Maybe I sould have been more clear. The post I replied to asked why the home user can't put their own internet service over the powerlines, to do that the assumption is that the data flows over the powerlines into your home, which it does not, it is only on the medium voltage grid, then wireless to the home. You can't tap into the powergrid and set up your own ISP because you'd need access to that part of the grid that only the power company has access to. Seems a bit long winded now doesn't it, you could have just read the article, or even just the snippet that I posted to/. and got all that out of it though.
I don't know why I'm bothering to explain myself to someone who's afraid to post under their own name though.
Wow, you're cheaper than Indian labour! I usually don't make comments like that, because I don't actually see anything wrong with Indian techs getting jobs, but man you work for like $6/ 8 hour day, that's CHEAP!
How about the fact that it's not actually over the powerlines, as the misleading/. headline says, maybe you should read the article first? It's really a WiFi solution put out by the power company utilizing their existing infrastructure.
These wireless "boxes" convert data so they can be sent through the grid and on to PUC's fibre-optic backbone, which connects to the Internet. Home computers equipped with 802.11b or "Wi-Fi" wireless access cards and within 150 metres of these access points will be able to use the service.
When I was making the decision of which to buy, PS2 or Xbox, #1 on my list of reasons for going PS2 was Better RPGs, many of those were PS1 games that I hadn't played yet. (I wasm't a console guy until this generation, I always prefered PC, but now consoles aren't much different from PCs)
Backwards compatibility made the decision a no-brainer.
Truth of the matter is MOST cable companies don't use encryption for one very good reason.
Encryption slows it all down. The biggest battle a cable ISP has to fight right now is public opinion on the SPEED, not security, of the network. A lot of them already have to push headend equipment to the limits to serve all their customers and still make a profit to pay back all the loans they got to put the internet service up in the first place, adding encryption to the modem to headend link would slow things down, requiring them to double their investment in headend equipment so that they would have routers capable of doing all the encryption on all that traffic....then it only ecrypts it on the RF plant, which is already protected by the Docsis modems built in feature of not forwarding anything to you that isn't meant for you. (which yes, this hack if modified a bit could get around)...in any case, say joehacker modifies his modem and starts snooping traffic on his local segment of the RF plant. Now he's going to see all the traffic between his neighbors and the net, but still not see his neighbor's home network unless his neighbor hacks his modem to let him see it.
His neighbor is still using SSL to log in to the bank, so big deal. Joehacker now can watch what pages his neighbor visits, but not a whole lot more.
If CableCo1 turns on encryption Joehacker can no longer view his neighbor's web surfing habits, but that's all he loses. (and remember this hack is brand new and probably will spur on increased security) The real threat to the average user is someone trying to get a trojan horse onto their machine so that they can hack the neighbor's (or preferably someone far away's) machine and get credit card info or just be a general nuisance. This sort of activity is not hindered at all by encryption between the headend and the customer's home.
Like I said, this will probably spur on an upgrade cycle to allow encryption on all your conenctions, in the meantime, if you are paranoid about a hacker down the street knowing you visit hustler.com on a regular basis use an ssl encrypted proxy service. There are plenty of them out there.
It's because the higher voltage required to push it to 56k would cause enough crosstalk to interfere with neighboring voice lines which is what the telephone system is supposed to be used for.
Second, 3 months ago, linux switched from using a 32-bit integer to count uptime to a 64-bit one. Previously, linux would always crash after 9 months of uptime.
I call bullshit. I've had a Linux Cobalt Raq2 that had an uptime 3 days short of a year once, and would have been longer had my junior co-worker not rebooted it to try and fix a problem. I could have killed him. (not only did it spoil my attempt to make it past the year mark, which would have been used well for marketing, but he took the thing down in the middle of the day putting dozens of customers at a serious inconvenience.
I don't know where you shop but I've seen plenty of TV tuner cards in the $20-$40 range, any of them should work fine.
We are talking about after the Xboxes drop to $99 each, so $99 per Xbox...
The biggest advantage is MythTV works in Canada, and other countries, Tivo doesn't work anywhere but the USA. (unless you set up your own server for TV guide listings, which brings up the price of the tivos, and actually make them more complicated to set up than myth.) Then there is also the ability to burn your taped shows for archiving, or have any size hard disk you like, at $99 per Xbox, Xboxes are cheaper than tivos by a fair margin, and after 3 or more TVs you have made up the difference, plus you didn't have to subscribe to an additional service if you are in the USA where service is provided.
Do Tivos allow you to watch a show you taped on 1 tivo on another? I don't think the older ones do, but it would really suck if the new ones don't still.
That's basically what I figured, (well that it was to do with the backlight anyway) I sent it back to them to have them correct it and they sent it to me with a note saying basically 'your're crazy, they all make a little noise, we're surprised you can hear it, you must work in a REALLY quiet environment' (not exact wording, it was back in June, so I don't remember the words they used exactly) I work with PDAs a lot and I have NEVER heard one other than mine make ANY sound.
You need to emerge either development-sources or gentoo-dev-sources (same as development, but with patches that will eventually be in the gentoo-sources ebuild)
The 2.6 kernel needs/dev/pty support turned on manually, or your consoles won't work.
Other than that it's pretty straight forward if you've ever done a manual compile before. I don't know if genkernel works with 2.6 yet or not, I haven't tried it. (and have no plans to)
For a lot of people the powersupply is one of the biggest sources of noise, that and cheap CPU coolers.
I replaced both of those and now my hard disk is the most noisy part of my system and well, there isn't much I can do about that, but the PC is a whole lot less annoying than it used to be. One of these days I'll be able to afford something truely quiet. Booting from a 4+GB CF card would be good. Then only when it loads up the next media file from the hard disk would it make any noise. (i'm assuming 120+GB CF is out of the question for a long time to come) I really would like to see CF cards get bigger, cheaper, and FASTER so this can become a reality.
Cooler running chips would be nice too, so that I could lose the last fans and make it completely silent.
Actually that page says human breathing at 3m is 10db, which is more like 9 feet. I definitly can't hear people breathing at a distance of 9 feet. I think I'd find it rather annoying. I only wish my PDA was that quiet. (ever since I had the screen fixed by pocketpctechs.com it's made an annoying high pitched hum.)
Microsoft does a good job they just need to make more secure operating systems and forget about hardware IMO
My opinion is the exact opposite, MS should focus on what they are good at (hardware) and dump what they suck at (software).
MS hardware always impressed me. Intellimouse was cool, thier joysticks were cool, Xbox is a bit clunky looking, but still cool from a hardware perspective, although it lacks any games I'd want to play that I can't already get on PS2.
You set up a media server on a $200-300 mini-tower PC with some big-ass hard disks and a couple of TV tuner cards (so you can record more than one show at a time) installed in it and hooked up to your cable/satellite system. You can store this in the basement or a closet or whatever, doesn't matter it's the backend. Then you install MythTV client on a bunch of hacked X-boxes (they have support for xbox specifically built into Myth) and hook them up to every TV in the house.
Now you have VOD on every TV you own and, if you feel like it you can play Xbox games too.
I've been using 2.6 with and Nvidia card and Nvidia GLX drivers for a while now. (since 2.6test10)
I haven't been able to get framebuffer working though. X and OpenGL under X worked like a charm all along. Now someone else posted that there was a 3rd party patch, so I'm assuming that's how Gentoo gets it to work, but fact remains Nvidia cards have worked with 2.6 for a while now.
Though if this somehow fixes framebuffer (somehow I don't think that's what's wrong) I'll be a wee bit happier. In reality though, I could care less whether framebuffer worked as long as X works ok.
Um, unless I missed something what the kid did was trademark infringement, not copyright infringement. He wasn't putting pirated MS software on his site, and I just missed that part, was he?
"MicroSoft" is a trademark, not a piece of literature or other artistic work.
have soft synths seriously supassed Roland? Like I said in an earlier post I've beem out of touch with the MIDI music scene for a long while. I'm more of an acoustic guy.
Because a Prius doesn't have a clutch. It's an hybrid electric car with "Electronically controlled continuously variable transmission"
There is nopt only not an option to get manual gear shifting, but the car doesn't even really shift in the traditional sense, it just moves up along a cone shaped gear.
That doesn't answer my question. I can see the benefit of having the PC and Key board in one unit, very good for portability, but why would you ever need a dual Opteron for MIDI?
I've got to ask because it doesn't seem like anyone else is asking... WTF do you need a dual Opteron in your keyboard for? Seriously, what midi software requires more than a P166?
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Maybe I sould have been more clear. The post I replied to asked why the home user can't put their own internet service over the powerlines, to do that the assumption is that the data flows over the powerlines into your home, which it does not, it is only on the medium voltage grid, then wireless to the home. You can't tap into the powergrid and set up your own ISP because you'd need access to that part of the grid that only the power company has access to. Seems a bit long winded now doesn't it, you could have just read the article, or even just the snippet that I posted to /. and got all that out of it though.
I don't know why I'm bothering to explain myself to someone who's afraid to post under their own name though.
Wow, you're cheaper than Indian labour!
I usually don't make comments like that, because I don't actually see anything wrong with Indian techs getting jobs, but man you work for like $6/ 8 hour day, that's CHEAP!
My point was the home user DOESN'T connect via the GRID, they connect via Wireless.
How about the fact that it's not actually over the powerlines, as the misleading /. headline says, maybe you should read the article first?
It's really a WiFi solution put out by the power company utilizing their existing infrastructure.
These wireless "boxes" convert data so they can be sent through the grid and on to PUC's fibre-optic backbone, which connects to the Internet. Home computers equipped with 802.11b or "Wi-Fi" wireless access cards and within 150 metres of these access points will be able to use the service.
Well, I've heard it over and over, here's just one reference, make what you want of it.
http://www.56k.com/cons/53k.shtml
When I was making the decision of which to buy, PS2 or Xbox, #1 on my list of reasons for going PS2 was Better RPGs, many of those were PS1 games that I hadn't played yet. (I wasm't a console guy until this generation, I always prefered PC, but now consoles aren't much different from PCs)
Backwards compatibility made the decision a no-brainer.
Truth of the matter is MOST cable companies don't use encryption for one very good reason.
...then it only ecrypts it on the RF plant, which is already protected by the Docsis modems built in feature of not forwarding anything to you that isn't meant for you. (which yes, this hack if modified a bit could get around) ...in any case, say joehacker modifies his modem and starts snooping traffic on his local segment of the RF plant. Now he's going to see all the traffic between his neighbors and the net, but still not see his neighbor's home network unless his neighbor hacks his modem to let him see it.
Encryption slows it all down. The biggest battle a cable ISP has to fight right now is public opinion on the SPEED, not security, of the network.
A lot of them already have to push headend equipment to the limits to serve all their customers and still make a profit to pay back all the loans they got to put the internet service up in the first place, adding encryption to the modem to headend link would slow things down, requiring them to double their investment in headend equipment so that they would have routers capable of doing all the encryption on all that traffic.
His neighbor is still using SSL to log in to the bank, so big deal. Joehacker now can watch what pages his neighbor visits, but not a whole lot more.
If CableCo1 turns on encryption Joehacker can no longer view his neighbor's web surfing habits, but that's all he loses. (and remember this hack is brand new and probably will spur on increased security) The real threat to the average user is someone trying to get a trojan horse onto their machine so that they can hack the neighbor's (or preferably someone far away's) machine and get credit card info or just be a general nuisance. This sort of activity is not hindered at all by encryption between the headend and the customer's home.
Like I said, this will probably spur on an upgrade cycle to allow encryption on all your conenctions, in the meantime, if you are paranoid about a hacker down the street knowing you visit hustler.com on a regular basis use an ssl encrypted proxy service. There are plenty of them out there.
That's all I have to say on this subject.
It's because the higher voltage required to push it to 56k would cause enough crosstalk to interfere with neighboring voice lines which is what the telephone system is supposed to be used for.
Second, 3 months ago, linux switched from using a 32-bit integer to count uptime to a 64-bit one. Previously, linux would always crash after 9 months of uptime.
I call bullshit.
I've had a Linux Cobalt Raq2 that had an uptime 3 days short of a year once, and would have been longer had my junior co-worker not rebooted it to try and fix a problem. I could have killed him.
(not only did it spoil my attempt to make it past the year mark, which would have been used well for marketing, but he took the thing down in the middle of the day putting dozens of customers at a serious inconvenience.
I don't know where you shop but I've seen plenty of TV tuner cards in the $20-$40 range, any of them should work fine.
We are talking about after the Xboxes drop to $99 each, so $99 per Xbox...
The biggest advantage is MythTV works in Canada, and other countries, Tivo doesn't work anywhere but the USA. (unless you set up your own server for TV guide listings, which brings up the price of the tivos, and actually make them more complicated to set up than myth.) Then there is also the ability to burn your taped shows for archiving, or have any size hard disk you like, at $99 per Xbox, Xboxes are cheaper than tivos by a fair margin, and after 3 or more TVs you have made up the difference, plus you didn't have to subscribe to an additional service if you are in the USA where service is provided.
Do Tivos allow you to watch a show you taped on 1 tivo on another? I don't think the older ones do, but it would really suck if the new ones don't still.
That's basically what I figured, (well that it was to do with the backlight anyway) I sent it back to them to have them correct it and they sent it to me with a note saying basically 'your're crazy, they all make a little noise, we're surprised you can hear it, you must work in a REALLY quiet environment' (not exact wording, it was back in June, so I don't remember the words they used exactly) I work with PDAs a lot and I have NEVER heard one other than mine make ANY sound.
No more noise than the average hard drive, I'm just a silent PC nut.
I thought about that, and quietpc.ca has such a thing, but they say it would cause my 7200rpm drives to eventually overheat.
My case is already covered on the inside with foam baffles I bought there, but it makes little difference.
You need to emerge either development-sources or gentoo-dev-sources (same as development, but with patches that will eventually be in the gentoo-sources ebuild)
/dev/pty support turned on manually, or your consoles won't work.
The 2.6 kernel needs
Other than that it's pretty straight forward if you've ever done a manual compile before. I don't know if genkernel works with 2.6 yet or not, I haven't tried it. (and have no plans to)
For a lot of people the powersupply is one of the biggest sources of noise, that and cheap CPU coolers.
I replaced both of those and now my hard disk is the most noisy part of my system and well, there isn't much I can do about that, but the PC is a whole lot less annoying than it used to be. One of these days I'll be able to afford something truely quiet.
Booting from a 4+GB CF card would be good. Then only when it loads up the next media file from the hard disk would it make any noise. (i'm assuming 120+GB CF is out of the question for a long time to come) I really would like to see CF cards get bigger, cheaper, and FASTER so this can become a reality.
Cooler running chips would be nice too, so that I could lose the last fans and make it completely silent.
Actually that page says human breathing at 3m is 10db, which is more like 9 feet. I definitly can't hear people breathing at a distance of 9 feet. I think I'd find it rather annoying. I only wish my PDA was that quiet. (ever since I had the screen fixed by pocketpctechs.com it's made an annoying high pitched hum.)
Microsoft does a good job they just need to make more secure operating systems and forget about hardware IMO
My opinion is the exact opposite, MS should focus on what they are good at (hardware) and dump what they suck at (software).
MS hardware always impressed me. Intellimouse was cool, thier joysticks were cool, Xbox is a bit clunky looking, but still cool from a hardware perspective, although it lacks any games I'd want to play that I can't already get on PS2.
You set up a media server on a $200-300 mini-tower PC with some big-ass hard disks and a couple of TV tuner cards (so you can record more than one show at a time) installed in it and hooked up to your cable/satellite system. You can store this in the basement or a closet or whatever, doesn't matter it's the backend.
Then you install MythTV client on a bunch of hacked X-boxes (they have support for xbox specifically built into Myth) and hook them up to every TV in the house.
Now you have VOD on every TV you own and, if you feel like it you can play Xbox games too.
I've been using 2.6 with and Nvidia card and Nvidia GLX drivers for a while now. (since 2.6test10)
I haven't been able to get framebuffer working though. X and OpenGL under X worked like a charm all along. Now someone else posted that there was a 3rd party patch, so I'm assuming that's how Gentoo gets it to work, but fact remains Nvidia cards have worked with 2.6 for a while now.
Though if this somehow fixes framebuffer (somehow I don't think that's what's wrong) I'll be a wee bit happier. In reality though, I could care less whether framebuffer worked as long as X works ok.
Um, unless I missed something what the kid did was trademark infringement, not copyright infringement.
He wasn't putting pirated MS software on his site, and I just missed that part, was he?
"MicroSoft" is a trademark, not a piece of literature or other artistic work.
have soft synths seriously supassed Roland?
Like I said in an earlier post I've beem out of touch with the MIDI music scene for a long while.
I'm more of an acoustic guy.
MyGrowSoft??? sound more like a program for contolling marijuana grow lights.
With the all new MyGrowSoft 2.0 your buds will be bigger than ever, your plants taller and your dope stronger. Guaranteed, or your money back!**
**refunds only applicable to those who live in states where Marijuana GrowOps are 100% legal.
Because a Prius doesn't have a clutch.
It's an hybrid electric car with "Electronically controlled continuously variable transmission"
There is nopt only not an option to get manual gear shifting, but the car doesn't even really shift in the traditional sense, it just moves up along a cone shaped gear.
Look here for an explaination of CVT.
That doesn't answer my question. I can see the benefit of having the PC and Key board in one unit, very good for portability, but why would you ever need a dual Opteron for MIDI?
I've got to ask because it doesn't seem like anyone else is asking...
WTF do you need a dual Opteron in your keyboard for? Seriously, what midi software requires more than a P166?
You don't HAVE to back up the entire drive daily you know, you could do it weekly or monthly and use incremental backups between.