I've been the (mostly) happy user of a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe. It is an USB2 external tv tuner that supports mpeg compression in hardware at bitrates up to 15MB/s
DVD's is about 6MB/s so i think that 15 should be enough for most....
The only problem with compression and decompression is the timelag when changin channels
>If I were going to pick another unit today, >I would look at Zyxel's ZyWall 100 series
Less can do it for a home setup (i.e zywall2).
I have been using zyxel zywalls since the now discontinued zywall10 was the news. Right now I run a network with about 15 zywalls spread arround the globe. Most in Denmark and the farest away is in Japan.
The reason for hardware firewall's and vpn access was simple that we at that time still used NT 4.0 and many was dualbooting different OS's.
We choose the zyxel zywall's since we have been a long time user of zyxel modems, isdn adapters and routers.
Have a look here: http://www.dcsc.sdu.dk/index.php?id=1
Conceptual overview 512x computing nodes 25x 24-port fast ethernet switches with gigabit ethernet uplink 1 30-port gigabit ethernet switch 4 front-end machines 1 server 2 disk systems with each 1.56 TB capacity 1 firewall 1 UPS Hardware Computing nodes and front-end machines HP EVO 510, 2.0 GHz,.13ì, i845G, 400 MHz FSB, 1 GB, 40 GB Switches HP ProCurve switch 2324 HP ProCurve 4108gl modular switch with 5 HP Procurve 100/1000T gl modules Server HP Proliant ML530g2 with 2x 2.4 GHz Xeon and 2 GB DDRAM Disk systems Zero-D X3i IDE-SCSI with 1.875 TB raw disk capacity. Maxtor D540X-4G (160 GB UltraATA-133 5400 rpm) The 12 disks are configured in one fault tolerant RAID-5 setup with one hot-spare disk.
A danish company (http://www.valus.dk) presented last spring an eletronic wallet that could be used for paying small amounts on the internet.
On a chatboard hosted by the magazine www.computerworld.dk their safety was diguessed
Soneone posted that entering http://www.valus.dk/badscript.asp?x;shutdown would shutdown their server.
Anotherone could'nt resist testing whether is was a joke or not, so he entered the URL and the server shutdown... He tried it again the next day and it went down again....
A few month later the police knocked on his door, confiscated his computer and he is now charged for "hacking".
The argue that he should have known that the above URL would shutdown the server (he was told in the chatboard) so it was a deliberate DOS attack !!
Try a search on groups.google.com for www.valus.dk
I as all you others has used a lot of floppy discs in its time. I probably still have a 5,25" lying around somewhere. When i went to university that was the std. medium so even trough the 3,5" single side disc was standard i still used the a "real floppy disc" for most things.
By '95 the 3,5" 1,44 disk was my std. medium but it did'nt hold enough files, so by '96 i bought my first syquest ez135 drive. 135MB on one disc was a big improvement but since nobody else used that i soon bought another external one for the parallel port.
That have served me well for year bringing work (etc) back and forth, but since the capacity is a bit limited i've also used removable harddiscs But the don't like the life in a bag on the back of a motorcycle...
I've also had a short experince with the LS-120 super floppy drive, but since i already had the syquest i dropped it again.
But now with the falling prices of flash ram my primary mean of moving files are a small 32mb usb flash drive. And when the files get to big i use a network connection or a CD-r/w enstead. I have 128MB in my digital camera and think about getting an adapter so I can use the compact flash card in the computer as well
BTW my notebook does not have a floppy drive but my main pc still do.
>Great way to get rid of users like us whom depend on their fantastic POP cum web mail service.
Exactly my thoughts. I've been using their web based groups/clubs (and some of the mailing lists the have bought) for years. The services have their pros and cons but works okay, for a small group with the same interests. Often for topics to narrow for usenet. I still prefer usenet over web based solutions, but the posibility of getting the discussions as digests and only use the web for posting is ok with me. I still pay for internet acess by the minute, so i prefer to do as much as possible offline.
So until know I've been able to use yahoo mail offline for reading and only had to go online for access to shared files and posting new messages.
My favorite group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aprilialeonardo/ At the moment they still allow me to get the digests send to any email address. My guess is that we soone will see the next restriction:"All messages from the group can only be sent to an yahoo mail account...."
Haven't used emacs prof. in a long time - like around 96 or so when i enterede the "real world". Well my os has been windows most of the time since then, but its still Borland C-tools and wordperfect so not all MS.
But "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping" was also my first thought when i saw the release info.
But again back then my super-box was a 40mhz 386 with 8mb of ram - I'm getting all nostalgig
"More to the point, the 30m cable is a 20% load experiment which, if successful, will lead to a 100% 'actual use' implementation of several Km, so this Dutch installation isn't really specifically for 'actual use' either."
No - They plan to operate the 30 meter at 100% but have started with only 20% usage (yesteday). They expect that all the power for the ~150000 citizen on Amager will go trough this kabel if all go well...
I've heard the bashing of sony and other consumer-hifi producers. I've even read many negative reviews. But the sound quality is good enough for me, I like much of their designs and I can afford it:-)
I've just bought a set of a Sony Str-db 940 (av-reciver) and Pascal sa-ve705 (5 sat and active sub.) and are so far satisfied. Sure i can get a cheaper setup that may sound better (i.e. better detail in stereo mode) but there is also the WAF.
(Wife Acceptence Factor)
I don't have much experience with Bose, but maybe the sony is also worth a look ?
We live in a kind of small apartment and floor space is precious, so the new system should be wall mounted. It should look good and not be black (The WAF). So our tradeoff was the above setup.
But if you want highend at a low price and can build the cabinets yourself, have a look at http://www.ing.dk/tema/selvbyg/ (Its in Danish but the design drawings are at http://www.ing.dk/tema/selvbyg/konstruktion.html )
The designers are http://www.danskaudioteknik.dk/ and the producer of speakers themselves are here http://www.vifa-speak.dk/
http://www.danskaudioteknik.dk/ has a picture of a finished set on the front of their homepage
Maybe it should be noted that the "tax" on blank media (now including CD-R's) in Denmark is collected by a society and not by the goverment.
Their purpose it to give the money back to the music buisness.
The law that made it possible to form the society has nothning to do with todays pirate problems. The society itself was started in 1927.
Over the years they have gotten permissions to tax new media when the got populare. I can still remenber when they started to tax VHS tapes and we began buying them in the neighbouring countries like Germany. (Along with beer, wine and other eletonic gadgets...)
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I've been the (mostly) happy user of a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe. It is an USB2 external tv tuner that supports mpeg compression in hardware at bitrates up to 15MB/s
....
DVD's is about 6MB/s so i think that 15 should be enough for most
The only problem with compression and decompression is the timelag when changin channels
>If I were going to pick another unit today,
>I would look at Zyxel's ZyWall 100 series
Less can do it for a home setup (i.e zywall2).
I have been using zyxel zywalls since the now discontinued zywall10 was the news. Right now I run a network with about 15 zywalls spread arround the globe. Most in Denmark and the farest away is in Japan.
The reason for hardware firewall's and vpn access was simple that we at that time still used NT 4.0 and many was dualbooting different OS's.
We choose the zyxel zywall's since we have been a long time user of zyxel modems, isdn adapters and routers.
Have a look here: http://www.dcsc.sdu.dk/index.php?id=1
.13ì, i845G, 400 MHz FSB, 1 GB, 40 GB
Conceptual overview
512x computing nodes
25x 24-port fast ethernet switches with gigabit ethernet uplink
1 30-port gigabit ethernet switch
4 front-end machines
1 server
2 disk systems with each 1.56 TB capacity
1 firewall
1 UPS
Hardware
Computing nodes and front-end machines
HP EVO 510, 2.0 GHz,
Switches
HP ProCurve switch 2324
HP ProCurve 4108gl modular switch with 5 HP Procurve 100/1000T gl modules
Server
HP Proliant ML530g2 with 2x 2.4 GHz Xeon and 2 GB DDRAM
Disk systems
Zero-D X3i IDE-SCSI with 1.875 TB raw disk capacity.
Maxtor D540X-4G (160 GB UltraATA-133 5400 rpm) The 12 disks are configured in one fault tolerant RAID-5 setup with one hot-spare disk.
>where would the line between hacking/not-
,,,
h p
>hacking go?
Motive - if "they" can prove that you are trying to get to something that you ought to be aware you should not see - you are hacking
http://cubus.adsl.dk/elteknik/div/valushacker.p
The "hackers" own story - in danish
h p
http://cubus.adsl.dk/elteknik/div/valushacker.p
A danish company (http://www.valus.dk) presented last spring an eletronic wallet that could be used for paying small amounts on the internet.
....
F -8 &threadm=aokrr5%24lr9%241%40tux.netsite.dk&rnum=2& prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dda%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%2 6q%3Dwww.valus.dk%26btnG%3DGoogle-s%25F8gning
/Anders
On a chatboard hosted by the magazine www.computerworld.dk their safety was diguessed
Soneone posted that entering http://www.valus.dk/badscript.asp?x;shutdown would shutdown their server.
Anotherone could'nt resist testing whether is was a joke or not, so he entered the URL and the server shutdown... He tried it again the next day and it went down again
A few month later the police knocked on his door, confiscated his computer and he is now charged for "hacking".
The argue that he should have known that the above URL would shutdown the server (he was told in the chatboard) so it was a deliberate DOS attack !!
Try a search on groups.google.com for www.valus.dk
i.e
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=da&lr=&ie=UT
or
http://www.snakeoil.dk/kommentarer/20021028-1
I as all you others has used a lot of floppy discs in its time. I probably still have a 5,25" lying around somewhere. When i went to university that was the std. medium so even trough the 3,5" single side disc was standard i still used the a "real floppy disc" for most things.
By '95 the 3,5" 1,44 disk was my std. medium but it did'nt hold enough files, so by '96 i bought my first syquest ez135 drive. 135MB on one disc was a big improvement but since nobody else used that i soon bought another external one for the parallel port.
That have served me well for year bringing work (etc) back and forth, but since the capacity is a bit limited i've also used removable harddiscs But the don't like the life in a bag on the back of a motorcycle...
I've also had a short experince with the LS-120 super floppy drive, but since i already had the syquest i dropped it again.
But now with the falling prices of flash ram my primary mean of moving files are a small 32mb usb flash drive. And when the files get to big i use a network connection or a CD-r/w enstead. I have 128MB in my digital camera and think about getting an adapter so I can use the compact flash card in the computer as well
BTW my notebook does not have a floppy drive but my main pc still do.
Anders Majland
>Great way to get rid of users like us whom depend on their fantastic POP cum web mail service .
Exactly my thoughts. I've been using their web based groups/clubs (and some of the mailing lists the have bought) for years. The services have their pros and cons but works okay, for a small group with the same interests. Often for topics to narrow for usenet. I still prefer usenet over web based solutions, but the posibility of getting the discussions as digests and only use the web for posting is ok with me. I still pay for internet acess by the minute, so i prefer to do as much as possible offline.
So until know I've been able to use yahoo mail offline for reading and only had to go online for access to shared files and posting new messages.
My favorite group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aprilialeonardo/ At the moment they still allow me to get the digests send to any email address. My guess is that we soone will see the next restriction:"All messages from the group can only be sent to an yahoo mail account...."
Haven't used emacs prof. in a long time - like around 96 or so when i enterede the "real world". Well my os has been windows most of the time since then, but its still Borland C-tools and wordperfect so not all MS.
But "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping" was also my first thought when i saw the release info.
But again back then my super-box was a 40mhz 386 with 8mb of ram - I'm getting all nostalgig
"More to the point, the 30m cable is a 20% load experiment which, if successful, will lead to a 100% 'actual use' implementation of several Km, so this Dutch installation isn't really specifically for 'actual use' either."
No - They plan to operate the 30 meter at 100% but have started with only 20% usage (yesteday). They expect that all the power for the ~150000 citizen on Amager will go trough this kabel if all go well...
And its a DANISH installation - not Dutch.
I've heard the bashing of sony and other consumer-hifi producers. I've even read many negative reviews. But the sound quality is good enough for me, I like much of their designs and I can afford it :-)
I've just bought a set of a Sony Str-db 940 (av-reciver) and Pascal sa-ve705 (5 sat and active sub.) and are so far satisfied. Sure i can get a cheaper setup that may sound better (i.e. better detail in stereo mode) but there is also the WAF.
(Wife Acceptence Factor)
I don't have much experience with Bose, but maybe the sony is also worth a look ?
We live in a kind of small apartment and floor space is precious, so the new system should be wall mounted. It should look good and not be black (The WAF). So our tradeoff was the above setup.
But if you want highend at a low price and can build the cabinets yourself, have a look at http://www.ing.dk/tema/selvbyg/ (Its in Danish but the design drawings are at http://www.ing.dk/tema/selvbyg/konstruktion.html )
The designers are http://www.danskaudioteknik.dk/ and the producer of speakers themselves are here http://www.vifa-speak.dk/
http://www.danskaudioteknik.dk/ has a picture of a finished set on the front of their homepage
Maybe it should be noted that the "tax" on blank media (now including CD-R's) in Denmark is collected by a society and not by the goverment.
...)
Their purpose it to give the money back to the music buisness.
The law that made it possible to form the society has nothning to do with todays pirate problems. The society itself was started in 1927.
Over the years they have gotten permissions to tax new media when the got populare. I can still remenber when they started to tax VHS tapes and we began buying them in the neighbouring countries like Germany. (Along with beer, wine and other eletonic gadgets
Look at http://www.koda.dk/ for more info
Mailorder within europe is not a problem anymore. But we still needs to find a place that sell it ...
/Anders Majland, Denmark