I find it ridiculous to see articles like this. Referencing Los Angeles, Disney Land, and Disney World..... For those that are unaware (and authors of such articles should at least make the effort to find out what they're really writing about), Disney World is in Florida and Disney Land is in California. So beyond my frustration with the confusion of that is the lack of actual information. Ok, a family was barred from traveling. Until we know why, their race, religion, sexual orientation, even the spot they're planning to travel to is irrelevant. I don't care if it was Muslims, Christians, or any of 1000 other religions that they follow. Unless there was credible reason to believe they posed a threat they should have been allowed to travel. If there was credible reason to believe they posed a threat they should have been barred like they were. The problem here is we know they were barred and nothing else. So what's the point of the article? To stir up controversy? Get us some facts to consider before posting this kind of rubbish. Also, not sure why the UK Government would care why the US is restricting travel to the US. I think every countries government has the right to decide what it considers a threat and deny entry. I'm not saying that I agree that this was a threat, but if there is good reason then they shouldn't care. I also wouldn't think it a big deal for the US government if the UK barred me from traveling there (although I'd love to visit one day, so I hope they don't).
Bitcoin sucks. See stories of millions of stolen bitcoins posted here on Slashdot only weeks ago. Not that its a bad idea outright, just that bitcoin is far from a perfect implementation of a crypo currencey, and fan boys like you keep touting it like the end all be all solution. It is NOT imunne to exploitation and theft.
Are you seriously trying to blame the currency/protocol for exploitation and theft as though to imply that fiat currency is somehow immune to those things? People who have had bitcoin stolen have done so by leaving themselves vulnerable through things such as poor anti-virus, poor password practices, and general ignorance of scams. This is not a flaw in bitcoin (either the currency or the protocol), it's a lack of education for the end user. This is almost identical to putting a hundred dollar bill (fiat currency) on your front porch while you're at work and wondering what happened to it when you come home.
I concede that bitcoin has it's downside, but exploitation and theft is something any and every currency form will always be subject to, if your using that as your anti-bitcoin basis, then your point is rather moot.
I also use and recommend the WD TV Live. I use it in conjunction with a rooted Seagate Go flex home 3 tb NAS. I run transmission on the NAS and use is Web interface to snag torrents of movies and shows. I can then turn my computer off and still be downloading and watching movies. I have 3 of the WD units and they all stream from the NAS simultaneously without skipping a beat.
Do I need a license to go drone hunting? or is it just open season? because that sounds like fun! Also, I believe shooting drones stays well within PETAs goals as I wouldn't be shooting animals:)
Actually, I don't need to speak to "HAMs that have actually attempted to participate in such activities within the last decade." As I am one. I'm not sure what bad experience you've seen with what sounds to have been a poorly organized net. However, it does not describe the entire community and it definitely doesn't apply to all situations. I don't think I've ever heard an actual "radio check" on a live emergency net either. Net Control tends to get very annoyed about low priority traffic like that.
Perhaps you're speaking only of a specific area or a specific group of HAMs, but I don't believe your comments apply everywhere.
Clearly in this situation, All Police/Fire/EMS/Dispatch personnel could have used Cell Phones to fill the void, but they didn't. There's a string of failures here, not just one system failing. My suggestion wasn't to replace their coms completely with HAMs, rather to use them in an organized NET to handle the lower priority calls, due to the concern over high volume on the state radio system.
I think people underestimate the degree to which people will volunteer and assist public services when called upon. You can criticize HAMs/Red Cross/etc... all you want for their failures, I'll judge them on their successes when few others are stepping up at all.
I live in Florida, and when weather gets bad it can destroy critical communications equipment (including redundant systems). One thing I've seen done in the past is pushing communications through Amateur radio operators. Who (unlike the name would have you believe) are EXTREMELY professional and they tend to be able to very rapidly deploy communications equipment from the inner cities all the way out to the rural areas. Some of their equipment is capable of city and state coverage, but some of them can also establish international communication on a moments notice. This would have been a good fail-over for the lower priority calls. Just my 2 cents... http://www.arrl.org/ares has some info on the group I'm referencing.
No problem, just wanted to throw it in as an idea... I can say I've personally set up Digital Signage software as a method of mass deploying music to 100's of locations (hotel chain). It worked great, was fairly simple to maintain. But it can absolutely be it's own animal. Any way, I wish you the best of luck on the project, sorry I couldn't offer a solution that matched your needs exactly.
So... can you build a 5 story building? sure... have you personally done it by yourself? doubtful.... Having first hand knowledge of something, and knowing it can be done are not the same thing.. you're a complete idiot if you believe that you need to have done something to know it can be done. Like I said, stop trolling and offer some useful input.
First off, I've never done this with FOSS... That being said, I'm 100% certain it can be done..
You need to accept a couple of things when planning to do this with FOSS:
Remote management can be done, but will require someone who understands the way you set it up
You will probably be custom scripting when your playlists start (cron?)
Updates will require manual playlist modification (goes back to understanding how you set it up)
For an amusement park, I think this is a bad idea... Not sure how big of an IT/Tech savvy staff this location has, but while they're looking to save a few dollars today, are they considering business continuity if you leave or if something happens to this custom system? are they planning to have regular backups done? are they planning for future expansion? etc...
My personal advice would be to avoid broadcast software (Way overpriced for this).... What would be more reasonable is digital signage software... it's designed to do this with audio and video, but you don't have to use the video portions (of course, consider that a future expansion option)... If you want to stick with linux based, I know ParkMedia has a decent setup... If you're willing to consider other (windows) options check into CoolSign.... Those are just 2 that I've used for similar setups, but there are tons of options in that field, that do what you want to do, with easy user interfaces for changing/moving stuff around, and the ability to remote manage them... Also they tend to work in a client server setup, so you back up the server regularly and if a client machine fails you just replace it.
This just in, A database server that usually receives a moderate amount of traffic in a dark datacenter somewhere in Langley, VA exploded today. The cause? Excessive usage due to the sudden increase of suspected terrorists in the US caused by millions of people searching for various nuclear power plants and other high profile terrorism targets because of a debate over map pixelation.
in a later article: Bush has officially added 'Extremist Pixels' to the 'Axis of Evil'
Allowing free access like this seems to have the potential for chaos. Accountability for who is doing what over the connection would be a painful process at best. Hopefully they'll incorporate some type of authentication with a pre-registration required, even if it is free, just to create a sense (even if it ends up being false) of accountability.
well,
for starters, someone shoot the guy that said 'it's called windows.'
Anyhow, on a more realistic note, This is an excellent idea. I've often wondered why clustering is limited to computers owned by one individual or organization, why not a worldwide, scalable, cluster. I guess the biggest concerns are security (who gets to see my data, who gets to copy my data, who can put data on my machine, who can execute code on my machine?) In a utopian society this would be easily resolved with trust. Fact is, if everyone uses the same setup, eventualy, someone will find a way to exploit it, I forsee alot of problems with designing a working, usable ISOS. However, there may be a simpler solution w/ similar if not same results. Why start at the OS level? why not a platform independant application with a lightweight encryption algorythym, redundancy would be a must (if someone kills there computer while it's working on your data there should be several backups to failover to). Also, more importantly, selectivity of what processes, files, etc... get migrated, and what ones don't. I'm no developer, so I'm sure I've made many errors in this reply, but it's just my opinion, I'd love to hear others.
With todays society it figures the disease would be considered the place and not the people, and the cure is to ban the people from the place.... I'd rather a kid at a computer keeping network security professionals on their toes than out on the streets killing. There are already laws against guns, drugs, and violence. It sounds to me like the police need to do a better job of making sure people in places like these are following them rather than restrict their hours, I'm sure the business owners can't be too happy.
Maybe I'm just biased, after all, sitting at a keyboard is likely the only reason I've never been arrested, or in jail, or on drugs.... I say give the kids access to computers throughout the night, just make sure the places are adiquetly policed...
Napster unusable? bah.
You my friend should look into napigator or other related apps. turns napster (the client) into a very powerful opennap server browser. Whats great about opennap servers? well, they typicaly have just as many users/files as the napster owned servers, and absolutely no filtering.
On the other hand, I was anti-napster from day 1. I mean after all, thats what IRC is for, right? lol.
I barely know where to begin. Until I read this story, I have never shed a tear over a news article. Don't get me wrong, I felt bad about the oklahoma bombings, the culumbine shootings, and various other events I've seen unfold. This is the first time I've ever had to take a break from what I was doing and compose myself before reading on.
I can relate to this now lifeless 13 year old boy. I was in his shoes nearly 10 years ago. I took tae kwon do, I didn't excel like he did. I was on my school swim team and did have excellent times. I was also suspended more than once for infractions of what the school system calls a 'code of conduct'. bah. I was yelled at, I was threatened with police involvement. Did I consider suicide? yes. did I attempt it? no. I was afraid of dieing.
The news article that slashdot links to asks the question 'how could someone so young make such a drastic decision?' I ask you, how could they not make drastic decisions? I can not speak for any of this young mans friends, family, or school staff. However, When I was his age, being computer litterate made me different. It made me the 'geek'. I made excellent grades up until 6th grade. Thats when I realized, that because I had done everything ever asked, I was overly criticized. Every little detail of my life was watched by someone. So I gave up. I did what was required to pass my classes. Yes, I regret that decision. But this adds a new perspective on life. You've got a machine, that'll do as you tell it, doesn't ever tell you what to do, and it's fascinating. Anyone ever read 'The Hackers Manifesto?' http://users.1st.net/timdog/Manfesto.html
If you read that, then you have a little insight into the mindset of someone approx. that age. I would see things on the news and be disgusted. People kill people, sell drugs, wage war, break hearts, steal, and me? me? I sit behind a monitor and watch it all go on. How can you expect someone not to get depressed? Who does someone that age turn to? I didn't turn to my parents, I didn't turn to my teachers, I didn't turn to my real life friends. I turned to total strangers that I'd met in various chat rooms on local bbs's. The helped me through it. These were other people, just like me at the time. Who may not have realized it at the time, but they touched my life.
We have too many people asking why this happens, who was at fault, why why why?
In my opinion, It's not the parents fault. It's not the teachers fault, it's not any one persons fault. It's societies fault. Yes, I blame everyone. Sound like an easy cop out? well think about it. Who gets on and talks to people these days. They're not the same crowds that were around before technical support would help any jerk with a phone line and a credit card. So who are your childrens friends?
I'm not saying you should pry and find out. I'm saying that everyone should take a good look in the mirror. If you know a child, of any age (I consider myself still a child at age 22), then be supportive. Try and be a positive influence. No one person causes a person to make life changing decisions. However, that 1 person adds up. You'd be amazed how many people a kid encounters that don't even realize they're influencing someone.
I send my respect, and condolences to the family for their loss. I wish I could do more to help them in their time of need.
To the IT Community, I send my condolences as well, looks like we've lost a good one. Everyone in the industry should show the respect of a moment of silence in his honor.
To society in general, When are we going to learn to love everyone?
These are just my opinions, but I thank anyone who took the time to read them.
With love,
John
Slashdot Mirror
I find it ridiculous to see articles like this. Referencing Los Angeles, Disney Land, and Disney World..... For those that are unaware (and authors of such articles should at least make the effort to find out what they're really writing about), Disney World is in Florida and Disney Land is in California. So beyond my frustration with the confusion of that is the lack of actual information. Ok, a family was barred from traveling. Until we know why, their race, religion, sexual orientation, even the spot they're planning to travel to is irrelevant. I don't care if it was Muslims, Christians, or any of 1000 other religions that they follow. Unless there was credible reason to believe they posed a threat they should have been allowed to travel. If there was credible reason to believe they posed a threat they should have been barred like they were. The problem here is we know they were barred and nothing else. So what's the point of the article? To stir up controversy? Get us some facts to consider before posting this kind of rubbish.
Also, not sure why the UK Government would care why the US is restricting travel to the US. I think every countries government has the right to decide what it considers a threat and deny entry. I'm not saying that I agree that this was a threat, but if there is good reason then they shouldn't care. I also wouldn't think it a big deal for the US government if the UK barred me from traveling there (although I'd love to visit one day, so I hope they don't).
Bitcoin sucks. See stories of millions of stolen bitcoins posted here on Slashdot only weeks ago. Not that its a bad idea outright, just that bitcoin is far from a perfect implementation of a crypo currencey, and fan boys like you keep touting it like the end all be all solution. It is NOT imunne to exploitation and theft.
Are you seriously trying to blame the currency/protocol for exploitation and theft as though to imply that fiat currency is somehow immune to those things? People who have had bitcoin stolen have done so by leaving themselves vulnerable through things such as poor anti-virus, poor password practices, and general ignorance of scams. This is not a flaw in bitcoin (either the currency or the protocol), it's a lack of education for the end user. This is almost identical to putting a hundred dollar bill (fiat currency) on your front porch while you're at work and wondering what happened to it when you come home.
I concede that bitcoin has it's downside, but exploitation and theft is something any and every currency form will always be subject to, if your using that as your anti-bitcoin basis, then your point is rather moot.
I also use and recommend the WD TV Live. I use it in conjunction with a rooted Seagate Go flex home 3 tb NAS. I run transmission on the NAS and use is Web interface to snag torrents of movies and shows. I can then turn my computer off and still be downloading and watching movies. I have 3 of the WD units and they all stream from the NAS simultaneously without skipping a beat.
Do I need a license to go drone hunting? or is it just open season? because that sounds like fun! Also, I believe shooting drones stays well within PETAs goals as I wouldn't be shooting animals :)
Actually, I don't need to speak to "HAMs that have actually attempted to participate in such activities within the last decade." As I am one. I'm not sure what bad experience you've seen with what sounds to have been a poorly organized net. However, it does not describe the entire community and it definitely doesn't apply to all situations. I don't think I've ever heard an actual "radio check" on a live emergency net either. Net Control tends to get very annoyed about low priority traffic like that.
Perhaps you're speaking only of a specific area or a specific group of HAMs, but I don't believe your comments apply everywhere.
Clearly in this situation, All Police/Fire/EMS/Dispatch personnel could have used Cell Phones to fill the void, but they didn't. There's a string of failures here, not just one system failing. My suggestion wasn't to replace their coms completely with HAMs, rather to use them in an organized NET to handle the lower priority calls, due to the concern over high volume on the state radio system.
I think people underestimate the degree to which people will volunteer and assist public services when called upon. You can criticize HAMs/Red Cross/etc... all you want for their failures, I'll judge them on their successes when few others are stepping up at all.
I live in Florida, and when weather gets bad it can destroy critical communications equipment (including redundant systems). One thing I've seen done in the past is pushing communications through Amateur radio operators. Who (unlike the name would have you believe) are EXTREMELY professional and they tend to be able to very rapidly deploy communications equipment from the inner cities all the way out to the rural areas. Some of their equipment is capable of city and state coverage, but some of them can also establish international communication on a moments notice. This would have been a good fail-over for the lower priority calls. Just my 2 cents... http://www.arrl.org/ares has some info on the group I'm referencing.
If I was a multi-billionaire... I'd probably want to play "Sim City Island Paradise - Ultra Realistic Edition" too...
They're just now suing someone? I've been skipping commercials for almost a decade now with MythTV... surprised it took this long.
No problem, just wanted to throw it in as an idea... I can say I've personally set up Digital Signage software as a method of mass deploying music to 100's of locations (hotel chain). It worked great, was fairly simple to maintain. But it can absolutely be it's own animal. Any way, I wish you the best of luck on the project, sorry I couldn't offer a solution that matched your needs exactly.
So... can you build a 5 story building? sure... have you personally done it by yourself? doubtful.... Having first hand knowledge of something, and knowing it can be done are not the same thing.. you're a complete idiot if you believe that you need to have done something to know it can be done. Like I said, stop trolling and offer some useful input.
Troll much?
First off, I've never done this with FOSS... That being said, I'm 100% certain it can be done..
You need to accept a couple of things when planning to do this with FOSS:
Remote management can be done, but will require someone who understands the way you set it up
You will probably be custom scripting when your playlists start (cron?)
Updates will require manual playlist modification (goes back to understanding how you set it up)
For an amusement park, I think this is a bad idea... Not sure how big of an IT/Tech savvy staff this location has, but while they're looking to save a few dollars today, are they considering business continuity if you leave or if something happens to this custom system? are they planning to have regular backups done? are they planning for future expansion? etc...
My personal advice would be to avoid broadcast software (Way overpriced for this).... What would be more reasonable is digital signage software... it's designed to do this with audio and video, but you don't have to use the video portions (of course, consider that a future expansion option)... If you want to stick with linux based, I know ParkMedia has a decent setup... If you're willing to consider other (windows) options check into CoolSign.... Those are just 2 that I've used for similar setups, but there are tons of options in that field, that do what you want to do, with easy user interfaces for changing/moving stuff around, and the ability to remote manage them... Also they tend to work in a client server setup, so you back up the server regularly and if a client machine fails you just replace it.
Just my 2 cents, hope it helps.
This just in, A database server that usually receives a moderate amount of traffic in a dark datacenter somewhere in Langley, VA exploded today. The cause? Excessive usage due to the sudden increase of suspected terrorists in the US caused by millions of people searching for various nuclear power plants and other high profile terrorism targets because of a debate over map pixelation.
in a later article:
Bush has officially added 'Extremist Pixels' to the 'Axis of Evil'
Allowing free access like this seems to have the potential for chaos. Accountability for who is doing what over the connection would be a painful process at best. Hopefully they'll incorporate some type of authentication with a pre-registration required, even if it is free, just to create a sense (even if it ends up being false) of accountability.
oh, great, they think they've served me
glad my client doesn't respond to the notify when read requests....
*weeks later*...
you should have been here, didn't you get the e-mail?
what e-mail?
well,
for starters, someone shoot the guy that said 'it's called windows.'
Anyhow, on a more realistic note, This is an excellent idea. I've often wondered why clustering is limited to computers owned by one individual or organization, why not a worldwide, scalable, cluster. I guess the biggest concerns are security (who gets to see my data, who gets to copy my data, who can put data on my machine, who can execute code on my machine?) In a utopian society this would be easily resolved with trust. Fact is, if everyone uses the same setup, eventualy, someone will find a way to exploit it, I forsee alot of problems with designing a working, usable ISOS. However, there may be a simpler solution w/ similar if not same results. Why start at the OS level? why not a platform independant application with a lightweight encryption algorythym, redundancy would be a must (if someone kills there computer while it's working on your data there should be several backups to failover to). Also, more importantly, selectivity of what processes, files, etc... get migrated, and what ones don't. I'm no developer, so I'm sure I've made many errors in this reply, but it's just my opinion, I'd love to hear others.
Blocsync
With todays society it figures the disease would be considered the place and not the people, and the cure is to ban the people from the place.... I'd rather a kid at a computer keeping network security professionals on their toes than out on the streets killing. There are already laws against guns, drugs, and violence. It sounds to me like the police need to do a better job of making sure people in places like these are following them rather than restrict their hours, I'm sure the business owners can't be too happy.
Maybe I'm just biased, after all, sitting at a keyboard is likely the only reason I've never been arrested, or in jail, or on drugs.... I say give the kids access to computers throughout the night, just make sure the places are adiquetly policed...
I think I can speak on behalf of myself and probably 1000s of other network admins when I say, try it, and prey you can handle the retalliation.
Later
Napster unusable? bah.
You my friend should look into napigator or other related apps. turns napster (the client) into a very powerful opennap server browser. Whats great about opennap servers? well, they typicaly have just as many users/files as the napster owned servers, and absolutely no filtering.
On the other hand, I was anti-napster from day 1. I mean after all, thats what IRC is for, right? lol.
later
-J
I barely know where to begin. Until I read this story, I have never shed a tear over a news article. Don't get me wrong, I felt bad about the oklahoma bombings, the culumbine shootings, and various other events I've seen unfold. This is the first time I've ever had to take a break from what I was doing and compose myself before reading on. I can relate to this now lifeless 13 year old boy. I was in his shoes nearly 10 years ago. I took tae kwon do, I didn't excel like he did. I was on my school swim team and did have excellent times. I was also suspended more than once for infractions of what the school system calls a 'code of conduct'. bah. I was yelled at, I was threatened with police involvement. Did I consider suicide? yes. did I attempt it? no. I was afraid of dieing. The news article that slashdot links to asks the question 'how could someone so young make such a drastic decision?' I ask you, how could they not make drastic decisions? I can not speak for any of this young mans friends, family, or school staff. However, When I was his age, being computer litterate made me different. It made me the 'geek'. I made excellent grades up until 6th grade. Thats when I realized, that because I had done everything ever asked, I was overly criticized. Every little detail of my life was watched by someone. So I gave up. I did what was required to pass my classes. Yes, I regret that decision. But this adds a new perspective on life. You've got a machine, that'll do as you tell it, doesn't ever tell you what to do, and it's fascinating. Anyone ever read 'The Hackers Manifesto?' http://users.1st.net/timdog/Manfesto.html If you read that, then you have a little insight into the mindset of someone approx. that age. I would see things on the news and be disgusted. People kill people, sell drugs, wage war, break hearts, steal, and me? me? I sit behind a monitor and watch it all go on. How can you expect someone not to get depressed? Who does someone that age turn to? I didn't turn to my parents, I didn't turn to my teachers, I didn't turn to my real life friends. I turned to total strangers that I'd met in various chat rooms on local bbs's. The helped me through it. These were other people, just like me at the time. Who may not have realized it at the time, but they touched my life. We have too many people asking why this happens, who was at fault, why why why? In my opinion, It's not the parents fault. It's not the teachers fault, it's not any one persons fault. It's societies fault. Yes, I blame everyone. Sound like an easy cop out? well think about it. Who gets on and talks to people these days. They're not the same crowds that were around before technical support would help any jerk with a phone line and a credit card. So who are your childrens friends? I'm not saying you should pry and find out. I'm saying that everyone should take a good look in the mirror. If you know a child, of any age (I consider myself still a child at age 22), then be supportive. Try and be a positive influence. No one person causes a person to make life changing decisions. However, that 1 person adds up. You'd be amazed how many people a kid encounters that don't even realize they're influencing someone. I send my respect, and condolences to the family for their loss. I wish I could do more to help them in their time of need. To the IT Community, I send my condolences as well, looks like we've lost a good one. Everyone in the industry should show the respect of a moment of silence in his honor. To society in general, When are we going to learn to love everyone? These are just my opinions, but I thank anyone who took the time to read them. With love, John