I'm not sure what this guy is doing, but when I ran my own mail server (which I did personally and professionally for well over a decade), spam was a huge problem for me. No combination of spamassassin, rbl's, heuristics signature checks, virus, etc... Nothing got me past 85-90% blockage. And I did everything right. And it was a constant unending fight.
When I switched to Google apps for my personal domain, my life changed. Google catches a HUGE amount of spam. Things still get through occasionally, and definitely get worse as black Friday and Christmas campaigns kick into high gear. But the majority of the spam I get is from legitimate business that decides to put me on their mailing lists without my permission.
This one is BMW specific (with a bit of Mini in there too). Subscription is via membership in the BMW Car Club of America.
The magazine is surprisingly good. Far better than any Car & Driver or Motor Trend, etc. The difference is huge. From what I understand, of the car clubs that produce their own publications, Roundel is far and away the best. I haven't verified this myself.
I don't believe the comment refers to the safety of the battery as obviously it'd have to be equally protected as the rest of the vehicle to protect the president.
"The Beast" is HEAVY. It has to be able to drive quite a distance to affect an escape. As much as I'd love a Tesla for The Beast as a nod away from fossil fuels, it likely wouldn't be able to handle the sheer power required to meet the demands of being called "The Beast". It wouldn't be practical not to use a combustion engine.
agreed. I do this and use ESXi, and it's a great little setup. The only problem I've had is making sure to use supported hardware. If you use an intel motherboard you should be good to go. Just check to make sure the storage controller is supported. Most of the intel based stuff is (hence, the suggestion to just get one of their boards). If you want to be able to install a card and direct it at a particular VM, make sure you get a board that supports VMDirectPath (or something like that). That's the VMware name, I think in the BIOS it tends to be called VT-d for intel boards, or IOMMU on amd boards. VT-x is the support for virtualization in the CPU.
As for the other virtualization options. I've tried doing this in my setup with VirtualBox. It's nice I guess, but you have the problem of the host OS needing maintenance too. Xen and KVM might not be as bad, but again there is some host maintenance. Personally I've never had trouble with VMware products and have always found them to be the easiest to accomplish what you want, and ESXi is free and has a crap-ton of features. Don't forget you'll never interact with this other than to setup your VM's.
Finally, RAM is cheap these days, especially the DDR3 stuff. 8GB is nice, 16GB might be better depending on how much "testing" you wanna be able to do at once. Hard drives are equally cheap these days. A couple of 1-2TB's should do you well enough. The beauty of virtualization is that you can "pause" machines and shuffle them depending on the work you wanna do with the machine.
I can't say I agree with the decisions, but no one who's lived in Florida can say they didn't see this coming.
Schools here seem to be going in the direction of privatization. Current plans have whole-school futures pegged on the results of their english test scores. Music, math, etc... all funding hinging on a single subject, which is just a mechanism to make the schools look bad so they can push for closing the public schools. Once the schools go private, parents won't have a choice but to give up their kids' rights in order to get them into school. It's going to be a matter of contract.
Sure, there will be public schools left, but they're not gonna be in nearly the same shape as they are now. And they're not exactly in good shape now. With the funding going towards vouchers for private schools, we'll see safety and standards continue to drop. Private schools will be allowed to take all the disciplinary action public schools can't which will make them seem like cathedrals next to their public bretherin. Your kid get slapped? You have a problem with it? You really wanna send them to *gasp* public school?
Can't really blame them either. A number of my friends are teachers. They get attacked (yes, ATTACKED) by students that are sometimes bigger than them, and they are explicitely told that they cannot raise a hand to stop a student that's attacking them. They are expected to take everything a student has to dish out for fear that any other behavior will get them fired.
Parents are a whole nother problem. Most of them get upset when schools bother them during the day about their kids. The ones that do care about their kids really only care about their kids being happy. They often will refuse to believe that there could be anything wrong with their kid and will refuse to discipline them at all. When their kid fails a class they'll take it up with the principle and create such a fuss that the teacher is forced to pass the student on when they shouldn't. A number of teachers have become apathetic about the whole process, but who can blame them when they're paid hardly anything to deal with seemingly psychopathic children on a daily basis.
Fingerprinting may be a really bad decision, and I certainly wouldn't want my kid going through that. But given the way parents here treat the schools, it almost seems like the only way to make sure students are where they're supposed to be. When it's all private, we won't have a choice because the state isn't doing it. And if you want your kid to have a decent education, you'll put up with it.
Was gonna suggest this as well. Depending on how feature packed and recent the laptop is, you likely have the makings for a sexy little media player.
I have an AppleTV running Jaunty + XBMC... the AppleTV is a 1Ghz Pentium M class CPU, 256 meg ram, 40 gig 4200 RPM laptop drive... If I can run a well behaved media player on this that can handle up to 720p video... anyone can:-)
I'm just hoping HD-DVD doesn't win out, but I'm in wait-and-see mode right now.
Ultimately it depends on when people are ready and willing to ditch the hundreds of DVD players they bought in the last 3-4 years. Over the last 3-4 years, HD sets started getting cheap, DVD players got ultra cheap, people got over the fact that they can't record on their video media anymore (though, that's changing), and all-in-one surround systems became popular because the media is now all the same size.
A 3 month release headstart for HD-DVD isn't gonna get people to automatically throw out their existing systems that their wives just let them spend their entertainment budget on. Those are the people with the rear-projection sets. Anyone willing to spend twice as much for a plasma or an LCD they can hang on the wall is going to look at the fact that first gen HD-DVD doesn't do 1080p out of the box and Blu Ray does. The early adopters are the ones that are gonna care about picture quality. Everyone else is more likely going to care about spending $450 on a HTIB versus $500 on a single player. The salesman will likely get better commission on that sale anyways cuz it's an easier sell and all he has to say is that it does HDMI just like the other single player set.
As for the studios, I'd think they'd be more willing to release on Blu Ray than on HD-DVD cuz it seems to have more anti-piracy annoyances^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprotections. Additionally, larger movie size means content that is less easy to compress and get across the net on your lowly 768k DSL upload. Then there's the addition of Java (the tech that just won't die) and the potential for net access from Blu Ray devices and you've got content that can download fresh movie trailer ads.
I think the fact that EVERYONE has a DVD player that works NOW will allow enough of a break to let the price differential between HD-DVD and Blu Ray to shrink. The number of new buyers that will get an HD set and mates it to a first gen HD-DVD immediately will be marginal. Once time enough has passed to get people buying the new hardware, the price gap will have faded and then it's all about hardware availability which seems to be largely behind Blu Ray. From the way things look, the majority of the studios and the majority of manufacturers are behind Blu Ray.
Sony may have screwed up in the past, but not like everyone thinks they did. MiniDisc had it's place, it's niche. For the longest time, we had S/PDIF on our consumer appliances even when there was an "official" digital audio spec out there named AES/EBU. They have PLENTY of successes to offset their PR blunders. I know Sony has screwed up in the past, but I think they got the timing right on this one.
I was in much the same situation just a few years ago. The upper management wasn't exactly stupid, but they made some really bad decisions as to where the company should be focussing it's efforts. A number of the employees were working more on faith than on money, and people were dropping off like flies.
Most of the technical staff (programmers, admins) were university friends of mine. We hung out alot and I even got my job (and I did it well) because of someone from the group. As time went on, we all sorta hung on to each other for hope.
Eventually I was faced with leaving the company. After having lost much money for the company, I decided to leave. In fact all of my friends did the same thing.
The biggest thing I learned was that my friends (and they're all good friends) can always sympathize with me and with each other about the situations that are brought about. However, they're not gonna pay your rent, or your insurance. In the workplace, business is business. Everyone is gonna understand that.
If you leave, and you really are that pivotal, and everyone there is as talented as you say, then they'll be able to find jobs elsewhere, and they'll likely leave soon after you (if they're smart). It's your life, and I don't think you'd wanna waste the younger years of it on a sinking ship with captains that don't know how to navigate:-)
I immediately thought "ball bearings" when I saw this. Bearings mounted on mouse-like x,y motion detectors would be ideal - as a start.
After this, it would be nice to simulate slipping or even difficulty in running. Therefore the rollers used to detect motion in the bearings could have some motors attached to them to provide graduated tension to the ball bearings (climbing up an icy landscape vs. climbing up a rocky hill).
Now, we need to tackle 3D issues. First of all, the structure will likely need to be larger than 5 feet in diameter to provide a decent "feel" for realism - taking into account the length of stride for a long person (or someone with unusually long legs). Then, the entire bed of bearings (BoB) should be rotatable to 55 degrees (at least) for mountainous climbing simulations, etc...
Taking this into account, how do we simulate steps, curbs, etc? Well, we could seperate the ball bearings into seperate rings around the player. the rings could be raised individually (or set to rotate individually) using foot high pillars on hydraulics designed to move up and down, and sense the weight (and respond stiffly - as in conrete steps; or softly - as in a muddy marsh) to the person's weight.
What's left? player positioning without using wires. Well, they're now selling little gyroscopic options for N64 (?) controllers to allow you to play without having to use the control sticks or pads. So rotation isn't an issue... Magnets could do the rest for positioning. A few devices like this attached to key points on the body will allow you to tell exactly where the various body parts are (one on each elbow, knee, each end of the waist, etc).
I like the idea of having penguins, but we are people (despite what some of you may think;-)
How about a bunch of people at a rally. The shot is facing the stage, so all you see is a bunch of heads crowded together, hands in the air, general commotion.
On the stage is a Peguin, perhaps behind a podium, or even better yet, in front of some huge flag and wearing a uniform (sorta like in Patton).
I've been playing with HP's OpenMail today and the little I've done says it's very nice. I haven't gotten to do much with it because I have another very large project that I'm working on. The documentation is very nice, and everything can be administrated from the command line. Unfortunately, I hadn't been able to get the omadmin vt100 client to work (the screenshots look cool:-) although the command line configuration utilities worked fine and all the command names seem very logical.
It will work with outlook (as something like an exchange server) and it comes with a linux client, however it didn't look extremely pretty. What I liked most was the licensing. According to the page, it looks about half the price of an equivalent Exchange setup, however you buy the licenses in bulks of 50.
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The buzzing you're hearing is from the video card. There is tons of noise going on inside your computer video cards typically produce a good amount's worth. As the video card has to redraw the position of the mouse on the display, the extra work by the vid. card is picked up as radiation by the sound card and affects the output on the sound card. I'm no genius so I don't quite know how to explain it properly, but I do know that the video is the culprit.
Most people with project studios seeking to get the most out of their sound cards while keeping a relatively low noise floor typically move the sound card and video card as physically far apart as they can. Usually the sound car is placed at the bottom of the machine and the vid. card near the power supply. I remember older modems I'd purchase making the same suggestion and I imagine it's for the same reason.
Creative Labs cards aren't very good at keeping their noise clean, that's why they're not considered much of a project card. Turtle Beach cards are pretty good at keeping their sound clean and you could get a montego for relatively cheap, a a new project studio version of the montego has come out for $349 that will do optical/analog S/PDIF digital output to your stereo (if you're really worried about noise and want a complete gaming experience) as well as support for quad speakers.
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yeah, it was written initially in UC Berkley (a college/university).
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I would definitely go back and make it common practice to use email addresses for usernames instead of letting users choose.
I'm not sure what this guy is doing, but when I ran my own mail server (which I did personally and professionally for well over a decade), spam was a huge problem for me. No combination of spamassassin, rbl's, heuristics signature checks, virus, etc... Nothing got me past 85-90% blockage. And I did everything right. And it was a constant unending fight.
When I switched to Google apps for my personal domain, my life changed. Google catches a HUGE amount of spam. Things still get through occasionally, and definitely get worse as black Friday and Christmas campaigns kick into high gear. But the majority of the spam I get is from legitimate business that decides to put me on their mailing lists without my permission.
The op either has on blinders, or is baiting.
This one is BMW specific (with a bit of Mini in there too). Subscription is via membership in the BMW Car Club of America.
The magazine is surprisingly good. Far better than any Car & Driver or Motor Trend, etc. The difference is huge. From what I understand, of the car clubs that produce their own publications, Roundel is far and away the best. I haven't verified this myself.
I don't believe the comment refers to the safety of the battery as obviously it'd have to be equally protected as the rest of the vehicle to protect the president.
"The Beast" is HEAVY. It has to be able to drive quite a distance to affect an escape. As much as I'd love a Tesla for The Beast as a nod away from fossil fuels, it likely wouldn't be able to handle the sheer power required to meet the demands of being called "The Beast". It wouldn't be practical not to use a combustion engine.
agreed. I do this and use ESXi, and it's a great little setup. The only problem I've had is making sure to use supported hardware. If you use an intel motherboard you should be good to go. Just check to make sure the storage controller is supported. Most of the intel based stuff is (hence, the suggestion to just get one of their boards). If you want to be able to install a card and direct it at a particular VM, make sure you get a board that supports VMDirectPath (or something like that). That's the VMware name, I think in the BIOS it tends to be called VT-d for intel boards, or IOMMU on amd boards. VT-x is the support for virtualization in the CPU.
As for the other virtualization options. I've tried doing this in my setup with VirtualBox. It's nice I guess, but you have the problem of the host OS needing maintenance too. Xen and KVM might not be as bad, but again there is some host maintenance. Personally I've never had trouble with VMware products and have always found them to be the easiest to accomplish what you want, and ESXi is free and has a crap-ton of features. Don't forget you'll never interact with this other than to setup your VM's.
Finally, RAM is cheap these days, especially the DDR3 stuff. 8GB is nice, 16GB might be better depending on how much "testing" you wanna be able to do at once. Hard drives are equally cheap these days. A couple of 1-2TB's should do you well enough. The beauty of virtualization is that you can "pause" machines and shuffle them depending on the work you wanna do with the machine.
I can't say I agree with the decisions, but no one who's lived in Florida can say they didn't see this coming.
Schools here seem to be going in the direction of privatization. Current plans have whole-school futures pegged on the results of their english test scores. Music, math, etc... all funding hinging on a single subject, which is just a mechanism to make the schools look bad so they can push for closing the public schools. Once the schools go private, parents won't have a choice but to give up their kids' rights in order to get them into school. It's going to be a matter of contract.
Sure, there will be public schools left, but they're not gonna be in nearly the same shape as they are now. And they're not exactly in good shape now. With the funding going towards vouchers for private schools, we'll see safety and standards continue to drop. Private schools will be allowed to take all the disciplinary action public schools can't which will make them seem like cathedrals next to their public bretherin. Your kid get slapped? You have a problem with it? You really wanna send them to *gasp* public school?
Can't really blame them either. A number of my friends are teachers. They get attacked (yes, ATTACKED) by students that are sometimes bigger than them, and they are explicitely told that they cannot raise a hand to stop a student that's attacking them. They are expected to take everything a student has to dish out for fear that any other behavior will get them fired.
Parents are a whole nother problem. Most of them get upset when schools bother them during the day about their kids. The ones that do care about their kids really only care about their kids being happy. They often will refuse to believe that there could be anything wrong with their kid and will refuse to discipline them at all. When their kid fails a class they'll take it up with the principle and create such a fuss that the teacher is forced to pass the student on when they shouldn't. A number of teachers have become apathetic about the whole process, but who can blame them when they're paid hardly anything to deal with seemingly psychopathic children on a daily basis.
Fingerprinting may be a really bad decision, and I certainly wouldn't want my kid going through that. But given the way parents here treat the schools, it almost seems like the only way to make sure students are where they're supposed to be. When it's all private, we won't have a choice because the state isn't doing it. And if you want your kid to have a decent education, you'll put up with it.
Was gonna suggest this as well. Depending on how feature packed and recent the laptop is, you likely have the makings for a sexy little media player.
I have an AppleTV running Jaunty + XBMC... the AppleTV is a 1Ghz Pentium M class CPU, 256 meg ram, 40 gig 4200 RPM laptop drive... If I can run a well behaved media player on this that can handle up to 720p video... anyone can :-)
I'm just hoping HD-DVD doesn't win out, but I'm in wait-and-see mode right now.
Ultimately it depends on when people are ready and willing to ditch the hundreds of DVD players they bought in the last 3-4 years. Over the last 3-4 years, HD sets started getting cheap, DVD players got ultra cheap, people got over the fact that they can't record on their video media anymore (though, that's changing), and all-in-one surround systems became popular because the media is now all the same size.
A 3 month release headstart for HD-DVD isn't gonna get people to automatically throw out their existing systems that their wives just let them spend their entertainment budget on. Those are the people with the rear-projection sets. Anyone willing to spend twice as much for a plasma or an LCD they can hang on the wall is going to look at the fact that first gen HD-DVD doesn't do 1080p out of the box and Blu Ray does. The early adopters are the ones that are gonna care about picture quality. Everyone else is more likely going to care about spending $450 on a HTIB versus $500 on a single player. The salesman will likely get better commission on that sale anyways cuz it's an easier sell and all he has to say is that it does HDMI just like the other single player set.
As for the studios, I'd think they'd be more willing to release on Blu Ray than on HD-DVD cuz it seems to have more anti-piracy annoyances^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprotections. Additionally, larger movie size means content that is less easy to compress and get across the net on your lowly 768k DSL upload. Then there's the addition of Java (the tech that just won't die) and the potential for net access from Blu Ray devices and you've got content that can download fresh movie trailer ads.
I think the fact that EVERYONE has a DVD player that works NOW will allow enough of a break to let the price differential between HD-DVD and Blu Ray to shrink. The number of new buyers that will get an HD set and mates it to a first gen HD-DVD immediately will be marginal. Once time enough has passed to get people buying the new hardware, the price gap will have faded and then it's all about hardware availability which seems to be largely behind Blu Ray. From the way things look, the majority of the studios and the majority of manufacturers are behind Blu Ray.
Sony may have screwed up in the past, but not like everyone thinks they did. MiniDisc had it's place, it's niche. For the longest time, we had S/PDIF on our consumer appliances even when there was an "official" digital audio spec out there named AES/EBU. They have PLENTY of successes to offset their PR blunders. I know Sony has screwed up in the past, but I think they got the timing right on this one.
I was in much the same situation just a few years ago. The upper management wasn't exactly stupid, but they made some really bad decisions as to where the company should be focussing it's efforts. A number of the employees were working more on faith than on money, and people were dropping off like flies.
Most of the technical staff (programmers, admins) were university friends of mine. We hung out alot and I even got my job (and I did it well) because of someone from the group. As time went on, we all sorta hung on to each other for hope.
Eventually I was faced with leaving the company. After having lost much money for the company, I decided to leave. In fact all of my friends did the same thing.
The biggest thing I learned was that my friends (and they're all good friends) can always sympathize with me and with each other about the situations that are brought about. However, they're not gonna pay your rent, or your insurance. In the workplace, business is business. Everyone is gonna understand that.
If you leave, and you really are that pivotal, and everyone there is as talented as you say, then they'll be able to find jobs elsewhere, and they'll likely leave soon after you (if they're smart). It's your life, and I don't think you'd wanna waste the younger years of it on a sinking ship with captains that don't know how to navigate :-)
There wouldn't be much more than the GUI (which couldn't be difficult since it should be architechture independent) to port.
:-)
MacOS was based on (and originally was) NeXT Step, which was a BSD based OS running on x86 hardware.
The first couple of Developers Releases for MacOS X (Rhapsody) came in both PowerPC and x86 flavors (I have the x86 flavor on CD, so it is real
I immediately thought "ball bearings" when I saw this. Bearings mounted on mouse-like x,y motion detectors would be ideal - as a start.
After this, it would be nice to simulate slipping or even difficulty in running. Therefore the rollers used to detect motion in the bearings could have some motors attached to them to provide graduated tension to the ball bearings (climbing up an icy landscape vs. climbing up a rocky hill).
Now, we need to tackle 3D issues. First of all, the structure will likely need to be larger than 5 feet in diameter to provide a decent "feel" for realism - taking into account the length of stride for a long person (or someone with unusually long legs). Then, the entire bed of bearings (BoB) should be rotatable to 55 degrees (at least) for mountainous climbing simulations, etc...
Taking this into account, how do we simulate steps, curbs, etc? Well, we could seperate the ball bearings into seperate rings around the player. the rings could be raised individually (or set to rotate individually) using foot high pillars on hydraulics designed to move up and down, and sense the weight (and respond stiffly - as in conrete steps; or softly - as in a muddy marsh) to the person's weight.
What's left? player positioning without using wires. Well, they're now selling little gyroscopic options for N64 (?) controllers to allow you to play without having to use the control sticks or pads. So rotation isn't an issue... Magnets could do the rest for positioning. A few devices like this attached to key points on the body will allow you to tell exactly where the various body parts are (one on each elbow, knee, each end of the waist, etc).
$300k for one of these things maybe?
Next week: I solve world hunger.
I like the idea of having penguins, but we are people (despite what some of you may think ;-)
:-)
How about a bunch of people at a rally. The shot is facing the stage, so all you see is a bunch of heads crowded together, hands in the air, general commotion.
On the stage is a Peguin, perhaps behind a podium, or even better yet, in front of some huge flag and wearing a uniform (sorta like in Patton).
Well?
-peace
I've been playing with HP's OpenMail today and the little I've done says it's very nice. I haven't gotten to do much with it because I have another very large project that I'm working on. The documentation is very nice, and everything can be administrated from the command line. Unfortunately, I hadn't been able to get the omadmin vt100 client to work (the screenshots look cool :-) although the command line configuration utilities worked fine and all the command names seem very logical.
It will work with outlook (as something like an exchange server) and it comes with a linux client, however it didn't look extremely pretty. What I liked most was the licensing. According to the page, it looks about half the price of an equivalent Exchange setup, however you buy the licenses in bulks of 50.
http://www.ice.hp.com/cyc/om/00/index.ht ml
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http://www.ice.hp.com/cyc/om/ 00/showfile.cgi?100-1458
The buzzing you're hearing is from the video card. There is tons of noise going on inside your computer video cards typically produce a good amount's worth. As the video card has to redraw the position of the mouse on the display, the extra work by the vid. card is picked up as radiation by the sound card and affects the output on the sound card. I'm no genius so I don't quite know how to explain it properly, but I do know that the video is the culprit.
Most people with project studios seeking to get the most out of their sound cards while keeping a relatively low noise floor typically move the sound card and video card as physically far apart as they can. Usually the sound car is placed at the bottom of the machine and the vid. card near the power supply. I remember older modems I'd purchase making the same suggestion and I imagine it's for the same reason.
Creative Labs cards aren't very good at keeping their noise clean, that's why they're not considered much of a project card. Turtle Beach cards are pretty good at keeping their sound clean and you could get a montego for relatively cheap, a a new project studio version of the montego has come out for $349 that will do optical/analog S/PDIF digital output to your stereo (if you're really worried about noise and want a complete gaming experience) as well as support for quad speakers.
yeah, it was written initially in UC Berkley (a college/university).