Most of the time I've recorded something at a concert and uploaded it to Youtube, Google's (over-enthusiastic) algorithms have picked up on some 30 second section of audio.. then the owners have just monetized my video. So they get free promotion AND a revenue stream.
I'd argue recording a public performance like that is far more about preserving the people that attended's memories and the history of the event for the fans (as opposed to say, movie theatres where the source of the experience there is exactly the same as later home releases..)
I've discovered so many bands through finding fan footage of them it's unreal.. they will be stabbing themselves in the back.
Apple should be focused on making loud audio recording less prone to distortion and low light recording better (stuck with tiny lenses, then use the telescope array thing with multiple lenses to improve picture quality etc.)
Cheers for the heads-up. I don't think I'd use raid 5 in a newer array. No battery backed cache, just a UPS. Having said that it's been trouble free for 4 years so far.
It takes about 20 hours for the machine to rebuild the whole array, this is with WD/Seagate "green" (ie ~5400rpm) drives. Sadly you can't enable TLER on these newer ones. I was planning on growing the raid 6 to 15 drives.. but I may end up making another 10 drive array instead and retiring the raid 5.
rsnapshot seems to work pretty well for incremental rsync'd backups for me. It uses symlinks to maintain the older snapshots, to save on total filesystem usage. It can do rsync over ssh for backing up remote servers/pushing local vital data to a safe remote location.
Local backup server uses Linux software RAID for good measure (5x1TB RAID 5 + 10x2TB RAID 6).
You should check out the Norco cases. They're 4U rackmount units with 24 hot-swap HDD bays, designed to fit regular ATX motherboards. Very cheap for what you get (also include a ton of fans). The build quality is not spectacular, but for a home system where you're not doing a whole lot of swapping they're great.
^^ This. Having hotswap also makes a big difference when you start having lots of drives. I'm still using a Norco RPC-4020 from about 3 years ago, 20x hotswap bays.. with the backplane mounted (8cm) fans running at 5V. Makes it acceptably quiet.. a lot of the server grade hardware will be set to tornado mode by default, as who cares about noise in a datacentre.
Likewise, discovering Geeks in Space was a nice period, that I have some fond memories from. Even now occasionally something amusing will pop into my head randomly from one of those shows.
Maybe they'll have more time to work on some new episodes now.;)
Cheers for all the amusement over the last X years!
Where the hell is my 3840x2160 "cinema"/"retina" display? Not that I want the apple one (it's bound to have massive bezels) but it seems like Apple are one of the few companies that could drive production of these panels at the moment.:(
I've always wondered if a little trackball on a joypad instead of one of the analogue sticks would fix FPS on consoles, since all the games seem unwilling to support keyboard/mouse controls.. which is irritating as consoles have USB ports anyway these days.
Yeah, exactly. How can you penalise a site for which other sites are linking to it? At best, you just have to identify and discount spammy inbound links.
But Crysis never came out on the consoles, so it didn't run it "well" at all. That was part of their goal with Crysis 2, giving the engine the possibility to run on the consoles as well as PC.
No problem! EMP induced forced epileptic fits as they pass through the exit gate, to wipe their short term memories!
In all seriousness: you got a real sense of the fun that was had on set by watching the Smeg Ups/Smeg Outs out-take videos. I'm sure studio audiences had things like mailing lists and cameras back in the 90s, but they also had respect enough not to spoil their fellow dwarfers constantly.
While movies typically do this in a b.s. fashion, it is possible to create an "enhanced" still image using multiple frames of a video source. It is called Super-resolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution
Hurrah! I knew there was a point to recording all those Star Trek episodes onto VHS twice. I guessed that having two copies of it would mean I could use both sources to create a super-clean version one day in the future.. umm, not that I ever will.
My vote goes for: pump all the oil through a giant radiator which is cooled by a diverted river (or leave the cold tap on full and don't tell the water company!)
I was interested in how they dealt with the hard drives, which traditionally don't play well with submersion due to having breathing holes to equalise pressure inside and outside the drive.
Seems like they just wrapped them in a sleeve to block off the holes? I'm not sure that'll work too well.. all the modding projects I've seen do this either used SSDs, mounted the hard drives out of the oil, or provided pipes out of the oil attached to the breathing holes.
I seem to remember oil even got into a drive via the power/sata connectors too, which doesn't bode well. Good luck to them anyhow.
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of course England.. if it was one of the others THEN it would need to be specified :)
Most of the time I've recorded something at a concert and uploaded it to Youtube, Google's (over-enthusiastic) algorithms have picked up on some 30 second section of audio.. then the owners have just monetized my video. So they get free promotion AND a revenue stream.
I'd argue recording a public performance like that is far more about preserving the people that attended's memories and the history of the event for the fans (as opposed to say, movie theatres where the source of the experience there is exactly the same as later home releases..)
I've discovered so many bands through finding fan footage of them it's unreal.. they will be stabbing themselves in the back.
Apple should be focused on making loud audio recording less prone to distortion and low light recording better (stuck with tiny lenses, then use the telescope array thing with multiple lenses to improve picture quality etc.)
Yep, he's as bad as the outland revenue.
That's the fellas.
Cheers for the heads-up. I don't think I'd use raid 5 in a newer array. No battery backed cache, just a UPS. Having said that it's been trouble free for 4 years so far.
It takes about 20 hours for the machine to rebuild the whole array, this is with WD/Seagate "green" (ie ~5400rpm) drives. Sadly you can't enable TLER on these newer ones. I was planning on growing the raid 6 to 15 drives.. but I may end up making another 10 drive array instead and retiring the raid 5.
rsnapshot seems to work pretty well for incremental rsync'd backups for me. It uses symlinks to maintain the older snapshots, to save on total filesystem usage. It can do rsync over ssh for backing up remote servers/pushing local vital data to a safe remote location.
Local backup server uses Linux software RAID for good measure (5x1TB RAID 5 + 10x2TB RAID 6).
You should check out the Norco cases. They're 4U rackmount units with 24 hot-swap HDD bays, designed to fit regular ATX motherboards. Very cheap for what you get (also include a ton of fans). The build quality is not spectacular, but for a home system where you're not doing a whole lot of swapping they're great.
^^ This. Having hotswap also makes a big difference when you start having lots of drives. I'm still using a Norco RPC-4020 from about 3 years ago, 20x hotswap bays.. with the backplane mounted (8cm) fans running at 5V. Makes it acceptably quiet.. a lot of the server grade hardware will be set to tornado mode by default, as who cares about noise in a datacentre.
Er, no.. they didn't. It's LGA 2011, a new socket. Again.
Likewise, discovering Geeks in Space was a nice period, that I have some fond memories from. Even now occasionally something amusing will pop into my head randomly from one of those shows.
Maybe they'll have more time to work on some new episodes now. ;)
Cheers for all the amusement over the last X years!
Where the hell is my 3840x2160 "cinema"/"retina" display? Not that I want the apple one (it's bound to have massive bezels) but it seems like Apple are one of the few companies that could drive production of these panels at the moment. :(
I've always wondered if a little trackball on a joypad instead of one of the analogue sticks would fix FPS on consoles, since all the games seem unwilling to support keyboard/mouse controls.. which is irritating as consoles have USB ports anyway these days.
Computers are at Pakled level.
Yeah, exactly. How can you penalise a site for which other sites are linking to it? At best, you just have to identify and discount spammy inbound links.
But Crysis never came out on the consoles, so it didn't run it "well" at all. That was part of their goal with Crysis 2, giving the engine the possibility to run on the consoles as well as PC.
Don't they communicate by breaking legs and doing jigsaws?
No problem! EMP induced forced epileptic fits as they pass through the exit gate, to wipe their short term memories!
In all seriousness: you got a real sense of the fun that was had on set by watching the Smeg Ups/Smeg Outs out-take videos. I'm sure studio audiences had things like mailing lists and cameras back in the 90s, but they also had respect enough not to spoil their fellow dwarfers constantly.
PS: Rimmer is Lister's father!!!!!11
I think it'd make living next to a road like being in room full of students all being SMS bombed.
This is the future, come on - develop thermal proximity sensors for safety reasons, not a constant annoying sound.
This is deja vu all over again. First off, if it's not a chain of similar setups you have a single site problem - BLAM goes your redundancy.
Actually, it looks like it is a chain of similar setups. They have a second facility under a different mountain.
So this is a sex chat robot competition?
Round 1. After a few exchanges, somehow Suzettte got stuck into repeating exactly what the judge said for the rest of the round.
Maybe if the word was *uNF*?
That's because it's chat with a couple of features.
The principle of which is deleting what someone previously wrote and replacing their text with "I'M GAY!!!!"
Incidently the wave I used for one afternoon with some friends now takes hundreds of megs to load in a browser..
SHAKA! When the walls fell. :(
While movies typically do this in a b.s. fashion, it is possible to create an "enhanced" still image using multiple frames of a video source. It is called Super-resolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution
Hurrah! I knew there was a point to recording all those Star Trek episodes onto VHS twice. I guessed that having two copies of it would mean I could use both sources to create a super-clean version one day in the future.. umm, not that I ever will.
My vote goes for: pump all the oil through a giant radiator which is cooled by a diverted river (or leave the cold tap on full and don't tell the water company!)
I was interested in how they dealt with the hard drives, which traditionally don't play well with submersion due to having breathing holes to equalise pressure inside and outside the drive.
Seems like they just wrapped them in a sleeve to block off the holes? I'm not sure that'll work too well.. all the modding projects I've seen do this either used SSDs, mounted the hard drives out of the oil, or provided pipes out of the oil attached to the breathing holes.
I seem to remember oil even got into a drive via the power/sata connectors too, which doesn't bode well. Good luck to them anyhow.
What did you say?
White hole spewing time engines dead advice please.