A little different from what you're asking, but here's what I did for a similar setup...
I picked up a discontinued Audrey from 3com and put that in my kitchen, networked through the powerlines using Seimens Powerline ethernet adapters. It mounts a SMB share from my Windows box (can also mount NFS shares) and plays my music through it's built-in speakers, or through attached computer speakers. There's a headphone jack on the device for external speakers.
It runs QNX with a full root shell, along with a web browser and other fun doodads. The mp3s play flawlessly (and there's a plugin for OGG) while taking up very little real estate on my counter. Anywhere I go in the apartment with a powerjack I can get to my Windows box. Wireless is also an option using a Linksys WEP11.
Best of all, my girlfriend loved it and wants me to get a couple more for the apartment. When not in [musical] use, it doubles as a digital picture frame.
This has been done many times over in the jamband scene over the past few years. Bands which allow taping at their concerts are sseeing an increasing amount of people who tape directly to their laptops with a mic and audio-in enabled soundcard.
If you're friendly with the tapers, they'll burn a copy for you right after the show. Once again, the music industry is behind the times. I've been watching this for several years now. The industry will probably do the same thing except attach a cdrw jukebox to it for mass production.
--Dave
We would use SPARC laptops as portable jumpstart servers. Since you can only jumpstart from a server on the clients subnet, it's much easier to bring this down, re-ip it, and start jumping then it is to wheel down a E6500.
I had the exact same situation about 6 months ago. I won, sorta. I simply said our industry is going through hard times right now and using OpenSSH will save your $500k in licensing fees.
We ended up compromising. They wanted vendor software, I wanted free. For the mission critical systems, we chose FSecure (fsecure.com) and for the high-importance and below (to include desktops), we went with OpenSSH.
Worked out well. With FSecure we also purchased Windows clients for the developers and if anything ever happened, they had the support they were looking for the vendor software. With everything else, OpenSSH did the job along with PuTTY on the peasants computers.
It goes back and forth./. and fark basically trade stories. I dont know how many I've seen on fark that came off slashdot a couple days prior (usually once the/. effect comes down, then we fark the server again).
Say what you will, but I've got nothing but good to say about Sun's support. If I needed a engineer, I got an engineer to talk to. If I needed a kernel team person, I got transferred to one. Parts were always delivered on time-- if not before the response window expired, they would call me to followup on issues, ect. All in all, I've had good experiences with 'em.
Ok, I'm not a programmer, I'm an admin but a zone is a zone.
First, it depends on what i'm working on and my mood. If I'm working from home, it goes like this: Pepsi or coffee, 2 packs of cigarettes, BIG ashtray, and (here's the important part), some Grateful Dead on the player.
If I'm in the office, I like the quiet so I wont be distracted. [this is the part that wont work for everybody], I turn off my hearing aid. Absolute silence, just me and the keyboard. No phone, no conversations, no nothing. Just turn my Ear off until I need it again.
Look at the charts. They go by Step 1, Step 2++ on down the line. Yeah, gov't employees dont make the most $ in the world, but contractors do ok. Up around my area (Ft. Meade) a unix admin goes in between $60-80k+ a year.
Lets see... all "protected" cds coming out can only be played on MICROSOFTS media player (those that can be played in a computer anyway, but thats another article..).
IIS=cmon, you know they're running MS.
MS shows up for a salespitch or something, pokes around, finds this server. MS reports back to RIAA about said server. RIAA slaps MS on the back and promises to release 5 new albums which will only play in WMP!
RIAA gets a million bucks and their rocks off, MS gets more market domination out of it.
I prefer using DC from neo-modus.com myself. Everything broken into hubs. I download lots of Grateful Dead/jamband music, and only in shorten format, so off to the SHN hub I go. You want Anime? Go the any of the *numerous* anime hubs. Star Trek, MP3's, Ogg, you name it there's a hub for it. Did I mention *NO* spyware?
This lesson was brought to you by the letter "Q" an the number 4.
Thats right folks. Think about it. With enough robot dogs and some typical/. tinkering, we're talking about nightly Battle Bots right in your own living room.
Here's a three page article which appeared in the Washington Post Magazine about a month ago. More in-depth then the 60 mins one and goes into the some details about the problems facing The Agency in the coming years...
Washington Post NSA article
I've had absolutely silent hard drives for the past 18 months. Four different drives, not a sound from any of them.
Oh...wait... thats cause I lost my hearing 18 months ago:)
dave@eyes# man sociallife
no man entry found
dave@eyes# locate sociallife
dave@eyes# which socialife
dave@eyes#/etc/rc.d/init.d/sociallife start
Operation failed
dave@eyes#
DAMMIT! I tried everything! Oh well... back to hangin with my friend Bash....
Slashdot Mirror
How about a visit to the National Security Agency's very own crytologic museum? NSA Crypto Museum --Dave
Novell must not have gotten that memo then.
--Dave
Couple other bits and peices to mention...
-The images come with Realplayer so you can listen to online radio streams.
-It has a wireless keyboard stored easily behind the unit (though never needed once running, everything can be done via touch screen)
-VNC viewer (never used, but it's there)
-Many people use this in conjunction with Misterhouse to control home automation also.
-CF card reader builtin for flashing a new image
--Dave
A little different from what you're asking, but here's what I did for a similar setup...
I picked up a discontinued Audrey from 3com and put that in my kitchen, networked through the powerlines using Seimens Powerline ethernet adapters. It mounts a SMB share from my Windows box (can also mount NFS shares) and plays my music through it's built-in speakers, or through attached computer speakers. There's a headphone jack on the device for external speakers.
It runs QNX with a full root shell, along with a web browser and other fun doodads. The mp3s play flawlessly (and there's a plugin for OGG) while taking up very little real estate on my counter. Anywhere I go in the apartment with a powerjack I can get to my Windows box. Wireless is also an option using a Linksys WEP11.
Best of all, my girlfriend loved it and wants me to get a couple more for the apartment. When not in [musical] use, it doubles as a digital picture frame.
Some sites to look over...
Audrey's on Ebay
AudreyHacking.com
www.linux-hacker.net Audrey Forum
Infinity flash image
Anyone who's ever seen 95, N.VA, in the middle of rush hour isn't impressed.
I've seen 80 yr old ladies flying faster then that.
--Dave
This has been done many times over in the jamband scene over the past few years. Bands which allow taping at their concerts are sseeing an increasing amount of people who tape directly to their laptops with a mic and audio-in enabled soundcard. If you're friendly with the tapers, they'll burn a copy for you right after the show. Once again, the music industry is behind the times. I've been watching this for several years now. The industry will probably do the same thing except attach a cdrw jukebox to it for mass production. --Dave
We would use SPARC laptops as portable jumpstart servers. Since you can only jumpstart from a server on the clients subnet, it's much easier to bring this down, re-ip it, and start jumping then it is to wheel down a E6500.
The corporate status of the KDE League, Inc., was revoked earlier this year
In a press release, KDE employees stated: "Ah Krap!"
I had the exact same situation about 6 months ago. I won, sorta. I simply said our industry is going through hard times right now and using OpenSSH will save your $500k in licensing fees.
We ended up compromising. They wanted vendor software, I wanted free. For the mission critical systems, we chose FSecure (fsecure.com) and for the high-importance and below (to include desktops), we went with OpenSSH.
Worked out well. With FSecure we also purchased Windows clients for the developers and if anything ever happened, they had the support they were looking for the vendor software. With everything else, OpenSSH did the job along with PuTTY on the peasants computers.
It goes back and forth. /. and fark basically trade stories. I dont know how many I've seen on fark that came off slashdot a couple days prior (usually once the /. effect comes down, then we fark the server again).
Say what you will, but I've got nothing but good to say about Sun's support. If I needed a engineer, I got an engineer to talk to. If I needed a kernel team person, I got transferred to one. Parts were always delivered on time-- if not before the response window expired, they would call me to followup on issues, ect. All in all, I've had good experiences with 'em.
Ok, I'm not a programmer, I'm an admin but a zone is a zone.
First, it depends on what i'm working on and my mood. If I'm working from home, it goes like this: Pepsi or coffee, 2 packs of cigarettes, BIG ashtray, and (here's the important part), some Grateful Dead on the player.
If I'm in the office, I like the quiet so I wont be distracted. [this is the part that wont work for everybody], I turn off my hearing aid. Absolute silence, just me and the keyboard. No phone, no conversations, no nothing. Just turn my Ear off until I need it again.
Still gotta have the Pepsi or coffee though.
Being deaf has its advantages.
Look at the charts. They go by Step 1, Step 2++ on down the line. Yeah, gov't employees dont make the most $ in the world, but contractors do ok. Up around my area (Ft. Meade) a unix admin goes in between $60-80k+ a year.
Lets see... all "protected" cds coming out can only be played on MICROSOFTS media player (those that can be played in a computer anyway, but thats another article..).
IIS=cmon, you know they're running MS.
MS shows up for a salespitch or something, pokes around, finds this server. MS reports back to RIAA about said server. RIAA slaps MS on the back and promises to release 5 new albums which will only play in WMP!
RIAA gets a million bucks and their rocks off, MS gets more market domination out of it.
Kickbacks?
I prefer using DC from neo-modus.com myself. Everything broken into hubs. I download lots of Grateful Dead/jamband music, and only in shorten format, so off to the SHN hub I go. You want Anime? Go the any of the *numerous* anime hubs. Star Trek, MP3's, Ogg, you name it there's a hub for it. Did I mention *NO* spyware?
This lesson was brought to you by the letter "Q" an the number 4.
--Dave
hehe... I dig that!
:)
I just take out my hearing aid and all is quiet
--Dave
.... someone sets it up to add Bin Laden's face on every enemy in the game?
--Dave
How about Geeks in Ghana? -Dave
Have google set as their home page when they bring up ye old browswer?
Or am I just weird like that?
--Dave
Thats right folks. Think about it. With enough robot dogs and some typical /. tinkering, we're talking about nightly Battle Bots right in your own living room.
--Dave
Here's a three page article which appeared in the Washington Post Magazine about a month ago. More in-depth then the 60 mins one and goes into the some details about the problems facing The Agency in the coming years... Washington Post NSA article
I've had absolutely silent hard drives for the past 18 months. Four different drives, not a sound from any of them. Oh...wait... thats cause I lost my hearing 18 months ago :)
dave@eyes# man sociallife /etc/rc.d/init.d/sociallife start
no man entry found
dave@eyes# locate sociallife
dave@eyes# which socialife
dave@eyes#
Operation failed
dave@eyes#
DAMMIT! I tried everything! Oh well... back to hangin with my friend Bash....
--Dave
--Dave
remotebox# setenv DISPLAY mybox:0.0
remotebox# netscape
Problem solved.
(ok, so its been awhile since I used the DISPLAY variable. My syntax might be a little off).
--Dave