At my old job, I ran into some software....Kodak COLD storage, something or other. The great part was that it burned the software needed to read the data directly to the disk when you archived the data.
I'm currently looking at moving an archive of tens of thousands of video tapes (SX, SP, DVcam, even a few umatics) across 30 countries into the digital world. Unfortunately the main project meant to handle this isn't going to provide a solution for at least 5 years as they changed direction, so it's left to us. Currently we use disk as an interim archive, but I'm really not happy with that.
Requirements are open source all the way, which is much easier than when I started with that dictate in our department a few years ago. Video can be stored in an appropriate format (dv tapes in dv, SX tapes in imx), as long as we have the code to decode it - i.e. it's in ffmpeg.
Looking at LTFS at the moment, it's open source, however I'd be happier if it made it mainline distros. IBM's LTFS LE is a neat solution on the front of that to manage the tapes in a robot, but maintains the open source backend.
Now LTO5 will only be readable on new drives for about 6-8 more years (until LTO7 drives fall off the market), so we need a tape replenishment program, however we won't need to decode every clip to continue reading it.
I'm not at all apologizing for our horrible public education system, but there's much more to it than per-student spending. Books are much more expensive, wages are much higher. Those one-room schoolhouses were often owned and operated by the one or two teachers that ran the joint and they were able to handle what little administrative needs there were by themselves. Nowadays we have big schools with scores of teachers, large administrative staffs, etc. Plus you need to keep the facilities maintained and have a maintenance staff on daily duty. The districts have their own administrative buildings and staff as well as the need to maintain a fleet of buses, etc. There are nutritional programs because kids often get their food at school rather than packing lunch, etc.
That all being said, our educational system sucks and is in dire need of improvement... but again, it's not just "per-student spending".
What happened to economies of scale? Would we be better if we decentralised schooling to a level of 1 school house, 2 teachers, and 40 pupils? This allows local schools on a block-by-block basis in some areas.
And in the event of civil uprising in the states, Canada is only 2 hours away.
Do people really think that an event that spreads from San Diego to Boston, Portland to Oregon, will stop at an imaginary line north of Seattle, and resume east of Fairbanks?
Computerized trading means they can take all-day lunches and laugh all the way to the bank with their bonuses while not contributing any value whatsoever!
If you gain a $100m in a day, you buy lunch. If you lose $100m in a day, someone else buys lunch. Overall there's no net gain, but someone always affords lunch.
That's not what this is about. It's about putting flywheels in the stations themselves. The energy put back into the 3rd rail is usually wasted since it would require another train to be close to the train braking. Since most trains are guaranteed to stop in a station, absorbing the electricity put back into the rail could be stored for when the train starts.
The London underground has been doing this for over a century, many stations are higher than the normal track, so trains slow down when they go uphill before stopping, and get a boost when the leave and go downhill.
The U.S. is a bitterly, almost militantly divided country, with every everything or nothing being Obama's fault. To survive the current crisis (not caused by Obama, and not caused by Bush), the country needs to stand together.
Okay, actually, this article was originally posted at about 2 pm, but got bumped for the earthquake story. I got the one comment in before it got bumped, apparently.
Earthquakes do cause things to bump around. At least it didn't fall over.
Do you have a solution for MITM attacks? No? Well then.
Chances are you've visited the site before. If an ssh key changes, I get a stern warning when I ssh in.
On the offchance you've gone to a brand new site, from a non-trustworthy network, you could be subjected to MITM, but once you go to the site from another location and ISP you'll realise there's an issue.
Doesn't eliminate it, but certainly reduces the problem of local wireless MITM attacks. ISP level and above attacks will be noticed fairly rapidly by nerds that actually check certificates.
Rubbish. It's illegal to carry certain types of knives in certain places in certain cases.
In other words, it's OK to carry a pocket knife as long as you remember to take it out of your pocket and put it in a drawer every time you leave your house.
That sounds useful to me. And certainly not anything you would ever forget to do, thus rendering yourself an instant criminal.
Which particular laws are you talking about? There's a specific exemption to allow pocket knives like swiss army knives in the Criminal Justice Act 1988
Us neighbors all enjoyed his horrified screaming at 1:00 in the morning as he lay dying on the sidewalk.
Ahh, but I know from slashdot that most people in the U.S. are armed, so no doubt your neighbours all raced out to attempt to help the victim, and apprehend the killer?
Yes, because countries with constitutions never have such a problem, do they?
Actually in terms of suddenly preventing free speech, etc. they don't.
Right to peaceful assembly? As long as you're in a free speech zone Right to not be stopped and searched with no suspicion? As long as you're not in a constitution free zone (i.e. the U.S.A)
I think the original point was that this underclass are following the example of politicians (with expenses scandals and the like) and those in the financial sector (who brought us global economic disaster and a year later are awarding themselves record bonuses) who seem to take what they want with little or no consequences. I absolutely do not agree with what the rioters are doing, it's absolutely disgusting, but I feel exactly the same about what the bankers did, and how many of them faced police charges and criminal sentences?
If people are angry at (perceived or real) abuses by the governent/police/bankers/toffs, then which of the following places would you think they'd set on fire? 1) Houses of parliment 2) Bank of England 3) Any bank 4) Stock exchange 5) Canary wharf area 6) Police stations 7) Council offices 8) Newspapers in Fleet Street/Wapping 9) Small independently run local businesses 10) Halfords 11) Cheap flats in not so nice areas
I think there's been 1 instance of a police station being attacked (in Nottingham).
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At my old job, I ran into some software....Kodak COLD storage, something or other.
The great part was that it burned the software needed to read the data directly to the disk when you archived the data.
I'm currently looking at moving an archive of tens of thousands of video tapes (SX, SP, DVcam, even a few umatics) across 30 countries into the digital world. Unfortunately the main project meant to handle this isn't going to provide a solution for at least 5 years as they changed direction, so it's left to us. Currently we use disk as an interim archive, but I'm really not happy with that.
Requirements are open source all the way, which is much easier than when I started with that dictate in our department a few years ago. Video can be stored in an appropriate format (dv tapes in dv, SX tapes in imx), as long as we have the code to decode it - i.e. it's in ffmpeg.
Looking at LTFS at the moment, it's open source, however I'd be happier if it made it mainline distros. IBM's LTFS LE is a neat solution on the front of that to manage the tapes in a robot, but maintains the open source backend.
Now LTO5 will only be readable on new drives for about 6-8 more years (until LTO7 drives fall off the market), so we need a tape replenishment program, however we won't need to decode every clip to continue reading it.
I'm not at all apologizing for our horrible public education system, but there's much more to it than per-student spending. Books are much more expensive, wages are much higher. Those one-room schoolhouses were often owned and operated by the one or two teachers that ran the joint and they were able to handle what little administrative needs there were by themselves. Nowadays we have big schools with scores of teachers, large administrative staffs, etc. Plus you need to keep the facilities maintained and have a maintenance staff on daily duty. The districts have their own administrative buildings and staff as well as the need to maintain a fleet of buses, etc. There are nutritional programs because kids often get their food at school rather than packing lunch, etc.
That all being said, our educational system sucks and is in dire need of improvement... but again, it's not just "per-student spending".
What happened to economies of scale? Would we be better if we decentralised schooling to a level of 1 school house, 2 teachers, and 40 pupils? This allows local schools on a block-by-block basis in some areas.
And in the event of civil uprising in the states, Canada is only 2 hours away.
Do people really think that an event that spreads from San Diego to Boston, Portland to Oregon, will stop at an imaginary line north of Seattle, and resume east of Fairbanks?
still mostly broken, and requires you read a 14 page document to install a video driver
Sorry, I've used linux for 12 years. What's a driver?
Computerized trading means they can take all-day lunches and laugh all the way to the bank with their bonuses while not contributing any value whatsoever!
If you gain a $100m in a day, you buy lunch. If you lose $100m in a day, someone else buys lunch. Overall there's no net gain, but someone always affords lunch.
That's not what this is about. It's about putting flywheels in the stations themselves. The energy put back into the 3rd rail is usually wasted since it would require another train to be close to the train braking. Since most trains are guaranteed to stop in a station, absorbing the electricity put back into the rail could be stored for when the train starts.
The London underground has been doing this for over a century, many stations are higher than the normal track, so trains slow down when they go uphill before stopping, and get a boost when the leave and go downhill.
The U.S. is a bitterly, almost militantly divided country, with every everything or nothing being Obama's fault. To survive the current crisis (not caused by Obama, and not caused by Bush), the country needs to stand together.
I would totally start sending megabytes of Mersenne twister output to addresses in the US.
Before or after you get thrown in jail and your hand chopped off?
Nap... whatnow?
Face it, no filesharing service survives "going legit".
Napster was that company founded by Justin Timberlake
As of 9:26pm PDT this bug report has made the frontpage of slashdot.org [...] Please address this issue immediately.
A Slashdot side-effect :)
Sorry, 1999 called. Slashdot used to have power and respect, but that was years ago.
Okay, actually, this article was originally posted at about 2 pm, but got bumped for the earthquake story. I got the one comment in before it got bumped, apparently.
Earthquakes do cause things to bump around. At least it didn't fall over.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Apple, Next, Pixar, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPads.
You missed the biggest recent major change to the world - iTunes.
The first place to go is definitely Twitter. Major news media caught up 5-10 min later.
The diversity of locations was mapped out in min or two.
We know this from https://www.xkcd.com/723/
Apple already has an App Store for the Mac, and Microsoft will soon as well for Windows 8.
Moves like this will drive users in droves to download applications from a known, clean source.
I've been a fan of a collection of app stores since I moved to Debian 2.2, 11 years ago, nice to see the non-oss world catching up.
(apart from using Emacs for everything, of course).
That works for most applications, but it needs a good text editor.
ctrl+C -> cancel command execution
ctrl+Z -> pause command execution and send to background
ctrl+A -> ring bell, escape key for screen
Also front of the line in bash under (default) emacs mode.
what is ctrl+V for?
Escaping keys. If you want to do something like :%s/^M//g, you'd type :%s///g
- QuickDrag ---- removes the need to do ctrl+click to open in a new tab
That's what the middle button does
Do you have a solution for MITM attacks? No? Well then.
Chances are you've visited the site before. If an ssh key changes, I get a stern warning when I ssh in.
On the offchance you've gone to a brand new site, from a non-trustworthy network, you could be subjected to MITM, but once you go to the site from another location and ISP you'll realise there's an issue.
Doesn't eliminate it, but certainly reduces the problem of local wireless MITM attacks. ISP level and above attacks will be noticed fairly rapidly by nerds that actually check certificates.
Rubbish. It's illegal to carry certain types of knives in certain places in certain cases.
In other words, it's OK to carry a pocket knife as long as you remember to take it out of your pocket and put it in a drawer every time you leave your house.
That sounds useful to me. And certainly not anything you would ever forget to do, thus rendering yourself an instant criminal.
Which particular laws are you talking about? There's a specific exemption to allow pocket knives like swiss army knives in the Criminal Justice Act 1988
Pocket knives are illegal in the UK.
Rubbish. It's illegal to carry certain types of knives in certain places in certain cases.
Us neighbors all enjoyed his horrified screaming at 1:00 in the morning as he lay dying on the sidewalk.
Ahh, but I know from slashdot that most people in the U.S. are armed, so no doubt your neighbours all raced out to attempt to help the victim, and apprehend the killer?
Yes, because countries with constitutions never have such a problem, do they?
Actually in terms of suddenly preventing free speech, etc. they don't.
Right to peaceful assembly? As long as you're in a free speech zone
Right to not be stopped and searched with no suspicion? As long as you're not in a constitution free zone (i.e. the U.S.A)
Since the Magna Carta, England has not been able to get off their ass to pass a constitution, so law wise pretty much anything goes over there.
Yeah, that constitution works really well for the U.S.
A constitution is a piece of paper you wipe your ass with, unless you have a populous that cares enough to defend it.
I think the original point was that this underclass are following the example of politicians (with expenses scandals and the like) and those in the financial sector (who brought us global economic disaster and a year later are awarding themselves record bonuses) who seem to take what they want with little or no consequences. I absolutely do not agree with what the rioters are doing, it's absolutely disgusting, but I feel exactly the same about what the bankers did, and how many of them faced police charges and criminal sentences?
If people are angry at (perceived or real) abuses by the governent/police/bankers/toffs, then which of the following places would you think they'd set on fire?
1) Houses of parliment
2) Bank of England
3) Any bank
4) Stock exchange
5) Canary wharf area
6) Police stations
7) Council offices
8) Newspapers in Fleet Street/Wapping
9) Small independently run local businesses
10) Halfords
11) Cheap flats in not so nice areas
I think there's been 1 instance of a police station being attacked (in Nottingham).