Get an old P3 for free somewhere and load this up on it with a big disk or two for storage, put it on your network, and run it. That's what I do and it works like a charm. I went through all the options over the years, tape, DVDs, manual copying to a server.
Backuppc backs up all my windows and linux PCs. It backs up only what I tell it to, and it does both full and incremental. Sort of a pain in the ass to set up (I use cygwin rsyncd on the windows boxes, and regular rsyncd on the linux boxes), and it works well.
Yeah you're right. The gubmint should just stop building and maintaining roads. Let them all fall apart and we can just switch to commuting on mountain bikes.
Google Earth already has elevation data (note, that is what this story is about, elevation data, not aerial photography). The new stuff is probably more accurate than the elevation data google earth uses to do its 3D display, but the resolution of the new elevation data is much greater than the resolution of the aerial image files, so it would not make a hill of beans difference in what you see in google earth.
Topofusion, a (cheap, but non-free) mapping program that overlaps in functionality with google earth, does allow you do use your own bring-your-own elevation data rather than use whatever online source it uses, so you could try it there to see if it makes a difference (topofusion has a reduced functionality free version). I doubt you'd see much difference.
BZZZT. wrong. I have verizon DSL, and I think its terms are similar to most, and they ban servers, period. Nothing about how big or small, commercial vs. noncommercial.
I live in a northern US city (canadian border) with cold winters, and there's plenty of concrete roads around here. Usually they are built concrete, last a long time, and only later get a layer of asphalt. But the concrete doesn't frost heave.
There are plenty of options. You can use two antennas and merge their feeds, although you lose some signal strength that way. But many antennas can pick up a good signal out the back side even though they are "directional" towards the other way. That's what I did for my mythtv (DVR) set up rather than going with a rotor. Trial and error pointing with small azimuthal changes can perfect the reception. I actually had to end up pointing a null node towards the closed antenna since it was coming in to strong, but still managed to get good reception from the antenna clusters in the second and third directions.
"Oh, also, I want to throw out there that people also may not trust the bureaucracy. Its one thing to hear that a pilot has X thousand hours of training or experience, and trust that pilot personally (as one might trust a friend or acquaintance who is driving), but its another thing to trust the bureaucracy responsible for training, regulating, monitoring, supporting, etc. the pilot."
If you headed south from the viewing point before it fell, the whole image disappeared within a few hundred yards or so and it just looked like a regulr cliff. It was only the old man from a very specific viewing angle.
Imagine if the automobile industry was just starting today, or perhaps was always electric cars but we had to switch away from it (say, discharging batteries were found to cause cancer), just imagine what all the nay-sayers would be saying if someone proposed a system where the average moron could just go to any corner service station and start pumping extremely flammable/explosive liquid that has percent-levels of known highly potent carcinogens (note surface water needs to be in the part-per-billion of such compounds to be considered safe). Imagine the liability of a bunch of grease monkeys managing storage tanks with 1000s of gallons of this toxic stuff.
Puts things in context. Anyone can come up with good reasons for not doing anything. The key is selecting the best of an array of imperfect choices.
Something to think about: The GPL depends on copyright laws. If there were no copyright laws, there would be no enforceable GPL and (for example) MS could take any and all of Linux kernel code and close source it in their products.
As soon as customers start getting charged by the kilobyte, everyone is going to turn off ads. I don't bother with ad blocking right now since I have plenty of bandwidth and I'm lazy. But if I have to *pay* to watch some stupid flash ad in the side of a web page you for sure I will install the ad block plug-in.
Once everyone starts doing this, internet advertizing will be less attractive and advertizers will go back to newspapers. OK, so maybe that is a little far fetched. But my point remains, selling internet ads will be significantly less lucrative if UBB become widespread.
If that's all one had to do on a computer, there's no reason not to run Linux. The only reason I run windows on some machines is the application support.
The increased electrical use is almost entirely for decoding the video stream by the CPU. It has nothing to do with the electrical use relation to bandwidth consumption. Your electrical usage would increase just as much if you were watching the video from your hard drive rather than streaming.
Well then how come when I go to Hulu and select "view source" I see regular HTML with a few javascripts thrown in, and no encrypted gibbereish? Is it only once you start watching a video that the encryption kicks in?
You are completely wrong and now this wrong-hood has even been picked up by the story linked in the summary (quoting you).
Hulu.com, the website and RSS feed, **HAS NO ADVERTISING**.
All the advertising is embedded in the stream, as in non-skippable TV commercials. Boxee plays the stream unedited, with all the embedded ads (commercials). Boxee displays all the advertising that comes out of Hulu, because none of it is in the website, and all of it is in the stream.
Supposedly the whole MythTV UI is undergoing a huge rewrite for the next release to address this very issue (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/357815)
In the meantime, do what I do, run mythtv, but add a menu item to launch Boxee when you want to watch streaming media or stored files. Works great (except when Boxee's alpha-level code doesn't).
except from above link: "Stoll set up an elaborate hoax (known today as a honeypot), inventing a new department at LBL that had supposedly been newly formed because of an imaginary SDI contract. He knew the hacker was mainly interested in SDI, so he filled the "SDInet" account (operated by the imaginary secretary Barbara Sherwin) with large files full of impressive-sounding bureaucratese. The ploy worked, and the Deutsche Bundespost finally located the hacker at his home in Hanover. "
OK, so that wasn't the gov't (and in fact Stoll got stonewalled by the gov't at first).
It's probably the billing costs. I used the 407 and they sent a bill to my address in the states. I paid it but probably because of the currency conversion, I had a balance of one cent. So they mailed me another bill with a late charge. I paid that and then they sent another bill in the mail for one cent plus late charge. I finally just ignored it and it went away. I am sure they would have preferred to just deduct the charges from my transponder account. They probably spent more on postage and handling than my toll. Well maybe not, the 407 is quite expensive, but worth it to avoid the Toronto traffic.
I do have an HDHomerun. Use it only for OTA. As you say, it works only on the unencrypted cable channels (not that I've checked, I don't have cable). You are lucky (for now) if Cox doesn't encrypt too many HD channels.
Pretty cool about getting the cable while just paying for the internet, though. I've got DSL.
True, My Mythtv + boxee box is over $500 ($400 core2duo+nvidia Dell box, plus more for tuners and a 500 gig drive), but after 18 months, you still have the box (and I can use it as a real computer in the meantime when I want).
Program guide costs $20/yr, pretty cheap.
Both mythtv and boxee work great (well, boxee is still alpha). Note, with cable, you can't record (i.e. mythtv PVR) hardly any HD since it's encrypted, although the new hauppauge HDPVR "tuner" is making strides (and you have to jump through some hoops). I suppose you can use the cable-supplied PVR but I heard they aren't that great and of course you are limited with what you can do with it.
Thank you. This is the point I always try to make. One does not "believe in" evolution. That's a false set of words. Evolution is simply the best explanation that corresponds to the set of observations accumulated over the years. This includes the observations reported by Darwin, but also molecular biology, paleontology, and much more. If more observations are made in subsequent years that contradict evolution, then the theory will evolve (no pun intended) to reflect the newer observations. The scientific peer review process is brutal.
I cringe whenever I hear someone ask if someone "believes in evolution".
Slashdot Mirror
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Get an old P3 for free somewhere and load this up on it with a big disk or two for storage, put it on your network, and run it. That's what I do and it works like a charm. I went through all the options over the years, tape, DVDs, manual copying to a server.
Backuppc backs up all my windows and linux PCs. It backs up only what I tell it to, and it does both full and incremental. Sort of a pain in the ass to set up (I use cygwin rsyncd on the windows boxes, and regular rsyncd on the linux boxes), and it works well.
Only drawback is it is still on site.
I am sure it was simply a coincidence that the soviets launched an unmanned probe to the moon the day or two before the Apollo 11 launch.
Yeah you're right. The gubmint should just stop building and maintaining roads. Let them all fall apart and we can just switch to commuting on mountain bikes.
You can do 3D in GRASS with the nviz command.
http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/viz.php
Also, GRASS is good for lots more than just basic stuff. It does very very advanced stuff. Just a really steep learning curve.
Google Earth already has elevation data (note, that is what this story is about, elevation data, not aerial photography). The new stuff is probably more accurate than the elevation data google earth uses to do its 3D display, but the resolution of the new elevation data is much greater than the resolution of the aerial image files, so it would not make a hill of beans difference in what you see in google earth.
Topofusion, a (cheap, but non-free) mapping program that overlaps in functionality with google earth, does allow you do use your own bring-your-own elevation data rather than use whatever online source it uses, so you could try it there to see if it makes a difference (topofusion has a reduced functionality free version). I doubt you'd see much difference.
BZZZT. wrong. I have verizon DSL, and I think its terms are similar to most, and they ban servers, period. Nothing about how big or small, commercial vs. noncommercial.
I live in a northern US city (canadian border) with cold winters, and there's plenty of concrete roads around here. Usually they are built concrete, last a long time, and only later get a layer of asphalt. But the concrete doesn't frost heave.
There are plenty of options. You can use two antennas and merge their feeds, although you lose some signal strength that way. But many antennas can pick up a good signal out the back side even though they are "directional" towards the other way. That's what I did for my mythtv (DVR) set up rather than going with a rotor. Trial and error pointing with small azimuthal changes can perfect the reception. I actually had to end up pointing a null node towards the closed antenna since it was coming in to strong, but still managed to get good reception from the antenna clusters in the second and third directions.
"Oh, also, I want to throw out there that people also may not trust the bureaucracy. Its one thing to hear that a pilot has X thousand hours of training or experience, and trust that pilot personally (as one might trust a friend or acquaintance who is driving), but its another thing to trust the bureaucracy responsible for training, regulating, monitoring, supporting, etc. the pilot."
Yeah, as in http://www.buffalonews.com/517
If you headed south from the viewing point before it fell, the whole image disappeared within a few hundred yards or so and it just looked like a regulr cliff. It was only the old man from a very specific viewing angle.
Imagine if the automobile industry was just starting today, or perhaps was always electric cars but we had to switch away from it (say, discharging batteries were found to cause cancer), just imagine what all the nay-sayers would be saying if someone proposed a system where the average moron could just go to any corner service station and start pumping extremely flammable/explosive liquid that has percent-levels of known highly potent carcinogens (note surface water needs to be in the part-per-billion of such compounds to be considered safe). Imagine the liability of a bunch of grease monkeys managing storage tanks with 1000s of gallons of this toxic stuff.
Puts things in context. Anyone can come up with good reasons for not doing anything. The key is selecting the best of an array of imperfect choices.
Doesn't anyone remember Bush's 2006 SOU address?
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-107625.html
http://www.badgerblues.org/2006/02/01/human-animal-hybrids-and-scientific-research/
Something to think about: The GPL depends on copyright laws. If there were no copyright laws, there would be no enforceable GPL and (for example) MS could take any and all of Linux kernel code and close source it in their products.
Be careful what you wish for.
As soon as customers start getting charged by the kilobyte, everyone is going to turn off ads. I don't bother with ad blocking right now since I have plenty of bandwidth and I'm lazy. But if I have to *pay* to watch some stupid flash ad in the side of a web page you for sure I will install the ad block plug-in.
Once everyone starts doing this, internet advertizing will be less attractive and advertizers will go back to newspapers. OK, so maybe that is a little far fetched. But my point remains, selling internet ads will be significantly less lucrative if UBB become widespread.
If that's all one had to do on a computer, there's no reason not to run Linux. The only reason I run windows on some machines is the application support.
The increased electrical use is almost entirely for decoding the video stream by the CPU. It has nothing to do with the electrical use relation to bandwidth consumption. Your electrical usage would increase just as much if you were watching the video from your hard drive rather than streaming.
Well then how come when I go to Hulu and select "view source" I see regular HTML with a few javascripts thrown in, and no encrypted gibbereish? Is it only once you start watching a video that the encryption kicks in?
Manip:
You are completely wrong and now this wrong-hood has even been picked up by the story linked in the summary (quoting you).
Hulu.com, the website and RSS feed, **HAS NO ADVERTISING**.
All the advertising is embedded in the stream, as in non-skippable TV commercials. Boxee plays the stream unedited, with all the embedded ads (commercials). Boxee displays all the advertising that comes out of Hulu, because none of it is in the website, and all of it is in the stream.
Supposedly the whole MythTV UI is undergoing a huge rewrite for the next release to address this very issue (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/357815)
In the meantime, do what I do, run mythtv, but add a menu item to launch Boxee when you want to watch streaming media or stored files. Works great (except when Boxee's alpha-level code doesn't).
Read Rchard Stoll's Cuckoo's Egg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo's_Egg_(book)
except from above link: "Stoll set up an elaborate hoax (known today as a honeypot), inventing a new department at LBL that had supposedly been newly formed because of an imaginary SDI contract. He knew the hacker was mainly interested in SDI, so he filled the "SDInet" account (operated by the imaginary secretary Barbara Sherwin) with large files full of impressive-sounding bureaucratese. The ploy worked, and the Deutsche Bundespost finally located the hacker at his home in Hanover. "
OK, so that wasn't the gov't (and in fact Stoll got stonewalled by the gov't at first).
It's probably the billing costs. I used the 407 and they sent a bill to my address in the states. I paid it but probably because of the currency conversion, I had a balance of one cent. So they mailed me another bill with a late charge. I paid that and then they sent another bill in the mail for one cent plus late charge. I finally just ignored it and it went away. I am sure they would have preferred to just deduct the charges from my transponder account. They probably spent more on postage and handling than my toll. Well maybe not, the 407 is quite expensive, but worth it to avoid the Toronto traffic.
I do have an HDHomerun. Use it only for OTA. As you say, it works only on the unencrypted cable channels (not that I've checked, I don't have cable). You are lucky (for now) if Cox doesn't encrypt too many HD channels.
Pretty cool about getting the cable while just paying for the internet, though. I've got DSL.
True, My Mythtv + boxee box is over $500 ($400 core2duo+nvidia Dell box, plus more for tuners and a 500 gig drive), but after 18 months, you still have the box (and I can use it as a real computer in the meantime when I want).
Program guide costs $20/yr, pretty cheap.
Both mythtv and boxee work great (well, boxee is still alpha). Note, with cable, you can't record (i.e. mythtv PVR) hardly any HD since it's encrypted, although the new hauppauge HDPVR "tuner" is making strides (and you have to jump through some hoops). I suppose you can use the cable-supplied PVR but I heard they aren't that great and of course you are limited with what you can do with it.
Overall, I have no inclination to consider cable.
Netflix works on Mac, not on Linux
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=3385
Thank you. This is the point I always try to make. One does not "believe in" evolution. That's a false set of words. Evolution is simply the best explanation that corresponds to the set of observations accumulated over the years. This includes the observations reported by Darwin, but also molecular biology, paleontology, and much more. If more observations are made in subsequent years that contradict evolution, then the theory will evolve (no pun intended) to reflect the newer observations. The scientific peer review process is brutal.
I cringe whenever I hear someone ask if someone "believes in evolution".