The things you do to save a few hundred dollars on a Personal Video recorder...
I am trying to peice together something like the TIVO unit - I have a couple large HHD's, a motherboard that can do RAID, and a Matrox g400 Marvel. Not really a great gaming card, but it a fair job with MJPEG capture.
After waiting and waiting for drivers, I downloaded the final cut of the PC-VCR tools and drivers for Win2K - which holds the promise of getting over the 2M file limit I had in WinSE. What did they do? It is now a TV tuner with no recording. Way lame for a (at the time) $300 card that was bought just for that kind of thing. What did Matrox say? Hey, here is a coupon for $50 for one of our new shiny Marvel 450 cards that don't have hardware encoding, so no issues! Hmmn, only $170 more to get a version that does software encoding... I need a shower.
Yup, I was trying to use Win2K for this rather than Linux. Video4Linux might give me what I need for capturing, but I'm still learning the config and install stuff on Linux. (Got tomcat and apache to run, still struggling with Oracle... but getting close, I think). That, and my editing software is Window's based...
My wife just gave me that "your crazy" look when I vented to her last night - I know you guys care....
It use to be that simple.... Today, you purchase WinME with a new Dell/Compaq/most larger folks it comes with a neutered version of DOS. You can not build (without some hacking an emergency disk) a bootable floopy -> bootable (almost) blank HDD.
These days, most OEM's give you a recovery CD rather than a complete build of the OS anyhow. A fair bit of hacking let you install Win98SE in the past, not sure if you can still do that with ME.
I thought about ordering one of those $400 Gateway servers a few weeks back. Talked to the sales rep, and they would not sell me a copy of Win2K pro - only Server - since they did not have an image for that MB/BIOS combo. Grrr.
These "recovery" CD's make it real hard to get software you have licensed for a machine into a VMWare instance.
Always have the box physically secured. The suspect was using encryption, perhaps firewalls, etc. Folks with a boot disk can do wonders against most OS's - though I suspect they just put a keystroke logger between the boxen and the keyboard in this case.
This won't (probably) generate any profit - at least short term - so this (world according to me) is a great way to get funding for pure research when the VC's have no intrest.
Anyhow, the point of an orbital bomber? You really can not call back an ICBM once it is launched. Cruise missles are pretty slow, when you get down to it, and can be intercepted... (a big maybe on the intercept, perhaps - too much harpoon for me)
The real point? You get monies for pure research - you force anyone who cares to pay money for pure research to counter the new weapon. You hope that one day the technologies might trickle down. Sounds like a win-win for those who try to make a living in the sciences...
I suspect ease of reading and parsing took second chair to being able to stuff as much data into very limited storage and bandwidth. Limit your storage to a couple k or less, and lets see you make it easy to read meaningful amounds of info. This was spacecraft, after all.
Speaking of Anthrax - I remember a while back they found live spores after they soaked Anthrax in bleach and burried it. Could not find the NYT link, but did find this which talks a bit about the Russian site.
We think folks might have displaced a little radioactive fuel / warhead- it is way to easy to "lose" this type of payload.
So they spend money on -gasp- pure research. Good luck getting funding from a VC for R&D that will probably not pay out in the short term (if at all). If the Army has money for this kind of thing, more power to those still trying to scrape together a living in the BioChem / MicroBiology field.
For the same reason, more power to the next gen star wars - or even a Mars mission for that matter... beats them blowing cash on the really wierd stuff that defines "pork barrel".
The line between "bio-weapon" research and "vaccine" research is mighty thin. Tax dollars for this kind of research evaporated after we dodged any major attack in the gulf war in the early 90's anyhow. Even labling stuff AIDS research was not enough to keep very modest bills paid.
Sounds like under-clocking to me. If they can hit 1G at normal voltage, they usually can get it to run cooler, slower. Worked with the old x86 chips - slow them down enough you could get by with just a heatsink.
"This car is equiped with electronic monitoring, blah, blah, blah..." just like the stores. If it works for them, it should work for me.
Course, I think MN permits you to record if you are part of the conversation, so this is not an issue here (yet). Wonder if that would be enought to cover you in Massachusetts?
Thanks for the pointer to the second page. Two rust colored pixels, five if you go high-res black and white - not a chance of finding them on the space.com site.
For anyone looking, try this link. I missed the link the first time thinking that the island picture was it. Thanks for the pointer tetrad.
I can not remember meeting more than 1 or 2 computer "science" majors who did not think that they were l337, indispensable, genius, and central to the survival of humankind. Yet, they take 4 years of Java and consider it a degree!
A few years back, I had a couple years of Java and 5/10 years of C/C++. Very few interviews even asked about the C/C++, but were wetting themselves over the Java. Going into the way back machine again, I did the honors MicroBiology/BioChemistry with way too much math. These skills were worth almost nothing.
The real irony here is this is marketing at its finest. The best solution is often beat by the one with better marketing (cf. Amiga). Play the rock star, there are many higher level drones will believe it - and pay for it. Perceived value is very important when you go to charge folks for your work. Go ahead - build a rock solid widget for $200 and try to sell it to the "Enterprise". Mark it up another $50K and watch it sell. Go figure.
The second lesson, insult to injury, is the same morons who buy the genius act will look at somone like you as little more than an FTE. Learn the great games of court...
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The things you do to save a few hundred dollars on a Personal Video recorder...
I am trying to peice together something like the TIVO unit - I have a couple large HHD's, a motherboard that can do RAID, and a Matrox g400 Marvel. Not really a great gaming card, but it a fair job with MJPEG capture.
After waiting and waiting for drivers, I downloaded the final cut of the PC-VCR tools and drivers for Win2K - which holds the promise of getting over the 2M file limit I had in WinSE. What did they do? It is now a TV tuner with no recording. Way lame for a (at the time) $300 card that was bought just for that kind of thing. What did Matrox say? Hey, here is a coupon for $50 for one of our new shiny Marvel 450 cards that don't have hardware encoding, so no issues! Hmmn, only $170 more to get a version that does software encoding... I need a shower.
Yup, I was trying to use Win2K for this rather than Linux. Video4Linux might give me what I need for capturing, but I'm still learning the config and install stuff on Linux. (Got tomcat and apache to run, still struggling with Oracle... but getting close, I think). That, and my editing software is Window's based...
My wife just gave me that "your crazy" look when I vented to her last night - I know you guys care....
It use to be that simple.... Today, you purchase WinME with a new Dell/Compaq/most larger folks it comes with a neutered version of DOS. You can not build (without some hacking an emergency disk) a bootable floopy -> bootable (almost) blank HDD.
These days, most OEM's give you a recovery CD rather than a complete build of the OS anyhow. A fair bit of hacking let you install Win98SE in the past, not sure if you can still do that with ME. I thought about ordering one of those $400 Gateway servers a few weeks back. Talked to the sales rep, and they would not sell me a copy of Win2K pro - only Server - since they did not have an image for that MB/BIOS combo. Grrr.
These "recovery" CD's make it real hard to get software you have licensed for a machine into a VMWare instance.
Always have the box physically secured. The suspect was using encryption, perhaps firewalls, etc. Folks with a boot disk can do wonders against most OS's - though I suspect they just put a keystroke logger between the boxen and the keyboard in this case.
No, your right - go like hell indeed....
Anyhow, the point of an orbital bomber? You really can not call back an ICBM once it is launched. Cruise missles are pretty slow, when you get down to it, and can be intercepted... (a big maybe on the intercept, perhaps - too much harpoon for me)
The real point? You get monies for pure research - you force anyone who cares to pay money for pure research to counter the new weapon. You hope that one day the technologies might trickle down. Sounds like a win-win for those who try to make a living in the sciences...
I suspect ease of reading and parsing took second chair to being able to stuff as much data into very limited storage and bandwidth. Limit your storage to a couple k or less, and lets see you make it easy to read meaningful amounds of info. This was spacecraft, after all.
Not sure where I first saw it, but I think it was in a quotes section when I was digging for blowfish code.
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
(John Von Neumann, 1951 )
Take a look at http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/mctl98-2/p2sec03.pdf if you are interested in some scary - not ment to be fiction - reading.
We think folks might have displaced a little radioactive fuel / warhead- it is way to easy to "lose" this type of payload.
For the same reason, more power to the next gen star wars - or even a Mars mission for that matter... beats them blowing cash on the really wierd stuff that defines "pork barrel".
The line between "bio-weapon" research and "vaccine" research is mighty thin. Tax dollars for this kind of research evaporated after we dodged any major attack in the gulf war in the early 90's anyhow. Even labling stuff AIDS research was not enough to keep very modest bills paid.
Not to be confused with spilling coffee in your laptop - they call those systems 'DOA'.
It is a feature.
Sounds like under-clocking to me. If they can hit 1G at normal voltage, they usually can get it to run cooler, slower. Worked with the old x86 chips - slow them down enough you could get by with just a heatsink.
Course, I think MN permits you to record if you are part of the conversation, so this is not an issue here (yet). Wonder if that would be enought to cover you in Massachusetts?
For anyone looking, try this link. I missed the link the first time thinking that the island picture was it. Thanks for the pointer tetrad.
I still think those posters are some sort of sick joke - "If you look just right, you can see... wink, wink".
At least it would be expired by now... maybe not a bad thing at all.
Man, no wonder I get creamed (CS) when I try to game after work and putting the kid to bed. This job thing is getting in the way....
Of course, any power tool will do as a sander if used improperly...
I agree with you on the OEM efforts - Compaq and Packard Bell shipped some shells that gave WinBOB a run for its money. Shudder...
This was SOO refreshing to see. Well done, Adobe.
better check to see if they meet Cal. emmission's specs. I hear some of them are nuke powered too - right over their back yard.
A few years back, I had a couple years of Java and 5/10 years of C/C++. Very few interviews even asked about the C/C++, but were wetting themselves over the Java. Going into the way back machine again, I did the honors MicroBiology/BioChemistry with way too much math. These skills were worth almost nothing.
The real irony here is this is marketing at its finest. The best solution is often beat by the one with better marketing (cf. Amiga). Play the rock star, there are many higher level drones will believe it - and pay for it. Perceived value is very important when you go to charge folks for your work. Go ahead - build a rock solid widget for $200 and try to sell it to the "Enterprise". Mark it up another $50K and watch it sell. Go figure.
The second lesson, insult to injury, is the same morons who buy the genius act will look at somone like you as little more than an FTE. Learn the great games of court...