"Excuse me sir, may I borrow your finger? I'm hungry, but there's been an account screwup.... What? You won't do this for me? I've got cash right here!"
11:00 News: "A homicide victim with a missing index finger was found behind Safeway tonight..."
As a non-manager (and never want to be), my theory is the scum of any organization floats to the top.
Or, you are promoted to your highest level of incompetance (but I know that concept has already been around for a long time).
HP tried the "dual ladder" approach a few years ago. Idea was that engineers could rise just as high as management (including pay), but still do mostly techical and/or design work.
In reality, the tech side of the ladder simply doesn't go as high as the manager side, even today. And engineers that try to start moving up that tech ladder basically get saddled with managerial duties.
More non-technical responsibility with no commensurate increase in decision making power. NO THANKS.
Here's what info I could find for opting out of use of the same data by Sprint:
1-888-212-2145
It is always better to communicate your opt-out intent in writing. I have no info (yet) on how to do so with Sprint. When I call the above number, however, I will ask for that info. Then I'll send a written letter stating my intention to opt out. I will request a formal response to my letter.
IANAL
P.S.: CPNI == Customer Proprietary Network Info. This is what the bureaucrats term the info they are selling without your consent.
Pentiums consume ~50watts or more in most situations. A human can only output just about that much, consistently over an extended time. The rider would spend all their energy simply keeping the Pentium running...
Houston, we have a problem. Windoze crashed again.
on
802.11b Space Suits
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· Score: 1
Houston, we have a problem. Windoze/SAT crashed again. OVER.
Ah, roger that AlphaOne. Hold for instructions.
Houston, I'm getting cold. I thought you said the heaters were autonomous.
cckckckkc bzzt...
Houston?
OK, AlphaOne, we have a solution. Windows/SAT will automatically reboot and set defaults. Can you hold your breath for four minutes? OVER.
Roger that, Houston. I'm getting a bit light headed, though. Three times is enough. Can I go back to the ship? Please? OVER.
Negative, AlphaOne. The bird's USB auto-docking mechanism is offline for a bit. Stay put and hold for suit reboot. OVER & OUT.
It is key to have a CD-ROM drive that is effective at ripping audio -- that is, copying data from the audio CD to uncompressed format (WAV or other) on your PC. Some CD-ROM drives are effective, some are not. The Plextor drives have consistently been reviewed as good at ripping audio, so that's why I bought one. It turned out to be true.
My 40/8/2 Plextor CD-ROM/R/RW consistently rips audio at 8x with no perceptible errors. Other CD-ROM drives I've tried have either been slow, or error prone. If such a drive is error prone, you have to rip in error correction mode ("re-read N times until it comes back the same") which makes it slow anyway.
A 56x drive might read CD-ROMs at nearly the claimed speed, but audio CDs are a different matter entirely.
With an effective audio-ripping drive, you can rip at >8x (probly upwards of 16x with newer drives). This amounts to 3-6 minutes for a 45 minute CD. Encoding that same CD from WAV to MP3, OTOH, can be done at about 1-3X depending on the speed of your machine. That's 15-45 minutes to encode. My Athlon [Tbird 1.2G] encodes at nearly 3x, while a PII-450 does about 1x.
P.S.: It is key to have a CD-ROM drive that is effective at ripping audio. Some drives are, some are not. The Plextor drives have consistently been reviewed as good at ripping audio, so that's why I bought one.
My 40/8/2 Plextor CD-ROM/R/RW consistently rips audio at 8x with no perceptible errors. Other CD-ROM drives I've tried have either been slow, or error prone. If such a drive is error prone, you have to rip in error correction mode ("re-read N times until it comes back the same") which makes it slow anyway.
A 56x drive might read CD-ROMs at nearly the claimed speed, but audio CDs are a different matter entirely.
Crunching MP3s from WAVs is the time consuming part. I focused on automating this.
I ripped all of my ~400 CDs to WAV format stored on a Linux RAID which is shared on my home network. I have two Western Digital 120GB drives striped in RAID-0, which gives me about 220GB useable online storage -- easily enough for 400 uncompressed CDs.
Granted, the ripping process was not automated with a juke, but it only took about 5 minutes per CD with my Plextor CD-ROM/R/RW drive.
The most time consuming part is converting WAVs to MP3. I've decoupled the ripping and compressing processes, and automated the latter. I do this with LAME running on multiple machines against a common data store (on the RAID).
I have a simple "multi-processing" script which runs on Linux and windoze clients; I run one copy of it per PC on the net that can reach the input WAV repository and the output MP3 repository. These two repositories can be on the same RAID, or can be at different locations on the net.
Each album is represented by a single directory of WAVs, and each copy of the script (running one copy of the script on each of several PCs) "owns" the crunching of a single album directory from WAV to MP3.
Since the crunching process is primarily CPU bound (not I/O bound) throwing multiple machines at it radically speeds the conversion process. The 100Mbps NICs and switch I have are more than enough I/O bandwidth. I can even use some PCs which live elsewhere in the house (on the other side of a ~10Mbps HPNA2/phone-net bridge).
I can process the entire collection from WAV to MP3 in about a day using 7 PCs of various vintage. House stays nice and warm too.
Since I haven't yet found the "best" LAME command line incantation for me, I've found that I've re-crunched the WAVs->MP3s more than once. My plan is to keep all the original WAVs around until I find a set of LAME conversion options that create MP3s nearly indistiguishable [to my ears] from WAVs.
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Juke auomation idea is pretty darn cool. I could have physically loaded 200 CDs in a fraction of an hour. Less than a day later (assuming 8X rip speed is somehow possible), the RAID would have been ~1/2 full with no further intervention by me.
After every single company except MS is consolidated, the CEO of the world will reveal that MS was a hoax.
"You didn't really PAY for their 'software,' did you?"
At the stroke of a pen, the CEO will declare M$ non-existent. In a puff of smoke the "evil empire" will cease to be, replaced instantly by something impossible to displace.
While we were all shooting flaming arrows at their ugly puppet, they built new walls.
I call the end result SuperGlobalMegaMonolithCorp -- purveyors of everything from Gattica (the police state, not Gattica the movie) to soap, to soup, to nuts, to net access (censored and monitored, of course), to civilian space travel.
I'm concerned about it, but what are the rest of you going to DO about it?
Author Sam Jaffe supposes HP will toss all the other OS's for Linux in their place?
Nope.
Sure HP's interested in Linux, but they've only shown a modicum of support for it so far.
Can you run Linux on your HP-PA workstation?
No.
Yet IBM lets you run Linux on their non-PC platform iron.
I hardly think HP's current position sounds like a ringing endorsement for Linux.
Don't get me wrong -- I run Linux for all my server needs where PC hardware can do the job. I only wish I could run it on my PA workstations and servers.
Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/)
Host virtual-host.amz.com (206.129.95.193) appears to be up... good.
Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against virtual-host.amz.com (206.129.95.193)
Slashdot Mirror
"Excuse me sir, may I borrow your finger? I'm hungry, but there's been an account screwup. ... What? You won't do this for me? I've got cash right here!"
11:00 News: "A homicide victim with a missing index finger was found behind Safeway tonight..."
As a non-manager (and never want to be), my theory is the scum of any organization floats to the top.
Or, you are promoted to your highest level of incompetance (but I know that concept has already been around for a long time).
HP tried the "dual ladder" approach a few years ago. Idea was that engineers could rise just as high as management (including pay), but still do mostly techical and/or design work.
In reality, the tech side of the ladder simply doesn't go as high as the manager side, even today. And engineers that try to start moving up that tech ladder basically get saddled with managerial duties.
More non-technical responsibility with no commensurate increase in decision making power. NO THANKS.
Sure, your knees are a sub-part of your legs, but if you lifted with your knees alone, I don't think you'd get very far.
Here's what info I could find for opting out of use of the same data by Sprint:
1-888-212-2145
It is always better to communicate your opt-out intent in writing. I have no info (yet) on how to do so with Sprint. When I call the above number, however, I will ask for that info. Then I'll send a written letter stating my intention to opt out. I will request a formal response to my letter.
IANAL
P.S.: CPNI == Customer Proprietary Network Info. This is what the bureaucrats term the info they are selling without your consent.
Pentiums consume ~50watts or more in most situations. A human can only output just about that much, consistently over an extended time. The rider would spend all their energy simply keeping the Pentium running...
Ah, roger that AlphaOne. Hold for instructions.
Houston, I'm getting cold. I thought you said the heaters were autonomous.
cckckckkc bzzt...
Houston?
OK, AlphaOne, we have a solution. Windows/SAT will automatically reboot and set defaults. Can you hold your breath for four minutes? OVER.
Roger that, Houston. I'm getting a bit light headed, though. Three times is enough. Can I go back to the ship? Please? OVER.
Negative, AlphaOne. The bird's USB auto-docking mechanism is offline for a bit. Stay put and hold for suit reboot. OVER & OUT.
(Shit, I'm cold.)
It is key to have a CD-ROM drive that is effective at ripping audio -- that is, copying data from the audio CD to uncompressed format (WAV or other) on your PC. Some CD-ROM drives are effective, some are not. The Plextor drives have consistently been reviewed as good at ripping audio, so that's why I bought one. It turned out to be true.
My 40/8/2 Plextor CD-ROM/R/RW consistently rips audio at 8x with no perceptible errors. Other CD-ROM drives I've tried have either been slow, or error prone. If such a drive is error prone, you have to rip in error correction mode ("re-read N times until it comes back the same") which makes it slow anyway.
A 56x drive might read CD-ROMs at nearly the claimed speed, but audio CDs are a different matter entirely.
With an effective audio-ripping drive, you can rip at >8x (probly upwards of 16x with newer drives). This amounts to 3-6 minutes for a 45 minute CD. Encoding that same CD from WAV to MP3, OTOH, can be done at about 1-3X depending on the speed of your machine. That's 15-45 minutes to encode. My Athlon [Tbird 1.2G] encodes at nearly 3x, while a PII-450 does about 1x.
See my earlier post here.
My 40/8/2 Plextor CD-ROM/R/RW consistently rips audio at 8x with no perceptible errors. Other CD-ROM drives I've tried have either been slow, or error prone. If such a drive is error prone, you have to rip in error correction mode ("re-read N times until it comes back the same") which makes it slow anyway.
A 56x drive might read CD-ROMs at nearly the claimed speed, but audio CDs are a different matter entirely.
I ripped all of my ~400 CDs to WAV format stored on a Linux RAID which is shared on my home network. I have two Western Digital 120GB drives striped in RAID-0, which gives me about 220GB useable online storage -- easily enough for 400 uncompressed CDs.
Granted, the ripping process was not automated with a juke, but it only took about 5 minutes per CD with my Plextor CD-ROM/R/RW drive.
The most time consuming part is converting WAVs to MP3. I've decoupled the ripping and compressing processes, and automated the latter. I do this with LAME running on multiple machines against a common data store (on the RAID).
I have a simple "multi-processing" script which runs on Linux and windoze clients; I run one copy of it per PC on the net that can reach the input WAV repository and the output MP3 repository. These two repositories can be on the same RAID, or can be at different locations on the net.
Each album is represented by a single directory of WAVs, and each copy of the script (running one copy of the script on each of several PCs) "owns" the crunching of a single album directory from WAV to MP3.
Since the crunching process is primarily CPU bound (not I/O bound) throwing multiple machines at it radically speeds the conversion process. The 100Mbps NICs and switch I have are more than enough I/O bandwidth. I can even use some PCs which live elsewhere in the house (on the other side of a ~10Mbps HPNA2/phone-net bridge).
I can process the entire collection from WAV to MP3 in about a day using 7 PCs of various vintage. House stays nice and warm too.
Since I haven't yet found the "best" LAME command line incantation for me, I've found that I've re-crunched the WAVs->MP3s more than once. My plan is to keep all the original WAVs around until I find a set of LAME conversion options that create MP3s nearly indistiguishable [to my ears] from WAVs.
-----
Juke auomation idea is pretty darn cool. I could have physically loaded 200 CDs in a fraction of an hour. Less than a day later (assuming 8X rip speed is somehow possible), the RAID would have been ~1/2 full with no further intervention by me.
read ^^^
Now I can "download" my purchases thru my broadband connection...
After every single company except MS is consolidated, the CEO of the world will reveal that MS was a hoax.
- "You didn't really PAY for their 'software,' did you?"
At the stroke of a pen, the CEO will declare M$ non-existent. In a puff of smoke the "evil empire" will cease to be, replaced instantly by something impossible to displace.While we were all shooting flaming arrows at their ugly puppet, they built new walls.
I call the end result SuperGlobalMegaMonolithCorp -- purveyors of everything from Gattica (the police state, not Gattica the movie) to soap, to soup, to nuts, to net access (censored and monitored, of course), to civilian space travel.
I'm concerned about it, but what are the rest of you going to DO about it?
Well?
boo!
Author Sam Jaffe supposes HP will toss all the other OS's for Linux in their place?
Nope.
Sure HP's interested in Linux, but they've only shown a modicum of support for it so far.
Can you run Linux on your HP-PA workstation?
No.
Yet IBM lets you run Linux on their non-PC platform iron.
I hardly think HP's current position sounds like a ringing endorsement for Linux.
Don't get me wrong -- I run Linux for all my server needs where PC hardware can do the job. I only wish I could run it on my PA workstations and servers.
$ nmap -v -sS -O www.humanclock.com
... good.
Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/)
Host virtual-host.amz.com (206.129.95.193) appears to be up
Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against virtual-host.amz.com (206.129.95.193)
Blah, blah, blah; (deleted).
Sequence numbers: 7896FB4 78A53EB 78B2113 78DA38E 78E5877 78EF747
Remote operating system guess: FreeBSD 2.2.1 - 3.0
So don't buy this keyboard!
And as far as the AOL CDs go, they make wonderful coasters.
As mentioned already, if you read the article, you'll find he was arrested for cracking and stealing IDs, not for POSSESSION of (L0pht)Crack. Duh!
I'm running LinuxPPC 1999 Q3, and ssh came with it. I get the following: $ ssh -v SSH Version 1.2.27 [powerpc-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5.