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Portable N64
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The Project has only just begun. Of course you aren't going to carry around that piece of wood with you. if you follow the progress of the portable NES you will see that it to started out laid out on the floor. Making sure all of the electronics and the lcd work before jamming them into a case just plain makes sense.
As for those of you who are saying "WHY?". I used to teach snowboarding with the guy who is working on this, and if you knew him it would make perfect sense to you why he is doing this.
-doon
Been Running NetBSD on Mine For a while
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Netbsd> Has had a dreamcast port for a while now. It runs great. Have been running it at home for a while. FYI....
Surely you must be kidding? This affect Computers running Microsoft OS & IIS, linux/apache is unaffected. Those lines you see are other people's boxes scanning your host to see if it is Windows and Vulnerable.
We are a small ISP and host domains and for some of the business in the area. We recently had a couple of them come to us with this problem. We don't want to install pop before smtp at this moment as we are rebuilding our datacenter. Since verizon dsl doesn't even offer static ip's to it's customers, we have 2 choices, tell the customer to use their verizon mail address and their @domainname address in the reply to field. Or us open up our mail server to accept mail from a/22.
When talking to verizon they told our customer that they should just host with them. Spam my ass.
-doon
Yes it would be of great benefit. Something that I spent a couple ISPcon's and cable shows talking about. In your follow-up article you mention that all pieces of equipment need to be multicast-enabled (which is a pain in the butt). A quick informal survey taken at the last couple shows, showed that the majority of vendors had no plans to implement multicast on any of their hardware.
While the isp's certainly do see a benefit once they multicast enable (I used to run a Sat Network that transfered 20-30mbit/sec of multicast traffic). We made pretty good inroads into the cable isp's and smaller dsl providers. The big guys had too much money tied up in equipment that wouldn't support multicast, or it wouldn't scale well on their network. They (management of said companies) didn't want to hear anything about multicast. It didn't play into their model.
Yes it would be cheaper in terms of bandwidth, but at the moment a lot of the equipment in use at the customer premise, or at the other end of the DSL circuit doesn't support multicast, so it wouldn't work anyway.
Having worked for and help start a company that did multicasting. There is not a lot of support for multicasting on the big DSL companies. Part of the reason is the way their infrastructure is built. Basically they run a pipe, (T1/DS3/etc...) out to a pop. Then they build atm pvc's (at real low bandwidth) to each one of their customers, all the way back to their noc. So their is no benefit to multicast enable their equipment. A couple of the bigger cable ISP's are either multicast enabled now, or will be very shortly once the DOCSIS 1.1 stuff roles out onto their networks.
If you are stuck on a non-multicast network and would like to play, take a look at livegate from http://www.live.com.
It should be useful in getting you connected.
You may get lucky with a smaller dsl provider, but most of the time, there aren't that many people that know how or care to enable multicast, and also not all of the Backbone providers support it.
This is all well and good for you. Who obvisouly know something about the web. Most customers are not as computer savy as the people that read/. (this is a debate that I don't want to get into). The amount of money that your avg ISP makes on any single customer is very low. You need to pay for bandwidth, modems, routers, etc.. And the big killer helpdesk. Also there is competition in most markets and anything you can do to get customers is worth it. Offering personal webpages and extra e-mail address for free (they don't really add anything to amount you pay (we have the mail and Web servers anyway:) ), but if you are a family
, and get an e-mail address for everyone in the family from isp-a, but you have to pay an extra $2.50 or so from isp-b, who are you most likely to go with, remembering that you don't know about all of the free options.
The same is true for webhosting and news servers.
As for caching, a lot of isp's uses cache's and transparent proxying. Helps cut down on those bandwidth bills.
I will aggree the wma/wmv8 looks awesome, but it is not a solution for live streaming. It is a multipass encoding solution requiring you to take raw uncompressed content and run it through the encoder and then stream it out of the server. For some more examples of really good video quality take a look at filmspeed (http://www.filmspeed.com) which shows what good preproduction and cleaning of sources can do to the finished product. I am a OSS kinda guy but hate to admit it the Microsost Windows Media is a decent solution if not the best. One of the main problems in streaming media is getting the end user the right player/codecs to use. Since the majority of desktops run some version of windows (which has the media player bundled with it) it is almost a no brainer.
we currently have about 15mb/s of content running 24/7 over our network consisting of 300/600k wm streams multicast.
Now if only Microsoft didn;t lock down their player so you can't extend it (Skins and viz don't count)
-doon
This comes from the broadcast televion side of things. Especially when dealing with the IOC(International Olympic Committee). They make tons of money off of selling rights to people in certain locations. So they are trying to enforce those rights. Meaning They don't want people paying money for the rights in the US, and then streaming it to Canada over the net. It is all about money (isn't it always)
I work for a company that uses multicast all over the place on a satellite based network, and we run into this all the time. The Mbone or multicast backbound is an adhoc network, built on top of the traditional internet, generally by building dvmrp tunnels between multicast enabled sites, allowing them to exchange traffic. More and more service providers are multicast enabling their network (this is generally a major pain in the a** depending on the equipment that you already have), because of the savings in bandwidth that can be achieved.
But I digress, Onto the question. What you need is a reliable multicast protocol. Most of these are based on a FEC(Forward Error Correction) scheme for making sure that all of the data gets to the intended procedure. You have programs like kencast that enable you to do this( there are others, but lately we are working on creating our own..) . One of the other posts suggested a Multicast version of TCP/IP. This makes no sense as TCP is a connection orientated protocal, whereas multicast is based on udp addressed to a class D internet address (224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255).
1) Windows Media does Multicast Streaming Better then Real.
2) At least to me the quality seems better at similar Bitrates .
3) It is also easier to have a "Entry Level" Person take over the mundane task of managing the server:) (Read I am lazy...)
As an Idea on how to get around this.
Do what xanim does. Have the developer sign an NDA and then provide the library as a precompiled one, binary only. While the OpenSource Zealots will complain. It will allow people with linux desktops to view WMF files.
All of this talk of IDE and no one has mentioned Code Forge? I bought this ide about a year or so ago, and find it very handy. It has support and syntax coloring for a bunch of Languages(such as c/c++, java, php, html, perl, etc...). It is fairly simple to use, comes with built in revision control. There is also a free version available. It integrates very well with ddd which IMHO is a very nice debugger.
For little scripts and the such I still use vi, or sometimes emacs (depends on my mood), but for big projects, I tend to use CodeForge. Just my $.02:)
I went, but due to some other meetings that I had on those days, I only caught the end of the show.
The part that got me was if you read the show program. There were a couple of big mistakes in it. One that caught my eye was the notes on CmdrTaco saying that he co-founder and contributor to slash.org. While those of us that are loyal readers, will understand, the people that wandered upstairs from the ebusiness expo might be confsed.
Also what is with all this "News for Geeks, Stuff that matters" That they used in the program.
Other then that, I am bummed that I didn't get to meet as many people as I would have liked to. There is always next time..
You know you're a redneck Jedi if: You consider your lightsaber the best bugzapper yet invented
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This is very true, they (PC-TEL) HSP modems tend to be very particular about who / what they connect to. Unfortunately they come in you average run of the mill e-machine. Since the public is generally in love with price over quality these days, I tend to see a lot of these modems. It is a shame they don't work well. I have always been leary of modems that have a minimum hardware req. And when the modem has a higher requirement than say a webserver, you know you are in trouble.
I would be very skeptical about running one of these in a box, I am a big fan of real hardware. The only good thing would be that we would be able to tell all the people that whine in #linux that yes your POS modem might someday be supported:)
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The Project has only just begun. Of course you aren't going to carry around that piece of wood with you. if you follow the progress of the portable NES you will see that it to started out laid out on the floor. Making sure all of the electronics and the lcd work before jamming them into a case just plain makes sense.
As for those of you who are saying "WHY?". I used to teach snowboarding with the guy who is working on this, and if you knew him it would make perfect sense to you why he is doing this.
-doon
Netbsd> Has had a dreamcast port for a while now. It runs great. Have been running it at home for a while. FYI....
-Doon
Surely you must be kidding? This affect Computers running Microsoft OS & IIS, linux/apache is unaffected. Those lines you see are other people's boxes scanning your host to see if it is Windows and Vulnerable.
-Patrick
I was mainly trying to say that Verizon's solution was to host with them :)
-doon
We are a small ISP and host domains and for some of the business in the area. We recently had a couple of them come to us with this problem. We don't want to install pop before smtp at this moment as we are rebuilding our datacenter. Since verizon dsl doesn't even offer static ip's to it's customers, we have 2 choices, tell the customer to use their verizon mail address and their @domainname address in the reply to field. Or us open up our mail server to accept mail from a /22.
When talking to verizon they told our customer that they should just host with them. Spam my ass.
-doon
While the isp's certainly do see a benefit once they multicast enable (I used to run a Sat Network that transfered 20-30mbit/sec of multicast traffic). We made pretty good inroads into the cable isp's and smaller dsl providers. The big guys had too much money tied up in equipment that wouldn't support multicast, or it wouldn't scale well on their network. They (management of said companies) didn't want to hear anything about multicast. It didn't play into their model.
Yes it would be cheaper in terms of bandwidth, but at the moment a lot of the equipment in use at the customer premise, or at the other end of the DSL circuit doesn't support multicast, so it wouldn't work anyway.
Having worked for and help start a company that did multicasting. There is not a lot of support for multicasting on the big DSL companies. Part of the reason is the way their infrastructure is built. Basically they run a pipe, (T1/DS3/etc...) out to a pop. Then they build atm pvc's (at real low bandwidth) to each one of their customers, all the way back to their noc. So their is no benefit to multicast enable their equipment. A couple of the bigger cable ISP's are either multicast enabled now, or will be very shortly once the DOCSIS 1.1 stuff roles out onto their networks. If you are stuck on a non-multicast network and would like to play, take a look at livegate from http://www.live.com. It should be useful in getting you connected. You may get lucky with a smaller dsl provider, but most of the time, there aren't that many people that know how or care to enable multicast, and also not all of the Backbone providers support it.
Hope this Helps,
Patrick
This is all well and good for you. Who obvisouly know something about the web. Most customers are not as computer savy as the people that read /. (this is a debate that I don't want to get into). :) ), but if you are a family
, and get an e-mail address for everyone in the family from isp-a, but you have to pay an extra $2.50 or so from isp-b, who are you most likely to go with, remembering that you don't know about all of the free options.
The same is true for webhosting and news servers.
The amount of money that your avg ISP makes on any single customer is very low. You need to pay for bandwidth, modems, routers, etc.. And the big killer helpdesk. Also there is competition in most markets and anything you can do to get customers is worth it. Offering personal webpages and extra e-mail address for free (they don't really add anything to amount you pay (we have the mail and Web servers anyway
As for caching, a lot of isp's uses cache's and transparent proxying. Helps cut down on those bandwidth bills.
Enough out of me, it is early...
-doon
I will aggree the wma/wmv8 looks awesome, but it is not a solution for live streaming. It is a multipass encoding solution requiring you to take raw uncompressed content and run it through the encoder and then stream it out of the server. For some more examples of really good video quality take a look at filmspeed (http://www.filmspeed.com) which shows what good preproduction and cleaning of sources can do to the finished product. I am a OSS kinda guy but hate to admit it the Microsost Windows Media is a decent solution if not the best. One of the main problems in streaming media is getting the end user the right player/codecs to use. Since the majority of desktops run some version of windows (which has the media player bundled with it) it is almost a no brainer. we currently have about 15mb/s of content running 24/7 over our network consisting of 300/600k wm streams multicast. Now if only Microsoft didn;t lock down their player so you can't extend it (Skins and viz don't count) -doon
This comes from the broadcast televion side of things. Especially when dealing with the IOC(International Olympic Committee). They make tons of money off of selling rights to people in certain locations. So they are trying to enforce those rights. Meaning They don't want people paying money for the rights in the US, and then streaming it to Canada over the net. It is all about money (isn't it always)
One thing that is important to note is that this assumes that one is going to be using php-3.x as the debugger hasn't been ported to php 4.x yet.
I work for a company that uses multicast all over the place on a satellite based network, and we run into this all the time. The Mbone or multicast backbound is an adhoc network, built on top of the traditional internet, generally by building dvmrp tunnels between multicast enabled sites, allowing them to exchange traffic. More and more service providers are multicast enabling their network (this is generally a major pain in the a** depending on the equipment that you already have), because of the savings in bandwidth that can be achieved.
But I digress, Onto the question. What you need is a reliable multicast protocol. Most of these are based on a FEC(Forward Error Correction) scheme for making sure that all of the data gets to the intended procedure. You have programs like kencast that enable you to do this( there are others, but lately we are working on creating our own..) . One of the other posts suggested a Multicast version of TCP/IP. This makes no sense as TCP is a connection orientated protocal, whereas multicast is based on udp addressed to a class D internet address (224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255).
Any way hope that helps...
-doon
I have no love for M$, don't get me wrong. But..
:) (Read I am lazy...)
1) Windows Media does Multicast Streaming Better then Real.
2) At least to me the quality seems better at similar Bitrates .
3) It is also easier to have a "Entry Level" Person take over the mundane task of managing the server
As an Idea on how to get around this.
Do what xanim does. Have the developer sign an NDA and then provide the library as a precompiled one, binary only. While the OpenSource Zealots will complain. It will allow people with linux desktops to view WMF files.
For little scripts and the such I still use vi, or sometimes emacs (depends on my mood), but for big projects, I tend to use CodeForge. Just my $.02 :)
I went, but due to some other meetings that I had on those days, I only caught the end of the show.
The part that got me was if you read the show program. There were a couple of big mistakes in it. One that caught my eye was the notes on CmdrTaco saying that he co-founder and contributor to slash.org. While those of us that are loyal readers, will understand, the people that wandered upstairs from the ebusiness expo might be confsed.
Also what is with all this "News for Geeks, Stuff that matters" That they used in the program.
Other then that, I am bummed that I didn't get to meet as many people as I would have liked to. There is always next time..
You know you're a redneck Jedi if:
You consider your lightsaber the best bugzapper yet invented
This is very true, they (PC-TEL) HSP modems tend to be very particular about who / what they connect to. Unfortunately they come in you average run of the mill e-machine. Since the public is generally in love with price over quality these days, I tend to see a lot of these modems. It is a shame they don't work well. I have always been leary of modems that have a minimum hardware req. And when the modem has a higher requirement than say a webserver, you know you are in trouble.
:)
I would be very skeptical about running one of these in a box, I am a big fan of real hardware. The only good thing would be that we would be able to tell all the people that whine in #linux that yes your POS modem might someday be supported
Just my $.02