and am looking at adding some sensors connected to Raspberry Pi GPIO. However, if you know how to program things, you do _not_ want them talking to mothership, so both my Hue and WeMos are on a separate wlan SSID which has no connectivity outside; instead, my OpenWrt router runs Python-based daemon ( https://github.com/fingon/kodi... ) which essentially implements zero-touch home automation logic with built-in override from Philips' Tap switch. (and it also chats with my desktop/laptop computer to detect e.g. when I am unidle, and to turn on/off monitor, music playing, and so on..)
I do not really believe in using phone or tablets to deal with 'day to day' events in my home, I prefer buttons (either on WeMo switch, or Philips Tap ones), and automation that sometimes triggers things on it's own. I guess it is a matter of preference..
'what distro' -> SLS -> Slackware -> Caldera -> Debian -> XP -> OS X.. in parallel, on XP/OSX Debian/Ubuntu VMs.. and SunOS / Solaris / *BSD on various other boxes since 1992 as well (and had to professionally deal with stuff like HP-UX, Digital UNIX, and other atrocities. *brr*)
I really recommend ZFS for that - RAID5 is inferior to RAIDZ, not to even mention RAIDZ2 (allows for blowing up two disks). Also has built-in scrubbing functionality and metric ton of other nice features.
If I was storing that amount of data, I'd just throw say, ~16 2TB drives at it, make 2 RAIDZ2 pools out of it (thus, 6 out of 8 drives in each actually used for storage, two for parity ), and have 24TB of capacity, out of which 2 drives could blow/get corrupted and still no problems, and in best case it would even survive explosion of 4 drives;)
Heh, sounds like lot of work. Working as a reasonably well paid consultant, I don't really want to do much hacking on my free time, but I wanted a quiet setup as well.
My approach: Mac Mini + SSD main machine. Secondary storage: FreeBSD ZFS + RAIDZ2 (SSD cache drive + couple of spinning disks) NAS for video + backups of Mini.
As I don't deal with video much, NAS is mostly turned off, and all I need is one WOL packet to fire it up and mount on the Mini as needed. Win-win.
(Ok, other hardware in the house like gaming PC, laptop, etc also can access NAS as needed..)
The file contains only unique wifi spots seen over time period, each once. In my case, that is 12k different wifi basestations, but any repeated travel is unlikely to see those points again..
mini ~/temp/x/library/caches/locationd>sqlite3 consolidated.db 'select * from WifiLocation' | wc
11907 23814 257383 mini ~/temp/x/library/caches/locationd>sqlite3 consolidated.db 'select * from WifiLocation' | cut -d '|' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | egrep -v ' 1 ' mini ~/temp/x/library/caches/locationd>
Maybe open source mp3 player software crashes; I have used iTunes since 2002 and it hasn't crashed yet.. That reminds me, this much vaunted Songbird thing (admittedly 0.7) AND Amarok have both crashed on me this year..:-p Maybe this is the open-source 'feature' I'm missing by using iTunes as my main player?
I've also used various Ubuntus on non-Mac PCs as long as there _has_ been Ubuntus, and especially Kubuntu gets the points for most in-the-box application crashes per version..
(Yes, I know they share the packages in general, but default application set of ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu doesn't have much in common and I like to do minimal installs that have just the default apps to play with them at times.)
As a recent re-switcher (I used 10.1 briefly few years ago), I have to agree.. MOSTLY.
Currently Tiger has following issues for me:
- USB support crashes system on resume sometimes if detaching devices during suspend - my Logitech mouse sometimes turns to anonymous mouse and forgets it's settings - I cannot use secure virtual memory because it causes glitches (and later crashes) due to invalid handling of the video memory with it - Mac's very forgetful - it forgets preferences every now and then due to File Vault bugging - Mail's asynchronous rules (i.e. ones that take awhile to delive response) cause it to crash - Japanese keyboard input, switched on/off long enough (in their own input mode) caused also some crashes last year.. I could go on, unfortunately. Ironically enough, my old Windows XP had more polished apps, but I still enjoy MacOS more. Despite needing to run several apps within VMware currently.
If 10.5 is any more buggy than current 10.4.9, I might go back to XP. And no, Linux isn't an option if you need to get your monitor calibrated, do some serious photo handling, or many other real uses of operating systems. MacOS is 'barely there', but with Linux I would use VMware most of the time in my home system so not much point there.
P.S. Yes, I use Linux at work and my second laptop is Linux-only, but that is evidence of 15 years of stubbornness, and not really the value of 'linux on desktop'.
I had both Mac and Windows when 1st gen ipod (which I still use) came out, and I used it with Windows for quite a bit until iTunes came out (EphPod, I think, the software called, alongside with some commercial HFS driver for Windows)..
Similarly, at least in Japan there's large number of smartphone 'drivers' that sync with iSync, despite them not officially supporting Mac.
My approach is just to get boarding passes from outside US whenver possible; even for connecting flights inside the US, you won't get SSSS marks. Of course, on the trip home, it's always the quality time at checkpoints.. So here's a hint to the bad guys: get boarding passes to your final destination from somewhere elsewhere than the States!
CVS is shit. I mean this respectfully, of course, but it doesn't even have atomic commits or changesets, which are bare minimums for modern VC. SVN isn't much better, it is still too much CVS-derived for it's own good.
You may consider that funny, but I am originally from Europe, typical nerdishly-pale white male, live in Japan, working for American company, and travel frequently to US on business. And every fucking time I get the SSSS mark on my boarding pass, which, I think, means Super Secret Secondary Screening or something equivalent, and ends up with pat-down and some moron fiddling with my carryon luggage for ages. Therefore, I have made a point of trying to avoid travelling to the 'land of the free', it's no longer even as fun as good old China, at least their random searches seem to be random.
So while I think your algorithm doesn't quite cover it, but it is probably fairly close, considering it seems to be crime to have brains in the administration of the good ol' US of A these days..
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Cough, it depends on what you expect. My Linux laptop with 768MB of memory was snappier than my brand new MacBook with 1GB - someone was clearly using some memory out here. I was depressed by the performance and upgraded to 2GB, and now I get again reasonable performance.. But, all of that "MacOS runs with 256MB of RAM JUUUST FINE!" are defined by your (low) expectations of performance, I think.
Hell no. I for example live in Japan. For some mysterious reasons (too many sudden business trips maybe?) I have reached the ultimate, SSSS-ranking at US (and who said they're not nazis?). Every time I get boarding pass printed there, quality time begins.
In Japanese customs? I think they've wanted to see my passport every time, but after that "oh, you live here? move on, I've got tourists to hassle coming up."
The risk _might_ be there, but the probability in case of 'the land of the free' is orders of magnitude more than anywhere elsewhere, due to their funny profiling habits, and completely out-of-this-world paranoia.
Probably just you, I did upgrade my laptop's (Panasonic R3) 2.5" HD to 160GB one sometime during summer when they became available, and 200GB models were of course released shortly afterwards.:p
It is a pain in the ass. I went to Montreal in Canada in July (IETF, whee), and during that I had to unfortunately switch plane in Chicago. Rude immigration inspector, lots of snide questions about "no place to stay eh?" "I am trying to get out of this hellhole, thank you!" (I thought anyway, I think I was bit more polite).
In the end, didn't make it to connecting flight and spent few more hours of quality time in O'Hare..
Oh please. With attitude like that, terrorists have already won. The point of terrorism is not to cause direct damage, but instead to affect lives of as many people as possible.
In what way, depends on aim of the terrorist, but typically, ironically enough, the purpose is to cause terror.. Couldn't have imagined that from the name, oh no.
Scary part is, you can get external 1TB RAID-5 boxes in Japan for close to the same price (for example, Bic Camera's campaign on the Buffalo's TeraServer or whatever the box was).. I think that given all point discounts they were about ~75k yen or so.
Well, you can't even install Microsoft Windows 2000 + the office of the time (Office 97?) in 1 gigabyte. Arguably, if you're Linux nerd or something it's possible (I'm guilty:->), but not really up-to-date software at that point anymore.
IIRC, I bought my first gigabyte drive sometime in 1994, and in 2001 even my laptop had 30 GB drive:p (And my home systems had few hundreds of gigs, I think)
However, I think that the current 100G drives will be good for 10 years, software grows slower than the media - of course, if you want to record HDTV it might not be enough, but Windows Super Hyper Extreme 2011 most likely fits on 100G drive, along with Office suite and possibly even application or two:)
Fujitsu has crappy battery lifetime. Only sub-1kilo (2.4 pounds?) notebook I could find with decent lifetime is Panasonic R4-D (and incidentally, I have the old model, and perfectly happy with it:->)
Looks like you're unaware of the Picasa-Hello-Blogger triangle, probably the easiest way to maintain private photo collection and put part of it on the web (in your blog;>).
The rest of Hello seems bit pointless - picture chatting? Come on.. But the nice desktop picture management combined with easy blogging of selected pictures is nice.
Web interface ISN'T everything and Picasa is closest thing to iPhoto on wintel PC.. and if you're some Linux nut who thinks that everyone wants to use KDE/Gnome program with 1/10 of the features+usability and 10* the bugs, think again.
For the record, I DO have Linux on my desktop TOO, but it still is ways from Windows and won't be home end-user thing in this decade. For Joe Sixpack et al, that is.
Well, considering my old battery lasted some 10 hours-ish (and even in it's waning year_s_ 5-6h or so), and new one seems to last over one day, I don't see the issue.
Obviously, if you're 'out there' for 24+ hour jogs or something I might see the problem, but given modern battery technology, why bother?
And if you're too lazy to plug the player to dock when near computer, I'm not sure how replaceable batteries you've forgotten to charge help..
I think it took me all of 10 minutes to change battery in my ipod, using just tools included within replacement kit (from Other World Computing IIRC).
And if I didn't want to do it myself, Apple would've done it happily enough (but would have charged twice as much for bit less powerful battery.. but I digress).
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and am looking at adding some sensors connected to Raspberry Pi GPIO. However, if you know how to program things, you do _not_ want them talking to mothership, so both my Hue and WeMos are on a separate wlan SSID which has no connectivity outside; instead, my OpenWrt router runs Python-based daemon ( https://github.com/fingon/kodi... ) which essentially implements zero-touch home automation logic with built-in override from Philips' Tap switch. (and it also chats with my desktop/laptop computer to detect e.g. when I am unidle, and to turn on/off monitor, music playing, and so on..)
I do not really believe in using phone or tablets to deal with 'day to day' events in my home, I prefer buttons (either on WeMo switch, or Philips Tap ones), and automation that sometimes triggers things on it's own. I guess it is a matter of preference..
'what distro' -> SLS -> Slackware -> Caldera -> Debian -> XP -> OS X .. in parallel, on XP/OSX Debian/Ubuntu VMs .. and SunOS / Solaris / *BSD on various other boxes since 1992 as well (and had to professionally deal with stuff like HP-UX, Digital UNIX, and other atrocities. *brr*)
I really recommend ZFS for that - RAID5 is inferior to RAIDZ, not to even mention RAIDZ2 (allows for blowing up two disks). Also has built-in scrubbing functionality and metric ton of other nice features.
If I was storing that amount of data, I'd just throw say, ~16 2TB drives at it, make 2 RAIDZ2 pools out of it (thus, 6 out of 8 drives in each actually used for storage, two for parity ), and have 24TB of capacity, out of which 2 drives could blow/get corrupted and still no problems, and in best case it would even survive explosion of 4 drives ;)
Heh, sounds like lot of work. Working as a reasonably well paid consultant, I don't really want to do much hacking on my free time, but I wanted a quiet setup as well.
My approach: Mac Mini + SSD main machine.
Secondary storage: FreeBSD ZFS + RAIDZ2 (SSD cache drive + couple of spinning disks) NAS for video + backups of Mini.
As I don't deal with video much, NAS is mostly turned off, and all I need is one WOL packet to fire it up and mount on the Mini as needed. Win-win.
(Ok, other hardware in the house like gaming PC, laptop, etc also can access NAS as needed ..)
The file contains only unique wifi spots seen over time period, each once. In my case, that is 12k different wifi basestations, but any repeated travel is unlikely to see those points again..
mini ~/temp/x/library/caches/locationd>sqlite3 consolidated.db 'select * from WifiLocation' | wc
11907 23814 257383
mini ~/temp/x/library/caches/locationd>sqlite3 consolidated.db 'select * from WifiLocation' | cut -d '|' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | egrep -v ' 1 '
mini ~/temp/x/library/caches/locationd>
Nothing to see here, move on..
Maybe open source mp3 player software crashes; I have used iTunes since 2002 and it hasn't crashed yet.. :-p Maybe this is the open-source 'feature' I'm missing by using iTunes as my main player?
That reminds me, this much vaunted Songbird thing (admittedly 0.7) AND Amarok have both crashed on me this year..
I've also used various Ubuntus on non-Mac PCs as long as there _has_ been Ubuntus, and especially Kubuntu gets the points for most in-the-box application crashes per version..
(Yes, I know they share the packages in general, but default application set of ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu doesn't have much in common and I like to do minimal installs that have just the default apps to play with them at times.)
As a recent re-switcher (I used 10.1 briefly few years ago), I have to agree.. MOSTLY.
.. I could go on, unfortunately. Ironically enough, my old Windows XP had more polished apps, but I still enjoy MacOS more. Despite needing to run several apps within VMware currently.
Currently Tiger has following issues for me:
- USB support crashes system on resume sometimes if detaching devices during suspend
- my Logitech mouse sometimes turns to anonymous mouse and forgets it's settings
- I cannot use secure virtual memory because it causes glitches (and later crashes) due to invalid handling of the video memory with it
- Mac's very forgetful - it forgets preferences every now and then due to File Vault bugging
- Mail's asynchronous rules (i.e. ones that take awhile to delive response) cause it to crash
- Japanese keyboard input, switched on/off long enough (in their own input mode) caused also some crashes last year
If 10.5 is any more buggy than current 10.4.9, I might go back to XP. And no, Linux isn't an option if you need to get your monitor calibrated, do some serious photo handling, or many other real uses of operating systems. MacOS is 'barely there', but with Linux I would use VMware most of the time in my home system so not much point there.
P.S. Yes, I use Linux at work and my second laptop is Linux-only, but that is evidence of 15 years of stubbornness, and not really the value of 'linux on desktop'.
Not in MacOS at least, and thank god for that.. The number of systemwide settings is surprisingly small, which is quite nice really :-)
I had both Mac and Windows when 1st gen ipod (which I still use) came out, and I used it with Windows for quite a bit until iTunes came out (EphPod, I think, the software called, alongside with some commercial HFS driver for Windows)..
Similarly, at least in Japan there's large number of smartphone 'drivers' that sync with iSync, despite them not officially supporting Mac.
My approach is just to get boarding passes from outside US whenver possible; even for connecting flights inside the US, you won't get SSSS marks. Of course, on the trip home, it's always the quality time at checkpoints.. So here's a hint to the bad guys: get boarding passes to your final destination from somewhere elsewhere than the States!
CVS is shit. I mean this respectfully, of course, but it doesn't even have atomic commits or changesets, which are bare minimums for modern VC. SVN isn't much better, it is still too much CVS-derived for it's own good.
You may consider that funny, but I am originally from Europe, typical nerdishly-pale white male, live in Japan, working for American company, and travel frequently to US on business. And every fucking time I get the SSSS mark on my boarding pass, which, I think, means Super Secret Secondary Screening or something equivalent, and ends up with pat-down and some moron fiddling with my carryon luggage for ages. Therefore, I have made a point of trying to avoid travelling to the 'land of the free', it's no longer even as fun as good old China, at least their random searches seem to be random.
So while I think your algorithm doesn't quite cover it, but it is probably fairly close, considering it seems to be crime to have brains in the administration of the good ol' US of A these days..
Cough, it depends on what you expect. My Linux laptop with 768MB of memory was snappier than my brand new MacBook with 1GB - someone was clearly using some memory out here. I was depressed by the performance and upgraded to 2GB, and now I get again reasonable performance.. But, all of that "MacOS runs with 256MB of RAM JUUUST FINE!" are defined by your (low) expectations of performance, I think.
Hell no. I for example live in Japan. For some mysterious reasons (too many sudden business trips maybe?) I have reached the ultimate, SSSS-ranking at US (and who said they're not nazis?). Every time I get boarding pass printed there, quality time begins.
In Japanese customs? I think they've wanted to see my passport every time, but after that "oh, you live here? move on, I've got tourists to hassle coming up."
The risk _might_ be there, but the probability in case of 'the land of the free' is orders of magnitude more than anywhere elsewhere, due to their funny profiling habits, and completely out-of-this-world paranoia.
Probably just you, I did upgrade my laptop's (Panasonic R3) 2.5" HD to 160GB one sometime during summer when they became available, and 200GB models were of course released shortly afterwards. :p
I played GT HD and Warhawk in TGS, and observed few other games, no crashes. Didn't go for Heavenly Sword though..
It is a pain in the ass. I went to Montreal in Canada in July (IETF, whee), and during that I had to unfortunately switch plane in Chicago. Rude immigration inspector, lots of snide questions about "no place to stay eh?" "I am trying to get out of this hellhole, thank you!" (I thought anyway, I think I was bit more polite).
In the end, didn't make it to connecting flight and spent few more hours of quality time in O'Hare..
Funnily enough, I thought the same thing last time I visited good old US of A on business, and had "random" security check both on way in and out.
Oh please. With attitude like that, terrorists have already won. The point of terrorism is not to cause direct damage, but instead to affect lives of as many people as possible.
In what way, depends on aim of the terrorist, but typically, ironically enough, the purpose is to cause terror.. Couldn't have imagined that from the name, oh no.
In your case, it seems to have worked.
Scary part is, you can get external 1TB RAID-5 boxes in Japan for close to the same price (for example, Bic Camera's campaign on the Buffalo's TeraServer or whatever the box was).. I think that given all point discounts they were about ~75k yen or so.
Well, you can't even install Microsoft Windows 2000 + the office of the time (Office 97?) in 1 gigabyte. Arguably, if you're Linux nerd or something it's possible (I'm guilty :->), but not really up-to-date software at that point anymore.
:p (And my home systems had few hundreds of gigs, I think)
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IIRC, I bought my first gigabyte drive sometime in 1994, and in 2001 even my laptop had 30 GB drive
However, I think that the current 100G drives will be good for 10 years, software grows slower than the media - of course, if you want to record HDTV it might not be enough, but Windows Super Hyper Extreme 2011 most likely fits on 100G drive, along with Office suite and possibly even application or two
Fujitsu has crappy battery lifetime. Only sub-1kilo (2.4 pounds?) notebook I could find with decent lifetime is Panasonic R4-D (and incidentally, I have the old model, and perfectly happy with it :->)
Looks like you're unaware of the Picasa-Hello-Blogger triangle, probably the easiest way to maintain private photo collection and put part of it on the web (in your blog ;>).
The rest of Hello seems bit pointless - picture chatting? Come on.. But the nice desktop picture management combined with easy blogging of selected pictures is nice.
Web interface ISN'T everything and Picasa is closest thing to iPhoto on wintel PC.. and if you're some Linux nut who thinks that everyone wants to use KDE/Gnome program with 1/10 of the features+usability and 10* the bugs, think again.
For the record, I DO have Linux on my desktop TOO, but it still is ways from Windows and won't be home end-user thing in this decade. For Joe Sixpack et al, that is.
Well, considering my old battery lasted some 10 hours-ish (and even in it's waning year_s_ 5-6h or so), and new one seems to last over one day, I don't see the issue.
Obviously, if you're 'out there' for 24+ hour jogs or something I might see the problem, but given modern battery technology, why bother?
And if you're too lazy to plug the player to dock when near computer, I'm not sure how replaceable batteries you've forgotten to charge help..
I think it took me all of 10 minutes to change battery in my ipod, using just tools included within replacement kit (from Other World Computing IIRC).
And if I didn't want to do it myself, Apple would've done it happily enough (but would have charged twice as much for bit less powerful battery.. but I digress).