Usually these deliveries aren't measured per day as much as against a single given day -- release day. If you make that, great. If not your bonus may bite the big one come year end.
I'm just here to give useful information, so mods please punish me appropriately.:-)
The Zenith Silver Sensor is considered the reference antenna for indoor reception. Most comparisons use it as the gold standard, and everything else is given points on how close they can get to the SS.
I bought mine a few years ago when they were easy to find at Sears. If you have a Sears near you I suggest you check their TV department; the devices are low volume and you get lucky and find one on a shelf. If not they are available online: http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?PROD=ZHDTV1
I personally used a Silver Sensor for my HDTV setup in Houston, TX. I am 15 miles or so from the antenna farm and got decent reception without an amp. I eventually switched to QAM decoding when I found the HDHomerun (http://www.silicondust.com/) which works with both Windows and Linux, and has the added benefit of being a network device. For me that's a plus as I can share it.
Good luck on your OTA adventures. It is well worth the trouble when everything works. Having said that, if you can get a cable modem connection, the cable company's cable run will act as an antenna. You can try that without actually tuning any of the channels offered on the cable itself.
Well Jack Valenti's corpse, maybe. Unfortunately the senator from disney is still in office.
If I ran for congress, I would never win as my platform would be to roll back copyrights to 15 years and gut the patent system. Let people innovate, for crying out loud.
The entertainment industry has been dragged kicking and screaming from one bucket of money to the next. CDs will kill the Music industry! Billions of dollars later... VCRS will kill us! Billions of dollars later... DVDS will ruin the movie industry! Many, many more Billions of dollars later... repeat ad nauseum
Most people here will tell you to build a linux box, and they aren't wrong to do so. However you can also use OpenBSD and build an active-active or active-passive firewall with two devices if you like using CARP. Depends on how critical you consider your internet connection. Either way load balancing across multiple ISPs is trival in OpenBSD's pf and is in fact one of their example configurations on their website. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html
Although their pf syntax can appear intimidating at first, it's actually quite easy. Good luck.
So just as a tought experiment, what's to keep me from compiling code that sets this flag and then using oh I dunno any hex dump program to see what the system call and parameters looks like?
Once I know that pattern I can easily patch any binary in the system with perl and remove the offending system call by instead setting the syscall parameter to a safe value, substituting in NOPs, etc.
I guess what Apple is saying is they don't want casual dtracing of their binaries because anyone savvy enough can remove the system call, as of course they still have root.
Unless OS X supports hardware-enforced signed binaries, of course. Which it doesn't.
Shipping from UK to the USA costs more than the device: they want 52.90GBP for the system, and 59.99GBP for shipping! Unless you want to pay 219.75 USD for this device, I highly suggest you find a supplier in the United States.
Myth distributions are easy to download and in my recent experience (last two months) easy to setup for anyone who can be judged a unix power user. Myth is NOT newbie friendly. Even so the real issue with Myth is the front-end is relatively unpolished next to Media Center Edition.
If you have ever administrated a Solaris system, you know that it can be slow to add packages and patches.
I think this represents an uptick on speed, in an attempt to bring Solaris in line with Linux. I say attempt because I don't know if anyone's actually sat down
and drag raced the two OS's installing identical applications via their respective packages and package managers
Really, submitter posted this story 5 days too early.
But seriously this just means Comcast is going to work with the bittorrent folks to put tighter than ever controls in place. They'll shape traffic to prefer the comcast servers and peers to those same peers or any others talking to non-comcast servers. They way they can claim to be embracing p2p traffic while actually throttling anything they don't like.
Real world example -- I manage a financial application that manages the data and day-to-day functions of many now retired legacy systems. It is almost wholly unique to my company because it was not written to be reusable. Even for the sake of argument if the programmers did make it reusable, why would my employer do so? It would just mean giving a leg up to competitors who still use loosely integrated systems, rather than maintaining a single system of record.
I'm all for open source, personally. But there's a strong demarcation between tools and the work that comes from the tools. If there was an open source chisel design and I improved it, you could have my improvements. But you can't have my sculptures. Just my opinion, of course.
You may be right -- I'm sure there are people savvy enough to think if I can get something for free and sell it for a profit, they'll do exactly that. Hell that's just efficient market making in the Adam Smith invisible hand sort of way.
On the other hand you have people with children who sincerely want the tools to help those children succeed, and will gladly use a free or cheap computer qualifies if it means free internet access for junior. People in that category value the computer more than the short term gain from selling the device.
You raise a valid point and it means there needs to be some sort of gate or control to keep people from just profiting by reselling the gear.
As a fellow Houstonian who lived in the Gulfton area before it backslid into such a high crime area, I think you are assuming way too much. There are plenty of devices that can be had free or cheap to get on the net, and that are certainly in the reach of low-income family. I've seen plenty of PSPs ($169) and Nintendo DS ($129) floating around low income neighborhoods just to start, so people are willing to drop even "small" (by your standard or mine) amounts of disposable income on entertainment. And both those devices have 802.11b wireless access. Even so a linux PC from Fry's ($199) or Walmart isn't much more if someone is forced to buy new. You can bet Fry's or someone savvy will start bundling a high-gain antenna and wireless card / usb stick for this market.
In terms of free or cheap, I personally supervised the disposal of hundreds of computers after a major downsizing and was able to redirect some of them to a personal favorite charity. If there had been demand for the balance of the devices I think I could have gotten them all, frankly. But even without a downsizing the City of Houston's Harwin recycling center accepts old computers for recycling, nothing stopping COH from sending them though a volunteer organization to see what's reusable and donating devices. They give away toys and bikes every year at Christmas at the George R. Brown, heck I was there myself last year. But hey just ask your city council members if you don't believe me.
So before you start to poo poo the idea of folks getting access, let me assure you that again I personal experience getting people to volunteer time and equipment for low-income folks who needed laptops or desktops for college.
Having said that, unless it is very dense I think this infrastructure is going to be oversubscribed very, very quickly. Good luck to COH keeping the mesh up once its established! And of course I cringe at the first 911 call because someone's kid can't get on the net and needs to do their homework. You know its going to happen. LOL. (Read fark.com for plenty of examples of that behavior if you don't believe me there either.)
I have an admittedly low end "HD" display in that it is 32" and 720p. Content from an upscaling DVD player or my Media Center box both of which have HDMI connections looks pretty good. I was stopped in my tracks at Fry's this weekend by a Sony 52" 1080P LCD display connected to a Bluray player. That stupid tap-dancing penguin movie literally looks like an entirely new title. And this is one day after seeing a friend's similarly sized Sony LCD projection display with HD-DVD content. There is no comparison. The latest gen high contrast LCD flat panel are totally teh seksay. Now to spend my tax refund on it before the wife can protest.
You hit that right on the head. If you look at the most recent scandals in Finance Societe Generale's 4.9 Billion Euro loss was attributable to someone who allegedly still had access to middle-office systems after moving to the front office, along with the skills to BS senior managers over his positions. Failure in process. They failed to remove access and they failed to follow up on sketchy stories.
Same with the recent extortion attempts at two different banks in Lichtenstein; former bank employees pulled data and then extorted or attempted to extort bank customers. This time failure of process that has nothing to do with technology - you just employed people that ultimately could not be trusted. Their access was required as part of their job -- what firewall can protect against that? (Answer: none, firewalls can only allow or deny access,they don't make context based decisions on intent, i.e. no firewall says "gee normally this guy pulls 10 customer records, but today he pulled 1,000! What's up?)
My hope for some kind of balanced approach to privacy hinges on the generations behind me. The people who grew up online and are suddenly now discovering that the documentation a myspace, facebook or classic blog provides can turn up in uncomfortable and unfair or out of context places like a job interview.
I work for a very large financial company, and frankly love working here because there are a lot of smart people running around solving interesting problems. And yet my company's agenda is not entirely my own, nor could it be. Their corporate politics and all that implies cannot possibly align with the political agenda of their 100's of thousands of employees.
So politics, religion and anything else potentially offensive don't come up in polite conversation in the workplace -- too many verbal minefields. Similarly, where do you draw the line in your online and private life? Some people keep tightly controlled identities online, preferring to sanitize their presence. Other have multiple identities / presences / avatars.
We need the collective wisdom of a generation that has learned the hard way privacy has value, and the collective effort of those cussed and stubborn enough to actually code a workable solution. Now, where did I live that giant spotlight? I have a cloud to light up.
Obviously not to Newark, but short trips are tailor made for flying yourself. I know of more than one person who has a light plane and keeps a beater parked at each airport.
The great thing about private aviation is no TSA checkpoints.
1 - Block suspected SPAM callers completely and play "Number not in Service message" Your phones won't ring and suspected SPAM callers won't be able to leave a message
2 - Send suspected SPAM callers to SPAM voicemail Your phones won't ring but suspected SPAM callers will be able to leave a message. You will be able to access those messages from your SPAM folder.
Grand Central rocks my world. It should be FCC mandated functionality for ALL phone numbers.
My house was built in the 1930's with what looks like "chicken wire" nailed to the 2x4 framing. The wire is what my plaster walls are attached to, and it acts a crude faraday cage. Cell phone reception is nearly impossible, pagers don't work, etc. Needless to say the wire lath for my plaster is not electrified.
You are correct that HD content is available from local broadcasters unencrypted via ASTC. However the context of the headline and the article led me to believe we were discussing the cable industry. Cable operators do not supply broadcast over the air (OTA) programming.
If you want to be pedantic I also ignored options offered outside of The United States, and satellite providers such as DirecTV all of whom offer HD content.
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Usually these deliveries aren't measured per day as much as against a single given day -- release day. If you make that, great.
If not your bonus may bite the big one come year end.
I'm just here to give useful information, so mods please punish me appropriately. :-)
The Zenith Silver Sensor is considered the reference antenna for indoor reception. Most comparisons
use it as the gold standard, and everything else is given points on how close they can get to the SS.
I bought mine a few years ago when they were easy to find at Sears. If you have a Sears near you I suggest
you check their TV department; the devices are low volume and you get lucky and find one on a shelf. If not
they are available online: http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?PROD=ZHDTV1
I personally used a Silver Sensor for my HDTV setup in Houston, TX. I am 15 miles or so from the antenna farm
and got decent reception without an amp. I eventually switched to QAM decoding when I found the HDHomerun
(http://www.silicondust.com/) which works with both Windows and Linux, and has the added benefit of being a
network device. For me that's a plus as I can share it.
Good luck on your OTA adventures. It is well worth the trouble when everything works. Having said that, if you can
get a cable modem connection, the cable company's cable run will act as an antenna. You can try that without actually
tuning any of the channels offered on the cable itself.
Well Jack Valenti's corpse, maybe. Unfortunately the senator from disney is still in office.
If I ran for congress, I would never win as my platform would be to roll back copyrights to 15 years and gut the patent system.
Let people innovate, for crying out loud.
The entertainment industry has been dragged kicking and screaming from one bucket of money to the next.
CDs will kill the Music industry! Billions of dollars later...
VCRS will kill us! Billions of dollars later...
DVDS will ruin the movie industry! Many, many more Billions of dollars later...
repeat ad nauseum
Most people here will tell you to build a linux box, and they aren't wrong to do so.
However you can also use OpenBSD and build an active-active or active-passive firewall with two
devices if you like using CARP. Depends on how critical you consider your internet connection.
Either way load balancing across multiple ISPs is trival in OpenBSD's pf and is in fact one of their
example configurations on their website. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html
Although their pf syntax can appear intimidating at first, it's actually quite easy. Good luck.
So just as a tought experiment, what's to keep me from compiling code that sets this flag and then
using oh I dunno any hex dump program to see what the system call and parameters looks like?
Once I know that pattern I can easily patch any binary in the system with perl and remove the offending
system call by instead setting the syscall parameter to a safe value, substituting in NOPs, etc.
I guess what Apple is saying is they don't want casual dtracing of their binaries because anyone
savvy enough can remove the system call, as of course they still have root.
Unless OS X supports hardware-enforced signed binaries, of course. Which it doesn't.
Paging somersault: Please report to Fark.com!
Paging somersault: Please report for Fark.com headline writing immediately.
Thank you.
And they have a 40% restocking fee to boot! Ripoff artists.
Shipping from UK to the USA costs more than the device: they want 52.90GBP for the system, and 59.99GBP for shipping!
Unless you want to pay 219.75 USD for this device, I highly suggest you find a supplier in the United States.
Myth distributions are easy to download and in my recent experience (last two months) easy to setup
for anyone who can be judged a unix power user. Myth is NOT newbie friendly. Even so the real issue
with Myth is the front-end is relatively unpolished next to Media Center Edition.
LOL, that's because Sun views Linux as a stepping stone to Solaris, me boyo.
:-)
No reason to give away the toys to the "hobbyists."
If you have ever administrated a Solaris system, you know that it can be slow to add packages and patches.
I think this represents an uptick on speed, in an attempt to bring Solaris in line with Linux. I say attempt because I don't know if anyone's actually sat down
and drag raced the two OS's installing identical applications via their respective packages and package managers
Really, submitter posted this story 5 days too early.
But seriously this just means Comcast is going to work with the bittorrent folks
to put tighter than ever controls in place. They'll shape traffic to prefer the comcast
servers and peers to those same peers or any others talking to non-comcast servers.
They way they can claim to be embracing p2p traffic while actually throttling anything
they don't like.
Real world example -- I manage a financial application that manages the data and day-to-day functions
of many now retired legacy systems. It is almost wholly unique to my company because it was
not written to be reusable. Even for the sake of argument if the programmers did
make it reusable, why would my employer do so? It would just mean giving a leg up to
competitors who still use loosely integrated systems, rather than maintaining a single system of record.
I'm all for open source, personally. But there's a strong demarcation between tools and the work that
comes from the tools. If there was an open source chisel design and I improved it, you could have my
improvements. But you can't have my sculptures. Just my opinion, of course.
Penguin,
You may be right -- I'm sure there are people savvy enough to think if I can get something
for free and sell it for a profit, they'll do exactly that. Hell that's just efficient
market making in the Adam Smith invisible hand sort of way.
On the other hand you have people with children who sincerely want the tools to help those
children succeed, and will gladly use a free or cheap computer qualifies if it means free internet access
for junior. People in that category value the computer more than the short term gain
from selling the device.
You raise a valid point and it means there needs to be some sort of gate or control to keep
people from just profiting by reselling the gear.
As a fellow Houstonian who lived in the Gulfton area before it backslid into such a high crime area,
I think you are assuming way too much. There are plenty of devices that can be had free or cheap
to get on the net, and that are certainly in the reach of low-income family. I've seen plenty
of PSPs ($169) and Nintendo DS ($129) floating around low income neighborhoods just to start, so people are willing
to drop even "small" (by your standard or mine) amounts of disposable income on entertainment. And both
those devices have 802.11b wireless access. Even so a linux PC from Fry's ($199) or Walmart isn't much more if
someone is forced to buy new. You can bet Fry's or someone savvy will start bundling a high-gain antenna
and wireless card / usb stick for this market.
In terms of free or cheap, I personally supervised the disposal of hundreds of computers after a major downsizing
and was able to redirect some of them to a personal favorite charity. If there had been demand for the balance
of the devices I think I could have gotten them all, frankly. But even without a downsizing the City of Houston's Harwin recycling
center accepts old computers for recycling, nothing stopping COH from sending them though a volunteer organization
to see what's reusable and donating devices. They give away toys and bikes every year at Christmas at the George R. Brown,
heck I was there myself last year. But hey just ask your city council members if you don't believe me.
So before you start to poo poo the idea of folks getting access, let me assure you that again I personal experience getting people to volunteer
time and equipment for low-income folks who needed laptops or desktops for college.
Having said that, unless it is very dense I think this infrastructure is going to be oversubscribed very, very quickly.
Good luck to COH keeping the mesh up once its established! And of course I cringe at the first 911 call because someone's
kid can't get on the net and needs to do their homework. You know its going to happen. LOL.
(Read fark.com for plenty of examples of that behavior if you don't believe me there either.)
I have an admittedly low end "HD" display in that it is 32" and 720p. Content from an upscaling DVD
player or my Media Center box both of which have HDMI connections looks pretty good.
I was stopped in my tracks at Fry's this weekend by a Sony 52" 1080P LCD display
connected to a Bluray player. That stupid tap-dancing penguin movie literally looks
like an entirely new title. And this is one day after seeing a friend's similarly sized
Sony LCD projection display with HD-DVD content. There is no comparison. The latest gen
high contrast LCD flat panel are totally teh seksay. Now to spend my tax refund on it before
the wife can protest.
You hit that right on the head. If you look at the most recent scandals in Finance
Societe Generale's 4.9 Billion Euro loss was attributable to someone who allegedly still
had access to middle-office systems after moving to the front office, along with
the skills to BS senior managers over his positions. Failure in process.
They failed to remove access and they failed to follow up on sketchy stories.
Same with the recent extortion attempts at two different banks in Lichtenstein;
former bank employees pulled data and then extorted or attempted to extort
bank customers. This time failure of process that has nothing to do with technology -
you just employed people that ultimately could not be trusted. Their access was
required as part of their job -- what firewall can protect against that?
(Answer: none, firewalls can only allow or deny access,they don't make
context based decisions on intent, i.e. no firewall says "gee normally this guy
pulls 10 customer records, but today he pulled 1,000! What's up?)
My hope for some kind of balanced approach to privacy hinges on the generations behind me.
The people who grew up online and are suddenly now discovering that the documentation a
myspace, facebook or classic blog provides can turn up in uncomfortable and unfair or out
of context places like a job interview.
I work for a very large financial company, and frankly love working here because there
are a lot of smart people running around solving interesting problems. And yet my company's
agenda is not entirely my own, nor could it be. Their corporate politics and all that implies
cannot possibly align with the political agenda of their 100's of thousands of employees.
So politics, religion and anything else potentially offensive don't come up in polite
conversation in the workplace -- too many verbal minefields. Similarly, where do you draw the line
in your online and private life? Some people keep tightly controlled identities online, preferring
to sanitize their presence. Other have multiple identities / presences / avatars.
We need the collective wisdom of a generation that has learned the hard way privacy has value,
and the collective effort of those cussed and stubborn enough to actually code a workable
solution. Now, where did I live that giant spotlight? I have a cloud to light up.
Obviously not to Newark, but short trips are tailor made for flying yourself.
I know of more than one person who has a light plane and keeps a beater parked
at each airport.
The great thing about private aviation is no TSA checkpoints.
Smart man to be suspicious. Not to be a pedantic jerkwad, but you mean "MICR" ink, sir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICR
Just a friendly a note since we are all a bunch of nerds who like to take interesting tangents
and learn new things anyway.
My next call will be a diesel as well. Even though Diesel fuel is now
more expensive than gasoline. (It didn't used to be)
In fact there are two options for this:
1 -
Block suspected SPAM callers completely and play "Number not in Service message"
Your phones won't ring and suspected SPAM callers won't be able to leave a message
2 -
Send suspected SPAM callers to SPAM voicemail
Your phones won't ring but suspected SPAM callers will be able to leave a message. You will be able to
access those messages from your SPAM folder.
Grand Central rocks my world. It should be FCC mandated functionality for ALL phone numbers.
My house was built in the 1930's with what looks like "chicken wire" nailed to the 2x4 framing.
The wire is what my plaster walls are attached to, and it acts a crude faraday cage. Cell phone
reception is nearly impossible, pagers don't work, etc. Needless to say the wire lath for my
plaster is not electrified.
What is it with me and typos today -- ATSC, not ASTC.
You are correct that HD content is available from local broadcasters unencrypted via ASTC.
However the context of the headline and the article led me to believe we were discussing
the cable industry. Cable operators do not supply broadcast over the air (OTA) programming.
If you want to be pedantic I also ignored options offered outside of The United States,
and satellite providers such as DirecTV all of whom offer HD content.