The LINK uses http://pc.neuros.tv/ as it's default portal. But there's nothing to stop you from using any other video collection portal you wish to use.
MythTV is okay. I've seen Elisa and plan to install it this weekend. The next rev of the software (which is due any day) will include XBMC. If I understood the thread correctly, there were stability issues between XBMC and the ATI video driver (which has just been updated). In addition, there is also a PC-based method to stream netflix to the LINK which can then put it out to your TV.
The LINK does have a fan. I don't think it's noisy, but I also have a FiOS STB that is constantly clicking along as it updates itself. It isn't loud enough to bother me.
If you want a small, cheap media center that has no future, you go right ahead on and buy that POS thing that HP is flogging.
I've had my LINK for two weeks. It rocks. It plays any file I throw at it. MKV, Dixv 3-6, DVDs.
Expansion slots? Yeah, it has slots. It also has an active hacking/mod community that's experimenting and enjoying the chance to contribute and have some fun with a cool toy.
If you prefer "appliances" to computers, that's fine. Buy what lets you sleep at night. I'll stick with something that lets me make it work the way I want it to, not the crap that HP and Dell are flogging, thank you very much.
When you get your new appliance, see if you can run Elisa, MythTV, and Boxee on it. Let me know if you can manage to add a SATA raid to it, too.
On an XP box, the most common problem I see is deferred procedure calls sucking up cycles. This is often when you see in Task Manager that the cycles for the processes don't add up to that 100% figure you're seeing in its status bar.
Yeah. It's easy to wax poetic when you're wasted. But be that as it may, they are still parroting valid points.
Even a cursory investigation into the politics of the marijuana prohibition shows that it was almost entirely enacted to provide sinecure for the soon to be jobless alcohol hounds. Nothing more, nothing less.
First, besides the fact that although Coffee smells really nice, it still tastes like shit. Second, I don't get high or even drink alcohol.
Don't let yourself be blinded by decades of propaganda. Hemp is a weed. It requires no pampering or care to grow anywhere a seed can take root. Perhaps two or three times per year. The raw materials it provides creates an excellent linen, clean paper made without the use of acids to break down lignins in cellulose, an extremely nutritive food product for human or animal consumption, a cleaner fuel, etc.
You could, of course, have discovered all of this on your own with very little effort. Do some investigation on your own so avoid further embarrassment in public forums.
Told old to change now. diet coke and twinkies are my health food. I've always subscribed to the "slide in to the end a bent, broken heap, saying 'holy crap, whatta ride that was'" school of thought. I figure if alzheimer's kicks in, I'll punch out.
Now, I mainly concentrate on being cranky and irrascible, being careful to fully explain in great detail all of the "I told you so" situations I'm involved in. I wish people were more willing to learn from another's mistakes and experience. I don't have a great deal of patience with people who make the sames mistakes after being warned.
I know exactly what you're talking about. Thirty years ago I had entire systems and their interconnections handy in RAM and plowed through troubleshooting problems like a laser through aerogel.
Now... Man. I can't find my damned car keys. I lose my glasses several times a week. And I need cheatsheet to remember keyboard combos. vi? I don't think so. Not anymore.
Personally, I thoroughly applaud their actions. What they did is in the best traditions of internet management. Other ISPs have found themselves dropped into a black hole in the past, back when everyone was using USENET. Unfortunately, once mroe people came on the scene and the number of posts grew, fewer people were willing to investigate the headers and track down miscreants to their ISP to complain.
This is an example of the Internet's "self-healing" capability. They've excised a malignant tumor. Nothing more, nothing less. This is an example for other ISPs who consider hosting spammers.
Sadly, I don't think they'll worry about foreign soil tests first. As with the vomit gas used since the 30's I believe the walkers will debut in prison yards first, then rapidly show up in special use.
You might be able to engineer that based on racial lines, but you aren't going to be able bring out the national guard from new york to do anything about civil insurrection in new york. Nor could you bring ANG from another state.
Although the United States continues daily under the guidance of two madmen to become more and more like the cold war soviet union, this country is not formed from client states. The soviet union had troops from whole other countries (consider that Russia was composed of many smaller countries at that time: Siberia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, etc.). making it simple to bring troops from an entirely different cultural and ethic population to bear against anyone not toeing the line. For decades, the USSR maintain divisions of siberian troops for use near moscow to balance any possible problems from "white" russians. While all were nationally considered "Soviets," in fact, they were from totally separate countries. And this does not even take into account the possibilities of using troops from satellite states of the warsaw block.
The United States has laws to prevent the use of active duty forces within the borders for a reason. Homeland Security, our very own KGB, combine with the regular everyday police will be the groups who bring this technology to bear on citizens opposing the government, not the armed forces.
There was a reason for this paragraph in the Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I suggest that you read the entire document yourself, taking care to really understand the abuses those men stated. There are many parallels in the United States today. Few are safe from outright seizure of property based on anonymous informants, whether the information was even true. Nor is anyone safe from a no-knock raid by heavily armed swat teams smashing down doors in the night. The United States becomes everyday, more like the "Evil Soviets" of yore, the commissars who inspired children to inform upon their parents, who spied on the populace lest they obtain any freedoms.
Absolutely correct. No one who has a really active social life has enough time to type their activities into FaceBook or any other sort of trashy tabloid-like social network.
Hell, it takes an awful lot of time to stay at the top of one's chosen profession. Being a successful serial murderer takes a great deal of time and effort, even to the exclusion of any sort of extracurricular hobbies.
Please, please, refrain from calling it a "judicial system." Doing so implies that there will be justice, when, in fact, all that exists is a system whereby flawed individuals can incessantly argue esoteric points and win the argument by impressing a small group of 12 semi-literate people who have nothing better to do than sit and listen to them.
That is true, but this time, the troops they call will be our neighbors, not germans and and not the british army.
I think that perhaps things will begin to fall apart if they attempt to bring the national guard against the civilian populace. Attempting to quell a riot of civil disturbance is not quite the same thing as attempting to put down an open revolt.
The situations sound similar, but were it to be tested, I believe that they federal government would then be contending with outright mutiny in the ranks or simple refusals to fight. It's happened before and is starting to happen in Iraq right now.
Do not think of the military as monolithic and mindless. That could not be further from the truth. While many of the newer generation of troops may have barely enough education to enlist, there are numerous service members holding college degrees, members of all ranks, not only the officers. While your chances of happening upon a bawdy conversation or sports talk are great, there are endless hours to fill waiting for something to happen and these are often filled with profound discussions of life.
The military is your neighbor, not a foreign invader. They have the same hopes and goals that you do. Asking them to hunt down and kill American citizens will not play well at any level.
Perhaps it would be better to consider a quotation from the Declaration of Independence. Remember that document? The one that put the whole lot of dirty laundry out for all to see and said:
"We Aren't Going to Stand for This Anymore"
(quotes, ed.)
Decades of abuse by a government out of control were a major cause of a war for independence. Could these same abuses, now at the hands of the current government be the seeds for a true revolution?
Looking back over the decades of dirty politics and lies perpetrated by America's elected officials and their bureaucracies, I am able to see at least some glimmer of acting in the common good. I'm not saying that it was all proper and that it was not often criminal. I am saying that I see nothing in the last 20 years that was done for any purpose but to line the pockets of a politician or corporation at our expense and to our detriment.
As though the rape of our financial well being is not sufficient, now the government seeks to remove any and all means to communicate in privacy, and to do without due process or allowing us any capability to seek redress.
I think that perhaps you should all read the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps with a mind for a couple slight updates? I think we need to publish a new one.
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
Quite true, quite true. The doughnuts are to distract them from a deadline while the supplicant begs on bended knee.
I've learned PERL and PHP, a fair smattering of C#/C++ since becoming a technical writer.
On many complicated systems, the technical writer is the _only_ person who can actually do a full setup and complex configuration completely off the cuff.
The work is grueling as you probably know (I'm assuming you're also a writer). I think most developers don't really understand how much work is involved or what a technical writer's schedule is like once code freeze hits. Release notes, doc updates... And hopefully there's a system in place to hear about _all_ of the enhancements well in advance. It really hurts finding out about a half dozen or so the week before the release...
technical writers should be involved at all levels of the spec writing process. Ofttimes, the specifications, functional/technical/implementation are loaded with ambiguities information and incomplete or conflicting requests.
The technical writers can bring a great deal of clarity and sanity to the table. Not every company can afford dedicated writers for every product/project, but every company should be asking the documentation group to read over the functional spec prior to using that to create any sort of technical specs. Developers with funky technical specs can easily march down the wrong path and lose valuable coding time getting back on track.
Technical writers are not know-it-alls, we just seem that way because overall, we see are about the only ones besides QA who see the whole enchilada. Developers see the chunk they are coding, PM's see some windows and do some hunt an peck testing (typically. heavy workloads prohibit much else sometimes), but the writers, well, we see the whole thing in one piece.
If you are lucky enough to work in a company large enough to have plenty of writers working at all levels, you are truly lucky. The key to successful product is having clear, concise information for PM/development, and of course, for the client.
BTW, if your technical writers are in the marketing department, do all of you a favour and get them under development? Or perhaps working for the same group that manages QA, tech support, training? If you keep your writers in the middle of the information flow, they will clean it for you and everything will be better. Honest. And don't for get the doughnuts!
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The LINK uses http://pc.neuros.tv/ as it's default portal. But there's nothing to stop you from using any other video collection portal you wish to use.
MythTV is okay. I've seen Elisa and plan to install it this weekend. The next rev of the software (which is due any day) will include XBMC. If I understood the thread correctly, there were stability issues between XBMC and the ATI video driver (which has just been updated). In addition, there is also a PC-based method to stream netflix to the LINK which can then put it out to your TV.
The LINK does have a fan. I don't think it's noisy, but I also have a FiOS STB that is constantly clicking along as it updates itself. It isn't loud enough to bother me.
I have a LINK, too.
If you want a small, cheap media center that has no future, you go right ahead on and buy that POS thing that HP is flogging.
I've had my LINK for two weeks. It rocks. It plays any file I throw at it. MKV, Dixv 3-6, DVDs.
Expansion slots? Yeah, it has slots. It also has an active hacking/mod community that's experimenting and enjoying the chance to contribute and have some fun with a cool toy.
If you prefer "appliances" to computers, that's fine. Buy what lets you sleep at night. I'll stick with something that lets me make it work the way I want it to, not the crap that HP and Dell are flogging, thank you very much.
When you get your new appliance, see if you can run Elisa, MythTV, and Boxee on it. Let me know if you can manage to add a SATA raid to it, too.
And get off my damn lawn, too. Damned kids.
On an XP box, the most common problem I see is deferred procedure calls sucking up cycles. This is often when you see in Task Manager that the cycles for the processes don't add up to that 100% figure you're seeing in its status bar.
Take a look at this:
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
Yeah. It's easy to wax poetic when you're wasted. But be that as it may, they are still parroting valid points.
Even a cursory investigation into the politics of the marijuana prohibition shows that it was almost entirely enacted to provide sinecure for the soon to be jobless alcohol hounds. Nothing more, nothing less.
My drug (coffee) is better than yours, pothead.
You made false assumptions, my friend.
First, besides the fact that although Coffee smells really nice, it still tastes like shit. Second, I don't get high or even drink alcohol.
Don't let yourself be blinded by decades of propaganda. Hemp is a weed. It requires no pampering or care to grow anywhere a seed can take root. Perhaps two or three times per year. The raw materials it provides creates an excellent linen, clean paper made without the use of acids to break down lignins in cellulose, an extremely nutritive food product for human or animal consumption, a cleaner fuel, etc.
You could, of course, have discovered all of this on your own with very little effort. Do some investigation on your own so avoid further embarrassment in public forums.
How many tons of seeds, stems, and leaves are wasted every year?
Coffee grounds is just another freaking hype buzz word. Henry Ford was using hemp for bio-diesel 60 years ago.
"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." -- George Washington.
Get with the plan, people. Don't toss those seeds in the trash, toss them into fields and gardens everywhere.
Told old to change now. diet coke and twinkies are my health food. I've always subscribed to the "slide in to the end a bent, broken heap, saying 'holy crap, whatta ride that was'" school of thought. I figure if alzheimer's kicks in, I'll punch out.
Now, I mainly concentrate on being cranky and irrascible, being careful to fully explain in great detail all of the "I told you so" situations I'm involved in. I wish people were more willing to learn from another's mistakes and experience. I don't have a great deal of patience with people who make the sames mistakes after being warned.
damn. I've turned into walter mathau :-(
I know exactly what you're talking about. Thirty years ago I had entire systems and their interconnections handy in RAM and plowed through troubleshooting problems like a laser through aerogel.
Now... Man. I can't find my damned car keys. I lose my glasses several times a week. And I need cheatsheet to remember keyboard combos. vi? I don't think so. Not anymore.
Personally, I thoroughly applaud their actions. What they did is in the best traditions of internet management. Other ISPs have found themselves dropped into a black hole in the past, back when everyone was using USENET. Unfortunately, once mroe people came on the scene and the number of posts grew, fewer people were willing to investigate the headers and track down miscreants to their ISP to complain.
This is an example of the Internet's "self-healing" capability. They've excised a malignant tumor. Nothing more, nothing less. This is an example for other ISPs who consider hosting spammers.
Spam Hosting == Net Death
Sadly, I don't think they'll worry about foreign soil tests first. As with the vomit gas used since the 30's I believe the walkers will debut in prison yards first, then rapidly show up in special use.
It's time for a regime change.
Doubtful.
You might be able to engineer that based on racial lines, but you aren't going to be able bring out the national guard from new york to do anything about civil insurrection in new york. Nor could you bring ANG from another state.
Although the United States continues daily under the guidance of two madmen to become more and more like the cold war soviet union, this country is not formed from client states. The soviet union had troops from whole other countries (consider that Russia was composed of many smaller countries at that time: Siberia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, etc.). making it simple to bring troops from an entirely different cultural and ethic population to bear against anyone not toeing the line. For decades, the USSR maintain divisions of siberian troops for use near moscow to balance any possible problems from "white" russians. While all were nationally considered "Soviets," in fact, they were from totally separate countries. And this does not even take into account the possibilities of using troops from satellite states of the warsaw block.
The United States has laws to prevent the use of active duty forces within the borders for a reason. Homeland Security, our very own KGB, combine with the regular everyday police will be the groups who bring this technology to bear on citizens opposing the government, not the armed forces.
There was a reason for this paragraph in the Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I suggest that you read the entire document yourself, taking care to really understand the abuses those men stated. There are many parallels in the United States today. Few are safe from outright seizure of property based on anonymous informants, whether the information was even true. Nor is anyone safe from a no-knock raid by heavily armed swat teams smashing down doors in the night. The United States becomes everyday, more like the "Evil Soviets" of yore, the commissars who inspired children to inform upon their parents, who spied on the populace lest they obtain any freedoms.
"There's a thin line between love and hate."
"Microwave"
Thank goodness for pgp, huh?
This doomed attempt to scaremonger Aussie-style censorship == "FAIL."
Seems to me that using SSL connections or SSH tunneling makes their whole concept fairly worthless.
And if they say they can manage to play man in the middle to look at your data, doesn't that make all internet commerce vulnerable?
They'll end up sucking hind teat or dropping the brick and mortar bomb on online banking, paypal, ebay....
Encryption for one and all.
As you wish to, you'll do.
I also have a social life, and it doesn't need a "web app" for support.
How do you think people managed to speak with distant friends before the advent of "web apps?" Letters? Emails? Phone calls? Actual visits?
Your comment reads like a bitter 20-something who jones'es when denied access to his support group.
Have a boot floppy ready? I honestly can't remember the last system I owned that even had a floppy drive.
Absolutely correct. No one who has a really active social life has enough time to type their activities into FaceBook or any other sort of trashy tabloid-like social network.
Hell, it takes an awful lot of time to stay at the top of one's chosen profession. Being a successful serial murderer takes a great deal of time and effort, even to the exclusion of any sort of extracurricular hobbies.
But I enjoy FaceBook! It's such a wonderful alternative to visiting FARK or somethingawful.
So many idiots, so little time. Thank goodness that there is no limit on the amount of laughing a person can do in one lifetime.
freq domain reflectometry should be able to pinpoint any device wired to the network. If it's wireless, though, they are well and truly hosed.
The idiots who fired him and had him imprisoned should be flogged and fired.
Please, please, refrain from calling it a "judicial system." Doing so implies that there will be justice, when, in fact, all that exists is a system whereby flawed individuals can incessantly argue esoteric points and win the argument by impressing a small group of 12 semi-literate people who have nothing better to do than sit and listen to them.
I'm glad you noticed that I was not discussion the Constitution.
Too bad you didn't figure out that I am suggesting that we should publish the Declaration of Independence Redux.
That is true, but this time, the troops they call will be our neighbors, not germans and and not the british army.
I think that perhaps things will begin to fall apart if they attempt to bring the national guard against the civilian populace. Attempting to quell a riot of civil disturbance is not quite the same thing as attempting to put down an open revolt.
The situations sound similar, but were it to be tested, I believe that they federal government would then be contending with outright mutiny in the ranks or simple refusals to fight. It's happened before and is starting to happen in Iraq right now.
Do not think of the military as monolithic and mindless. That could not be further from the truth. While many of the newer generation of troops may have barely enough education to enlist, there are numerous service members holding college degrees, members of all ranks, not only the officers. While your chances of happening upon a bawdy conversation or sports talk are great, there are endless hours to fill waiting for something to happen and these are often filled with profound discussions of life.
The military is your neighbor, not a foreign invader. They have the same hopes and goals that you do. Asking them to hunt down and kill American citizens will not play well at any level.
Everyone quotes the Constitution and argues law.
Perhaps it would be better to consider a quotation from the Declaration of Independence. Remember that document? The one that put the whole lot of dirty laundry out for all to see and said:
"We Aren't Going to Stand for This Anymore"
(quotes, ed.)
Decades of abuse by a government out of control were a major cause of a war for independence. Could these same abuses, now at the hands of the current government be the seeds for a true revolution?
Looking back over the decades of dirty politics and lies perpetrated by America's elected officials and their bureaucracies, I am able to see at least some glimmer of acting in the common good. I'm not saying that it was all proper and that it was not often criminal. I am saying that I see nothing in the last 20 years that was done for any purpose but to line the pockets of a politician or corporation at our expense and to our detriment.
As though the rape of our financial well being is not sufficient, now the government seeks to remove any and all means to communicate in privacy, and to do without due process or allowing us any capability to seek redress.
I think that perhaps you should all read the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps with a mind for a couple slight updates? I think we need to publish a new one.
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
Quite true, quite true. The doughnuts are to distract them from a deadline while the supplicant begs on bended knee.
I've learned PERL and PHP, a fair smattering of C#/C++ since becoming a technical writer.
On many complicated systems, the technical writer is the _only_ person who can actually do a full setup and complex configuration completely off the cuff.
The work is grueling as you probably know (I'm assuming you're also a writer). I think most developers don't really understand how much work is involved or what a technical writer's schedule is like once code freeze hits. Release notes, doc updates... And hopefully there's a system in place to hear about _all_ of the enhancements well in advance. It really hurts finding out about a half dozen or so the week before the release...
technical writers should be involved at all levels of the spec writing process. Ofttimes, the specifications, functional/technical/implementation are loaded with ambiguities information and incomplete or conflicting requests.
The technical writers can bring a great deal of clarity and sanity to the table. Not every company can afford dedicated writers for every product/project, but every company should be asking the documentation group to read over the functional spec prior to using that to create any sort of technical specs. Developers with funky technical specs can easily march down the wrong path and lose valuable coding time getting back on track.
Technical writers are not know-it-alls, we just seem that way because overall, we see are about the only ones besides QA who see the whole enchilada. Developers see the chunk they are coding, PM's see some windows and do some hunt an peck testing (typically. heavy workloads prohibit much else sometimes), but the writers, well, we see the whole thing in one piece.
If you are lucky enough to work in a company large enough to have plenty of writers working at all levels, you are truly lucky. The key to successful product is having clear, concise information for PM/development, and of course, for the client.
BTW, if your technical writers are in the marketing department, do all of you a favour and get them under development? Or perhaps working for the same group that manages QA, tech support, training? If you keep your writers in the middle of the information flow, they will clean it for you and everything will be better. Honest. And don't for get the doughnuts!