Focusing on the mention of making the project "easy", I'll also remind you to look at your scripting tools. Also remember that you can make an encrypted pipe between systems with SSH.
You might find you can do things such as pipe your data stream through a script which formats for a CD, waits for the CD to be inserted, fills and ejects the CD... and if you have several machines with CD writers you could have several writes going at once with the proper scripts.
A little prep could leave you with only having to change tapes (if your tools can detect end of tape/signal) and CDs (or whatever media you use).
I would recommend getting a couple of 200gig hard drives and keeping two copies for safety reasons.
Once you have it in digital form you can copy it as many times as you want as long as you have legible media. So save it in several ways. If you decide to store on CD and you can't store all of a VHS tape on one CD -- that does not matter. Sure, you'll have to insert a CD more frequently when viewing, but that is many minutes apart (and you could get a second CD drive). However, for archival purposes the number of CDs does not matter, as you later can merge the digital data back together perfectly. In 20 years you can copy from whatever media you're using at the time to whatever the newest is.
The only thing that matters at the moment is data loss during conversion. Use good cables and whatever VHS-to-digital converter gives you the quality that you want. Once it's digital the data you capture is safe (unless all copies damaged).
Whether you store it in "several ways" on multiple copies of the same type of media or several types of media does not matter unless something can damage all the copies on whatever media type(s) you are using.
At least one copy should be in a widely readable format. You can put it on several CDs in ext3 RAID format so it is redundantly saved -- but to view it you need a multiple-CD machine or copying all to disk. And you want to avoid digital historical restoration in case ext3 code is hard to find in 15 years (sure, you can copy bit-for-bit but can you still view it?).
I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release.
No, it might not always be a beta release.
We hope it will always be a beta release.
There is a possibility that the code will be tested enough in the real world to reach "production" status, but we hope the situations which exercise it in the real world will never happen.
There is also no requirement to depend upon a single tool. Having alarms on your doors doesn't protect your windows. Perimeter detectors establish a fence, while tripwires, beams, and area detectors offer notification of activity in different ways -- and design is affected by issues such as whether or not you have a cat. Don't limit your design to only using one tool, consider your needs and the variety of tools.
It's worse than merely associating one object with a file.
You could use combinations and sequences of your collection of objects, as well as rotations of objects (is the seashell supposed to show the side with the opening or not?).
Recognition of the insides of an egg as being an egg is left as an exercise for the reader.
Well, if there had been a link to the SCO home page that would have been adding insult to injury (read that with either the medical or colloquial meanings).
The information has been out for years. You just aren't reading the books which contained it, some of them in the "Fiction" category. And ramjets are rather widely known since a bunch of them tried to reach London a few decades ago.
Besides, for ground-hugging travel and targeting it is well known that an expressway and parking meter are sufficient technology.
Can you build a rocket engine without a turbopump?
Yes, you just let the helium flow through the reactor core and it tends to expand through the wider exhaust tubes beyond.
Yes, you just have to use a piston pump.
Yes, you just have to launch far enough up for the ion stream to not get contaminated.
Yes, you just make sure the intake valve can slap shut fast enough for most of the pulse to be forced backward.
Yes, you just throw the nuclear propellant fast enough so it detonates at the right distance from the blast plate before you fall too far.
Yes, you just use metal wicks to draw the liquid oxydizer and fuel into the combustion chamber.
Yes, you just make sure that you get enough stored energy from the previous pulse so your lasers have enough for several attempts at igniting the next fusion pellets.
Yes, you just weld a bunch of ramjets together.
Yes, you just pinch the gathered plasma into several small streams before forcing it together in the large heating chamber.
Yes, you just have to have enough springs and golf balls.
Yes, you just have to spin the pinwheel emitter fast enough so the ignition cups have enough fuel before they are in the rearward position and ignited.
Yes, you just have to wriggle the handle on the pump fast enough.
They make several that can land on your kitchen counter, be loaded with a sugar cube, then drop that cube in your cup -- and you don't have to open your apartment door! However, you will need a new kitchen counter, ceiling, and roof.
No, he never did. If he had, he would almost certainly by now be far and away the richest man on the planet.... He'd have been on Mars twenty years ago.
I see you also had the same thought I did. Clarke would have been the richest man, but he wouldn't be on this planet. If not on Mars, he'd at least be...in Clarke Orbit.
(I like his paper's discussion about whether radio frequencies might pass through the atmosphere: "..we have visual evidence that frequencies at the optical end of the spectrum pass through [the atmosphere]...")
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"The song stealers are committing suicide by the hundreds against the unbreakable firewalls of the Iraqi Isolation Ministry."
"There are no MP3s in Baghdad International Airport. They were burned with the infidels that tried to bring them in."
"RIAA Shock Troops have attacked file servers and found that they feared retribution for misbehavior so much that they never performed their intended IP peonism. All disk drives will be decently covered and are continually monitored with the finest Iraqi headphones."
"There never have been independent bands in Iraq and they were chased out of garages which were promptly filled with imported APC and other quality imported cars."
"This space for rent. Bids for sponsorship of next week are in the RIAA eBay store."
"A giant eraser rubbed out music thieves and none were found in a survey of our offices today."
"The Iraqi Copyright Office thanks all those who donated the ownership of music to the good of the State by registering Iraq as holding the copyright last year."
"Rumors fly that a musician was using D-flat last month. Our investigators have not been able to find such a violation of international agreements, but we continue to monitor for violations of D-armament controls."
"There certainly could be no willingness to flagrantly endanger the public by placing uncontrolled music in residential areas. Some reckless individuals distributed rumors of a party two days ago, but careful inspection of the rubble after the artillery barrage has shown no proof that such a danger ever existed near the Euphrates. Our precision area bombardment guardsmen are ever vigilant."
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But it also is not an odd ball, as the headline suggests.
You might find you can do things such as pipe your data stream through a script which formats for a CD, waits for the CD to be inserted, fills and ejects the CD... and if you have several machines with CD writers you could have several writes going at once with the proper scripts.
A little prep could leave you with only having to change tapes (if your tools can detect end of tape/signal) and CDs (or whatever media you use).
Once you have it in digital form you can copy it as many times as you want as long as you have legible media. So save it in several ways. If you decide to store on CD and you can't store all of a VHS tape on one CD -- that does not matter. Sure, you'll have to insert a CD more frequently when viewing, but that is many minutes apart (and you could get a second CD drive). However, for archival purposes the number of CDs does not matter, as you later can merge the digital data back together perfectly. In 20 years you can copy from whatever media you're using at the time to whatever the newest is.
The only thing that matters at the moment is data loss during conversion. Use good cables and whatever VHS-to-digital converter gives you the quality that you want. Once it's digital the data you capture is safe (unless all copies damaged).
Whether you store it in "several ways" on multiple copies of the same type of media or several types of media does not matter unless something can damage all the copies on whatever media type(s) you are using.
At least one copy should be in a widely readable format. You can put it on several CDs in ext3 RAID format so it is redundantly saved -- but to view it you need a multiple-CD machine or copying all to disk. And you want to avoid digital historical restoration in case ext3 code is hard to find in 15 years (sure, you can copy bit-for-bit but can you still view it?).
"We" "need" "a" "representative"?
Uh.. In this case, writing to the EU would be more relevant than writing to the U.S. Congress. How many hours are left before the "two days" expire?
No, it might not always be a beta release.
We hope it will always be a beta release.
There is a possibility that the code will be tested enough in the real world to reach "production" status, but we hope the situations which exercise it in the real world will never happen.
"Hal, turn off the light."
"Dave, did you say something? My mind was 400 kilometers away."
It was very polite of the Slashdot editors to select a story with links which avoid slashdotting Mars.
There is also no requirement to depend upon a single tool. Having alarms on your doors doesn't protect your windows. Perimeter detectors establish a fence, while tripwires, beams, and area detectors offer notification of activity in different ways -- and design is affected by issues such as whether or not you have a cat. Don't limit your design to only using one tool, consider your needs and the variety of tools.
You could use combinations and sequences of your collection of objects, as well as rotations of objects (is the seashell supposed to show the side with the opening or not?).
Recognition of the insides of an egg as being an egg is left as an exercise for the reader.
Well, if there had been a link to the SCO home page that would have been adding insult to injury (read that with either the medical or colloquial meanings).
Or they can make strawberry flavoring.
I prefer the stories of the fighter pilots putting their wing under a V-1's wing and flipping it over...
Besides, for ground-hugging travel and targeting it is well known that an expressway and parking meter are sufficient technology.
Apparently the world doesn't have enough geography and math classes to educate the whole world once.
I won't argue with how MiG wants to spell.
I'd prefer that the back say "Other side toward enemy". The front should say "If you can read this, you're too close."
Yes, you just let the helium flow through the reactor core and it tends to expand through the wider exhaust tubes beyond.
Yes, you just have to use a piston pump.
Yes, you just have to launch far enough up for the ion stream to not get contaminated.
Yes, you just make sure the intake valve can slap shut fast enough for most of the pulse to be forced backward.
Yes, you just throw the nuclear propellant fast enough so it detonates at the right distance from the blast plate before you fall too far.
Yes, you just use metal wicks to draw the liquid oxydizer and fuel into the combustion chamber.
Yes, you just make sure that you get enough stored energy from the previous pulse so your lasers have enough for several attempts at igniting the next fusion pellets.
Yes, you just weld a bunch of ramjets together.
Yes, you just pinch the gathered plasma into several small streams before forcing it together in the large heating chamber.
Yes, you just have to have enough springs and golf balls.
Yes, you just have to spin the pinwheel emitter fast enough so the ignition cups have enough fuel before they are in the rearward position and ignited.
Yes, you just have to wriggle the handle on the pump fast enough.
Depends what they are being launched from. And how far up they are when launched.
They make several that can land on your kitchen counter, be loaded with a sugar cube, then drop that cube in your cup -- and you don't have to open your apartment door! However, you will need a new kitchen counter, ceiling, and roof.
I see you also had the same thought I did. Clarke would have been the richest man, but he wouldn't be on this planet. If not on Mars, he'd at least be...in Clarke Orbit.
(I like his paper's discussion about whether radio frequencies might pass through the atmosphere: "..we have visual evidence that frequencies at the optical end of the spectrum pass through [the atmosphere] ...")
I-yay-us am-yay-us ultilingual-may-us?
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"There are no MP3s in Baghdad International Airport. They were burned with the infidels that tried to bring them in."
"RIAA Shock Troops have attacked file servers and found that they feared retribution for misbehavior so much that they never performed their intended IP peonism. All disk drives will be decently covered and are continually monitored with the finest Iraqi headphones."
"There never have been independent bands in Iraq and they were chased out of garages which were promptly filled with imported APC and other quality imported cars."
"This space for rent. Bids for sponsorship of next week are in the RIAA eBay store."
"Sneaky steak-eating snakes sneaking stolen songs stung stunned since submarine scuba shockers swung soulless soundless smash sticks Sunday."
"A giant eraser rubbed out music thieves and none were found in a survey of our offices today."
"The Iraqi Copyright Office thanks all those who donated the ownership of music to the good of the State by registering Iraq as holding the copyright last year."
"Rumors fly that a musician was using D-flat last month. Our investigators have not been able to find such a violation of international agreements, but we continue to monitor for violations of D-armament controls."
"There certainly could be no willingness to flagrantly endanger the public by placing uncontrolled music in residential areas. Some reckless individuals distributed rumors of a party two days ago, but careful inspection of the rubble after the artillery barrage has shown no proof that such a danger ever existed near the Euphrates. Our precision area bombardment guardsmen are ever vigilant."
"Disco ball spotted by sniper. Destroyed same."
It's perfectly clear.
There was a rainbow-colored arrow pointing at ice crystals on honeycomb, with a side serving of salted mashed potatoes.
Maybe you should order from the kiddie menu. Want some fried immature avian reproductive cells on dehydrated ground grass seed paste?