I'm interested in this but it seems to be pretty hardware picky - NIC in particular. I tried setting it up on a spare 4core machine and it refused to fully setup due to a NIC that was incompatible. I'd LOVE to get ESXi running to play with it but have not found anything regarding reasonable hardware for HOME use. I have used it in the office in a lab environment and being able to play with it at home would be helpful to gain knowledge about it:-(
Take a close look at unRAID. You might be surprised to find that you can recycle ALL of your hardware used now and maybe even GAIN some space depending upon how much you're dedicating to an OS right now:-)
Ah, gotcha! I will tell you, from experience, that at some point drives WILL go bad. That may not be a big deal to you but if losing any of that data is an issue you're going to want to pick some means of protecting it. Be it unRAID, RAID xyz, or ZFS, it's certainly less pain if you have something helping you recover data when a drive dies. Because they DO die, these newer ones seem to be worse than the much older ones too. WD, Seagate, all of them
One thing I do when I install them is write the date put in service on them with a Sharpie so when they die you have an idea as to how long they lived. WD's warranty program has proven painless, Seagate's less so. Seagate requires you to run diagnostics which doesn't always work and I've got at least one Seagate drive they cannot seem to find in their system - it's internal serial number doesn't match the one printed on the outside either. The joys of dealing with HDD manufacturers...
Unfortunatly from the little research I've done so far I'm not going to be able to use these 3TB drives real soon:-(
Honestly I think I'd be building using a system that doesn't force you to buy all the same sized disks. With unRAID I only have to make sure the parity disk is as big or bigger than all the others. I'm currently slowly swapping out 750-1.5TB drives to 2TB as they fill up. I REALLY prefer to keep spindle count down if I can - less noise, less heat, but far longer build and format times
A little commercial snipping and H.264 compression will help solve that. Even if you knock the resolution down it will look better than SD and take up much less space. I've given up storing TV shows at full resolution - takes too much space! I don't mind the "SD" stuff that's been knocked down from HD captures though - it looks good to me. I compress BD too just because I cannot notice the difference and it can take down the file size by at least a third except in weird cases where it gets bigger (lol). DVD though - I don't compress those suckers at all, 4-9Gig is nothing to me:-)
Here's what did it for me. Picture a large rack of DVD in your living room. All nice and alphabetical and tidy - tidying this is a hassle BTW as new DVD are purchased. Now picture the following scenarios... Friend or family comes over and wants to borrow "some DVD" and begins pawing through them. They take a few... weeks go by and you finally get them back. That is mildly irritating but no biggie really unless they come back scratched or get "lost". Now imagine this - you are having some workers into your home to say clean carpets. They walk in the door and stop dead in their tracks looking at the rack "WOW man! That's ALOT of DVD!". Visions of having had your CD collection stolen from your car 3 times race through your head - to include finding some of them at the local used CD shop (where you bought most of them to begin with). This is not a fun feeling and the investment is FAR higher.
Hrm says you - perhaps having all of this media put away in a box somewhere and only having a very friendly user interface like XBMC and a server sitting in the corner streaming them would be smarter.....
I now have a few TVs in my home and each of them have a small ION powered box next to them running Linux with XBMC loaded. I can play any movie I store, any song I store, or stream many kinds of media from my central server without issue. Can display all of my pics this way too. No longer do I worry about someone walking in and spotting my media coming back later to make a quick buck. I do have to worry about them stealing the damned TV - maybe one day I'll have a home that's suited for a projector:-)
Suuure they are - Supermicro makes a very nice 5n3 device that allows you to cram 5 drives where 3 would normally go. Has it's own cooling fan and takes less than 5 power connections too. setup a RAID on that and you're good to go. I use unRAID for my video and backups, works well on standard hardware. Lots of other ways to do this too but with little trouble you too can be rocking 16TB or more - especially with new 3TB drives hitting the streets:-D
Agree, in my case I use unRAID which puts all parity on a single drive and uses standard FS for the rest. I get to use all but one drive for storage, can spin down drives not being accessed, and if I DO lose two drives I only lose the data on those two and not the entire array. I can use standard tools to try and recover those drives too. A double drive failure is very scary! I cannot back my stuff up with tape - too costly. But I can recreate most of my stuff and my music is backed up in multiple places. Hrm, need to do that again actually...
So far I've never lost more than one drive but I have lost 5-6 single drives over the years I've been using this software. I've got about 16TB spread over 2 servers mostly because I use one for testing\backups, and the other just for video and music storage. With these new drives I could put a single server up into the 40TB++ range. That's sick!
Ubuntu is actually pretty damned easy to load and use and IMO the easiest desktop Linux to live with. for surfing and general desktop work it's really all most would need. However I play games and am more comfortable in Winders so it's my primary but Linux is installed on several servers, a PBX, and a couple of HTPC and I can get around in it pretty good. Linux IS getting better and when someone asks me what to put on their computer my automatic answer is no longer Windows. I don't know what Linux will ever "take over" but it's becoming more and more viable - far from "dead" IMO.
It was delayed. There was a serious helicopter accident during some of the preliminary runs that put a serious crimp in the activities. The chopper was apparently filming when it occurred so the vehicle was making practice runs but it remains to be seen if it can tackle the hill as quickly as a human.
Company filled with really smart curious guys and a bunch of cash.... I think at least one or two of the Microsoft guys are involved in commercial rocketry efforts BTW...
to see a conversation involving cars where no one says BREAKS when they mean BRAKES! BRAKES are what slow the car. BREAKS means it's time to get it fixed. And for the guy who used both in his post - I'm in awe...
That said - I am of mixed emotions about autonomous driving. I LIKE to drive. But at the same time I recognize that traffic flow and MPG would be far far higher if something a bit less emotional than a human was doing the driving. Mixing autonomous and drivers together on the same road certainly does seem like potential trouble waiting to happen... Bravo to Google for working on this though!
You might want to read above from the poster talking about a local Geothermal plant near his home that has huge issues with Arsenic clogging up the turbines - and the truly scary "EPA Approved" methods for cleaning and encapsulating it. It seems that Geothermal can bring with it a host of heavy metal issues:-(
So far the only Kindle media that's been giving me issues is the magazines I get for some reason. Otherwise it's all cake with Mobidedrm:-) Not looked for a later version that might fix the magazines although I guess I should
Ouch, see if I tell you site names then those sites will run into issues. PirateBay was a good one, I've not looked lately. Pretty much simply searching the title of the book and the word torrent will get you there although you may need to preclude the word "audio" from the search. If that doesn't work try the author's name alone. Even then it's a crapshoot, someone has to have been interested enough in the book to either scan it and post or buy it and strip the DRM while at the same time being geeky enough to know about torrents. Newsgroups likely also have books but I've not fired up a newsreader in ages.
I'm sorry I don't wish to be more specific but that ought to get you started. It does truly suck that it's come to this. Prior to the market going haywire I wouldn't have ever really considered using bittorent for this but now? Now I don't feel too bad about it simply because I feel the publishers tried to take advantage of both me and of Amazon and I'd prefer they not get my money...
I have applied those rules and with many of the things I wish to read it's simply means NO books. So for the time being I torrent them. If I have the opportunity to tip the author I will, if in the future the market returns to sanity then, like with music, I will begin buying again. I used to pirate music like crazy! Now, I use the Amazon music store anytime I want music. The reasoning for me was simple - price and lack of DRM. For books it's even easier - put the prices back into a sane range!
Honestly I see MANY people asking for text books on Kindle and others. The ONE thing I do NOT like on Kindle or other e-reader is reference or textbooks. I read exactly ONE self-help type book on Kindle and I found it was an awful experience. Yes, you can bookmark but it's clumsy, so is annotation. I finally broke down and bought the paper copy and used a highlighter and bent corners - way easier. I think it's going to be awhile before textbooks and reference books are usable on an electronic reader:-( The only time I find this halfway reasonable is when I need to SEARCH across many electronic books at once - at that point electronic is way nicer.
Correct, I've not worked with authors other than to read end-product. However I love to read A LOT! I began having issues buying books when their price crept up past the $4-5 range for paperbacks - I began buying used. Then Costco and other discount pipelines became available and I could get hardbacks for pretty reasonable prices. But my bookshelves overflowed and I really hate to get rid of books. I found out about the Kindle, tried it out, and began reading more than ever! Then this row with Amazon began and next thing I knew books that I'd been paying $9 or less for now cost $12 or more. I'm sorry but when I can read a book in a matter of a few sittings over say 2-3 days that is just way too much - I guess I was spoiled. So, I no longer buy from the publishers and my reading has gone way down.
I know multiple people who own Kindles and many who are interested in them come to me asking about mine. When I travel on airplanes people ask me about it pretty often and I'm always happy to show it off. However now when I show it off I have to advise them to go look at book prices BEFORE they buy. Because while the Kindle price has fallen into a range where many can afford it the book prices put it out of reach - you cannot goto a used book store and buy an e-book.
Every single person I know who owns a Kindle reads more now than they used to or did before prices forced them to be much more picky about what they buy. Frankly it's pretty sad...
Yeah, pretty interesting huh? That guy has been posting sales numbers for months and has had all sorts of advice and insight for others. He gives away a great deal of books on his web site too. He actually had to RAISE prices in order to participate in some of the Amazon programs that benefit him most and he really wrung his hands over the decision. But he's doing well apparently and I think it's great that he's proving the publishers so very wrong.
Sadly his genre isn't one that interests me or I'd be all over his books. If someone the likes of Jim Butcher ever did this I'd be doing handstands...
An iPad's screen is no better for eye strain than the LCD I'm using now. Eye strain being what the post I responded to was complaining about
I don't happen to read in bed much but I do read on trips. When the iPad can keep itself charged for a week or more, not strain my eyes, and not cost a mint I'll be more interested. My Kindle 1s page turn time doesn't annoy me and they have sped that up in each of the two subsequent models if it's that big an issue for you.
Pretty much at the point they went from treating me with respect to treating me like shit. Fuck 'em. They use their legal departments to lobby to pass laws favorable to no one but themselves, they strong-arm retailers, and they treat their authors no better than the RIAA treats artists. Let them starve. I will support the authors I can as best I can but not this way. They are actively trying to cripple a nascent industry because it doesn't suit their rooted ways, I look forward to their demise.
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I'm interested in this but it seems to be pretty hardware picky - NIC in particular. I tried setting it up on a spare 4core machine and it refused to fully setup due to a NIC that was incompatible. I'd LOVE to get ESXi running to play with it but have not found anything regarding reasonable hardware for HOME use. I have used it in the office in a lab environment and being able to play with it at home would be helpful to gain knowledge about it :-(
Take a close look at unRAID. You might be surprised to find that you can recycle ALL of your hardware used now and maybe even GAIN some space depending upon how much you're dedicating to an OS right now :-)
Ah, gotcha! I will tell you, from experience, that at some point drives WILL go bad. That may not be a big deal to you but if losing any of that data is an issue you're going to want to pick some means of protecting it. Be it unRAID, RAID xyz, or ZFS, it's certainly less pain if you have something helping you recover data when a drive dies. Because they DO die, these newer ones seem to be worse than the much older ones too. WD, Seagate, all of them
One thing I do when I install them is write the date put in service on them with a Sharpie so when they die you have an idea as to how long they lived. WD's warranty program has proven painless, Seagate's less so. Seagate requires you to run diagnostics which doesn't always work and I've got at least one Seagate drive they cannot seem to find in their system - it's internal serial number doesn't match the one printed on the outside either. The joys of dealing with HDD manufacturers...
Unfortunatly from the little research I've done so far I'm not going to be able to use these 3TB drives real soon :-(
Honestly I think I'd be building using a system that doesn't force you to buy all the same sized disks. With unRAID I only have to make sure the parity disk is as big or bigger than all the others. I'm currently slowly swapping out 750-1.5TB drives to 2TB as they fill up. I REALLY prefer to keep spindle count down if I can - less noise, less heat, but far longer build and format times
A little commercial snipping and H.264 compression will help solve that. Even if you knock the resolution down it will look better than SD and take up much less space. I've given up storing TV shows at full resolution - takes too much space! I don't mind the "SD" stuff that's been knocked down from HD captures though - it looks good to me. I compress BD too just because I cannot notice the difference and it can take down the file size by at least a third except in weird cases where it gets bigger (lol). DVD though - I don't compress those suckers at all, 4-9Gig is nothing to me :-)
Here's what did it for me. Picture a large rack of DVD in your living room. All nice and alphabetical and tidy - tidying this is a hassle BTW as new DVD are purchased. Now picture the following scenarios... Friend or family comes over and wants to borrow "some DVD" and begins pawing through them. They take a few... weeks go by and you finally get them back. That is mildly irritating but no biggie really unless they come back scratched or get "lost". Now imagine this - you are having some workers into your home to say clean carpets. They walk in the door and stop dead in their tracks looking at the rack "WOW man! That's ALOT of DVD!". Visions of having had your CD collection stolen from your car 3 times race through your head - to include finding some of them at the local used CD shop (where you bought most of them to begin with). This is not a fun feeling and the investment is FAR higher.
Hrm says you - perhaps having all of this media put away in a box somewhere and only having a very friendly user interface like XBMC and a server sitting in the corner streaming them would be smarter.....
I now have a few TVs in my home and each of them have a small ION powered box next to them running Linux with XBMC loaded. I can play any movie I store, any song I store, or stream many kinds of media from my central server without issue. Can display all of my pics this way too. No longer do I worry about someone walking in and spotting my media coming back later to make a quick buck. I do have to worry about them stealing the damned TV - maybe one day I'll have a home that's suited for a projector :-)
Suuure they are - Supermicro makes a very nice 5n3 device that allows you to cram 5 drives where 3 would normally go. Has it's own cooling fan and takes less than 5 power connections too. setup a RAID on that and you're good to go. I use unRAID for my video and backups, works well on standard hardware. Lots of other ways to do this too but with little trouble you too can be rocking 16TB or more - especially with new 3TB drives hitting the streets :-D
Agree, in my case I use unRAID which puts all parity on a single drive and uses standard FS for the rest. I get to use all but one drive for storage, can spin down drives not being accessed, and if I DO lose two drives I only lose the data on those two and not the entire array. I can use standard tools to try and recover those drives too. A double drive failure is very scary! I cannot back my stuff up with tape - too costly. But I can recreate most of my stuff and my music is backed up in multiple places. Hrm, need to do that again actually...
So far I've never lost more than one drive but I have lost 5-6 single drives over the years I've been using this software. I've got about 16TB spread over 2 servers mostly because I use one for testing\backups, and the other just for video and music storage. With these new drives I could put a single server up into the 40TB++ range. That's sick!
Ubuntu is actually pretty damned easy to load and use and IMO the easiest desktop Linux to live with. for surfing and general desktop work it's really all most would need. However I play games and am more comfortable in Winders so it's my primary but Linux is installed on several servers, a PBX, and a couple of HTPC and I can get around in it pretty good. Linux IS getting better and when someone asks me what to put on their computer my automatic answer is no longer Windows. I don't know what Linux will ever "take over" but it's becoming more and more viable - far from "dead" IMO.
Yeah but some of us have 4-5 computers - or more! Of course not all of mine run Winders either but still I'm helping make up for the have-nots :-P
Note that this is for ENcoding not DEcoding. VDPAU and the others do DEcoding.
It was delayed. There was a serious helicopter accident during some of the preliminary runs that put a serious crimp in the activities. The chopper was apparently filming when it occurred so the vehicle was making practice runs but it remains to be seen if it can tackle the hill as quickly as a human.
Company filled with really smart curious guys and a bunch of cash.... I think at least one or two of the Microsoft guys are involved in commercial rocketry efforts BTW...
You mean like the one that was tackling Pikes Peak? At full speed....
to see a conversation involving cars where no one says BREAKS when they mean BRAKES! BRAKES are what slow the car. BREAKS means it's time to get it fixed. And for the guy who used both in his post - I'm in awe...
That said - I am of mixed emotions about autonomous driving. I LIKE to drive. But at the same time I recognize that traffic flow and MPG would be far far higher if something a bit less emotional than a human was doing the driving. Mixing autonomous and drivers together on the same road certainly does seem like potential trouble waiting to happen... Bravo to Google for working on this though!
You might want to read above from the poster talking about a local Geothermal plant near his home that has huge issues with Arsenic clogging up the turbines - and the truly scary "EPA Approved" methods for cleaning and encapsulating it. It seems that Geothermal can bring with it a host of heavy metal issues :-(
So far the only Kindle media that's been giving me issues is the magazines I get for some reason. Otherwise it's all cake with Mobidedrm :-) Not looked for a later version that might fix the magazines although I guess I should
Ouch, see if I tell you site names then those sites will run into issues. PirateBay was a good one, I've not looked lately. Pretty much simply searching the title of the book and the word torrent will get you there although you may need to preclude the word "audio" from the search. If that doesn't work try the author's name alone. Even then it's a crapshoot, someone has to have been interested enough in the book to either scan it and post or buy it and strip the DRM while at the same time being geeky enough to know about torrents. Newsgroups likely also have books but I've not fired up a newsreader in ages.
I'm sorry I don't wish to be more specific but that ought to get you started. It does truly suck that it's come to this. Prior to the market going haywire I wouldn't have ever really considered using bittorent for this but now? Now I don't feel too bad about it simply because I feel the publishers tried to take advantage of both me and of Amazon and I'd prefer they not get my money...
I have applied those rules and with many of the things I wish to read it's simply means NO books. So for the time being I torrent them. If I have the opportunity to tip the author I will, if in the future the market returns to sanity then, like with music, I will begin buying again. I used to pirate music like crazy! Now, I use the Amazon music store anytime I want music. The reasoning for me was simple - price and lack of DRM. For books it's even easier - put the prices back into a sane range!
Hrm, and copying a book isn't theft.
Honestly I see MANY people asking for text books on Kindle and others. The ONE thing I do NOT like on Kindle or other e-reader is reference or textbooks. I read exactly ONE self-help type book on Kindle and I found it was an awful experience. Yes, you can bookmark but it's clumsy, so is annotation. I finally broke down and bought the paper copy and used a highlighter and bent corners - way easier. I think it's going to be awhile before textbooks and reference books are usable on an electronic reader :-( The only time I find this halfway reasonable is when I need to SEARCH across many electronic books at once - at that point electronic is way nicer.
Correct, I've not worked with authors other than to read end-product. However I love to read A LOT! I began having issues buying books when their price crept up past the $4-5 range for paperbacks - I began buying used. Then Costco and other discount pipelines became available and I could get hardbacks for pretty reasonable prices. But my bookshelves overflowed and I really hate to get rid of books. I found out about the Kindle, tried it out, and began reading more than ever! Then this row with Amazon began and next thing I knew books that I'd been paying $9 or less for now cost $12 or more. I'm sorry but when I can read a book in a matter of a few sittings over say 2-3 days that is just way too much - I guess I was spoiled. So, I no longer buy from the publishers and my reading has gone way down.
I know multiple people who own Kindles and many who are interested in them come to me asking about mine. When I travel on airplanes people ask me about it pretty often and I'm always happy to show it off. However now when I show it off I have to advise them to go look at book prices BEFORE they buy. Because while the Kindle price has fallen into a range where many can afford it the book prices put it out of reach - you cannot goto a used book store and buy an e-book.
Every single person I know who owns a Kindle reads more now than they used to or did before prices forced them to be much more picky about what they buy. Frankly it's pretty sad...
Yeah, pretty interesting huh? That guy has been posting sales numbers for months and has had all sorts of advice and insight for others. He gives away a great deal of books on his web site too. He actually had to RAISE prices in order to participate in some of the Amazon programs that benefit him most and he really wrung his hands over the decision. But he's doing well apparently and I think it's great that he's proving the publishers so very wrong.
Sadly his genre isn't one that interests me or I'd be all over his books. If someone the likes of Jim Butcher ever did this I'd be doing handstands...
An iPad's screen is no better for eye strain than the LCD I'm using now. Eye strain being what the post I responded to was complaining about
I don't happen to read in bed much but I do read on trips. When the iPad can keep itself charged for a week or more, not strain my eyes, and not cost a mint I'll be more interested. My Kindle 1s page turn time doesn't annoy me and they have sped that up in each of the two subsequent models if it's that big an issue for you.
Pretty much at the point they went from treating me with respect to treating me like shit. Fuck 'em. They use their legal departments to lobby to pass laws favorable to no one but themselves, they strong-arm retailers, and they treat their authors no better than the RIAA treats artists. Let them starve. I will support the authors I can as best I can but not this way. They are actively trying to cripple a nascent industry because it doesn't suit their rooted ways, I look forward to their demise.
CEO seemed to be concerned about the next quarter not the next 10 years.