I got a $99 lease return PC from Tiger and stuffed it in the stereo cabinet. I already have a wireless router in the cabinet for the PVR so network access was easy.. Toss in a HDMI capable video card (Nvidia 210 for $40) and it's almost done.. Wireless keyboard and mouse sit on the TV cabinet.. PC runs UltraVNC so I can remote control it from my laptop..
We mostly stream Netflx movies on it.. Sometimes the Kids play games on the big TV from the keyboard/mouse..
The judge also ruled on a second issue, the level of royalties paid to the band. That section of the judgment was made in private after EMI argued the information was covered by commercial confidentiality.
I suspect the real issue here was EMI paying a lower royalty fee for online salve vs a contract set rate for album sales.
Winning in this case puts Puck Floyd in the driver seat when it comes to negotiating a new online sales contract with EMI.
It's not that Netflix can't buy the movies.. They can't get them at the discount they need for 4 weeks. I doubt this was Netflix's choice either.. The studios already tried this with Redbox
Ya know what Redbox did? They started getting DVDs from Walmat..
When I did desktop support we had 100-150 users per admin. The load depended on the department.. The guy supporting the executive offices was at 50:1 and hammered most of the time. You can push those numbers higher but then all you do is fight fires, projects don't get done and vacation coverage is a nightmare. We came up with a chart at one point classifying each department as low medium, high and VIP(CIO,CEO,CTO, VP and so on).. Low was counted as 0.5 users medium 1 , high 2, VIP level counts for 3. The admin supporting the nursing staff had 250+ real users but they don't put in many calls so it all balanced out.
For Server support I like to have 3 admins just so we have coverage for sick time, vacation and on call rotation. It's hard to justify 3 with only 25 boxes so one could be a dual role as desktop lead/server admin. It's always nice to have a guy playing desktop and server to keep communication open between the groups.
I would never take a check for a car.. I'm even suspicious of bank checks. Under $10,000 cash is fine.. Over that and I'll hire and escrow company to handle the transaction or go to the bank with the buyer to transfer the money.
Why are people so determined to destroy disks, rather than data? Even worse, people are eager to PAY for questionable disk destruction methods, rather than just simply destroy the data--what they want gone in the first place.
Our method is simple.. If it does not look like a pile of shredded metal n chips it's not "clean" There is no questioning if this drive had been wiped or not..
The current method is now an industrial shredder.. Nothing left bigger than a dime.. This goes for Hard Drives, Flash drives, cell phones.. Anything that can store data never goes out. till it's been through the shredder. See one in action
It's nice to know that people can shine no mater where they are and not just the ones at radioactive dump sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
Not exactly correct.. there is a cost.. The cost is the code MS co-mingled with GPL code.. It was supposed to be released to satisfy the requirements of the GPL.
What would be the cost to buy a perpetual unlimited end user license to that code from MS? That would be the fine as I see it. That is what you lost when they violated the terms of the contract.
Gee and I was thinking why not just put it into the giant vacuum chamber they just finished building http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/vacuum_chamber.html
Why do you think that? Just because the shuttle is not going to be around anymore does not mean we have no launch capability. We still have the Falcon 9, Delta IV and Atlas V launch vehicles. Delta IV can launch 23,904 lb to GTO Atlas V can put 28,660 lb into GTO
Just to compare the Shuttle capacity to GTO is only 8,390 lb
On Launches to LEO the Shuttle is still outclassed by Atlas V (53,600 lb to Atlas's 64,860 lb)
All this is moot anyway.. Last I checked all my dial calipers,micrometers, bore gauges and other machine tools were not in fractional notation. They all go by inches in decimel form where your 3 5/8 would be 3.625 and half of that is 1.8125 done
for what it's worth half of 3 5/8 is 1 13/16 (No I didn't google it or write it down)
I'll back this up.. No data devices are allowed off site. The security team has a rather large shredder that all data devices are disposed of in. Even systems with small embedded flash drives.. If it stores data it's ground to tiny pieces.
Well really what happened is the bank gave Joe Foreclosure a loan.. They knew Joe is a bad risk so they bought insurance for that loan from AIG. Now that loan is 100% guaranteed to pay off so the debt of off my books (balanced by the Insurance policy) repeat over and over again.... Ohh since these loans are fully insured they run out and package bundles of them up as AAA bonds and sell em off to market investors.
This is all fine and dandy, AIG wrote policys out for trillions in mortgages. To bad and they only had the cash to pay on a handful. No big deal they thought.. Home values have only gone up for 30 years..
The the bubble burst.. record numbers of homeowners were defaulting on mortgages. The Banks turned to AIG for the insurance. AIG didn't have the cash..
Now the banks are over leveraged and all those bad loans are wrapped up out there as AAA bonds they are liable for.
Thats why the feds have to keep pumping billions into AIG.. If they fail the policies fail. then the banks fail and the bond market fails.. You know the rest..
We had a bad German foreign language teacher. The German foreign exchange students couldn't understand what she was saying.
She taught German and English.. It was nearly impossible to pass her English class unless you also took her German class. She loved her German students and refused to fail them.
She also liked to pick a student and singe them out as trouble makers.. If something happened in class and she didn't know who did it she would punish them.
It's Helical, Trust me.. I've run Ampex and RCA 2" Quad systems.. the FR-900 is the same beast adapted to record data streams.
This is NOT a 24 track audio deck.. not even close but it does use the same tape.
Interesting note. (for me anyway) http://www.moonviews.com/archives/2009/02/lunar_orbiter_image_recovery_p_1.html
I worked for a TV station in the 90's running Master Control with spot playback on Quad. The Company Video Magnetics is the same one that we used to rebuild the heads for the Quads.
Magnetic tape is magnetic tape. Unless the data was stored using a helical system (a la VCR), which is highly unlikely given it was the '60s, then the only important variables are the number and size of the tracks on the tape.
Actually it is a helical scanning system.. The FR_900's appear to be a close cousin to the Ampex VR series 2" Quad system.. (Quad due to the 4 head helical scanning system) 2" Quad was released in 1956 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_inch_Quadruplex_videotape
The quad head has an air driven unit that spun with it's axis parallel to the tape. a vacuum guide held the tape in an arc so it was shaped to fit the path of the heads.. There was little to no tape to head contact so the tape can last a long time with repeated use.
I operated Ampex VR-1200's and RCA TR-50's at a small TV station in the 90's.. Some of the last ones still in service at the time.
Yeah.. Nice to see you are happy while we are back here on the server side trying to deal with the crushing load of spam..
At my last job we were running 8 anti spam appliances to handle the inbound load.. We averaged 30-40 million inbound messages a week.. passed about 600,000 as legitimate mail for 30,000 mailboxes.. It's insane that we could only keep 2 days logs on the appliance due to turnover.
To put it another way.. for every 67 messages in only 1 was not spam.
A little light reading on Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries..
The safety characteristics inherent to LiFePo4 technology result from the incorporation of phosphates as the cathode material. Phosphates are extremely stable in overcharge or short circuit conditions and have the ability to withstand high temperatures without decomposing. When abuse does occur, phosphates are not prone to thermal runaway and will not burn. As a result, LiFePo4 technology possesses safety characteristics that are fundamentally superior to those of Lithium-ion batteries made with other cathode materials.
As for batteries will they give new ones for free when they go dead or does the plan cost more then the batteries?
Yes
Simply go to our website and click on the battery return button. Fill out the Battery RMA request including date/time,location purchased, name of sales person, intended use, device model name, serial number the battery was installed in, mothers maiden name and current contact information (name, address, phone number, email address and emergency contact)
One form per battery please
Simply print out the RMA form ship the battery to the "Battery service center" in Elbonia so a qualified battery service technician can verify that they are indeed defective. Then you can get a new battery but you have pay for return shipping plus a $6 processing fee.
Bundling multiple RMA's in a single shipment is not allowed.
Or maybe I have an Old Mac G3 for the kids that uses PC-133 and needs memory.. I'd already looked up the information. It's right here.. Why not use it.. Someone else may find it useful and not spend way to much money on a cheep part.
Since you mention it.. I'm sitting here waiting on some nice folks to finish replacing a bad system board in a server located in another state. I can't wander off since I have to test/configure it when they finish.. I suppose I could be watching the new Corporate ethics video HR sent out So Yeah.. I'm bored and have nothing better I'd rather be doing.
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I did it the easy way..
I got a $99 lease return PC from Tiger and stuffed it in the stereo cabinet.
I already have a wireless router in the cabinet for the PVR so network access was easy..
Toss in a HDMI capable video card (Nvidia 210 for $40) and it's almost done..
Wireless keyboard and mouse sit on the TV cabinet..
PC runs UltraVNC so I can remote control it from my laptop..
We mostly stream Netflx movies on it.. Sometimes the Kids play games on the big TV from the keyboard/mouse..
Log onto your Netflix account and check this page..
http://www.netflix.com/InstantStreamingDisc?device=Wii
It should give your delivery status.
From the article
The judge also ruled on a second issue, the level of royalties paid to the band. That section of the judgment was made in private after EMI argued the information was covered by commercial confidentiality.
I suspect the real issue here was EMI paying a lower royalty fee for online salve vs a contract set rate for album sales.
Winning in this case puts Puck Floyd in the driver seat when it comes to negotiating a new online sales contract with EMI.
It's not that Netflix can't buy the movies.. They can't get them at the discount they need for 4 weeks.
I doubt this was Netflix's choice either.. The studios already tried this with Redbox
Ya know what Redbox did? They started getting DVDs from Walmat..
When I did desktop support we had 100-150 users per admin.
The load depended on the department.. The guy supporting the executive offices was at 50:1 and hammered most of the time.
You can push those numbers higher but then all you do is fight fires, projects don't get done and vacation coverage is a nightmare.
We came up with a chart at one point classifying each department as low medium, high and VIP(CIO,CEO,CTO, VP and so on).. Low was counted as 0.5 users
medium 1 , high 2, VIP level counts for 3. The admin supporting the nursing staff had 250+ real users but they don't put in many calls so it all balanced out.
For Server support I like to have 3 admins just so we have coverage for sick time, vacation and on call rotation.
It's hard to justify 3 with only 25 boxes so one could be a dual role as desktop lead/server admin.
It's always nice to have a guy playing desktop and server to keep communication open between the groups.
I would never take a check for a car.. I'm even suspicious of bank checks.
Under $10,000 cash is fine..
Over that and I'll hire and escrow company to handle the transaction or go to the bank with the buyer to transfer the money.
Why are people so determined to destroy disks, rather than data? Even worse, people are eager to PAY for questionable disk destruction methods, rather than just simply destroy the data--what they want gone in the first place.
Our method is simple.. If it does not look like a pile of shredded metal n chips it's not "clean"
There is no questioning if this drive had been wiped or not..
I do work at a DOE site..
The current method is now an industrial shredder.. Nothing left bigger than a dime..
This goes for Hard Drives, Flash drives, cell phones.. Anything that can store data never goes out. till it's been through the shredder.
See one in action
It's nice to know that people can shine no mater where they are and not just the ones at radioactive dump sites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
Not exactly correct.. there is a cost..
The cost is the code MS co-mingled with GPL code.. It was supposed to be released to satisfy the requirements of the GPL.
What would be the cost to buy a perpetual unlimited end user license to that code from MS?
That would be the fine as I see it. That is what you lost when they violated the terms of the contract.
What ever happened to microwave lighting that I saw on TV over a decade ago that was going to kick ass???
It's right here.
http://www.lge.co.kr/cokr/product/lighting/light_01_list.jsp
The original company folded up in 2002, LG and a few other companys bought up the patents and are now starting to market the lights again.
Wiki on Sulfer-RF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_lamp
List of locations using Sulfur-RF lighting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sulfur_lamp_installations
Dman.. I thought it was a joke
http://www.freep.com/article/20090625/ENT07/90625070/L.A.+Times++Superstar+Michael+Jackson+dead
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31552029/ns/entertainment-music/
Never mind.. the doors are only 50' x 50'
http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/capabilities.html
Gee and I was thinking why not just put it into the giant vacuum chamber they just finished building
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/vacuum_chamber.html
Why do you think that?
Just because the shuttle is not going to be around anymore does not mean we have no launch capability.
We still have the Falcon 9, Delta IV and Atlas V launch vehicles.
Delta IV can launch 23,904 lb to GTO
Atlas V can put 28,660 lb into GTO
Just to compare the Shuttle capacity to GTO is only 8,390 lb
On Launches to LEO the Shuttle is still outclassed by Atlas V (53,600 lb to Atlas's 64,860 lb)
All this is moot anyway.. Last I checked all my dial calipers,micrometers, bore gauges and other machine tools were not in fractional notation. They all go by inches in decimel form where your 3 5/8 would be 3.625 and half of that is 1.8125
done
for what it's worth half of 3 5/8 is 1 13/16 (No I didn't google it or write it down)
I'll back this up.. No data devices are allowed off site. The security team has a rather large shredder that all data devices are disposed of in.
Even systems with small embedded flash drives..
If it stores data it's ground to tiny pieces.
Well really what happened is the bank gave Joe Foreclosure a loan.. They knew Joe is a bad risk so they bought insurance for that loan from AIG.
Now that loan is 100% guaranteed to pay off so the debt of off my books (balanced by the Insurance policy) repeat over and over again.... Ohh since these loans are fully insured they run out and package bundles of them up as AAA bonds and sell em off to market investors.
This is all fine and dandy, AIG wrote policys out for trillions in mortgages. To bad and they only had the cash to pay on a handful. No big deal they thought.. Home values have only gone up for 30 years..
The the bubble burst.. record numbers of homeowners were defaulting on mortgages. The Banks turned to AIG for the insurance. AIG didn't have the cash..
Now the banks are over leveraged and all those bad loans are wrapped up out there as AAA bonds they are liable for.
Thats why the feds have to keep pumping billions into AIG.. If they fail the policies fail. then the banks fail and the bond market fails..
You know the rest..
We had a bad German foreign language teacher.
The German foreign exchange students couldn't understand what she was saying.
She taught German and English.. It was nearly impossible to pass her English class unless you also took her German class. She loved her German students and refused to fail them.
She also liked to pick a student and singe them out as trouble makers.. If something happened in class and she didn't know who did it she would punish them.
It's Helical, Trust me.. I've run Ampex and RCA 2" Quad systems.. the FR-900 is the same beast adapted to record data streams.
This is NOT a 24 track audio deck.. not even close but it does use the same tape.
Interesting note. (for me anyway)
http://www.moonviews.com/archives/2009/02/lunar_orbiter_image_recovery_p_1.html
I worked for a TV station in the 90's running Master Control with spot playback on Quad.
The Company Video Magnetics is the same one that we used to rebuild the heads for the Quads.
Magnetic tape is magnetic tape. Unless the data was stored using a helical system (a la VCR), which is highly unlikely given it was the '60s, then the only important variables are the number and size of the tracks on the tape.
Actually it is a helical scanning system.. The FR_900's appear to be a close cousin to the Ampex VR series 2" Quad system.. (Quad due to the 4 head helical scanning system)
2" Quad was released in 1956
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_inch_Quadruplex_videotape
The quad head has an air driven unit that spun with it's axis parallel to the tape. a vacuum guide held the tape in an arc so it was shaped to fit the path of the heads.. There was little to no tape to head contact so the tape can last a long time with repeated use.
I operated Ampex VR-1200's and RCA TR-50's at a small TV station in the 90's.. Some of the last ones still in service at the time.
Yeah.. Nice to see you are happy while we are back here on the server side trying to deal with the crushing load of spam..
At my last job we were running 8 anti spam appliances to handle the inbound load.. We averaged 30-40 million inbound messages a week.. passed about 600,000 as legitimate mail for 30,000 mailboxes.. It's insane that we could only keep 2 days logs on the appliance due to turnover.
To put it another way.. for every 67 messages in only 1 was not spam.
A little light reading on Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries..
The safety characteristics inherent to LiFePo4 technology result from the incorporation of phosphates as the cathode material. Phosphates are extremely stable in overcharge or short circuit conditions and have the ability to withstand high temperatures without decomposing. When abuse does occur, phosphates are not prone to thermal runaway and will not burn. As a result, LiFePo4 technology possesses safety characteristics that are fundamentally superior to those of Lithium-ion batteries made with other cathode materials.
As for batteries will they give new ones for free when they go dead or does the plan cost more then the batteries?
Yes
Simply go to our website and click on the battery return button. Fill out the Battery RMA request including date/time,location purchased, name of sales person, intended use, device model name, serial number the battery was installed in, mothers maiden name and current contact information (name, address, phone number, email address and emergency contact)
One form per battery please
Simply print out the RMA form ship the battery to the "Battery service center" in Elbonia so a qualified battery service technician can verify that they are indeed defective. Then you can get a new battery but you have pay for return shipping plus a $6 processing fee.
Bundling multiple RMA's in a single shipment is not allowed.
Or maybe I have an Old Mac G3 for the kids that uses PC-133 and needs memory.. I'd already looked up the information. It's right here.. Why not use it.. Someone else may find it useful and not spend way to much money on a cheep part.
Since you mention it.. I'm sitting here waiting on some nice folks to finish replacing a bad system board in a server located in another state. I can't wander off since I have to test/configure it when they finish.. I suppose I could be watching the new Corporate ethics video HR sent out So Yeah.. I'm bored and have nothing better I'd rather be doing.