I'm no New Yorker, but those shops always seem shady as all hell. Are they completely legitimate? i.e., dealing in goods that didn't fall off the back of anything?
Well, I was attempting to speak to dialing in the usual course of events, not big-metropolitan area freaky-dialing:). I have no explanation for that.
Anyway, the reason the great grand parent poster's cell phone doesn't require a leading 1 is that it knows when you're done dialing; you hit 'send' or 'talk' or something else. Same number of keypresses as a leading one:).
Umm, its simple. The leading 1 tells switching equipment you're about to dial 10 digits, not 7. Otherwise, there'd be no way other than a long pause to tell when you're finished dialing.
For example: If you dial 413 5112, thats either a local call or the first 7 digits of a 10 digit long distance call. If the leading 1 wasn't required, the upstream switch would have to wait until it was sure you were done before connecting you. Who wants that?
If I walked into a Studio I was paying >$100/hr total cost to use, and saw a Mackie SR24.4, I would walk right back out. Even if the sound quality was top flight, the 60mm faders are just too small for most work. 24 channel mackie's are fine for small venues and community theatre, but not a recording studio anyone is paying for.
I don't know how long its been since you were at RPI, but the Millenium is rather crash happy itself these days. It seems to have problems related to disk access, most of the crashes come when loading or saving a show. Either way, the whole board is of shoddy quality in my experience; I need to call Lehigh Wednesday and order our second replacement button panel for the thing, as the Go button has worn out, again.
Similiarly, I've never seen a hint of DOS on any of the ETC boards I've used.
On the other hand, the Lehigh Millenium I'm in charge of now quite obviously runs Win95, and crashes just as much as you'd expect it to. When we first got the console, they hadn't disabled sleep mode and it would just shut itself off during shows.
Worst console ever!
-- Phil Technical Director, RPI Players http://players.union.rpi.edu/
New Thinkpads (at least my T40) also are shipping GigE. I'm fortunate to have both a poweredge at my desk and a T40 to wander about with... if only I could do something with those GigE interfaces other than enjoy their very fun autodetection (no crossover cables, ever!)
Has any work been done to allow the Moz renderer to be embedded into other applications the same way that IE can be? (under Win32, obviously). It seems that without that functionality, Moz will never be able to fully replace IE on the Windows desktop.
I'd guess because all of us don't run AV systems that tag things as having forged From headers. I run ClamAV, and I don't believe it has any such functionality.
Its just a TXT record in DNS. You crack that, you can do a hell of a lot more damage than allowing spam. But yeah, I'll grant that DNS is not a secure medium, but its entirely decent in practice.
SPF is broken. It breaks forwarding, unless you want to rewrite the From header at every hop.
Mail signing (what yahoo proposed recently) is a lot closer to working sender verification. It would allow a message to take any number of hops, and still be verified.
You're not really talking about Courier-IMAP so much as Maildir, DJB's quite pleasant mail storage format. All the advantages you state apply to anything using maildir for delivery; the MTA, a POP3 server, and an IMAP server can all access the mailbox simultaneusly.
Although I haven't read the law and have no actual information, I believe part of the "safe harbor" qualifications for ISPs to not be liable under the DMCA for what their customers do requires them to _not_ inspect the traffic flowing over their network. I know that my college has a policy of not monitoring network traffic in order to avoid being prosecuted by the RIAA under the DMCA.
Portable, pro DAT. Shouldn't be too expensive, just keep the thing clean and use decent media. Can sample up to 96kHz too:).
You should go to a music store and do double blind tests with MD and CD, using a profesionally recorded live CD. Get the sales clerk to record a couple sample tracks from the CD to the MD (using an optical cable), and then use a good pair of phones to listen to both, without knowing which source you're listening to. I know I can't tell the difference, and I've got pretty decent ears.
Then again, I know people who claim to be able to tell the difference between CD and SACD, which is pretty amazing:).
The largest source of quality loss using a portable MD recorder to record stuff live is the input; 1/8" stereo mini plugs are not designed to prevent noise from entering. If you get a unit that can take XLR for input, or can pull an S/PDIF digital feed from the board you'll be in much better shape. Failing those, a high-quality direct box and the shortest possible cable between it and the MD will help.
Did I indicate the record companies weren't evil? I didn't mean to. And if they actually did lobby so hard to suppress DAT, its entertainingly ironic that its the primary medium for source data for large-scale CD piracy rings.
Linearilty is a big fscking deal. And mechanical complexity has nothing to do with the record companies; have you seen the tape path for a dat cassette when its in the player? If you don't do proper maintenance, your player will get dirty and destroy itself as well as the media. You're not going to make the tape path less complex over time due to market pressures; its a design problem not an economy-of-scale one.
Did anyone release a consumer-level DAT player? None spring to my mind, unless you want to count some prosumer portables aimed at musicians. Because of the record companies? I doubt it. More likely because it would be very difficult to make one affordable and reliable due to the sheer complexity of the mechanism. The DAT loader is comparable to that used in MiniDV and 8mm video cartridges, but their price point would have to be much much lower than those devices in order to compete.
I assume you meant 44.1kHz, not 44.1mHz. Anyway, MD samples at 44.1kHz, but its also compressing. Standard mode is a little better than 5:1 compression. (155mb MD / 700mb CD). Also remember that if you're doing a mono mixdown (I have no idea why you would be, but hey) you can put MD into mono mode and record 148 minutes with no quality loss. Unless you're in a good, professional recording studio, I doubt you're losing any perceptable quality at that kind of compression ratio.
And if you are in a good studio, what the hell are you doing recording onto MD? Get a Digi MBox and a laptop, if nothing else.
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I'm no New Yorker, but those shops always seem shady as all hell. Are they completely legitimate? i.e., dealing in goods that didn't fall off the back of anything?
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12 nodes? Massively parrelel? Thats not how I'd put that....
Maybe... Parrelel at all?
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"Where'd you go?"
"The Renaissance."
Easily the funniest thing I've seen on TV this year.
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Phil
Well, I was attempting to speak to dialing in the usual course of events, not big-metropolitan area freaky-dialing :). I have no explanation for that.
:).
Anyway, the reason the great grand parent poster's cell phone doesn't require a leading 1 is that it knows when you're done dialing; you hit 'send' or 'talk' or something else. Same number of keypresses as a leading one
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Umm, its simple. The leading 1 tells switching equipment you're about to dial 10 digits, not 7. Otherwise, there'd be no way other than a long pause to tell when you're finished dialing.
For example:
If you dial 413 5112, thats either a local call or the first 7 digits of a 10 digit long distance call. If the leading 1 wasn't required, the upstream switch would have to wait until it was sure you were done before connecting you. Who wants that?
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lds
If I walked into a Studio I was paying >$100/hr total cost to use, and saw a Mackie SR24.4, I would walk right back out. Even if the sound quality was top flight, the 60mm faders are just too small for most work. 24 channel mackie's are fine for small venues and community theatre, but not a recording studio anyone is paying for.
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Phil
I don't know how long its been since you were at RPI, but the Millenium is rather crash happy itself these days. It seems to have problems related to disk access, most of the crashes come when loading or saving a show. Either way, the whole board is of shoddy quality in my experience; I need to call Lehigh Wednesday and order our second replacement button panel for the thing, as the Go button has worn out, again.
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Phil
Similiarly, I've never seen a hint of DOS on any of the ETC boards I've used.
On the other hand, the Lehigh Millenium I'm in charge of now quite obviously runs Win95, and crashes just as much as you'd expect it to. When we first got the console, they hadn't disabled sleep mode and it would just shut itself off during shows.
Worst console ever!
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Phil
Technical Director, RPI Players
http://players.union.rpi.edu/
If you don't need to dim, just get some big fscking relays. If you need to dim, get some big fscking autotransformers.
I assume you don't need real wireless access to all of this.
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"that kid" == Justin
I can't find a site for him, but I bet there's one out there. Anyway, that kid does absolutely incredible stuff with paint and metal.
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New Thinkpads (at least my T40) also are shipping GigE. I'm fortunate to have both a poweredge at my desk and a T40 to wander about with... if only I could do something with those GigE interfaces other than enjoy their very fun autodetection (no crossover cables, ever!)
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Try prefacing a search term with define: in google; it gets me pretty good results. For instance:
Pork Barrel
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Has any work been done to allow the Moz renderer to be embedded into other applications the same way that IE can be? (under Win32, obviously). It seems that without that functionality, Moz will never be able to fully replace IE on the Windows desktop.
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Yes! Unfortnuately, you need daemons that don't background. But the daemontools package is great for writing your own stuff.
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I've had that sort of idea in my head for a while now as well. Let me know if you find anything useful :).
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I'd guess because all of us don't run AV systems that tag things as having forged From headers. I run ClamAV, and I don't believe it has any such functionality.
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Sorry, I wasn't talking about client-side forwarding, I meant .qmail- or .forward style forwarding. Maybe it'd be better to call it 'redirecting'.
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Its just a TXT record in DNS. You crack that, you can do a hell of a lot more damage than allowing spam. But yeah, I'll grant that DNS is not a secure medium, but its entirely decent in practice.
Next time, RTFA.
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SPF is broken. It breaks forwarding, unless you want to rewrite the From header at every hop.
Mail signing (what yahoo proposed recently) is a lot closer to working sender verification. It would allow a message to take any number of hops, and still be verified.
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lds
You're not really talking about Courier-IMAP so much as Maildir, DJB's quite pleasant mail storage format. All the advantages you state apply to anything using maildir for delivery; the MTA, a POP3 server, and an IMAP server can all access the mailbox simultaneusly.
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Yes! I still don't see a solution to this problem, and _plenty_ of people are affected by it.
Although I haven't read the law and have no actual information, I believe part of the "safe harbor" qualifications for ISPs to not be liable under the DMCA for what their customers do requires them to _not_ inspect the traffic flowing over their network. I know that my college has a policy of not monitoring network traffic in order to avoid being prosecuted by the RIAA under the DMCA.
Of course, I could've totally missed something.
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Portable, pro DAT. Shouldn't be too expensive, just keep the thing clean and use decent media. Can sample up to 96kHz too :).
:).
You should go to a music store and do double blind tests with MD and CD, using a profesionally recorded live CD. Get the sales clerk to record a couple sample tracks from the CD to the MD (using an optical cable), and then use a good pair of phones to listen to both, without knowing which source you're listening to. I know I can't tell the difference, and I've got pretty decent ears.
Then again, I know people who claim to be able to tell the difference between CD and SACD, which is pretty amazing
The largest source of quality loss using a portable MD recorder to record stuff live is the input; 1/8" stereo mini plugs are not designed to prevent noise from entering. If you get a unit that can take XLR for input, or can pull an S/PDIF digital feed from the board you'll be in much better shape. Failing those, a high-quality direct box and the shortest possible cable between it and the MD will help.
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lds
Did I indicate the record companies weren't evil? I didn't mean to. And if they actually did lobby so hard to suppress DAT, its entertainingly ironic that its the primary medium for source data for large-scale CD piracy rings.
Linearilty is a big fscking deal. And mechanical complexity has nothing to do with the record companies; have you seen the tape path for a dat cassette when its in the player? If you don't do proper maintenance, your player will get dirty and destroy itself as well as the media. You're not going to make the tape path less complex over time due to market pressures; its a design problem not an economy-of-scale one.
Did anyone release a consumer-level DAT player? None spring to my mind, unless you want to count some prosumer portables aimed at musicians. Because of the record companies? I doubt it. More likely because it would be very difficult to make one affordable and reliable due to the sheer complexity of the mechanism. The DAT loader is comparable to that used in MiniDV and 8mm video cartridges, but their price point would have to be much much lower than those devices in order to compete.
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I assume you meant 44.1kHz, not 44.1mHz. Anyway, MD samples at 44.1kHz, but its also compressing. Standard mode is a little better than 5:1 compression. (155mb MD / 700mb CD). Also remember that if you're doing a mono mixdown (I have no idea why you would be, but hey) you can put MD into mono mode and record 148 minutes with no quality loss. Unless you're in a good, professional recording studio, I doubt you're losing any perceptable quality at that kind of compression ratio.
And if you are in a good studio, what the hell are you doing recording onto MD? Get a Digi MBox and a laptop, if nothing else.
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lds