Closest google search I could get said the M1 runs "an OS with it's roots in Unix and C/Pascal". Want to fill that gap in my memory for me? SYS IV based
As with most legacy PBXes, it's a hodgepodge of various technologies, unfortunately none of which are UNIX based. Without going into detail, it's mostly proprietary, custom stuff.
On the other hand, the new Meridian MAX 10 is a x86 embedded PC running Red Hat.
If you visit lugnet.com, you'll find that a collection of 100,000 pieces is not that big of a deal-I'm somewhere at 70-80K anyways, and I'm not a big Lego enthusiast anyways.
There are 250, 350 and 600K piece collections that are really impressive.
What if you spoke to local businesses like a bakery, bookstore, supermarket, etc, and bought location specific ads? You wouldn't need to pay for an online ad brokerage house or use their rates, and you could give geographically targetted ads that people who happen to be surfing while having a coffee might actually be interested in since they're right next door. It's unlikely anyone would be interested in the usual online banner ads, but you never know with something that's right down the street and associated with the area.
There would be a lot of work involved-such as proving the ads actually worked, but it would be fun to start such a small enterprise up. Try something like arranging to offer a coupon from a local store on the banner ad itself, and see how many people come in with your coupon to determine the retention and usefulness of the service. Then you could turn it around and use that information to sell more ads to local shopowners.
Oh yea, what platforms does WP work on right now? At least these:
Amiga, every version ever made
Except WordPerfect for the Amiga wasn't updated past it's first or second release. And it was incredibly bad too. So much so that it didn't support crucial features like scalable fonts or device independent printing, which came along with newer releases of the AmigaOS. IIRC (it's been like fifteen years now) it ignored the Workbench printer drivers and didn't follow any of the Amiga's interface conventions either.
I suppose you could run the original WordPerfect for Amiga on an A4000/060 with Workbench 3, but you can also hammer in nails with your forehead too. WP for Amiga was long eclipsed by FinalWriter and other excellent Amiga word processing packages.
It's interesting how Sony has kept the same basic mechanics in use for so many years through so many formats.
You'll find JVC has done the same with the VHS shell as well, with consumer variants like SVHS, WVHS, and DVHS as well as professional formats like DigitalS (50MBps 3.3:1 compression over WVHS tape). All the DigitalS transports are based on the earlier SVHS generation edit decks.
I own a Siemens system now. It's in my attic. I replaced it with a couple of cheap 900 MHz phones after I put in my wireless LAN. I'd rather have 802.11 than 2.4 GHz phones.
We've been pretty happy with ours, but the only bug is the short standby time. Since you had one, what kind of talk and standby times were you getting?
I was plesantly surprised by some of the features in the Siemens system like station to station calling, barge in, and the caller log/directory features. It's by no means a true PBX, but for home use, it's not half bad. Even a small business could get a lot of use out of it.
The one thing that would concern me with making your own PBX out of an old PC and some CTI cards is reliability. What if the system crashes and someone needs to dial 911 or another emergency service?
Keep at least one analog 500 set wired directly to a trunk/outside line.
Though you won't get an CTI capabilities, there are a few consumer vendors who are making multi handset cordless systems that have many PBX like features, including multiple lines, station to station calls, directory features etc-We have a 2.4 Ghz Siemens system with two handsets that only cost about $100 Canadian from a surplus liquidator. I think Sony and Panasonic also make such systems.
Another route is to buy a used Nortel Norstar system from some of the hundreds of key system vendors out there. Unfortunately they can get expensive but the telsets and ATA adapters often end up in junk and surplus shops or the local Goodwill for really cheap.
Shouldn't the treehouse be a bit more generic to inspire open ended play? Kids make up all sorts of games, roleplaying (not THAT kind of roleplaying) and play situations: For example, a generic treehouse could be a fort, a pirate ship, a space ship, a storefront, etc.
Obviously someone spent a great deal of effort here, but this treehouse can only be a giant mech...
I mean, I never even heard of a damn HP Kayak.. wtf is that? Of course OpenView and Insight Manager both have to stay, due to their ubiquity. iPaq kills Jornada hands-down. Compaq trounces HP for business desktops.
HP Kayak's are Intel based workstation class machines, similar to Compaq's Professional Workstation line.
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before, but SGI actually had a theme song for the Indy workstation. This is not the "jazz hit" startup sound, but in fact, a full length instrumental jazz fusion piece commissioned by a local band (at least as described by the marketing people at the demo I saw)
It can be found on the demos that come with the Indy somewhere, and isn't half bad at all.
I don't want this to sound like a flame, but that statement shows exactly how little you know about the TV/Video/Movie making process. Havn't you ever seen a director's cut of a film? Havn't you ever noticed that it is sometimes quite different from the original cut?
In fact, your comment suggests you might know less. The original poster is correct-a significant portion of any production, be it industrial, broadcast, cable, or otherwise is done before the camera even rolls.
The general adage in production is to "shoot for the edit"-meaning, the material is shot with post in mind. To compare raw footage to source code is incorrect. You need to have the preproduction work, shoot schedules, storyboards, script etc. Just having access to the raw camera masters is akin to having just the paints of an artist without seeing the sketches, field notebook and clippings he's working form.
Editing cannot save a project that does not have good direction, writing, scripting and storyboarding. If you don't have control of that, the best you can match is a bunch of geeks who like to reedit Star Wars movies.
Anybody else remember those old computerized Lego sets for the AppleIIs? I wonder if those could be interfaced to the mind storms, I know of a school that has quite a few of those lying around, it is just that all of their AppleII interface boards died.
Yes. It's called the 4.5V Lego TC Logo system. It uses 4.5V Technic motors and cannot be used with the Mindstorms RCX system, which uses the newer 9V system-motors, connectors, battery boxes, sensors etc.
The 4.5V system also has a ISA PC card version that connects to the same breakout box.
Wouldn't a 100GB drive meet just about any processing demands (genome tracking, video editing, etc)?
No. Using a very low video data rate (ie, DV25), you're looking at 3.5MByte/sec. That's only eight hours of video. No one captures only what they're going to use, since that's the whole point of editing--you take all your material, capture some of it, and cut that selection down to a final product. So if you're making a 1 hour production, you might very well have 10-20 hours of footage if not more. Of course, you'll selectively digitize with a batch capture deck, but still...
And of course, editors might have multiple projects running simultaneously. And most secondary media devices are too slow to restore material to your primary disks.
DV25 is only suitable for consumers, event videography (weddings etc) and industrial work. Go to DV50 and that datastream is doubled-DV50 (ie, DVCPRO50, DigitalS) is minimum level for broadcast work.
Now, raise that for HD editing requirements. Sony's HDCAM, a highly compressed solution, runs at 140MBit/sec, uncompressed HDTV is above 996MBit/sec (and that's downsampled and cropped).
So no, 100GByte is really only scratching the surface of what video editing requires.
What a cute idea. It reminds me of the NewTek DigiView, one of the most popular products on the Amiga (NewTek went onto to produce the famed VideoToaster card for the Amiga).
The DigiView was a slow scan digitizer that took a PAL or NTSC signal and turned it into an IFF Amiga image. To get colour, you mounted a filter wheel of Red, Blue and Green filters just like in this Game Boy article. They even had a motorized attachment that went to the Joystick port called a DigiDroid, it was a software cued servo IIRC which rotated the cardboard (or sometimes plexiglass) filter.
You have to remember, for the price of $249 back in 1988, this was a really big deal. It usually came with a Panasonic WV1410 CCTV camera and a copystand...scanners were really much more expensive, like $2500-3000.
Really... most people type more then 562 words per minute?
No, but for those of you who HAVEN'T had the pleasure of using a 300 bps modem, you really can type faster than it-that's because the majority of the time, the remote host is sending a lot data to you for display, to which you send only a small number of keystrokes back.
So while you can't type faster than 300 bps physically, you certainly will end up waiting for the modem quite a lot of the time, especially on any sort of prompt/command interface and as a result, the modem feels really slow.:)
I found whenever I talk to our purchasing rep, they give is different prices based on how many you buy anyways, or special deals based on what they have available or the university default configuration.
Isn't this extending normal sales practices to an automated system?
Calum
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't that sound like Slashdot?
DIN-8 serial ports (which are commonly used now for PS/2 style connectors on PCs).
You mean MiniDIN 6 connectors for PS/2 key and mouse.
Calum
Closest google search I could get said the M1 runs "an OS with it's roots in Unix and C/Pascal". Want to fill that gap in my memory for me? SYS IV based
As with most legacy PBXes, it's a hodgepodge of various technologies, unfortunately none of which are UNIX based. Without going into detail, it's mostly proprietary, custom stuff.
On the other hand, the new Meridian MAX 10 is a x86 embedded PC running Red Hat.
Calum
Underneath the MML is SYSV in a Nortel PBX.
Uh, no. Except for the Nortel Meridian IVR and MAX ACD management system, none of the Nortel PBX system is under System V UNIX.
Calum
There are 250, 350 and 600K piece collections that are really impressive.
Calum
There would be a lot of work involved-such as proving the ads actually worked, but it would be fun to start such a small enterprise up. Try something like arranging to offer a coupon from a local store on the banner ad itself, and see how many people come in with your coupon to determine the retention and usefulness of the service. Then you could turn it around and use that information to sell more ads to local shopowners.
Calum
http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/frame10 0-index.html
I did this with a friend using a PowerBook 100. I also have a PowerBook 520C one too...
http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/journal -frame520running.jpg
And here's my friend Victor's:
http://www.chuma.org/projects/pictureframe/
Calum
Except WordPerfect for the Amiga wasn't updated past it's first or second release. And it was incredibly bad too. So much so that it didn't support crucial features like scalable fonts or device independent printing, which came along with newer releases of the AmigaOS. IIRC (it's been like fifteen years now) it ignored the Workbench printer drivers and didn't follow any of the Amiga's interface conventions either.
I suppose you could run the original WordPerfect for Amiga on an A4000/060 with Workbench 3, but you can also hammer in nails with your forehead too. WP for Amiga was long eclipsed by FinalWriter and other excellent Amiga word processing packages.
Calum
It's interesting how Sony has kept the same basic mechanics in use for so many years through so many formats.
You'll find JVC has done the same with the VHS shell as well, with consumer variants like SVHS, WVHS, and DVHS as well as professional formats like DigitalS (50MBps 3.3:1 compression over WVHS tape). All the DigitalS transports are based on the earlier SVHS generation edit decks.
Calum
We've been pretty happy with ours, but the only bug is the short standby time. Since you had one, what kind of talk and standby times were you getting?
I was plesantly surprised by some of the features in the Siemens system like station to station calling, barge in, and the caller log/directory features. It's by no means a true PBX, but for home use, it's not half bad. Even a small business could get a lot of use out of it.
Calum
The one thing that would concern me with making your own PBX out of an old PC and some CTI cards is reliability. What if the system crashes and someone needs to dial 911 or another emergency service?
Keep at least one analog 500 set wired directly to a trunk/outside line.
Calum
Though you won't get an CTI capabilities, there are a few consumer vendors who are making multi handset cordless systems that have many PBX like features, including multiple lines, station to station calls, directory features etc-We have a 2.4 Ghz Siemens system with two handsets that only cost about $100 Canadian from a surplus liquidator. I think Sony and Panasonic also make such systems.
Another route is to buy a used Nortel Norstar system from some of the hundreds of key system vendors out there. Unfortunately they can get expensive but the telsets and ATA adapters often end up in junk and surplus shops or the local Goodwill for really cheap.
Calum
Looks like an Ikea Office Effektiv T series table...
Calum
Shouldn't the treehouse be a bit more generic to inspire open ended play? Kids make up all sorts of games, roleplaying (not THAT kind of roleplaying) and play situations: For example, a generic treehouse could be a fort, a pirate ship, a space ship, a storefront, etc.
Obviously someone spent a great deal of effort here, but this treehouse can only be a giant mech...
Calum
HP Kayak's are Intel based workstation class machines, similar to Compaq's Professional Workstation line.
HP's desktop line ain't half bad either.
Calum
IIRC DBeta is DCT based but not MPEG2. ATSC transmission is MPEG2, as is BetacamSX and IMX.
Calum
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before, but SGI actually had a theme song for the Indy workstation. This is not the "jazz hit" startup sound, but in fact, a full length instrumental jazz fusion piece commissioned by a local band (at least as described by the marketing people at the demo I saw)
It can be found on the demos that come with the Indy somewhere, and isn't half bad at all.
Calum
In fact, your comment suggests you might know less. The original poster is correct-a significant portion of any production, be it industrial, broadcast, cable, or otherwise is done before the camera even rolls.
The general adage in production is to "shoot for the edit"-meaning, the material is shot with post in mind. To compare raw footage to source code is incorrect. You need to have the preproduction work, shoot schedules, storyboards, script etc. Just having access to the raw camera masters is akin to having just the paints of an artist without seeing the sketches, field notebook and clippings he's working form.
Editing cannot save a project that does not have good direction, writing, scripting and storyboarding. If you don't have control of that, the best you can match is a bunch of geeks who like to reedit Star Wars movies.
Calum
Oh, you mean the complete commercials at 320x240x15 fps shot on a grainy CMOS imager camera called the Lego Studios package?
Sure. I'll put that on national network TV.
Calum
Yes. It's called the 4.5V Lego TC Logo system. It uses 4.5V Technic motors and cannot be used with the Mindstorms RCX system, which uses the newer 9V system-motors, connectors, battery boxes, sensors etc.
The 4.5V system also has a ISA PC card version that connects to the same breakout box.
Calum
No. Using a very low video data rate (ie, DV25), you're looking at 3.5MByte/sec. That's only eight hours of video. No one captures only what they're going to use, since that's the whole point of editing--you take all your material, capture some of it, and cut that selection down to a final product. So if you're making a 1 hour production, you might very well have 10-20 hours of footage if not more. Of course, you'll selectively digitize with a batch capture deck, but still...
And of course, editors might have multiple projects running simultaneously. And most secondary media devices are too slow to restore material to your primary disks.
DV25 is only suitable for consumers, event videography (weddings etc) and industrial work. Go to DV50 and that datastream is doubled-DV50 (ie, DVCPRO50, DigitalS) is minimum level for broadcast work.
Now, raise that for HD editing requirements. Sony's HDCAM, a highly compressed solution, runs at 140MBit/sec, uncompressed HDTV is above 996MBit/sec (and that's downsampled and cropped).
So no, 100GByte is really only scratching the surface of what video editing requires.
Calum
It does-I have one. You CAN move the NeXTdisplay for the NeXTstation around, just by rolling the two roller feet at the front. It's pretty neat.
Calum
The DigiView was a slow scan digitizer that took a PAL or NTSC signal and turned it into an IFF Amiga image. To get colour, you mounted a filter wheel of Red, Blue and Green filters just like in this Game Boy article. They even had a motorized attachment that went to the Joystick port called a DigiDroid, it was a software cued servo IIRC which rotated the cardboard (or sometimes plexiglass) filter.
You have to remember, for the price of $249 back in 1988, this was a really big deal. It usually came with a Panasonic WV1410 CCTV camera and a copystand...scanners were really much more expensive, like $2500-3000.
Calum
No, but for those of you who HAVEN'T had the pleasure of using a 300 bps modem, you really can type faster than it-that's because the majority of the time, the remote host is sending a lot data to you for display, to which you send only a small number of keystrokes back.
So while you can't type faster than 300 bps physically, you certainly will end up waiting for the modem quite a lot of the time, especially on any sort of prompt/command interface and as a result, the modem feels really slow. :)
Calum
I found whenever I talk to our purchasing rep, they give is different prices based on how many you buy anyways, or special deals based on what they have available or the university default configuration. Isn't this extending normal sales practices to an automated system? Calum