Justin.tv is like a streaming version of youtube. Most people are using VLC and it works pretty well. I watched the NBA playoffs on that (since I don't have cable, so no TNT). Dubious on the legality front, of course, and streams do get shut down on occasion.
For HD you'd need an ATSC modulator. They are available but like $500+, not $22;)
Some other details, I set resolution to 800x600. NTSC has 525 scan lines, around 500 of which are visible. But it really looks good, full screen fills the screen perfectly centered. The gforce handles the downconvert to TV pretty perfectly (and I'm going svideo to composite also). TV's are pretty blurry anyway so it's not noticable. The splitters in the system in this case act as a multiplexer in reverse. I was lucky that they all went into a hub type splitter.
My next purchase will be an RF remote and maybe an RF wireless keyboard. It's not sharp enough for serious text but movies look great and netflix uses gigantic thumbnails so you can browse movies pretty well on the TV.
Netflix instant play is a hit, I'm also doing youtube playlists, Hulu is ok (I hate ads), music with visualizations might be fun at a party. I'd like to have a entertainment center PC but for under $100 I couldn't be happier. Anything to get me out of this chair and onto the couch;)
I don't have cable and I use a DSL modem. I have a cheap $30 gforce with an svideo out and what I did was get a RF Modulator at Home Depot and I feed the svideo (well, composite, after a quick convert) and audio into it. Then I connected it to my house cable (it was wired for cable already). Outside I disabled the feed from the cable company. Anyway, I connected my TV to my home cable and I just set it to channel 4 to view any content I want.
Netflix includes Instant Play which has a TON of movies, all included with your $8.95/month membership. Lots of TV show DVDs, especially. It's a great deal.
Everyone determines their own market price, and either you buy or you don't. You are right, big houses do make the largest contribution to the actual pricing, but everyone makes that decision on their own. The small players (consumers), although individually insignificant, together make a huge contribution to the market price. But that usually isn't based on information about the futures market but rather their current economic state. Apples have a price at the grocery store, and what they now cost is what they cost. You have to make the decision at the time you're in the store whether to buy or not. But (and especially for food) this is not a good free market. Consumers should be able to plan when they buy the apples so they will . If you have access to the market information for the next month's apples, and you see that you can get them for half what you could get them for now, you could defer your purchase (if you can) and get more for less. A true free market depends on ALL participants having full access to all the information in the market. Instead, it's largely decided by traders, which means we are subjected to these massive bubbles which are all making a few people a lot of money and its us who suffer. Now, there are fringe benefits to this. In general it smooths out pricing, because the public will constantly over pay which enables higher inventories and that acts as an insurance policy when prices rise (more supply is then dumped). That's fine, I don't care about the public, it's the domination of the market information by a few big guys when there are a lot of people who are interested in investing in this market.
It would be an interesting exercise to check out the U.S. systems and review how they could be improved. Especially the market systems. The USDA does a lot of monitoring of various local markets for everything from cattle to hay to everything in between. Conditions at all these markets contribute to the commodities price at the main trading markets in Chicago. If you look at the USDA data though, it's all still old mainframe stuff with tab delimited all caps formatting. The data is all fairly disjointed and it's not possible right now to mine the data unless you want to collect and translate it all into your own data warehouse. These market reports often contain interesting information about why the price is being affected, such as weather conditions, etc. I think the government should do a better job of making this data available to the public. You know the big trading houses have negotiated direct feeds to this data, and I think that gives them unfair advantage in determining market pricing.
BS. Licensing is and always will be management's responsibility. By management that means accounting. So, just send a list of the number of copies of software and the number of licenses to accounting and let them deal with it. It's the same as paying taxes, or not misstating revenues on an annual report. If they claim the software as an asset they never paid for, that can also bite them big time. But, it's not IT's job to ensure that the copies are licensed, just that accounting knows. Don't worry, they can't do anything to you. Only the company ownership will pay, no matter what. The worst that can happen is you'll get fired afterwards.
They have a ton of IP, such as the patent for connecting VOIP calls to a regular PSTN, and didn't they just start flexing on their ethernet patents earlier this week? They had previously settled with Realtek for something like 70M + licensing and pretty much every other chip out there uses buffering. Obviously 70M is chump change to HP but I could see them getting 2B worth out of the rest of the 3com IP at least.
It's also a protocol that enables the collaboration features in MS Office products. Alfresco is an open-source (Java) based application that implements the sharepoint protocol and additionally implements document management (version control, metadata, etc), and it's pretty cool. It's sort of like Google Docs, where you have a little chat box on the side.
Yeah, the FA is breathless hagwosh. What a fucking 25 year old. You only get a few chances to ship shit and then only if your product is truely groundbreaking. If you ship a shitty text editor, you aren't going to have a customer left.....
These Wacom tablets have screens now, it would be useful to have something similar in a laptop. Even better would be to have one on the outside of the laptop as well.
I second LanREV, and they will have a Linux agent component in the next 6 months and a Linux server after that. Make sure all your desktop machines have the same administrative password (or groups of them do). Also make sure the firewall is turned off for SSH from your LanREV server. Then it'll scan subnets, SSH in and remotely install the agent. Then you have a lot of capabilities.
I do agree with the GP, this is really Microsoft's strength, AD+Kerberos+System Center/Forefront or whatever they call it now is really nice for managing workstations "automagically". There's still a lot of manual labor though, and I don't doubt it's possible on OS X with scripts and such (and I'll be attempting it later this year on a 85 node network) and OpenLDAP or OpenDirectory. LanREV seemed like a good middle stage to handle the deployments for now.
Right, that's what I was saying. I'm not trolling. This is "framework level" multi-threading for multi-core processors that's simple but dumb. So it's going to be slower than real optimized functions that do the same thing. Big, fat OS calls generically handle lots of situations, but they do it with special cases which take time to process.
So it's slow, but convenient, multi-threading. That's ok because the 16 core and 32 core chips will be here in 3 years.
If you want to do something fast you're not going to rely on a big, general OS library to queue up threads... Photoshop, for instance, will not be using this library.;)
Yeah, but you gotta understand. Without Sun there's just IBM. There's no other vendor in the mainframe business, which is still big business. You don't think the IRS has time or money to manage the size of cluster they would need to operate effectively? So they rely on big iron, which is reliable and redundant and engineered to be that way over 40-50 years of experience. Clusters are garbage compared to a real mainframe. Sure, you have distributed filesystems now, and you can sort of split CPU around, there's management systems, etc, but all of this are ideas that come straight from the mainframe os which does all this "by itself". Google managed to make a pretty cool mainframe from commodity hardware but whatever.
Now, if you're not going to go with IBM for your database, you're probably going to go Oracle. But if you need big iron to run this huge database, you're going to have to go with IBM with z/OS and linux virtual machines or something. Oracle now has viable, proven mainframe line and all they have to do is throw money at it. They'll just move to selling complete packages instead of just DB at the mainframe level. With all this "cloud" bullshit (eg "Mainframe on the internet"), big businesses are interested in managed services and Mainframes have always been vendor managed.
Even IBM minis like AS/400 boxes come with full support from IBM. They monitor the box 24/7. I used to operate them long ago, and I remember that a disk went bad in one of our storage boxes (they had these giant enclosures with over 100 disks in them). Literally the message flashed on my console "SYS01281: DISK ERROR" blah blah blah and I turned around to get the binder to figure out what I had to do. By the time I turned back to my desk my phone was ringing and it was IBM support letting me know a tech would be there within 4 hours to replace the drive. Awesome.
So like, Sun/Oracle can do the same thing, and they can compete if they play their cards right. Oracle has poached a lot of high-end people from IBM in the past so this was only a matter of time.
Regarding MySql: MySql is a toy. Go to where the money is and you will find mainframes still. No one in their right mind would put anything important on MySql. Yeah yeah, facebook pft. If Facebook was making more than a few mil they would switch. Internet hits != money. (I'm talking Fortune 25 money, government money, world organization money, casino money, bank money). So I, for one, welcome Oracle and Sun back to this venue.
Right, it was hacking back then. Now it's all fucking engineering, red tape, etc. This is because no one is willing to take fucking risks anymore. Back then it was soldiers going up, they could either go up or die in Vietnam or whatever, who gives a fuck. Now they're sending mothers and schoolteachers up there and no one wants to be responsible for killing a school teacher. So that's what's up. They need to return it to more of a military-style thing, where the people are trained in boot camps and are tough and willing to die to advance our knowledge of space.
I brought this up before a while ago. Even more interesting would be version control like SVN on the U.S. Code so you could see who changed what (and when). If you ever go to Thomas or the congressional record changes are always like "Striking paragraph A, section 12 and replacing with 'except Blackwater Security Services, Ltd.'" and you have to go off on this long search through the code, cutting and pasting and manually editing it yourself to figure out what they changed. Computers were meant to do tasks like this. It's just the legal cabal, much like medical cabal, doesn't want computers holding their specialized knowledge because they know their jobs are no more sacred than any one elses any more. Why would you pay a lawyer $500 an hour to look something up in a book when Google can do it for free. yeah yeah, there's an element of philosophy and history and the interactions between the legislative, the judicial and the citizenry is very interesting but at the end of the day we're getting the wool pulled over our eyes a little much for the 21st century. Once it's in place you could also have some sophisicated change management to calculate risks and such, instead of relying on lobbyists. Call it "Legislative Engineering".
Actually, the idea of an "init string" as you know it was pioneered in Hayes devices and is known as the Hayes command set. There were other ways to control modems.
And there's plenty of other protocols. The "internet" is just the ability to connect from network one to network two with a standardized addressing. With different gateways and routers, the whole internet could be different. The physical layer is already a million different media and protocols anyway.
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Justin.tv is like a streaming version of youtube. Most people are using VLC and it works pretty well. I watched the NBA playoffs on that (since I don't have cable, so no TNT). Dubious on the legality front, of course, and streams do get shut down on occasion.
For HD you'd need an ATSC modulator. They are available but like $500+, not $22 ;)
Some other details, I set resolution to 800x600. NTSC has 525 scan lines, around 500 of which are visible. But it really looks good, full screen fills the screen perfectly centered. The gforce handles the downconvert to TV pretty perfectly (and I'm going svideo to composite also). TV's are pretty blurry anyway so it's not noticable. The splitters in the system in this case act as a multiplexer in reverse. I was lucky that they all went into a hub type splitter.
My next purchase will be an RF remote and maybe an RF wireless keyboard. It's not sharp enough for serious text but movies look great and netflix uses gigantic thumbnails so you can browse movies pretty well on the TV.
Netflix instant play is a hit, I'm also doing youtube playlists, Hulu is ok (I hate ads), music with visualizations might be fun at a party. I'd like to have a entertainment center PC but for under $100 I couldn't be happier. Anything to get me out of this chair and onto the couch ;)
I don't have cable and I use a DSL modem. I have a cheap $30 gforce with an svideo out and what I did was get a RF Modulator at Home Depot and I feed the svideo (well, composite, after a quick convert) and audio into it. Then I connected it to my house cable (it was wired for cable already). Outside I disabled the feed from the cable company. Anyway, I connected my TV to my home cable and I just set it to channel 4 to view any content I want.
Netflix includes Instant Play which has a TON of movies, all included with your $8.95/month membership. Lots of TV show DVDs, especially. It's a great deal.
Everyone determines their own market price, and either you buy or you don't. You are right, big houses do make the largest contribution to the actual pricing, but everyone makes that decision on their own. The small players (consumers), although individually insignificant, together make a huge contribution to the market price. But that usually isn't based on information about the futures market but rather their current economic state. Apples have a price at the grocery store, and what they now cost is what they cost. You have to make the decision at the time you're in the store whether to buy or not. But (and especially for food) this is not a good free market. Consumers should be able to plan when they buy the apples so they will . If you have access to the market information for the next month's apples, and you see that you can get them for half what you could get them for now, you could defer your purchase (if you can) and get more for less. A true free market depends on ALL participants having full access to all the information in the market. Instead, it's largely decided by traders, which means we are subjected to these massive bubbles which are all making a few people a lot of money and its us who suffer. Now, there are fringe benefits to this. In general it smooths out pricing, because the public will constantly over pay which enables higher inventories and that acts as an insurance policy when prices rise (more supply is then dumped). That's fine, I don't care about the public, it's the domination of the market information by a few big guys when there are a lot of people who are interested in investing in this market.
It would be an interesting exercise to check out the U.S. systems and review how they could be improved. Especially the market systems. The USDA does a lot of monitoring of various local markets for everything from cattle to hay to everything in between. Conditions at all these markets contribute to the commodities price at the main trading markets in Chicago. If you look at the USDA data though, it's all still old mainframe stuff with tab delimited all caps formatting. The data is all fairly disjointed and it's not possible right now to mine the data unless you want to collect and translate it all into your own data warehouse. These market reports often contain interesting information about why the price is being affected, such as weather conditions, etc. I think the government should do a better job of making this data available to the public. You know the big trading houses have negotiated direct feeds to this data, and I think that gives them unfair advantage in determining market pricing.
BS. Licensing is and always will be management's responsibility. By management that means accounting. So, just send a list of the number of copies of software and the number of licenses to accounting and let them deal with it. It's the same as paying taxes, or not misstating revenues on an annual report. If they claim the software as an asset they never paid for, that can also bite them big time. But, it's not IT's job to ensure that the copies are licensed, just that accounting knows. Don't worry, they can't do anything to you. Only the company ownership will pay, no matter what. The worst that can happen is you'll get fired afterwards.
They have a ton of IP, such as the patent for connecting VOIP calls to a regular PSTN, and didn't they just start flexing on their ethernet patents earlier this week? They had previously settled with Realtek for something like 70M + licensing and pretty much every other chip out there uses buffering. Obviously 70M is chump change to HP but I could see them getting 2B worth out of the rest of the 3com IP at least.
Yer token something.
It's also a protocol that enables the collaboration features in MS Office products. Alfresco is an open-source (Java) based application that implements the sharepoint protocol and additionally implements document management (version control, metadata, etc), and it's pretty cool. It's sort of like Google Docs, where you have a little chat box on the side.
Yeah, the FA is breathless hagwosh. What a fucking 25 year old. You only get a few chances to ship shit and then only if your product is truely groundbreaking. If you ship a shitty text editor, you aren't going to have a customer left.....
These Wacom tablets have screens now, it would be useful to have something similar in a laptop. Even better would be to have one on the outside of the laptop as well.
Yep, it didn't come out until the 50's and it was pretty grainy color for a while.
I second LanREV, and they will have a Linux agent component in the next 6 months and a Linux server after that. Make sure all your desktop machines have the same administrative password (or groups of them do). Also make sure the firewall is turned off for SSH from your LanREV server. Then it'll scan subnets, SSH in and remotely install the agent. Then you have a lot of capabilities.
I do agree with the GP, this is really Microsoft's strength, AD+Kerberos+System Center/Forefront or whatever they call it now is really nice for managing workstations "automagically". There's still a lot of manual labor though, and I don't doubt it's possible on OS X with scripts and such (and I'll be attempting it later this year on a 85 node network) and OpenLDAP or OpenDirectory. LanREV seemed like a good middle stage to handle the deployments for now.
As long as there's girls up there, I'd go
Right, that's what I was saying. I'm not trolling. This is "framework level" multi-threading for multi-core processors that's simple but dumb. So it's going to be slower than real optimized functions that do the same thing. Big, fat OS calls generically handle lots of situations, but they do it with special cases which take time to process.
So it's slow, but convenient, multi-threading. That's ok because the 16 core and 32 core chips will be here in 3 years.
If you want to do something fast you're not going to rely on a big, general OS library to queue up threads... Photoshop, for instance, will not be using this library. ;)
Yeah, but you gotta understand. Without Sun there's just IBM. There's no other vendor in the mainframe business, which is still big business. You don't think the IRS has time or money to manage the size of cluster they would need to operate effectively? So they rely on big iron, which is reliable and redundant and engineered to be that way over 40-50 years of experience. Clusters are garbage compared to a real mainframe. Sure, you have distributed filesystems now, and you can sort of split CPU around, there's management systems, etc, but all of this are ideas that come straight from the mainframe os which does all this "by itself". Google managed to make a pretty cool mainframe from commodity hardware but whatever.
Now, if you're not going to go with IBM for your database, you're probably going to go Oracle. But if you need big iron to run this huge database, you're going to have to go with IBM with z/OS and linux virtual machines or something. Oracle now has viable, proven mainframe line and all they have to do is throw money at it. They'll just move to selling complete packages instead of just DB at the mainframe level. With all this "cloud" bullshit (eg "Mainframe on the internet"), big businesses are interested in managed services and Mainframes have always been vendor managed.
Even IBM minis like AS/400 boxes come with full support from IBM. They monitor the box 24/7. I used to operate them long ago, and I remember that a disk went bad in one of our storage boxes (they had these giant enclosures with over 100 disks in them). Literally the message flashed on my console "SYS01281: DISK ERROR" blah blah blah and I turned around to get the binder to figure out what I had to do. By the time I turned back to my desk my phone was ringing and it was IBM support letting me know a tech would be there within 4 hours to replace the drive. Awesome.
So like, Sun/Oracle can do the same thing, and they can compete if they play their cards right. Oracle has poached a lot of high-end people from IBM in the past so this was only a matter of time.
Regarding MySql: MySql is a toy. Go to where the money is and you will find mainframes still. No one in their right mind would put anything important on MySql. Yeah yeah, facebook pft. If Facebook was making more than a few mil they would switch. Internet hits != money. (I'm talking Fortune 25 money, government money, world organization money, casino money, bank money). So I, for one, welcome Oracle and Sun back to this venue.
As long as Jesus is coming, you mean.
Right, it was hacking back then. Now it's all fucking engineering, red tape, etc. This is because no one is willing to take fucking risks anymore. Back then it was soldiers going up, they could either go up or die in Vietnam or whatever, who gives a fuck. Now they're sending mothers and schoolteachers up there and no one wants to be responsible for killing a school teacher. So that's what's up. They need to return it to more of a military-style thing, where the people are trained in boot camps and are tough and willing to die to advance our knowledge of space.
I brought this up before a while ago. Even more interesting would be version control like SVN on the U.S. Code so you could see who changed what (and when). If you ever go to Thomas or the congressional record changes are always like "Striking paragraph A, section 12 and replacing with 'except Blackwater Security Services, Ltd.'" and you have to go off on this long search through the code, cutting and pasting and manually editing it yourself to figure out what they changed. Computers were meant to do tasks like this. It's just the legal cabal, much like medical cabal, doesn't want computers holding their specialized knowledge because they know their jobs are no more sacred than any one elses any more. Why would you pay a lawyer $500 an hour to look something up in a book when Google can do it for free. yeah yeah, there's an element of philosophy and history and the interactions between the legislative, the judicial and the citizenry is very interesting but at the end of the day we're getting the wool pulled over our eyes a little much for the 21st century. Once it's in place you could also have some sophisicated change management to calculate risks and such, instead of relying on lobbyists. Call it "Legislative Engineering".
They should call it Subsurface Hydro-Acoustic Radiation Communication System with Lasers (SHARCS with Lasers)
Hey, that's the combination to my luggage!
Coral Cache of the site, not running super fast but it'll get there.
Actually, the idea of an "init string" as you know it was pioneered in Hayes devices and is known as the Hayes command set. There were other ways to control modems.
And there's plenty of other protocols. The "internet" is just the ability to connect from network one to network two with a standardized addressing. With different gateways and routers, the whole internet could be different. The physical layer is already a million different media and protocols anyway.