Why don't you consider a pre-owned high-end RAID system?
If you're willing to pay even a couple thousand dollars, you can get a very highly redundant RAID 6 subsystem with high throughput. (or two, if you want to spend more.)
admin@jkoebel.net if you're interested in them. It may be more than you're looking to spend (free software...>=$2000+ RAID cabinets) but if you're interested, I'll work with you on it.
Cisco makes a WiFi IP phone...but, it does have to be within range of a WiFi network, and somewhere on that network, has to be stuff to make VoIP work.
It's currently about the same price as a regular Cisco VoIP phone is, but it can move away from the desk (i.e. anywhere in the company, not just in the cube.)
" " even home schooled children are looked at strangely " "
Good. I hope nobody ever has to experience being home schooled, ever again. I was home schooled for around 8 years, and hated every minute of it...and then didn't know what to do with myself when I finally got out of it and went to a public high school, and nearly committed suicide.
I honestly do consider the GPL to be an unenforceable license, and hence, it must be void.
FSF has no central body to orchestrate copyright stuff, as MS does for its massive body of software (the BSA + Microsoft Anti-Piracy), etc.
Plus, I don't think that the "viral" components of it could even hold up under 5 minutes of court scruteny. It seems all too far-fetched for me.
I was a huge supporter of the GPL, until I got more into computing, and support it less now a days. The BSD/Apache/LGPL-style non-viral licenses are more to my liking.
A client of mine, was a former Pratt & Whitney rocket scientist. He invented control systems and fuel systems for around a dozen rockets/engines, and has about 5 patents to his credit -- all for his employer.
He's got plaques to prove it, but that's about it. And he seemed pretty damn proud to have those, and loved explaining when I asked about them.
*Shrug* Was pretty cool to me...they don't *have* to give you anything.
Infared (Heat) and Infared (Light) are two different things.
The former is "far infared" (more far away from the visible-light region of the EM spectrum) and the later is "near infared" (closer to the visible-light region of the EM spectrum)
In order for a CCD camera to detect *heat* infared, you'd have to heat the thing up to the point where the metal would be pretty damn close to glowing -- and at that point, it's releasing visible light/near-IR also, so it's a moot point.
Your hands and PC are *not* releasing the same kind of IR energy that is talked about in this article. If it were possible to control release of such energy, then we'd have heat rays.
X10 the home automation system, and X10 the company that hawks cameras in popunder advertisements, are two different things.
In this case, X10 Home Automation is a communication protocol/standard that allows for remote control of stuff...and the X10 company, ripped the name off.
Google should just ignore the French court decision, seeing as how they are not bound by French law, not having an operating presence except over the Internet, in France.
the 3400A printer, is too slow to take data from an Ethernet print server that Intermet makes, because of it's processor. It's a serial or parallel interface, data rate for the serial is max 128 kbit/sec.
It's built like a tank and weighs about as much...Gets around 10,000 pages/toner cartridge, costing $150/cartridge, that's $0.015 / page. INSANELY EFFICIENT!
Works perfect on Windows 2003 Enterprise Server as a shared printer...been used on an old IBM Microchannel PS/2, a 386 PC, a Pentium 100, an AMD 450, an AMD 750, and now, an Intel 2.5GHz as my server. I 3 it.
a USB 1.x device on a USB 2 chain will force every device on that chain to run at USB 1.x speeds.
A slow-speed USB 2 device will allow the other devices to transfer at their appropriate specified speeds (full speed, high speed, low speed) without effect.
I don't find about $12/cd (cost at Circuit City or Best Buy) to be that horrible...and even the $15/cd from Spec's Music or FYE, isn't *horrible.*
The only CD I haven't purchased because of cost, is A Perfect Circle...set at $19.95, and been at that price since it came out like 4 years ago, it's unreasonable.
I hope they sue some indie artist who has his own music up on P2P networks...and get slapped with a malicious prosecution lawsuit, or worse, right back.
Courts don't take kindly to malicious prosecution...
Publish the patch redistributable as a GPO in any Active Directory network, it will be automatically installed the next time someone logs on to that station.
>> If I buy a CD and it gets scratched/damaged, I have every right to download a replacement.
Yes. You do.
>> A 14 year old kid downloading an mp3 in his room is not a menace to society. They can sue that kid all they want, but you do think he's gonna buy another CD in his life? Hell no.
But he's still breaking the law. It's just as illegal to posess infringing material as it is to share it.
First we cry foul when companys sued and tried to regulate Internet Service Providers, into requiring them to keep the laws for their users.
Then, they became something of a "common carrier."
Now, RIAA is actually going after the people *who are breaking the law* and yet you are still complaining about it?
So what if its some 14-year-old kid in his house downloading the latest MP3 from his favorite band. It's still *breaking federal law* and, under that law, allows monetary damages to be collected by the person whose copyright was infringed.
This right is executed all the time in copyright infringement cases; if it didn't exist, nobody would protect their IP. IP violation fines are the deterrant to copying protected works. Just because the kid isn't even legally an adult yet, doesn't mean he can't break the law just the same.
Federal law allows up to $150,000 / violation. A violation is one infringed work (i.e. 1 unauthorized mp3 file. An "authorized" file is one you have permission to own -- either in writing by the copyright owner, for example, or because you own the CD and ripped it to your hard drive for easier listening.) In this respect, RIAA's $50k and we'll be done with it is more than reasonable, because *the government* would allow for fines of up to $4.5 million!!! for an amount such as 30 songs.
RIAA should produce better music if they want to maintain their customer base and prevent piracy. There needs to be more tangible benefits to purchasing the legal version of the song vs. downloading it. For me, this benefit is the fact that the CDs (1) sound considerably superior to the average 128kbit MP3 file (2) I can feel like I am at least pretending to support the artists I like, many of whom are on indie labels anyways, and (3) I get a physical product that I can take with me in my car to play on my car CD player, which doesn't like burned CDs; and I can make as many mp3s of it as I want, as long as I don't share them.
RIAA could adjust its business model, make it better to purchase the CD vs stealing it. Or, switch to a different modus operandi all together, and provide some new kind of operation.
I have, amazingly, not had as many problems with there being more bad than good songs on albums I buy for even as much as $15/ea. Sure, I seldom do like *every* song, but usually I do like about 2/3 of them.
Liking every song on an average of 13 tracks, works out to just over $1/license/song. About $1.10/license/song generally.
That's not too bad at all...In my opinion.
Granted, if I was buying "per-song" I'd buy only about $1.00/max/license/song each. but that's buying individually...package deal, well, thats how it is right now.
Circuit City CDs seem to be priced lower than most "music" stores....by about $3 or so.
I buy my CDs and rip them into 320k CBR MP3s, and don't share them...but I prefer MP3 music to physical CDs, because you can have more of it in a given physical location.
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AIM Server-Side buddy lists, block lists, and alerts. Been around for a while, don't know about since before 2001 though.
I'm writing letters to my U.S. Senators about this issue...if it raises a few eyebrows, mission accomplished.
Yes, I said writing and letters. I am going to mail dead trees to them.
Why don't you consider a pre-owned high-end RAID system?
If you're willing to pay even a couple thousand dollars, you can get a very highly redundant RAID 6 subsystem with high throughput. (or two, if you want to spend more.)
admin@jkoebel.net if you're interested in them. It may be more than you're looking to spend (free software...>=$2000+ RAID cabinets) but if you're interested, I'll work with you on it.
Cisco makes a WiFi IP phone...but, it does have to be within range of a WiFi network, and somewhere on that network, has to be stuff to make VoIP work.
It's currently about the same price as a regular Cisco VoIP phone is, but it can move away from the desk (i.e. anywhere in the company, not just in the cube.)
How about, divide profit by 2, then divide that by the # of people to get a bonus?
I think that $500/person would be quite acceptable...
I use Dreamweaver to create the "stripped HTML" pages I use, as the backend of my php-driven site.
I don't feel like mucking around in Notepad/PFE to write my content. That's for writing my scripts, the most important part.
Content is done fine with a WYSIWYG editor.
That doesn't make me a luser, however.
I've got a couple of StorageTek 9393-600 DASD devices that are 630GB of storage in RAID 6 for sale...
admin@jkoebel.net if you are interested or want more information. They're pulls from the local school district datacenter, they weren't big enough.
Crimethink, Goldstein. Crimethink.
" " even home schooled children are looked at strangely " "
Good. I hope nobody ever has to experience being home schooled, ever again. I was home schooled for around 8 years, and hated every minute of it...and then didn't know what to do with myself when I finally got out of it and went to a public high school, and nearly committed suicide.
Just my $0.02.
I honestly do consider the GPL to be an unenforceable license, and hence, it must be void.
FSF has no central body to orchestrate copyright stuff, as MS does for its massive body of software (the BSA + Microsoft Anti-Piracy), etc.
Plus, I don't think that the "viral" components of it could even hold up under 5 minutes of court scruteny. It seems all too far-fetched for me.
I was a huge supporter of the GPL, until I got more into computing, and support it less now a days. The BSD/Apache/LGPL-style non-viral licenses are more to my liking.
A client of mine, was a former Pratt & Whitney rocket scientist. He invented control systems and fuel systems for around a dozen rockets/engines, and has about 5 patents to his credit -- all for his employer.
He's got plaques to prove it, but that's about it. And he seemed pretty damn proud to have those, and loved explaining when I asked about them.
*Shrug* Was pretty cool to me...they don't *have* to give you anything.
Infared (Heat) and Infared (Light) are two different things.
The former is "far infared" (more far away from the visible-light region of the EM spectrum) and the later is "near infared" (closer to the visible-light region of the EM spectrum)
In order for a CCD camera to detect *heat* infared, you'd have to heat the thing up to the point where the metal would be pretty damn close to glowing -- and at that point, it's releasing visible light/near-IR also, so it's a moot point.
Your hands and PC are *not* releasing the same kind of IR energy that is talked about in this article. If it were possible to control release of such energy, then we'd have heat rays.
X10 the home automation system, and X10 the company that hawks cameras in popunder advertisements, are two different things.
In this case, X10 Home Automation is a communication protocol/standard that allows for remote control of stuff...and the X10 company, ripped the name off.
Google should just ignore the French court decision, seeing as how they are not bound by French law, not having an operating presence except over the Internet, in France.
What are they going to do about it?
the 3400A printer, is too slow to take data from an Ethernet print server that Intermet makes, because of it's processor. It's a serial or parallel interface, data rate for the serial is max 128 kbit/sec.
Thanks for the help everyone.
IBM 4019/E laser printer from 1989.
It's built like a tank and weighs about as much...Gets around 10,000 pages/toner cartridge, costing $150/cartridge, that's $0.015 / page. INSANELY EFFICIENT!
Works perfect on Windows 2003 Enterprise Server as a shared printer...been used on an old IBM Microchannel PS/2, a 386 PC, a Pentium 100, an AMD 450, an AMD 750, and now, an Intel 2.5GHz as my server. I 3 it.
a USB 1.x device on a USB 2 chain will force every device on that chain to run at USB 1.x speeds.
A slow-speed USB 2 device will allow the other devices to transfer at their appropriate specified speeds (full speed, high speed, low speed) without effect.
You're supposed to capitalize Unix because it is a proper name of an operating system.
Would you rather me not ever capitalize linux for the same reason you don't capitalize Unix?
I don't find about $12/cd (cost at Circuit City or Best Buy) to be that horrible...and even the $15/cd from Spec's Music or FYE, isn't *horrible.*
The only CD I haven't purchased because of cost, is A Perfect Circle...set at $19.95, and been at that price since it came out like 4 years ago, it's unreasonable.
I hope they sue some indie artist who has his own music up on P2P networks...and get slapped with a malicious prosecution lawsuit, or worse, right back.
Courts don't take kindly to malicious prosecution...
Publish the patch redistributable as a GPO in any Active Directory network, it will be automatically installed the next time someone logs on to that station.
>> If I buy a CD and it gets scratched/damaged, I have every right to download a replacement.
Yes. You do.
>> A 14 year old kid downloading an mp3 in his room is not a menace to society. They can sue that kid all they want, but you do think he's gonna buy another CD in his life? Hell no.
But he's still breaking the law. It's just as illegal to posess infringing material as it is to share it.
First we cry foul when companys sued and tried to regulate Internet Service Providers, into requiring them to keep the laws for their users.
Then, they became something of a "common carrier."
Now, RIAA is actually going after the people *who are breaking the law* and yet you are still complaining about it?
So what if its some 14-year-old kid in his house downloading the latest MP3 from his favorite band. It's still *breaking federal law* and, under that law, allows monetary damages to be collected by the person whose copyright was infringed.
This right is executed all the time in copyright infringement cases; if it didn't exist, nobody would protect their IP. IP violation fines are the deterrant to copying protected works. Just because the kid isn't even legally an adult yet, doesn't mean he can't break the law just the same.
Federal law allows up to $150,000 / violation. A violation is one infringed work (i.e. 1 unauthorized mp3 file. An "authorized" file is one you have permission to own -- either in writing by the copyright owner, for example, or because you own the CD and ripped it to your hard drive for easier listening.) In this respect, RIAA's $50k and we'll be done with it is more than reasonable, because *the government* would allow for fines of up to $4.5 million!!! for an amount such as 30 songs.
RIAA should produce better music if they want to maintain their customer base and prevent piracy. There needs to be more tangible benefits to purchasing the legal version of the song vs. downloading it. For me, this benefit is the fact that the CDs (1) sound considerably superior to the average 128kbit MP3 file (2) I can feel like I am at least pretending to support the artists I like, many of whom are on indie labels anyways, and (3) I get a physical product that I can take with me in my car to play on my car CD player, which doesn't like burned CDs; and I can make as many mp3s of it as I want, as long as I don't share them.
RIAA could adjust its business model, make it better to purchase the CD vs stealing it. Or, switch to a different modus operandi all together, and provide some new kind of operation.
Seems fair enough to me. $1 per song.
I have, amazingly, not had as many problems with there being more bad than good songs on albums I buy for even as much as $15/ea. Sure, I seldom do like *every* song, but usually I do like about 2/3 of them.
Liking every song on an average of 13 tracks, works out to just over $1/license/song. About $1.10/license/song generally.
That's not too bad at all...In my opinion.
Granted, if I was buying "per-song" I'd buy only about $1.00/max/license/song each. but that's buying individually...package deal, well, thats how it is right now.
Circuit City CDs seem to be priced lower than most "music" stores....by about $3 or so.
I buy my CDs and rip them into 320k CBR MP3s, and don't share them...but I prefer MP3 music to physical CDs, because you can have more of it in a given physical location.