I do Digital Library development at the National Library of Wales (I think I've been in touch with you before over petabox).
The bookviewer is similar to stuff that we've been developing and looking at - is the code available somewhere? If it's not public, you're welcome to mail me (I'm easy to find!).
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Any other major fads before 1998?
Kibo
Joel Furr (and his T-shirts)
Canter & Siegel
Proper trolling (which incidentally, is done by *trollers*, not trolls)
Actually, I agree with his sentiment. He's bang on. There's nothing Linux does that Windows can't do, certaintly if you're willing to invest the time and effort to produce a solution.
Live CD with overlay file system? WinCE I think has overlay file system support (RAM disk overlaid on read-only filesystem to simulate rw filesystem) but I don't think that grown-up windows does. Could be wrong, though.
iRiver recently released firmware which lets their devices look like any other USB drive. I was able to plug it in cold to a Linux box and copy music to it with "cp". No drivers needed
Which iRiver is this? I've had an iHP-120 (20GB HDD model) for over a year and it's always just appeared as a usb-storage device, and I've never heard of any of their HDD players which behave any different. I've no idea about the flash ones, though!
Of the many server rooms I've been in, the most effective cooling I've seen has been to enclose the racks into sealed cabinets (adding a cheapish layer of physical security as well, by locking the things) and then piping cooled air directly into the top of the cabinets.
You sure? Cool air in the *top*? All the ones I've seen (and all the rack equipment manufacturers accessories) pull cool air from under the raised floor and pull it *up* through the rack. This is because the hot air your systems are exhausting is already rising, and pulling the cool air up and exhausting at the top makes a lot more sense!
Am I missing something? What is there to manage for a browser besides installation?
In the corporate environment (ie when the PC isn't yours and the company doesn't want to spend ages fixing messes you've made 'personalizing' your PC) you need to lock down some preferences (eg proxy settings, security settings, mail account details if you're using thunderbird/moz suite). This used to be really easy under the old Netscape suite (there was a GUI tool), and although there's some support still left in firefox/mozilla (you can lock down prefs manually in the.js files) it's not half as good as it used to be. Other stuff is rollout support with pre-populated profiles etc.
Check out the Mozilla Enterprise project for more details and how some of us have hacked together lockdown and other 'enterprise' requirements.
They were not inspired to use the name "Fedora" from Cornell/Virginia's project.
No, of course they weren't. The problem is that they launched a trademark application straight onto the toes of a benign project in the same (computer software) field. I don't know whether the Fedora Project which mutated into RH Fedora had been around as long as the Cornell/Virginia project (about 5 years before the RH Fedora), but their lawyers really should have told them not to make such an obvious mistake when picking a name to trademark.
Now the Fedora (C/V) community has to spend a lot of time explaining to newbs that they're posting in the wrong place about their problems getting device foo to work under FC3.
I don't really think that RH are hypocrites here, I think it's a matter of their trademark lawyers not talking enough to the "old" Red Hat core who probably don't have a problem with linking to the Red Hat website. Having said that, they wouldn't really need to have asked a lawyer before deciding against 'Fedora' - a google search returned C/V's Fedora Project as the #1 hit even on the day that FC was launched.
Incidentally, I'm not RH bashing - I use RHEL (4.0 released today - isn't that News for Nerds?? Possibly not the new case-modding, app-skinning, P-to-P breed of nerd that Slashdot seems to be infested with) extensively at work and FC3 at home, and I'm very happy with both.
Ironic that Red Hat seems to miffed about people using their name. They're not so bothered that they stole The Fedora Project's name when they changed the name of their 'home' distro. Red Hat proceeded to apply for a trademark on the name which would preclude the name being used by the Feodra Project which predates their trademark application by a number of years.
Just for giggles is anybody reading this currently using NT4?
Yup. On a PII 350 with 192MB of RAM. Mind you, I'm VNC'ing to a dual Opteron linux box for serious work, but for Domain admin purposes, the NT box is still necessary til we shift to something from this century.
At last - one person who groks that this isn't a new problem (forget history...repeat it) This is old, old news to librarians, archivists, taxonomists and the like. The bloggers and taggers will probably rile at the idea of authority control (because of the name, most/.ers probably won't try to grasp the concept), but it's an inevitable problem that must be tackled.
If it works, is free and can be deployed and controlled via Active Directory GPOs I am going to be a happy man for the enterprise.
Anyone know if it IS going to be free?
Having a GPO aware anti-spyware would be good, but I doubt if MS would be allowed to make it free. Certainly I don't think they could bundle it with the OS, because they'd kill the anti-spyware industry at a stroke. Leveraging a monopoly, anybody?
I wanted to record a couple of radio shows so that I can listen to them later on my linux machine.
Have a look at snatch, done by xiph as part of the vorbis project. It's only available in CVS (or subversion now!). You can find it here under trunk/snatch. Worked pretty well when I tried it last, and it has a scheduling GUI front-end.
In general, supporting things like this (even though they're actually pretty important) is a good way to get yourself targeted for "not caring about things here on Earth."
UK Politician Lembit Opik gets flak for his obsession with this as well (or it could be about his upcoming marriage to Sian Lloyd, UK's favourite weather girl...). He does though, have the added distinction of being Ernst Julius Öpik's (Estonian astrophysicist specializing in asteroids and the like) grandson.
RAID1 is both faster (For writes and especially reads) and more resilient than RAID5.
If you've a proper controller and a sensible number of drives, RAID 5 is by far the fastest in reading. Try getting a sustained 400MB/s out of RAID 1 and get back to me.
They're talking of the wet process printing that you can get done from your digital photos on the high street. The actual printing process, paper and development is the same as for your 35mm. I didn't know this til I took advantage of Jessop's 50 prints for a fiver a couple of weeks ago.
The currently available iRiver products don't have recording capability, except for recording FM broadcasts.
I don't think so - the h340 is a beefed-up h1xx, and I think it has the same recording options (except the h1xx's can't do FM recording as the HDD isn't shielded well enough not to screw up the receiver). See the 'view detailed spec' on that page:
Direct Encoding MP3 Voice Recording Yes Line In Yes Line Out Yes Optical In No
Hmm - it may have lost WAV recording and there's an optical in on the h1xx's. Seems like they're going backwards on some features! I'd recommend the h1xx unless you're trying to "rival stuff from the pros", but get a set of powered mics from great squid.
I said: Funny man, I thought you said your battries only did 2 hours, or can you hot swap them? ...doncha hate it when you do that? (it was 4 hours). Mmmm, tasty crow. Pity, since I was genuinely interested whether you'd get back to me with a proper explanation of why you thought it better.
let me know when it can record at 48khz uncompressed for over 2 hours.
Funny man, I thought you said your battries only did 2 hours, or can you hot swap them? The iRiver will trump that easy, it won't be a contiguous file, but then nor will yours. It tops out at 44.1 but I thought this was gigs you were recording - that's good acoustics if you can actually tell the difference.
and yes I tried the iriver, it's analog input sucks with a high noise floor and has worthless manual recording level controls.
I thought you were using an external recording mixer anyway? The noise floor is higher than most DATs, but depending on your environment and what you're recording, it's probably plenty low enough.
oh, bulky? funny, it fit's in my coat pocket quite easily, the size of 2 packs of ciggaretts I can usually carry it, another set of AA's and an extra tape quite comfortably.
So... about 4 times the size of the iRiver, then? That's what I mean by bulky. We'll forget the external recording mixer you use with your DAT since you seem to have as well.
So we have: 44.1 vs 48. 10 hours vs 4 hours (you've got that extra pair of AAs). A higher noise floor, digital inputs & outputs, 100x faster transfer, 4 times smaller. Horses for courses. I know which one I'm sticking with, but thanks for the discourse. Here's a hint - try addressing all the points I raise next time rather than the two (48 & noise floor) that I grant the DAT has an edge on. Then explain why the two points you bring up means that DAT wins despite the other cons. "i'm making live recordings that rival stuff from the pros" makes you sound like you're 17.
your friends need to get a clue and ignore the "hard drive" recorders.
portable DAT recorder works perfectly,... quickly extract the audio files off the tape and into uncompressed 44.1 or 48KHZ wav files.
I've got an iRiver h120 with giant squid audio mics recording to 44.1 wav (or straight to mp3, if it doesn't matter) which I can drag and drop straight off to my linux box. I can record for 10 hours on the internal battery (though due to the disk being FAT, it'll only do about 2 hours max in one file!). Until you've heard the results and still aren't impressed, you can shove your linear, bulky DAT. There's also the added bonus of it being a 20GB ogg repository (or any other files that might be handy to have in a cigarette packet size). Your couple of T180 DATs are looking mighty small from over here.
Unless you've tried an iRiver HDD recorder with a proper set of mics, you really don't know what you're talking about. It's going to be down to "is the ADC in your DAT that much better than the iRiver's to outweigh all the pros the iRiver brings to the table?". Without knowing what DAT you've got I can't tell you, but knowing what you get for $450 I'm guessing your flush is well busted.
What Real does by selling music into Apple's scheme, without entering into a licensing agreement with Apple, is suddenly endanger the whole position that Apple has with the record companies.
WFT are you talking about? Real have their own deal with the record companies (they're not selling bootlegs!) and the companies don't give a hoot whether they get their moolah from Real or Apple.
Aaaaanyway, as the librarian there tactfully explained to me: one hell of a lot of books are published every year, and there's only so much space in the place... and they like to have a Welsh Language copy too!
We get copies of most books which are widely published. We certainly don't get a "Welsh Language Copy" (about.0001% of UK published books are available in both languages). Any books missing from the collection which you think should be there can be requested for aquisition if the request is made while the book is still available from the publishers.
Doesn't do a thing on my Mozilla 1.4.1 on NT (yes, I'm at work). I don't have any fancy JS blocking (other than popups). Can anybody else confirm that Moz 1.4.1 is immune?
The same question for VNC or really any kind of remote management tool that is likely to be used on the Windows platform. Can any of them be logged and/or replayed?
VNC has at least a couple of ways to record a session - there's vncrec, and a vnc proxy server (maybe there's more than one) both of which can capture vnc sessions for playback. Google is your friend.
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Brewster,
I do Digital Library development at the National Library of Wales (I think I've been in touch with you before over petabox).
The bookviewer is similar to stuff that we've been developing and looking at - is the code available somewhere? If it's not public, you're welcome to mail me (I'm easy to find!).
Any other major fads before 1998?
Kibo
Joel Furr (and his T-shirts)
Canter & Siegel
Proper trolling (which incidentally, is done by *trollers*, not trolls)
Actually, I agree with his sentiment. He's bang on. There's nothing Linux does that Windows can't do, certaintly if you're willing to invest the time and effort to produce a solution.
Live CD with overlay file system? WinCE I think has overlay file system support (RAM disk overlaid on read-only filesystem to simulate rw filesystem) but I don't think that grown-up windows does. Could be wrong, though.
Bacon flavoured ice-cream is actually quite tasty.
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Were you joking?
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0504/050422-br
http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/leisure/food/display
[The Fat Duck, voted the world's best restaurant, is well known for its bacon & egg ice cream]
iRiver recently released firmware which lets their devices look like any other USB drive. I was able to plug it in cold to a Linux box and copy music to it with "cp". No drivers needed
Which iRiver is this? I've had an iHP-120 (20GB HDD model) for over a year and it's always just appeared as a usb-storage device, and I've never heard of any of their HDD players which behave any different. I've no idea about the flash ones, though!
Of the many server rooms I've been in, the most effective cooling I've seen has been to enclose the racks into sealed cabinets (adding a cheapish layer of physical security as well, by locking the things) and then piping cooled air directly into the top of the cabinets.
You sure? Cool air in the *top*? All the ones I've seen (and all the rack equipment manufacturers accessories) pull cool air from under the raised floor and pull it *up* through the rack. This is because the hot air your systems are exhausting is already rising, and pulling the cool air up and exhausting at the top makes a lot more sense!
Am I missing something? What is there to manage for a browser besides installation?
.js files) it's not half as good as it used to be. Other stuff is rollout support with pre-populated profiles etc.
In the corporate environment (ie when the PC isn't yours and the company doesn't want to spend ages fixing messes you've made 'personalizing' your PC) you need to lock down some preferences (eg proxy settings, security settings, mail account details if you're using thunderbird/moz suite). This used to be really easy under the old Netscape suite (there was a GUI tool), and although there's some support still left in firefox/mozilla (you can lock down prefs manually in the
Check out the Mozilla Enterprise project for more details and how some of us have hacked together lockdown and other 'enterprise' requirements.
Not trolling, but this is not new.
Really? How many burglars did you catch?
[cue sound of point whizzing over your head]
They were not inspired to use the name "Fedora" from Cornell/Virginia's project.
No, of course they weren't. The problem is that they launched a trademark application straight onto the toes of a benign project in the same (computer software) field. I don't know whether the Fedora Project which mutated into RH Fedora had been around as long as the Cornell/Virginia project (about 5 years before the RH Fedora), but their lawyers really should have told them not to make such an obvious mistake when picking a name to trademark.
Now the Fedora (C/V) community has to spend a lot of time explaining to newbs that they're posting in the wrong place about their problems getting device foo to work under FC3.
I don't really think that RH are hypocrites here, I think it's a matter of their trademark lawyers not talking enough to the "old" Red Hat core who probably don't have a problem with linking to the Red Hat website. Having said that, they wouldn't really need to have asked a lawyer before deciding against 'Fedora' - a google search returned C/V's Fedora Project as the #1 hit even on the day that FC was launched.
Incidentally, I'm not RH bashing - I use RHEL (4.0 released today - isn't that News for Nerds?? Possibly not the new case-modding, app-skinning, P-to-P breed of nerd that Slashdot seems to be infested with) extensively at work and FC3 at home, and I'm very happy with both.
Ironic that Red Hat seems to miffed about people using their name. They're not so bothered that they stole The Fedora Project's name when they changed the name of their 'home' distro. Red Hat proceeded to apply for a trademark on the name which would preclude the name being used by the Feodra Project which predates their trademark application by a number of years.
Read the Fedora Project's statement here.
Just for giggles is anybody reading this currently using NT4?
Yup. On a PII 350 with 192MB of RAM. Mind you, I'm VNC'ing to a dual Opteron linux box for serious work, but for Domain admin purposes, the NT box is still necessary til we shift to something from this century.
At last - one person who groks that this isn't a new problem (forget history...repeat it) This is old, old news to librarians, archivists, taxonomists and the like. The bloggers and taggers will probably rile at the idea of authority control (because of the name, most /.ers probably won't try to grasp the concept), but it's an inevitable problem that must be tackled.
If it works, is free and can be deployed and controlled via Active Directory GPOs I am going to be a happy man for the enterprise.
Anyone know if it IS going to be free?
Having a GPO aware anti-spyware would be good, but I doubt if MS would be allowed to make it free. Certainly I don't think they could bundle it with the OS, because they'd kill the anti-spyware industry at a stroke. Leveraging a monopoly, anybody?
I wanted to record a couple of radio shows so that I can listen to them later on my linux machine.
Have a look at snatch, done by xiph as part of the vorbis project. It's only available in CVS (or subversion now!). You can find it here under trunk/snatch. Worked pretty well when I tried it last, and it has a scheduling GUI front-end.
In general, supporting things like this (even though they're actually pretty important) is a good way to get yourself targeted for "not caring about things here on Earth."
UK Politician Lembit Opik gets flak for his obsession with this as well (or it could be about his upcoming marriage to Sian Lloyd, UK's favourite weather girl...). He does though, have the added distinction of being Ernst Julius Öpik's (Estonian astrophysicist specializing in asteroids and the like) grandson.
RAID1 is both faster (For writes and especially reads) and more resilient than RAID5.
If you've a proper controller and a sensible number of drives, RAID 5 is by far the fastest in reading. Try getting a sustained 400MB/s out of RAID 1 and get back to me.
(Richard, Izzat you?)
They're talking of the wet process printing that you can get done from your digital photos on the high street. The actual printing process, paper and development is the same as for your 35mm. I didn't know this til I took advantage of Jessop's 50 prints for a fiver a couple of weeks ago.
The currently available iRiver products don't have recording capability, except for recording FM broadcasts.
I don't think so - the h340 is a beefed-up h1xx, and I think it has the same recording options (except the h1xx's can't do FM recording as the HDD isn't shielded well enough not to screw up the receiver). See the 'view detailed spec' on that page:
Direct Encoding MP3
Voice Recording Yes
Line In Yes
Line Out Yes
Optical In No
Hmm - it may have lost WAV recording and there's an optical in on the h1xx's. Seems like they're going backwards on some features! I'd recommend the h1xx unless you're trying to "rival stuff from the pros", but get a set of powered mics from great squid.
I said: Funny man, I thought you said your battries only did 2 hours, or can you hot swap them? ...doncha hate it when you do that? (it was 4 hours). Mmmm, tasty crow. Pity, since I was genuinely interested whether you'd get back to me with a proper explanation of why you thought it better.
let me know when it can record at 48khz uncompressed for over 2 hours.
Funny man, I thought you said your battries only did 2 hours, or can you hot swap them? The iRiver will trump that easy, it won't be a contiguous file, but then nor will yours. It tops out at 44.1 but I thought this was gigs you were recording - that's good acoustics if you can actually tell the difference.
and yes I tried the iriver, it's analog input sucks with a high noise floor and has worthless manual recording level controls.
I thought you were using an external recording mixer anyway? The noise floor is higher than most DATs, but depending on your environment and what you're recording, it's probably plenty low enough.
oh, bulky? funny, it fit's in my coat pocket quite easily, the size of 2 packs of ciggaretts I can usually carry it, another set of AA's and an extra tape quite comfortably.
So... about 4 times the size of the iRiver, then? That's what I mean by bulky. We'll forget the external recording mixer you use with your DAT since you seem to have as well.
So we have: 44.1 vs 48. 10 hours vs 4 hours (you've got that extra pair of AAs). A higher noise floor, digital inputs & outputs, 100x faster transfer, 4 times smaller. Horses for courses. I know which one I'm sticking with, but thanks for the discourse. Here's a hint - try addressing all the points I raise next time rather than the two (48 & noise floor) that I grant the DAT has an edge on. Then explain why the two points you bring up means that DAT wins despite the other cons. "i'm making live recordings that rival stuff from the pros" makes you sound like you're 17.
your friends need to get a clue and ignore the "hard drive" recorders.
... quickly extract the audio files off the tape and into uncompressed 44.1 or 48KHZ wav files.
portable DAT recorder works perfectly,
I've got an iRiver h120 with giant squid audio mics recording to 44.1 wav (or straight to mp3, if it doesn't matter) which I can drag and drop straight off to my linux box. I can record for 10 hours on the internal battery (though due to the disk being FAT, it'll only do about 2 hours max in one file!). Until you've heard the results and still aren't impressed, you can shove your linear, bulky DAT. There's also the added bonus of it being a 20GB ogg repository (or any other files that might be handy to have in a cigarette packet size). Your couple of T180 DATs are looking mighty small from over here.
Unless you've tried an iRiver HDD recorder with a proper set of mics, you really don't know what you're talking about. It's going to be down to "is the ADC in your DAT that much better than the iRiver's to outweigh all the pros the iRiver brings to the table?". Without knowing what DAT you've got I can't tell you, but knowing what you get for $450 I'm guessing your flush is well busted.
What Real does by selling music into Apple's scheme, without entering into a licensing agreement with Apple, is suddenly endanger the whole position that Apple has with the record companies.
WFT are you talking about? Real have their own deal with the record companies (they're not selling bootlegs!) and the companies don't give a hoot whether they get their moolah from Real or Apple.
Aaaaanyway, as the librarian there tactfully explained to me: one hell of a lot of books are published every year, and there's only so much space in the place... and they like to have a Welsh Language copy too!
.0001% of UK published books are available in both languages). Any books missing from the collection which you think should be there can be requested for aquisition if the request is made while the book is still available from the publishers.
We get copies of most books which are widely published. We certainly don't get a "Welsh Language Copy" (about
Doesn't do a thing on my Mozilla 1.4.1 on NT (yes, I'm at work). I don't have any fancy JS blocking (other than popups). Can anybody else confirm that Moz 1.4.1 is immune?
The same question for VNC or really any kind of remote management tool that is likely to be used on the Windows platform. Can any of them be logged and/or replayed?
VNC has at least a couple of ways to record a session - there's vncrec, and a vnc proxy server (maybe there's more than one) both of which can capture vnc sessions for playback. Google is your friend.