You need something beyond statefull inspection, you need to be able to magically tell what is a "good" or "safe" http connection from a "bad" http connection.
Hey, isn't this as easy as blocking packets that have the evil bit set?
Backups? Who are you kidding? I can't think of many scenarios where an individuals vital data would take up more than a handful of CDs or one DVD. There is some stuff that just isn't worth the hassle of backing up like that. If you've got a bunch of ripped music or something just mirror it onto an external hard disk.
Actually, I mirror everything I need to back up to two other disks, one of them at another site. Some things really are priceless, like photographs of the family. Not to mention if you keep stuff floating around long enough actively keepin stuff around can make it last longer than your backup medium (assuming you keep moving your data onto each new hard drive as you buy them).
A link to the same idea: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/amiga.html
Is it just me, or would having a robot to sort/do your laundry be a really good application for RFID tags? It would make it really easy for the bot to know which load each item goes in, etc.
The attack on Open Source, Steve Ballmer's dancing and that uber-secret lab deep beneath the stinking, filthy bowels of Seattle where they're developing autonomatons (fortunately we're fairly safe, the best the droids can do while trying to feed themselves is jamb the fork into their eyes and foreheads)
Of course, thats why there is the cork on the fork. For their safety....and yours!
True, but it really shines when you aren't selecting each song one at a time (I have 35Gb of mp3s - you really have to tag stuff carefully to keep it under control) but rather lenghty stretches of songs/albums. Hello, playlists!
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For a long playlist its not too much trouble to go to the front of the unit once in a while, rather than using the favorite buttons.
I guess it all depends on how you listen to your music. It also helps that I have mine setup in a dual-zone stereo, and the unit itself is centrally located so that you don't have to run down to the stereo to use it.
I second this. My audiotron does all I ask of it, and runs great w/my linux server (running Samba, of course). It's so seamless that it even has a high WAF!
I bought one of these and I think its pretty damn sweet. I was in the market for something to play mp3s on my stereo. I already have a home network, I don't have a computer near my main stereo system and don't want one, and my wife has to be able to use it.
I did a lot of research, and most products wanted to include a hard drive (which I can supply much cheaper in my server) or the ability to rip (which I'd rather do via Lame). Also, I believe that Gateway sells this same unit for $199. Cheap compared to other choices.
It's not w/o its problems. The headphone jack is basically unusable it sounds so bad. RCA outputs are better, but I understand the digital output is best (I don't currently have digital in on my pre-amp). Also nice is that the firmware keeps getting better and better (it didn't even have an internal web server that the submitter complains about at first). Turtle Beach runs a mailing list and has been very responsive to suggestions from the early adopters (a lot of which, like me, are running on Samba!).
All in all its not the perfect convergence appliance, but its worked great in my situation.
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Hey, don't blame me - I voted for Kodos!
Actually, I mirror everything I need to back up to two other disks, one of them at another site. Some things really are priceless, like photographs of the family. Not to mention if you keep stuff floating around long enough actively keepin stuff around can make it last longer than your backup medium (assuming you keep moving your data onto each new hard drive as you buy them).
A link to the same idea: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/amiga.html
Ummm, no I'm not? Unless you know something I don't.....
Is it just me, or would having a robot to sort/do your laundry be a really good application for RFID tags? It would make it really easy for the bot to know which load each item goes in, etc.
The attack on Open Source, Steve Ballmer's dancing and that uber-secret lab deep beneath the stinking, filthy bowels of Seattle where they're developing autonomatons (fortunately we're fairly safe, the best the droids can do while trying to feed themselves is jamb the fork into their eyes and foreheads)
Of course, thats why there is the cork on the fork. For their safety....and yours!
Watch wrists you!
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True, but it really shines when you aren't selecting each song one at a time (I have 35Gb of mp3s - you really have to tag stuff carefully to keep it under control) but rather lenghty stretches of songs/albums. Hello, playlists!
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For a long playlist its not too much trouble to go to the front of the unit once in a while, rather than using the favorite buttons.
I guess it all depends on how you listen to your music. It also helps that I have mine setup in a dual-zone stereo, and the unit itself is centrally located so that you don't have to run down to the stereo to use it.
I second this. My audiotron does all I ask of it, and runs great w/my linux server (running Samba, of course). It's so seamless that it even has a high WAF!
I bought one of these and I think its pretty damn sweet. I was in the market for something to play mp3s on my stereo. I already have a home network, I don't have a computer near my main stereo system and don't want one, and my wife has to be able to use it.
I did a lot of research, and most products wanted to include a hard drive (which I can supply much cheaper in my server) or the ability to rip (which I'd rather do via Lame). Also, I believe that Gateway sells this same unit for $199. Cheap compared to other choices.
It's not w/o its problems. The headphone jack is basically unusable it sounds so bad. RCA outputs are better, but I understand the digital output is best (I don't currently have digital in on my pre-amp). Also nice is that the firmware keeps getting better and better (it didn't even have an internal web server that the submitter complains about at first). Turtle Beach runs a mailing list and has been very responsive to suggestions from the early adopters (a lot of which, like me, are running on Samba!).
All in all its not the perfect convergence appliance, but its worked great in my situation.