For this to succeed, there would have to be some sort of method to 'subscribe' to the multicasted video. That is, I'm sure many internet providers will NOT want gigs and gigs of bandwidth (that they pay for) being used for video that potentially no one is watching.
It would probably be easier just to set up re-broadcasting services at major 'net centres, - large colocation facilities, for example. That way a single stream could be sent out to a coordinating server, that then sends the stream out to a bunch of other servers (spread around the globe) that clients then connect to to stream the video.
Of course, there could always be an extra layer in there, where particularly frugal ISP's set up their own rebroadcasters, effectively cutting the traffic they would be paying for by a factor of the number of viewers.
Unfortunately, systems like these do not lend themselves to the low end user. It would be expensive (or at least difficult) to set something like this up - but I don't think router-level multicasting is really going to catch on.
Well, when you think about it, setting up a wireless network that is mildly insecure is basically the same as having cat-5 ports on the outside wall of your office building.
Unfortunately, very few administrators stop to think of the implications of wireless before doing a mass deployment.
This recently happened at my school, as is talked about in this paper I wrote, which gives a breakdown on some of the vulnerabilities present in my, and many others', schools.
One of the features of Debian is it's nifty apt-get system, whereby you can easily upgrade everything on your system with a simple command. (apt-get upgrade ; apt-get dist-upgrade)
This gives it an almost 'self-healing' property, which is going towards convincing me to switch all my servers over to it.
Imagine, with a simple cron job I can ensure I'll always be patched up with the latest security updates.
Many would argue that restrictions on genetic engineering are holding back the advancement of mass food production techniques, prevention of hereditary illness, etc.
At the risk of seeming a conspiracy theorist: I'd say there's a very real possibility that it is not government regulations that are holding back the development (and implementation of) hydrogen powered vehicles, but economic inertia caused by the ever-powerful oil industry.
Private rocketry - now that's my idea of a good time. I'd say that the main restricting factor in this field is the $$$ it costs to build and run the bloody things.
High Quality Encryption is not so much held back by government restrictions (I believe the USA has recently lifted a ban on the export of cryptography), but by the fact that many people who show promise in the field are quickly snatched up by government agencies (or large corporations), and their efforts never reach the public. In any case, we have PGP, and that's pretty damn secure. (Although with the recent quantum encryption story, maybe not quite so secure)
Organisations that are set up to control who can broadcast what over the airways just piss me off. Here in Melbourne, Australia, there are probably about 10 FM frequencies in use, most of which are commercial bollocks. Meanwhile, there are many smaller radio stations battling for their full-time liscences, taking turns (2 month slots) to broadcast.
Why can't anyone who can display a professional use of the spectrum be allowed to broadcast? It's not as if we've even nearly exhausted the FM frequency range. It just makes me think that the ABA, or FCC, are serving the interests of the commercial networks that force-feed their crap to the masses, due to lack of any real alternative.
This kind of stuff has been around for quite some time now. The QuakeWorld proxy Qizmo has been able to do this for a while, and at the Australian Big Day In, we had a spectator proxy set up so that people could spectate on all of the finals matches.
It worked extremely well, one guy from overseas sent us a screenshot which had two quake3 windows open, with the opponets POV's in each, and our event coverage shoutcast mp3 stream in winamp. I don't think any Australian LAN has had similiar coverage since....
It's hardly "Valve's New Technology", try "Valve's Implementation of Old Technology".
Rather than upgrading all their hardware ($$$), they could've just switched to apache/php and upped the efficiency of their existing hardware. It is hardly surprising that they were having trouble with solaris Cold Fusion implementations. The engine is flaky enough on it's native platform!
IMO, php, perl, or perhaps python (I have no experience with it, though) would all make better alternatives to Cold Fusion. (aka Server Side Scripting For Dummies, not that it doesn't have it's place)
I suppose they could also install a BSD or Linux to cut down on useless cruft (like GUI, etc) running on their web servers, (flame-retardant suit on) but then again I suppose many would argue that Linux contains a huge amount of cruft in the first place;)
Actually, if you'd understood the _point_ (and someone called 'ConceptJunkie' probably should) you'd realise that it was this:
(typically) Christian majorities believe that they have the right to bully governments into censoring what they don't like. (or their religion says they shouldn't like)
People like myself simply believe 'each to his own': people can do what they want as long as it doesn't negatively effect others' lives.
I find it highly improbable that someone who thinks that telnet == unix ("Everything I know about Telnet...") loves "to hack code".
"Hackers (not crackers) are who make new ideas work, who push the envelope of computers as we know it." If that isn't purely regurgitated media fodder than I don't know what is. Have you ever had an original thought in your life?
"I wanted to know how the software and packets worked" Spoken like a true hacker. Why didn't you just say 'I wanted to know how the stuff and junk worked, ya know?' You'd probably have the same degree of credibility.
"If it wasn't for the hacking, I never would have peaked my curiosity enough to go as far as I have" And that's coherent english?
"I probably wouldn't even be running Linux!" Are you sure you didn't just change your windows colour scheme?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some elitist hacker type or something. I code professionally, I hack around with my own servers, etc, but I'm no hacker. The fact is that the people who are 'h4rdc0re' will always be surpassed by the true hackers of our time - for example, the open source gods like Alan Cox, etc.
Sometimes I wish that the whole hacker thing wasn't as prominent as it is, because frankly (along with a lot of american 'culture') it promotes malicious activity that is detrimental to society in general.
Why can't it be cool to just code, or build, or whatever?
I don't know just how efficient a Linux PDA would be.
"Palm and Handspring pretty much have the PDA market wrapped up."
There's a good reason why, too. The OS's that run on these PDA's are specifically designed to run on PDA's. They're designed to have a small(ish) memory footprint with limited multitasking and maximum functionality. I know in Palm's case, PalmOS is an extremely nifty little OS, and I don't really see what more people could want from a PDA.
Sure, with a Linux PDA you could do all sorts of things. You could run various server daemons, code, browse the web, etc, but why? The majority of stuff you'd be doing would be pretty trivial notes, addresses, appointments: all things that existing PDA's do efficiently enough. (probably more than the bloated (for a PDA) Linux kernel would be)
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For this to succeed, there would have to be some sort of method to 'subscribe' to the multicasted video. That is, I'm sure many internet providers will NOT want gigs and gigs of bandwidth (that they pay for) being used for video that potentially no one is watching.
It would probably be easier just to set up re-broadcasting services at major 'net centres, - large colocation facilities, for example. That way a single stream could be sent out to a coordinating server, that then sends the stream out to a bunch of other servers (spread around the globe) that clients then connect to to stream the video.
Of course, there could always be an extra layer in there, where particularly frugal ISP's set up their own rebroadcasters, effectively cutting the traffic they would be paying for by a factor of the number of viewers.
Unfortunately, systems like these do not lend themselves to the low end user. It would be expensive (or at least difficult) to set something like this up - but I don't think router-level multicasting is really going to catch on.
Somehow I don't think giving away the encoder/player is going to make it cheaper to publish video on the net.
The bandwidth is still the major inhibiting factor.
Unfortunately, very few administrators stop to think of the implications of wireless before doing a mass deployment.
This recently happened at my school, as is talked about in this paper I wrote, which gives a breakdown on some of the vulnerabilities present in my, and many others', schools.
I don't have any trace of a Windows install on this pc, and I installed wine perfectly well under slackware 7.1...
This gives it an almost 'self-healing' property, which is going towards convincing me to switch all my servers over to it.
Imagine, with a simple cron job I can ensure I'll always be patched up with the latest security updates.
A smart entrepeneur would go and buy a lot of cheap housing in Maryland, and sell (or lease) it off to Open Source Zealots.
It's foolproof, I tells ya!
Many would argue that restrictions on genetic engineering are holding back the advancement of mass food production techniques, prevention of hereditary illness, etc.
At the risk of seeming a conspiracy theorist: I'd say there's a very real possibility that it is not government regulations that are holding back the development (and implementation of) hydrogen powered vehicles, but economic inertia caused by the ever-powerful oil industry.
Private rocketry - now that's my idea of a good time. I'd say that the main restricting factor in this field is the $$$ it costs to build and run the bloody things.
High Quality Encryption is not so much held back by government restrictions (I believe the USA has recently lifted a ban on the export of cryptography), but by the fact that many people who show promise in the field are quickly snatched up by government agencies (or large corporations), and their efforts never reach the public. In any case, we have PGP, and that's pretty damn secure. (Although with the recent quantum encryption story, maybe not quite so secure)
Organisations that are set up to control who can broadcast what over the airways just piss me off. Here in Melbourne, Australia, there are probably about 10 FM frequencies in use, most of which are commercial bollocks. Meanwhile, there are many smaller radio stations battling for their full-time liscences, taking turns (2 month slots) to broadcast.
Why can't anyone who can display a professional use of the spectrum be allowed to broadcast? It's not as if we've even nearly exhausted the FM frequency range. It just makes me think that the ABA, or FCC, are serving the interests of the commercial networks that force-feed their crap to the masses, due to lack of any real alternative.
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This kind of stuff has been around for quite some time now. The QuakeWorld proxy Qizmo has been able to do this for a while, and at the Australian Big Day In, we had a spectator proxy set up so that people could spectate on all of the finals matches.
It worked extremely well, one guy from overseas sent us a screenshot which had two quake3 windows open, with the opponets POV's in each, and our event coverage shoutcast mp3 stream in winamp. I don't think any Australian LAN has had similiar coverage since....
It's hardly "Valve's New Technology", try "Valve's Implementation of Old Technology".
Rather than upgrading all their hardware ($$$), they could've just switched to apache/php and upped the efficiency of their existing hardware. It is hardly surprising that they were having trouble with solaris Cold Fusion implementations. The engine is flaky enough on it's native platform!
;)
IMO, php, perl, or perhaps python (I have no experience with it, though) would all make better alternatives to Cold Fusion. (aka Server Side Scripting For Dummies, not that it doesn't have it's place)
I suppose they could also install a BSD or Linux to cut down on useless cruft (like GUI, etc) running on their web servers, (flame-retardant suit on) but then again I suppose many would argue that Linux contains a huge amount of cruft in the first place
"apologized" ?
I think the joke was that the Australia spelling is "apologised". I know, it's not very funny.
Even if you _don't_ leave your door locked, if someone comes into your house and steals things, you can still charge them.
What difference does it make how hard you try to keep them out? Burglary is still a crime.
Well, when I told my school about their security problems, not a great deal happens.
;)
The I wrote a security analysis paper, detailing how one would gather username and password pairs for virtually every student in the school.
Then they started to listen
Actually, if you'd understood the _point_ (and someone called 'ConceptJunkie' probably should) you'd realise that it was this:
(typically) Christian majorities believe that they have the right to bully governments into censoring what they don't like. (or their religion says they shouldn't like)
People like myself simply believe 'each to his own': people can do what they want as long as it doesn't negatively effect others' lives.
Doesn't sound too balanced to me...
Okay, you are completely retarded.
I find it highly improbable that someone who thinks that telnet == unix ("Everything I know about Telnet...") loves "to hack code".
"Hackers (not crackers) are who make new ideas work, who push the envelope of computers as we know it." If that isn't purely regurgitated media fodder than I don't know what is. Have you ever had an original thought in your life?
"I wanted to know how the software and packets worked" Spoken like a true hacker. Why didn't you just say 'I wanted to know how the stuff and junk worked, ya know?' You'd probably have the same degree of credibility.
"If it wasn't for the hacking, I never would have peaked my curiosity enough to go as far as I have" And that's coherent english?
"I probably wouldn't even be running Linux!" Are you sure you didn't just change your windows colour scheme?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some elitist hacker type or something. I code professionally, I hack around with my own servers, etc, but I'm no hacker. The fact is that the people who are 'h4rdc0re' will always be surpassed by the true hackers of our time - for example, the open source gods like Alan Cox, etc.
Sometimes I wish that the whole hacker thing wasn't as prominent as it is, because frankly (along with a lot of american 'culture') it promotes malicious activity that is detrimental to society in general.
Why can't it be cool to just code, or build, or whatever?
Considering it was the kid himself who said that, you're a moron.
Okay, okay, I'll bite.
*sigh* You're confusing Hackers with Crackers, again.
Go look up the difference.
Hear fucking hear!
This post's parent parent is the embodiement of typical american christian self-righteous sentiment. It makes me sick.
"Palm and Handspring pretty much have the PDA market wrapped up."
There's a good reason why, too. The OS's that run on these PDA's are specifically designed to run on PDA's. They're designed to have a small(ish) memory footprint with limited multitasking and maximum functionality. I know in Palm's case, PalmOS is an extremely nifty little OS, and I don't really see what more people could want from a PDA.
Sure, with a Linux PDA you could do all sorts of things. You could run various server daemons, code, browse the web, etc, but why? The majority of stuff you'd be doing would be pretty trivial notes, addresses, appointments: all things that existing PDA's do efficiently enough. (probably more than the bloated (for a PDA) Linux kernel would be)
I use the joe (or jstar) text editor, and it creates backups after editing files called "filename~" (where "filename" is the original).
/etc, let me tell you.
After doing some editing I find myself typing "rm *~", except sometimes I leave off the trailing ~.
This really sucks when you're in
"I've got a Pentium 2 300 MHz, 96 MB RAM, a SB PCI64, and a 12mb Voodoo 2"
;)
Heh, looking around my room I realised that I have your whole system in spare parts
Don't get me wrong, though. My highest-end systems are only Celeron 450's, and I'm not planning on upgrading any time soon.
Personally, I think that there are very few people who really need fast machines. The rest of us could still be doing just fine with 200mhz machines.
"until afterwards, when it was a cat with a hangover,"
err? a hangover from what?
Get a copy of Quake 1.
...
Play it a bit running with no fps restrictions (you should get 100+ fps on one of today's high end systems). Pretty smooth, eh?
Restrict the framerate to 60. Notice anything?
Restrict the framerate to 40. Definately beginning to see something now
35 ? Much worse.
30 ? Yuck.
So, instead of replying with a coherent, logical, and explanatory rebuttal, you call him mentally insane.
You're one smart guy.
... I can't believe that AYB has become an acronym.
*sigh*