Yeah, you're right, this isn't the technology for people who need their cable/antenna feeds. I get my major locals via DirecTV, so the only thing's I lose are UPN, and WB. No loss as far as I'm concerned.
I used to use cable as a backup, but the cable went out more than directv, and the picture quality was horrid. i'll take mpeg artifacts over massive static, any day.
You have a reference? I'd love to change that, but a glance around the message boards didn't give me a lead on that particular hack, and I'd love to do it.
ReplayTV wasn't some great little weak guy. Tivo units tend to be about cost less than ReplayTV units. Why? Because instead of saying the subscription is free, but building it into the price, they actually bill it seperately. No effective difference there. TiVo does have lifetime subscription for $200 which is, gosh, the same as the price difference between comparable tivo and replaytv units.
ReplayTV actually has an annoying feature where you get ads when you pause. Hit pause, get a helpful advertisement, burning into your screen. Yeah, that's so much better.
Grow up, and stop complaining about the capitalist status quo. You want change? then do something other than whine about topics where you obviously don't even have a solid base of information.
Interesting idea, but as an owner of both a ReplayTV and a TiVo, let me give my assessment.
Tivo Good Stuff
Records programs that it thinks you might like based on previously expressed preference.
More intuitive interface (though both are really easy)
Products like the integrated DirecTV/Tivo, which can record DirecTV at full-resolution, without the extraneous decode/encode cycle that occurs with a seperate unit
Excellent quality on recordings
Friendly towards capacity hacks
Tivo Bad Stuff
Only pause live TV for 30 minutes, unless you're actually recording that channel.
ReplayTV Good Stuff
Pause live TV for up to 7 hours
30-second skip
ReplayTV Bad Stuff
Lousy encoding. Bright reds, such as those often found in the simpsons, sometimes get encoded as green (apparently a bit overflow?)... looks terrible when it happens.
Seems less reliable than Tivo. Both have crashed for me, but Tivo has crashed about 6 times in a year or so, whereas ReplayTV has crashed that many times in about 3 or 4 months.
Ads displayed when you hit pause, some of which contain colour patterns which can cause burn-in.
All in all, they're both ludicrously cool products, but I know of no reason why ReplayTV is technically superior to TiVo in any significant manner.
What did you think made ReplayTV technically superior to TiVo?
I absolutely agree. One of the nice touches at my office is the $0.25 soda and snacks. It's a nice morale booster when you end up getting a diamond rio from pepsistuff.com, from your $0.25 sodas.
The one bad move my company made, was moving from free soda, to $0.25 soda. This made it so instead of grabbing a six pack and having soda for the day, I have to make six seperate trips. The amusing part of this is that in the time it takes to walk to the soda machines and back, they paid me about $2, and that's if I don't talk to anybody on the way.
No, I meant thousands of servers, and if you don't think it's possible, look at really large ISPs or telecommunication companies, or even Yahoo.
The company I work for actually has deployed thousands of FreeBSD, Linux and QNX servers, and probably our biggest operational challenge is maintainance and configuration management.
Some of these sites are have poor quality network connection, so you can't assume that your script will have ten minutes where everything will be fine, in order to perform the upgrade, and if, for example, the Peru servers crash, we need to send a field tech, at a real cost of somewhere in the neighborhood of $5k, and that's doesn't count the cost of downtime.
I know this isn't the "standard" use of FreeBSD, but it's definitely not totally uncommon, and it definitely does exist.
That binary upgrade option isn't remotely comparable to an 'apt-get upgrade' style upgrade. It lacks the modularity, and sanity of apt-get, and the method of handling configuration files is messy (your *real*/etc is elsewhere now).
It's a known problem, and jkh has made proposals for a good solution, but it's not implemented yet.
As for the source tree, I agree sometimes. I use source upgrades on my desktop, where it uses a mere 280 megs of disk space for/usr/src, but theoretically say that a company has a couple thousand servers.... suddenly modular binary upgrades become much more important.
What I'd really like is to be able to replace a running kernel, but I don't see any of the Free OSen approaching that capability anytime soon.
nothing as nice as apt-get dist-upgrade, FreeBSD still lacks a really good binary upgrade system, the only really easy way to do it is to keep the source handy and remake the world and the kernel yourself. as for the ports, pkg_version -c can help with keeping them up to date.
Yes, you can always do stupid things to make a machine die, that's why a smart FreeBSD administrator would have an/etc/login.conf which had restrictions so that some idiot couldn't initiate a DOS from userland.
Get back to me when you can repeat those with a properly configured machine.
Actually, there are patches for zero copy sockets and NFS for FreeBSD-current. It's bleeding edge, but if you want zero-copy, it might be worth exploring, at least for future development.
Thanks, I'll suggest trend scanmail to our corporate IT department.
You're absolutely correct, the MCSE is an entry level cert, which is pathetic, since the MCP is supposed to be the entry level cert.
As to my argument being a red herring, I disagree, All of the unix admins I know get paid very well, but they also do useful things. Most NT admins I've seen use up space. The sad result of MCSE mills.
Well yes, they won't understand that RFC either. I'm convinced that the MCSE is a just a really bad practical joke by Bill Gates, to get back and the kids who used to beat him up.
To scan every message for viruses, you'll need a third party product, which will likely reduce performance and stability to the point that you have to turn it off
Your unix users will realize that Exchange munges messages badly, for instance if it doesn't know what character set an 8-bit MIME encoded message is in (say it comes in as X-UNKNOWN) It will turn it into a message that says 'i have no idea what the character set is' and an attachment. This will nicely wreck any filtering they were doing, as the headers are gone, hidden in an attachment, and it makes it a pain to reply to the message, as hitting reply doesn't include the message.
Your non-windows users will be happy to see that there's a web client, and then they'll use it. It will crash their copy of netscape. It will work, sort of. It will only allow them to add one person to a meeting request at a time, and will require them to psychically know what the person's exact Exchange name is. This will be harder for them than that ldap query script that the smart unix admin set up for the mutt users.
It will be slower and less responsive than the old, cheaper unix mail server. One of the smart users will solve this problem by setting up a machine which does nothing but relay mail to the exchange server, thus making it so that the 'no more connections' message can be dealt with silently.
It will offer great features that break annually. Even if you say, and this is being kind, that there will only be one day of unplanned downtime per year, which day will it be? Will it be the day that the contract with Rich VentureCapitalist was sent over?
Somebody is likely to suggesting hiring an MCSE to run it. This person will get paid too much, not know RFC 821 or 822, or anything remotely technical, yet they'll drain the company of $80k/year, which could be better spent on more beer for the developers.
but it's not possible to use special characters or reserved words in the define. defines are "cute" but they're not really obfuscated anyway, since you can just grab the output of the preprocessor and see the unmunged source.
No offense, but as a Philadelphian, I have to say you have no fucking clue what actually happened. They didn't put motorists at risk at all. Traffic sucked, but anybody who says that it put them at risk is full of shit. It was about as bad as oh say.... rush hour.
As for destroying property, okay, a couple assholes destroyed some property (some, not much. if you want property destruction, do a search on the MOVE bombing)... I saw a lot worse, like cops beating the hell out of protesters who only got violent after police started beating them. I wandered down the wrong street and had this one happen to me... had to run from the cops even though my only goal was to get to Monk's Cafe to have be some fine belgian beer.
Next point where you're a fucking idiot: 'apparently there was enough evidence for a jury' nope, this was a trial by judge, seeing as it was a misdemeanor, you don't get a jury til you appeal. you didn't even read the article.
Anyway, you might want to read the write-ups in Philadelphia newspapers which basically say that the police were out of line, that McGuckin didn't deserve it.
It was obvious that he did wrong? How? I don't care if he did or didn't, he didn't deserve $500k bail on a few misdemeanors. Sure it's convenient for the cops, but that's a really dangerous direction to tread. It's a slippery slope, and we're already sliding down it.
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Yeah, you're right, this isn't the technology for people who need their cable/antenna feeds. I get my major locals via DirecTV, so the only thing's I lose are UPN, and WB. No loss as far as I'm concerned.
I used to use cable as a backup, but the cable went out more than directv, and the picture quality was horrid. i'll take mpeg artifacts over massive static, any day.
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I love terms that only a directv pirate would use. So what software are you running? :-)
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You have a reference? I'd love to change that, but a glance around the message boards didn't give me a lead on that particular hack, and I'd love to do it.
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Ah, I had this problem with both TiVo and ReplayTV, since I get my signal by DirecTV, and didn't really want to buy multiple receivers for every tv.
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ReplayTV wasn't some great little weak guy. Tivo units tend to be about cost less than ReplayTV units. Why? Because instead of saying the subscription is free, but building it into the price, they actually bill it seperately. No effective difference there. TiVo does have lifetime subscription for $200 which is, gosh, the same as the price difference between comparable tivo and replaytv units.
ReplayTV actually has an annoying feature where you get ads when you pause. Hit pause, get a helpful advertisement, burning into your screen. Yeah, that's so much better.
Grow up, and stop complaining about the capitalist status quo. You want change? then do something other than whine about topics where you obviously don't even have a solid base of information.
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Tivo Good Stuff
- Records programs that it thinks you might like based on previously expressed preference.
- More intuitive interface (though both are really easy)
- Products like the integrated DirecTV/Tivo, which can record DirecTV at full-resolution, without the extraneous decode/encode cycle that occurs with a seperate unit
- Excellent quality on recordings
- Friendly towards capacity hacks
Tivo Bad Stuff- Only pause live TV for 30 minutes, unless you're actually recording that channel.
ReplayTV Good Stuff- Pause live TV for up to 7 hours
- 30-second skip
ReplayTV Bad Stuff- Lousy encoding. Bright reds, such as those often found in the simpsons, sometimes get encoded as green (apparently a bit overflow?)... looks terrible when it happens.
- Seems less reliable than Tivo. Both have crashed for me, but Tivo has crashed about 6 times in a year or so, whereas ReplayTV has crashed that many times in about 3 or 4 months.
- Ads displayed when you hit pause, some of which contain colour patterns which can cause burn-in.
All in all, they're both ludicrously cool products, but I know of no reason why ReplayTV is technically superior to TiVo in any significant manner.What did you think made ReplayTV technically superior to TiVo?
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I absolutely agree. One of the nice touches at my office is the $0.25 soda and snacks. It's a nice morale booster when you end up getting a diamond rio from pepsistuff.com, from your $0.25 sodas.
The one bad move my company made, was moving from free soda, to $0.25 soda. This made it so instead of grabbing a six pack and having soda for the day, I have to make six seperate trips. The amusing part of this is that in the time it takes to walk to the soda machines and back, they paid me about $2, and that's if I don't talk to anybody on the way.
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No, I meant thousands of servers, and if you don't think it's possible, look at really large ISPs or telecommunication companies, or even Yahoo.
The company I work for actually has deployed thousands of FreeBSD, Linux and QNX servers, and probably our biggest operational challenge is maintainance and configuration management.
Some of these sites are have poor quality network connection, so you can't assume that your script will have ten minutes where everything will be fine, in order to perform the upgrade, and if, for example, the Peru servers crash, we need to send a field tech, at a real cost of somewhere in the neighborhood of $5k, and that's doesn't count the cost of downtime.
I know this isn't the "standard" use of FreeBSD, but it's definitely not totally uncommon, and it definitely does exist.
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That binary upgrade option isn't remotely comparable to an 'apt-get upgrade' style upgrade. It lacks the modularity, and sanity of apt-get, and the method of handling configuration files is messy (your *real* /etc is elsewhere now).
/usr/src, but theoretically say that a company has a couple thousand servers.... suddenly modular binary upgrades become much more important.
It's a known problem, and jkh has made proposals for a good solution, but it's not implemented yet.
As for the source tree, I agree sometimes. I use source upgrades on my desktop, where it uses a mere 280 megs of disk space for
What I'd really like is to be able to replace a running kernel, but I don't see any of the Free OSen approaching that capability anytime soon.
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yes, but the article is about FreeBSD, thus I assumed he was improperly abbreviating, after all, he didn't show much clue.
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ah, so you don't like releasing product. typical asshole mentality.
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nothing as nice as apt-get dist-upgrade, FreeBSD still lacks a really good binary upgrade system, the only really easy way to do it is to keep the source handy and remake the world and the kernel yourself. as for the ports, pkg_version -c can help with keeping them up to date.
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FreeBSD mosch.eng.foo.net 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 16:42:35 EST 2000 root@mosch.eng.tvol.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BASTI D i386
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Yes, you can always do stupid things to make a machine die, that's why a smart FreeBSD administrator would have an /etc/login.conf which had restrictions so that some idiot couldn't initiate a DOS from userland.
Get back to me when you can repeat those with a properly configured machine.
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No, it wouldn't even be possible. FreeBSD doesn't run on sparc.
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Actually, there are patches for zero copy sockets and NFS for FreeBSD-current. It's bleeding edge, but if you want zero-copy, it might be worth exploring, at least for future development.
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I'd respond further, but honestly, it's really evident you're:
- Trolling (poorly)
- Really damned stupid
- Uneducated
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Your friend should report the bug, and a method of reproducing it. No joke.
Running 4.2 here, no probs.
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Thanks, I'll suggest trend scanmail to our corporate IT department.
You're absolutely correct, the MCSE is an entry level cert, which is pathetic, since the MCP is supposed to be the entry level cert.
As to my argument being a red herring, I disagree, All of the unix admins I know get paid very well, but they also do useful things. Most NT admins I've seen use up space. The sad result of MCSE mills.
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Well yes, they won't understand that RFC either. I'm convinced that the MCSE is a just a really bad practical joke by Bill Gates, to get back and the kids who used to beat him up.
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- To scan every message for viruses, you'll need a third party product, which will likely reduce performance and stability to the point that you have to turn it off
- Your unix users will realize that Exchange munges messages badly, for instance if it doesn't know what character set an 8-bit MIME encoded message is in (say it comes in as X-UNKNOWN) It will turn it into a message that says 'i have no idea what the character set is' and an attachment. This will nicely wreck any filtering they were doing, as the headers are gone, hidden in an attachment, and it makes it a pain to reply to the message, as hitting reply doesn't include the message.
- Your non-windows users will be happy to see that there's a web client, and then they'll use it. It will crash their copy of netscape. It will work, sort of. It will only allow them to add one person to a meeting request at a time, and will require them to psychically know what the person's exact Exchange name is. This will be harder for them than that ldap query script that the smart unix admin set up for the mutt users.
- It will be slower and less responsive than the old, cheaper unix mail server. One of the smart users will solve this problem by setting up a machine which does nothing but relay mail to the exchange server, thus making it so that the 'no more connections' message can be dealt with silently.
- It will offer great features that break annually. Even if you say, and this is being kind, that there will only be one day of unplanned downtime per year, which day will it be? Will it be the day that the contract with Rich VentureCapitalist was sent over?
- Somebody is likely to suggesting hiring an MCSE to run it. This person will get paid too much, not know RFC 821 or 822, or anything remotely technical, yet they'll drain the company of $80k/year, which could be better spent on more beer for the developers.
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okay, you can
#define long {
and then when you declare a long, you're fscked. you can't
#define long {
#define baz long
and then use 'baz bar' to set bar to be a long.
you also can't
#define { } (just won't work, illegal macro name)
any obfuscation done this way, is really just "cute" obfuscation anyway. I mean, you have to provide an easily readable translation key.
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nope, you can't do that. you could do stuff like
#define bar {
#define baz }
but it's not possible to use special characters or reserved words in the define. defines are "cute" but they're not really obfuscated anyway, since you can just grab the output of the preprocessor and see the unmunged source.
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No offense, but as a Philadelphian, I have to say you have no fucking clue what actually happened. They didn't put motorists at risk at all. Traffic sucked, but anybody who says that it put them at risk is full of shit. It was about as bad as oh say.... rush hour.
As for destroying property, okay, a couple assholes destroyed some property (some, not much. if you want property destruction, do a search on the MOVE bombing)... I saw a lot worse, like cops beating the hell out of protesters who only got violent after police started beating them. I wandered down the wrong street and had this one happen to me... had to run from the cops even though my only goal was to get to Monk's Cafe to have be some fine belgian beer.
Next point where you're a fucking idiot: 'apparently there was enough evidence for a jury' nope, this was a trial by judge, seeing as it was a misdemeanor, you don't get a jury til you appeal. you didn't even read the article.
Anyway, you might want to read the write-ups in Philadelphia newspapers which basically say that the police were out of line, that McGuckin didn't deserve it.
It was obvious that he did wrong? How? I don't care if he did or didn't, he didn't deserve $500k bail on a few misdemeanors. Sure it's convenient for the cops, but that's a really dangerous direction to tread. It's a slippery slope, and we're already sliding down it.
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As I noted above, my only explanation for the extra ports is that the chipset neccessary to make a hub is dirt cheap, so why not?
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