1 second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom (with no magnetic field and at rest at a temperature of 0K).
There are less seconds in one day (one earth rotation, sideral or otherwise)
I'm not aware of the "overseas version", you may be refering to BBC World (which is paid for by affiliates), which is produced seperately. Occasionally you get a simulcast of World and N24, and N24 always has one feed available with the World DOG (ISO4 FYI).
The normal Nwes24 that you get in the UK (glass at the back with a bunch of monitors and plasmas behind the glass, galary visiable in some shots stage-right) is funded by the license fee.
R&D, of course. They are being punished (well, rewarded IMHO) with a move to manchester. They dont get online payslips or other parts of gateway where you need to be in NATIONAL
The World Service is funded directly by the UK foreign office, not the license fee. It's based in Bush House, and news in TVC have more to do with ABC then World. Outside SCAR and occasional shared guests I'm not aware of any contact between them.
BBC World (TV) is funded by adverts which affiliates sell. There is some (Sky orientated) controversy over sharing of resources between World and normal BBC News - they are linked a lot closer then World Service Radio/News, simulcasts, shared Newsreaders, shared reporters, shared floor crews, shared techies (Adam and Ed cover N8 and N9 equally). Hell, the studio equipment's stored in the same room!
The version (2 IIRC) of putty allowed is an old buggy one. In October (IIRC) a new version came out which we had on our desktops in 40 minutes, not the 3 weeks it takes to get approval from the HOT.
The network infrastructure throughout the BBC, certainly in News, is so microsoft centric it's unheard of. The network has recently been sold, along with the staff, to Siemens. It's based around Active Directory, all file servers are Windows, all DNS and DHCP is maintined by windows, with only a smattering of *nix boxes (DHCP at one london office, unix for parts of the BBC-Wide Imaging system "elvis" and "Jupiter"). The desktop is 2K/XP, and so locked down we cant even run the BBC News Ticker on it! (For what it's worth, everyone in my office ignores such policies as we need things like Putty and VNC to work)
In many countries, including the UK, you are arguably you are allowed to download it. You are not, however, allowed to upload it. Same as any other copyrighted work.
"Abandonware" is something made up by pirates (ooh-arr) to justify their actions.
Also i often find that i upload almost as much as i download, not being greedy or anything, but here in New Zealand broadband is still capped either on speed or on traffic. And quotas are pretty stingy, counting both uploads and downloads... but that is more isp/country specific i guess:)
Fancy that. A peer to peer system where everyone plays their part? I tend to leave a torrent open for 1 - 1.5 times the upload as the download, to help negate the affect of those that downlaod but dont give anything back.
For every byte you download, someone else on ADSL, like me, has to upload it.
In a more efficient system, multicasting would be used, but BT is way better then the client/server approach
But how many people, really, backup enough? I'm not talking offsite backups, but even burning photos onto a CD isn't much good when that CD is unreadable 5 years down the line.
I've got photos of my family dating back into the 19th century, I doubt my descendents will keep digital photos that long.
Corporations are the key. We are (officiallly) not allowed to run anything other then IE6 on our machines at work (great monolith of an organisation with IT run (since september), by an outside company. Naturally everyone withh an ounce of technical knowlege ignores this to get work done (cygwin, perl, firefox, putty are all essential to my job), but we still have to use IE for many parts of the intranet (expenses claiming etc), and most people just use IE.
After a surge in spyware related incidents in the last year, we wouldn't fork out £20k on a license for ad-aware, but evenrually we managed to get broadcast critical machines locked down so that they cant access the internet (when a studio floor manager is surfing lastminute.com and complaining of popups while on the job, and the only reason he has the machine is for running orders in ENPS, you know theres something wrong).
Getting any app approved for use is such a torturous process that we were told to "install Ad-Aware, but then remove it after its done as it's not free". After somebody complained this then moved to un-offically install/remove it, but offically go through a 2 hour rebuild process.
Shirtpocket do Zaurus, they're constantly pimiping them on their site and in magazines. I bought my 5500 from ebay. Software sucks though, but you can flash OPIE onto it.
They used to be amazing. My 380ed is a faithful server with a whole 5 minutes of UPS left. Using the keyboard is a pleasure, and the thing is built like a brick.
My r40e OTOH feels cheap. The only reason I got it was the nipple. Thinkpads are the only laptops I know with a nipple,
Aside from the X-series, which are lovely albeit a tad on the £££ side, I won't buy another one. There are better deals elsewhere, even if they lack the nipple. Ideally I'd have an ibook with a nipple - what is the batter life of the avreage low-end ibook after a year?
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What! So my framerate has halved!?
1 second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom (with no magnetic field and at rest at a temperature of 0K).
There are less seconds in one day (one earth rotation, sideral or otherwise)
OK, I totally didn't RTFA, and am really just making most of this up.
You a journalist?
I'm not aware of the "overseas version", you may be refering to BBC World (which is paid for by affiliates), which is produced seperately. Occasionally you get a simulcast of World and N24, and N24 always has one feed available with the World DOG (ISO4 FYI).
The normal Nwes24 that you get in the UK (glass at the back with a bunch of monitors and plasmas behind the glass, galary visiable in some shots stage-right) is funded by the license fee.
R&D, of course. They are being punished (well, rewarded IMHO) with a move to manchester. They dont get online payslips or other parts of gateway where you need to be in NATIONAL
"100UKP (approx 87USD at the moment - was around 92 a week or so ago)"
I think you mean $187. The license fee is £121 ($225 with the current exchange rate, $190 this time last year)
The World Service is funded directly by the UK foreign office, not the license fee. It's based in Bush House, and news in TVC have more to do with ABC then World. Outside SCAR and occasional shared guests I'm not aware of any contact between them.
BBC World (TV) is funded by adverts which affiliates sell. There is some (Sky orientated) controversy over sharing of resources between World and normal BBC News - they are linked a lot closer then World Service Radio/News, simulcasts, shared Newsreaders, shared reporters, shared floor crews, shared techies (Adam and Ed cover N8 and N9 equally). Hell, the studio equipment's stored in the same room!
P.s. 2 means 2 different versions, not version 2.0 (which doesn't exist)
The version (2 IIRC) of putty allowed is an old buggy one. In October (IIRC) a new version came out which we had on our desktops in 40 minutes, not the 3 weeks it takes to get approval from the HOT.
I hear Firefox is undergoing testing too.
The network infrastructure throughout the BBC, certainly in News, is so microsoft centric it's unheard of. The network has recently been sold, along with the staff, to Siemens. It's based around Active Directory, all file servers are Windows, all DNS and DHCP is maintined by windows, with only a smattering of *nix boxes (DHCP at one london office, unix for parts of the BBC-Wide Imaging system "elvis" and "Jupiter"). The desktop is 2K/XP, and so locked down we cant even run the BBC News Ticker on it! (For what it's worth, everyone in my office ignores such policies as we need things like Putty and VNC to work)
There are £6 USB card readers that read anything, I always keep one in my laptop bag
Every week would have done. Simply have a daily cron job that greps you logs for fatal messages and email them to you.
In many countries, including the UK, you are arguably you are allowed to download it. You are not, however, allowed to upload it. Same as any other copyrighted work.
"Abandonware" is something made up by pirates (ooh-arr) to justify their actions.
Also i often find that i upload almost as much as i download, not being greedy or anything, but here in New Zealand broadband is still capped either on speed or on traffic. And quotas are pretty stingy, counting both uploads and downloads... but that is more isp/country specific i guess:)
Fancy that. A peer to peer system where everyone plays their part? I tend to leave a torrent open for 1 - 1.5 times the upload as the download, to help negate the affect of those that downlaod but dont give anything back.
For every byte you download, someone else on ADSL, like me, has to upload it.
In a more efficient system, multicasting would be used, but BT is way better then the client/server approach
You mean a Boston Tea (Sea) - Pee party, where we all Pee Tea into the Sea?
Not the Whitehouse, it was hidden by trees.
But how many people, really, backup enough? I'm not talking offsite backups, but even burning photos onto a CD isn't much good when that CD is unreadable 5 years down the line.
I've got photos of my family dating back into the 19th century, I doubt my descendents will keep digital photos that long.
I dont want the features of KDE, Mozilla or Windows XP on a server though. With a linux distro I dont install them, with windows?
Corporations are the key. We are (officiallly) not allowed to run anything other then IE6 on our machines at work (great monolith of an organisation with IT run (since september), by an outside company. Naturally everyone withh an ounce of technical knowlege ignores this to get work done (cygwin, perl, firefox, putty are all essential to my job), but we still have to use IE for many parts of the intranet (expenses claiming etc), and most people just use IE.
After a surge in spyware related incidents in the last year, we wouldn't fork out £20k on a license for ad-aware, but evenrually we managed to get broadcast critical machines locked down so that they cant access the internet (when a studio floor manager is surfing lastminute.com and complaining of popups while on the job, and the only reason he has the machine is for running orders in ENPS, you know theres something wrong).
Getting any app approved for use is such a torturous process that we were told to "install Ad-Aware, but then remove it after its done as it's not free". After somebody complained this then moved to un-offically install/remove it, but offically go through a 2 hour rebuild process.
Would this be the "freeze when DNS doesn't resolve" bug in windows?
Like the average slashdotter will use his fertility powers
Shirtpocket do Zaurus, they're constantly pimiping them on their site and in magazines. I bought my 5500 from ebay. Software sucks though, but you can flash OPIE onto it.
It caught a virus of slashdot, but dont worry, apparently its HTML 3.2 comapatable!
They used to be amazing. My 380ed is a faithful server with a whole 5 minutes of UPS left. Using the keyboard is a pleasure, and the thing is built like a brick.
My r40e OTOH feels cheap. The only reason I got it was the nipple. Thinkpads are the only laptops I know with a nipple,
Aside from the X-series, which are lovely albeit a tad on the £££ side, I won't buy another one. There are better deals elsewhere, even if they lack the nipple. Ideally I'd have an ibook with a nipple - what is the batter life of the avreage low-end ibook after a year?
Streaming of a remote over the net? I'm no driver programmer, but wouldn't something like
/dev/lirc | netcat -l -p 45235
/dev/lirc p /dev/lirc
server
cat
client
mknod
netcat server 45235 >
work?