but if you've spent a reasonable amount on hi-fi/video then why FUBAR it with duff cabling. In fact IMHO cabling is THE most important part as you'll get getter results for less money with decent cabling than anything else..
hmm cat5 gives alsorts of issues with analogue (audio) signal balancing. Sure you run unbalanced but it's not worth it. (Check the AES standards). Every studio I know of still runs analogue over 10baseT for this reason.
Of course if you run the signal in digital format the problem of signal balancing goes away, but the problem of a decent a/d converter does crop up. Most of todays sub $150 are OK, but not up to the standards of a decent home hi-fi (>$1000).
well if you have a big enough organisation where desktop software management is a real issues (which prob means you've got more then 10 machines;-) then you need to look at software like Intel Landesk (or whatever it's called this week).
It gives you the technology to to have a 'golden host' on which you base every desktop. You then download the chnages automatically once a day (or when you hit the button for emergency updates!).
Turbo Linux has a similar product which has been recently bought by a Californian company (name escapes me), and there's lots of other products out there that do the same.
But whatever you choose for windows it ain't gonna be cheap.
If you've got Linux/*nix on the desktop theres ways of doing it here if the the Landesk (or equivalent) doesn;t support iut, but many seem to be distribution dependant or still in development and miss many of features you really need. YMMV as the last time I looked at this was 6 months ago..
lately they seem to be blocking everyone who appears to be sending spam. Oxford University (http://www.ox.ac.uk) got blocked for about 6 weeks until AOL pulled their finger out and realised what they'd done.
Seems the sys-admins on the anti-spam bit are clueless and regularly delete whole domains that have the 'from' section of spam releting to them,even if it is an obvious forged address.
Or maybe they are trying to take over the world by only allowing internal emails to flow unobstructed?-)
well yes, there's of things it needs to do, but I'm just makingthe point the people seem to be concentrating on the client end and not the server for groupware (other than html based server s/w like phpgroupware and the ilk).
The server is....we need a usable, easily deployable MS-Exchange/Notes server competitor.
Sure you can build things with LDAP/Imap/web-mail and make them all talk to one-another, BUT you need a server then does alot of this for you...
Until you can point and click your way through a server installation you're not going to win over the MS-Exchange sites.
Yes SuSE have their openmail thing, but need a 'freeware' version of this that runs on *nix (ie more than just Linux, but the *BSD,SOlaris, HPUX, AIX variants as well - like Apache does).
This would prevent law enforcement agencies tapping the signal.
There has to be way of 'wire tapping' any comms system according to various laws around the world so the 'good guys' can listen to the 'bad guys' (court orders etc needed).
The has been alot of stuff on the UK on this (cf ukcrypto list), the cryptos used and how it was weakened to enable 'legal' phone tapping to occur.
But more seriously I'd suggest ProTools on the Mac. Yes I know its not PC, but it just works. PC's just can't cope with the data I/O properly, whilst Mac's do it no problem.
I was at a Tangering Dream concert about 6 weeks ago and they had at least 3 Mac's and 1 PC helping with sequencing - guess what - 1/2 throught the PC threw a hissy fit and BSOD-ed. The Mac's just kept on rolling for the full 3 hours.
D-Day was in fact the fourth possible day that the Allied invasion of France was planned for. The first three (A-Day, B-Day and C-Day) where in fact called off due to weather problems in the English Channel.
Hence the Pentagon using the A-Day terminology again.
amanda doesn't append to tapes so there is not possibility of blowing away that tape. This is a problem I've experienced with other commercial software that appends to a tape each run - tape write error and it marks the entire tape bad. which means you have to scrap the entire entire tape and start again.
Also tisk of appending is loss of tape or drive due to environmental factors - fire/flood (plane being driven into data centre).
US need legistlation like the EU/UK Data Protection laws.
Anyway who cares about google when you have 3 very large financial info companies tracking your every move and seeling that info to anyone who pays for it!
I assume you live in the USA where there are no Data protection laws. In this case be pleased that they asked, anyone can credit check your WITHOUT consent.
In Europe they HAVE TO ask.
There are 3 big credit agencies in the US tracking every financial move you make, they are completely non-regulated and can do what they like with the data. WHo cares about echelon when you have big faceless corporates to deal with.
We have it here in the UK for both phone and postal varients, and from my experience it works well, YMMV of course.
We used to get lots of phone and postal spam. We signed up and after 3 months it started receeding and now we get no phone spam and very very little postal spam.
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but if you've spent a reasonable amount on hi-fi/video then why FUBAR it with duff cabling. In fact IMHO cabling is THE most important part as you'll get getter results for less money with decent cabling than anything else..
just a thought...
hmm cat5 gives alsorts of issues with analogue (audio) signal balancing. Sure you run unbalanced but it's not worth it. (Check the AES standards). Every studio I know of still runs analogue over 10baseT for this reason.
Of course if you run the signal in digital format the problem of signal balancing goes away, but the problem of a decent a/d converter does crop up. Most of todays sub $150 are OK, but not up to the standards of a decent home hi-fi (>$1000).
well if you have a big enough organisation where desktop software management is a real issues (which prob means you've got more then 10 machines;-) then you need to look at software like Intel Landesk (or whatever it's called this week).
It gives you the technology to to have a 'golden host' on which you base every desktop. You then download the chnages automatically once a day (or when you hit the button for emergency updates!).
Turbo Linux has a similar product which has been recently bought by a Californian company (name escapes me), and there's lots of other products out there that do the same.
But whatever you choose for windows it ain't gonna be cheap.
If you've got Linux/*nix on the desktop theres ways of doing it here if the the Landesk (or equivalent) doesn;t support iut, but many seem to be distribution dependant or still in development and miss many of features you really need. YMMV as the last time I looked at this was 6 months ago..
not sparc - different things. The 'sparc' implies 32 bit whereas sparc64 are the 64 bit 'ultra'sparc based machines.
lately they seem to be blocking everyone who appears to be sending spam. Oxford University (http://www.ox.ac.uk) got blocked for about 6 weeks until AOL pulled their finger out and realised what they'd done.
,even if it is an obvious forged address.
Seems the sys-admins on the anti-spam bit are clueless and regularly delete whole domains that have the 'from' section of spam releting to them
Or maybe they are trying to take over the world by only allowing internal emails to flow unobstructed?-)
at work - won't get sued for using it :-)
Ya missed the last bit of history
last year (or was it 2001?? Caldera split up with SCO-Unix, Linux and Tarentalla/Visonware bits all going to different companies.
still costs lots - esp by the time you've added in MAPI access!
Like I said needs to be cheap to 'buy' and cheap to 'install/run' (ie free) for most to most, other wise whats the point?
well yes, there's of things it needs to do, but I'm just makingthe point the people seem to be concentrating on the client end and not the server for groupware (other than html based server s/w like phpgroupware and the ilk).
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martin
The server is....we need a usable, easily deployable MS-Exchange/Notes server competitor.
Sure you can build things with LDAP/Imap/web-mail and make them all talk to one-another, BUT you need a server then does alot of this for you...
Until you can point and click your way through a server installation you're not going to win over the MS-Exchange sites.
Yes SuSE have their openmail thing, but need a 'freeware' version of this that runs on *nix (ie more than just Linux, but the *BSD,SOlaris, HPUX, AIX variants as well - like Apache does).
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Martin
This would prevent law enforcement agencies tapping the signal.
There has to be way of 'wire tapping' any comms system according to various laws around the world so the 'good guys' can listen to the 'bad guys' (court orders etc needed).
The has been alot of stuff on the UK on this (cf ukcrypto list), the cryptos used and how it was weakened to enable 'legal' phone tapping to occur.
In theory yes. But the if you windows it....
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If you run the Linux variants you'll get a better base to start on
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/eventszkm2003.
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Martin
I use SSL's new C200, but then I work for them ;-)
But more seriously I'd suggest ProTools on the Mac. Yes I know its not PC, but it just works. PC's just can't cope with the data I/O properly, whilst Mac's do it no problem.
I was at a Tangering Dream concert about 6 weeks ago and they had at least 3 Mac's and 1 PC helping with sequencing - guess what - 1/2 throught the PC threw a hissy fit and BSOD-ed. The Mac's just kept on rolling for the full 3 hours.
Right tool for the right job and all that.
turns in to
bye bye
Who cares, I've got 2.5Ghz and 1GB ram under the hood - will I really notice the difference?
Also once Mozilla's up it stays up at least all day. So it take 10 seconds to start, so what, I don't restart it every hour.
Like using emacs in the days of old - it's big and slow to load, but once it's there it stays there so the slow to load isn't an issue.
Just a thought.
Shows a nation with inconsistent data protection laws more like.
But then I in the EU where we actually have some DP laws so...
Obviously take after the Oxford way of thinking with local departments doing what they want with little direction from a central source.
Or maybe just Earth sciences being crap?
As a University of Leeds Comp Sci graduate I may never be able to hold my head high again in the great *nix circles any more.
:-)
Oh it's changed so much since we used to tell the jnr sys admin how to fix the Ultrix boxen and fight to get an account on the SUN's.
I wonder if these find the 'security holes and fixe them" classes are cheap ways of fixing the multitude of holes with M$ software.
Come to think of it didn't they do that for NT4 service pack 2 - get a load of summer interns to produce the fixes and then it all stopped working???
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Martin
written with large amount of
boop - wrong
D-Day was in fact the fourth possible day that the Allied invasion of France was planned for. The first three (A-Day, B-Day and C-Day) where in fact called off due to weather problems in the English Channel.
Hence the Pentagon using the A-Day terminology again.
amanda doesn't append to tapes so there is not possibility of blowing away that tape. This is a problem I've experienced with other commercial software that appends to a tape each run - tape write error and it marks the entire tape bad. which means you have to scrap the entire entire tape and start again.
Also tisk of appending is loss of tape or drive due to environmental factors - fire/flood (plane being driven into data centre).
www.amanda.org
nice - can use tar or dump as the back end system. Works on *nix/ MaxOSX/windows via samba or cygwin.
finally starts implementation in US govmt networks - film at 11... :-)
"You have no privacy - get over it"
US need legistlation like the EU/UK Data Protection laws.
Anyway who cares about google when you have 3 very large financial info companies tracking your every move and seeling that info to anyone who pays for it!
"You have no privacy - get over it".
I assume you live in the USA where there are no Data protection laws. In this case be pleased that they asked, anyone can credit check your WITHOUT consent.
In Europe they HAVE TO ask.
There are 3 big credit agencies in the US tracking every financial move you make, they are completely non-regulated and can do what they like with the data. WHo cares about echelon when you have big faceless corporates to deal with.
I'd them to cite evidence "that it doesn't work".
We have it here in the UK for both phone and postal varients, and from my experience it works well, YMMV of course.
We used to get lots of phone and postal spam. We signed up and after 3 months it started receeding and now we get no phone spam and very very little postal spam.