Transfer switches are the bane of my existence. I work for a major MSO, and every site we have lost has been to a transfer switch problem. Equipment with 2 ps is the best solution, so you have have 2 sets of transfer switches, UPS, Generator, and Mains.
They didn't change thier codec, they are still using MPEG2. Here is the thing with MPEG, its a decode standard, not an encode standard. So, if you come up with some new novel way of encoding, as long as the format of the output stays the same, and the decoder undersands it, its not a problem.
To this end, MPEG2 (and 4) encoders have over the years become more efficient. What does efficent mean? Well with encoding you have 3 variables, output quality, bit rate, and processing power. Pick 2, or really pick 1. If you want a better bit rate, reduce qaulity, or increase processing power, or do both. But there are limits.
Now taking HD which in the US was originally designed to be 19.8 Mbs down to 9.7 is possible, but at the limits of MPEG2 itself, and there will be a massive hit to quality.
There is another trick called MPEG statistical multiplexing, but that is a lesson for another day.
A fireman has slow times and busy times, he is not working 9-5 and then on call, he's just on call.
A web master has an 8 hour a day busy time, and then an on call time. Every job that I have worked in the tech sector or have had working people for me who were not salaried had on call pay.
They had a bonus for just being on call, and then where paid when they were actual called with some kind of minimum, even if the call took 5 minutes the pay was for 2 hours.
Not if your second leg did not have to go over the satellite. It would be a very poorly designed system if it did. Most current sat systems don't work this way. The downlink is some where centralized and accessible by other communication transports, like the Pentagon.
Satellites achieve "routing" by effectively circuit selection. If you want to talk to this part of the world, use this freq, other part another freq.
Putting a router in space that will be obsolete in 2 years just doesn't make any sense.
If I were google, I would let MS have News Corp. The average internet user is not going to even know about the missing content to drive them to switch to bing, and the savvy users could not give a shit about News Corp and MS.
Are you out of your mind? Where the fuck do you think all those craters on the moon come from? Shit has been hitting the moon since it existed, and has it broken in half yet? You think a little satellite can do that?
Who is inheriting it? The evil motherfuckers who blow up markets in their own neighborhoods killing women and children intentionally in the name of their god? I think not.
Because as fucked as the US is, its still leaps and bounds better then the alternative.
If I wanted to know what an idiot thought of the news, I would watch Fox. Leave out the public comment and how about some expert analysis, or broader news.
For those who aren't familiar with Montgomery County, MD. It is one of, if not the richest counties in the nation. I find it amazing that even in a county like this, the public infrastructure is crumbling.
They had a massive water main break earlier this year that made the national news.
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Transfer switches are the bane of my existence. I work for a major MSO, and every site we have lost has been to a transfer switch problem. Equipment with 2 ps is the best solution, so you have have 2 sets of transfer switches, UPS, Generator, and Mains.
I heart my Nexus 1. Not being tied to a carrier.
Shell out the bucks out front. You'll save it in the long run.
They didn't change thier codec, they are still using MPEG2. Here is the thing with MPEG, its a decode standard, not an encode standard. So, if you come up with some new novel way of encoding, as long as the format of the output stays the same, and the decoder undersands it, its not a problem.
To this end, MPEG2 (and 4) encoders have over the years become more efficient. What does efficent mean? Well with encoding you have 3 variables, output quality, bit rate, and processing power. Pick 2, or really pick 1. If you want a better bit rate, reduce qaulity, or increase processing power, or do both. But there are limits.
Now taking HD which in the US was originally designed to be 19.8 Mbs down to 9.7 is possible, but at the limits of MPEG2 itself, and there will be a massive hit to quality.
There is another trick called MPEG statistical multiplexing, but that is a lesson for another day.
The TSA can find a gun in a back pack, how are they going to track down busybodies.
i feel like the only think freenas had over openfiler was ZFS. i've been running openfiler for 2 years now and it has been rock solid.
without zfs why not go for the more mature linux based NAS?
The Ocho!
A fireman has slow times and busy times, he is not working 9-5 and then on call, he's just on call.
A web master has an 8 hour a day busy time, and then an on call time. Every job that I have worked in the tech sector or have had working people for me who were not salaried had on call pay.
They had a bonus for just being on call, and then where paid when they were actual called with some kind of minimum, even if the call took 5 minutes the pay was for 2 hours.
Not if your second leg did not have to go over the satellite. It would be a very poorly designed system if it did. Most current sat systems don't work this way. The downlink is some where centralized and accessible by other communication transports, like the Pentagon.
Satellites achieve "routing" by effectively circuit selection. If you want to talk to this part of the world, use this freq, other part another freq.
Putting a router in space that will be obsolete in 2 years just doesn't make any sense.
I'm sure Cisco conveniently forgot to explain the concept of latency before they sold them voice service on and router in space.
If I were google, I would let MS have News Corp. The average internet user is not going to even know about the missing content to drive them to switch to bing, and the savvy users could not give a shit about News Corp and MS.
Some one messed up their $2,000,000 excel macro that list morning.
Some one should track every thing Kurt posts and report back to his boss and wife.
I wonder if this has to do with Window 7. Its the default search, and they bury the hell out of google to replace it.
Are you out of your mind? Where the fuck do you think all those craters on the moon come from? Shit has been hitting the moon since it existed, and has it broken in half yet? You think a little satellite can do that?
Who is inheriting it? The evil motherfuckers who blow up markets in their own neighborhoods killing women and children intentionally in the name of their god? I think not.
Because as fucked as the US is, its still leaps and bounds better then the alternative.
Damn Palin supporters.
Almost all of the dvd and blueray rips enclude subtitles now. VLC usually has it on by default.
Actually truly uncompressed 1080p is more then 8Gbs.
Boxee + http://ezrss.it/ + pytv + 25 Mbs Fios = better then cable.
If I wanted to know what an idiot thought of the news, I would watch Fox. Leave out the public comment and how about some expert analysis, or broader news.
For those who aren't familiar with Montgomery County, MD. It is one of, if not the richest counties in the nation. I find it amazing that even in a county like this, the public infrastructure is crumbling.
They had a massive water main break earlier this year that made the national news.
Now what file systems support TRIM?
Its a pretty useless article. You don't get any more info out of the article then you get from the title.
Google did a study that said the MTBF for HDD decreases significantly with each warmer degree of temperature.
I read that as "Moron"