I've used a program which runs on Linux called Cycas for quite a bit of scale floor plans, but have found the interface frustrating and as a result never dig into 3D much and rendering at all.
Has anyone used both? Is SketchUp useful at all for something like a detailed floorplan, or just for big primitive, blocky structures? Is it really so unbelievably easy to use that it's worth booting into XP?
For the machines that will boot off the same install but need different peripheral drivers I think you could still get a common image. Just make an image, install to new h/w, add necessary drivers, make a new image. Continue until you have an image covering a significant subset of the installed base.
Don't forget to use ghostwalk to blow out the SID.
You're right. This guy is an independent design firm anyone can hire and his work for Samsung is significantly different from his Apple design. It was more an acknowledgement that Apple has done something unique by, if not creating, igniting the whole MP3 player market whereas Samsung is really just following Apple. Not just in making a similarly styled player, but by hiring the very same designer.
Does it support functioning as a generic USB mass storage device with a FAT filesystem? If I can't drag N dop (or cp/u01/music/*/mnt/z5), then I'm still not buying.
> How is it that a quiet company from Korea can produce great products that actually work
Gross mischaracterization. Samsung is huge, has huge resources. They've set their sights on taking a lead in consumer products manufacturing and they're exectuting well. Not suprising. How long has Sony been dominant now? Eventually inertia takes over, stagnation sets in. Oh, and lets not forget the pleasure a Korean business will take in popping off a Japanese business. Extra motivation right there.
Samsung is nicely positioned to provide high quality at lower costs due to the tremendous manufacturing capital they own. If they're smart enough to win on customer service (as you suggest) and design (or at least design replication), they will be at the top of the heap for many, many years.
BTW, I ended up with a Toshiba, but I agree with you on the quality of their TVs. I was very torn and my folks have a Samsung that's very nice for the price.
I addition to the other good points mentioned in reply to you, I'll add that Samsung is the biggest manufacturer of flash memory and depending on the month is the biggest or second biggest manufacturer of ICs.
While Apple contracts with fabs and buys storage from Samsung, Samsung should eventually be able to tool a line for their own products with higher efficiencies and offer like hardware for lower cost if this thing gets popular and production is fully ramped. At the same time they can keep pulling a Microsfot and rip Apples designs all day long. Real easy when you can higher the same designer even.
Samsung, again like Microsoft, will never be as hip as Apple. Apple will always have it's place in the tech world just as high performance or high fashion producers do in other industries. However, we will start to see some very worthy competitors as the designs become commoditized.
Most of the recommendations on here are for modern, tacky stuff. Fun stuff, for certain. However, if you are looking to start a collection of traditional watches, you should look at Oris. They have a very good reputation for creating high-quality, affordable, automatic watches. http://www.oris.ch/
If I were going to shop for a Rolex or, more likely, an Omega, this is where I'd go. Multi-thousand dollar discounts sometimes. You often won't get the manufacturer warranty, but he'll stand behind the watch himself. Many TZers (http://www.timezone.com/) have recommended him in the past and I've bought from him no problem.
I also find the IWC watches to be beautiful, technically interesting, and highly regarded. https://www.iwc.ch/
So, to take the above logic one step further: design a robust logging infrastructure. Just like any other part of the project, put together requirements and code accordingly. If you'll be doing high freq. logging/data acquisition consider implementing system resource monitoring into the logging infrastructure and triggering a failsafe (shutdown logging and *log* that you're shutting down logging) at certain resource utilization levels.
Also, consider the likely need for time synch within your infrastructure. Depending on how granular your analysis will be consider the need for further offset based adjustment of the time stamps. In other words, sometimes even with a correct ntp (or IEEE 1588, is anyone using this yet?) setup you can be a few ticks off. You may be able to identify an event within the system which you know executes simultaneously across components. From that you can determine an offset which can be applied to all subsequent events.
Anyhow, you may not need that. It's just something I've been dealing with recently for quite a different application from telcom.
The fundamental advice is just a repeat: log well.
The switch by TV journalists did not end the availability of 16mm film and equipment. The same will be true for 35mm (or other format) still film and equipment. Just because every wedding photog in America is going to be shooting digital now does not mean there will be no film equipment and supplies in the future.
Maybe this is just a Comcast thing. In southern Maine I've got the same deal. Just got an 1080i HD Toshiba 27" last weekend. Wanted a new TV and various desired features lead me to HD as well. Ok, I figured it would be nice to have in a couple years (last TV lasted 9 years). Well, happy me to discover I have all this HD content alread on my digital cable service.
There are issues. The TV has at least 5 picture size settings, but sometimes the HD content just won't fit right. Maybe a 780 broadcast? Well, the SD stuff looks nicer than it did on my old TV and the HD stuff, Discovery HD in particular, looks great, so I'm a happy purchaser.
I guess it's all a question of your frame of reference. Going from an almost 10 year old 20" TV with a seriously curved CRT to a 27" wide, flat screen probably made me an easy sell.
I've successfully bought from B&H numerous times. They are definetely not scammers and the deals on import film are great. Some equipment package deals are good too.
However, the customer service is pretty poor and I would agree that they seem to deal with my wife differently than me (over the phone). That said, they've always processed returns & exchanges including a refurb camera that was DOA. They just don't do it with a smile.
Tornado licenses (vxWorks IDE) are extremely expensive. vxWorks doesn't just come ready to run. It requires a fair amount of work to maintain and in fact everything does in the case of moving target hardware that you describe. Then there's the royalties.
Here's why this likely makes sense for Linksys. The most certainly had a pre-existing relationship with WindRiver and likewise they would have the in-house knowledge for using their tech. As far as I'm aware you can always shoehorn vxWorks into a smaller space than any trimmed down Linux. So, obviously the cost savings in hardware reduction offset the cost increase of software. And I'm sure they get a sweet deal on the software since WindRiver is getting a win over linux.
That said, WindRiver is also in the Linux business. I guess there's a likelyhood all around that Linksys and WindRiver are tight and that would make the economics tough to fully grok.
I'll be honest. I bought the kit, got the basics running with the software, couldn't get the wind vane calibrated, and ran out of time (new home, new baby, etc.). However, it all seems to work just fine and lots of people that report into wunderground.org seem to use this kit. I just haven't gotten it fully going myself.
Just saw the the guy that maintains the unix/linux/risc os s/w has it running on a Linksys NSLU2. Cool.
In some sense, having the password at all is a step up from none at all. If I was wardriving or using a local AP, my first targets would be non-encrypted networks, and then WEP networks. If it was a WPA network (even with a short password) it would probably discourage me more and I might move on to another area...
Though that may be true, it kind of misses the point of the whole exercise. If there is a legitimate need to secure WiFi APs in the first place (which in many cases is arguable), then someone needs to design a solution that isn't so likely to encourage the use of weak passwords. In your scenario the "bad password is better than no password" statement only remains true as long as there remain weaker targets. Once everyone is using WPA with guessable pre-shared keys, then you'll just go war driving with a dictionary cracker.
InfoSec for endusers is a nightmare right now. Much work is yet to be done and the band-aid fixes don't really change anything.
This is an act of the Legislature. Bush can't do this. We can't blame Bush for EVERYTHING. There are a couple hundred people responsible for these laws.
You have one or two from YOUR STATE. Write them. Tell them to stop.
1) It's the Senate.
2) There are exactly 100 of them.
3) You have exactly 2 of them from your state.
RTFA, learn about your system of government, etc. The reason we're in this pickle is in no small part because of the lack of knowledge and analytical skills. Please don't get on here and make things worse.
I saw OpenNMS at LinuxWorld Boston. It is looking very spiffy. Definetely a sophisticated OSS network monitoring tool.
Just to clarify for others(I know by your sig you know this already), MON is not so much a network monitoring application as it is a framework with some production ready examples. I was really happy with my last MON setup, but I did put serious time into getting it setup and writing some scripts of my own. FWIW, this was 3 years ago, so maybe it comes with even more good stuff out of the box, but that was my experience. FWIW #2, the OpenView guy spent a lot more time jiggering his systems and never really got what he wanted.
BB used to be all I used, but I lost interest once I started customizing (the code was very ugly as of 4 years ago) and I was disappointed with the not so free licensing + profiting. In that regard the way OpenNMS is managed bothers me much less.
I'm not up for a religious war on the various VPS techs, but I'm actually a UML customer of their's as that's what they started with and they've yet to move old customers.
However, your point is valid in that I just read that all new customers go to Virtuozzo. I'm not sure your evaluation of Virtuozzo is completely accurate, though. I just read some pretty positive comments on the webhosting review board mentioned elsewhere in this article.
Also, to reiterate, I've found their customer support to be above average. That can be as important as the technology selection.
I'm using TekTonic.net. Same VPS implementation. Looks like a slightly better rate than Linode. I'm paying $15/mo. + $1 setup for what looks to be equivalent to the Linode64 plan at $20/mo + $10 setup.
I'm very happy with the customer support so far from TekTonic and distro selection is excellent.
How can people care more about gay marriage (nobody is really concerned besides gays anyway) than unjustifiable wars, lies, damaging policies, etc.?
Ego. I think when you boil it down George Bush makes a certain segment of our population feel better about themselves even as he rapes them.
He's not smarter. He thinks America is tougher and better than the rest of the world. He tells people who might feel they have very little left in life to hang onto that their marriage is something blessed by a higher power.
In a sense I think he's right to do what he can to make people feel better about themselves and proud of their country. I think that's a reasonable goal for a president. It's just so horrifying the way he chooses to go about it. However, that's exactly what should make it so easy for someone else to do it better than him. There is no requirement that to make one group of people feel better you have to denegrate (or kill) another group. That's just the simplest way, but certainly not the only way. The Dems just have to wake up and try to understand the whole psychology of the thing.
I grew up in a Republican dominant environment and had to seek sanity on my own. The problem is, I haven't found that with the Democratic party. Don't get me wrong. I voted D all the way yesterday, but not because I love the party. And that's part of the problem. It's become the anti-party.
That's not to claim that I am exactly typical and representative of the how's and why's of voter behavior. It's the overall issue, however, of where we are now politically. We have a fascist regime holding power through fear of other while carefully ensuring the masses never see the knife as it reaches around for their throats. We have an opposition party which fails to communicate this reality. Edward's had a good idea with the sunshine and smiles, but lacked a strong message and projected an almost childlike image. Kerry, as so many recognized from day 1, was just too dour and lacked the passion needed to push a message clear of the chaff.
Somehow between now and 2008 the Democratic party has to become a whole lot more than just an opposition party. It's got to become a party passionate about truth, feedom, and life. There are ways to break through this morality battle currently running across the country, but they require boldness, confidence, passion, and strength. States issues must be kept off the national stage. America's self-image of independence and strength relative to the rest of the world must be nurtured while restrained. Most importantly, they must clearly, honestly, and unarrogantly communicate to the working people of the South and Midwest why their lives are harder because of the policies of the RNC and it's elected politicians.
The only way we're going to get out of this death spiral is if the liberal elite of the coasts comes to terms with the reality of the social perspective of the south and midwest. We can't secede. We can't repopulate all those states as we have in New Hampshire. We have got to recognize the fact that the only way to end this is to accept the perspectives of our fellow citizens, identify the common ground between us (it *is* there), and build a party based on that. A party based on traditional American values of freedom, caring, hard work, and so many other moralistic qualities of American life which the Republican message simply doesn't and can't address. There is tremendous opportunity for the Democratic party to reach out to Southern voters if they would just come off the high horse and understand what they want and then passionately deliver the message.
The Democratic party once again gave this election away by delivering a message percieved as weak. I agree. It was weak. The most impressive part of their campaign was the ability to deliver such a flat, dispassionate, unarousing message in the midst of so much turmoil. Maybe it was Kerry's delivery. Surely that was part of it. I see it as an issue across the entire party. I see it only resolved by growing to understand what's really behind the loss of Southern Dems. It's about emotions and egos. It's about projecting an image of strength and confidence. It's about not thinking those are dirty words.
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I've used a program which runs on Linux called Cycas for quite a bit of scale floor plans, but have found the interface frustrating and as a result never dig into 3D much and rendering at all.
Has anyone used both? Is SketchUp useful at all for something like a detailed floorplan, or just for big primitive, blocky structures? Is it really so unbelievably easy to use that it's worth booting into XP?
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For the machines that will boot off the same install but need different peripheral drivers I think you could still get a common image. Just make an image, install to new h/w, add necessary drivers, make a new image. Continue until you have an image covering a significant subset of the installed base.
Don't forget to use ghostwalk to blow out the SID.
You're right. This guy is an independent design firm anyone can hire and his work for Samsung is significantly different from his Apple design. It was more an acknowledgement that Apple has done something unique by, if not creating, igniting the whole MP3 player market whereas Samsung is really just following Apple. Not just in making a similarly styled player, but by hiring the very same designer.
Does it support functioning as a generic USB mass storage device with a FAT filesystem? If I can't drag N dop (or cp /u01/music/* /mnt/z5), then I'm still not buying.
Nice format support though.
> How is it that a quiet company from Korea can produce great products that actually work
Gross mischaracterization. Samsung is huge, has huge resources. They've set their sights on taking a lead in consumer products manufacturing and they're exectuting well. Not suprising. How long has Sony been dominant now? Eventually inertia takes over, stagnation sets in. Oh, and lets not forget the pleasure a Korean business will take in popping off a Japanese business. Extra motivation right there.
Samsung is nicely positioned to provide high quality at lower costs due to the tremendous manufacturing capital they own. If they're smart enough to win on customer service (as you suggest) and design (or at least design replication), they will be at the top of the heap for many, many years.
BTW, I ended up with a Toshiba, but I agree with you on the quality of their TVs. I was very torn and my folks have a Samsung that's very nice for the price.
I addition to the other good points mentioned in reply to you, I'll add that Samsung is the biggest manufacturer of flash memory and depending on the month is the biggest or second biggest manufacturer of ICs.
While Apple contracts with fabs and buys storage from Samsung, Samsung should eventually be able to tool a line for their own products with higher efficiencies and offer like hardware for lower cost if this thing gets popular and production is fully ramped. At the same time they can keep pulling a Microsfot and rip Apples designs all day long. Real easy when you can higher the same designer even.
Samsung, again like Microsoft, will never be as hip as Apple. Apple will always have it's place in the tech world just as high performance or high fashion producers do in other industries. However, we will start to see some very worthy competitors as the designs become commoditized.
Has anyone heard what will follow XP Embedded? I'm expecting something from the Vista "line" eventually, but have heard nothing yet.
Most of the recommendations on here are for modern, tacky stuff. Fun stuff, for certain. However, if you are looking to start a collection of traditional watches, you should look at Oris. They have a very good reputation for creating high-quality, affordable, automatic watches.
http://www.oris.ch/
One great source for heavy discounts on fine watches is Bernard Watch.
http://www.bernardwatch.com/
If I were going to shop for a Rolex or, more likely, an Omega, this is where I'd go. Multi-thousand dollar discounts sometimes. You often won't get the manufacturer warranty, but he'll stand behind the watch himself. Many TZers (http://www.timezone.com/) have recommended him in the past and I've bought from him no problem.
I also find the IWC watches to be beautiful, technically interesting, and highly regarded.
https://www.iwc.ch/
Have fun!
So, to take the above logic one step further: design a robust logging infrastructure. Just like any other part of the project, put together requirements and code accordingly. If you'll be doing high freq. logging/data acquisition consider implementing system resource monitoring into the logging infrastructure and triggering a failsafe (shutdown logging and *log* that you're shutting down logging) at certain resource utilization levels.
Also, consider the likely need for time synch within your infrastructure. Depending on how granular your analysis will be consider the need for further offset based adjustment of the time stamps. In other words, sometimes even with a correct ntp (or IEEE 1588, is anyone using this yet?) setup you can be a few ticks off. You may be able to identify an event within the system which you know executes simultaneously across components. From that you can determine an offset which can be applied to all subsequent events.
Anyhow, you may not need that. It's just something I've been dealing with recently for quite a different application from telcom.
The fundamental advice is just a repeat: log well.
> if you can find ANY new film cameras, ANY, offered in one year, it will be a major surprise.
p hp
That is a ridiculous assertion. You do know that 16mm motion film is still in wide use, right? You can go out right now and buy a 16mm camera no problem:
http://www.aaton.com/products/film/aminima/index.
The switch by TV journalists did not end the availability of 16mm film and equipment. The same will be true for 35mm (or other format) still film and equipment. Just because every wedding photog in America is going to be shooting digital now does not mean there will be no film equipment and supplies in the future.
Maybe this is just a Comcast thing. In southern Maine I've got the same deal. Just got an 1080i HD Toshiba 27" last weekend. Wanted a new TV and various desired features lead me to HD as well. Ok, I figured it would be nice to have in a couple years (last TV lasted 9 years). Well, happy me to discover I have all this HD content alread on my digital cable service.
There are issues. The TV has at least 5 picture size settings, but sometimes the HD content just won't fit right. Maybe a 780 broadcast? Well, the SD stuff looks nicer than it did on my old TV and the HD stuff, Discovery HD in particular, looks great, so I'm a happy purchaser.
I guess it's all a question of your frame of reference. Going from an almost 10 year old 20" TV with a seriously curved CRT to a 27" wide, flat screen probably made me an easy sell.
I've successfully bought from B&H numerous times. They are definetely not scammers and the deals on import film are great. Some equipment package deals are good too.
However, the customer service is pretty poor and I would agree that they seem to deal with my wife differently than me (over the phone). That said, they've always processed returns & exchanges including a refurb camera that was DOA. They just don't do it with a smile.
Tornado licenses (vxWorks IDE) are extremely expensive. vxWorks doesn't just come ready to run. It requires a fair amount of work to maintain and in fact everything does in the case of moving target hardware that you describe. Then there's the royalties.
Here's why this likely makes sense for Linksys. The most certainly had a pre-existing relationship with WindRiver and likewise they would have the in-house knowledge for using their tech. As far as I'm aware you can always shoehorn vxWorks into a smaller space than any trimmed down Linux. So, obviously the cost savings in hardware reduction offset the cost increase of software. And I'm sure they get a sweet deal on the software since WindRiver is getting a win over linux.
That said, WindRiver is also in the Linux business. I guess there's a likelyhood all around that Linksys and WindRiver are tight and that would make the economics tough to fully grok.
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Weather station and accessories based on the Dallas 1-Wire and iButton components:
http://www.aagelectronica.com/aag/index.html
Linux software:
http://oww.sourceforge.net/index.html
I'll be honest. I bought the kit, got the basics running with the software, couldn't get the wind vane calibrated, and ran out of time (new home, new baby, etc.). However, it all seems to work just fine and lots of people that report into wunderground.org seem to use this kit. I just haven't gotten it fully going myself.
Just saw the the guy that maintains the unix/linux/risc os s/w has it running on a Linksys NSLU2. Cool.
Though that may be true, it kind of misses the point of the whole exercise. If there is a legitimate need to secure WiFi APs in the first place (which in many cases is arguable), then someone needs to design a solution that isn't so likely to encourage the use of weak passwords. In your scenario the "bad password is better than no password" statement only remains true as long as there remain weaker targets. Once everyone is using WPA with guessable pre-shared keys, then you'll just go war driving with a dictionary cracker. InfoSec for endusers is a nightmare right now. Much work is yet to be done and the band-aid fixes don't really change anything.
I would disagree.
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If one of these people is from your state, please contact them and let them know your concerns.
You have one or two from YOUR STATE. Write them. Tell them to stop.
1) It's the Senate. 2) There are exactly 100 of them. 3) You have exactly 2 of them from your state. RTFA, learn about your system of government, etc. The reason we're in this pickle is in no small part because of the lack of knowledge and analytical skills. Please don't get on here and make things worse.
I saw OpenNMS at LinuxWorld Boston. It is looking very spiffy. Definetely a sophisticated OSS network monitoring tool.
Just to clarify for others(I know by your sig you know this already), MON is not so much a network monitoring application as it is a framework with some production ready examples. I was really happy with my last MON setup, but I did put serious time into getting it setup and writing some scripts of my own. FWIW, this was 3 years ago, so maybe it comes with even more good stuff out of the box, but that was my experience. FWIW #2, the OpenView guy spent a lot more time jiggering his systems and never really got what he wanted.
BB used to be all I used, but I lost interest once I started customizing (the code was very ugly as of 4 years ago) and I was disappointed with the not so free licensing + profiting. In that regard the way OpenNMS is managed bothers me much less.
I'm not up for a religious war on the various VPS techs, but I'm actually a UML customer of their's as that's what they started with and they've yet to move old customers.
However, your point is valid in that I just read that all new customers go to Virtuozzo. I'm not sure your evaluation of Virtuozzo is completely accurate, though. I just read some pretty positive comments on the webhosting review board mentioned elsewhere in this article.
Also, to reiterate, I've found their customer support to be above average. That can be as important as the technology selection.
I'm using TekTonic.net. Same VPS implementation. Looks like a slightly better rate than Linode. I'm paying $15/mo. + $1 setup for what looks to be equivalent to the Linode64 plan at $20/mo + $10 setup.
I'm very happy with the customer support so far from TekTonic and distro selection is excellent.
Ego. I think when you boil it down George Bush makes a certain segment of our population feel better about themselves even as he rapes them.
He's not smarter. He thinks America is tougher and better than the rest of the world. He tells people who might feel they have very little left in life to hang onto that their marriage is something blessed by a higher power.
In a sense I think he's right to do what he can to make people feel better about themselves and proud of their country. I think that's a reasonable goal for a president. It's just so horrifying the way he chooses to go about it. However, that's exactly what should make it so easy for someone else to do it better than him. There is no requirement that to make one group of people feel better you have to denegrate (or kill) another group. That's just the simplest way, but certainly not the only way. The Dems just have to wake up and try to understand the whole psychology of the thing.
I grew up in a Republican dominant environment and had to seek
sanity on my own. The problem is, I haven't found that with the Democratic
party. Don't get me wrong. I voted D all the way yesterday, but not because
I love the party. And that's part of the problem. It's become the
anti-party.
That's not to claim that I am exactly typical and representative of the how's
and why's of voter behavior. It's the overall issue, however, of where we
are now politically. We have a fascist regime holding power through fear of
other while carefully ensuring the masses never see the knife as it reaches
around for their throats. We have an opposition party which fails to
communicate this reality. Edward's had a good idea with the sunshine and
smiles, but lacked a strong message and projected an almost childlike image.
Kerry, as so many recognized from day 1, was just too dour and lacked the
passion needed to push a message clear of the chaff.
Somehow between now and 2008 the Democratic party has to become a whole lot
more than just an opposition party. It's got to become a party passionate
about truth, feedom, and life. There are ways to break through this morality
battle currently running across the country, but they require boldness,
confidence, passion, and strength. States issues must be kept off the
national stage. America's self-image of independence and strength relative
to the rest of the world must be nurtured while restrained. Most
importantly, they must clearly, honestly, and unarrogantly communicate to the
working people of the South and Midwest why their lives are harder because of
the policies of the RNC and it's elected politicians.
The only way we're going to get out of this death spiral is if the liberal
elite of the coasts comes to terms with the reality of the social perspective
of the south and midwest. We can't secede. We can't repopulate all those
states as we have in New Hampshire. We have got to recognize the fact that
the only way to end this is to accept the perspectives of our fellow
citizens, identify the common ground between us (it *is* there), and build a
party based on that. A party based on traditional American values of
freedom, caring, hard work, and so many other moralistic qualities of
American life which the Republican message simply doesn't and can't address.
There is tremendous opportunity for the Democratic party to reach out to
Southern voters if they would just come off the high horse and understand
what they want and then passionately deliver the message.
The Democratic party once again gave this election away by delivering a
message percieved as weak. I agree. It was weak. The most impressive part
of their campaign was the ability to deliver such a flat, dispassionate,
unarousing message in the midst of so much turmoil. Maybe it was Kerry's
delivery. Surely that was part of it. I see it as an issue across the
entire party. I see it only resolved by growing to understand what's really
behind the loss of Southern Dems. It's about emotions and egos. It's about
projecting an image of strength and confidence. It's about not thinking
those are dirty words.