As far as I know, the FCC says that the FireWire ports should be enabled. Whether or not the MPEG stream you get over them is encrypted or not is a different story. If they are disabled, bitch to them, then file a complaint with the FCC if they refuse.
I just bought some rack servers from the small business section because nobody else could seem to beat their price for a 1U dual CPU box. Plus I could order them with no OS installed; bonus. Dealing with 1U components on my own is more trouble than it's worth to me, and the price adds up quickly. I'd rather pay Dell to deal with it and have the warranty take care of the rest.
Because if you buy that module from Dell, and it jacks up your shiny $20,000 server, they'll probably cover it under warranty. (Assuming you didn't drool on the motherboard while installing it.) If you bought your own RAM, they'll say the RAM was crap, that you should have bought it from them, and not cover it under warranty.
Everyone knows vendor parts cost more. This is why.
Accordingly FedEx apparently only charges Dell about 20$ to ship a computer. Ones that are damaged go to the dump. Dell charges 99$ shipping.
I just bought a pair of rackmount servers from them - $58 shipping. I could have taken the free option, but I feared that UPS or whoever would drive over the boxes like they usually do with anything shipped ground to me.
I've had the case on my TiBook replaced three times under AppleCare because of the cracking issue - each time they explained that "normal wear and tear or abuse is not covered" to which I responded "you mean I can't open to cover?" They would take it back with the catch that if they determined it was abused, they'd charge me. However, every time they replaced the entire case (body, bottom case, screen) for free. This also fixed the paint chipping issue.
The case design on the TiBook is not very robust. Otherwise, it's been a good machine. And every year, it looks like it's brand new.
Good writing. BSG is first and foremost, a character-based drama. It's based on real, flawed, believable people trying to survive in an insane world. The fact that it's set in space is mere window dressing. And, while not perfect, they have a MUCH better grasp of physics than the particle-of-the-week nitwits who wrote for Trek.
Ron Moore, who wrote/produced the BSG miniseries, was a writer on TNG and DS9. I do happen to like his work, and the episodes he wrote were not "alien of the day" types. Most all of my favorite DS9 episodes were written by Moore. I don't know what kind of a hand he has in the BSG series, but if he's still writing for it, I'll definately give it a try.
Trek suffered from the crappy writing of the B&B team; plain and simple.
C) They're only opening them up for open-source projects, meaning IBM projects can use them and open-source projects can use them, but IBM's closed-source competitors can't.
That's kind of funny... in a "look what we can use and open source can use but you can't touch so na na na na na" kind of way.
The ones I use want to press my items against a yellow strip after I scan them. I don't.
If there damn infernal machine starts making noise, I don't stop on the way ot, either.
Connect the two and you'll figure out why it says to press it on the yellow strip. If you pay attention, you might see a "Sensomatic" logo somewhere on the machine; that's the demagnetizer. Don't be so paranoid.
Put your credit card on it and see what happens if you think it's RFID.
I use Cat5 over wireless, not run it over wireless.
Although a local grammar Nazi would be able to tell if my use of the phrase "Using Cat5 over wireless" instead of "Using Cat5 instead of wireless" is correct. I meant the word "over" in the former to be used as a preposition.
As this "security improvement" only affects computers in specially prepared rooms, WHY THE FUCK use wireless at all? A nice Cat5 is 10times faster than wifi, and even more tempest-proof than a metal painted room.
Using Cat5 over wireless is a massive security improvement in itself, also available from the Home Depot. Cable ends and crimpers are available too, and at a cost far less than the paint. I suspect the paint is for suckering in people who think 802.11 is the only thing there is. The rest of us who actually care and want to save some money will continue to run cables.
Every time I see something about "wireless security" I always wonder why people spend so damn much money (like the paint) and effort (new encryption schemes) on it when if you really cared about security you wouldn't be using it in the first place. "Wireless security" is good to stop someone from casually using your access point, but is no substitution for real security and encryption.
Even then, people pick stupid or easy to remember passwords for their base stations, or open the window of their wireless-defeating painted room, thereby making it all a moot point.
Everything is an "iPod killer" these days. It's not like Apple made the first MP3 player, they just made one that everyone wants. Heck, I want one, too.
I find my Sprint phone's browser handy for controlling the lights on my house. I have a web page set up (in the same vein as the guy with the X-10 Christmas lights) that looks good on the screen and is easy to use with the phone's interface. Since Sprint doesn't chage per byte or whatever, I can use the browser as much as I want. Although I don't really use it much, it's great for turning on the front door and driveway lights as I'm pulling up at night.
Text messaging is good because I like to avoid bothering people around me whenever possible. And the camera phone was great for the time I saw someone in an SUV drive around the "road closed" construction barricades and right into a big hole they had cut into the street. Only the back end of the vehicle was visible above street level. Priceless.
Hmm..yup, and help generate more revenue for the cops. Heck, let them earn it themselves...
Hell no... if I have to obey the laws, everyone else gets to suffer, too.
I already do this with my cell phone and highway patrol dispatch on speed dial. The best I can do is report it and it's up to them if they want to deal with it. So if you speed past me in excess, or have trouble maintaining your lane, I'm calling you in. If you're being dangerous then I'll follow you and keep the dispatcher updated as to where you're going until a patrol car catches up and deals with you. I live somewhere small enough (only two major freeways, I-80 and US-395) that this actually works.
Automated system? I'm all over that. Self policing is probably the only way to control these jerks who think they own the road and everyone else is in their way.
It's really not that hard to not be an asshat behind the week. Try it; you might even like it.
Some companies (I'm not sure how widespread this is) put a clause in your employment terms or make you sign a contract that forbids you from doing any kind of "side job" related to your real job except for yourself and immediate family.
My last employer did this; they basically said "sign this or you're fired." Since Nevada is a right to work state, they were free to do so for whatever reason they felt like as long as it didn't conflict with a federal law.
8.12 gigs an hour. But you can always strip out the ads with a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then your only problem is how to archive the still-massive file. =)
On the same note, I have a modified version of VirtualDVHS (sans source, I deleted it all accidentally, oops) that has fast forward and rewind support. Although I captured the commands off a Mitsubishi HDTV (Mits sets with tuners have built-in FireWire - can't beat it), it should work with the 165. You can find it here.
(I swear on my future children and a sacred monkey that I'll be working on it again soon! Updates are good...)
Now what would be really cool is if you did this at a paintball range and had these things in trees firing at players (with paint of course.
While we're at it, how about a random paintball-webcam just set up somewhere? People come online, see someone walk by on the cam, and fire the paintball gun at whatever poor soul happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or make a game of it: people try to run across a range of these things to win a t-shirt.
Navy NCIS goes in for the HackerOS (tm) style of computer security. Like most of the detective shows on television, it also doesn't give two shits about civil rights, though, in this case, Gibbs also gets to play the Gitmo/Gulag card.
I'm not military, so would someone else out there kindly explain how the UCMJ handles stuff like warrants and arrests, if different from what we think are civil rights?
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As far as I know, the FCC says that the FireWire ports should be enabled. Whether or not the MPEG stream you get over them is encrypted or not is a different story. If they are disabled, bitch to them, then file a complaint with the FCC if they refuse.
I just bought some rack servers from the small business section because nobody else could seem to beat their price for a 1U dual CPU box. Plus I could order them with no OS installed; bonus. Dealing with 1U components on my own is more trouble than it's worth to me, and the price adds up quickly. I'd rather pay Dell to deal with it and have the warranty take care of the rest.
Hopefully my experience will be as good as yours.
Why pay more than double from dell???
Because if you buy that module from Dell, and it jacks up your shiny $20,000 server, they'll probably cover it under warranty. (Assuming you didn't drool on the motherboard while installing it.) If you bought your own RAM, they'll say the RAM was crap, that you should have bought it from them, and not cover it under warranty.
Everyone knows vendor parts cost more. This is why.
Accordingly FedEx apparently only charges Dell about 20$ to ship a computer. Ones that are damaged go to the dump. Dell charges 99$ shipping.
I just bought a pair of rackmount servers from them - $58 shipping. I could have taken the free option, but I feared that UPS or whoever would drive over the boxes like they usually do with anything shipped ground to me.
I've had the case on my TiBook replaced three times under AppleCare because of the cracking issue - each time they explained that "normal wear and tear or abuse is not covered" to which I responded "you mean I can't open to cover?" They would take it back with the catch that if they determined it was abused, they'd charge me. However, every time they replaced the entire case (body, bottom case, screen) for free. This also fixed the paint chipping issue.
The case design on the TiBook is not very robust. Otherwise, it's been a good machine. And every year, it looks like it's brand new.
Good writing. BSG is first and foremost, a character-based drama. It's based on real, flawed, believable people trying to survive in an insane world. The fact that it's set in space is mere window dressing. And, while not perfect, they have a MUCH better grasp of physics than the particle-of-the-week nitwits who wrote for Trek.
Ron Moore, who wrote/produced the BSG miniseries, was a writer on TNG and DS9. I do happen to like his work, and the episodes he wrote were not "alien of the day" types. Most all of my favorite DS9 episodes were written by Moore. I don't know what kind of a hand he has in the BSG series, but if he's still writing for it, I'll definately give it a try.
Trek suffered from the crappy writing of the B&B team; plain and simple.
C) They're only opening them up for open-source projects, meaning IBM projects can use them and open-source projects can use them, but IBM's closed-source competitors can't.
That's kind of funny... in a "look what we can use and open source can use but you can't touch so na na na na na" kind of way.
EMP is an excellent point... I'd mod you up if I could.
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'N SYNC pop singer and cosmonaut wannabe.
The ones I use want to press my items against a yellow strip after I scan them. I don't.
If there damn infernal machine starts making noise, I don't stop on the way ot, either.
Connect the two and you'll figure out why it says to press it on the yellow strip. If you pay attention, you might see a "Sensomatic" logo somewhere on the machine; that's the demagnetizer. Don't be so paranoid.
Put your credit card on it and see what happens if you think it's RFID.
You can run Cat5 over wireless now??
I use Cat5 over wireless, not run it over wireless.
Although a local grammar Nazi would be able to tell if my use of the phrase "Using Cat5 over wireless" instead of "Using Cat5 instead of wireless" is correct. I meant the word "over" in the former to be used as a preposition.
As this "security improvement" only affects computers in specially prepared rooms, WHY THE FUCK use wireless at all? A nice Cat5 is 10times faster than wifi, and even more tempest-proof than a metal painted room.
Using Cat5 over wireless is a massive security improvement in itself, also available from the Home Depot. Cable ends and crimpers are available too, and at a cost far less than the paint. I suspect the paint is for suckering in people who think 802.11 is the only thing there is. The rest of us who actually care and want to save some money will continue to run cables.
Every time I see something about "wireless security" I always wonder why people spend so damn much money (like the paint) and effort (new encryption schemes) on it when if you really cared about security you wouldn't be using it in the first place. "Wireless security" is good to stop someone from casually using your access point, but is no substitution for real security and encryption.
Even then, people pick stupid or easy to remember passwords for their base stations, or open the window of their wireless-defeating painted room, thereby making it all a moot point.
Everything is an "iPod killer" these days. It's not like Apple made the first MP3 player, they just made one that everyone wants. Heck, I want one, too.
I find my Sprint phone's browser handy for controlling the lights on my house. I have a web page set up (in the same vein as the guy with the X-10 Christmas lights) that looks good on the screen and is easy to use with the phone's interface. Since Sprint doesn't chage per byte or whatever, I can use the browser as much as I want. Although I don't really use it much, it's great for turning on the front door and driveway lights as I'm pulling up at night.
Text messaging is good because I like to avoid bothering people around me whenever possible. And the camera phone was great for the time I saw someone in an SUV drive around the "road closed" construction barricades and right into a big hole they had cut into the street. Only the back end of the vehicle was visible above street level. Priceless.
Hmm..yup, and help generate more revenue for the cops. Heck, let them earn it themselves...
Hell no... if I have to obey the laws, everyone else gets to suffer, too.
I already do this with my cell phone and highway patrol dispatch on speed dial. The best I can do is report it and it's up to them if they want to deal with it. So if you speed past me in excess, or have trouble maintaining your lane, I'm calling you in. If you're being dangerous then I'll follow you and keep the dispatcher updated as to where you're going until a patrol car catches up and deals with you. I live somewhere small enough (only two major freeways, I-80 and US-395) that this actually works.
Automated system? I'm all over that. Self policing is probably the only way to control these jerks who think they own the road and everyone else is in their way.
It's really not that hard to not be an asshat behind the week. Try it; you might even like it.
However, new Windows exploits and yet another Windows patch/update are hardly news anymore.
Uhh I think I replied to the wrong one... my response was to 11098678 about Real's lameness.
(waiting two minutes to post this...)
It wasn't a feature, that was a "feature" (note quotes). Features are supported where as "features" have no obligation to remain supported.
Some companies (I'm not sure how widespread this is) put a clause in your employment terms or make you sign a contract that forbids you from doing any kind of "side job" related to your real job except for yourself and immediate family.
My last employer did this; they basically said "sign this or you're fired." Since Nevada is a right to work state, they were free to do so for whatever reason they felt like as long as it didn't conflict with a federal law.
As for myself, I saw an ad for SBC VoIP.
8.12 gigs an hour. But you can always strip out the ads with a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then your only problem is how to archive the still-massive file. =)
Also: shameless plug for my HDTV recording page and VirtualDVHS.
On the same note, I have a modified version of VirtualDVHS (sans source, I deleted it all accidentally, oops) that has fast forward and rewind support. Although I captured the commands off a Mitsubishi HDTV (Mits sets with tuners have built-in FireWire - can't beat it), it should work with the 165. You can find it here.
(I swear on my future children and a sacred monkey that I'll be working on it again soon! Updates are good...)
Now what would be really cool is if you did this at a paintball range and had these things in trees firing at players (with paint of course.
While we're at it, how about a random paintball-webcam just set up somewhere? People come online, see someone walk by on the cam, and fire the paintball gun at whatever poor soul happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or make a game of it: people try to run across a range of these things to win a t-shirt.
Navy NCIS goes in for the HackerOS (tm) style of computer security. Like most of the detective shows on television, it also doesn't give two shits about civil rights, though, in this case, Gibbs also gets to play the Gitmo/Gulag card.
I'm not military, so would someone else out there kindly explain how the UCMJ handles stuff like warrants and arrests, if different from what we think are civil rights?