Granted MPEG is not broadcast / archival quality (correct me if I am wrong),
You are wrong.
MPEG-2 as used for Digital TV broadcasts runs anywhere from around 3mbps (megabits per second) for drama content or talking heads/news, up to 8mbps for more dynamic content such as sports.
MPEG-2 for production can go above 50mbps, and sure is good enough for archival !!!
Amen. From the British Phonographic Industry website:
Summary
The value of sales of music topped 500m in the final quarter of 2003, the second highest quarterly total ever recorded, representing an increase of 4.5% on the same period in 2002. Clearly the demand for recorded music in the UK remains strong.
Are you saying you think Microsoft puts code in with code that can be misused on purpose?
Absolutely not. I was defending my original point that having a *choice* in who you trust to provide your computing platform in high security environments is a great thing, and being able to build from your own source with a *trusted* compiler is waaaay better than blindly putting your faith in a closed source solution, again, in the high security computing context.
Yes, there are millions of trusting souls out there who (if they have even considered the issue) perceive themselves to not have any *choice* but to trust the Microsoft Corporation. Your site appears to be reputable, and you presumably have nothing to gain by publishing malware. I think you have to some degree missed the point of the article, which talked about high security applications of computing, such as national security et al. To say that trusting a single corporation which will not let you show you the "ingredients" is more secure than having a choice of sources, compilers and so on is naive, at best IMO.
.. one example of which is This will happen because the open source model, which lets anyone modify source code and sell or distribute the results, virtually guarantees that someone, somewhere, will insert malicious code into the source. Yes as we all know, *anyone* is free to modify the source code, and then sell or distribute it, and we're all such trusting souls. Only this morning I chmod +x'ed and executed a binary (as root) which I had earlier accepted from a kindly stranger. More FUD methinks..
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Cripes. You'd had thought that a company as big as Microsoft would have considered a better way, but no.
from the article, Microsoft's Robert Scoble:
But, WinFS goes further than X1 and other file search tools do today. It lets you (and developers of apps you'll use) add metadata to your files. So, even if you don't change the name of your files, you might click on one of the faces in a picture application and get prompted to type a name and occasion. So, you would click on your cousin Joe's face, type in "Joe Smith" and "Wedding."
So Microsoft, who have sold many more graphical interfaces that anyone else on the planet, require you to "type in" Joe Smith for each and every photo of Joe you have !
Oh, sure, there'll be a dropdown list, but it'll surely list every last irrelevant person and topic you ever defined in WinFS.
Instead consider the following scenario:
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You've uploaded your latest batch of photos from your camera to your PC and have them in thumnails view in a file manager of your choice.
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Now you want to add your metadata, so you open up your "Meta topics" folder and select a number of graphical icons representing the subject matter of your photos, e.g. "Wedding", "Uncle Jim", "Mary-Jane" and some others. You then drag'n'drop these into a "Scratch" folder and close the "Meta topics" folder. So you now have the freshly-uploaded photos, and the relevant meta topics.
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Now select all the photos in the folder - they're all wedding photos, so drag'n'drop 'em onto the Wedding topic icon.
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Now select the photo of Uncle Jim staggering across the reception with a pint of special, and.. you got it.. drop it on the Uncle Jim topic icon.
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Now the picture of Mary-Jane in her wedding hat - yeah, that's it baby - drop it on the pretty icon..
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Now you can access all the Wedding photos by clicking on the wedding icon all the pictues of Uncle Jim by clicking the uncle jim icon and so on.
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There's even an interface to combine filters, e.g. Wedding AND (Uncle Jim OR Mary-Jane), simply by dragging and dropping the icons onto AND and OR icons in a cumulative fashion.
Now you can do all of this (bar the interface combine filters interface) TODAY, albeit in a fairly crude way, with a file system that supports symlinks (such as ext3), and a graphical file manager (say, Rox-FILER..). And here
is my claim to prior art in respect of this "graphical metadata manipulation" concept. Of course, I had to hold down Shift+Ctrl to make it do the symlinks when I dropped the photos on the relevent icon, which a proper interface wouldn't require. Also, a posix filesystem is not as elegant as say, a relational database for the purposes of storing the metadata. But hey, not bad for 5 minutes work. How long have Microsoft been working on this exactly ?
EDD Disk Signature patch accepted into kernel 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 Dell engineers have submitted a kernel patch which allows Linux to determine which disk the BIOS believes is the system boot disk. Without this patch, Linux must guess which disk BIOS believes is the boot disk, which is pretty easy in a simple system configuration, but impossible in a system with multiple disks attached to multiple controllers.
Yep. It's great to see people from companies like Intel,IBM, SGI, HP, Dell all contributing.
I would imagine that these guys *really* want linux to succeed so they can stopping sucking up to redmond.
[/zealotry]
I'm seeing 279 days of uptime on both my 2650s running a very minimal install of RH7.2 with some (not all) errata packages applied, kernel is 2.4.18-24.8.0smp, a tad behind the bleeding edge, but serviceable nontheless.
They both have 100+ Gb RAID5 on Perc3/Di controllers, and are running a reasonably demanding application (Apache/Jakarta/Servlet, MySQL, Verity K2 with ~20Gb in collections so far..)
from the build documentation that I wrote 281 days ago:
* * WARNING - RedHat 7.2 does not autodetect * Perc3/Di RAID controllers correctly *
- enter 'expert noprobe' at RedHatboot prompt
- say "No" when asked "Do you have a driver disk"
- choose a language, keyboard type, and installation method
- select "Add Device" when you get to "Devices" section
- select "SCSI" as "Device" type
- move down cursor to "Adaptec AACRAID (aacraid)", choose the "Specify module parameters" box
- enter aacraid_pciid=0x1028,0x0A,0x1028,0x011B in the dialog box
- select done
Time in general has different values and meanings in different cultures. Time is spent on accomplishing tasks in individualistic countries, and on building relationships in more collectivist countries. Americans are seen to start meetings too abruptly by Europeans, and Americans find that Europeans dawdle in idle chat instead of "getting down to business."
Surely this is because the Europeans have had lunch, and are winding down for the day,-}
Most of the article presents interesting concepts, but really. this is a generalisation too far.
Mmmm. Definitely the right combination, although on my desktops I prefer to just have rox-filer running rather than the rox desktop. It's great when the n00bs ask where the start menu is,-} There are a couple of openbox/rox-filer desktop screenshots on my site if anyone cares to look - url above.
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Clapton is God.
not workable ? thought so.
Granted MPEG is not broadcast / archival quality (correct me if I am wrong),
You are wrong.
MPEG-2 as used for Digital TV broadcasts runs anywhere from around 3mbps (megabits per second) for drama content or talking heads/news, up to 8mbps for more dynamic content such as sports.
MPEG-2 for production can go above 50mbps, and sure is good enough for archival !!!
http://www.webdesignlab.co.uk/niksthings/masking.h tml
hardly hurts M$ now, does it !
Amen. From the British Phonographic Industry website:
Summary
The value of sales of music topped 500m in the final quarter of 2003, the second highest quarterly total ever recorded, representing an increase of 4.5% on the same period in 2002. Clearly the demand for recorded music in the UK remains strong.
it would appear to be macromedia flash/shockwave livey 4.swf?n=03%2F16%2F2004+7%3A57%3A14+AM&info=Havaian as!!!!!Many+Forms!!!!!Almap+BBDO+Brazil!!!!!Levi%2 7s!!!!!Levi+Strauss!!!!!AvenueA!!!!!General+Motors !!!!!Chevy+Tahoe!!!!!Campbell%2DEwald!!!!!History+ Channel!!!!!Killing+Pablo!!!!!Horizon+Interactive! !!!!Jaguar!!!!!XJ4!!!!!Global+Beach
go to www.unicast.com, click on "gallery" - it's a page with the shockwave object embedded - when you click on the "View ad" button it starts downloading the clip in the background. Presumably some sites will keep the shockwave embedded in a zero height frame which will go fullsize via client side scripting once the whole advert is downloaded ready to play, while others will use in page, or half page, via iframes or whatever.
You can get hold of the shockwave file direct at http://www.unicast.com/gallery/previewpane/galler
I hear they're linux powered.
It's crap, but it does provide the same functionality
they went for lower total cost of ownership, and superior strategic position, not lower initial cost.
http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
Are you saying you think Microsoft puts code in with code that can be misused on purpose?
Absolutely not. I was defending my original point that having a *choice* in who you trust to provide your computing platform in high security environments is a great thing, and being able to build from your own source with a *trusted* compiler is waaaay better than blindly putting your faith in a closed source solution, again, in the high security computing context.
Yes, there are millions of trusting souls out there who (if they have even considered the issue) perceive themselves to not have any *choice* but to trust the Microsoft Corporation. Your site appears to be reputable, and you presumably have nothing to gain by publishing malware. I think you have to some degree missed the point of the article, which talked about high security applications of computing, such as national security et al. To say that trusting a single corporation which will not let you show you the "ingredients" is more secure than having a choice of sources, compilers and so on is naive, at best IMO.
.. one example of which is This will happen because the open source model, which lets anyone modify source code and sell or distribute the results, virtually guarantees that someone, somewhere, will insert malicious code into the source. Yes as we all know, *anyone* is free to modify the source code, and then sell or distribute it, and we're all such trusting souls. Only this morning I chmod +x'ed and executed a binary (as root) which I had earlier accepted from a kindly stranger. More FUD methinks..
I couldn't agree more. You need at least 550BHP
Cripes. You'd had thought that a company as big as Microsoft would have considered a better way, but no.
.. you got it .. drop it on the Uncle Jim topic icon.
-
from the article, Microsoft's Robert Scoble:
But, WinFS goes further than X1 and other file search tools do today. It lets you (and developers of apps you'll use) add metadata to your files. So, even if you don't change the name of your files, you might click on one of the faces in a picture application and get prompted to type a name and occasion. So, you would click on your cousin Joe's face, type in "Joe Smith" and "Wedding."
So Microsoft, who have sold many more graphical interfaces that anyone else on the planet, require you to "type in" Joe Smith for each and every photo of Joe you have !
Oh, sure, there'll be a dropdown list, but it'll surely list every last irrelevant person and topic you ever defined in WinFS.
Instead consider the following scenario: -
You've uploaded your latest batch of photos from your camera to your PC and have them in thumnails view in a file manager of your choice. -
Now you want to add your metadata, so you open up your "Meta topics" folder and select a number of graphical icons representing the subject matter of your photos, e.g. "Wedding", "Uncle Jim", "Mary-Jane" and some others. You then drag'n'drop these into a "Scratch" folder and close the "Meta topics" folder. So you now have the freshly-uploaded photos, and the relevant meta topics. -
Now select all the photos in the folder - they're all wedding photos, so drag'n'drop 'em onto the Wedding topic icon. -
Now select the photo of Uncle Jim staggering across the reception with a pint of special, and
Now the picture of Mary-Jane in her wedding hat - yeah, that's it baby - drop it on the pretty icon.. -
Now you can access all the Wedding photos by clicking on the wedding icon all the pictues of Uncle Jim by clicking the uncle jim icon and so on. -
There's even an interface to combine filters, e.g. Wedding AND (Uncle Jim OR Mary-Jane), simply by dragging and dropping the icons onto AND and OR icons in a cumulative fashion.
Now you can do all of this (bar the interface combine filters interface) TODAY, albeit in a fairly crude way, with a file system that supports symlinks (such as ext3), and a graphical file manager (say, Rox-FILER..). And here is my claim to prior art in respect of this "graphical metadata manipulation" concept. Of course, I had to hold down Shift+Ctrl to make it do the symlinks when I dropped the photos on the relevent icon, which a proper interface wouldn't require. Also, a posix filesystem is not as elegant as say, a relational database for the purposes of storing the metadata. But hey, not bad for 5 minutes work. How long have Microsoft been working on this exactly ?
bash$ cd /stuff/wedd [tab] [tab]
EDD Disk Signature patch accepted into kernel 2.6.2-rc1-mm1
Dell engineers have submitted a kernel patch which allows Linux to determine which disk the BIOS believes is the system boot disk. Without this patch, Linux must guess which disk BIOS believes is the boot disk, which is pretty easy in a simple system configuration, but impossible in a system with multiple disks attached to multiple controllers.
Yep. It's great to see people from companies like Intel,IBM, SGI, HP, Dell all contributing.
I would imagine that these guys *really* want linux to succeed so they can stopping sucking up to redmond.
[/zealotry]
Crack on with it - their copyright ran out:
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 by Microsoft Corporation
is your real name Bill Gates ?
yeah, I'm impressed.
This is a technical forum, my friend. If you're gonna show us your kung-fu, it had better be good..
I've got an old Dell GS1 workstation w/32Mb addressing 220Gb of storage via smbmount.
Uptime: well in excess of 400 days
Kernel: 2.0.39
Why fix it if it isn't broken ?
I'm seeing 279 days of uptime on both my 2650s running a very minimal install of RH7.2 with some (not all) errata packages applied, kernel is 2.4.18-24.8.0smp, a tad behind the bleeding edge, but serviceable nontheless.
They both have 100+ Gb RAID5 on Perc3/Di controllers, and are running a reasonably demanding application (Apache/Jakarta/Servlet, MySQL, Verity K2 with ~20Gb in collections so far..)
from the build documentation that I wrote 281 days ago:
*
* WARNING - RedHat 7.2 does not autodetect
* Perc3/Di RAID controllers correctly
*
- enter 'expert noprobe' at RedHatboot prompt
- say "No" when asked "Do you have a driver disk"
- choose a language, keyboard type, and installation method
- select "Add Device" when you get to "Devices" section
- select "SCSI" as "Device" type
- move down cursor to "Adaptec AACRAID (aacraid)", choose the "Specify module parameters" box
- enter aacraid_pciid=0x1028,0x0A,0x1028,0x011B in the dialog box
- select done
Time in general has different values and meanings in different cultures. Time is spent on accomplishing tasks in individualistic countries, and on building relationships in more collectivist countries. Americans are seen to start meetings too abruptly by Europeans, and Americans find that Europeans dawdle in idle chat instead of "getting down to business."
,-}
Surely this is because the Europeans have had lunch, and are winding down for the day
Most of the article presents interesting concepts, but really. this is a generalisation too far.
Mmmm. Definitely the right combination, although on my desktops I prefer to just have rox-filer running rather than the rox desktop. It's great when the n00bs ask where the start menu is ,-}
There are a couple of openbox/rox-filer desktop screenshots on my site if anyone cares to look - url above.
I gotta get me one of those zaurus thingees..