Your movies are going to take up a LOT of space. Your kids are going to laugh at your collection. Come on and join DVD. Your LD tech is dead. How do you watch an LD on your computer? How can you transfer your digital movies to the NEXT standard??
Your kids are going to laugh at you for your physical collection of movies. What do you think the next technology is going to be, anyway? minidisc? You wrist-computer can't play DVD's can it? That would look awful silly.
There's going to be a point where the necessity for a physical piece of plastic (or whatever) is no longer required and all of this is going to be moot (wouldn't that be paradise?). In the mean time, picking on LD's for their size is stupid. They were by far the best media in their time and even myself, whose LD collection still outnumbers his DVD collection (but not by much), cringes when watching some LD's - visually they leave something to be desired when compared to some of the better DVD encodings coming out - but by no means am I in danger of being crushed by them. Some of the early DVD encodings were terrible (the fleshtones in Bladerunner can make your skin crawl) but they keep improving, and soon they are going to take up more space than my LD's. Thank goodness I never liked the quality of VHS...
Also, for the record, my DVD player (Pioneer DVL-700) was one of the very early DVD players, and has had no problems with either Lost in Space, or The Matrix.
My DVL-700 also had no problems with the Matrix DVD. As far as commentary goes, I've been watching running commmentary on LD's for years before DVD was even conceived. I don't know about the Matrix LD having it or not, but whoever thinks that LD doesn't have some of these features (alternate languages, different audio tracks, special feature sections) probably believes that Bill and AOL invented the Internet.
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NCLUG is celebrating the 8th birthday of Linux with a Linux DemoDay and install fest here in Fort Collins, Colorado (at the University Park Holiday Inn by the CSU campus). The DemoDay event is being coordinated at www.linuxdemo.org and is a worldwide event. Take a look at the demoday site to see if an event is being held in your area.
Yep, I've seen it, it's running Linux. Connected one to my network at work for the developers, in fact. It's using a MIPS cross-compiler setup with gcc (unknown version) from what the developers tell me. It's running a slightly aged version of a popular (now public) Linux company.
NetApp filers, to be frank about the whole deal, rule. We have quite a few in my environment and the only problems are the infrequent failed disks which don't affect usage. We just replace the bad drive with a spare (or RMA), the RAID rebuilds and no one's the wiser - zero downtime. In fact, the only downtime we see on them is for OS upgrades.
We use Unix connectivity only (via NFS) and our PC's connect via samba to the NFS mounts. SMB as an option is supposed to be pretty robust but we dont need it (or want it - too many virii exploring shares nowadays). NIS isn't used here (thanks be) but it shouldn't matter. We copy the necessary files (like passwd and hosts) to the filer via one mount point inaccessable to mere mortals and that's it. All NFS connectivity is controlled with automouter maps.
NetApps are just too sweet. Expensive, yes, but sweet.
And then there's my 386/40 that's been running the RC5/DES client without a hiccup for the last 423 days and counting. 20,000 keys/sec is nothing to snicker at!:-) You can read about this machine, called Nodens, and some of my other machines, here.
This article is a good representation of the early stages of the media getting to know the inside scoop on any niche. Things, in general, are all too happy in the Linux community (compared to other players on the field) so when something that smacks even remotely of dissent or conflict, the press prints it and hypes it, thereby making it news.
They are still working their way into the field and inside scoops are still coming from press releases and strange interpretations of facts. Once the press figures out who's who, and what they are capable of, then the coverage will even out to resemble that of other industry players like Sun and IBM.
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Your movies are going to take up a LOT of space. Your kids are going to laugh at your collection. Come on and join DVD. Your LD tech is dead. How do you watch an LD on your computer? How can you transfer your digital movies to the NEXT standard??
Your kids are going to laugh at you for your physical collection of movies. What do you think the next technology is going to be, anyway? minidisc? You wrist-computer can't play DVD's can it? That would look awful silly.
There's going to be a point where the necessity for a physical piece of plastic (or whatever) is no longer required and all of this is going to be moot (wouldn't that be paradise?). In the mean time, picking on LD's for their size is stupid. They were by far the best media in their time and even myself, whose LD collection still outnumbers his DVD collection (but not by much), cringes when watching some LD's - visually they leave something to be desired when compared to some of the better DVD encodings coming out - but by no means am I in danger of being crushed by them. Some of the early DVD encodings were terrible (the fleshtones in Bladerunner can make your skin crawl) but they keep improving, and soon they are going to take up more space than my LD's. Thank goodness I never liked the quality of VHS...
Also, for the record, my DVD player (Pioneer DVL-700) was one of the very early DVD players, and has had no problems with either Lost in Space, or The Matrix.
My DVL-700 also had no problems with the Matrix DVD. As far as commentary goes, I've been watching running commmentary on LD's for years before DVD was even conceived. I don't know about the Matrix LD having it or not, but whoever thinks that LD doesn't have some of these features (alternate languages, different audio tracks, special feature sections) probably believes that Bill and AOL invented the Internet.
NCLUG is celebrating the 8th birthday of Linux with a Linux DemoDay and install fest here in Fort Collins, Colorado (at the University Park Holiday Inn by the CSU campus). The DemoDay event is being coordinated at www.linuxdemo.org and is a worldwide event. Take a look at the demoday site to see if an event is being held in your area.
Yep, I've seen it, it's running Linux. Connected one to my network at work for the developers, in fact. It's using a MIPS cross-compiler setup with gcc (unknown version) from what the developers tell me. It's running a slightly aged version of a popular (now public) Linux company.
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NetApp filers, to be frank about the whole deal, rule. We have quite a few in my environment and the only problems are the infrequent failed disks which don't affect usage. We just replace the bad drive with a spare (or RMA), the RAID rebuilds and no one's the wiser - zero downtime. In fact, the only downtime we see on them is for OS upgrades.
We use Unix connectivity only (via NFS) and our PC's connect via samba to the NFS mounts. SMB as an option is supposed to be pretty robust but we dont need it (or want it - too many virii exploring shares nowadays). NIS isn't used here (thanks be) but it shouldn't matter. We copy the necessary files (like passwd and hosts) to the filer via one mount point inaccessable to mere mortals and that's it. All NFS connectivity is controlled with automouter maps.
NetApps are just too sweet. Expensive, yes, but sweet.
And then there's my 386/40 that's been running the RC5/DES client without a hiccup for the last 423 days and counting. 20,000 keys/sec is nothing to snicker at! :-) You can read about this machine, called Nodens, and some of my other machines, here.
This article is a good representation of the early stages of the media getting to know the inside scoop on any niche. Things, in general, are all too happy in the Linux community (compared to other players on the field) so when something that smacks even remotely of dissent or conflict, the press prints it and hypes it, thereby making it news.
They are still working their way into the field and inside scoops are still coming from press releases and strange interpretations of facts. Once the press figures out who's who, and what they are capable of, then the coverage will even out to resemble that of other industry players like Sun and IBM.
Of course, that's just my opinion...