My HTPC runs one of these "Stopped" chips, as does another similar machine I keep around 'cuz it's handy.
There's no reason for these perfectly functional machines to hit the landfill. Not while they're selling far less powerful or refined Raspberry Pi's for $35 without a case.
If you think of being involved in computing as "own a single huge honking piece of iron", perhaps you're not very involved in computing yourself.
Revise and extend on that WiFi work around: you have to know in advance about the browser/WiFi issue, and install your blank junk account while on a working network BEFORE you travel. Can't set up the junk account with no working network, so it can't get you out of trouble if you haven't prepped.
I'm doing something like this. I have a bare-minimum $5/mo. VPS set up for Python development, and I VNC in from my Chromebook, my Mac or whatever I have handy.
The Chromebook has ssh, VNC, MySQL tools, most of what I need. And I could back the car over it, pick up a new one for 2 bills, have everything back on it in a few minutes.
It is my exclusive air travel machine, in the new Security State. I travel with it wiped back to bare metal.
It does several things exceedingly poorly:
1. Connecting to WiFi that requires a browser to sign in. You CAN'T do this if the machine has been wiped: you have to have an account to use browser, and you have to have a browser to get network to bring up an account.
Work around: wipe Chromebook, install a blank junk account for the purpose. Powerwash again before installing the real account: first account on owns the machine.
2. Image editing: don't even think of doing it on a Chromebook. It's like doing GIMP over VNC with salad tongs while wearing oven mitts. Forget it. Game over,
3. Completely dysfunctional OpenVPN. It's bad, it's broken, and there's no help coming. This sucks.
"Here's the official, stolen, government training film of the secret plan to deal with an alien uprising." (Martial music swells in the background) (NCO-In-Charge Commentator): "Classified ultra-secret! Air Force generals only! Ten-hut! At ease mens, take your seat!" (The General): "This is General Curtis Goatheart. If you are viewing this film, then we are under extraterrestrial attack. Beware- your brain may no longer be the boss! If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying, you are probably hallucinating. Listen carefully!" (One second burst of ringing alarm bell) (NCOIC): "What to do if an alien appears! ONE!" (The General): "Drop beneath the seat of your plane and look away." (NCOIC): "TWO!" (The General): "Avoid eye contact." (NCOIC): "THREE!" (The General): "If there are no eyes, avoid all contact." (One second burst of ringing alarm bell) (NCOIC): "How to identify alleged sightings! ONE!" (The General): "Pie plates, or as reflections in the atmosphere." (NCOIC): "TWO!" (The General): "Dry cleaning bags filled with marsh gas, or..." (NCOIC) "THREE!" (The General): "Mass insanity!" (One second burst of ringing alarm bell) (NCOIC): "How to inform your wife, and others under your command!" (Bugle blowing reville in the background, faint drumbeat, soft clatter of dinnerware) (General's Wife): "...Can I freshen that up for you?..." (The Colonel): "I don't know how she got that requisition..." (General's Wife): "Oh, she gets it in the back..." (The Colonel): "Well, she's not allowed to have them unless she's..." (Another Officer): "Unless she's related to the (undecipherable) of the PX..." (Sound of a spoon repeatedly striking a water glass) (The General): "Honey and men- I have something awesome to reveal to you." (The Colonel): "Well, go ahead, sir." (General's Wife): "Go ahead." (The General): "Two flying saucers have just landed on my plate." (Long moment of silence) (The Colonel): "Well, turn away sir- I'll eat them." (Nervous laughter) (Sound of a spoon repeatedly striking a water glass) (The General): "Men- our greatest fear is realized- we are under attack from superior consciousness." (The Colonel): "The eggs, sir?" (The General): "They're only the beginning." (More nervous laughter) (Another Officer): "Can I have some more of those flapjacks?" (The General): "All right, men- questions? Questions?" (The Major): "Ah, sir?" (The General): "Yes, Major?" (The Major): "Ah, pass the ah, syrup, General?" (The General): "That's a good idea, Chuck, but syrup won't stop 'em!" (Another Officer): "But, sir..." (The Colonel): "Ah, sir?" (The General): "Colonel?" (The Colonel): "Are you nuts?" (The General): "H-Hmmm! That is just exactly what they want you to believe! (chuckle)" (The Colonel): "The eggs, sir?" (The General): "Let's just call them 'the phenomena' " (The Colonel): "Well, if I may respectfully submit, sir, I think you've got your phenomena scrambled, General." (More nervous laughter) (General's Wife): "What about my eggs, dear?" (The General): "Honey- they're in- everybody's eggs!" (The Colonel, slightly sarcastically): "Good lord!" (Faint drumbeat, soft clatter of dinnerware in the background) (The General's wife begins sobbing hysterically, but softly) (Another Officer): "I think I'm going to have to leave this table..." (The Major): "...another cup of coffee, sir- settle you down a bit..." (NCOIC): "CONCLUSION!" (The General): "They think he is insane. Yet he outranks them. His option- command!" (NCOIC): "ONE!" (The General): "He seals off the area." (NCOIC): "TWO!" (The General): "Secures the cooperation of local officials." (NCOIC): "THREE!" (The General): "Obtains expert scientific susistence (sic)." (NCOIC): "FOUR!" (The General): "Evacuates all government employees, and..." (NCOIC): "FIVE!" (The General): "...bombs aliens back to stone age!" (Martial music swells up in the background) (NCOIC): "END OF FILM!"
The Series 3 ep 1 "update" of The Guide's voice (necessary, since Peter Jones was permanently offline) was done about as well as it can be. Really first rate. No Darren Stevens action there.
The transition to Hawking wasn't as Smith, but I appreciate hearing him in the role.
Potentially more people than have a 20-year-old clock, the way things are built now.
I actually have a beautiful clock more than 50 years old - it amazed me as a kid: a motor turned a glass plate and the hands, suspended in the middle, had a counterweight that made them appear to keep time while floating.
Multi-platform, mobile apps, Android widgets, web version, offline mode, priority, date, category, flexible recurrence, sub-tasks, notes, delegation, powerful, flexible (better on both the latter counts than the anemic Wunderlist).
Only thing wrong: it lies about tasks without a "due time". In fact, such tasks have an unstated time of midnight on the due date. Which means that when you cross a time-zone boundary, and your phone's clock gets a new time zone, all your time-less tasks are hopelessly fucked until you return. Any time-less tasks from the new time zone are then fucked when you do. RTM have known about this for years, will not fix.
In all other respects, it's the best one I've found, after trying dozens.
My HTC M10 has a full-HD 1080i (or maybe even p?) camera, and the videos look pretty sweet - there's optical image stabilization built in, and it looks for all the world like I'm walking around with a Steadicam. Audio could be better, but...
Likewise, streaming Netflix, etc. looks fine, as expected - though keep in mind that the Chromecast is connecting directly to Netflix in that case - it's not getting it off the phone.
The only reasons I don't use the Chromecast more are that 1. it's really difficult to use on the Mac - almost useless, and 2. I already have a media server for videos and an HTPC by the TV, and most other times, if I could access an office conference room TV to plug in my Chromecast, I could plug in a hardwire to my laptop as easily and have more flexibility.
Great to have the Chromecast for watching the 24h of LeMans - can cast various Android race coverage apps to the big TV. Very nice.
And also, I rewrote Sony's crap DLNA player add-on to make it not show the episode names (something the PS3 and other DLNA clients do fine).
And I wrote the Sony spec that says that no 3rd party device can turn on the PS4 from Bluetooth.
Yeah, those must be my fault.
As far as playing games, I haven't seen anything to date that looked or worked better than the PS3. And it doesn't play our library of PS3 games - at least not natively. I've heard that there's a remote PS3 option for some games, but I saw no game I wanted to use on the list.
Understand that I'm not against having a new(-ish) Sony gaming console; it's just that my minimum requirement is that it work as well as the old one.
We have a PS3 and a PS4 working side-by-side in our HT setup. The PS3 is rock-solid reliable, does normal things when controlled by the remote. Browses our DLNA server properly.
The PS4 locks up and won't connect with PS4 remotes. Has to be manually switched on before our Harmony remote can talk to it (gee, thanks Sony!). Calls every single show on the DLNA server the same title - good luck finding your episode. The wife and kids will barely touch it.
PyCharm (jetbrains) has a license something like you mention. Your "subscription" provides you access to the latest version all the time. If you decide not to subscribe, you still have the latest version that spanned a subscription year. A teense more complicated than that, but pretty good.
Have been very happy with the product, and satisfied with the license terms.
I haven't subscribed to any Adobe product since they went down the extortion path. Still using my latest perpetually-licensed Creative Suite, and I guess I will until it breaks. Then I'll have to move to a new toolset.
Am using mt-daapd (an older cousin to forked-daapd) on a QNAP NAS. Have 2TB of storage (running MythTV on it, too) and can stream my entire library to iOS and Android devices, Roku Soundbridges (old devices - have several) and DAAP clients on desktop OSes.
Works well, with the exception of iTunes clients, which Apple intentionality breaks for these servers.
Slashdot Mirror
+1.
Oh, and I turn off Google Assistant and pretend the phone isn't listening to me, too.
Film at Eleven.
That's it! Blame the robots! Always blame the robots first! What has a robot ever done to you, Elon?
Look, Venn diagram:
Private data: 0
Facebook: 0
My HTPC runs one of these "Stopped" chips, as does another similar machine I keep around 'cuz it's handy.
There's no reason for these perfectly functional machines to hit the landfill. Not while they're selling far less powerful or refined Raspberry Pi's for $35 without a case.
If you think of being involved in computing as "own a single huge honking piece of iron", perhaps you're not very involved in computing yourself.
...rife with claims that Donald Trump got elected president.
God, I'm tired...
Revise and extend on that WiFi work around: you have to know in advance about the browser/WiFi issue, and install your blank junk account while on a working network BEFORE you travel. Can't set up the junk account with no working network, so it can't get you out of trouble if you haven't prepped.
I'm doing something like this. I have a bare-minimum $5/mo. VPS set up for Python development, and I VNC in from my Chromebook, my Mac or whatever I have handy.
The Chromebook has ssh, VNC, MySQL tools, most of what I need. And I could back the car over it, pick up a new one for 2 bills, have everything back on it in a few minutes.
It is my exclusive air travel machine, in the new Security State. I travel with it wiped back to bare metal.
It does several things exceedingly poorly:
1. Connecting to WiFi that requires a browser to sign in. You CAN'T do this if the machine has been wiped: you have to have an account to use browser, and you have to have a browser to get network to bring up an account.
Work around: wipe Chromebook, install a blank junk account for the purpose. Powerwash again before installing the real account: first account on owns the machine.
2. Image editing: don't even think of doing it on a Chromebook. It's like doing GIMP over VNC with salad tongs while wearing oven mitts. Forget it. Game over,
3. Completely dysfunctional OpenVPN. It's bad, it's broken, and there's no help coming. This sucks.
"Here's the official, stolen, government training film of the secret plan to deal with an alien uprising."
(Martial music swells in the background)
(NCO-In-Charge Commentator): "Classified ultra-secret! Air Force generals only! Ten-hut! At ease mens, take your seat!"
(The General): "This is General Curtis Goatheart. If you are viewing this film, then we are under extraterrestrial attack. Beware- your brain may no longer be the boss! If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying, you are probably hallucinating. Listen carefully!"
(One second burst of ringing alarm bell)
(NCOIC): "What to do if an alien appears! ONE!"
(The General): "Drop beneath the seat of your plane and look away."
(NCOIC): "TWO!"
(The General): "Avoid eye contact."
(NCOIC): "THREE!"
(The General): "If there are no eyes, avoid all contact."
(One second burst of ringing alarm bell)
(NCOIC): "How to identify alleged sightings! ONE!"
(The General): "Pie plates, or as reflections in the atmosphere."
(NCOIC): "TWO!"
(The General): "Dry cleaning bags filled with marsh gas, or..."
(NCOIC) "THREE!"
(The General): "Mass insanity!"
(One second burst of ringing alarm bell)
(NCOIC): "How to inform your wife, and others under your command!"
(Bugle blowing reville in the background, faint drumbeat, soft clatter of dinnerware)
(General's Wife): "...Can I freshen that up for you?..."
(The Colonel): "I don't know how she got that requisition..."
(General's Wife): "Oh, she gets it in the back..."
(The Colonel): "Well, she's not allowed to have them unless she's..."
(Another Officer): "Unless she's related to the (undecipherable) of the PX..."
(Sound of a spoon repeatedly striking a water glass)
(The General): "Honey and men- I have something awesome to reveal to you."
(The Colonel): "Well, go ahead, sir."
(General's Wife): "Go ahead."
(The General): "Two flying saucers have just landed on my plate."
(Long moment of silence)
(The Colonel): "Well, turn away sir- I'll eat them."
(Nervous laughter)
(Sound of a spoon repeatedly striking a water glass)
(The General): "Men- our greatest fear is realized- we are under attack from superior consciousness."
(The Colonel): "The eggs, sir?"
(The General): "They're only the beginning."
(More nervous laughter)
(Another Officer): "Can I have some more of those flapjacks?"
(The General): "All right, men- questions? Questions?"
(The Major): "Ah, sir?"
(The General): "Yes, Major?"
(The Major): "Ah, pass the ah, syrup, General?"
(The General): "That's a good idea, Chuck, but syrup won't stop 'em!"
(Another Officer): "But, sir..."
(The Colonel): "Ah, sir?"
(The General): "Colonel?"
(The Colonel): "Are you nuts?"
(The General): "H-Hmmm! That is just exactly what they want you to believe! (chuckle)"
(The Colonel): "The eggs, sir?"
(The General): "Let's just call them 'the phenomena' "
(The Colonel): "Well, if I may respectfully submit, sir, I think you've got your phenomena
scrambled, General."
(More nervous laughter)
(General's Wife): "What about my eggs, dear?"
(The General): "Honey- they're in- everybody's eggs!"
(The Colonel, slightly sarcastically): "Good lord!"
(Faint drumbeat, soft clatter of dinnerware in the background)
(The General's wife begins sobbing hysterically, but softly)
(Another Officer): "I think I'm going to have to leave this table..."
(The Major): "...another cup of coffee, sir- settle you down a bit..."
(NCOIC): "CONCLUSION!"
(The General): "They think he is insane. Yet he outranks them. His option- command!"
(NCOIC): "ONE!"
(The General): "He seals off the area."
(NCOIC): "TWO!"
(The General): "Secures the cooperation of local officials."
(NCOIC): "THREE!"
(The General): "Obtains expert scientific susistence (sic)."
(NCOIC): "FOUR!"
(The General): "Evacuates all government employees, and..."
(NCOIC): "FIVE!"
(The General): "...bombs aliens back to stone age!"
(Martial music swells up in the background)
(NCOIC): "END OF FILM!"
"Smith"? "Smooth", damnable spellfsck!
The Series 3 ep 1 "update" of The Guide's voice (necessary, since Peter Jones was permanently offline) was done about as well as it can be. Really first rate. No Darren Stevens action there.
The transition to Hawking wasn't as Smith, but I appreciate hearing him in the role.
The neural compute stick (I have one) can run tensor flow models. What's your point?
Um...TensorFlow? Neural Compute stick?
Ok, checking myself: if you think 720p is really HD, then good, your Benz can do that,
Why this continued bullshit about "HD-quality"?
1 million pixels is just about VGA-quality.
Potentially more people than have a 20-year-old clock, the way things are built now.
I actually have a beautiful clock more than 50 years old - it amazed me as a kid: a motor turned a glass plate and the hands, suspended in the middle, had a counterweight that made them appear to keep time while floating.
Multi-platform, mobile apps, Android widgets, web version, offline mode, priority, date, category, flexible recurrence, sub-tasks, notes, delegation, powerful, flexible (better on both the latter counts than the anemic Wunderlist).
Only thing wrong: it lies about tasks without a "due time". In fact, such tasks have an unstated time of midnight on the due date. Which means that when you cross a time-zone boundary, and your phone's clock gets a new time zone, all your time-less tasks are hopelessly fucked until you return. Any time-less tasks from the new time zone are then fucked when you do. RTM have known about this for years, will not fix.
In all other respects, it's the best one I've found, after trying dozens.
My HTC M10 has a full-HD 1080i (or maybe even p?) camera, and the videos look pretty sweet - there's optical image stabilization built in, and it looks for all the world like I'm walking around with a Steadicam. Audio could be better, but...
Likewise, streaming Netflix, etc. looks fine, as expected - though keep in mind that the Chromecast is connecting directly to Netflix in that case - it's not getting it off the phone.
The only reasons I don't use the Chromecast more are that 1. it's really difficult to use on the Mac - almost useless, and 2. I already have a media server for videos and an HTPC by the TV, and most other times, if I could access an office conference room TV to plug in my Chromecast, I could plug in a hardwire to my laptop as easily and have more flexibility.
Great to have the Chromecast for watching the 24h of LeMans - can cast various Android race coverage apps to the big TV. Very nice.
Right, 'cuz I crashed the thing.
And also, I rewrote Sony's crap DLNA player add-on to make it not show the episode names (something the PS3 and other DLNA clients do fine).
And I wrote the Sony spec that says that no 3rd party device can turn on the PS4 from Bluetooth.
Yeah, those must be my fault.
As far as playing games, I haven't seen anything to date that looked or worked better than the PS3. And it doesn't play our library of PS3 games - at least not natively. I've heard that there's a remote PS3 option for some games, but I saw no game I wanted to use on the list.
Understand that I'm not against having a new(-ish) Sony gaming console; it's just that my minimum requirement is that it work as well as the old one.
We have a PS3 and a PS4 working side-by-side in our HT setup. The PS3 is rock-solid reliable, does normal things when controlled by the remote. Browses our DLNA server properly.
The PS4 locks up and won't connect with PS4 remotes. Has to be manually switched on before our Harmony remote can talk to it (gee, thanks Sony!). Calls every single show on the DLNA server the same title - good luck finding your episode. The wife and kids will barely touch it.
No idea why we have this boat anchor.
PyCharm (jetbrains) has a license something like you mention. Your "subscription" provides you access to the latest version all the time. If you decide not to subscribe, you still have the latest version that spanned a subscription year. A teense more complicated than that, but pretty good.
https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc...
Have been very happy with the product, and satisfied with the license terms.
I haven't subscribed to any Adobe product since they went down the extortion path. Still using my latest perpetually-licensed Creative Suite, and I guess I will until it breaks. Then I'll have to move to a new toolset.
What does it have to do with Crypto?
They're just going to get people pissed off when they dissect the guy for the research paper.
Am using mt-daapd (an older cousin to forked-daapd) on a QNAP NAS. Have 2TB of storage (running MythTV on it, too) and can stream my entire library to iOS and Android devices, Roku Soundbridges (old devices - have several) and DAAP clients on desktop OSes.
Works well, with the exception of iTunes clients, which Apple intentionality breaks for these servers.
We have a hardened solution to the problem of turning on the lights: light switches adjacent to exterior doors.
The stretch to switch height doesn't take much energy, requires little endurance training or practice.