In my version of FF at least the 'open page in new tab' option causes focus to immediately switch to the new window which is the opposite of what I want to do which is basically queue stories up for further reading.
Uh huh. And in MY version of FF it does exactly what you want.
Obviously it's a preference and in your version the default setting is different.
Go to about:config and flip the boolean setting of browser.tabs.loadinbackground.
Tada! By the way, I found this by simply going to about:config and entering "tab" in the text filter box and then applying the cognitive brain filter. You think you can get this much control with IE?
Now of course, greater bandwidth is cool and all, but 14 Tbps is obviously impractical for actual use, even in specialist medical imaging applications -- for the simple reason you couldn't fill up your harddrive (or even RAM) as quick as that!
Sure, you'll have trouble finding a single application to handle that data rate. But say that I'm a broadcaster now paying to have my 100 SDI video paths (each 270 Mbps) carried across town on dozens of fibers because each fiber can only carry a handful of them. Each time there's a leap in bandwidth like this, I'll be able to pile more SDIs (or -gasp- HD-SDIs at 1.5 Gbps each!) on each fiber and either A) save money by canceling my lease on some of the fibers, or B) be able to dream up new things to do with the fiber capacity freed up.
Note to self: ask telco why I can't run 10 Tbps on each of my fibers:)
I've got no points today... Earlier comments wheezing on and on about how evil Apple is and telling everyone to use "netcast" or whatever should be modded down. These RTFA comments at the bottom should be all that's left at +5.
This might be actually be one of the best chances to see a launch, because they REALLY want to get this thing up into orbit by Sept. 8th. They've been chomping at the bit for 3 years to get going on ISS assembly and they've got the 2010 deadline. And as Tuesday's crawler reversal shows, they are pushing hard for this launch. Sept. 8th is a hard deadline, and after that they either have to relax rules (which they'd take a lot of grief for, both internally and externally) or wait until late October.
Consider yourself lucky that you learned this while signing up for the account. Simply send them a letter (ON PAPER) explaining why you walked away from their service, then walk away. Wachovia (and SouthTrust before they got bought out) works just fine with my Ubuntu / Firefox setup. I'm sure lots of other banks do too.
Welcome to UK law. Go read up on it. "Anti social" behavior is a criminal offense. But be aware that your definition of "anti social" (say, gloomy or impolite) may not be the same as that in the UK / UK law (say, offensive or obscene or psychotic). Read the links provided in other comments in this branch and do some googling...
And the number of comments shows it. 30 comments after 6 hours on the main page? That must be a new low. Sorry ScuttleMonkey, but hang your head in shame.
I've been using ArcoIDE's hardware RAID (real hardware RAID! no software drivers!) for years, and my latest SFF PC machine has two 2.5" drives sitting in a 3.5" bay on top of their MicroRAID controller. Small, quiet, reliable... this is a no brainer! The only drawback is that current affordable 2.5" drives run around 80-100 GB, so you can't do the 250 GB monster video setups. Personally 80 GB is plenty for me.
Given the poor grammar and rampant typos, this is probably a low-level employee, at best a technician/IT flunkie, at worst a shipping clerk. I wouldn't take his comments very seriously, certainly not the ones having to do with security, infrastructure, etc.
Here was my initial problem with Automatix when I first encountered it months ago: they say it doesn't support AMD64.
Now, that could mean ONE of two things:
1. It doesn't support the 64-bit AMD64 distribution of Ubuntu Linux.
or
2. It doesn't support the 32-bit i386 distribution of Ubuntu Linux if it happens to be running on an AMD64 chip (i.e. in i386 compatibility mode).
I'd bet money that it's #1, not #2, because I have yet to encounter an app that cares that I'm running an AMD64 chip under my regular 32-bit Ubuntu. It's running the standard i386 instruction set, maybe with some accelerated functions, and that's that.
They really need to be a hell of lot clearer on that, because it's a big source of confusion. Word choice matters.
Network bandwidth may be an issue for large setups, as full frames are sent via mjpeg. Court precedent says that to be admissable, digital video footage must be stored as complete frames, so count out any of the mpeg codecs.
Regarding the use of MPEG, that's simply not true. Most MPEG video indeed uses inTERframe techniques (aka B and P frames) to greatly reduce bandwidth, but if you care about each frame standing on its own, you can simply restrict the encoder to inTRAframe compression (aka I frames). News and entertainment contribution systems (e.g. cameras, decks) use this all the time so that they can do edits down to the frame without have to decode/reencode (= more loss, wait).
Now, using I-frame-only certainly increases storage/bandwidth requirements dramatically (like a factor of 2-5 bigger), but it's certainly there as an option in cases like this (legal requirement) that demand it.
By the way, the digital cinema world has settled on JPEG2000, which is a purely intraframe technique. It's basically a sequence of JPEG images (very, very advanced JPEG images). Check out the DCI spec, it's incredibly interesting reading.
20 years ago I was what most Slashdot readers are now -- a young nerd with too much time on his hands (in my case, at Georgia Tech getting an engineering degree). I was a dyed-in-the-wool space flight fan, with my shuttle reference manual, space activity journal subscription, and dorky astronomy posters (actually I think I left those on my wall at home, just too dweeby for college).
I remember that day that I had a class at noon, and the launch was happening shortly before then, so I was pacing on edge there in my dorm room, flicking past all 9 local broadcast stations (no cable in dorms) looking for coverage, hoping for just a few seconds at the moment of launch. I HAD found a radio station that was covering it, so I had the soundtrack, just no pictures. The countdown proceeded and launch occured. No TV.
The radio coverage stopped after 60 seconds and they returned to their usual talk radio drivel. I turned off the radio and TV and went to class.
A couple hours later I ran into my roommate (Roger Brown, you out there?) on campus and he told me that the shuttle had exploded on launch. I laughed and told him he was full of it because I had listened to the launch and it went fine. We bet a dime on it (obviously I'm not a betting man) and I continued back to the dorm. I later gave him the dime.
Funny, since then I've always been able to find the launch on TV.
One more thing to demonstrate my nerd chops: in high school, for an honors english class, I wrote a 2-3 page poem about a fictional accident involving the 101st shuttle mission exploding on the launch pad. Written in iambic pentameter. Got an A.
Huygens was a great success. Beagle 2 was a great failure. Ion thruster improvement = success. Ariane 5 = failure (initially). Et cetera. Cue rhetoric.
Galileo... has sent it's first signals to ground stations
Tilting at windmills, I know, but please see my sig. Grammar matters. The smart people you're supposedly trying to reach when you write are tuning out and moving on when you make errors as basic as its vs. it's.
The media now seems locked in with one another. It is all Reuters and UPI regurgitation.
I realize that this wasn't the point of your post, but you really shouldn't make blanket statements like that, especially with a Slashdot user number as low as yours that implies that you're not a idiot teenager.
Try this: for one week, get the print New York Times (available at newstands nationwide) and spend an hour reading it. Just start on section A page 1 and try to read every article. Don't just bounce around pages, really try to read at least the first paragraph of every story. Chances are that you will be completely sucked into, and perhaps even enlightened by, several stories in that day's paper. So much so that you'll find yourself later thinking about the story, quoting it in conversation, blogging about it, etc. Food for the brain.
And don't think that reading your regular local paper (wherever that is) is the same... you really need try one of the old stalwarts like the NYT, WSJ or LAT.
A good newspaper is more than just a regurgitation of the wire services, and far more than the opinion-heavy/content-lite blogosphere. Sure everyone's entitled to their opinion, but don't think it's a substitute for a real newspaper experience.
This isn't likely to get modded up, so really the only person that's ever going to read this is you, Mr. Dada21. I urge you to just try the print NYT for a week.
By Doc Searls on Wed, 2005-11-16 02:00, Linux Journal
We're hearing tales of two scenarios--one pessimistic, one optimistic--for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before. Davids, meet your Goliaths. [read complete essay
here]
(it's too bad that hundreds of people have posted in this thread and still there's not one mention of this fine essay; guess it has a ways to go before reaching the audience that needs to hear it)
That's former Chief Justice of Alabama, thank you very much. They threw his ass out a while ago.
Uh huh. That's future Governor Roy Moore, and likely future Gadfly in the 2008 or 2012 presidential campaigns. The guy's got a bright future. Haven't you heard? It pays to pander. The politician and party who best leverages "stupid" wins.
And even if he's soundly defeated, he'll have a long and lucrative career on the red state stump speech circuit. Look up Ollie North, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, etc.
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In my version of FF at least the 'open page in new tab' option causes focus to immediately switch to the new window which is the opposite of what I want to do which is basically queue stories up for further reading.
Uh huh. And in MY version of FF it does exactly what you want. Obviously it's a preference and in your version the default setting is different.
Go to about:config and flip the boolean setting of browser.tabs.loadinbackground .
Tada! By the way, I found this by simply going to about:config and entering "tab" in the text filter box and then applying the cognitive brain filter. You think you can get this much control with IE?
Now of course, greater bandwidth is cool and all, but 14 Tbps is obviously impractical for actual use, even in specialist medical imaging applications -- for the simple reason you couldn't fill up your harddrive (or even RAM) as quick as that!
Sure, you'll have trouble finding a single application to handle that data rate. But say that I'm a broadcaster now paying to have my 100 SDI video paths (each 270 Mbps) carried across town on dozens of fibers because each fiber can only carry a handful of them. Each time there's a leap in bandwidth like this, I'll be able to pile more SDIs (or -gasp- HD-SDIs at 1.5 Gbps each!) on each fiber and either A) save money by canceling my lease on some of the fibers, or B) be able to dream up new things to do with the fiber capacity freed up.
Note to self: ask telco why I can't run 10 Tbps on each of my fibers :)
I've got no points today ... Earlier comments wheezing on and on about how evil Apple is and telling everyone to use "netcast" or whatever should be modded down. These RTFA comments at the bottom should be all that's left at +5.
This might be actually be one of the best chances to see a launch, because they REALLY want to get this thing up into orbit by Sept. 8th. They've been chomping at the bit for 3 years to get going on ISS assembly and they've got the 2010 deadline. And as Tuesday's crawler reversal shows, they are pushing hard for this launch. Sept. 8th is a hard deadline, and after that they either have to relax rules (which they'd take a lot of grief for, both internally and externally) or wait until late October.
Road trip!
Consider yourself lucky that you learned this while signing up for the account. Simply send them a letter (ON PAPER) explaining why you walked away from their service, then walk away. Wachovia (and SouthTrust before they got bought out) works just fine with my Ubuntu / Firefox setup. I'm sure lots of other banks do too.
Welcome to UK law. Go read up on it. "Anti social" behavior is a criminal offense. But be aware that your definition of "anti social" (say, gloomy or impolite) may not be the same as that in the UK / UK law (say, offensive or obscene or psychotic). Read the links provided in other comments in this branch and do some googling ...
And the number of comments shows it. 30 comments after 6 hours on the main page? That must be a new low. Sorry ScuttleMonkey, but hang your head in shame.
This solution, like most RAID solutions, requires software drivers to integrate with the OS. I prefer pure hardware RAID as discussed here.
I've been using ArcoIDE's hardware RAID (real hardware RAID! no software drivers!) for years, and my latest SFF PC machine has two 2.5" drives sitting in a 3.5" bay on top of their MicroRAID controller. Small, quiet, reliable ... this is a no brainer! The only drawback is that current affordable 2.5" drives run around 80-100 GB, so you can't do the 250 GB monster video setups. Personally 80 GB is plenty for me.
Your message is more likely to have the desired impact if you pay attention to spelling. I'm serious. You should be too. See sig and good luck.
My god, thank you for that pointer! That wizard is fantastic at whittling down the data deluge.
Given the poor grammar and rampant typos, this is probably a low-level employee, at best a technician/IT flunkie, at worst a shipping clerk. I wouldn't take his comments very seriously, certainly not the ones having to do with security, infrastructure, etc.
Now, that could mean ONE of two things:
1. It doesn't support the 64-bit AMD64 distribution of Ubuntu Linux.
or
2. It doesn't support the 32-bit i386 distribution of Ubuntu Linux if it happens to be running on an AMD64 chip (i.e. in i386 compatibility mode).
I'd bet money that it's #1, not #2, because I have yet to encounter an app that cares that I'm running an AMD64 chip under my regular 32-bit Ubuntu. It's running the standard i386 instruction set, maybe with some accelerated functions, and that's that.
They really need to be a hell of lot clearer on that, because it's a big source of confusion. Word choice matters.
Regarding the use of MPEG, that's simply not true. Most MPEG video indeed uses inTERframe techniques (aka B and P frames) to greatly reduce bandwidth, but if you care about each frame standing on its own, you can simply restrict the encoder to inTRAframe compression (aka I frames). News and entertainment contribution systems (e.g. cameras, decks) use this all the time so that they can do edits down to the frame without have to decode/reencode (= more loss, wait).
Now, using I-frame-only certainly increases storage/bandwidth requirements dramatically (like a factor of 2-5 bigger), but it's certainly there as an option in cases like this (legal requirement) that demand it.
By the way, the digital cinema world has settled on JPEG2000, which is a purely intraframe technique. It's basically a sequence of JPEG images (very, very advanced JPEG images). Check out the DCI spec, it's incredibly interesting reading.
20 years ago I was what most Slashdot readers are now -- a young nerd with too much time on his hands (in my case, at Georgia Tech getting an engineering degree). I was a dyed-in-the-wool space flight fan, with my shuttle reference manual, space activity journal subscription, and dorky astronomy posters (actually I think I left those on my wall at home, just too dweeby for college).
I remember that day that I had a class at noon, and the launch was happening shortly before then, so I was pacing on edge there in my dorm room, flicking past all 9 local broadcast stations (no cable in dorms) looking for coverage, hoping for just a few seconds at the moment of launch. I HAD found a radio station that was covering it, so I had the soundtrack, just no pictures. The countdown proceeded and launch occured. No TV.
The radio coverage stopped after 60 seconds and they returned to their usual talk radio drivel. I turned off the radio and TV and went to class.
A couple hours later I ran into my roommate (Roger Brown, you out there?) on campus and he told me that the shuttle had exploded on launch. I laughed and told him he was full of it because I had listened to the launch and it went fine. We bet a dime on it (obviously I'm not a betting man) and I continued back to the dorm. I later gave him the dime.
Funny, since then I've always been able to find the launch on TV.
One more thing to demonstrate my nerd chops: in high school, for an honors english class, I wrote a 2-3 page poem about a fictional accident involving the 101st shuttle mission exploding on the launch pad. Written in iambic pentameter. Got an A.
http://www.google.com/search?q=esa+failure
Tilting at windmills, I know, but please see my sig. Grammar matters. The smart people you're supposedly trying to reach when you write are tuning out and moving on when you make errors as basic as its vs. it's.
I realize that this wasn't the point of your post, but you really shouldn't make blanket statements like that, especially with a Slashdot user number as low as yours that implies that you're not a idiot teenager.
Try this: for one week, get the print New York Times (available at newstands nationwide) and spend an hour reading it. Just start on section A page 1 and try to read every article. Don't just bounce around pages, really try to read at least the first paragraph of every story. Chances are that you will be completely sucked into, and perhaps even enlightened by, several stories in that day's paper. So much so that you'll find yourself later thinking about the story, quoting it in conversation, blogging about it, etc. Food for the brain.
And don't think that reading your regular local paper (wherever that is) is the same ... you really need try one of the old stalwarts like the NYT, WSJ or LAT.
A good newspaper is more than just a regurgitation of the wire services, and far more than the opinion-heavy/content-lite blogosphere. Sure everyone's entitled to their opinion, but don't think it's a substitute for a real newspaper experience.
This isn't likely to get modded up, so really the only person that's ever going to read this is you, Mr. Dada21. I urge you to just try the print NYT for a week.
Trying to give a clue one person at a time,
Chris
Ha! Good one!
They all agreed that it's in the user's best interest
This is Slashdot. Here we use "it's" to mean the possesive, and "its" to mean "it is". Please keep this in mind.
Jesus Christ, this may be the best Slashdot post ever. What the hell is it doing on Slashdot?
By Doc Searls on Wed, 2005-11-16 02:00, Linux Journal
We're hearing tales of two scenarios--one pessimistic, one optimistic--for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before. Davids, meet your Goliaths. [read complete essay here]
(it's too bad that hundreds of people have posted in this thread and still there's not one mention of this fine essay; guess it has a ways to go before reaching the audience that needs to hear it)
Please, see my sig!
Uh huh. That's future Governor Roy Moore, and likely future Gadfly in the 2008 or 2012 presidential campaigns. The guy's got a bright future. Haven't you heard? It pays to pander. The politician and party who best leverages "stupid" wins.
And even if he's soundly defeated, he'll have a long and lucrative career on the red state stump speech circuit. Look up Ollie North, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, etc.
Please go away. You are finding Digg very very boring, you want to stay with Slashdot. Nothing to see at all. Mmmmkay?