iexposure.com is debian based. They aren't super cheap $10/month place though. But they don't throw 3000 sites on a single box either. I use them for a couple of sites, and haven't had any problems.
You could always go the ghetto booty route and just make symbolic links under the/all directory.
cd/media/mp3 cp -Rl */all/mp3
Do this for each drive. Or write a cronjob to do it once a day. This may or may not work depending on your directory structure.
I do a similar thing to make my music more "browsable"./media/audio has a subdirectory for each artist, but what if I want to browse by genre? I have/media/audio/genre/[classical,rap,jazz,rock,etc], and each subdirectory has symbolic links back to the artist directories in/media/audio.
Of course, once iTunes has Vorbis support, it won't really matter how the stuff is organized on disk.
ImageMagick comes with some command line utils that you can use to pull sections out of an image. Since you are scanning photos, I assume they are all the same size and have the same placement on the scanner. You could just write a script to grab 5 sections (or however many you are scanning) out of the image produced by the scanner. It won't automatically find the boundaries between each photo, but if you place them on the scanner carefully, you should be able to get consistent results.
This may or may not work, however, I've successfully recovered data about 10 or 12 times using this method.
Find a working drive of the same model, take the electronics board off of it and swap it onto the bad drive. Typically when I have a drive fail, it's the electronics, not the mechanical portion of it. So far, this has worked every time for me, one was a Quantum Fireball, and the rest were all Seagate SCSI drives (some FCAL and some ultrawide).
If you had two disks fail at the same time, chances are it's the electronics. Once you recover the data, I would take a serious look at your RAID controller and possibly replace it. I had a bad RAID controller that kept frying drives, and once I replaced it I didn't have anymore problems.
My friend's dad bought one, and it was all fine and dandy. Until he woke up at 3am during a thunderstorm and saw the damn thing mowing the lawn. Anyway, he returned it.
Where did you get you the NCK code for your phone? ATT locks all of their phones to their SIMs so you can't put a SIM from another provider in it.
I may be doing some travelling to europe soon, and I don't want to pay the 99 cents/min roaming fee, so I'm planning on getting a prepaid SIM. However, I need to get my phone unlocked first, and I don't wanna send it out. It would be nice if I could just take it in somewhere and have it done.
Voicestream(T-mobile) gives out their unlock codes if you've been with them for more than 3 months, but ATT has no such offering.
Back in 1960, the Russians developed the Ekranoplan. We saw it in satellite photos because the thing was too damn big to fit inside a building. It was over 2 football fields long, weighed over 540 tons, and could reach speeds of more than 500 knots. It could also fly up to 20 meters above the surface. Back in the early 1990's, we finally found out what that thing in the pictures actually was. Around 20 of them were built, but for some reason they cancelled the program.
There's a good picture and some info here. The History channel had a show on this thing a few weeks ago too, and it made me wonder why we didn't have anything like that. It's an unbelievably fast and efficient way to carry large amounts of people and cargo.
The government of Egypt did not build the pyramids, they just happen to lie within an area that Egypt currently controls. The pyramids were there well before the current government.
It's the same thing for other interesting unique things of the past. I wouldn't expect any government to object to scientists or historians doing non-intrusive research at sites like Stonehenge, the Lighthouse at Alexandria, volcanoes in Hawaii, or any other place or object which has significant historical or scientific value.
Notice I mentioned junk snail mail, however, I also mentioned spam, because if the spammer has your zip code and email address, they can send you spam which is targeted to you for the area you live in.
This was tried several years ago. The robot they used did not have a fiber optic camera, and was unable to see past the door, however, it did have a laser on it, and they shined the laser through the cracks in the sides of the door and were unable to see the dot, so there is some evidence that there is a large room behind the door.
The new robot has a fiber optic camera, and some kind of device which will allow it to see through up to 3 feet of rock.
One thing that kind of pisses me off about the whole egyptology thing, is that the egyptian government is pretty strict on who they let come and do work like this over there. If they don't agree with some of your views on the history of the pyramids, good luck getting a permit to do anything there. The history of the pyramids is very sketchy, and how the traditional egyptologists think their theories are 100% correct is very arrogant.
Does this stuff have to be online for immediate access, or would ti tbe acceptable for it to be online in a very slow filesystem and be available within 1 minute?
I built a system using spectralogic Bullfrog AIT changers, and LSCI's SamFS system. It sticks metadata for the files on your actual disk, but when you request one of the files, it goes to tape and gets it for you. For 50TB (uncompressed), you would be able to get by for under $500,000. However, that's without mirroring tapes. Trust me, you want to mirror your tapes. I've had them fail before. Figure double the price if you are going to mirror. Also, I'm not sure if the new AIT drives are out yet that will hold 100G uncompressed. If so, this will bring the cost down.
I know, the system sounds sketchy, but it works quite well. Seek time is definitely slow, but once it finds it on tape, the actual transfer is quite fast.
Tell them it's a bad idea by dropping their sorry asses. ATT Wireless has what you're looking for, so does sprint.
I'm with ATT (GSM service), and I'm very happy with it. The coverage is kinda sketchy sometimes though, but they plan on having the same coverage as their TDMA network by the end of the year. If you're that worried about the coverage, they have the Siemens S46 which is TDMA and GSM and offers excellent coverage, wireless web crap, and lots of other features that aren't available on a TDMA phone. BTW, I think Verizon is TDMA anyway, go with the wave of the future and get yourself a GSM phone. Sprint's new service is CDMA 2000 which is technically superior to 2G GSM, however, it's unclear if most providers will support CDMA 2000, so you'll be SOL if you're in a roaming area. It appears that most providers in Europe are now considering WCDMA which is superior to CDMA 2000.
Look for a setting that's related to DMA and set it from 0 to 1 with "sysctl -w". You should be able to place the setting in/etc/sysctl.conf to make it enable it on every boot also.
Unfortunately, I don't have an OSX box to test it on right now, so I can't give you the exact settings. OSX is based on FreeBSD, and FreeBSD enables DMA by default, however, it's possible that apple found a need to disable it by default. Some drive/chipset combos have problems with DMA, and if they were unsure of which brands of drives or chipsets they would be using, disabling it by default would be the safe way to go.
I just bought a Samsung ML-1450 laser printer. They advertise linux support, and so far, I haven't found anything in what they advertise to be a lie. Of course, I haven't used up the toner yet, so who knows if it's only half full like some of the inkjet manufacturers have been doing. But I have to say that so far it's lived up to its specs, and you can't beat the price. I paid $230 for it.
Several people have mentioned the ELP laser phonograph that costs like $10k. There are some plans and kits available on the net for those laser listening devices that you point at a window to hear conversations inside. I wonder if one of these could be modified to read LP's. You'd likely have to get a more focused beam, and you'd need a couple of them to get stereo sound, but it might be a cool project.
Why do all the bullshit stories always come out of russia? Wasn't there some crazy story about a desktop supercomputer also that was developed in russia?
I've handled tons of computer parts without taking static precautions, and nothing has ever been damaged by it. However, if you're really worried, putting a little Downy and some water in a spray bottle and spraying down the floor and work area will make the area meet some ISO standard (forget which one). I read an article on it awhile back, however I can't seem to find it now.
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The text of the article... in case of/. Effect !
Yeah, because as we all know, the BBC regularly becomes unavailble due to the slashdot effect.
If you have some serious money to spend, take a look at proactiv.net. It supposedly takes a couple of weeks to learn what normal behavior is, and then alerts you when things get out of whack. It can help pinpoint problems pretty fast too. It's expensive, but if you have the money to spend, and it's not your own, might as well take a look.
Being woke up at 4am when they sent me the message, and a message disposal charge. And if they don't pay, I'll just take them to small claims court for the $30 registration fee. If nothing else, it will be hassle for them, and they'll have to pay someone to show up or they lose by default.
I just reamed ATT Wireless's ass last week for sending me SMS spam, for features I already have no less.
I thought there was a law somewhere that made it illegal to advertise to a consumer when that consumer paid for the communication medium, ala fax spamming. You can bet your ass that any politician that spams me will receive a bill instead of a vote.
My cell phone is the one thing that I haven't had to deal with solicitations on (except for that little ATTWS incident). LISTEN TO ME - I DO NOT WANT TO BE MARKETED TO. I don't care that you think your product/service/political party/penis pills are better than the rest, I don't fucking want them, and if I did, I would contact you on my own.
Wouldn't it be nice to get the cell numbers of these people that decided this was a good idea? I've got some stuff they just have to know about right away to improve their sex lives, enlarge their breasts, and make money overnight by working from home.
He's going to put the GPS in his server room? Ever tried getting a signal inside a building, you can't. You're going to have to buy a GPS with an external antenna connector and stick an antenna outside your building.
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iexposure.com is debian based. They aren't super cheap $10/month place though. But they don't throw 3000 sites on a single box either. I use them for a couple of sites, and haven't had any problems.
You could always go the ghetto booty route and just make symbolic links under the /all directory.
/media/mp3 /all/mp3
/media/audio has a subdirectory for each artist, but what if I want to browse by genre? I have /media/audio/genre/[classical,rap,jazz,rock,etc], and each subdirectory has symbolic links back to the artist directories in /media/audio.
cd
cp -Rl *
Do this for each drive. Or write a cronjob to do it once a day. This may or may not work depending on your directory structure.
I do a similar thing to make my music more "browsable".
Of course, once iTunes has Vorbis support, it won't really matter how the stuff is organized on disk.
ImageMagick comes with some command line utils that you can use to pull sections out of an image. Since you are scanning photos, I assume they are all the same size and have the same placement on the scanner. You could just write a script to grab 5 sections (or however many you are scanning) out of the image produced by the scanner. It won't automatically find the boundaries between each photo, but if you place them on the scanner carefully, you should be able to get consistent results.
The NetPBM package may have similar capabilities.
This may or may not work, however, I've successfully recovered data about 10 or 12 times using this method.
Find a working drive of the same model, take the electronics board off of it and swap it onto the bad drive. Typically when I have a drive fail, it's the electronics, not the mechanical portion of it. So far, this has worked every time for me, one was a Quantum Fireball, and the rest were all Seagate SCSI drives (some FCAL and some ultrawide).
If you had two disks fail at the same time, chances are it's the electronics. Once you recover the data, I would take a serious look at your RAID controller and possibly replace it. I had a bad RAID controller that kept frying drives, and once I replaced it I didn't have anymore problems.
My friend's dad bought one, and it was all fine and dandy. Until he woke up at 3am during a thunderstorm and saw the damn thing mowing the lawn. Anyway, he returned it.
Thanks AC for plagarizing one of my posts from the original story!
Where did you get you the NCK code for your phone? ATT locks all of their phones to their SIMs so you can't put a SIM from another provider in it.
I may be doing some travelling to europe soon, and I don't want to pay the 99 cents/min roaming fee, so I'm planning on getting a prepaid SIM. However, I need to get my phone unlocked first, and I don't wanna send it out. It would be nice if I could just take it in somewhere and have it done.
Voicestream(T-mobile) gives out their unlock codes if you've been with them for more than 3 months, but ATT has no such offering.
Back in 1960, the Russians developed the Ekranoplan. We saw it in satellite photos because the thing was too damn big to fit inside a building. It was over 2 football fields long, weighed over 540 tons, and could reach speeds of more than 500 knots. It could also fly up to 20 meters above the surface. Back in the early 1990's, we finally found out what that thing in the pictures actually was. Around 20 of them were built, but for some reason they cancelled the program.
There's a good picture and some info here. The History channel had a show on this thing a few weeks ago too, and it made me wonder why we didn't have anything like that. It's an unbelievably fast and efficient way to carry large amounts of people and cargo.
The government of Egypt did not build the pyramids, they just happen to lie within an area that Egypt currently controls. The pyramids were there well before the current government.
It's the same thing for other interesting unique things of the past. I wouldn't expect any government to object to scientists or historians doing non-intrusive research at sites like Stonehenge, the Lighthouse at Alexandria, volcanoes in Hawaii, or any other place or object which has significant historical or scientific value.
Notice I mentioned junk snail mail, however, I also mentioned spam, because if the spammer has your zip code and email address, they can send you spam which is targeted to you for the area you live in.
This was tried several years ago. The robot they used did not have a fiber optic camera, and was unable to see past the door, however, it did have a laser on it, and they shined the laser through the cracks in the sides of the door and were unable to see the dot, so there is some evidence that there is a large room behind the door.
The new robot has a fiber optic camera, and some kind of device which will allow it to see through up to 3 feet of rock.
One thing that kind of pisses me off about the whole egyptology thing, is that the egyptian government is pretty strict on who they let come and do work like this over there. If they don't agree with some of your views on the history of the pyramids, good luck getting a permit to do anything there. The history of the pyramids is very sketchy, and how the traditional egyptologists think their theories are 100% correct is very arrogant.
find a way to take address information, and create mailings based on Congressional Mappings.
So you want a solution to more efficiently send me junk mail and spam? Yeah, I'll get right on helping you out.
It's pretty amazing that over 90% of the posters think this is real or something. It's a JOKE. It's funny, laugh.
Now, for those of you who still think it's real... If you send me $40, I can tell you how to read women's minds.
Does this stuff have to be online for immediate access, or would ti tbe acceptable for it to be online in a very slow filesystem and be available within 1 minute?
I built a system using spectralogic Bullfrog AIT changers, and LSCI's SamFS system. It sticks metadata for the files on your actual disk, but when you request one of the files, it goes to tape and gets it for you. For 50TB (uncompressed), you would be able to get by for under $500,000. However, that's without mirroring tapes. Trust me, you want to mirror your tapes. I've had them fail before. Figure double the price if you are going to mirror. Also, I'm not sure if the new AIT drives are out yet that will hold 100G uncompressed. If so, this will bring the cost down.
I know, the system sounds sketchy, but it works quite well. Seek time is definitely slow, but once it finds it on tape, the actual transfer is quite fast.
Tell them it's a bad idea by dropping their sorry asses. ATT Wireless has what you're looking for, so does sprint.
I'm with ATT (GSM service), and I'm very happy with it. The coverage is kinda sketchy sometimes though, but they plan on having the same coverage as their TDMA network by the end of the year. If you're that worried about the coverage, they have the Siemens S46 which is TDMA and GSM and offers excellent coverage, wireless web crap, and lots of other features that aren't available on a TDMA phone. BTW, I think Verizon is TDMA anyway, go with the wave of the future and get yourself a GSM phone. Sprint's new service is CDMA 2000 which is technically superior to 2G GSM, however, it's unclear if most providers will support CDMA 2000, so you'll be SOL if you're in a roaming area. It appears that most providers in Europe are now considering WCDMA which is superior to CDMA 2000.
# sysctl -a | grep dma
/etc/sysctl.conf to make it enable it on every boot also.
Look for a setting that's related to DMA and set it from 0 to 1 with "sysctl -w". You should be able to place the setting in
Unfortunately, I don't have an OSX box to test it on right now, so I can't give you the exact settings. OSX is based on FreeBSD, and FreeBSD enables DMA by default, however, it's possible that apple found a need to disable it by default. Some drive/chipset combos have problems with DMA, and if they were unsure of which brands of drives or chipsets they would be using, disabling it by default would be the safe way to go.
I just bought a Samsung ML-1450 laser printer. They advertise linux support, and so far, I haven't found anything in what they advertise to be a lie. Of course, I haven't used up the toner yet, so who knows if it's only half full like some of the inkjet manufacturers have been doing. But I have to say that so far it's lived up to its specs, and you can't beat the price. I paid $230 for it.
Several people have mentioned the ELP laser phonograph that costs like $10k. There are some plans and kits available on the net for those laser listening devices that you point at a window to hear conversations inside. I wonder if one of these could be modified to read LP's. You'd likely have to get a more focused beam, and you'd need a couple of them to get stereo sound, but it might be a cool project.
Why do all the bullshit stories always come out of russia? Wasn't there some crazy story about a desktop supercomputer also that was developed in russia?
I've handled tons of computer parts without taking static precautions, and nothing has ever been damaged by it. However, if you're really worried, putting a little Downy and some water in a spray bottle and spraying down the floor and work area will make the area meet some ISO standard (forget which one). I read an article on it awhile back, however I can't seem to find it now.
The text of the article... in case of /. Effect !
Yeah, because as we all know, the BBC regularly becomes unavailble due to the slashdot effect.
If you have some serious money to spend, take a look at proactiv.net. It supposedly takes a couple of weeks to learn what normal behavior is, and then alerts you when things get out of whack. It can help pinpoint problems pretty fast too. It's expensive, but if you have the money to spend, and it's not your own, might as well take a look.
What are you going to bill for?
Being woke up at 4am when they sent me the message, and a message disposal charge. And if they don't pay, I'll just take them to small claims court for the $30 registration fee. If nothing else, it will be hassle for them, and they'll have to pay someone to show up or they lose by default.
I just reamed ATT Wireless's ass last week for sending me SMS spam, for features I already have no less.
I thought there was a law somewhere that made it illegal to advertise to a consumer when that consumer paid for the communication medium, ala fax spamming. You can bet your ass that any politician that spams me will receive a bill instead of a vote.
My cell phone is the one thing that I haven't had to deal with solicitations on (except for that little ATTWS incident). LISTEN TO ME - I DO NOT WANT TO BE MARKETED TO. I don't care that you think your product/service/political party/penis pills are better than the rest, I don't fucking want them, and if I did, I would contact you on my own.
Wouldn't it be nice to get the cell numbers of these people that decided this was a good idea? I've got some stuff they just have to know about right away to improve their sex lives, enlarge their breasts, and make money overnight by working from home.
He's going to put the GPS in his server room? Ever tried getting a signal inside a building, you can't. You're going to have to buy a GPS with an external antenna connector and stick an antenna outside your building.