Open Systems in Technology are not limited to computer systems. Public money spent on public surveillance is just like any other public expenditure, subject to the inspection of those that purchased it.
If a mother want to know that her son is at the playground he said he was going to, why can't she tune in to the camera over the web and see it?
Several years ago the Barre Open Systems Institute (bosivt.org) here in Vermont presented this paper (http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/barre/Barre_Public_Video_Policy_Draft_v01.pdf) to the Barre city fathers. This policy draft may help shape policy in Chicago, and is released under GPL V1.
I have kinda been following the whole Mainframe thing for a while, and the best way I can summarize the presented dichotomy is to ask you to consider an IBM Z-series (as opposed to other "mainframe" hardware) as an Elephant. Note that IBM marketing once revered to the IBM Z-990 as the T-Rex, another good animal allegory, yet I digress...
What is interesting is the I/O capability of that damn Elephant. The sucker is built to process data and never forget a thing. For years the Elephant only spoke Elephant language. A few years ago the boys at IBM Boeblingen taught the Elephant to speak Penguin. That makes the whole story interesting...
Now out in the Data Processing Jungle they are two types of animals, the fast and the dead. The good news is that all the real fast animals all speak Penguin. To make the fastest creatures in the Jungle, St. Don Becker and his buddies at NASA built a flock of Super Penguins. These are the mightiest beasts in Data Processing, but they have sort of horrible I/O limits (if you want to consider FIOS data rates horrible:^).
So I have always wondered why not harness the Elephant to do what is does best; plod along in the I/O and never forget.
Finally, the Elephants by their philosophy and architecture have one VERY important quality, they are not typically hacked. IMHO, the Elephant is a mighty beast capable of great I/O and when correctly bred and reared, flawless security. Why not use this large Elephant (or Dinosaur as per IBM) to protect, feed and water your precious flock?
Just a thought....
Flint
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Dear Bruce and Eric,
Nice letter. Does the Job. BTW why does my client's copy of SCO 5 contain a Microsoft Copyright?
since i have been reading slashdot (on the john) every morning for the past year, i would point out that if you take a dlink 802.11 card for an ipaq, bandsaw off the ears so yoy can get to the pen and the audio, you can run opera just fine. btw, why is it some days slashdot fits ok on the screen and some days runs over? gotta go my legs are falling asleep.
How in the hell did Micro$oft get Judicial process 15 calendar days? Are they taking you to small claims court? In what venue can a judged monopoly harass a small business with such alacrity? Shame on you for not making appropriate political "contributions"...
With all the scary legislation being contemplated by the Senate Commerce Comittee, what do we do to indicate our displeasure? Any communications with these people ends with a staffer and a trash can.
It is our constitutional duty to get this kid out of our jail and back to his family.
In America Constitutional duties are VERY serious. Every American has sworn to uphold the Constitution, which is what our republic is based upon. In the past, upholding this Constitution sometimes demanded from citizens the ultimate sacrifice. In my past, when protesting against government actions I worried less about the sacrifice. Now in midlife, the call comes again. OK. Lets get this job done.
C.A.T.S.
With only a dozen computers in the house and several stereos wired to them all, my solution to this problem is to define an analog audio standard that is practical for general use in cubicles. I would thus like to propose and define the Cubical Audio Transmission Standard (CATS). This simple analog standard should work over the most common of cubical transmission hardware, the venerable RJ-45 straight through cable. My own ongoing experiments in this area indicate that while sophisticated network based transmission systems are available they constantly find barriers to use. A dumb analog standard similar to what is found in the ancient DIN (Deuche Industrial Normal) plug AKA big PC keyboard connector might pay off. The standard is layed out below:
RJ-45 WECO 258 B
Base Pair - Right Channel Signal Out (RCSO)
Base Pair +1 - Left Channel Signal Out (LCSO)
Base Pair +2 - Right Channel Signal In (RCSI)
Base Pair +2 - Left Channel Signal In (LCSI)
Specifically this works out to the following:
Plate Bundle Description
Pin Color(a) Color(b) Pair Signal
1 Blue Or/Wt B.P. +2 + RCSI +
2 Orange Wt/Or B.P. +2 - RCSI -
3 Black Gn/Wt B.P. +1 + LCSO+
4 Red Bl/Wt Base Pair + RCSO+
5 Green Wt/Bl Base Pair - RCSO-
6 Yellow Wt/Gn B.P. +1 - LCSO-
7 Brown Br/Wt B.P. +3 + LCSI +
8 Grey Wt/Br B.P. +3 - LCSI -
Make up RJ-45 pigtails to 4 RCA jacks (plug into tape monitors on standard stereos)
Make up RJ-45 Pigtails to 2 Mini Jacks (plug into sound cards)
These are interconnected with a variety of RJ-45 based devices including:
1. Adapters - currently 2 classes Mini and RCA
2. Mixers - 6 port is easy I am in the middle of the design
3. Isolators - Ground loops are inevitable (damn unbalanced signals!)
4. Inverters - Want your sound card to feed the system? Invert yourself.
5. Interrupters - pick up the phone and your music mutes (three port device)
Anyone interested in this topic should send mail to cats@flint.com. How do we get this system GPL'd?
Regards,
Paul Flint
How many Lira would you be willing to pay? I believe in my heart of hearts that the venerable Italian currency (at 1800/$) might be the internet currency of the future...but that's my opinion, your mileage may vary.
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Greetings,
Open Systems in Technology are not limited to computer systems. Public money spent on public surveillance is just like any other public expenditure, subject to the inspection of those that purchased it.
If a mother want to know that her son is at the playground he said he was going to, why can't she tune in to the camera over the web and see it?
Several years ago the Barre Open Systems Institute (bosivt.org) here in Vermont presented this paper (http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/barre/Barre_Public_Video_Policy_Draft_v01.pdf) to the Barre city fathers. This policy draft may help shape policy in Chicago, and is released under GPL V1.
Regards,
Flint
BOSIVt.org
I have kinda been following the whole Mainframe thing for a while, and the best way I can summarize the presented dichotomy is to ask you to consider an IBM Z-series (as opposed to other "mainframe" hardware) as an Elephant. Note that IBM marketing once revered to the IBM Z-990 as the T-Rex, another good animal allegory, yet I digress...
:^).
What is interesting is the I/O capability of that damn Elephant. The sucker is built to process data and never forget a thing. For years the Elephant only spoke Elephant language. A few years ago the boys at IBM Boeblingen taught the Elephant to speak Penguin. That makes the whole story interesting...
Now out in the Data Processing Jungle they are two types of animals, the fast and the dead. The good news is that all the real fast animals all speak Penguin. To make the fastest creatures in the Jungle, St. Don Becker and his buddies at NASA built a flock of Super Penguins. These are the mightiest beasts in Data Processing, but they have sort of horrible I/O limits (if you want to consider FIOS data rates horrible
So I have always wondered why not harness the Elephant to do what is does best; plod along in the I/O and never forget.
Finally, the Elephants by their philosophy and architecture have one VERY important quality, they are not typically hacked. IMHO, the Elephant is a mighty beast capable of great I/O and when correctly bred and reared, flawless security. Why not use this large Elephant (or Dinosaur as per IBM) to protect, feed and water your precious flock?
Just a thought....
Flint
Dear Bruce and Eric,
Nice letter. Does the Job.
BTW why does my client's copy of SCO 5 contain a Microsoft Copyright?
Regards,
Flint
since i have been reading slashdot (on the john) every morning for the past year, i would point out that if you take a dlink 802.11 card for an ipaq, bandsaw off the ears so yoy can get to the pen and the audio, you can run opera just fine. btw, why is it some days slashdot fits ok on the screen and some days runs over? gotta go my legs are falling asleep.
Dear Michael,
How in the hell did Micro$oft get Judicial process 15 calendar days? Are they taking you to small claims court? In what venue can a judged monopoly harass a small business with such alacrity? Shame on you for not making appropriate political "contributions"...
"Give me one generation of youth and I will take the world." Adolph Hitler
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God Help Us.
Regards
With all the scary legislation being contemplated by the Senate Commerce Comittee, what do we do to indicate our displeasure? Any communications with these people ends with a staffer and a trash can.
It is our constitutional duty to get this kid out of our jail and back to his family. In America Constitutional duties are VERY serious. Every American has sworn to uphold the Constitution, which is what our republic is based upon. In the past, upholding this Constitution sometimes demanded from citizens the ultimate sacrifice. In my past, when protesting against government actions I worried less about the sacrifice. Now in midlife, the call comes again. OK. Lets get this job done.
C.A.T.S. With only a dozen computers in the house and several stereos wired to them all, my solution to this problem is to define an analog audio standard that is practical for general use in cubicles. I would thus like to propose and define the Cubical Audio Transmission Standard (CATS). This simple analog standard should work over the most common of cubical transmission hardware, the venerable RJ-45 straight through cable. My own ongoing experiments in this area indicate that while sophisticated network based transmission systems are available they constantly find barriers to use. A dumb analog standard similar to what is found in the ancient DIN (Deuche Industrial Normal) plug AKA big PC keyboard connector might pay off. The standard is layed out below: RJ-45 WECO 258 B Base Pair - Right Channel Signal Out (RCSO) Base Pair +1 - Left Channel Signal Out (LCSO) Base Pair +2 - Right Channel Signal In (RCSI) Base Pair +2 - Left Channel Signal In (LCSI) Specifically this works out to the following: Plate Bundle Description Pin Color(a) Color(b) Pair Signal 1 Blue Or/Wt B.P. +2 + RCSI + 2 Orange Wt/Or B.P. +2 - RCSI - 3 Black Gn/Wt B.P. +1 + LCSO+ 4 Red Bl/Wt Base Pair + RCSO+ 5 Green Wt/Bl Base Pair - RCSO- 6 Yellow Wt/Gn B.P. +1 - LCSO- 7 Brown Br/Wt B.P. +3 + LCSI + 8 Grey Wt/Br B.P. +3 - LCSI - Make up RJ-45 pigtails to 4 RCA jacks (plug into tape monitors on standard stereos) Make up RJ-45 Pigtails to 2 Mini Jacks (plug into sound cards) These are interconnected with a variety of RJ-45 based devices including: 1. Adapters - currently 2 classes Mini and RCA 2. Mixers - 6 port is easy I am in the middle of the design 3. Isolators - Ground loops are inevitable (damn unbalanced signals!) 4. Inverters - Want your sound card to feed the system? Invert yourself. 5. Interrupters - pick up the phone and your music mutes (three port device) Anyone interested in this topic should send mail to cats@flint.com. How do we get this system GPL'd? Regards, Paul Flint
Has anyone ever figured out how much electrical power a structure like this would generate?
How many Lira would you be willing to pay? I believe in my heart of hearts that the venerable Italian currency (at 1800/$) might be the internet currency of the future...but that's my opinion, your mileage may vary.