool/window, there wasn't a problem, when it 'hung', task mgr hung with it. I doubt this is the problem for what's been presented, but it's worth checking. Turn off your AV, and see if it speeds up.
http://www.serif.com/ I picked up PagePlus in the early '90s, and now have most of their software. Although it's not FOSS, and it's not quite up to Adobe's quality, Serif beats Adobe with a big stick on price, and has done everything I've needed it to. I've never quite understood why they're so poorly known here.
As I RTFA, I kept thinking, 'So when are they going to issue arrest warrants for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker, or Stephen King? Should the authors of every 'B' grade horror film ever written be seeking out their attorneys?' When was the memorial service for the first ammendment? I seem to have missed it...