"And it's hard enough to read at that resolution. Trust me, I have one" Amazingly, different people have different needs, and evidently different levels of eyesight. I have a 12" powerbook, and the only issue I have with it is the 1024x768 resolution just isn't high enough. I have no problems reading it. I currently have "text size" in safari as low as it will go, and I can read everything just fine.
>Do you have evidence for this, because if you do it would >certainly turn the tables on him...
Well, he did write a Burgertime clone, was he the original Burgertime creator? Does he have a notice posted giving the original creators of Burgertime credit? Nope.
>As for "...he chose to do something incredibly malicious..." well >I disagree. If someone stole something from me Noone stole from him. They LINKED to a game on his website. That game still had a splash with his website URL and contact info.
>If Fuddruckers had an ounce of decency they should reimburse >the expenses this guy has incurred on their behalf (while not >his major referred, they still consumed finite resources). He put content on the WWW. Fuddruckers LINKED to it. They did not do anything wrong! That is the way the internet works. You put things on the internet, people find them and link to them. Just because a company did it they need to reimburse someone,when sites like slashdot and fark link to tons of sites, should they be paying bandwidth to every site they link?
This is exactly what I thought initially when reading this. This would be a major PITA for people working in secure areas. With cell phones, I can just leave it in my car...but I can't just leave my car keys in the car...
If you go with Dreamhost be aware of the following things: They WILL NOT get back to you with a service problem within the same work day, unless every site they are hosting is having problems. There is no way to contact them by phone, unless you email them and request them to call you at a certain time, but that certain time always has to be the next day for them to actually call you.
I have had email go out 4 times in the past year. Each time it was only down for 1-2 hours. However, not only was mail not received, but the mail BOUNCED. Not only was I dealing with people in the company not getting email, I was getting email from users trying to contact people at our company wondering why mail to our company is bouncing. After each of these occurances I asked them what happened and if it was corrected. They actually would tell me they don't know what caused it, and they don't know how they fixed it. Very frustrating, since It keeps happening. The only good news is, when this problem occurs many sites are affected, so they resolve it within a few hours. Another issue is that to create a new email or user account you have to use their web interface, and the lag time between when you hit submit on the website and when the user can get mail has been 5-6 hours for the past several months. It still says the delay is only 2 hours on the website, but it is incorrect.
There are many many other small things that annoy me, I was thinking about moving the company site and email off dreamhost, but I got a new position where I do not have any responsibility for this stuff. It is VERY frustrating. I would 100% recommend Dreamhost for a personal server due to their cheap price and good features. However, for a commercial business it is VERY frustrating having noone to deal with for several hours when things go wrong.
Just to note, I just performed the operation and de-neutered my NSLU to full speed. I went the non-soldering route and just used a boxcutter to cut the resistor in half, then scrapped it carefully off the board. From booting down the slug , till the time it was back and operational was 5 minutes. Very easy procedure, even if you don't have a soldering iron or soldering skills.
What is hard to believe about it? Some people have large music collections. 200GB with a high bitrate, FLAC , or others wouldn't be that big of a music collection. Don't you know people with > 1000 cd music collections?
http://www.mobl.com/expansion/pci/index.html It looks like you've marked this one as too expensive. I thought they were around $500. Still pricey , I agree. I have used the single PCI version under linux (need 2.6.5 kernel or higher for some PCI cards), for cards that only need prefetch memory and under 4M ( I think) It will work with 2.4 kernels. Support under Windows is also good. Will be using it under mac soon as well.
The replay autocommercial skip does not work based on commercials being 30 seconds long. The button does yes, it skips 30 seconds per push. Guess what, I live in a magical world evidently, because the correct number of 30 second skip pushes, always gets me from the start of the first commercial, to the end of the last one. Evidently commercials are in 30 second multiple blocks , atleast for the shows I watch. I am not a commercial expert, the reason I am not a commercial expert is, 90% of my viewing is done with the "autocommercial skip" feature, which means, I never see the commercials to count how long they are. The other 10% of the time, a few (usually 4, I guess I also live in a magical world where commercial breaks are 2 minutes or so) 30 second skips gets me right back to the show.
Also, yes 30 second skip works 100% of the time. IT ALWAYS SKIPS 30 SECONDS. That is how It is defined as working.
"Fast forward works 100% of the time, which isn't even true of 30 second skip"
30 second skip doesn't work 100% of the time? 30 Second skip on a ReplayTv is just a button that skips 30 seconds. Whenever you hit it, it works. You may be thinking of automatic commercial skip. There are 2 ways to use automatic commercial skip on a replaytv that has it (the newer ones dont). 1. Hit the commercial skip button on a recorded show. That doesn't just skip 30 seconds, that jumps to the end of that block of commercials. 2. Have auto-commercial skip turned on. This way, you don't hit any buttons, it just skips the commercials. The automatic commercial skip feature is not 100% accurate, the 30 second skip button is 100% accurate.
Actually, according to everything I've read, there is no actual increase of sound decibels in commericals. Here is an example I cut and pasted from somewhere.. "Technically, the maximum volume is the same for commercials and normal programming. If you watch the audio levels on a VU meter you will see that they peak at around the same level.
The difference is that advertisers make use of various tricks to make the commercials seem louder. Whereas a TV program will have a range of audio levels, commercials do tend to be full-on noisy. Tricks such as compression are also used to maintain constantly "louder" levels and try to attract attention.
So it's mainly a perceptual thing. Although the commercials don't reach a high volume, the way they are made gives the impression that they are louder."
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I can tell you how it doesn't work:) This is from a 5080 series replayTV, with the auto-commercial skip. It doesn't use time. The commercials can be any length. It seems to be about 90% effective (with the latest software update, it used to be worse). So while Im watching a show, it almost always skips ahead at the correct time (when the commercial starts) but 10% of the time it will either start about 10 seconds before the commericals end, or 5-10 seconds into the show (in which case, I curse, then use the goback button (whatever its called) that automatically goes back seven (I think) seconds. Its a neat feature, and it seems like it sometimes works better on some shows than others. For instance, I always had a problem with it working with X-files more than say, Family guy.
"with a sufficiently large message,.... you can eventually reverse engineer the encryption method used."
Nope! If your one pad key is the same size as the message you are sending, it is unbreakable. Knowing any portion of the message would not help you one bit. Except of course, that you know the part of the message that you know...but you already knew that, so it doesn't help with what you don't know...nevermind:)
Uh.. Neither of your points answers his question. Read his post, he already *has* a mp3 player that does both of the things you answer with, the Rio Receiver.
"by the tone of everyone on/. (myself included), it would seem that droves of these cases would be going to actual court" Yeah, because I bet all the people on Slashdot who post they'd fight to the bitter end would actually do it! Come on, they are offering a cheap deal, you pay your 5000$ (or whatever relatvely low) fine, they settle with you. A lawyer is going to tie up a lot more money than that, for a long time. Unless you've got a free lawyer, and a lot of time on your hands, noone is fighting this.
Logitech 9300(I think thats the model) usb. I bought it a year ago. It doesn't work. There are some for-pay drivers available I've heard, but I already paid for the camera(98$), I dont need to spend 30$ more on it.
I had a Rio Receiver, then moved up to the Audiotron. Hardware quality- I would rate the hardware quality as pretty high. Optical out is nice, the unit feels sturdy, the LCD Display is excellent (I can read it from about 10-15' away easily), the knobs , buttons , switches and remote are all what you'd expect of a decent consumer device.
Software Stability- I'm not sure what you mean here. The unit itself stays on at my house 24/7. I've never had it lockup, and I've never had it go offline for a reason it had anything to do with (ie power outages). I've made it skip perhaps twice, I suspect some kind of weird combination of high network traffic, and high harddrive use of the computer serving it.
SMB- I've used a samba server, and also a windows share box. Neither has caused me any problems at all. What isn't compatible?
The only downside I have is that it takes a long time to initially grab the list of shared files from different computers. You can save this configuration however, and use it to load from so you don't have to do the complete research when your audiotron gets cut off from power. (It takes about 10-15 minutes at least to initially discover 11,000 mp3s and wavs)
The other plus side is the API for the device is available on the turtle beach site, so you can hack together little scripts, or full featured gui in a pretty short amount of time.
Care to explain what your problem with the audiotron was?
Exactly, I've been proposing for awhile that we move to non-motorized machinary, and square wheels. With square wheels, it will take 10x the amount of people pulling a heavy wagon, providing jobs for many more people! If we take every simple machine, and make it 10x as inefficient, it will give everyone a job!
I have the Grado sr125s, great cans, for the price. I audioditioned the Sennheiser...680? I think, or 580? I cant remember, but wasnt impressed for the price/performance ratio. Lots of people find the grados uncomfortable, but I wear them 7-8 hours a day at work, no discomfort. Grados reminded me much more of my home Klipsch rig (Heritage Klipsch) in their forwardness, I wouldn't trade them for all the Sennheisers in the world.
"For fun I go to the interview, they offer me the job, then I drop a bomb on their stupid asses. I want 95k/year, 6 weeks paid vacation" He met to end this with: And then my mom comes and picks me up in her minivan and takes me to my real job at McDonalds.
"Bullshit. The backup system should be IDENTICAL to the production system, otherwise it's a worthless backup"
Well, it depends what the purpose of the backup is. If the backup is perfectly identical to the main system, that means when something kills the mainsystem,(say a bad string of data is being passwed around the network) you switch to the backup, and it has the same flaw,so it dies too! Thats why its sometimes nice to have a backup system that uses slightly different code/hardware.
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"And it's hard enough to read at that resolution. Trust me, I have one"
Amazingly, different people have different needs, and evidently different levels of eyesight. I have a 12" powerbook, and the only issue I have with it is the 1024x768 resolution just isn't high enough. I have no problems reading it. I currently have "text size" in safari as low as it will go, and I can read everything just fine.
The flash game has a splash screen with the developers contact info and website address. Didn't look like they were passing it off as their own to me.
>Do you have evidence for this, because if you do it would >certainly turn the tables on him...
,when sites like slashdot and fark link to tons of sites, should they be paying bandwidth to every site they link?
Well, he did write a Burgertime clone, was he the original Burgertime creator? Does he have a notice posted giving the original creators of Burgertime credit? Nope.
>As for "...he chose to do something incredibly malicious..." well >I disagree. If someone stole something from me
Noone stole from him. They LINKED to a game on his website. That game still had a splash with his website URL and contact info.
>If Fuddruckers had an ounce of decency they should reimburse >the expenses this guy has incurred on their behalf (while not >his major referred, they still consumed finite resources).
He put content on the WWW. Fuddruckers LINKED to it. They did not do anything wrong! That is the way the internet works. You put things on the internet, people find them and link to them. Just because a company did it they need to reimburse someone
This is exactly what I thought initially when reading this. This would be a major PITA for people working in secure areas. With cell phones, I can just leave it in my car...but I can't just leave my car keys in the car...
If you go with Dreamhost be aware of the following things:
They WILL NOT get back to you with a service problem within the same work day, unless every site they are hosting is having problems. There is no way to contact them by phone, unless you email them and request them to call you at a certain time, but that certain time always has to be the next day for them to actually call you.
I have had email go out 4 times in the past year. Each time it was only down for 1-2 hours. However, not only was mail not received, but the mail BOUNCED. Not only was I dealing with people in the company not getting email, I was getting email from users trying to contact people at our company wondering why mail to our company is bouncing. After each of these occurances I asked them what happened and if it was corrected. They actually would tell me they don't know what caused it, and they don't know how they fixed it.
Very frustrating, since It keeps happening. The only good news is, when this problem occurs many sites are affected, so they resolve it within a few hours.
Another issue is that to create a new email or user account you have to use their web interface, and the lag time between when you hit submit on the website and when the user can get mail has been 5-6 hours for the past several months. It still says the delay is only 2 hours on the website, but it is incorrect.
There are many many other small things that annoy me, I was thinking about moving the company site and email off dreamhost, but I got a new position where I do not have any responsibility for this stuff.
It is VERY frustrating. I would 100% recommend Dreamhost for a personal server due to their cheap price and good features. However, for a commercial business it is VERY frustrating having noone to deal with for several hours when things go wrong.
Just to note, I just performed the operation and de-neutered my NSLU to full speed. I went the non-soldering route and just used a boxcutter to cut the resistor in half, then scrapped it carefully off the board. From booting down the slug , till the time it was back and operational was 5 minutes. Very easy procedure, even if you don't have a soldering iron or soldering skills.
What is hard to believe about it? Some people have large music collections. 200GB with a high bitrate, FLAC , or others wouldn't be that big of a music collection. Don't you know people with
> 1000 cd music collections?
"Jeff was one of the guys who waited in line for over three and a half months outside Seattle's Cinerama for Star Wars Episode II."
He waited 3 1/2 months for the last Star Wars. I doubt this is a stunt and hell be gone in a few days.
http://www.mobl.com/expansion/pci/index.html
It looks like you've marked this one as too expensive. I thought they were around $500. Still pricey , I agree. I have used the single PCI version under linux (need 2.6.5 kernel or higher for some PCI cards), for cards that only need prefetch memory and under 4M ( I think) It will work with 2.4 kernels. Support under Windows is also good. Will be using it under mac soon as well.
The replay autocommercial skip does not work based on commercials being 30 seconds long. The button does yes, it skips 30 seconds per push. Guess what, I live in a magical world evidently, because the correct number of 30 second skip pushes, always gets me from the start of the first commercial, to the end of the last one. Evidently commercials are in 30 second multiple blocks , atleast for the shows I watch. I am not a commercial expert, the reason I am not a commercial expert is, 90% of my viewing is done with the "autocommercial skip" feature, which means, I never see the commercials to count how long they are. The other 10% of the time, a few (usually 4, I guess I also live in a magical world where commercial breaks are 2 minutes or so) 30 second skips gets me right back to the show.
Also, yes 30 second skip works 100% of the time. IT ALWAYS SKIPS 30 SECONDS. That is how It is defined as working.
"Fast forward works 100% of the time, which isn't even true of 30 second skip"
30 second skip doesn't work 100% of the time? 30 Second skip on a ReplayTv is just a button that skips 30 seconds. Whenever you hit it, it works. You may be thinking of automatic commercial skip. There are 2 ways to use automatic commercial skip on a replaytv that has it (the newer ones dont).
1. Hit the commercial skip button on a recorded show. That doesn't just skip 30 seconds, that jumps to the end of that block of commercials.
2. Have auto-commercial skip turned on.
This way, you don't hit any buttons, it just skips the commercials.
The automatic commercial skip feature is not 100% accurate, the 30 second skip button is 100% accurate.
Where do you get that from? I've tried Knoppix on 6 laptops this week for a demo. They all worked.
Delaware has no sales tax.
Actually, according to everything I've read, there is no actual increase of sound decibels in commericals. Here is an example I cut and pasted from somewhere..
"Technically, the maximum volume is the same for commercials and normal programming. If you watch the audio levels on a VU meter you will see that they peak at around the same level.
The difference is that advertisers make use of various tricks to make the commercials seem louder. Whereas a TV program will have a range of audio levels, commercials do tend to be full-on noisy. Tricks such as compression are also used to maintain constantly "louder" levels and try to attract attention.
So it's mainly a perceptual thing. Although the commercials don't reach a high volume, the way they are made gives the impression that they are louder."
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I can tell you how it doesn't work:) This is from a 5080 series replayTV, with the auto-commercial skip.
It doesn't use time. The commercials can be any length. It seems to be about 90% effective (with the latest software update, it used to be worse). So while Im watching a show, it almost always skips ahead at the correct time (when the commercial starts) but 10% of the time it will either start about 10 seconds before the commericals end, or 5-10 seconds into the show (in which case, I curse, then use the goback button (whatever its called) that automatically goes back seven (I think) seconds.
Its a neat feature, and it seems like it sometimes works better on some shows than others. For instance, I always had a problem with it working with X-files more than say, Family guy.
The Rio Karma plays Ogg Vorbis. They sell them in Best Buy.
"with a sufficiently large message,.... you can eventually reverse engineer the encryption method used."
Nope! If your one pad key is the same size as the message you are sending, it is unbreakable. Knowing any portion of the message would not help you one bit. Except of course, that you know the part of the message that you know...but you already knew that, so it doesn't help with what you don't know...nevermind:)
Uh.. Neither of your points answers his question. Read his post, he already *has* a mp3 player that does both of the things you answer with, the Rio Receiver.
"by the tone of everyone on /. (myself included), it would seem that droves of these cases would be going to actual court"
Yeah, because I bet all the people on Slashdot who post they'd fight to the bitter end would actually do it! Come on, they are offering a cheap deal, you pay your 5000$ (or whatever relatvely low) fine, they settle with you. A lawyer is going to tie up a lot more money than that, for a long time. Unless you've got a free lawyer, and a lot of time on your hands, noone is fighting this.
Logitech 9300(I think thats the model) usb. I bought it a year ago. It doesn't work. There are some for-pay drivers available I've heard, but I already paid for the camera(98$), I dont need to spend 30$ more on it.
I had a Rio Receiver, then moved up to the Audiotron.
Hardware quality- I would rate the hardware quality as pretty high. Optical out is nice, the unit feels sturdy, the LCD Display is excellent (I can read it from about 10-15' away easily), the knobs , buttons , switches and remote are all what you'd expect of a decent consumer device.
Software Stability- I'm not sure what you mean here. The unit itself stays on at my house 24/7. I've never had it lockup, and I've never had it go offline for a reason it had anything to do with (ie power outages). I've made it skip perhaps twice, I suspect some kind of weird combination of high network traffic, and high harddrive use of the computer serving it.
SMB- I've used a samba server, and also a windows share box. Neither has caused me any problems at all. What isn't compatible?
The only downside I have is that it takes a long time to initially grab the list of shared files from different computers. You can save this configuration however, and use it to load from so you don't have to do the complete research when your audiotron gets cut off from power. (It takes about 10-15 minutes at least to initially discover 11,000 mp3s and wavs)
The other plus side is the API for the device is available on the turtle beach site, so you can hack together little scripts, or full featured gui in a pretty short amount of time.
Care to explain what your problem with the audiotron was?
Exactly, I've been proposing for awhile that we move to non-motorized machinary, and square wheels. With square wheels, it will take 10x the amount of people pulling a heavy wagon, providing jobs for many more people! If we take every simple machine, and make it 10x as inefficient, it will give everyone a job!
I have the Grado sr125s, great cans, for the price. I audioditioned the Sennheiser...680? I think, or 580? I cant remember, but wasnt impressed for the price/performance ratio. Lots of people find the grados uncomfortable, but I wear them 7-8 hours a day at work, no discomfort. Grados reminded me much more of my home Klipsch rig (Heritage Klipsch) in their forwardness, I wouldn't trade them for all the Sennheisers in the world.
"For fun I go to the interview, they offer me the job, then I drop a bomb on their stupid asses. I want 95k/year, 6 weeks paid vacation"
He met to end this with:
And then my mom comes and picks me up in her minivan and takes me to my real job at McDonalds.
"Bullshit. The backup system should be IDENTICAL to the production system, otherwise it's a worthless backup"
Well, it depends what the purpose of the backup is. If the backup is perfectly identical to the main system, that means when something kills the mainsystem,(say a bad string of data is being passwed around the network) you switch to the backup, and it has the same flaw,so it dies too! Thats why its sometimes nice to have a backup system that uses slightly different code/hardware.