Your power supply just went bad and took out the 3 internal drives. How do you explain to your wife that when you said it was "backed up" you meant attached to the same box. (I'll pass the answers along to my friend to whom this just happened).
Add in that you're a unix system admin professional.
You don't even need backups. Except when you really really do.
Me? I have a DDS4 tape changer. It backs up several machines over the home net. It takes forever. You know, at night, I don't care. (and I love my FreeBSD 5.2 snapshots)
Oh yeah, disks fail. And try to find me an RRL controller. I *do* still have a QIC150 drive. I pulled it out of storage to pull a box of 1992 tapes and dump them onto 2 CDs.
Have you ever sent drives offsite with a messenger service? And expected them to live?
Work still keeps a couple 9track drives and a couple of each format tape that we've had.
Do YOU have 10+ year old media you can still read?
The goal is not just a place to put a copy of your data.
The goal is to be able to have SEVERAL snapshots of your data so you can restore from a certain period.
That's the difference between computer scientology and computer science.
You don't want MTAs to stop being MTAs. They really SHOULDN'T be looking at message bodies. And then making complex decisions (is http://1593985/ a decimal version of a member of the list?) or doing regexs.
If you want bloat and dysfunction like this, look at Exchange or Notes or Gropewise. It's a GUI, it's a calendar, it's a database, it's an MTA! well, it doesn't scale and it tastes like floorwax.
This is why sendmail developed the MILTER interface. Firewall-1 had a proprietary scanning interface (easy to develop clients with their kit, but a bitch to find out the SERVER's protocol and use that). "the future" (in 1999) promised a vendor free spec. Which still isn't there.
MILTER allows sendmail to speak to an external process that can do things to the headers/envelope or bodies. External can mean to another box (or group of boxes) or just another program.
This also lets you make decisions before the SMTP session closes.
I had an apt in an old brownstone in brooklyn after college. My room was what had been (LONG ago) the pantry. Lots of height, but about a futon + 1' wide. So I built a sleeping loft (a table, basically, with long legs).
The landlord came by and saw it. "You build this without asking for my permission?" So I lifted it.
It's not attached to your house, so yeah.
Ok, 1 drywall screw into the wall to keep it from
rocking, and a bit of foam between wood and walls to keep
it from marking the walls or making noise.
I boggle at some of the school "regulations" I've come across. I understand that the rooms have to survive decades of a new person every year, but we got yelled at for xmas lights on the walls as a "fire hazard" (er, ma'am? That little "UL Listed tag" suggests that it's ok to wrap around a dried out little tree that's waiting to burn.
(we got a big win when she came into a student apt and declared a keg chained to a large metal sculpture to be a "fire hazard". The owner picked up the phone, dialed locally, described the setup and said: "My dad says it's not."
What! I don't care what you father says.
You might, he's the fire chief of the town.
Hey, Guy who's hanging around from the club to help. Pick up my $3000 of gear without any protection around it. Hope you didn't drink or smoke anything.
No, I'll stick with sound boards packed in 3" of foam and locked in a crate thank you. And my SKBs HAVE taken a hard dive - the cases are flexible to absorb impact. My (black lombard) PB goes into a padded envelope and tucked into my personal bag or with the mics).
(and yeah, I hand carry everything myself except when reality clunks in and there are 12 folks who've been asked to hand around and help us load out and I've been on my feet working for 10 hrs and I can either pack and point at stuff or I can carry stuff for 2 hrs. And the former also involved hanging out chatting up the cute girl.
except for the raw 2x4's and bolts next to your rack, it looks pretty nice. Good job. you may have an extra cookie.
The best road cases, by far, that I ever saw were owned by the grateful dead. Not batteries Anvil cases, but what looked like handmade polished wood racks with canvas covers. But they can have nice looking things when they were on the road 200 days a year.
You ponder showing plans or construction tips for those who follow (when this q is asked again in December?)
My SKBs are about 14" deep. my computers are deeper. While the 21band EQ and compressor/limiter are great to have in it (you do all have those in your stereo systems, right?), they'd suck even if they were deep enough for computers. My old amplifier cases had fans and occasionally got a bag of dry ice.
However, building a "road case" is neither hard nor expensive. making it roadable would want some experience with working with (say) anvil cases a bit for back panels, fasteners, etc.
And yeah, my SKBs have taken a beating that just hurt to see ("no you idiot, close the van door before pulling it forward 5 feet. And it's a clutch, be gentle" drummers. sigh.).
I have a couple data center racks (no, thank you ebay). proper 4 post 19" racks.
They provide a fair amount of silence too (a bit of foam along the sides where it doesn't obstruct air flow dampens it a lot.
There's a switch, a terminal server, a patch panel, a router (IOS testing mostly), and 7 computers.
The patch panel is new and GLORIOUS. It means I have all the serial ports and network ports and ports for the rest of the house in one panel.
3 of these computer have rack ears. I found rack sliders, put 3/4" ply between them to make a pull out shelf and have a couple Sparc20s, a NeXT and an SGI sitting sideways on them. beneath is another shelf with 2 tower cases sitting there.
Why not all rackable computers? mainly cost. An $80 case with an enermax or antec power supply (I'll *only* use Antec, but enermax was acceptable when it came with the case. The rest are crap. 5V should not be 4.6V when the graphics card get hammered). 2U rack cases (cheaper than 1U cause you get a bit of headroom and can use regular RAM) cost several hundred. The ones I have I got from a dot com moving from dozens of random machines to dozens of the same damn machines. I won; they became maintainable.
I like 4 post racks. The shelves made it easy to put stuff in. Relay racks (just the front ears) work for many people to. If you have another room for the 'puters, then you can consider it. Shouldn't cost more then 120 Euro really.
Make your own
Any pro audio store (PA systems, not CD players) can tell you where to get rack rails. All my pro audio gear was rackable and I have several 4U (not deep enough for 'puters) road cases. So go buy a pair or 3' tall rails and build a nice box out of HEAVY ply. It will meet all your needs. If not, any carpenter should be able to build you a box for a few quid.
And you're not going to get much clearance to put a "large water wheel" onto a widely used river.
You would have an easier time drawing off
the water with a couple 3" pipes.
If I can take a couple gallons/second and drop it out a 4 inch pipe, it might not be able to turn a small turbine/generator. Coming out of a 1" pipe, FASTER, it will be easier. When I hosed down my brother by putting my thumb over the hose end, he didn't care if the water had more pressure or was faster. It was 45PSI either way, I suppose.
I friend of my Mom's restored and old mill and, since he owned the property on both sides of the creek, and since it was a mill before, the town gov't people were actually pretty delighted for him to restore the "large water wheel" that had been there. It provides a fair amount of both mechanical and electrical power for his work - it turns lathes and he demonstrated grinding wheat (though how much wheat we need to grind in Western Ma is sort of in question, but he was playing with the "wiring" - mainly leather straps and gears.
In the microHydro world, you can make power from a small creek. Using a large river and not doing environmental impact reports and living in bureaucracy would suggest water driving a turbine to make power come out.
The ORIGINAL poster didn't say anything about where s/he lives on his river - if they get 2' of ice or just a gentle glazing on top. He's take different actions in winter based on that.
But there are pro's and resources s/he can can use to negotiate the mazes that are unfamiliar to most of us.
Yes, what he said. And when they put in the 2-way meter, they set it to 50k to start. It was cool going to my friends house and seeing it at 45k in the height of summer.
In Calif, I basically get to bank "hours". If I drive the meter backwards all day (with solar) and draw from it at night, I pay the net difference.
For an extra $280 to PG&E, I get (and I will) a Time Of Use (TOU) meter. With this, I generate and get theirrate$ in the day and draw at night rates. If rates go up, I'd make more money.
Peak times are noon-6PM in Calif. So you actually do better to have panels that face a bit west - cheaper the get Western sun and throw away eastern sun unless (like nobody) you have infinite panels. Oh, I also get to add in the arrival of fog all summer around 4.
The goal is to get to $0 bill. After that, you make crap rates (not sure if they credit against gas usage for that - I get generate power, but not natural gas, so my energy efficient gas stove, dryer and heat don't gain from my PV efforts).
An inverter/controller?
The same way you generate (and feed power onto the grid) from ANY AC (alternator created) source like windmills and most other none Solar/PV sources (which make DC and are inverted into AC and fed onto the grid all over the place).
Um, pulling a pair of 3" pipes off (with filter/screen at the top) and running it over to a microgenerator probably won't stop much of the river. or slow it down.
(he did use the work "unobstrusive" so he's prolly not envisioning a 30' high cross river damn (that might also upset neighbors upstream).
I'm in the process of Solarizing an odd grid house...
Battery system will add a bit to the cost (but still might be worthwhile for keeping "absolutely needed" systems up (refrigerator)). But unlike solar, rivers run always. You can start without it and power your house, sending extra to the grid and making money on it.
But note that a Rolls 375AH battery will cost you $600-$700 and you'll want a few of those. Plus charging systems for them. And replacing them every 5-8 years. (tho fuel cell systems are expected to work for this use within 3-5 years).
If you need pressure, but don't think your river has it, note that running water into a large pipe and getting smaller makes pressure enough to turn things.
The easiest way to handle it is with a, er, hill. Divert some of the water off through pipes, let it drop, let it hit your generator and route it back to the river. Filters and cats at the top keep fish out.
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Oh, I'll concur that there are not (yet) clear problems with the WIndows stack and multicast. There ARE, however, a number of problems it has with window sizing that have made the art of tuning (say) web servers more into an occult ritual:
This SHOULD work
But they are using windows so it won't
so I'll use kludge to work around it.
RE: switches... Yeah, I'd think that if people complained that it doesn't support the IETF multicast STANDARDS, that switches might get fixed.
But then, web sites use.htm and I get "this [application inside] only supports Internet Explorer" and "best used with IE."
Me? I take advantage of an IE bug and spit a loop of the smurf song to all IE users on several of my pages. Really annoying. ANd doesn't work with netscape, mozilla, icab, opera, firefox, w3c, lynx, etc.
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well 600 streams (1 new launch/minute for 10 hrs) is STILL less than most unicast setups. I mean 600 people listening to (say) Jobs keynote at MacWorld? That's a drop in the bucket.
Oh, and like that a stream would, er, end after whatever you're sending ends. So a 60 minute show (with a time delayed version starting each minute) would max at 60.
If nobody was listening, then nothing would go across your wires.
So on CB radio, channel 9 is reserved for emergencies only. Such as:
There are hordes of people and reports that more are about start using Open Source!!
Man the catapults! Gather the pitchforks! The hords are coming!
So we should have paper that catches fire when exposed to a copier's light?
I'm sorry, "fair use" (RIP) comes in here.
Anyone remember fair use?
It says that if I buy a CD of my pal Slim Whitman, that I can make a tape of it to listen to in my car's 8-track (and yes, I *do* have an 8track recorder (records for DAYS!;)).
It says I can tape a show on the radidio and listen to it later and not have the FCC kick in my door.
So if I record MPR (MINNESOTA, not NATIONAL) on a cassette and sell it, it's illegal. If I record it on cassette and listen to in on my ol' walkman, it's legal. Their rights are unchanged.
Now, replace "cassette" with "mp3" or "real blob of data" in the paragraph above and their rights STILL don't change.
Anyone who maintains that Digital Use Restrictors (DRM) has anything to do with rights is marketing to you or wrong.
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I've done this before in another thread, but...
everyone has to watch the stream at the same time
Or you can kick off a new stream every MINUTE and have 60 streams leaving your place (presuming there are listeners for each stream - if not, you only have $NumberListeners streams going out).
So 60 streams of something popular where unicast would create, say, 1000 streams (one per user). Or more.
a lot of network hardware doesn't handle multicast well
Then it's broken. I don't have lots of sympathy for those that implement part of TCP. Windows machines are notorious for not acting on (TCP) windowsize-smallen ICMP requests. Its broken. I'm not going to change how I implement TCP because someone's stack is broken.
It's not like Multicast is new. Or a poor idea.
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Yeah, I dumped Real when it turns out that my illusions of privacy were clearly illusions.
Windows? Nien, danke.
Open Format with Open Tools and I'll be there.
Stream it with multicast? Great, I'll be all over it.
Sell my information to anyone with a quarter? Thanks Real, but no.
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You can should it from the roof or send it out on cassette tapes and your "rights are preserved".
OGG/MP3 do not remove your rights. Lets me clear.
That people copy (and it's easy with Real and WMP - play it out through line out and record it in whatever you wish) mp3/ogg does not affect "their rights"
It the realm of monopoly, the gov't is not competing or driving away a fest of businesses. They are, often, dealing with and/or replacing a single business. When that business is abusive, then the public wins by having public utilities.
The city of Alameda, on the SF Bay, generates their own power. In the year of extortionistic prices(1), residents of Alameda maintained low prices.
Public utilities will often fail when the don't innovate where private companies could.
Clearly, despite (ironythere) the TeleCommunications act of 1996, our phone services have NOT innovated (DSL doesn't count, it was there before, waiting for both demand and switch updates and, frankly, external equipment, to drive it).
How many of us know places who can't get DSL? I'm in a major metro area and can't get CALLER ID!!. They plead that the switches aren't yet equipped, etc, etc.
These are the companies that won't lay fiber when the roads are open. In the fire area of the hills of oakland, after the roads BOILED away, they refused pleas to put in fiber when they where trenching.
My mom's rural phone switch only got touch tone when the area gov't MANDATED it. The e911 project was how they got an updated switch. Government mandate, not the ignored customer demand.
So business, in this case, is acting as incompetant as I'd expect gov't to act. Yet I have more faith in local gov't that is accountable to people around them than I do in say, SBC, which sprawls across the country. Or Verizon. Talking to the workers out there in the field, they generally concur. Profits are funnelled out of profitable california, where workers are swapping supplies ala radar OReilly.
If cable service, phone and power, regulated monopolies all with little actual competition, are not providing what a town's citizens need, then the only real choice is to offer an alternative themselves.
So it only works against IE. An older version of IE. On windows. Oh lawdy lawdy! Alert the press!
Well, like most/. folk, I'm using Firefox on BSD on an SPARC.
If you lets your friends and relatives use Windows and IE, then you are only harming them (and the rest of us who get slammed by their viruses trying to break mutt on my machine).
Take the needle out. Put down the crack pipe.
Really, the web took off because it was platform independent and full of juicy goodness.
"Must us IE" or "best used with IE" means that they should STOP using http to transfer their garbage and only serve on MSN.
Really. The web sucked the business out of Compuserve for a good reason. Open Platforms
and Open Standards were the big attraction. Remember?
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He asked if I "thought Linux was ready for the desktop here."
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Your power supply just went bad and took out the 3 internal drives. How do you explain to your wife that when you said it was "backed up" you meant attached to the same box. (I'll pass the answers along to my friend to whom this just happened).
Add in that you're a unix system admin professional.
You don't even need backups. Except when you really really do.
Me? I have a DDS4 tape changer. It backs up several machines over the home net. It takes forever. You know, at night, I don't care. (and I love my FreeBSD 5.2 snapshots)
Oh yeah, disks fail. And try to find me an RRL controller. I *do* still have a QIC150 drive. I pulled it out of storage to pull a box of 1992 tapes and dump them onto 2 CDs.
Have you ever sent drives offsite with a messenger service? And expected them to live?
Work still keeps a couple 9track drives and a couple of each format tape that we've had.
Do YOU have 10+ year old media you can still read?
The goal is not just a place to put a copy of your data.
The goal is to be able to have SEVERAL snapshots of your data so you can restore from a certain period.
That's the difference between computer scientology and computer science.
Its to survive a disk failure.
"Oh crap. This got all messed up. I need to restore $THIS_DIRECTORY to what we had a month ago...
And pull the copy from 6 months ago too, just so I can check it. Thanks, mr admin."
No, if this can be used (USB good) to backup the Very Large Drives of my relatives and friends who Just Don't Know Better, then great.
DVD @ 25GB (the bluelaser one) or multi-layer (50GB) has been promised and we're still waiting.
At least this is here.
So when to I get the 5.25" TB one?
If you want bloat and dysfunction like this, look at Exchange or Notes or Gropewise. It's a GUI, it's a calendar, it's a database, it's an MTA! well, it doesn't scale and it tastes like floorwax.
This is why sendmail developed the MILTER interface. Firewall-1 had a proprietary scanning interface (easy to develop clients with their kit, but a bitch to find out the SERVER's protocol and use that). "the future" (in 1999) promised a vendor free spec. Which still isn't there.
MILTER allows sendmail to speak to an external process that can do things to the headers/envelope or bodies. External can mean to another box (or group of boxes) or just another program.
This also lets you make decisions before the SMTP session closes.
I just with other MTAs had this available.
The landlord came by and saw it. "You build this without asking for my permission?" So I lifted it.
It's not attached to your house, so yeah.
Ok, 1 drywall screw into the wall to keep it from rocking, and a bit of foam between wood and walls to keep it from marking the walls or making noise.
I boggle at some of the school "regulations" I've come across. I understand that the rooms have to survive decades of a new person every year, but we got yelled at for xmas lights on the walls as a "fire hazard" (er, ma'am? That little "UL Listed tag" suggests that it's ok to wrap around a dried out little tree that's waiting to burn.
(we got a big win when she came into a student apt and declared a keg chained to a large metal sculpture to be a "fire hazard". The owner picked up the phone, dialed locally, described the setup and said: "My dad says it's not."
What! I don't care what you father says.
You might, he's the fire chief of the town.
Hee hee.)
No, I'll stick with sound boards packed in 3" of foam and locked in a crate thank you. And my SKBs HAVE taken a hard dive - the cases are flexible to absorb impact. My (black lombard) PB goes into a padded envelope and tucked into my personal bag or with the mics).
(and yeah, I hand carry everything myself except when reality clunks in and there are 12 folks who've been asked to hand around and help us load out and I've been on my feet working for 10 hrs and I can either pack and point at stuff or I can carry stuff for 2 hrs. And the former also involved hanging out chatting up the cute girl.
foam and racks - you always want protection ;)
The best road cases, by far, that I ever saw were owned by the grateful dead. Not batteries Anvil cases, but what looked like handmade polished wood racks with canvas covers. But they can have nice looking things when they were on the road 200 days a year.
You ponder showing plans or construction tips for those who follow (when this q is asked again in December?)
A little velco on the bottom and it lives atop the FX rack. But I'm at the sound board.
(and yeah, an XServe sounds like a shop vac).
However, building a "road case" is neither hard nor expensive. making it roadable would want some experience with working with (say) anvil cases a bit for back panels, fasteners, etc.
And yeah, my SKBs have taken a beating that just hurt to see ("no you idiot, close the van door before pulling it forward 5 feet. And it's a clutch, be gentle" drummers. sigh.).
They provide a fair amount of silence too (a bit of foam along the sides where it doesn't obstruct air flow dampens it a lot.
There's a switch, a terminal server, a patch panel, a router (IOS testing mostly), and 7 computers.
The patch panel is new and GLORIOUS. It means I have all the serial ports and network ports and ports for the rest of the house in one panel.
3 of these computer have rack ears. I found rack sliders, put 3/4" ply between them to make a pull out shelf and have a couple Sparc20s, a NeXT and an SGI sitting sideways on them. beneath is another shelf with 2 tower cases sitting there.
Why not all rackable computers? mainly cost. An $80 case with an enermax or antec power supply (I'll *only* use Antec, but enermax was acceptable when it came with the case. The rest are crap. 5V should not be 4.6V when the graphics card get hammered). 2U rack cases (cheaper than 1U cause you get a bit of headroom and can use regular RAM) cost several hundred. The ones I have I got from a dot com moving from dozens of random machines to dozens of the same damn machines. I won; they became maintainable.
I like 4 post racks. The shelves made it easy to put stuff in. Relay racks (just the front ears) work for many people to. If you have another room for the 'puters, then you can consider it. Shouldn't cost more then 120 Euro really.
Make your own
Any pro audio store (PA systems, not CD players) can tell you where to get rack rails. All my pro audio gear was rackable and I have several 4U (not deep enough for 'puters) road cases. So go buy a pair or 3' tall rails and build a nice box out of HEAVY ply. It will meet all your needs. If not, any carpenter should be able to build you a box for a few quid.
You would have an easier time drawing off the water with a couple 3" pipes.
If I can take a couple gallons/second and drop it out a 4 inch pipe, it might not be able to turn a small turbine/generator. Coming out of a 1" pipe, FASTER, it will be easier. When I hosed down my brother by putting my thumb over the hose end, he didn't care if the water had more pressure or was faster. It was 45PSI either way, I suppose.
I friend of my Mom's restored and old mill and, since he owned the property on both sides of the creek, and since it was a mill before, the town gov't people were actually pretty delighted for him to restore the "large water wheel" that had been there. It provides a fair amount of both mechanical and electrical power for his work - it turns lathes and he demonstrated grinding wheat (though how much wheat we need to grind in Western Ma is sort of in question, but he was playing with the "wiring" - mainly leather straps and gears.
In the microHydro world, you can make power from a small creek. Using a large river and not doing environmental impact reports and living in bureaucracy would suggest water driving a turbine to make power come out.
The ORIGINAL poster didn't say anything about where s/he lives on his river - if they get 2' of ice or just a gentle glazing on top. He's take different actions in winter based on that.
But there are pro's and resources s/he can can use to negotiate the mazes that are unfamiliar to most of us.
In Calif, I basically get to bank "hours". If I drive the meter backwards all day (with solar) and draw from it at night, I pay the net difference.
For an extra $280 to PG&E, I get (and I will) a Time Of Use (TOU) meter. With this, I generate and get theirrate$ in the day and draw at night rates. If rates go up, I'd make more money.
Peak times are noon-6PM in Calif. So you actually do better to have panels that face a bit west - cheaper the get Western sun and throw away eastern sun unless (like nobody) you have infinite panels. Oh, I also get to add in the arrival of fog all summer around 4.
The goal is to get to $0 bill. After that, you make crap rates (not sure if they credit against gas usage for that - I get generate power, but not natural gas, so my energy efficient gas stove, dryer and heat don't gain from my PV efforts).
The same way you generate (and feed power onto the grid) from ANY AC (alternator created) source like windmills and most other none Solar/PV sources (which make DC and are inverted into AC and fed onto the grid all over the place).
(he did use the work "unobstrusive" so he's prolly not envisioning a 30' high cross river damn (that might also upset neighbors upstream).
Battery system will add a bit to the cost (but still might be worthwhile for keeping "absolutely needed" systems up (refrigerator)). But unlike solar, rivers run always. You can start without it and power your house, sending extra to the grid and making money on it.
But note that a Rolls 375AH battery will cost you $600-$700 and you'll want a few of those. Plus charging systems for them. And replacing them every 5-8 years. (tho fuel cell systems are expected to work for this use within 3-5 years).
HomePower Magazine is online and in libraries and just had something (Feb? March?) on home hydro. It's often used with creeks. You can also buy their entire archives on CD.
If you need pressure, but don't think your river has it, note that running water into a large pipe and getting smaller makes pressure enough to turn things.
The easiest way to handle it is with a, er, hill. Divert some of the water off through pipes, let it drop, let it hit your generator and route it back to the river. Filters and cats at the top keep fish out.
This SHOULD work
But they are using windows so it won't
so I'll use kludge to work around it.
RE: switches... Yeah, I'd think that if people complained that it doesn't support the IETF multicast STANDARDS, that switches might get fixed.
But then, web sites use .htm and I get "this [application inside] only supports Internet Explorer" and "best used with IE."
Me? I take advantage of an IE bug and spit a loop of the smurf song to all IE users on several of my pages. Really annoying. ANd doesn't work with netscape, mozilla, icab, opera, firefox, w3c, lynx, etc.
well 600 streams (1 new launch/minute for 10 hrs) is STILL less than most unicast setups. I mean 600 people listening to (say) Jobs keynote at MacWorld? That's a drop in the bucket.
Oh, and like that a stream would, er, end after whatever you're sending ends. So a 60 minute show (with a time delayed version starting each minute) would max at 60.
If nobody was listening, then nothing would go across your wires.
There are hordes of people and reports that more are about start using Open Source!!
Man the catapults! Gather the pitchforks! The hords are coming!
I'm sorry, "fair use" (RIP) comes in here.
Anyone remember fair use?
It says that if I buy a CD of my pal Slim Whitman, that I can make a tape of it to listen to in my car's 8-track (and yes, I *do* have an 8track recorder (records for DAYS! ;)).
It says I can tape a show on the radidio and listen to it later and not have the FCC kick in my door.
So if I record MPR (MINNESOTA, not NATIONAL) on a cassette and sell it, it's illegal. If I record it on cassette and listen to in on my ol' walkman, it's legal. Their rights are unchanged.
Now, replace "cassette" with "mp3" or "real blob of data" in the paragraph above and their rights STILL don't change.
Anyone who maintains that Digital Use Restrictors (DRM) has anything to do with rights is marketing to you or wrong.
everyone has to watch the stream at the same time
Or you can kick off a new stream every MINUTE and have 60 streams leaving your place (presuming there are listeners for each stream - if not, you only have $NumberListeners streams going out).
So 60 streams of something popular where unicast would create, say, 1000 streams (one per user). Or more.
a lot of network hardware doesn't handle multicast well
Then it's broken. I don't have lots of sympathy for those that implement part of TCP. Windows machines are notorious for not acting on (TCP) windowsize-smallen ICMP requests. Its broken. I'm not going to change how I implement TCP because someone's stack is broken.
It's not like Multicast is new. Or a poor idea.
Windows? Nien, danke.
Open Format with Open Tools and I'll be there.
Stream it with multicast? Great, I'll be all over it.
Sell my information to anyone with a quarter? Thanks Real, but no.
OGG/MP3 do not remove your rights. Lets me clear.
That people copy (and it's easy with Real and WMP - play it out through line out and record it in whatever you wish) mp3/ogg does not affect "their rights"
The city of Alameda, on the SF Bay, generates their own power. In the year of extortionistic prices(1), residents of Alameda maintained low prices.
Public utilities will often fail when the don't innovate where private companies could.
Clearly, despite (ironythere) the TeleCommunications act of 1996, our phone services have NOT innovated (DSL doesn't count, it was there before, waiting for both demand and switch updates and, frankly, external equipment, to drive it).
How many of us know places who can't get DSL? I'm in a major metro area and can't get CALLER ID!!. They plead that the switches aren't yet equipped, etc, etc.
These are the companies that won't lay fiber when the roads are open. In the fire area of the hills of oakland, after the roads BOILED away, they refused pleas to put in fiber when they where trenching.
My mom's rural phone switch only got touch tone when the area gov't MANDATED it. The e911 project was how they got an updated switch. Government mandate, not the ignored customer demand.
So business, in this case, is acting as incompetant as I'd expect gov't to act. Yet I have more faith in local gov't that is accountable to people around them than I do in say, SBC, which sprawls across the country. Or Verizon. Talking to the workers out there in the field, they generally concur. Profits are funnelled out of profitable california, where workers are swapping supplies ala radar OReilly.
If cable service, phone and power, regulated monopolies all with little actual competition, are not providing what a town's citizens need, then the only real choice is to offer an alternative themselves.
yeah, well if you're on Windows, you should now feel enough shame to step away and stop being part of the virus runtime cluster environment.
Well, like most /. folk, I'm using Firefox on BSD on an SPARC.
If you lets your friends and relatives use Windows and IE, then you are only harming them (and the rest of us who get slammed by their viruses trying to break mutt on my machine).
Take the needle out. Put down the crack pipe.
Really, the web took off because it was platform independent and full of juicy goodness.
"Must us IE" or "best used with IE" means that they should STOP using http to transfer their garbage and only serve on MSN.
Really. The web sucked the business out of Compuserve for a good reason. Open Platforms and Open Standards were the big attraction. Remember?
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During the myDoom.* fest, I asked our SVP about looking at deploying Linux on the desktop for users who don't truly actually REQUIRE MS and MS tools.
He asked if I "thought Linux was ready for the desktop here."
"Hmmm," said I, "I'm not 100%. But do you think Windows is?"
Or were you playing in your crib in 1983 and now are running Windows "because you have to"?
(or is this just another 1-2 line shout you feel compelled to make?)