And I've very rarely found the system to be unavailable. Someone else mentioned a "2%" maximum unavailability rate; I'd have to say fewer than 1% of my calls weren't able to go through. 'Course, this is only in my little corner of the state; YMMV.
This is for AT&T's wireless service. Long distance, now that's another story... I had to drop them for another company after they bumped me to a higher rate...
If you're not a lone coder, who is able to make up his own spec and make sure the software can do what the customer wants, the only time you meet the customer is when the sales rep has completely fubared the job, and he and your boss and the customer are all screaming for your head. This is a very common problem for large shops, where a middle man who can barely code is speccing the job out, and is why the spec winds up being revised every few weeks.
The main reason identd is still used is to prevent people from overcoming their own ban by finding and using proxy servers with either open access or closed access but with known passwords. There are lists of these servers available in various places on the net, and many individuals who have worn out their welcome and been banned from an IRC network have tried hopping on a proxy.
IRC servers prevent this in a few ways; they will actively test if the address a connection comes from has an open proxy server on the standard port and will automatically disallow the connection. This doesn't help when the proxy server is closed but is still being hijacked, though. Further, some proxy servers don't use the standard port, and it's not efficient for the IRC server to scan all possible ports, while an attacker has the leisure to find and use these servers.
By checking for ident response, only people going through proxy servers whose admins also run ident can get through. These are few and far between, and are usually closed, private proxy servers run by people who have specific need of them. Those few which are abused can be individually k-lined.
Well, in Stephenson's Diamond Age, that's basically what was happening, except one step further on... Nanotech was based on "feed" technology, where in order for a nanofactory to work it had to be hooked up to a source pipe. Since each pattern had a different number of atoms of each type, each pattern had its own fingerprint, and if objects were generated without the IP holder being paid royalties, or if the objects were dangerous, the culprit could be tracked down.
There was a new technology, called "seed" technology, where an independent bunch of nanos would not only act as a factory, but would also absorb raw materials by themselves. The powers that be were quite unhappy with their loss of control over nanotech, and were actively trying to suppress the new paradigm.
* Assembly of computer chips, atom by atom. * Reconfigurable computing -- use the silicon to its optimum.
If we can use nanoassemblers to create macro-sized objects, such as Stephenson's feed/seed does, then each item that comes out of the assembler (maybe in your own home, using the master template) will be absolutely identical to the others; no manufacturing errors, no worrying about tolerances, because an atom is an atom.
For that matter, if items can be made quickly enough, there won't be any assembly lines at all; instead, items will be manufactured as needed. No inventories (except of raw materials)...
An economy based on nanotech would be completely different from the one we have now, and IMO mostly for the better; but the transition is going to be murder...
Songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, responsible for such hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock," are among the plaintiffs and were in the courtroom Monday. The song writing duo said illegal copying of music and movies was costing artists millions and would ultimately stifle creativity.
Oh yeah, like anyone'd pay money for these songs otherwise... If anything, these guys are stifling the creativity of brand new artists by locking up the business of music in the name of the labels.
Songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, responsible for such hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock," are among the plaintiffs and were in the courtroom Monday. The song writing duo said illegal copying of music and movies was costing artists millions and would ultimately stifle creativity.
Oh yeah, like anyone'd pay money for these songs otherwise... If anything, these guys are stifling the creativity of brand new artists by locking up the business of music in the name of the labels.
If you want a separate computer encoding each camera and feeding it onto an IP network then yes, it's going to be expensive whether it's encoding to MPEG or Ogg Tarkin.
If you have space to put a PC with USB ports in a wiring closet, you might be able to get away with a cheap video encoder, like the one X10 sells, for $70 apiece. There is one problem with that sort of solution, however; I don't know whether or how well one can connect multiple encoders to a single PC. That would bring your expense back up.
It affects the nerve tissue, not necessarily just the central nervous system, and nerves pervade the body. Also, while it only seems to affect nerves, that doesn't mean that a virus or prion that causes it isn't present in other body tissue.
I just had the greatest idea for a new "P2P" network. It would be fast and free, it could handle music and video, and the RIAA and MPAA would have the damnedest time trying to control it.
I call it a "swap meet".
You folks pretty much all have DVDs and CDs lying around, right? You bought a few, or perhaps more prior to MP3's huge escalation in popularity?
Is it really worthwhile having them around any more, when you can keep hundreds of movies and thousands of songs on a cheap hard drive?
The idea is simple. Burn your songs into MP3s (or OGGs, or whatever, as high quality as you want), and your movies into DivXs, then take 'em to the swap meet. Find someone with some new discs, ones you're interested in hearing or seeing, and swap 'em, one for one.
Take 'em home, burn those discs too, and next weekend bring 'em back to trade for whole new CDs. Hey, you've got 'em queued up, ready to play, or even burn onto new discs for your stereo, what do you need more plastic around for?
If this gets popular, it'd be hell on the industries. How can the copyright cops prove you're not just swapping without recording copies, trading new discs for old? Will a judge really consider your attending such a meet enough evidence to issue a search warrant on your house? After all, they're legally produced discs, and you bought 'em or traded for 'em, fair and square.
After reading that article, I have a picture in my head of a doctor in surgery garb holding a pair of defibrillator paddles on a Cisco router and yelling "Clear!"
First, contact the EFF. They may be willing to help you fight any court battles.
If the EFF isn't interested in helping you, then re-encoding may be the way to go. If you still have the original, uncompressed video, that's definitely the way to go.
Use the DivX codec; it's free to use and produces good output. (Use the free version, not the "Pro"; you won't need the extra features.) Stick a link to DivX's web site on your page. I'd also include a note that MPEG isn't friendly, and that Acacia sucks.:-P
Replace your current notebook with one of these. It won't need "protection" like your current unit, and while it may be bigger than what you want, it'll also be tons more versatile to have the full computer mounted where you need it.
Because an error on the tape isn't a dropped bit; it's usually a big blotch of missing or irregular ferrite coating on the tape, and takes out a big block of bits. You need quite a bit of redundancy and good error-checking algorithms to fix this.
Data-grade tapes are screened for this sort of thing, though even that screening isn't perfect; for video grade tapes, where that blotch would merely become a blip on the screen, quality control is a lot less strenuous, and you might find strings of such anomalies, which would probably ruin any chance of data recovery.
On those VHS VCR tape backups, which were mentioned in another response, I believe the gizmo recorded triple-redundant data (each block written three times) in order to compensate for these sorts of problems. It didn't always work.
Tape backups for PCs have been around for literally decades, and they've always been problematic. I'd really have to recommend against using a MiniDV backup solution, especially one where neither hardware nor tapes are meant for data back-up. The transfer may be "lossless", but the tape may not be; a drop out on the tape that would cause a slight blip on the video would ruin your data unless you used a sophisticated error correction scheme (which would also use up a lot of the data space), but even a great ECC might not avoid the many dips that might be present on a tape meant for video use.
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And I've very rarely found the system to be unavailable. Someone else mentioned a "2%" maximum unavailability rate; I'd have to say fewer than 1% of my calls weren't able to go through. 'Course, this is only in my little corner of the state; YMMV.
This is for AT&T's wireless service. Long distance, now that's another story... I had to drop them for another company after they bumped me to a higher rate...
If you're not a lone coder, who is able to make up his own spec and make sure the software can do what the customer wants, the only time you meet the customer is when the sales rep has completely fubared the job, and he and your boss and the customer are all screaming for your head. This is a very common problem for large shops, where a middle man who can barely code is speccing the job out, and is why the spec winds up being revised every few weeks.
Only wizard's chess will be banned.
As taken from http://www.es.wapa.gov/pubs/files/2001_holiday_lig hts_fs_es.pdf:
http://www.foreverbright.com/
http://www.ccl-light.com/
Nope, ain't a lot out there.
I think many rope lights use LEDs. You should look into those.
The main reason identd is still used is to prevent people from overcoming their own ban by finding and using proxy servers with either open access or closed access but with known passwords. There are lists of these servers available in various places on the net, and many individuals who have worn out their welcome and been banned from an IRC network have tried hopping on a proxy.
IRC servers prevent this in a few ways; they will actively test if the address a connection comes from has an open proxy server on the standard port and will automatically disallow the connection. This doesn't help when the proxy server is closed but is still being hijacked, though. Further, some proxy servers don't use the standard port, and it's not efficient for the IRC server to scan all possible ports, while an attacker has the leisure to find and use these servers.
By checking for ident response, only people going through proxy servers whose admins also run ident can get through. These are few and far between, and are usually closed, private proxy servers run by people who have specific need of them. Those few which are abused can be individually k-lined.
Well, in Stephenson's Diamond Age, that's basically what was happening, except one step further on... Nanotech was based on "feed" technology, where in order for a nanofactory to work it had to be hooked up to a source pipe. Since each pattern had a different number of atoms of each type, each pattern had its own fingerprint, and if objects were generated without the IP holder being paid royalties, or if the objects were dangerous, the culprit could be tracked down.
There was a new technology, called "seed" technology, where an independent bunch of nanos would not only act as a factory, but would also absorb raw materials by themselves. The powers that be were quite unhappy with their loss of control over nanotech, and were actively trying to suppress the new paradigm.
Well, let's look on the computing side...
* Assembly of computer chips, atom by atom.
* Reconfigurable computing -- use the silicon to its optimum.
If we can use nanoassemblers to create macro-sized objects, such as Stephenson's feed/seed does, then each item that comes out of the assembler (maybe in your own home, using the master template) will be absolutely identical to the others; no manufacturing errors, no worrying about tolerances, because an atom is an atom.
For that matter, if items can be made quickly enough, there won't be any assembly lines at all; instead, items will be manufactured as needed. No inventories (except of raw materials)...
An economy based on nanotech would be completely different from the one we have now, and IMO mostly for the better; but the transition is going to be murder...
By wanting to be accurate about it, and opening a new browser window to Slashdot, while keeping the original on the article...
Wal Mart was still mostly deserted at 3AM.
Submitted under the wrong article. Sorry folks.
Songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, responsible for such hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock," are among the plaintiffs and were in the courtroom Monday. The song writing duo said illegal copying of music and movies was costing artists millions and would ultimately stifle creativity.
Oh yeah, like anyone'd pay money for these songs otherwise... If anything, these guys are stifling the creativity of brand new artists by locking up the business of music in the name of the labels.
Songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, responsible for such hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock," are among the plaintiffs and were in the courtroom Monday. The song writing duo said illegal copying of music and movies was costing artists millions and would ultimately stifle creativity.
Oh yeah, like anyone'd pay money for these songs otherwise... If anything, these guys are stifling the creativity of brand new artists by locking up the business of music in the name of the labels.
If you want a separate computer encoding each camera and feeding it onto an IP network then yes, it's going to be expensive whether it's encoding to MPEG or Ogg Tarkin.
If you have space to put a PC with USB ports in a wiring closet, you might be able to get away with a cheap video encoder, like the one X10 sells, for $70 apiece. There is one problem with that sort of solution, however; I don't know whether or how well one can connect multiple encoders to a single PC. That would bring your expense back up.
It affects the nerve tissue, not necessarily just the central nervous system, and nerves pervade the body. Also, while it only seems to affect nerves, that doesn't mean that a virus or prion that causes it isn't present in other body tissue.
Has anyone noted that Palladium could be used to completely secure the game's protocol, and make it practically unbreakable?
I just had the greatest idea for a new "P2P" network. It would be fast and free, it could handle music and video, and the RIAA and MPAA would have the damnedest time trying to control it.
I call it a "swap meet".
You folks pretty much all have DVDs and CDs lying around, right? You bought a few, or perhaps more prior to MP3's huge escalation in popularity?
Is it really worthwhile having them around any more, when you can keep hundreds of movies and thousands of songs on a cheap hard drive?
The idea is simple. Burn your songs into MP3s (or OGGs, or whatever, as high quality as you want), and your movies into DivXs, then take 'em to the swap meet. Find someone with some new discs, ones you're interested in hearing or seeing, and swap 'em, one for one.
Take 'em home, burn those discs too, and next weekend bring 'em back to trade for whole new CDs. Hey, you've got 'em queued up, ready to play, or even burn onto new discs for your stereo, what do you need more plastic around for?
If this gets popular, it'd be hell on the industries. How can the copyright cops prove you're not just swapping without recording copies, trading new discs for old? Will a judge really consider your attending such a meet enough evidence to issue a search warrant on your house? After all, they're legally produced discs, and you bought 'em or traded for 'em, fair and square.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/26/162622 5&mode=thread&tid=133
After reading that article, I have a picture in my head of a doctor in surgery garb holding a pair of defibrillator paddles on a Cisco router and yelling "Clear!"
First, contact the EFF. They may be willing to help you fight any court battles.
:-P
If the EFF isn't interested in helping you, then re-encoding may be the way to go. If you still have the original, uncompressed video, that's definitely the way to go.
Use the DivX codec; it's free to use and produces good output. (Use the free version, not the "Pro"; you won't need the extra features.) Stick a link to DivX's web site on your page. I'd also include a note that MPEG isn't friendly, and that Acacia sucks.
I think this is an ideal technology, that doesn't take up valuable bandwidth in the frequency range we use for radio transmissions.
;-)~
'Course, there are drawbacks... You have to stand REALLY still, in just the right spot...
I'd recommend a red Swingline stapler for everyone. Not only will it keep your employees happy, but it'll cut down on your fire insurance rates!
...until someone pastes the whole story into a Slashdot entry. Oh joy.
Replace your current notebook with one of these. It won't need "protection" like your current unit, and while it may be bigger than what you want, it'll also be tons more versatile to have the full computer mounted where you need it.
Because an error on the tape isn't a dropped bit; it's usually a big blotch of missing or irregular ferrite coating on the tape, and takes out a big block of bits. You need quite a bit of redundancy and good error-checking algorithms to fix this.
Data-grade tapes are screened for this sort of thing, though even that screening isn't perfect; for video grade tapes, where that blotch would merely become a blip on the screen, quality control is a lot less strenuous, and you might find strings of such anomalies, which would probably ruin any chance of data recovery.
On those VHS VCR tape backups, which were mentioned in another response, I believe the gizmo recorded triple-redundant data (each block written three times) in order to compensate for these sorts of problems. It didn't always work.
Tape backups for PCs have been around for literally decades, and they've always been problematic. I'd really have to recommend against using a MiniDV backup solution, especially one where neither hardware nor tapes are meant for data back-up. The transfer may be "lossless", but the tape may not be; a drop out on the tape that would cause a slight blip on the video would ruin your data unless you used a sophisticated error correction scheme (which would also use up a lot of the data space), but even a great ECC might not avoid the many dips that might be present on a tape meant for video use.