While it's true that you can use TiVos codec to decode their.tivo files on Windows, it requires some hackery. By default, all you are supposed to be able to do with them is play.tivo files in media player (or whatever you use to play movies), and it asks you for your MAK when you play them. This means if you wanted to distribute the.tivo files you would have to distribute your MAK with them, and it would be easy for TiVo to shut off your box (they would be in their rights, it says so right on the page you copy the MAK from on the TiVo) when they found the files online. This system allows you to decode the files to an unprotected MPEG2 file that you could re-encode and stick anywhere on the net.
TiVo has licenced thier codec(?) to Sonic to allow MyDVD to burn stuff to DVD. I'm sure the MAK is still embedded in there somewhere.
Given that MyDVD would crash constantly and tech support from Sonic was non existant (though the marketing dept knows my email...), I started using DSD to create mpegs that I could make a DVD with using Nero. Or any other app. I'm sure the MAK is still in there somewhere.
Now, I can automate some of the process of pulling video off, transforming to mpeg, mashing into a DVD iso then burning. All on a server not running Windows. I still think the resulting mpegs have my MAK all over them.
And as the article states: Home owners will love the innovation and the marginal increase in cost but builders will hate it; not only because removing a nail will be ridiculously difficult, but also because homes that don't fall down don't have to be re-built. If you make your money building homes and you build homes that last forever, then you will eventually become obsolete.
As the son of a mechanical/HVAC contractor and son-in-law of a masonary/general contractor who has worked some contruction, I can't see your point.
Time is money. If you can do it faster then the other guy, you get the bid.
Material costs are a small fraction. Labor is the big cost.
Skilled labor is hard to find. If I can give a laborer a device that lets him work faster and have the same quality, I will.
Rework costs me lots of $$$. I want it right the 1st time. Some contractors avoid it by declaring bankruptcy as soon as the housing development/big project is finished so they can avoid this, even if they get sued.
General Contractors look at reputations. If that plumber does a crappy job, he doesn't get the next job. If that guy does good work then he gets the next job, sometimes w/o a bid. But he'll have to bid some jobs to "prove" he's not too much $$$.
A subcontractor that does a bad job costs the GC $$$.
Once a job is done, it's done. Future renovations/repairs are a new project. A crapy past job will keep me off future projects.
People always want renovations. Sometimes it's cheaper to tear the building down. Stronger materials won't make a bit of difference.
You're going to work with these people again. Sure, Xyz Corp isn't going to build another corporate headquarters, but that GC is going to build one for someone else. With that architect. And developer. Abc Corp likes Xyz's building so they'll find me. And maybe Xyz needs a branch office.
As for removing nails, you've gotta be kidding me. They're using nail guns. One doesn't quite get the spot, you drive another one in next to it. And maybe a few more. Someone using a nail gun will probably use 4-6 times the number of nails and that'll make it stronger.
A) Create new device. Pay a media company royalties for rights to have music on it. Deal restricts functions of device severely.
B) Sales of device flop badly. Tell media company: See, it failed because of the restrictions you put on it. Media company(s) agree not to restrict future devices, ever.
C) New device has no DRM inflicted by media companies. Only DRM owned by MS and its licenses. Innovation protected for MS.
D) New device has features that others cannot match because they're afraid of the media companies. Everyone else gets sued.
In 2003, ChurchStreet charged $2,000 for a cubic foot of strip-shreds, and $8,000-$10,000 of cross-shreds of standard size of 1/32 × 7/16 inch (0.8 × 11.1 mm) strips.
This was my favorite work of JRRT. I've read it 5 times, LOTR 4 and The Hobbit 3 times. Maybe it's because I got into Norse Mythology in 5th grade and it seemed so similar.
The thing to remember is that the stories are seperate but they may build on the others. The characters are essential immortal. People change clothes and hair styles over time asevents happens. Why not names?
Embroidery patterns are inherently 3D as well. You can expand/shrink patterns to a point, but the thread sill has to provide coverage/fit in the space. They type of thread you use makes a difference. If you shrink the pattern too much, you get a hard patch instead of a flexible one.
The patterns are kinda like fonts. You're always looking for the right one. It's hard to design a good one. It's easy to design a bad one.
From what I understand, NDS was for sale when AOL/Sun split up Netscape.
Sun's JDS is NDS with all the years of Sun's coding added to it. Redhat bought the NDS code base and open sourced it. So it has a few less years of development then JDS.
Oh, and they all started w/ Umich's original code base.
I'm sure someone will fill in details/correct mistakes I might have, but that's the jist of it.
In college, there was one kid who played his stereo loud alot. When we got fed up with it, we'd call his phone. Riinnng! He'd turn down the stereo, go pick up the phone, and we'd hang up. Usually he didn't turn the stereo back up.
A) only allow SSH into your site B) setup proxy inside your site (squid, socks, etc) C) SSH login and tunnel your proxy D) don't give out your SSH login
i) give seperate SSH accounts to the few you do allow in
ii) require SSH keys - no passwords - for more security
You still have the same password sharing issue but now you have accounts tied to each password. It also makes casual use harder. Using keys puts up another barrier to casual use.
I was able to give my Mom a Putty setup that tunneled to my home web server for all the pics of my son (her grandson). Who says I have to expose port 80 to the world?
One of those world class guys I knew was/is a shooter. A lot of people think it's the rifle, or the Ammo, or xxx. Yeah, they help. I've shot his rifle. I've shot with rifles that are darned close to his (and own one) - folks, he'll take your rifle, hand you his, and unless you are in that top 5% class, he'll still outshoot you. Once you get beyond a certain fairly reasonable level of gear in just about any sport, you're talking fairly small levels of improvement between the "best" gear, and the gear just slightly down. BTW in some sports, it's actually HARDER to use the top gear well. That gear, to get that extra 1% takes 25% more skill, and if you use it WRONG, you lose way more than 1%. The stuff that is 1 level down is a LOT more forgiving of mistakes
I used to race motorcycles off road. I was the club hot shot. We'd be racing around the track, I'd start behind everyone else. Then I'd pass everyone and we'd stop for a rest after this. One guy said "Sure, you can do that. You have those fancy Husqvarna 250s." So I said "Ok, let's switch bikes. I'll take your Suzuki 175" (a bike w/ less power too!). It took me a lap or 2 longer but when he stopped, he no longer blamed the bike.
Today, I ride a lesser bike, not top of the line. Even foo-foo some would say. I *love* it when I pass guys w/ the top of the line KTMs with my foo-foo. Of course, I'd love to be able to afford one of the KTMs. Whenever I switch w/ them, I can go faster!
In Boston, in the 50s, buildings were taken by emmient domain for $1 (?) to creat the central artery. It tore apart neighborhoods and caused alot of financial woes.
Today, Boston has "The Big Dig" which puts the central artery underground and is probably the last piece of the interstate system to be completed. It's amazing how much the government has done to accomodate status quo in contrast to the 50s.
It's much harder for the anyone to do a large project today. Environmental concerns, cost & existing occupation of the land required, safety costs, etc.
Well, if you have qmail -> exim -> postfix -> sendmail -> exchange, you'll have several layers.
Lots of people have exchange on the inside with another mail server in the DMZ.
@Stake had this model for all of its DMZ -> internal servers. It made for more difficult sysadmin, but it added a layer which is the point.
To make an analogy:
Most companies are like a military tank. The door is locked from the inside & guns are pointing outward.
The @stake approach has everyone inside wearing flak jackets, helmets and a side arm. If someone manages to get through the locked door, everyone inside has some protection too. Most companies are wide open once you're inside the firewall.
Hah. I used to have people like this. I had lots of docs up on the web side that showed (with screenshots!) how to do something. I'd point people at it. 90% of the time this worked. Some people stopped sking & looked at the web site 1st.
The 10%, I'd sit down with them, show them how to bring up the web site, and read it with them. Often, I'd rewrite the docs to better explain things & I'd thank them for helping me.
1% I had to sit down with a few times and read it off the screen. I'd usually have to tell them to get paper & pencil otherwise I'd get the same questions. Having it in thier own notes helps.
For the few that took more then 3 times, they got let go at the next layoff because they were deficient in the rest of thier job too.
Aperture is a tool to manage your photos from shoot to archiving. It can also do image manipulation. It's aimed at the professional photographers that shoot thousands of pictures a year for thier clients. They need to catalog and keep them around for future use. It's a smaller niche then photoshop.
I know Adobe has a similar tool. If you read some of the pro photo sites, Aperture is a welcome improvement. Many of the pros use Macintoshes.
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Magnetic media eventually gets randomized by the earth's magnetic field.
Also, given tape's history of obsoleting formats, I'm not sure how long and format will stay around.
9 Track, QIC, Travan, Exabyte.....
While it's true that you can use TiVos codec to decode their .tivo files on Windows, it requires some hackery. By default, all you are supposed to be able to do with them is play .tivo files in media player (or whatever you use to play movies), and it asks you for your MAK when you play them. This means if you wanted to distribute the .tivo files you would have to distribute your MAK with them, and it would be easy for TiVo to shut off your box (they would be in their rights, it says so right on the page you copy the MAK from on the TiVo) when they found the files online. This system allows you to decode the files to an unprotected MPEG2 file that you could re-encode and stick anywhere on the net.
TiVo has licenced thier codec(?) to Sonic to allow MyDVD to burn stuff to DVD. I'm sure the MAK is still embedded in there somewhere.
Given that MyDVD would crash constantly and tech support from Sonic was non existant (though the marketing dept knows my email...), I started using DSD to create mpegs that I could make a DVD with using Nero. Or any other app. I'm sure the MAK is still in there somewhere.
Now, I can automate some of the process of pulling video off, transforming to mpeg, mashing into a DVD iso then burning. All on a server not running Windows. I still think the resulting mpegs have my MAK all over them.
As the son of a mechanical/HVAC contractor and son-in-law of a masonary/general contractor who has worked some contruction, I can't see your point.
As for removing nails, you've gotta be kidding me. They're using nail guns. One doesn't quite get the spot, you drive another one in next to it. And maybe a few more. Someone using a nail gun will probably use 4-6 times the number of nails and that'll make it stronger.
A) Create new device. Pay a media company royalties for rights to have music on it. Deal restricts functions of device severely.
B) Sales of device flop badly. Tell media company: See, it failed because of the restrictions you put on it. Media company(s) agree not to restrict future devices, ever.
C) New device has no DRM inflicted by media companies. Only DRM owned by MS and its licenses. Innovation protected for MS.
D) New device has features that others cannot match because they're afraid of the media companies. Everyone else gets sued.
To quote Hyrum Smith:
"Paper Still Works"
He's the co founder of Franklin-Covy.
Only large governmental agencies can afford to reassemble confetti into documents.
No longer true.
http://www.churchstreet-technology.com/
In 2003, ChurchStreet charged $2,000 for a cubic foot of strip-shreds, and $8,000-$10,000 of cross-shreds of standard size of 1/32 × 7/16 inch (0.8 × 11.1 mm) strips.
My memory is fuzzy.
Then there's client-server stuff like Sun Ray, Roaming Profiles and of course unix with an NFS home directory.
This was my favorite work of JRRT. I've read it 5 times, LOTR 4 and The Hobbit 3 times. Maybe it's because I got into Norse Mythology in 5th grade and it seemed so similar.
The thing to remember is that the stories are seperate but they may build on the others. The characters are essential immortal. People change clothes and hair styles over time asevents happens. Why not names?
I'm on the DNC but I've been getting robot calls.
They state "this call is for telemarketing purposes"
I live in Massachusetts which I think has always outlawed the robots, but...
Embroidery patterns are inherently 3D as well. You can expand/shrink patterns to a point, but the thread sill has to provide coverage/fit in the space. They type of thread you use makes a difference. If you shrink the pattern too much, you get a hard patch instead of a flexible one.
The patterns are kinda like fonts. You're always looking for the right one. It's hard to design a good one. It's easy to design a bad one.
Why yes, my wife has an embroidery machine....
From what I understand, NDS was for sale when AOL/Sun split up Netscape.
Sun's JDS is NDS with all the years of Sun's coding added to it.
Redhat bought the NDS code base and open sourced it. So it has a few less years of development then JDS.
Oh, and they all started w/ Umich's original code base.
I'm sure someone will fill in details/correct mistakes I might have, but that's the jist of it.
SCSI used to be simpler.
Centronics SCSI-1 connector or a DB25 connector on the back of a macintosh. Maybe a micro DB50 SCSI-2 on a Sun/SGI/etc. 6 IDs available.
The tape drive, the CD, the scanner were on SCSI.
I have a 4mm DAT from that era. 2GB max. It's obsolete now & too small.
Remember Travan? Zip disks? Syquest? QIC-80?5.25" floppies?
My DVDs and CDs have been viable for awhile now. I'm thinking I'll be able to read them for a long time.
You don't have to run SSH on port 22....
In college, there was one kid who played his stereo loud alot. When we got fed up with it, we'd call his phone. Riinnng! He'd turn down the stereo, go pick up the phone, and we'd hang up. Usually he didn't turn the stereo back up.
Quick fix, no confrontation needed.
A) only allow SSH into your site
B) setup proxy inside your site (squid, socks, etc)
C) SSH login and tunnel your proxy
D) don't give out your SSH login
i) give seperate SSH accounts to the few you do allow in
ii) require SSH keys - no passwords - for more security
You still have the same password sharing issue but now you have accounts tied to each password. It also makes casual use harder. Using keys puts up another barrier to casual use.
I was able to give my Mom a Putty setup that tunneled to my home web server for all the pics of my son (her grandson). Who says I have to expose port 80 to the world?
DOD clearance screens everyone for financial and addiction issues. Sometimes they physically visit and interview your listed contacts.
I hacked together an iSCSI setup from some old hardware.
2 P II 400MHz systems running FC4
One system had software raid 0 on 2 IDE drives.
The target has a spare 10GB IDE drive.
Added 2 10/100T cards with a crossover cable.
Did a quick dd if=/dev/zero count=some large number of=the raid mirror or iSCSI target.
The iSCSI target was 30% slower.
Way cool.
I get mouse elbow. Switching hands works for awhile. Then the other elbow starts hurting. It's a temporary fix.
The only thing that has worked for me is proper keyboard tray with a trackball.
I've done the lefy thing enough that I don't have issues switching
One of those world class guys I knew was/is a shooter. A lot of people think it's the rifle, or the Ammo, or xxx. Yeah, they help. I've shot his rifle. I've shot with rifles that are darned close to his (and own one) - folks, he'll take your rifle, hand you his, and unless you are in that top 5% class, he'll still outshoot you. Once you get beyond a certain fairly reasonable level of gear in just about any sport, you're talking fairly small levels of improvement between the "best" gear, and the gear just slightly down. BTW in some sports, it's actually HARDER to use the top gear well. That gear, to get that extra 1% takes 25% more skill, and if you use it WRONG, you lose way more than 1%. The stuff that is 1 level down is a LOT more forgiving of mistakes
I used to race motorcycles off road. I was the club hot shot. We'd be racing around the track, I'd start behind everyone else. Then I'd pass everyone and we'd stop for a rest after this. One guy said "Sure, you can do that. You have those fancy Husqvarna 250s." So I said "Ok, let's switch bikes. I'll take your Suzuki 175" (a bike w/ less power too!). It took me a lap or 2 longer but when he stopped, he no longer blamed the bike.
Today, I ride a lesser bike, not top of the line. Even foo-foo some would say. I *love* it when I pass guys w/ the top of the line KTMs with my foo-foo. Of course, I'd love to be able to afford one of the KTMs. Whenever I switch w/ them, I can go faster!
In Boston, in the 50s, buildings were taken by emmient domain for $1 (?) to creat the central artery. It tore apart neighborhoods and caused alot of financial woes.
Today, Boston has "The Big Dig" which puts the central artery underground and is probably the last piece of the interstate system to be completed. It's amazing how much the government has done to accomodate status quo in contrast to the 50s.
It's much harder for the anyone to do a large project today. Environmental concerns, cost & existing occupation of the land required, safety costs, etc.
* Mercedes - giving a car a girl's name
One of the founder's names
* Virgin - you have to be joking
Richard Branson was 12? 14? when he foundede his company and a Virgin.
* Kodak - deliberately doesn't sound like anything
One of the Founder's last names.
Compare these to contrived names like current drug, computer chip, etc names. At least there's some previous history for some of these names.
Well, if you have qmail -> exim -> postfix -> sendmail -> exchange, you'll have several layers.
Lots of people have exchange on the inside with another mail server in the DMZ.
@Stake had this model for all of its DMZ -> internal servers. It made for more difficult sysadmin, but it added a layer which is the point.
To make an analogy:
Most companies are like a military tank. The door is locked from the inside & guns are pointing outward.
The @stake approach has everyone inside wearing flak jackets, helmets and a side arm. If someone manages to get through the locked door, everyone inside has some protection too. Most companies are wide open once you're inside the firewall.
Hah. I used to have people like this. I had lots of docs up on the web side that showed (with screenshots!) how to do something. I'd point people at it. 90% of the time this worked. Some people stopped sking & looked at the web site 1st.
The 10%, I'd sit down with them, show them how to bring up the web site, and read it with them. Often, I'd rewrite the docs to better explain things & I'd thank them for helping me.
1% I had to sit down with a few times and read it off the screen. I'd usually have to tell them to get paper & pencil otherwise I'd get the same questions. Having it in thier own notes helps.
For the few that took more then 3 times, they got let go at the next layoff because they were deficient in the rest of thier job too.
Aperture != Photoshop.
Photoshop is a tool to manipulate images.
Aperture is a tool to manage your photos from shoot to archiving. It can also do image manipulation. It's aimed at the professional photographers that shoot thousands of pictures a year for thier clients. They need to catalog and keep them around for future use.
It's a smaller niche then photoshop.
I know Adobe has a similar tool. If you read some of the pro photo sites, Aperture is a welcome improvement. Many of the pros use Macintoshes.
Glad to have another listener! Now I feel my post was worthwhile.