Depending on your setup, RAID-10 can be extremely reliable, especially in a multi-drive failure scenario.
Specifically the setup is as follows
1 == 2 3 == 4 5 == 6 7 == 8
Setting up a RAID in this way will allow you to experience multiple drive failures while still keeping the raid alive. The most detremental in this scenario is if you lose two drives on the same deveice. Meaning if you lost drives 1 & 2 you expereince a more of a problem as opposed to losing drive 1 & 4.
On the other hand, what is the real value of the XM Radio? To me, its rather limited, in that I don't do alot of cross country driving, nor do I care for a number of songs that are on the radio stations today.
What I envision is media conversion that brings car Audio/Video to a console for the automotive market. When you add up the cost of the XM/Sirius hardware, and the contract, you're probably not far off from a in dash audio/video center. Granted it requires more work, and its the 'techie' thing to do, but thats what I see.
In fact, I think I'll open a consulting business that provides for retail installation of the audio/video components for in dash CarPC type stuff.
Thats what we're really missing here, is a retail outlet for these devices. Not just in dash DVD players, but I'm talking full media center.
Because Clear Channel profits from advertising, not from subscriptions.
Its rather simple really. A subscription costs X amount of money, and its a fixed number, sure thats great for paying the bills, but the only way to increase profit is to get additional subscribers, or by reducing overhead. Since the hardware utilized is rather expensive, the fastest way to eliminate overhead is through payroll, I don't see anyone taking a paycut in order to turn a profit.
Advertising on the other hand is on a sliding scale, based on location, time of day, length of time, etc... and therfor can be a real cash cow in some cases.
I like your comments here. Something that I've been experimenting with is setting up small ~/bin directories within the user directories that store some of the basic commands. The real thought though is setting up ~/bin as a symbolic link to a RAM drive. This way specific programs could have near instant access to the binary part of any application.
Granted this still causes a bottle neck if the client needs to run something from the local disk, but I'm trying to reduce latency. I'm not 100% sure how to test performance with this, but I was thinking that running time/bin/app and time/mnt/ramdrive/bin/app might give me a good idea, but some of that still relies on local disk access.
Anyway, just thought I'd comment on something I'm trying.
I leave the house often enough to spend some time at practice for Rugby and for general fitness at the gym. I think the true meaning of the word geek follows different meanings.
I have some friends that are true die hard geeks, to the point of playing D&D, and collecting an insande amount of Star Wars stuff. Those guys are going to be dead inside of 10years tops.
I recommend that everyone go outside and enjoy a little sunlight, else you all end up like Gollum.
Take my advice, geeks can get lovin too, they just need to get out and go get it... you'd be surprised at how many chicks will truly dig the smart guy, especially at the local pub as opposed to the a club.
Shorewall has traffic shaping built in, but what it sounds like you might prefer to do is put in a Quality of Service system. Just reduce the priority of the outbound traffic, or block it all together, depending on how strict you want to be.
I've successfully down this to allow bittorrent transfers to take a lower priority than my VoIP traffice from my phone. It seems so far to have worked quite well. I had some trouble getting the qos-htb and tc qdisc stuff to work. Possibly because of the versions, but didn't bother trying to figure it out. Shorewall worked quite well for my purposes.
Check out the LEAF project over at leaf.sourceforge.net, its a very active project with great user and developer support.
This is different than for buying for personal use.
Exporting, here, implies that the buyer affirms that they are not buying it for resale as export, which is quite a common practice.
I formerly worked for a automotive parts distribution. We had specialty parts that were commonly ordered to be shipped over seas, which is what I'm pretty sure is being implied here.
My real reasoning for questing is because I want to do video streaming on a local network, with the potential for as many as 4 video streams. Currently I'm not able to sustain that kind of bandwidth, but then again, I'm streaming UDP, which I figured would be more effective, seeing as TCP would cause skipping.
Was the three NIC's acting as one, like in line balancing, or where they seperate IP addresses as well?
So you're saying that you could maintain a transfer rate of 97mbit between two boxen. I'm curious to see your test environment. I've done some samples accross my local network, and at best, I've only been able to sustain 40mbit. I'd like to know a couple of things. What protocol were you using, what NIC, etc hardware config, and again what was your test files.
Interesting take on this. I admire that you recognize that just because someone can come accross as a dick, doesn't mean that don't take others seriously.
I have a similar problem at work with fellow employees. In my opinion, having a hardass encourages everyone else to work harder and more efficiently, so that they too can be the prick and give some back, often deserving to the original prick.
I think its vitally important for people to stop pussy footing around everyone and grow a pair of perverbial balls!
What makes this any difference from a new console based on a Linux OS. The problem with this is that you have to standardize on a hardware set. I could see making something similar to the Knoppix live CD or something similar, with some customization towards gaming, but I think it'll miss its mark.
Now what would really be cool, is to develop a linux console, capable of pushing itself into the console market. But for that to happen, we're talking a mass of marketing and coordination, between game developers and publishers. If you could push console compatibility (think ol Mac/Win CDs) that you could purchase a single disc, playable in multiple console that would also allow interactive game play between the various consoles, that would kick ass!
It comes standard with a wlan chip, AND a wired nic!
I'm very impressed by this little bugger!
If its got a DVD drive, I'm sold. Its still a little pricey for my taste buds, but I'm definately impressed!
How does this work with current VoIP providers?
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For example, I have Vonage as a current VoIP provider for my local service. This seems to be a wireless phone, which is capable of getting an IP address. OK, cool, but who do I implement this? Does the hardware have a configuration that selects who your carrier is? Is this intended for commercial use, as opposed to personal?
It seems that the way that Vonage has the setup is pretty straightforward, and ties easily into an existing infrastructure.
I do like the idea of having just the wireless router in place, but I would want to see more of the implementation (currently unavailable) before I praise it.
I don't see it being such a longshot. A neighbor of mine and one other friend work as consultants for large very US based corporations that are are investigating offshore resources.
The American people profit by getting somewhat lesser product (except for terrible support) and a cheaper product. However, once the plant closes in the US, another chunk of people go on unemployment. Which causes a decline in US money circulating and therefor causes more loss by the American public.
Its a terrible downward cycle and it needs to stop. I don't give a shit about free enterprise, it would be better for the American people in whole to have jobs wholly based here in the US. If the price has to go up, so be it, people will pay more, and work more, and thus earn more, eventually paving the way for a market that is so over saturated and fucked by price, that it'll just fall.
A good fall would do us some good, bring the money grubber bastards of corporate America back to reality.
A few years back, while working for a third party support firm (read: couple of guys with computer know-how) we sold a bunch of computers. Identical to each other as possible. I remember one day, one of the insurance companies we worked for called us, and asked about drive recovery. He explained what had happened, and we pretty much told him the drive was a gonner, although covered under the hardware warranty.
This was completely unacceptable to the client. So we began to dig out the drive and popped it into our test bed system. Fortunately we didn't hear anything clicking (alla ZIPDrive click-o-death) and so we determined that the controller board had just died. Fortunately for us, we bought the exact same harddrives for everyone in that insurance office. A couple of drive screws, a very delicate ribbon pull, and walla, drive is working again. Pulled the data off of both drives, and was fortunate enough to be able to warranty both drives. We ended up purchasing a third at the same time for just such another occasion. The bonus part for us was that we also got the praise of pulling them out of a crunch (read: lawsuit) at the time, we didn't know until later.
From that point on, anytime we sold multiple computers to a business we always bought two extra harddrives of the same model, just in case. The client paid for one that they kept on site, (for a rush job) and we paid for the other for the not so rushed job. The second part of the newer contract for clients was that anytime we replaced more than three harddrives for the same location, we changed them all out. While the client's balked alittle at the cost, they ultimately saw the benefit of having standardized equipment.
I'd say we performed similar operations about 10 different times between all the drives that we had out there. The clients were happy enough.
I've been working on a personal VOD server, which requires large amounts of bandwidth to get to the receiver, which I'm also developing, specifically based off of an ITX board, but still.
The problem I see is that the many possible uses of 100mbit to the home are for commercial gain, not public interest. lets face it, 100mbit to the home is hard to justify. Someone earlier mentioned that we should do away with radio band technologies and use the 100mbit or fiber to satisfy these needs, but in the same thread, it mentioned that its also not enough bandwidth.
What are some real uses of (non-profit) that we could justifiy more than 10mbit, I can't think of any. I'm not trolling, just looking for valid uses.
78. However, as is widely reported and as IBM executives knew, or should have known, a significant flaw of Linux is the inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual property origins of contributed source code that comes in from those many different software developers. If source code is code copied from protected UNIX code, there is no way for Linus Torvalds to identify that fact.
I think the whole thing is about to come into a big pissing match. I can't wait to watch the stock prices on Monday. Good thing I work late and can watch the stocks live for a bit before leaving for work.
You can view my other notes on the topic through my posted messages. The biggest 'drawback' is the amount of time that it takes to switch. But otherwise I really have to recommend Vonage as being an excellent service provider. I didn't really shop around, but when my wife and I first got our phone service, we immediately switched to the Vonage service. At $37 (After taxes) for the phone, and asking Time Warner to keep my rate low, I save $20 a month in communications costs. I would be saving more if I called home to mom as much as she'd like.
I've compared my Vonage costs to going back to a land line, and I can't beat it. I'm just waiting for the next round of cuts to come throuh as the competition heats up.
You twit! Did you even read the page you linked to?
If you would like a copy of the GPL source code in Linksys products on a CD, please send $9.99 to Linksys for the costs of preparing and mailing the CD to you.
READ NEXT TIME!
however the sources can be downloaded right there!
My Palm Pilot m505 has a built in, single day (others exist) alarm clock. The tones are can be changed, and the one I use (on a near daily basis) is the Reville (think military wake up call). This works great, and I'm a real heavy sleeper.
Granted its a bit on the extreme, but works great! You can get a cheap one now on ebay. Alternatively, get the same tone and then use your Linux/Windows box with scheduling and mpeg123.
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Opened at $95 currently at $103 ... lets see what happens of the next week.
Depending on your setup, RAID-10 can be extremely reliable, especially in a multi-drive failure scenario.
Specifically the setup is as follows
1 == 2
3 == 4
5 == 6
7 == 8
Setting up a RAID in this way will allow you to experience multiple drive failures while still keeping the raid alive. The most detremental in this scenario is if you lose two drives on the same deveice. Meaning if you lost drives 1 & 2 you expereince a more of a problem as opposed to losing drive 1 & 4.
Just my 2 cents, poke holes where necessary
I see your point, and its very valid.
On the other hand, what is the real value of the XM Radio? To me, its rather limited, in that I don't do alot of cross country driving, nor do I care for a number of songs that are on the radio stations today.
What I envision is media conversion that brings car Audio/Video to a console for the automotive market. When you add up the cost of the XM/Sirius hardware, and the contract, you're probably not far off from a in dash audio/video center. Granted it requires more work, and its the 'techie' thing to do, but thats what I see.
In fact, I think I'll open a consulting business that provides for retail installation of the audio/video components for in dash CarPC type stuff.
Thats what we're really missing here, is a retail outlet for these devices. Not just in dash DVD players, but I'm talking full media center.
ok ok.. I'll stop dreaming.
Because Clear Channel profits from advertising, not from subscriptions.
Its rather simple really. A subscription costs X amount of money, and its a fixed number, sure thats great for paying the bills, but the only way to increase profit is to get additional subscribers, or by reducing overhead. Since the hardware utilized is rather expensive, the fastest way to eliminate overhead is through payroll, I don't see anyone taking a paycut in order to turn a profit.
Advertising on the other hand is on a sliding scale, based on location, time of day, length of time, etc... and therfor can be a real cash cow in some cases.
my 2 cents
I like your comments here. Something that I've been experimenting with is setting up small ~/bin directories within the user directories that store some of the basic commands. The real thought though is setting up ~/bin as a symbolic link to a RAM drive. This way specific programs could have near instant access to the binary part of any application.
/bin/app and time /mnt/ramdrive/bin/app might give me a good idea, but some of that still relies on local disk access.
Granted this still causes a bottle neck if the client needs to run something from the local disk, but I'm trying to reduce latency. I'm not 100% sure how to test performance with this, but I was thinking that running time
Anyway, just thought I'd comment on something I'm trying.
I leave the house often enough to spend some time at practice for Rugby and for general fitness at the gym. I think the true meaning of the word geek follows different meanings.
I have some friends that are true die hard geeks, to the point of playing D&D, and collecting an insande amount of Star Wars stuff. Those guys are going to be dead inside of 10years tops.
I recommend that everyone go outside and enjoy a little sunlight, else you all end up like Gollum.
Take my advice, geeks can get lovin too, they just need to get out and go get it... you'd be surprised at how many chicks will truly dig the smart guy, especially at the local pub as opposed to the a club.
harryk
Shorewall has traffic shaping built in, but what it sounds like you might prefer to do is put in a Quality of Service system. Just reduce the priority of the outbound traffic, or block it all together, depending on how strict you want to be.
I've successfully down this to allow bittorrent transfers to take a lower priority than my VoIP traffice from my phone. It seems so far to have worked quite well. I had some trouble getting the qos-htb and tc qdisc stuff to work. Possibly because of the versions, but didn't bother trying to figure it out. Shorewall worked quite well for my purposes.
Check out the LEAF project over at leaf.sourceforge.net, its a very active project with great user and developer support.
I too am in a similar environment as yourself. I took it one step further, and also setup the temp variables to use the same drive.
I've noticed significant performance increases since doing, not to mention that I've freed up some space on other, more important drives.
Good luck!
This is different than for buying for personal use.
Exporting, here, implies that the buyer affirms that they are not buying it for resale as export, which is quite a common practice.
I formerly worked for a automotive parts distribution. We had specialty parts that were commonly ordered to be shipped over seas, which is what I'm pretty sure is being implied here.
my 2 cents.
harryk
Understood about the disclaimer.
My real reasoning for questing is because I want to do video streaming on a local network, with the potential for as many as 4 video streams. Currently I'm not able to sustain that kind of bandwidth, but then again, I'm streaming UDP, which I figured would be more effective, seeing as TCP would cause skipping.
Was the three NIC's acting as one, like in line balancing, or where they seperate IP addresses as well?
Still interesting though.
So you're saying that you could maintain a transfer rate of 97mbit between two boxen. I'm curious to see your test environment. I've done some samples accross my local network, and at best, I've only been able to sustain 40mbit. I'd like to know a couple of things. What protocol were you using, what NIC, etc hardware config, and again what was your test files.
I'm not doubting you, just really skeptical!
harryk
Interesting take on this. I admire that you recognize that just because someone can come accross as a dick, doesn't mean that don't take others seriously.
I have a similar problem at work with fellow employees. In my opinion, having a hardass encourages everyone else to work harder and more efficiently, so that they too can be the prick and give some back, often deserving to the original prick.
I think its vitally important for people to stop pussy footing around everyone and grow a pair of perverbial balls!
harryk
What makes this any difference from a new console based on a Linux OS. The problem with this is that you have to standardize on a hardware set. I could see making something similar to the Knoppix live CD or something similar, with some customization towards gaming, but I think it'll miss its mark.
Now what would really be cool, is to develop a linux console, capable of pushing itself into the console market. But for that to happen, we're talking a mass of marketing and coordination, between game developers and publishers. If you could push console compatibility (think ol Mac/Win CDs) that you could purchase a single disc, playable in multiple console that would also allow interactive game play between the various consoles, that would kick ass!
It comes standard with a wlan chip, AND a wired nic!
I'm very impressed by this little bugger!
If its got a DVD drive, I'm sold. Its still a little pricey for my taste buds, but I'm definately impressed!
For example, I have Vonage as a current VoIP provider for my local service. This seems to be a wireless phone, which is capable of getting an IP address. OK, cool, but who do I implement this? Does the hardware have a configuration that selects who your carrier is? Is this intended for commercial use, as opposed to personal?
It seems that the way that Vonage has the setup is pretty straightforward, and ties easily into an existing infrastructure.
I do like the idea of having just the wireless router in place, but I would want to see more of the implementation (currently unavailable) before I praise it.
Longshot my ass!
I don't see it being such a longshot. A neighbor of mine and one other friend work as consultants for large very US based corporations that are are investigating offshore resources.
The American people profit by getting somewhat lesser product (except for terrible support) and a cheaper product. However, once the plant closes in the US, another chunk of people go on unemployment. Which causes a decline in US money circulating and therefor causes more loss by the American public.
Its a terrible downward cycle and it needs to stop. I don't give a shit about free enterprise, it would be better for the American people in whole to have jobs wholly based here in the US. If the price has to go up, so be it, people will pay more, and work more, and thus earn more, eventually paving the way for a market that is so over saturated and fucked by price, that it'll just fall.
A good fall would do us some good, bring the money grubber bastards of corporate America back to reality.
--end rant.
A few years back, while working for a third party support firm (read: couple of guys with computer know-how) we sold a bunch of computers. Identical to each other as possible. I remember one day, one of the insurance companies we worked for called us, and asked about drive recovery. He explained what had happened, and we pretty much told him the drive was a gonner, although covered under the hardware warranty.
This was completely unacceptable to the client. So we began to dig out the drive and popped it into our test bed system. Fortunately we didn't hear anything clicking (alla ZIPDrive click-o-death) and so we determined that the controller board had just died. Fortunately for us, we bought the exact same harddrives for everyone in that insurance office. A couple of drive screws, a very delicate ribbon pull, and walla, drive is working again. Pulled the data off of both drives, and was fortunate enough to be able to warranty both drives. We ended up purchasing a third at the same time for just such another occasion. The bonus part for us was that we also got the praise of pulling them out of a crunch (read: lawsuit) at the time, we didn't know until later.
From that point on, anytime we sold multiple computers to a business we always bought two extra harddrives of the same model, just in case. The client paid for one that they kept on site, (for a rush job) and we paid for the other for the not so rushed job. The second part of the newer contract for clients was that anytime we replaced more than three harddrives for the same location, we changed them all out. While the client's balked alittle at the cost, they ultimately saw the benefit of having standardized equipment.
I'd say we performed similar operations about 10 different times between all the drives that we had out there. The clients were happy enough.
harryk
I've been working on a personal VOD server, which requires large amounts of bandwidth to get to the receiver, which I'm also developing, specifically based off of an ITX board, but still.
The problem I see is that the many possible uses of 100mbit to the home are for commercial gain, not public interest. lets face it, 100mbit to the home is hard to justify. Someone earlier mentioned that we should do away with radio band technologies and use the 100mbit or fiber to satisfy these needs, but in the same thread, it mentioned that its also not enough bandwidth.
What are some real uses of (non-profit) that we could justifiy more than 10mbit, I can't think of any. I'm not trolling, just looking for valid uses.
78. However, as is widely reported and as IBM executives knew, or should have known, a significant flaw of Linux is the inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual property origins of contributed source code that comes in from those many different software developers. If source code is code copied from protected UNIX code, there is no way for Linus Torvalds to identify that fact.
I think the whole thing is about to come into a big pissing match. I can't wait to watch the stock prices on Monday. Good thing I work late and can watch the stocks live for a bit before leaving for work.
harryk
You can view my other notes on the topic through my posted messages. The biggest 'drawback' is the amount of time that it takes to switch. But otherwise I really have to recommend Vonage as being an excellent service provider. I didn't really shop around, but when my wife and I first got our phone service, we immediately switched to the Vonage service. At $37 (After taxes) for the phone, and asking Time Warner to keep my rate low, I save $20 a month in communications costs. I would be saving more if I called home to mom as much as she'd like.
I've compared my Vonage costs to going back to a land line, and I can't beat it. I'm just waiting for the next round of cuts to come throuh as the competition heats up.
Switch today, don't delay!
OK, unless I'm missing something, this won't really matter until the filming crews starting mastering in HD.
Whats the purpose of getting an HD player without getting HD signal on disc. The movies can only look as good as its master. I'll be a late adopter.
disregard, the ethernet port was identified in a different picture.
Thanks for the pictures, I was looking at them, specifically about the back of the console, to check out the connections, and saw this oddity.
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There is an RF connector that is labeled Cable Modem, although I see no Ethernet port.
http://gallery.tomservo.net/phantom/phantom_scr
Can anyone comment on this?
You twit! Did you even read the page you linked to?
If you would like a copy of the GPL source code in Linksys products on a CD, please send $9.99 to Linksys for the costs of preparing and mailing the CD to you.
READ NEXT TIME!
however the sources can be downloaded right there!
No Shit!
My Palm Pilot m505 has a built in, single day (others exist) alarm clock. The tones are can be changed, and the one I use (on a near daily basis) is the Reville (think military wake up call). This works great, and I'm a real heavy sleeper.
Granted its a bit on the extreme, but works great! You can get a cheap one now on ebay. Alternatively, get the same tone and then use your Linux/Windows box with scheduling and mpeg123.
Either way its a hell-of-a wake up!
harryk