Big deal. We city folk spend a hell of a lot more on our apartments/houses than rural folk. The farther away you are from the city, the less you have to spend on your property. The difference more than makes up for the expensive Internet access.
You know that the blades last at least an order of magnitude longer than other ones, right?
The reason the blades are so expensive is because they are of a much higher quality. Gillette spent a ton of money researching the technology they used in those blades.
For me, they last virtually forever. I highly recommend them.
telemetry - n : automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means
Basically, it's what remote weather stations, Mars rovers, satellites, etc. do. Want to monitor stats for a fleet of trucks? Want real-time geological or meteorological data from airplanes? Remote GPS tracking? Even web cams are considered telemetry devices.
The biggest problem in telemetry is the cost of doing satellite communications. Iridium will hopefully bring that cost down for terrestrial applications.
However, I couldn't imagine anybody seriously considering playing Quake over a satellite phone.
Why is it that just about every technology presented here is discussed in relation to Quake? Is it really necessary? Do people honestly think that Quake players will keep these technologies alive?
I'm more interested in ping times for it's impact on distributed computing and the development of real applications, especially those employing XMLRPC and SOAP. How quickly can I get search results from an LDAP server? Most importantly, how real-time is my telemetry data? Telemetry is the *real* killer app for technologies like this...
It used to be called GNU Keyring. I use it all the time. It's quick, stable, open source and all that other good stuff. It generates passwords for you based on settings you pick and works for encrypting notes as well.
That way you don't have to worry about your hardware guys sticking a disk in a password server and brute-forcing any data.
Before I had a Palm I used GPG to encrypt passwords. That's a decent solution, too, as long as you don't save a text version anywhere on your computer. I was also using loopback encryption for certain directories in my home directory. That way, even my private key, all of my encrypted passwords, and anything else sensitive is encrypted. If you're ultra-paranoid and you're the only user of your computer, you can loopback encrypt/tmp as well.
You didn't mention what PCI cards you wanted to stick in there. Network Engines' 1U boxes have two onboard NICs and space for one extra PCI card.
Penguin Computing will soon be delivering 1U boxes with dual NICs. Since they are using more commodity motherboards, they'll probably have integrated sound as well.
There is also the option of using PCMCIA. You can get PCMCIA bridge cards and plug in your peripherals to that. It's too bad there aren't many PCMCIA desktops. You can have an ultra-slim case and if you need expansion, just plug it in and blam. Most Linux distributions will immediately pick up the device and use it, too.
Yet another person complaining about modern games not running on non-modern hardware.
If Microsoft does it it's bad, but game companies can do no wrong?
I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. What's more ridiculous is that the box says "3D Accelerator." If they're going to code to specific hardware, why not tell the consumer what hardware they used?
Is the 32MB G450 I just bought too "old?" Why do I get the feeling that I would have the same problems as the G400 users?
On top of all that, has *anyone* seen source code for RHN? Would you know where to get it? Legitimate question, I was looking for it a while back, but said screw it and wrote my own system.
Speaking of which, has anyone seen documentation for Red Hat's rpmlib.so for Python that is somewhat complete? I found one that was almost a year old, on a mailing list archive but it cuts off just before describing the "callback" argument for the run() function. Interestingly enough, if your callback isn't perfectly right, the program will segfault. No exceptions, nothing. In Python that is wrong, wrong, wrong. One of the major design goals was strong exception handling. Of course, when you're writing modules in C that means actually playing nice...
Oh well, enough ranting... I'm just annoyed by Red Hat's holier-than-thou Open Source stance, while pulling crap like this.
Of course telling people that you're going to have a simulated crisis is not very effective at all. It just has to happen without warning or the workers are definitely going to be prepared.
One day I came in to work and I was told that the CVS server went down. The support staff knew exactly when it went down because NetSaint sent messages to their phones.
I'm not normally support/admin, but I have experience in it so I jumped in to help. Here is what we did:
- Went to the console and tried to boot it up. No go
- I booted from a rescue disk and tried to boot it that way. Nope
- Tried to mount the partitions, found that the partition table was gone
- We then split into two different efforts: I mentioned gpart (guesses lost partition tables) and started running it with various options while the other team began rebuilding the server from backups
- gpart didn't work so I just partitioned it again with the original settings (I've done that successfully before on a home computer)
- That didn't work, but the replacement server was ready by then so we plugged it into the network
Once the backup server was up the head of development announced that he had replaced the CVS server's hard drive with a blank one early that morning.
We all wrote reports on what we did and, while we were pissed for a minute ("You WHAT!?!?!?"), the drill was determined to be a success.
I was freaked out mainly due to the fact that I volunteered to help out... Me and my big mouth:-)*
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Whilst he was certainly critical of it prior to that I'm not aware of him making any complaints about it being under the GPL.
He demanded an "apology" from everyone who used Qt, specifically, the KDE guys.
He later realised that he was pushing it way too far and abandoned ranting about it.
It's EIA-485, by the way. 'RS' stands for "Recommended Standard." EIA-485, and EIA-232 for that matter, have been official standards for quite some time now...
What did IBM have to do with it? I wasn't aware that they designed it. One of the big applications was for fault-tolerant communication in automotive systems (I used to be in that industry). I have never, ever heard of a desktop, or other non-specialised computer with EIA485, including those from IBM.
Why not take a look at all of those embedded boards out there? EIA-485 is a must on those things. I can get transceiver chips from National Semiconductor, Maxim, TI, etc.
IBM did make something called GA-22-6974-0 for the 360/370, but it's not quite multidrop like 485 is. Multiple drivers can share a single line, though.
Interesting 485 tidbit, the electric part of the SCSI standard was based on 485.
Y'know, I hated C++ until I started playing with Qt. By simply doing the tutorial and going through the class docs, I had an epiphany. I would no longer ever imagine doing something large in C. I saw exactly how C++ can be used in the real world to make large projects very easy to do.
I have to thank Qt for teaching me that.
Streams are still evil, though.
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GTK is LGPL. ie it can be linked into proprietary programs. This is a bit friendlier for developers of commercial software.
Ok, now I'm even more confused.
RMS bitches about Qt-GPL, even though using it forces your program to be GPL.
But he pushes GTK, which lets you write as much closed-source software as you want.
Isn't closed-source software exactly what RMS is against.
That wasn't nearly as fun as changing a single variable to make Nuclear Gorilla!
In my mind, having a language, even BASIC, plus example source code in the OS distribution was a very good thing and I was sad to see it disappear. It wasn't long before I was exclusively Linux.
You can't even script in Windows without third-party tools. That's pretty pathetic.
Did anyone notice the way this movie played out like a Final Fantasy game?
Remember how every Final Fantasy game has a point where you get into an airship? Yep, that's there. You know how you always go to one place in the world to find out where in the world you go next? Yep, there's a lot of that. You know how there are always flashbacks? Look at FF8 and the whole Squall/Laguna thing. Check. Characters finding hidden powers/destinies? A lot of that, too.
The cheesiness of it all? Yep.
I really did like it though. I had to suspend my disbelief quite a bit. (double decker bus hits low bridge, top comes clean off, bus maintains high speed, top of bus apparently made from balsa wood)
I also noticed how Gladiator-like the opening scene was, the way the cameras were used.
Yes it was supported. Try using the "Covox Speech Thing" or "Disney Sound Source" drivers. They're all simple DACs that used the Dx lines on the parallel port for the data. ISA sound cards worked on the same principle, but were accessed directly on the bus.
I built one of these and it was sweet. It also worked under Windows 3.x.
A Linux driver would be simple as well, if it hasn't already been done.
Unfortunately, many of those devices have much different power requirements. Your DSL modem will probably need more voltage, and especially more current than your PIC board, because of the power requirements to drive the two data ports (ethernet and WAN).
I like the solutions for guitar pedals out there. My brother has one pedal that provides power to a bunch more. He only needs three or four wall warts (one for the pedals, one for the Ground Control, one for the DSP, and one for the digital recorder, if he's using it). Now he's obsessed with the Voodoo Pedal Power but he wants to build his own with pots for simulating weak batteries, etc.
I really wish there were some standard for local DC power distribution. I envision a data-capable bus where a device could request the voltage it wants, so that the regulator wouldn't dissipate too much heat if it operated on 3.3V instead of 12V.
With something like that in my power supply, I'd be happy. Only X-10 stuff would waste space then.
Actually, that could be workable with existing equipment using small boxes on "legacy" devices... Sounds like a good application for a PIC12C508 for each device, with a PIC16Cxxx as the main power controller...
If anybody else is interested, feel free to email me. We could draft up something pretty quickly with this.
Besides, what Linux maven will pay $200 for a Linux distro
I paid CAN$130 for SuSE 7.1. I believe it was worth every penny and I probably would have paid more.
Having one DVD to use instead of seven CDs is great, and the PS2 development kit is DVD, allowing a huge amount of stuff.
If Sony pays as much attention to documentation as SuSE, I'd probably be a taker (the other reason I didn't mind paying $130, a massive amount of printed text). I signed that petition, too, and I don't sign those things unless I'm serious.
I think its great he donates pc's and software to underfunded libraries and schools, can Linus say that or any other OS developer?
Quite frankly, yes.
It's surprising that that you know Linus' name, yet are completely oblivious to the fact that he gave Linux away, not just to a couple of places as a marketing effort, but to everybody, regardless of who they were or whether he could send out a press release or not.
Has Linux promoted the giving away of hardware to the underfunded? Again, yes. Older computers are revitalised and used instead of thrown out because they were useless with Windows. Computers are also cheaper when you don't have to pay for an OS.
Next, remember that this is from a community of people who are not billionaires, or even millionaires.
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Ok, so it's a lot more expensive than DSL/cable.
Big deal. We city folk spend a hell of a lot more on our apartments/houses than rural folk. The farther away you are from the city, the less you have to spend on your property. The difference more than makes up for the expensive Internet access.
You know that the blades last at least an order of magnitude longer than other ones, right?
The reason the blades are so expensive is because they are of a much higher quality. Gillette spent a ton of money researching the technology they used in those blades.
For me, they last virtually forever. I highly recommend them.
Basically, it's what remote weather stations, Mars rovers, satellites, etc. do. Want to monitor stats for a fleet of trucks? Want real-time geological or meteorological data from airplanes? Remote GPS tracking? Even web cams are considered telemetry devices.
The biggest problem in telemetry is the cost of doing satellite communications. Iridium will hopefully bring that cost down for terrestrial applications.
The calculations are sound, which I applaud.
However, I couldn't imagine anybody seriously considering playing Quake over a satellite phone.
Why is it that just about every technology presented here is discussed in relation to Quake? Is it really necessary? Do people honestly think that Quake players will keep these technologies alive?
I'm more interested in ping times for it's impact on distributed computing and the development of real applications, especially those employing XMLRPC and SOAP. How quickly can I get search results from an LDAP server? Most importantly, how real-time is my telemetry data? Telemetry is the *real* killer app for technologies like this...
check out Keyring for PalmOS
/tmp as well.
It used to be called GNU Keyring. I use it all the time. It's quick, stable, open source and all that other good stuff. It generates passwords for you based on settings you pick and works for encrypting notes as well.
That way you don't have to worry about your hardware guys sticking a disk in a password server and brute-forcing any data.
Before I had a Palm I used GPG to encrypt passwords. That's a decent solution, too, as long as you don't save a text version anywhere on your computer. I was also using loopback encryption for certain directories in my home directory. That way, even my private key, all of my encrypted passwords, and anything else sensitive is encrypted. If you're ultra-paranoid and you're the only user of your computer, you can loopback encrypt
I successfully ran NetBSD on an old diskless Sun3/80. It worked like a charm.
You might be able to store NetBSD on a server and get the terminals to boot from the network.
Your fake email address is indeed fake. You might want to change it though.
.com so that there would be no chance of you causing them problems. Use nowhere.fake instead.
nowhere.com is a real address. I'm not sure if they'd be happy with you using their domain in such a manner.
I recommend using a fake TLD instead of
You didn't mention what PCI cards you wanted to stick in there. Network Engines' 1U boxes have two onboard NICs and space for one extra PCI card.
Penguin Computing will soon be delivering 1U boxes with dual NICs. Since they are using more commodity motherboards, they'll probably have integrated sound as well.
There is also the option of using PCMCIA. You can get PCMCIA bridge cards and plug in your peripherals to that. It's too bad there aren't many PCMCIA desktops. You can have an ultra-slim case and if you need expansion, just plug it in and blam. Most Linux distributions will immediately pick up the device and use it, too.
So, is Richard Stallman an approximation or is he True RMS?
Yes, yes, I can hear you groaning...
If Microsoft does it it's bad, but game companies can do no wrong?
I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. What's more ridiculous is that the box says "3D Accelerator." If they're going to code to specific hardware, why not tell the consumer what hardware they used?
Is the 32MB G450 I just bought too "old?" Why do I get the feeling that I would have the same problems as the G400 users?
Too bad, I was about to go for the bundle, too.
How about the time I accidentally did 'rpm -e rpm'?
I find it very strange that nothing appears to depend on RPM in RedHat...
On top of all that, has *anyone* seen source code for RHN? Would you know where to get it? Legitimate question, I was looking for it a while back, but said screw it and wrote my own system.
Speaking of which, has anyone seen documentation for Red Hat's rpmlib.so for Python that is somewhat complete? I found one that was almost a year old, on a mailing list archive but it cuts off just before describing the "callback" argument for the run() function. Interestingly enough, if your callback isn't perfectly right, the program will segfault. No exceptions, nothing. In Python that is wrong, wrong, wrong. One of the major design goals was strong exception handling. Of course, when you're writing modules in C that means actually playing nice...
Oh well, enough ranting... I'm just annoyed by Red Hat's holier-than-thou Open Source stance, while pulling crap like this.
Of course telling people that you're going to have a simulated crisis is not very effective at all. It just has to happen without warning or the workers are definitely going to be prepared.
:-)*
One day I came in to work and I was told that the CVS server went down. The support staff knew exactly when it went down because NetSaint sent messages to their phones.
I'm not normally support/admin, but I have experience in it so I jumped in to help. Here is what we did:
- Went to the console and tried to boot it up. No go
- I booted from a rescue disk and tried to boot it that way. Nope
- Tried to mount the partitions, found that the partition table was gone
- We then split into two different efforts: I mentioned gpart (guesses lost partition tables) and started running it with various options while the other team began rebuilding the server from backups
- gpart didn't work so I just partitioned it again with the original settings (I've done that successfully before on a home computer)
- That didn't work, but the replacement server was ready by then so we plugged it into the network
Once the backup server was up the head of development announced that he had replaced the CVS server's hard drive with a blank one early that morning.
We all wrote reports on what we did and, while we were pissed for a minute ("You WHAT!?!?!?"), the drill was determined to be a success.
I was freaked out mainly due to the fact that I volunteered to help out... Me and my big mouth
He demanded an "apology" from everyone who used Qt, specifically, the KDE guys.
He later realised that he was pushing it way too far and abandoned ranting about it.
It's EIA-485, by the way. 'RS' stands for "Recommended Standard." EIA-485, and EIA-232 for that matter, have been official standards for quite some time now...
What did IBM have to do with it? I wasn't aware that they designed it. One of the big applications was for fault-tolerant communication in automotive systems (I used to be in that industry). I have never, ever heard of a desktop, or other non-specialised computer with EIA485, including those from IBM.
Why not take a look at all of those embedded boards out there? EIA-485 is a must on those things. I can get transceiver chips from National Semiconductor, Maxim, TI, etc.
IBM did make something called GA-22-6974-0 for the 360/370, but it's not quite multidrop like 485 is. Multiple drivers can share a single line, though.
Interesting 485 tidbit, the electric part of the SCSI standard was based on 485.
Y'know, I hated C++ until I started playing with Qt. By simply doing the tutorial and going through the class docs, I had an epiphany. I would no longer ever imagine doing something large in C. I saw exactly how C++ can be used in the real world to make large projects very easy to do.
I have to thank Qt for teaching me that.
Streams are still evil, though.
Ok, now I'm even more confused.
RMS bitches about Qt-GPL, even though using it forces your program to be GPL.
But he pushes GTK, which lets you write as much closed-source software as you want.
Isn't closed-source software exactly what RMS is against.
I think an apology is in order.
That wasn't nearly as fun as changing a single variable to make Nuclear Gorilla!
In my mind, having a language, even BASIC, plus example source code in the OS distribution was a very good thing and I was sad to see it disappear. It wasn't long before I was exclusively Linux.
You can't even script in Windows without third-party tools. That's pretty pathetic.
Did anyone notice the way this movie played out like a Final Fantasy game?
Remember how every Final Fantasy game has a point where you get into an airship? Yep, that's there. You know how you always go to one place in the world to find out where in the world you go next? Yep, there's a lot of that. You know how there are always flashbacks? Look at FF8 and the whole Squall/Laguna thing. Check. Characters finding hidden powers/destinies? A lot of that, too.
The cheesiness of it all? Yep.
I really did like it though. I had to suspend my disbelief quite a bit. (double decker bus hits low bridge, top comes clean off, bus maintains high speed, top of bus apparently made from balsa wood)
I also noticed how Gladiator-like the opening scene was, the way the cameras were used.
Yes it was supported. Try using the "Covox Speech Thing" or "Disney Sound Source" drivers. They're all simple DACs that used the Dx lines on the parallel port for the data. ISA sound cards worked on the same principle, but were accessed directly on the bus.
I built one of these and it was sweet. It also worked under Windows 3.x.
A Linux driver would be simple as well, if it hasn't already been done.
Unfortunately, many of those devices have much different power requirements. Your DSL modem will probably need more voltage, and especially more current than your PIC board, because of the power requirements to drive the two data ports (ethernet and WAN).
I like the solutions for guitar pedals out there. My brother has one pedal that provides power to a bunch more. He only needs three or four wall warts (one for the pedals, one for the Ground Control, one for the DSP, and one for the digital recorder, if he's using it). Now he's obsessed with the Voodoo Pedal Power but he wants to build his own with pots for simulating weak batteries, etc.
I really wish there were some standard for local DC power distribution. I envision a data-capable bus where a device could request the voltage it wants, so that the regulator wouldn't dissipate too much heat if it operated on 3.3V instead of 12V.
With something like that in my power supply, I'd be happy. Only X-10 stuff would waste space then.
Actually, that could be workable with existing equipment using small boxes on "legacy" devices... Sounds like a good application for a PIC12C508 for each device, with a PIC16Cxxx as the main power controller...
If anybody else is interested, feel free to email me. We could draft up something pretty quickly with this.
I paid CAN$130 for SuSE 7.1. I believe it was worth every penny and I probably would have paid more.
Having one DVD to use instead of seven CDs is great, and the PS2 development kit is DVD, allowing a huge amount of stuff.
If Sony pays as much attention to documentation as SuSE, I'd probably be a taker (the other reason I didn't mind paying $130, a massive amount of printed text). I signed that petition, too, and I don't sign those things unless I'm serious.
Quite frankly, yes.
It's surprising that that you know Linus' name, yet are completely oblivious to the fact that he gave Linux away, not just to a couple of places as a marketing effort, but to everybody, regardless of who they were or whether he could send out a press release or not.
Has Linux promoted the giving away of hardware to the underfunded? Again, yes. Older computers are revitalised and used instead of thrown out because they were useless with Windows. Computers are also cheaper when you don't have to pay for an OS.
Next, remember that this is from a community of people who are not billionaires, or even millionaires.
Too bad the Python doesn't get executed.
:-)*
Maybe in Squishdot, as long as rexec is used, of course. You could import StructuredText from Zope and your post could act like a Wiki.
- *this* would look like this
- **this** would look like this
The above would become an actual HTML bulleted list.
http://this.would.be/a/link
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Ah, well.
Have you used it lately? GNOME is more similar to Windows than KDE these days.