The current issue of FFWD magazine has a writeup by someone who imported a TiVo and what the options are. I just this minute finished messing around with a PVR-250 in Linux. I'll wrap a SFF system around it and program it with cron.
Sky NZ have been promising to do a PVR for a while. The FFWD article notes that Sky think they'll have one available in 2005. They also note that in 2002, Sky said they'd have one in 2003...
Relativity hurts my head. Well, not exactly but I find there is enough ambiguity in every discussion of it that I never really gain significant understanding of the principle.
Slashdot striped out the disclaimer on the first line of my post - I dropped out of Physics after year two.
If gravity waves traveled faster then the speed of light then the effects of gravity would occur before actually seeing the object.
Sounds fine to me.
You would have the effect before cause which is impossible.
Feeling the effect before seeing the cause doesn't mean effect came before cause at the point of origin. If the cause particles (photons) take longer to reach me than the effect particles (gravitons), so what?
The graviton particle is a convenient way to imagine the force of gravity travelling and acting on other particles. It'd be nice to know how it really works though.
Picture two tubes, each exactly 600m long and at 90 degrees to one another in the horizontal plane. Bounce a laser beam off a mirror at the end of each one. The time should be identical. Unless there is a gravitational pulse, in which case one would appear shorter than the other.
Or maybe this is something completely different =)
The graphics/tech thing will depend on release dates though. XBox came out years after the PS2 - no surprise that it beats PS2 bloody in terms of performance.
If the XB2/PS3 come out around the same time, it'll come down to games and price. and maybe controller =)
In addition to Fujitsu's additions, they are also doing point-in-time recovery. They have multiple replication solutions. It's an absolutely wonderful database to develop for.
I'd trade most of these new features for that one right there. If you have a 10Gb database full of transactional data, you can't do full dumps continuously, but equally you can't afford to lose a day or even an hour of data since the last full dump.
I know its being worked on. This is the one feature keeping me away from PostgreSQL. *fingers crossed for 7.5*
No, thanks. I prefer my mail without random 24-48 hour delays and invisibly dropped messages. That's not how mail is "supposed to work."
The company I work for provides an Email->SMS gateway. When we get complaints about delayed message delivery and check the Received headers on one of the emails we usually find they routed out from their Exchange server (!) via their ISP and the ISP decided to hold onto the email for a few hours.
This is why I run my own little mailserver at home. It does hardly any non-spam traffic, but at least I can check the logs and know that my email got through.
Flash allows for cross-browser, cross-platform web development.
The local pizza delivery co has a 100% flash site. It takes orders and everything - very slick. However, it was developed with Flash 7 and the latest plugin for Linux is 6.0.81.0. When I click my location on the map, the web browser segfaults.
This illustrates the problem. Flash makes you dependant on one company for your display software. When they don't keep up the support, you get locked out. Hell is only flash site I actually would use regularly and it doesn't work for me. So much for cross platform.
Here in NZ I don't even remember the last Nintendo ad I saw. Must be at least a year ago, while X-Box and PS2 ads play day in day out on TV and are plastered over every bus and billboard in town.
For the uninformed, you simply state whether or not you want the stable or the buggy version, and you get it.
I run a handful of gentoo boxes (some servers, some desktops - none using ~x86), and I still find it has far too many updates. Leave a gentoo box for just a week or two and you'll find 50+ updates ready to emerge. I don't want to recompile an app just because someone fixed a typo in the ebuild.
I'd like a filter which only offers updates that involve:
Version change upstream
Major bugfix
Security bugfix
No damn revision changes just for the hell of it. This is my only major gripe about gentoo.
Seriously, while they have unquestionably pushed new technologies into widespread use, I wouldn't use Apple as an indicator of a technology's obsolescence.
I've been a perl programmer for six years - I still use it daily - but perl5's support for threading absolutely blows. There are plenty of modules for whipping together a multithreaded TCP server, but no reliable way to share a resource such as a database connection pool between those child threads. Have had to put at least one project on indefinite hold due to this failure.
I assume its that oldskool anti-threading anti-OO attitude. Perl5 still isn't compiled with threading support by default and it breaks a tonne of modules and apps when it is.
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Yep, its DIY in NZ for at least a few years more.
The current issue of FFWD magazine has a writeup by someone who imported a TiVo and what the options are. I just this minute finished messing around with a PVR-250 in Linux. I'll wrap a SFF system around it and program it with cron.
Sky NZ have been promising to do a PVR for a while. The FFWD article notes that Sky think they'll have one available in 2005. They also note that in 2002, Sky said they'd have one in 2003...
Remember this?
Seem's like the same situation.
I count seven fans inside that thing!
Relativity hurts my head. Well, not exactly but I find there is enough ambiguity in every discussion of it that I never really gain significant understanding of the principle.
Slashdot striped out the disclaimer on the first line of my post - I dropped out of Physics after year two.
Sounds fine to me.
Feeling the effect before seeing the cause doesn't mean effect came before cause at the point of origin. If the cause particles (photons) take longer to reach me than the effect particles (gravitons), so what?
The Difference between Theory and Practice =)
The graviton particle is a convenient way to imagine the force of gravity travelling and acting on other particles. It'd be nice to know how it really works though.
As written up at the back of Wired mag a few years back.
http://www.geo600.uni-hannover.de/
Picture two tubes, each exactly 600m long and at 90 degrees to one another in the horizontal plane. Bounce a laser beam off a mirror at the end of each one. The time should be identical. Unless there is a gravitational pulse, in which case one would appear shorter than the other.
Or maybe this is something completely different =)
The graphics/tech thing will depend on release dates though. XBox came out years after the PS2 - no surprise that it beats PS2 bloody in terms of performance.
If the XB2/PS3 come out around the same time, it'll come down to games and price. and maybe controller =)
A significant section of the IT world think of linux as nothing more than a hobby Linux - that you can't rely on it for anything mission critical.
What this is saying is that Redhat Linux CAN foot it with the big (commerical) boys like Sun and Microsoft.
I'd trade most of these new features for that one right there. If you have a 10Gb database full of transactional data, you can't do full dumps continuously, but equally you can't afford to lose a day or even an hour of data since the last full dump.
I know its being worked on. This is the one feature keeping me away from PostgreSQL. *fingers crossed for 7.5*
The company I work for provides an Email->SMS gateway. When we get complaints about delayed message delivery and check the Received headers on one of the emails we usually find they routed out from their Exchange server (!) via their ISP and the ISP decided to hold onto the email for a few hours.
This is why I run my own little mailserver at home. It does hardly any non-spam traffic, but at least I can check the logs and know that my email got through.
Hell still crashes firefox.
*sigh* I was hoping 7.x would fix that.
Anyone on a dynamic IP is basically screwed, right?
The local pizza delivery co has a 100% flash site. It takes orders and everything - very slick. However, it was developed with Flash 7 and the latest plugin for Linux is 6.0.81.0. When I click my location on the map, the web browser segfaults.
This illustrates the problem. Flash makes you dependant on one company for your display software. When they don't keep up the support, you get locked out. Hell is only flash site I actually would use regularly and it doesn't work for me. So much for cross platform.
They'll probably get an X-Box.
Here in NZ I don't even remember the last Nintendo ad I saw. Must be at least a year ago, while X-Box and PS2 ads play day in day out on TV and are plastered over every bus and billboard in town.
Question: '2309-46-39' > '2310-01-01'?
I run a handful of gentoo boxes (some servers, some desktops - none using ~x86), and I still find it has far too many updates. Leave a gentoo box for just a week or two and you'll find 50+ updates ready to emerge. I don't want to recompile an app just because someone fixed a typo in the ebuild.
I'd like a filter which only offers updates that involve:
No damn revision changes just for the hell of it. This is my only major gripe about gentoo.
Straw. Camel. Back.
Did you read past the first line?
.. the day it returned a date column with the value '2309-46-39'.
(that, retarded access control system and the random data corruption..)
ssldump: http://www.rtfm.com/ssldump/
Pass it the right key file and it will decrypt the traffic to plaintext on the fly - very useful for tracing SMTP/POP3/IMAP over SSL, etc.
It can also debug the handshake process to help you find those weird SSL errors.
Uses libpcap so the filtering syntax is immediately familiar.
Which userland tools do you use to maintain the IPSec configuration and network interfaces?
;-)
Seriously, while they have unquestionably pushed new technologies into widespread use, I wouldn't use Apple as an indicator of a technology's obsolescence.
Thank god threading is at the top of the list.
I've been a perl programmer for six years - I still use it daily - but perl5's support for threading absolutely blows. There are plenty of modules for whipping together a multithreaded TCP server, but no reliable way to share a resource such as a database connection pool between those child threads. Have had to put at least one project on indefinite hold due to this failure.
I assume its that oldskool anti-threading anti-OO attitude. Perl5 still isn't compiled with threading support by default and it breaks a tonne of modules and apps when it is.
Perl6 can't get here soon enough.
Yeah I know its already +5 Informative.
It can't be overstated how good the LWN resource is though. Awesome.
Hard to find anything on the NZ application, just this from IPONZ.
Anyone got more?