My main server used to be a Cyrix M2-300. I've since upped the chip to a k6-2 500, but there's really no difference when all you're doing is sharing files...
I think the oldest system I have at home in "running" condition is an old pentium 166. Heck, my firewall is a rock solid Pentium Pro 200. I just can't kill it.
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Hmmm. How many miles are on it? Does it have the rear-facing back seat?
Actually, I'm in Columbus as well, but the first time I saw the first "trunk monkey" ad, it was for a non-columbus dealership -- I believe these are made for all Chevy dealerships around the country... (in the first one I saw, the licence plate didn't read "byers")
I don't think that there's any way that your server is operating on only 40 watts... unless the drives are spun down, and the processors (2) are doing absolutely nothing.
If I recall, an Athlon can dissipate up to 80 watts of power, depending on the model. So, since this is a server, it's probably in the 50-80 watt range -- per processor, running full tilt. So the processors take more than just 40 watts themselves to run....
Also, the average amplifier pulls a little less than a third of it's output rating? Meaning when it's not maxed? As far as any type of amplifier is concerned, you can't amplify an input signal without having loss of input power.
I actually agree on this point -- it took me a while (not 2-3 minutes searching in google or on sourceforge) to find a suitable backup program so that I could convert my Win98SE backup machine to Linux (dds3 drive).
I ended up going with Arkeia Light, because of the interface. Once I realized how to use the software (a little daunting because of the "enterprise" feel for something that I only needed "user" feel for) I realized that I could replace the box.
A lot of what I read about other projects is either to just suck it up and use tar, or use Amanda (which doesn't span tapes...???!!!)... no real solution out there that I found other than Arkeia had a real GUI interface to it.
And let's face it. If we don't give a good, usable interface to the users, they will not want to switch. I'm as comfortable on the command line as everyone else, but there are some tasks I just want the machine to do without me having to read too much documentation.
You bring up an interesting point. I just saw another page stating that in regular use (one charge every 2 days or so) the battery should theoretically last about 2-3 years... Now I know that Apple sells a "battery pack" add on that allows you to add 2 AA cells to lengthen the time between charges.... this would ptobably have the nice side effect of extending the time between failures of the main battery... barring that the same usage patterns are employed...
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You'd think that 1/2 of the posts would'nt be like this....
I browsed their site, but none of the "High Bias" tape appears to be metal (type IV)... it's all Type II.
I was actually more interested in the disappearance of the Metal format from the normal places -- Media Play, Best Buy, things like that. They used to be fairly prevalent, but nowadays they're all but forgotten....
I wonder why that is. Metal Tapes always seemed to have a better S/N, as well as a better frequency range.... Coupled with a high end deck, you could get true 20hz-20khz (+ or -3db) and a s/n of around 85 with dolby S and hx-pro.....
Does anyone make "metal" type IV tape anymore? In my taping years, that was all I would ever buy... I never was graced with a Dolby S deck, but Dolby C with HX-PRO and a metal tape would always result in a pretty clean sound to me....
But I noticed as the years went on, metal tape seemed to disappear from the shelves. I've still got some Maxell and Sony Metal tapes lying around with no deck to play them in.... kinda funny that I haven't thrown them out yet...
That's pretty funny. You rant and rave about how people shouldn't fight about their video card, and then have to make me feel like I'm falling behind with my meager ti4200.
I know it doesn't look that good, but honestly, the picture looks as if the camera wasn't held all too steady during the shot...
And with all of the distance that was taken in that photo, it would be almost impossible for someone to hold that camera still enough to get a reasonably crisp picture out of it.... Heck, even on good cameras (I consider my A70 to at least be decent) you have to be pretty darn still to shoot in sunlight without blur....
I've not used OGG much, other than to say "wow, that's kinda cool"... all of my collection is in MP3 format, now more a requirement than ever since I have a cd player in my car that plays MP3's. The only reason I'm a bit of a snob on bitrates is that over the years, I've encoded higher and higher. Why? Faster machines.
When I had a p133, I'd encode at 128 and be ecstatic that I could have so many songs. Eventually it crept up to 160, but depending on the enocder it would create washing effects (bladeenc was my tool of choice then) so I upped it to 192.
Once I got a solid file server, 256cbr was the way to go. And I'll admit, between 256 and 320, I can't tell the difference on most music. But, on certain songs I have, I actually can hear the difference between a 192 and a 256... therefore, I figure if I need to encode in MP3 format to save some space, but not a lot of space, then I'll encode as high as I can with VBR, but still allow for rates as low as 192....
MP3's don't appear to lose quality with the higher rates, at least not to my ears. Again, I can't say about OGG since I've not used it in a long long time.
I disable the lowpass filter since I can actually detect (even with my 28 year old ears) sounds in the 18-19khz range. Granted, it probably wouldn't be enough to make that much of a difference, but I'm glad to know I have the option to leave that in the compressed version. Since I'm using insanely high rates, it isn't causing a problem (other than using maybe 30% more high rate frames) under VBR.
Put it this way -- All of my CD's are sitting in my entertainment center, most of which have only been played once -- to rip. I consider a burned cd of my ripped discs to be very close to the original -- so much that I can't tell. And that's the key to what I want in any compressed audio format -- make the compression transparent.
But with an 80GB disk, that resulting file would take 80GB (or more)... is there a way to stream it directly to "bzip2" to get the compression on the fly, so to speak?
I'd hate to try to image my drive, when it's 1/2 the size of my largest drive in my fileserver, not to mention the fact that I don't have that much space free....
a T1 could never feed a 22GB file in 2 minutes. And a T1 really isn't large. I get T1 size bandwidth (sometimes 2-3x that) at home on a cable modem. Given, it's one way, but depending on the host (microsoft is a nice test) I can grab stuff at 300KB/s (notice the big "B").. which is approx. 2 T1's of data a second.
I can actually back you up on this with real world experience.
Just for grins (since my older motherboard supported it), I had a 7200rpm maxtor 30gb. Thought, hmmm, can do raid 0 - and get better performance.
Bought a 7200rpm seagate -- performance dropped through the floor. Why? Well, depending on where the data was, the seagate would have to reposition the head while the maxtor was still reading the same track....
Finally bought a similar maxtor to replace the seagate, and my performance did increase. Not by any amazing amount above the norm, but it wasn't dog slow anymore on reads and writes.
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My main server used to be a Cyrix M2-300. I've since upped the chip to a k6-2 500, but there's really no difference when all you're doing is sharing files...
I think the oldest system I have at home in "running" condition is an old pentium 166. Heck, my firewall is a rock solid Pentium Pro 200. I just can't kill it.
Hmmm. How many miles are on it? Does it have the rear-facing back seat?
CD's don't use FAT, IIRC.
Actually, I'm in Columbus as well, but the first time I saw the first "trunk monkey" ad, it was for a non-columbus dealership -- I believe these are made for all Chevy dealerships around the country... (in the first one I saw, the licence plate didn't read "byers")
I don't think that there's any way that your server is operating on only 40 watts... unless the drives are spun down, and the processors (2) are doing absolutely nothing.
If I recall, an Athlon can dissipate up to 80 watts of power, depending on the model. So, since this is a server, it's probably in the 50-80 watt range -- per processor, running full tilt. So the processors take more than just 40 watts themselves to run....
Also, the average amplifier pulls a little less than a third of it's output rating? Meaning when it's not maxed? As far as any type of amplifier is concerned, you can't amplify an input signal without having loss of input power.
I actually agree on this point -- it took me a while (not 2-3 minutes searching in google or on sourceforge) to find a suitable backup program so that I could convert my Win98SE backup machine to Linux (dds3 drive).
I ended up going with Arkeia Light, because of the interface. Once I realized how to use the software (a little daunting because of the "enterprise" feel for something that I only needed "user" feel for) I realized that I could replace the box.
A lot of what I read about other projects is either to just suck it up and use tar, or use Amanda (which doesn't span tapes...???!!!)... no real solution out there that I found other than Arkeia had a real GUI interface to it.
And let's face it. If we don't give a good, usable interface to the users, they will not want to switch. I'm as comfortable on the command line as everyone else, but there are some tasks I just want the machine to do without me having to read too much documentation.
But does it have HBO?
Actually, Kernel Crackers sounds like some KFC that's gone horribly, horribly wrong....
"with a laptop in hand."
That's not a laptop, officer.
You bring up an interesting point. I just saw another page stating that in regular use (one charge every 2 days or so) the battery should theoretically last about 2-3 years... Now I know that Apple sells a "battery pack" add on that allows you to add 2 AA cells to lengthen the time between charges.... this would ptobably have the nice side effect of extending the time between failures of the main battery... barring that the same usage patterns are employed...
That would be an interesting "customer service" feature...
Apple gets your ipod, swaps for a "new" or refurb, and then has a technician re-create the scratch marks on your new one, to perfection.
Talk about an amazing company!
God dammit.. you guys don't fucking read, do you?
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You'd think that 1/2 of the posts would'nt be like this....
awwwwl-riiight!
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I browsed their site, but none of the "High Bias" tape appears to be metal (type IV)... it's all Type II.
I was actually more interested in the disappearance of the Metal format from the normal places -- Media Play, Best Buy, things like that. They used to be fairly prevalent, but nowadays they're all but forgotten....
I wonder why that is. Metal Tapes always seemed to have a better S/N, as well as a better frequency range.... Coupled with a high end deck, you could get true 20hz-20khz (+ or -3db) and a s/n of around 85 with dolby S and hx-pro.....
Slightly offtopic....
Does anyone make "metal" type IV tape anymore? In my taping years, that was all I would ever buy... I never was graced with a Dolby S deck, but Dolby C with HX-PRO and a metal tape would always result in a pretty clean sound to me....
But I noticed as the years went on, metal tape seemed to disappear from the shelves. I've still got some Maxell and Sony Metal tapes lying around with no deck to play them in.... kinda funny that I haven't thrown them out yet...
Yea, that's a good link to open up while at work.
That's pretty funny. You rant and rave about how people shouldn't fight about their video card, and then have to make me feel like I'm falling behind with my meager ti4200.
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That just hurts.
I know it doesn't look that good, but honestly, the picture looks as if the camera wasn't held all too steady during the shot...
And with all of the distance that was taken in that photo, it would be almost impossible for someone to hold that camera still enough to get a reasonably crisp picture out of it.... Heck, even on good cameras (I consider my A70 to at least be decent) you have to be pretty darn still to shoot in sunlight without blur....
Just don't get any lint on the film... Could prove devastating to a picture if rolled up into the film canister, right?
I've not used OGG much, other than to say "wow, that's kinda cool"... all of my collection is in MP3 format, now more a requirement than ever since I have a cd player in my car that plays MP3's. The only reason I'm a bit of a snob on bitrates is that over the years, I've encoded higher and higher. Why? Faster machines.
When I had a p133, I'd encode at 128 and be ecstatic that I could have so many songs. Eventually it crept up to 160, but depending on the enocder it would create washing effects (bladeenc was my tool of choice then) so I upped it to 192.
Once I got a solid file server, 256cbr was the way to go. And I'll admit, between 256 and 320, I can't tell the difference on most music. But, on certain songs I have, I actually can hear the difference between a 192 and a 256... therefore, I figure if I need to encode in MP3 format to save some space, but not a lot of space, then I'll encode as high as I can with VBR, but still allow for rates as low as 192....
MP3's don't appear to lose quality with the higher rates, at least not to my ears. Again, I can't say about OGG since I've not used it in a long long time.
I disable the lowpass filter since I can actually detect (even with my 28 year old ears) sounds in the 18-19khz range. Granted, it probably wouldn't be enough to make that much of a difference, but I'm glad to know I have the option to leave that in the compressed version. Since I'm using insanely high rates, it isn't causing a problem (other than using maybe 30% more high rate frames) under VBR.
Put it this way -- All of my CD's are sitting in my entertainment center, most of which have only been played once -- to rip. I consider a burned cd of my ripped discs to be very close to the original -- so much that I can't tell. And that's the key to what I want in any compressed audio format -- make the compression transparent.
But with an 80GB disk, that resulting file would take 80GB (or more)... is there a way to stream it directly to "bzip2" to get the compression on the fly, so to speak?
I'd hate to try to image my drive, when it's 1/2 the size of my largest drive in my fileserver, not to mention the fact that I don't have that much space free....
"Mixing different manufacturers is a recipe for disaster (in performance, if not otherwise)."
Is there an echo in here?
What are you smoking?
a T1 could never feed a 22GB file in 2 minutes. And a T1 really isn't large. I get T1 size bandwidth (sometimes 2-3x that) at home on a cable modem. Given, it's one way, but depending on the host (microsoft is a nice test) I can grab stuff at 300KB/s (notice the big "B").. which is approx. 2 T1's of data a second.
I can actually back you up on this with real world experience.
Just for grins (since my older motherboard supported it), I had a 7200rpm maxtor 30gb. Thought, hmmm, can do raid 0 - and get better performance.
Bought a 7200rpm seagate -- performance dropped through the floor. Why? Well, depending on where the data was, the seagate would have to reposition the head while the maxtor was still reading the same track....
Finally bought a similar maxtor to replace the seagate, and my performance did increase. Not by any amazing amount above the norm, but it wasn't dog slow anymore on reads and writes.
Those aren't juice stains, by the way...