I use GBPvr(free). It is windows based, and "just works." For difficulty of setup I would put it at about a 3, compared to MythTv's 11. Most of the issues I had were RTFM type things, and the forums are good.
I have two older analog Hauppage 250 cards, so my setup is not HD. Most of what we watch comes from Hulu or netflix so it isn't a priority. If I spend the $ on better cards it will be. I subscribe to a 3rd party service (paid, $20/yr.) for TV listing information. In the main menu I created shortcuts to NetFlix and Hulu, and I was able to set VLC as the player for DVDs. Using a plugin, Fceux, and a pair of USB gamepads, it also serves as our gaming machine.
All of the content and configuration is stored on the filesystem, and by sharing the directories I am able to stream to my laptop across wireless. For Christmas I've asked for another machine and an LCD to replace the TV/DVD in our bedroom. I have not tried streaming across the internet a la slingbox and I assume it wouldn't work as-is because of inefficiencies in the windows share protocol. That said, I can play the recorded files in VLC on another machine, so presumably I could ftp/scp them off if I'm ever bored.
TFA is currently slashdotted, so this may be a completely different issue.
I have observed that booting and running the system on battery power, then connecting a underpowered* power supply causes issues very similar to what parent and OP describe.
* Note to future dell purchasers, spend the extra $20 for the bigger power brick. The little ones get uncomfortably and somewhat frightening-ly toasty.
Your assessment is correct. The two problems are the distances involved[1] and the velocity differences between the net and targets. Both make this approach painfully non-trivial.
1 - Quoting Douglas Adams,
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
With Pwsafe, you can Double-click an entry to copy the password to the clipboard, and ctrl-v to drop it in the form. For the truly ambitious, you can assign a "run" event to an entry that allows you to start an app or URL and automagically populate the credentials.
Parent +1! The big performance difference is how optimized the drivers are. An Example: In XP, I can use my touchpad and not bump the processor out of a low power state. In Linux, any touchpad activity fully wakes the CPU. (Dell Latitude D820). This is a small part of the extra power drain, but it adds up significantly across the machine.
I used OCS inventory in my prior employer's production environment. It had native agents for windows, linux, and macs. The app was web based and the agents still checked in even when the users were out-of-office.
It also had software distribution capabilities, which I only used for a remote kill-switch in case one of the PCs got misplaced.
Note to OCS users. A sql injection vuln came across BugTraq the other day. Time to update your server (agents are unaffected.)
Back to the OP, for workstations I use Airport Code and Service Tag. (We're a Dell shop). VMs are named by function.
-Ellie
The big story here is Mr. Andreessen is backing a browser product, a market thought to be dead and buried in terms of profit. He was profiled in Forbes a while back and his name resonates with the financial types. He has credibility with investors because he called Facebook and Twitter (among others) as a buy pretty early in their lifecycles.
Corollary, the Forbes article mentions that he has a crap-ton of OPM to invest now, so he can afford to take some long-shots.
-ellie
I think most of the comments here are missing the point. A first prepgramming language should be about doing "stuff" with as little programming drivel as possible.
Alice is a language designed for people new to the idea of programming. If your subject is under 14 it is definitely worth looking into. For someone older, stanford has a great intro to programming clas online. It is cs106 with Dr. Sahami. The first couple of lessons are with karel, and then. It eases into java.
Except the kid at the pizza place is going to say "I'm sorry, our registers are down". After someone digs out a calculator they will start taking orders and making pies. You'll say get a calculator out, but they won't know the prices of anything because the LCD menuboards are out.
You would drive to a different store, but they someone hacked the OnStar network and bricked your car.
You would go out for a walk, but the TV weatherguy says there are multiple hurricane, tsunami, and tornado warnings. This is odd because it is sunny outside and you live nowhere near a coast.
Then your power goes out.
And your cell phone is getting DOS'd with text messages, until the provider turns the SMS service off.
And your landline phone only gets a busy signal because people are freaking out and overwhelm the Telephone system.
And it's getting really annoying with those firetrucks and ambulances racing by as they try to sort out which fires are real, and which are false reports.
...
From a terrorist and a security analyst point of view, cyberterrorism can be a very effective tool for distilling fear and panic.
With rare exception, one does not heat and cool the surfaces underneath/behind a parking lot. This is not the case with a roof, as anyone sentenced to slow-broiling in a poorly finished attic-turned living space will surely agree.
You've hit the nail on the head. The OP needs to specify a recursive enabled dns server to his clients when they connect across the VPN. They can still use their local internet connection for http/s/IM/etc traffic, but he needs to provide dns for them.
All of the VPN servers I have used will allow you to do this. (Astaro SSL, Cisco->pptp, Linux OpenVpn, Adtran)
Do you seriously think a hydrogen burning internal combustion engine has a bigger environmental payout than widespread use of electric cars? Electric cars have 1/10th of the mechanical components to wear out and break down, last nigh-on-forever, and batteries are 99%+ recyclable. Electric Cars are powered by electricity. Hydrogen Cars are powered by Hydrogen from... Electricity!
Please tell me if I've missed something, but the way I see it we can't get away from Internal Combustion technology fast enough.
In Kentucky, the only state I'm familiar with, there is a person that records the truck and carrier numbers of each truck that moves through the weigh station. The carriers are billed a significantly non-trivial amount for fuel taxes from this information. Additionally, a safety inspector will randomly or not-so-randomly "pull" trucks for inspection. During the inspection they check the tires, verify proper lighting, brake pad thickness and operation, mudflaps, bumper placement/integrity, etc. Additionally they pull the driver's logbook and verify that they have not driven more than 10 hours in the last 24, or more than 80 hours in the last 10 days. Trucks or drivers failing one or more of these checks are fined and/or impounded. Finally, the weigh station also weighs the Truck+trailer+load and verifies they are not exceeding a set weight limit. Usually "overweight" trucks just have to adjust the placement of the load or the position of the trailer axles, but some are truly overweight and require offloading or escort.
On a more personal note, the I-65 weigh station at mile marker 4 in Kentucky backs up to a pig farm, and smells rather delightful in mid-summer when you are changing brakes and wheel seals on an obstinate trailer.
Another comment a little further down I ask (beg) for someone to come out with a faired (enclosed) recumbent trike with electric assist. I still haven't found one for under $5k.
If Tata can make a minicar for $5k, we should be able to make an electric bike under $1k.
It sounds like you've grasped the concept of death pretty soundly. All of those "dead" people are the control group for an experiment, would you like to be in the experiment group instead?
Full Disclosure: I am a funded option 2 member of the Cryonics Institute.
To break the "whole" internet takes some doing. That said, a large scale distributed dns reflection attack or any number of other attacks can turn off large chunks of the internet more or less at will. Thirty minutes seems very optimistic, if the zombies are in place prior to the attack.
Slashdot Mirror
Sit through just _one_ corporate meeting and you will quickly realize that for a given cluster of human brains,
IQ = 2/(brains ^(blackberries+iphones+1)) * average IQ.
-ellie
(Yes I realize that the parentheses around the denominator are redundant. They are for clarity.)
Let the backpedaling and spin begin!
I use GBPvr(free). It is windows based, and "just works." For difficulty of setup I would put it at about a 3, compared to MythTv's 11. Most of the issues I had were RTFM type things, and the forums are good.
I have two older analog Hauppage 250 cards, so my setup is not HD. Most of what we watch comes from Hulu or netflix so it isn't a priority. If I spend the $ on better cards it will be. I subscribe to a 3rd party service (paid, $20/yr.) for TV listing information. In the main menu I created shortcuts to NetFlix and Hulu, and I was able to set VLC as the player for DVDs. Using a plugin, Fceux, and a pair of USB gamepads, it also serves as our gaming machine.
All of the content and configuration is stored on the filesystem, and by sharing the directories I am able to stream to my laptop across wireless. For Christmas I've asked for another machine and an LCD to replace the TV/DVD in our bedroom. I have not tried streaming across the internet a la slingbox and I assume it wouldn't work as-is because of inefficiencies in the windows share protocol. That said, I can play the recorded files in VLC on another machine, so presumably I could ftp/scp them off if I'm ever bored.
hth,
ellie
TFA is currently slashdotted, so this may be a completely different issue.
I have observed that booting and running the system on battery power, then connecting a underpowered* power supply causes issues very similar to what parent and OP describe.
* Note to future dell purchasers, spend the extra $20 for the bigger power brick. The little ones get uncomfortably and somewhat frightening-ly toasty.
A couple more freebies: ShowMyPc.com UltraVNC Singleclick. Neither of these options require holes in the end user's firewall. -ellie
Excellent comment.
To me this seems more like the NSA'S collaboration on the development of SELinux. Nothing to see here.
How long until Barswf or Pyrit is ported onto that cloud? :D
1 - Quoting Douglas Adams,
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
With Pwsafe, you can Double-click an entry to copy the password to the clipboard, and ctrl-v to drop it in the form. For the truly ambitious, you can assign a "run" event to an entry that allows you to start an app or URL and automagically populate the credentials.
I also like playing OpenArena, BzFlag, and Armagetron Advanced.
My all time favorite time wasters are ..
WARNING! THESE GAMES COULD EASILY CONSUME YOUR LIFE.
Crack Attack
Frozen Bubble
WARNING! THESE GAMES COULD EASILY CONSUME YOUR LIFE.
I ended up uninstalling them on the advice of my therapist. :)
-ellie
Parent +1! The big performance difference is how optimized the drivers are. An Example: In XP, I can use my touchpad and not bump the processor out of a low power state. In Linux, any touchpad activity fully wakes the CPU. (Dell Latitude D820). This is a small part of the extra power drain, but it adds up significantly across the machine.
Driver support, Driver support, Driver support.
-Ellie
I used OCS inventory in my prior employer's production environment. It had native agents for windows, linux, and macs. The app was web based and the agents still checked in even when the users were out-of-office. It also had software distribution capabilities, which I only used for a remote kill-switch in case one of the PCs got misplaced. Note to OCS users. A sql injection vuln came across BugTraq the other day. Time to update your server (agents are unaffected.) Back to the OP, for workstations I use Airport Code and Service Tag. (We're a Dell shop). VMs are named by function. -Ellie
The big story here is Mr. Andreessen is backing a browser product, a market thought to be dead and buried in terms of profit. He was profiled in Forbes a while back and his name resonates with the financial types. He has credibility with investors because he called Facebook and Twitter (among others) as a buy pretty early in their lifecycles. Corollary, the Forbes article mentions that he has a crap-ton of OPM to invest now, so he can afford to take some long-shots. -ellie
I think most of the comments here are missing the point. A first prepgramming language should be about doing "stuff" with as little programming drivel as possible.
Alice is a language designed for people new to the idea of programming. If your subject is under 14 it is definitely worth looking into. For someone older, stanford has a great intro to programming clas online. It is cs106 with Dr. Sahami. The first couple of lessons are with karel, and then. It eases into java.
You would drive to a different store, but they someone hacked the OnStar network and bricked your car.
You would go out for a walk, but the TV weatherguy says there are multiple hurricane, tsunami, and tornado warnings. This is odd because it is sunny outside and you live nowhere near a coast.
Then your power goes out.
And your cell phone is getting DOS'd with text messages, until the provider turns the SMS service off.
And your landline phone only gets a busy signal because people are freaking out and overwhelm the Telephone system.
And it's getting really annoying with those firetrucks and ambulances racing by as they try to sort out which fires are real, and which are false reports.
...
From a terrorist and a security analyst point of view, cyberterrorism can be a very effective tool for distilling fear and panic.
With rare exception, one does not heat and cool the surfaces underneath/behind a parking lot. This is not the case with a roof, as anyone sentenced to slow-broiling in a poorly finished attic-turned living space will surely agree.
You've hit the nail on the head. The OP needs to specify a recursive enabled dns server to his clients when they connect across the VPN. They can still use their local internet connection for http/s/IM/etc traffic, but he needs to provide dns for them.
All of the VPN servers I have used will allow you to do this. (Astaro SSL, Cisco->pptp, Linux OpenVpn, Adtran)
-ellie
Do you seriously think a hydrogen burning internal combustion engine has a bigger environmental payout than widespread use of electric cars? Electric cars have 1/10th of the mechanical components to wear out and break down, last nigh-on-forever, and batteries are 99%+ recyclable. Electric Cars are powered by electricity. Hydrogen Cars are powered by Hydrogen from... Electricity!
Please tell me if I've missed something, but the way I see it we can't get away from Internal Combustion technology fast enough.
In Kentucky, the only state I'm familiar with, there is a person that records the truck and carrier numbers of each truck that moves through the weigh station. The carriers are billed a significantly non-trivial amount for fuel taxes from this information. Additionally, a safety inspector will randomly or not-so-randomly "pull" trucks for inspection. During the inspection they check the tires, verify proper lighting, brake pad thickness and operation, mudflaps, bumper placement/integrity, etc. Additionally they pull the driver's logbook and verify that they have not driven more than 10 hours in the last 24, or more than 80 hours in the last 10 days. Trucks or drivers failing one or more of these checks are fined and/or impounded. Finally, the weigh station also weighs the Truck+trailer+load and verifies they are not exceeding a set weight limit. Usually "overweight" trucks just have to adjust the placement of the load or the position of the trailer axles, but some are truly overweight and require offloading or escort.
On a more personal note, the I-65 weigh station at mile marker 4 in Kentucky backs up to a pig farm, and smells rather delightful in mid-summer when you are changing brakes and wheel seals on an obstinate trailer.
-ellie
Another comment a little further down I ask (beg) for someone to come out with a faired (enclosed) recumbent trike with electric assist. I still haven't found one for under $5k.
If Tata can make a minicar for $5k, we should be able to make an electric bike under $1k.
Full Disclosure: I am a funded option 2 member of the Cryonics Institute.
I'd really like to see an electric mass produced recumbent trike (Tadpole, not delta) with optional fairings. Anyone else?
I could be mistaken, but haven't we had 2 wheeled urban transports for > 180 years? Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle
Look! Now we can determine the true net value of Myspace.
-0-
Oh crap.. nevermind. :D
To break the "whole" internet takes some doing. That said, a large scale distributed dns reflection attack or any number of other attacks can turn off large chunks of the internet more or less at will. Thirty minutes seems very optimistic, if the zombies are in place prior to the attack.